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Usher scores 4th consecutive chart topping debut with ‘Looking 4 Myself’

by theGrio | June 21, 2012 at 3:11 PM
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London, England - Usher performs for the 'American Express Unstaged' series, in partnership with VEVO and YouTube, at Hammersmith Apollo on June 11, 2012 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images for American Express)

London, England - Usher performs for the 'American Express Unstaged' series, in partnership with VEVO and YouTube, at Hammersmith Apollo on June 11, 2012 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Samir Hussein/Getty Images for American Express)

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With the release of his 7th album, Looking 4 Myself, Usher has scored his fourth consecutive #1 debut on the Billboard 200 Chart.  He collaborated with several other chart topping artists on this project, including Pharrell and Rick Ross.  MTV reports:

Usher is setting a fine example for his protégé, Justin Bieber. A week before the Biebs plans to storm the charts with his eagerly anticipated Believe
, Ush will debut in the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart with his seventh album, Looking 4 Myself.

According to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan, he sold 128,000 copies of the disc. The debut was the fourth #1 bow in a row for Usher, though it was significantly down from the 329,000 copies sold by his previous album, 2010′s Raymond V. Raymond.

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