Little Treasures Within SoundScan's Top 200

Nielsen SoundScan's chart saw a slew of debuts Wednesday as the Sept. 25 release date was the last Tuesday within the Grammy eligibility period and the the last release date before the start of the fourth quarter. Top 200 boasted 45 debuts.
Chart also revealed:
Country fans like their CDs.Only 8% of the 547,000 copies sold of Rascal Flatts' "Still Feels Good" were digital downloads, and that was still a record amount (44,000).
Rap records struggle to not lose more than 60% of their business in the second week. Latest victim: Chamillionaire, who sold 27,000 and slid to No. 30 from No. 8.
Black Eyed Peas fans don't feel that strongly about the group's leader, will.i.am, who sold a mere 21,000 copies of his first solo disc despite considerable publicity for the disc.
Selling a song to a ubiquitous commercial yields album sales. Feist's "Reminder," featuring "1,2,3,4" that plays over and over on Apple's video nano ad, rose eight slots to No. 28 on a 33% sales spike.
Steve Earle's first album since he moved to New York City, Washington Square Serenade," sold 10,000 copies.
Cult heroes Devendra Banhart sold 6,000 albums as did Jose Gonzalez's "In Our Nature" and Herbie Hancock's interpretations of Joni Mitchell songs, "River: The Joni Letters." Iron & Wine, though, may have leapfrogged into the mainstream, selling 32,000 copies of "Shepherd's Dog."
Ingrid Michaelson, a musician with 3 million plays on her MySpace page who recently snared a placement on "Grey's Anatomy," saw her "Girls & Boys" crack the chart, selling 4,000 copies to open at No. 166.