New York native Del Rey, who had Internet buzz especially after a volatile performance on sketch show "Saturday Night Live" U.S. last month, sold 76,000 copies of his album in its first week.
It was second only to the British singer Adele, who continues his reign for the week of 19 to no. 1 with "21."
In the wake of Del Rey a veteran singer Leonard Cohen, who has sold 41,000 copies of his 12th studio album, "Old ideas", a collection of songs recalling some prior and works the best-known Cohen as "Hallelujah".
Del Rey and new high entries of Cohen, they could not take first place Adele. It sold 121,000 copies of "21" in the week of his official return from throat surgery at the ceremony of the Grammy Awards Sunday.
The only other new entry in the top ten albums was singer of gospel, Fred Hammond, who have entered in table no. 8 with "God, love & Romance", while the party rockers LMFAO returned in the ranking with "Sorry for party rocking" at number 9 and ""Talk that Talk"Rihanna has jumped to the card to complete the top 10."
Battle of graph of next week will be seen if veteran rockers Van Halen can fall Adele first place with their new album, "A different kind of truth."
(Reports of Piya Sinha-Roy;) (Editing by Jill Serjeant)
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