HITS 3/26: #1 Justin T. 950-975k
Mar 20, 2013 10:25:12 GMT -5
Post by ddlz on Mar 20, 2013 10:25:12 GMT -5
TOWERING TIMBERLAKE: With early retail reports coming in hot and heavy, we’re upping the previous 600k first-week estimate on Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience to north of 750k. Can it hit 800k? Wouldn’t that be something? (3/20a)
www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/rumormill.cgi
"20/20 Experience" Will Have Decade's Fifth-Biggest Bow
March 21, 2013
It just keeps getting bigger.
As of now, it appears that Justin Timberlake will score the fifth-biggest debut of this decade, behind only two Taylor Swift albums (1.2m, 1.05m) and one each from Lady Gaga and Lil Wayne (1.1m, 964k).
The killer bow of The 20/20 Experience will also give Sony Music four of the Top 10 biggest debuts since 2010, with Universal Music having the remaining six. Here's how it looks headed into the weekend:
*Justin Timberlake (RCA) 800-850k
Bruno Mars (Atlantic) 37-42k
Luke Bryan (Capitol Nashville) 35-40k
*Kacey Musgraves (Mercury Nashville) 35-40k
Bon Jovi (Island/IDJ) 32-37k
P!nk (RCA) 29-33k
*Les Miserables (Republic) 25-28k
Rihanna (Def Jam/IDJ) 24-27k
Mumford & Sons (Glassnote) 24-27k
Imagine Dragons (Interscope) 24-27k
David Bowie (Columbia) 21-24k
Now 45 (Capitol) 21-24k
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Macklemore) 19-22k
Fun. (Atlantic) 19-22k
Florida Georgia Line (Big Machine/Republic Nashville) 18-21k
It also bears mentioning that in addition to the #1 album at iTunes, Timberlake also has the #1 ("Suit & Tie"), #5 ("Mirrors") and #23 ("Pusher Love Girl") singles.
www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/newsPage.cgi?news09330m01
JUSTIN TIME: After poring over the latest retail reports, reading the tea leaves and consulting their astrological guides, HITS’ numbers crunchers have once again revised the estimated first-week total for Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience to…drum roll…850-900k. Whoa. Can you say blockbuster? (3/22a)
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HITS Daily Double
@hitsdd
The @jtimberlake album just keeps growing. As of this morning it looks like it will be in the 900-950k range. How high can it go?
Justin Timberlake's '20/20' Heading to 950,000-Plus Debut
If another day has gone by, that must mean the sales forecast for Justin Timberlake's blockbuster "The 20/20 Experience" album have grown by at least another 50,000-100,000.
Today (March 24), industry sources forecast that the pop star's new "The 20/20 Experience" could sell between 950,000 and 975,000 by the close of the tracking week -- tonight. (Nielsen SoundScan's sales week runs Monday-Sunday each week.)
The top 10 of the new Billboard 200 chart, where "20/20" will no doubt be No. 1, will be revealed on Wednesday, March 27.
Can "20/20" sell 1 million in its debut week?
It's possible that "20/20" could reach a million, but sources are hesitant to go that far with their sales projections. We'll have to see how the rest of Sunday shakes out for the album. But, it would seem that the album has a quite real shot at reaching the magic million mark.
If "20/20" sells a million in its first week, the RCA Records set would become only the 19th album to do so since SoundScan started tracking music sales in 1991. The last album to sell a million in a week was Taylor Swift's "Red," which moved 1.2 million when it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart last fall.
Presently, Timberlake is gunning for the best sales week for an album by a male artist since Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter IV" sold 964,000 when it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 dated Sept. 17, 2011.
On May 11 -- before the RCA Records album came out on March 19 -- Billboard first reported that "20/20" was headed for at least 500,000. Then, once the album did drop, its sales projection jumped to 750,000 on the 20th, 800,000 on the 21st, 850,000 to 900,000 on the 22nd and now 950,000 to 975,000 today (24).
www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/rumormill.cgi
"20/20 Experience" Will Have Decade's Fifth-Biggest Bow
March 21, 2013
It just keeps getting bigger.
As of now, it appears that Justin Timberlake will score the fifth-biggest debut of this decade, behind only two Taylor Swift albums (1.2m, 1.05m) and one each from Lady Gaga and Lil Wayne (1.1m, 964k).
The killer bow of The 20/20 Experience will also give Sony Music four of the Top 10 biggest debuts since 2010, with Universal Music having the remaining six. Here's how it looks headed into the weekend:
*Justin Timberlake (RCA) 800-850k
Bruno Mars (Atlantic) 37-42k
Luke Bryan (Capitol Nashville) 35-40k
*Kacey Musgraves (Mercury Nashville) 35-40k
Bon Jovi (Island/IDJ) 32-37k
P!nk (RCA) 29-33k
*Les Miserables (Republic) 25-28k
Rihanna (Def Jam/IDJ) 24-27k
Mumford & Sons (Glassnote) 24-27k
Imagine Dragons (Interscope) 24-27k
David Bowie (Columbia) 21-24k
Now 45 (Capitol) 21-24k
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Macklemore) 19-22k
Fun. (Atlantic) 19-22k
Florida Georgia Line (Big Machine/Republic Nashville) 18-21k
It also bears mentioning that in addition to the #1 album at iTunes, Timberlake also has the #1 ("Suit & Tie"), #5 ("Mirrors") and #23 ("Pusher Love Girl") singles.
www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/newsPage.cgi?news09330m01
JUSTIN TIME: After poring over the latest retail reports, reading the tea leaves and consulting their astrological guides, HITS’ numbers crunchers have once again revised the estimated first-week total for Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience to…drum roll…850-900k. Whoa. Can you say blockbuster? (3/22a)
www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/rumormill.cgi
HITS Daily Double
@hitsdd
The @jtimberlake album just keeps growing. As of this morning it looks like it will be in the 900-950k range. How high can it go?
Justin Timberlake's '20/20' Heading to 950,000-Plus Debut
If another day has gone by, that must mean the sales forecast for Justin Timberlake's blockbuster "The 20/20 Experience" album have grown by at least another 50,000-100,000.
Today (March 24), industry sources forecast that the pop star's new "The 20/20 Experience" could sell between 950,000 and 975,000 by the close of the tracking week -- tonight. (Nielsen SoundScan's sales week runs Monday-Sunday each week.)
The top 10 of the new Billboard 200 chart, where "20/20" will no doubt be No. 1, will be revealed on Wednesday, March 27.
Can "20/20" sell 1 million in its debut week?
It's possible that "20/20" could reach a million, but sources are hesitant to go that far with their sales projections. We'll have to see how the rest of Sunday shakes out for the album. But, it would seem that the album has a quite real shot at reaching the magic million mark.
If "20/20" sells a million in its first week, the RCA Records set would become only the 19th album to do so since SoundScan started tracking music sales in 1991. The last album to sell a million in a week was Taylor Swift's "Red," which moved 1.2 million when it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart last fall.
Presently, Timberlake is gunning for the best sales week for an album by a male artist since Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter IV" sold 964,000 when it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 dated Sept. 17, 2011.
On May 11 -- before the RCA Records album came out on March 19 -- Billboard first reported that "20/20" was headed for at least 500,000. Then, once the album did drop, its sales projection jumped to 750,000 on the 20th, 800,000 on the 21st, 850,000 to 900,000 on the 22nd and now 950,000 to 975,000 today (24).