Passenger Hits Top Five on Rock Albums Chart — billboard.com

Passenger's "Whispers" debuts at No. 5 on Top Rock Albums and notches its highest rank on the Billboard 200 (No. 12) earning its best sales week yet (19,000 in the week ending June 15, according to Nielsen SoundScan). The act, aka British folk-rock singer Mike Rosenberg, saw its 2012 effort All the Little Lights, make a slow and steady climb to a No. 5 peak on Rock Albums and to No. 26 on the Billboard 200. It consistent chart performance was fueled by its No. 5 Billboard Hot 100 hit "Let Her Go." While Lights has never sold more than 16,000 in a week, it's shifted 322,000 to date. 

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