The Easter Bunny hipped and hopped all over the Billboard 200 chart this week, leaving behind baskets full of sales gains.
While Justin Timberlake’The 20/20 Experience fell by a not-too-shabby 67.2% in its second week (down to 318,000 from its 968,000 start, according to Nielsen SoundScan), nearly every title in the top 50 this week posts a gain thanks in part to the Easter holiday (March 31). The only decliners in the top 50 are recent releases: Timberlake’s 20/20, luke Bryan’Spring Break . . . Here to Party (4-12, down 3%), Kacey Musgraves’Same Trailer Different Park (2-31, down 60%), Bon Jovi’What About Now (7-34, down 44%), David Bowie’The Next Day (11-45, down 45%) and Jimi Hendrix’People, Hell and Angels (20-48, down 30%). It’s natural to see these new arrivals decline,…