With 171,000 albums sold so far, Billboard.com reports that the “Hope for Haiti’” charity album has topped its Billboard 200 chart, making it the first album with an exclusively digital release to hold the number one spot in its 54-year history.

The compilation CD from MTV Networks features songs and performances from the January 22, 2010 “Hope For Haiti Now” telethon. The album only reached digital distributors, such as iTunes, just two days before album sales are totaled for the week, making the sales numbers all the more remarkable.

The Twitterverse raved about “Hope for Haiti” and its accomplishments:

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   madiwoodENT Congrats to everyone involved with “Hope For Haiti Now” – The first digital-only album to take the Billboard 200 chart’s #1 spot.
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   1planet1people RT @blahgirls: OMG! OMG! OMG! The “Hope For #Haiti Now” album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 Charts! #Haiti ~ IT’S FANTASTIC!!!
3. 
   hirschigrad06 listening to a song from the Hope for Haiti Now album. Its an awesome album and proceeds from it go to help Haiti.
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   johnabdulla Listening to Stranded by Jay-Z, Bono, the Edge, & Rihanna from the Hope for Haiti album. Amazing. Download it on iTunes now!

The “Hope for Haiti” benefit album is one of three debuts in the top 10 this week. Spoon’s “Transference” landed at number 4 with 53,000 albums sold. The third debut, which hit the number 5 spot, is the “2010 Grammy Nominees” compilation with 49,000 copies moved. Billboard predicts a sales jump in the next couple weeks following the Grammys, which will air Sunday (and we’ll be live-blogging it! Stay tuned!).

Rounding out the rest of the Billboard 200 top 10 for the week, Susan Boyle’s “I Dreamed A Dream” holds at number 2 with 86,000 sales, making that a 12 percent sales gain for Boyle following her performance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” last week. Taking the No. 3 spot is Lady Gaga’s  “The Fame” with 62,000 sales. And last week’s number one album,Vampire Weekend’s “Contra”, slipped to 5th with 43,000 sales.

Alicia Keys’ “The Element of Freedom” placed 7th with 40,000 copies sold and Ke$ha’s “Animal” was in the 8th spot just two weeks after her number one debut. The Black Eyed Peas’ “The E.N.D” climbed up to number 9 with a 7 percent increase in sales while Taylor Swift’s “Fearless” finished the list at number 10.

Tweeps shared their thoughts on the Billboard 200:

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   JGRunsTheCity ooooooooh… I love people with great music taste. Like really really good music. Not Billboard’s Complete Top 200.
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   Beyoncelite I Am…Sasha Fierce is still in the To 40 on Billboard 200 Albums 61 weeks on the chart!
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   GRAC3ox #nowplaying Fearless – Taylor Swift, i’d forgotton how much I love this song.
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   music_expert A Haiti charity album featuring stars including Madonna and U2 has debuted at No 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. http://bit.ly/b74y1u

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   warmandpunchy First two tracks on the Grammys 2010 compilation: “I Gotta Feeling” followed by “Poker Face.” LET NOBODY SAY THE GRAMMYS ARE IRRELEVANT.
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   carachameleon so Susan Boyle’s album is ok, she isn’t the best thing to ever happen to music like some people believe though.
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   SamuelRid this year just started, but vampire weekend most def has the best cd in 2010 so far
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   thecorner_nz Majorly impressed that Spoon managed a no. 4 debut. Transference!

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