Billboard 200: 11/24/12: Taylor Swift No. 1

[HolidayGuy]

Staring with info from Hip Hop DX, which posts Current Albums rankings.

4. Ne-Yo, R.E.D.: 66,000

8. Meek Mill, Dreams & Nightmares: 41,000 (206,000)

9. Kendrick Lamar, good kid, m.A.A.d. city: 41,000 (345,000)

40. 2 Chainz, Based On A T.R.U. Story: 9,800 (375,000)

46. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, The Heist: 8,200 (126,000)

59. E-40 & Too Short, History: Function Music: 6,500

66. E-40 & Too Short, History: Mob Music: 5,700 (5,800)

151. Saigon, The Greatest Story Never Told Chapter 2: Bread & Circuses: 2,800

176. Sean Price, Mic Tyson: 2,400 (9,300)

199. Tech N9ne, Boiling Point: 2,100 (15,000)

[Taylor.]

Taylor Swift's 'Red' Album No. 1 For Third Week On Billboard 200

Taylor Swift's "Red" reigns supreme for a third week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 196,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan (down 43%). Swift beats the No. 2 title -- the debuting "Now 44" collection -- by nearly 100,000 copies. The latter set arrives with 99,000, marking the 43rd straight title in the regular "Now" series to debut in the top 10. (The very first "Now" set debuted outside the top 10, but eventually climbed into the region.)

The "Now" series' earlier release, "Now 43," debuted at No. 1 on the Aug. 25 chart with 111,000 sold.

"Red" is Swift's first album to spend its first three weeks at No. 1. Her 2010 set "Speak Now" earned two frames atop the list from the start and then dropped out of the No. 1 slot for five weeks. It eventually returned for four more weeks at No. 1.

Before that, Swift's one other No. 1, 2008's "Fearless," debuted at the top, then slipped to No. 4 in its second frame. It returned to rule for another 10 nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1.

Total U.S. sales for "Red" now stand at 1.8 million.

At No. 3 again this week on the Billboard 200 is Rod Stewart's "Merry Christmas, Baby," which holds with 74,000 (down just 17%) in its second frame.

Behind Stewart is an arriving Ne-Yo with "R.E.D." at No. 4, moving a larger-than-expected 66,000 copies. A week ago, label sources had forecasted that the singer/songwriter's album would sell around 55,000. "R.E.D." is Ne-Yo's fifth straight top 10 album, following career-opening No. 1s with 2006's "In My Own Words" and 2007's "Because of You," a No. 2 set in 2008 with "Year of the Gentleman" and then a No. 9 peak for 2010's "Libra Scale." The latter title debuted where it peaked and launched with 112,000.

Aerosmith returns with its first album of all-original material since 2001, as "Music From Another Dimension" shoots in at No. 5 with 63,000. The veteran band's last studio set of new music was "Just Push Play," which debuted and peaked at No. 2 with 240,000 sold on March 24, 2001, chart. Between "Just Push Play" and "Music From Another Dimension," it issued one studio project, the (mostly covers) blues effort "Honkin' on Bobo," which debuted and peaked at No. 5 in 2004.

Jason Aldean's "Night Train" slips 4-6 this week with 48,000 (down 32%), Mumford & Sons' "Babel" holds at No. 7 with 41,000 (down 6%), Meek Mill's "Dreams and Nightmares" drops 2-8 with a little more than 41,000 (down 75%), and Kendrick Lamar's "Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City" descends 5-9 with 40,000 (down 36%).

Christian band Third Day rounds out the top 10 with its new album "Miracle" bowing in the No. 10 slot with 29,000. It's the fourth top 10 effort for the act, which opened at No. 9 with its last album, 2010's "Move" (37,000). On the Christian Albums chart, "Miracle" is the act's 13th top 10 and sixth No. 1.

Over on the Digital Songs chart, the top two are non-movers, but the gap between them is closing. PSY's "Gangnam Style" is No. 1 for a fifth nonconsecutive week, selling 187,000 downloads (down 17%). It's the first time the tune has sold fewer than 200,000 in a week in two months.

Behind him at No. 2 is Bruno Mars' "Locked Out of Heaven," which shifts 155,000 (up 4%). Rihanna's "Diamonds" sparkles as it climbs 5-3 with 144,000 (up 19%). The singer performed the track on the Nov. 10 edition of "Saturday Night Live."

Ke$ha's "Die Young" slips 3-4 with 138,000 (down less than 1%), and Maroon 5's "One More Night" falls 4-5 with 125,000 (down 7%). Fun.'s "Some Nights" is steady at No. 6 with 108,000 (down 6%), and Flo Rida's "Cry" is also a non-mover, holding at No. 7 with 107,000 (up less than 1%).

The Lumineers' "Ho Hey" comes barging into the top 10, rising 16-8 with its best sales week yet: 101,000 (up 48%). It's the song's fifth straight weekly sales gain and its rise coincides with its steady gains at radio. It climbs 23-22 on Pop Songs this week and ascends 19-15 on Adult Pop Songs. The tune is also featured in the trailer to the movie "Silver Linings Playbook."

Phillip Phillips' "Home" rises 10-9 with 98,000 (up 16%) while Adele's "Skyfall" -- the title song from the James Bond film -- shoots 25-10 with 91,000 (up 66%). The latter profits from the movie's opening in U.S. theaters on Friday, Nov. 9.

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Nov. 11) totaled 5.45 million units, even compared to the sum last week (5.45 million) and down 15% compared with the comparable sales week of 2011 (6.4 million). Year-to-date album sales stand at 251.3 million, down 4% compared with the same total at this point last year (261.9 million).

Digital track sales this past week totaled 21.3 million downloads, down less than 1% compared with last week (21.4 million) and down 6% stacked next to the comparable week of 2011 (22.7 million). Year-to-date track sales are at 1.14 billion, up 6% compared with the same total at this point last year (1.07 billion).

Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2011 when: Drake's "Take Care" blasted in at No. 1 with 631,000 in its debut week while Michael Buble's "Christmas" held at No. 2 with a second week with 165,000 (up 35%). The second-highest new entry was Andrea Bocelli's "Concerto: Live in Central Park" at No. 4 with 87,000.

Read more at www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts-articles/chart-alert/taylor-swift-s-red-album-no-1-for-third-1008011622.story#SwaCTts8ulCyfYKd.99

[areyoureadytojump]

Paul Grein's Chart Watch blog at Yahoo:

Week Ending Nov. 11, 2012. Albums: Aerosmith’s Pitchy Debut
By Paul Grein | Chart Watch

Aerosmith's Music From Another Dimension!, the band's first album of new material in more than 11 years (and thus its first since Steven Tyler's two-year gig on American Idol broadened his fame), enters The Billboard 200 at a disappointing #5. The ho-hum sales (63K) hardly merit the exclamation point in the album title. The band's last three albums of new material, 1993's Get A Grip, 1997's Nine Lives and 2001's Just Push Play, all debuted at #1 or #2. (They posted first week sales of 171K, 140K and 240K, respectively.)

The new album debuts in the same position as Honkin' On Bobo, Aerosmith's 2004 album of blues and soul covers. That album was viewed by many fans as an interim project between full-fledged studio albums. (Even so, it outsold the new release. It sold 161K copies in its first week.)
Music From Another Dimension! sold fewer copies in its first week than the debut albums by Idol's Season 10 winner Scotty McCreery and runner-up Lauren Alaina. McCreery's Clear As Day debuted at #1 with sales of 197K. Alaina's Wildflower debuted at #5 with sales of 69K. I expect the debut album by Season 11 winner Phillip Phillips to also sell far more than Aerosmith's. That album, The World From The Side Of The Moon, is due for release on Nov. 19. (Tyler, of course, judged all these rookies.)

Bottom line: TV can give you household name status, but that doesn't necessarily transfer to album sales.

On the bright side, the band has now made the top five in five decades: the 1970s (Rocks), the 1980s (Pump), the 1990s (Get A Grip, Nine Lives), the 2000s (Just Push Play, O, Yeah! Ultimate Aerosmith Hits, Honkin' On Bobo) and now the 2010s. That counts for something.

Taylor Swift's Red logs its third week at #1. It's the first country crossover album to spend its first three weeks at #1 since Rascal Flatts' Me And My Gang in April 2006. Since then, five country crossover albums have spent their first two weeks on top: Dixie Chicks' Taking The Long Way, Lady Antebellum's Need You Now, Swift's previous album, Speak Now, Lionel Richie's Tuskegee and Carrie Underwood's Blown Away.

Red sold 44K digital copies, which puts it at #1 on Top Digital Albums for the third straight week. It's also #1 on Top Country Albums for the third straight week.

Now 44 debuts at #2. It's the 28th regular Now volume to debut at #1 or #2. (Fifteen of these albums debuted at #1. Thirteen debuted at #2.) Another Now album, Now Disney, debuts at #34.

Rod Stewart's Merry Christmas Baby holds at #3 for the second week. It's the best-selling Christmas album for the second week in a row. And it's not for lack of competition: a whopping 41 Christmas albums are listed on the Billboard 200 this week. Merry Christmas Baby will probably wind up as the year's best-selling Christmas album. If so, this will be the fourth year in a row that an artist from outside the U.S. has had the year's top-selling Christmas album. Italy's Andrea Bocelli was on top for 2009 with My Christmas. Scotland's Susan Boyle was #1 for 2010 with The Gift. Canada's Michael Buble triumphed last year with Christmas. What's more, Stewart, 67, would be the oldest artist to have the year's best-selling Christmas album in the Nielsen SoundScan era. That title is currently held by Bocelli, who was 51 when My Christmas scored in 2009.

Ne-Yo's R.E.D. debuts at #4. This is Ne-Yo's fourth top five album, following In My Own Words (#1 in 2006), Because Of You (#1 in 2007) and Year Of The Gentleman (#2 in 2008). It improves on the showing of his 2010 album Libra Scale, which peaked at #9. "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself)" is Ne-Yo's 12th top 10 single on the Hot 100.

PSY's "Gangnam Style" is #1 on Hot Digital Songs for the fifth week; the fourth in a row. Will this finally be the week it unseats Maroon 5's "One More Night" from the top spot on the Hot 100? You'll find out later today when we post Chart Watch: Songs.

Here's the low-down on this week's top 10 albums.

The Top Five: Taylor Swift's Red holds at #1 for the third week (196K)…Now 44 debuts at #2 (99K)… Rod Stewart's Merry Christmas Baby holds at #3 in its second week (74K)… Ne-Yo's R.E.D. debuts at #4 (66K). This is his fifth top 10 album…Aerosmith's Music From Another Dimension! debuts at #5 (63K). This is the band's ninth top 10 album.

The Second Five: Jason Aldean's Night Train drops from #4 to #6 in its fourth week (48K)… Mumford & Sons' Babel holds at #7 for the second week in its seventh week (41K)… Meek Mill's Dreams & Nightmares drops from #2 to #8 in its second week (41K)…Kendrick Lamar's good kid m.A.A.d. city drops from #5 to #9 in its third week (40K)…Third Day's Miracle debuts at #10 (29K). This is the group's fourth top 10 album.
Four albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Toby Keith's Hope On The Rocks drops from #6 to #20. Neil Young & Crazy Horse's Psychedelic Pill drops from #8 to #33. Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Dreams Of Fireflies (On A Christmas Night) EP drops from #9 to #27. Little Big Town's Tornado drops from #10 to #12.

All That Remains' A War You Can Not Win debuts at #13. This is the band's third consecutive top 20 album…Punk Goes Pop Vol. 5 debuts at #16. It's the second volume in this series to reach the top 20. Punk Goes Pop Volume Two hit #15 in 2009.

Michael Buble's Christmas vaults from #54 to #18 in its third week back on the chart. It's #1 on Top Catalog Albums for the second straight week. The album topped The Billboard 200 for five weeks late last year and wound up as the #2 best-selling album of 2011.

Glee: The Music Presents Glease debuts at #28. It debuts at #1 on Top Soundtracks. The 1978 movie soundtrack sold 2K copies this week, its best weekly showing since February (but too few to make The Billboard 200). The movie soundtrack will top the 6 million mark in Nielsen SoundScan era sales next week.

Grease debuted on Broadway on February 14, 1972. The show, which starred Barry Bostwick and Adrienne Barbeau, among others, received seven Tony nominations, including Best Musical. The original cast album, surprisingly, failed to chart. The movie, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, opened on June 16, 1978. The soundtrack logged 12 weeks at #1. This marks the second time that Glee has taken on a prized musical. Glee: The Rocky Horror Glee Show reached #6 in October 2010.
The Pitch Perfect soundtrack drops from #50 to #53 in its seventh week. It's the #1 soundtrack to a theatrically-released film for the sixth time in the past seven weeks. The movie rebounded from #11 to #8 at the box-office in its seventh weekend.

The soundtrack to Skyfall enters The Billboard 200 at #100. It's already the highest-charting soundtrack to a James Bond movie since A View To A Kill reached #38 in 1985. The album includes Thomas Newman's score, but not Adele's hit theme song. (What's up with that?)

Skyfall is the 11th soundtrack from an official Bond movie to crack the top 100. (This doesn't count 1967's Casino Royale, which wasn't produced by Eon Productions and thus isn't generally counted as an official Bond movie.) Two Bond soundtracks have made the top 10: Goldfinger (three weeks at #1 in March and April 1965) and Thunderball (one week at #10 in March 1966). As you surely know by now, Skyfall was #1 at the box-office over the weekend.

One Direction's Up All Night—The Live Tour makes boy band history this week. The DVD logs its 21st week at #1 on Top Music Videos. That's the longest run at #1 by a boy band video since this chart originated (as Top Music Videocassettes) in March 1985. It surpasses New Kids On The Block's Hangin' Tough (1989-90) and Backstreet Boys' Homecoming—Live In Orlando (1999), both of which logged 20 weeks at #1.

Coming Attractions: One Direction's Take Me Home is a cinch to debut at #1 next week. Also due: The Weeknd's Trilogy, Christina Aguilera's Lotus, Green Day's Dos!, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2, Soundgarden's King Animal, The Rolling Stones' Grrr!, Lana Del Rey's Born To Die—Paradise Edition EP, Pentatonix's PTK, Volume 1 and Susan Boyle's Standing Ovation: The Greatest Songs From The Stage.

[onehitwonder]

Can someone tell me the current numbers for Taylor Swift's 4 albums, One Direction's (2?) albums, and Bieber's albums

[areyoureadytojump]

^Google is your friend!

[fridayteenage]

Only one album sold 100k? Ouch.

"TV can give you household name status, but that doesn't necessarily transfer to album sales." - Yes, look at J. Lo. Or Cee Lo. Or Xtina.

"Taylor Swift's Red logs its third week at #1. It's the first country crossover album to spend its first three weeks at #1 since Rascal Flatts' Me And My Gang in April 2006." - Oh, I thought Fearless or Speak Now did.

[onehitwonder]

Nov 14, 2012 12:32:18 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

^Google is your friend!

nope it isnt

[Push The Button]

Nov 14, 2012 13:53:04 GMT -5 fridayteenage said:

"Taylor Swift's Red logs its third week at #1. It's the first country crossover album to spend its first three weeks at #1 since Rascal Flatts' Me And My Gang in April 2006." - Oh, I thought Fearless or Speak Now did.

Fearless left the #1 spot in its third week against Beyonce. Speak Now left #1 in its third week against Susan Boyle.

[areyoureadytojump]

Newer albums on the Billboard 200 that have not been RIAA certified yet:

Numbers from the 11/17 chart:

Jason Aldean 595
Maroon 5 715k
Zac Brown Band 585k
Linkin Park 510k
Skrillex, Scary Monsters 405k
Now 43 430k
Lumineers 415k
Usher 405k
David Guetta 410k
Of Monsters and Men 425k
Justin Moore 470k
Pistol Annies 405k

Numbers are estimated and rounded..

Albums only on the BB200 for 5+ weeks are listed and have sold over 400k

[areyoureadytojump]

2m, please? Thanks.

New RIAA certifications:

Blake Shelton Xmas Gold

46 albums enter this week.

19 are re-entries.

You can tell retailers finally put out their catalog Xmas albums.

11 of the re-entries are Xmas albums.

[areyoureadytojump]

keelyskorner.com/2012/11/

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 11/11/12)

1) Taylor Swift – Red – 196,225 (After 3 weeks – 1,749,072)
2) Various Artists – Now 44 – 98,698
3) Rod Stewart – Merry Christmas Baby – 73,543 (After 2 weeks – 162,479)

Other Debuts
4) Ne-Yo – R.E.D. – 65,978
5) Aerosmith – Music From Another Dimension – 63,052
10) Third Day – Miracle – 29,042
13) All That Remains – War You Cannot Win – 24,767
16) Punk Goes Pop – Vol. 5-Punk Goes Pop – 21,066
27) Glee Cast – Glee: The Music Presents Glease – 16,430
33) Various Artists – Now Disney – 13,012

[cartman2002]

Here's my awards for this week's album chart

42.Night Visions-Imagine Dragons (gold)
102.Califorina 37-Train (Platnium)
136.North-Mathbox 20 (Gold)
142.Gravity-LeCrae (Gold)
162.Jason Mraz-Love Is A Four-Letter Word (Platnium)
163.Future-Pluto (Platnium)
185.Hits...-Phil Collins (Double Platnium)
194.The Band Perry (Triple Platnium)

[areyoureadytojump]

www.roughstock.com/blog/country-album-chart-news-for-november-14-2012-taylor-swift-red-still-dominates

Top 10 Country Albums for This Week with Five Notable Albums (SoundScan Top 200 Current Albums Chart Placement)*

*Numbers rounded to nearest thousand

LW TW Artist Album Sales TW Sales Total

1 1 Taylor Swift Red 196,000 1,749,000

4 6 Jason Aldean Night Train 48,000 645,000

15 11 Lady Antebellum On This Winter's Night 27,000 72,000

10 12 Little Big Town Tornado 25,000 348,000

28 14 Blake Shelton Cheers, It's Christmas. 24,000 68,000

21 18 Scotty McCreery Christmas With Scotty 20,000 95,000

6 19 Toby Keith Hope On The Rocks 20,000 68,000

11 20 Luke Bryan Tailgates & Tanlines 19,000 1,549,000

13 24 Eric Church Chief 18,000 1,148,000

12 25 Carrie Underwood Blown Away 17,000 920,000

24 29 Hunter Hayes Hunter Hayes 16,000 344,000

33 35 Zac Brown Band Uncaged 11,000 594,000

54 53 Brantley Gilbert Halfway To Heaven 7,000 739,000

43 60 Kenny Chesney Welcome To The Fishbowl 6,000 503,000

153 121 Various Artists Very Special Christmas 25 4,000 10,000

[Rodze]

Finally a new certification for ADELE!!!





SKYFALL October 05, 2012 November 06, 2012 XL RECORDINGS/COLUMBIA Digital GOLD SINGLE

C'mon...

[areyoureadytojump]

^Yup. That's from last week.

21 falls to #24 this week. It's first week out of the Top 20.

Adele's label must be waiting for the album to cross 10 million scanned to certify the album Diamond. They can celebrate two milestones at once.

[areyoureadytojump]

Aerosmith's Music From Another Dimension is only their 9th Top 10 album.

I thought they had more.

They've had 6 albums peaked between #11 and #14:

#11 Toys in the Attic 8xp
#11 Draw The Line 2xp
#13 Live! The Bootleg 1xp
#14 Night In The Ruts 1xp
#11 Permanent Vacation 5xp
#12 A Little South Of Sanity 1xp

[areyoureadytojump]

5,446,000 albums were sold in the US last week.

3,545,000 physical cds were sold.

1,901,000 digital albums were sold.

[areyoureadytojump]

*happy happy*

[Au$tin]

So is Taylor Swift now the only artist to have a three-week number one album with a title that's named after a color, or...?

I bet she's also the first artist to be number one with an album that shares the name of another album in the top 200.