LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – R&B singer Jill Scott could be on the verge of earning her first No. 1 album on the U.S. pop album chart with her first release in four years.
Industry sources suggest she could sell as many as 125,000 copies of "The Light of the Sun" by week's end on Sunday. Scott previously went as high as No. 3 with 2004's "Beautifully Human: Words and Sounds Vol. 2."
Also aiming for high debuts when the Billboard 200 chart is published on Wednesday are Bon Iver's self-titled set (with maybe 80,000 copies) and country singer Justin Moore's "Outlaws Like Me" (perhaps 60,000). Gunning for top 10 entries are "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Alpocalypse" and Pitbull's "Planet Pit."
On the current chart Eminem and Royce da 5'9" claimed the top spot after "Hell: The Sequel" sold 171,000 copies during the week ended June 19.
