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Post by The Upper Hand on Dec 15, 2014 14:33:07 GMT -5
Any early predictions for Nicki? Over 200k? Under 200k? I think D'Angelo has a good chance to sell more. His first single is very underwhelming, though.
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on Dec 15, 2014 14:34:40 GMT -5
Does it matter though? Nobody heard the single before yesterday, so they're really experiencing the full album all at one time.
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Post by Wave. on Dec 15, 2014 15:07:31 GMT -5
Idk what to predict for Nicki. She's been everywhere.
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on Dec 15, 2014 15:10:42 GMT -5
Is D'Angelo doing any promo this week for his album? Or are they just trusting the element of surprise & word of mouth to push it?
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Dec 15, 2014 15:11:53 GMT -5
NOW IN: 36.20% 2 1 PENTATONIX RCA 78,381 THAT'S CHRISTMAS TO ME -- 2 CARRIE UNDERWOOD 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 63,898 GREATEST HITS: DECADE #1 1 3 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 63,838 1989 3 4 AC/DC COLUMBIA 46,994 ROCK OR BUST -- 5 J. COLE ROC NATION/COLUMBIA 42,312 2014 FOREST HILLS DRIVE 7 6 GARTH BROOKS PEARL/RCA NASHVILLE 36,038 MAN AGAINST MACHINE 5 7 ONE DIRECTION SYCO/COLUMBIA 23,383 FOUR 13 8 NOW 52 NOW 20,009 VARIOUS ARTISTS -- 9 K. MICHELLE ATLANTIC 17,460 ANYBODY WANNA BUY A HEART? 17 10 FROZEN: THE SONGS WALT DISNEY 17,290 VARIOUS ARTISTS 19 11 JASON ALDEAN BROKEN BOW 16,419 OLD BOOTS, NEW DIRT 8 12 SAM SMITH CAPITOL 14,293 IN THE LONELY HOUR 33 13 GEORGE STRAIT MCA NASHVILLE 12,988 THE COWBOY RIDES AWAY 31 14 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE REPUBLIC NASHVILLE 10,789 ANYTHING GOES 28 15 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY HOLLYWOOD 10,646 SOUNDTRACK 40 16 ELVIS PRESLEY SONY SPECIAL MARKETS 10,238 IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME 6 17 MICHAEL BUBLE REPRISE 10,125 CHRISTMAS 11 18 BARBRA STREISAND COLUMBIA 9,718 PARTNERS 12 19 FROZEN WALT DISNEY 9,266 SOUNDTRACK 23 20 NICKELBACK REPUBLIC 9,229 NO FIXED ADDRESS 20 21 DARIUS RUCKER CAPITOL NASHVILLE 8,381 HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS -- 22 ROBERTSONS EMI NASHVILLE 8,066 DUCK THE HALLS 9 23 MARY J. BLIGE CAPITOL 7,593 THE LONDON SESSIONS 39 24 LUKE BRYAN CAPITOL NASHVILLE 7,413 CRASH MY PARTY 4 25 IDINA MENZEL WARNER BROS. 6,917 HOLIDAY WISHES 29 26 ED SHEERAN ATLANTIC 5,859 X 36 27 ARIANA GRANDE REPUBLIC 5,821 MY EVERYTHING 49 28 BLAKE SHELTON WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE 5,690 CHEERS, IT'S CHRISTMAS 24 29 PINK FLOYD COLUMBIA 5,551 THE ENDLESS RIVER 42 30 MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER AMERICAN GRAMAPHONE 5,330 30/40 -- 31 CELINE DION COLUMBIA 4,615 THESE ARE SPECIAL TIMES 16 32 TONY BENNETT & LADY GAGA COLUMBIA/INTERSCOPE 4,550 CHEEK TO CHEEK -- 33 BLAKE SHELTON WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE 4,421 BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE -- 34 TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA ATLANTIC 4,376 CHRISTMAS ATTIC 21 35 FOO FIGHTERS ROSWELL/RCA 4,327 SONIC HIGHWAYS -- 36 BEYONCE COLUMBIA 4,322 BEYONCE 32 37 JOSH GROBAN REPRISE 4,254 NOEL -- 38 BOB SEGER CAPITOL 4,018 RIDE OUT 37 39 MAROON 5 222/INTERSCOPE 3,977 V -- 40 ZAC BROWN BAND ATLANTIC 3,888 GREATEST HITS SO FAR -- 41 JOHNNY GILL 10 SPOT 3,618 GAME CHANGER 50 42 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER CAPITOL 3,611 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER 18 43 SHADYXV SHADY/AFTERMATH/INT 3,534 VARIOUS ARTISTS -- 44 MIRANDA LAMBERT RCA NASHVILLE 3,375 PLATINUM 15 45 MICHAEL W. SMITH & FRIENDS SPARROW 3,350 THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS -- 46 KENNY CHESNEY BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASH 3,218 THE BIG REVIVAL 48 47 NEIL DIAMOND CAPITOL 3,215 MELODY ROAD 38 48 PITBULL POLO GROUNDS/RCA 3,168 GLOBALIZATION 41 49 SAM HUNT MCA NASHVILLE 3,051 MONTEVALLO -- 50 SUSAN BOYLE SYCO/COLUMBIA 2,946 HOME FOR CHRISTMAS
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2014 15:12:56 GMT -5
The less people see of him before the album release the better his numbers will be.
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Post by The Upper Hand on Dec 15, 2014 15:36:31 GMT -5
-- 2 CARRIE UNDERWOOD 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 63,898 GREATEST HITS: DECADE #1 1 3 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 63,838 1989 Hits
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Post by carrieidol1 on Dec 15, 2014 15:49:32 GMT -5
I've been out of the 'Hits' game for a while... with that number at 36%, what does that indicate for Carrie's final?
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Post by onebuffalo on Dec 15, 2014 16:02:28 GMT -5
I've been out of the 'Hits' game for a while... with that number at 36%, what does that indicate for Carrie's final? It looks like Carrie Underwood will sell around 190,000 copies of her greatest hits CD. It's just a little over a third of the estimate, so I just multiplied the figure (rounded off to 64,000) by three to get 192,000 and then rounded down.
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Post by chartfreak on Dec 15, 2014 16:08:41 GMT -5
I've been out of the 'Hits' game for a while... with that number at 36%, what does that indicate for Carrie's final? It looks like Carrie Underwood will sell around 190,000 copies of her greatest hits CD. It's just a little over a third of the estimate, so I just multiplied the figure (rounded off to 64,000) by three to get 192,000 and then rounded down. Let me be the first to tell you it doesn't work that way, would be nice though.
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Post by Kurt on Dec 15, 2014 16:15:25 GMT -5
I've been out of the 'Hits' game for a while... with that number at 36%, what does that indicate for Carrie's final? Honestly: nothing.
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Post by Clauss on Dec 15, 2014 16:18:50 GMT -5
They are random as fuck until you see 100%
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Dec 15, 2014 16:39:15 GMT -5
NOW IN: 50.65%
-- 1 J. COLE ROC NATION/COLUMBIA 254,646 2014 FOREST HILLS DRIVE 1 2 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 117,734 1989 2 3 PENTATONIX RCA 110,319 THAT'S CHRISTMAS TO ME -- 4 CARRIE UNDERWOOD 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 63,898 GREATEST HITS: DECADE #1 3 5 AC/DC COLUMBIA 53,495 ROCK OR BUST -- 6 K. MICHELLE ATLANTIC 46,069 ANYBODY WANNA BUY A HEART? 7 7 GARTH BROOKS PEARL/RCA NASHVILLE 36,038 MAN AGAINST MACHINE 5 8 ONE DIRECTION SYCO/COLUMBIA 28,404 FOUR 28 9 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY HOLLYWOOD 26,954 SOUNDTRACK 8 10 SAM SMITH CAPITOL 26,707 IN THE LONELY HOUR 6 11 MICHAEL BUBLE REPRISE 25,158 CHRISTMAS 13 12 NOW 52 NOW 21,552 VARIOUS ARTISTS 19 13 JASON ALDEAN BROKEN BOW 20,733 OLD BOOTS, NEW DIRT 29 14 ED SHEERAN ATLANTIC 19,262 X 17 15 FROZEN: THE SONGS WALT DISNEY 17,290 VARIOUS ARTISTS 4 16 IDINA MENZEL WARNER BROS. 16,056 HOLIDAY WISHES 12 17 FROZEN WALT DISNEY 13,818 SOUNDTRACK 31 18 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE REPUBLIC NASHVILLE 13,574 ANYTHING GOES 33 19 GEORGE STRAIT MCA NASHVILLE 12,988 THE COWBOY RIDES AWAY 35 20 HOZIER COLUMBIA 11,945 HOZIER -- 21 SMASHING PUMPKINS BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT 11,118 MONUMENTS TO AN ELEGY 20 22 DARIUS RUCKER CAPITOL NASHVILLE 10,739 HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS 9 23 MARY J. BLIGE CAPITOL 10,427 THE LONDON SESSIONS 40 24 ELVIS PRESLEY SONY SPECIAL MARKETS 10,238 IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME -- 25 CHRIS BROWN RCA 10,198 X 14 26 PENTATONIX RCA 10,154 PTXMAS 11 27 BARBRA STREISAND COLUMBIA 9,718 PARTNERS 23 28 NICKELBACK REPUBLIC 9,229 NO FIXED ADDRESS 36 29 ARIANA GRANDE REPUBLIC 8,668 MY EVERYTHING 41 30 SAM HUNT MCA NASHVILLE 8,640 MONTEVALLO 21 31 FOO FIGHTERS ROSWELL/RCA 8,639 SONIC HIGHWAYS -- 32 ROBERTSONS EMI NASHVILLE 8,066 DUCK THE HALLS 39 33 LUKE BRYAN CAPITOL NASHVILLE 7,413 CRASH MY PARTY 49 34 BLAKE SHELTON WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE 7,324 CHEERS, IT'S CHRISTMAS 37 35 MAROON 5 222/INTERSCOPE 7,307 V 32 36 JOSH GROBAN REPRISE 7,287 NOEL 18 37 SHADYXV SHADY/AFTERMATH/INT 7,242 VARIOUS ARTISTS 15 38 MICHAEL W. SMITH & FRIENDS SPARROW 7,079 THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS 16 39 TONY BENNETT & LADY GAGA COLUMBIA/INTERSCOPE 6,182 CHEEK TO CHEEK 43 40 KELLY CLARKSON RCA 6,158 WRAPPED IN RED -- 41 BLAKE SHELTON WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE 6,092 BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE -- 42 JOHNNY GILL 10 SPOT 5,606 GAME CHANGER 24 43 PINK FLOYD COLUMBIA 5,551 THE ENDLESS RIVER 50 44 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER CAPITOL 5,440 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER 46 45 VINCE GUARALDI TRIO FANTASY 5,392 A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS 44 46 OMARION MMG/ATLANTIC 5,375 SEX PLAYLIST 42 47 MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER AMERICAN GRAMAPHONE 5,330 30/40 -- 48 CELINE DION COLUMBIA 4,615 THESE ARE SPECIAL TIMES -- 49 BEYONCE COLUMBIA 4,471 BEYONCE -- 50 TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA ATLANTIC 4,376 CHRISTMAS ATTIC
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Post by Nick on Dec 15, 2014 17:03:00 GMT -5
New albums out today: Target circular: 5 Seconds of Summer Live $9.99 Nicki Minaj $9.99 (Deluxe $15.99) Charli XCX $7.99 Into The Woods Sdtk. $10.99 BestBuy.com: Nicki Minaj $10.99 (Deluxe $15.99) Charli XCX $7.99 5 Seconds of Summer Live $9.99 The Hobbit Sdtk. $14.99 (Deluxe $19.99) Into The Woods Sdtk. $11.99 (Deluxe $17.99) YG $11.99 and D'Angelo's "Black Messiah" is at iTunes. The CD is also available now. That's quicker than "Beyonce" got a physical CD out there last December.
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Post by Green Baron on Dec 15, 2014 17:03:48 GMT -5
I'll be the first to say I don't see the appeal of Pentatonix. At all.
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Post by YourFaveIsAFlop on Dec 15, 2014 17:08:35 GMT -5
New albums out today: Target circular: 5 Seconds of Summer Live $9.99 Nicki Minaj $9.99 (Deluxe $15.99) Charli XCX $7.99 Into The Woods Sdtk. $10.99 BestBuy.com: Nicki Minaj $10.99 (Deluxe $15.99) Charli XCX $7.99 5 Seconds of Summer Live $9.99 The Hobbit Sdtk. $14.99 (Deluxe $19.99) Into The Woods Sdtk. $11.99 (Deluxe $17.99) YG $11.99 and D'Angelo's "Black Messiah" is at iTunes. The CD is also available now. That's quicker than "Beyonce" got a physical CD out there last December. Yeah but Beyonce wasn't trying to sell physicals when the album dropped. The a big part of their release strategy was to funnel all sales into iTunes, the homepage takeover, plus Beyonce's target demo is younger than D'Angelo's. He hasn't dropped an album in a decade and a half. They needed to get physicals in stores to his audience.
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Post by Nick on Dec 15, 2014 17:15:14 GMT -5
^ This is true. Plus Beyonce had that 2nd disc of music videos.
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Post by carrieidol1 on Dec 15, 2014 18:51:00 GMT -5
I've been out of the 'Hits' game for a while... with that number at 36%, what does that indicate for Carrie's final? It looks like Carrie Underwood will sell around 190,000 copies of her greatest hits CD. It's just a little over a third of the estimate, so I just multiplied the figure (rounded off to 64,000) by three to get 192,000 and then rounded down. I know that's not that case, the updates aren't proportional to sales, as demonstrated by the 50% update... But I was wondering if since the last time I tracked 'hits', if a more consistent updating pattern had developed making predictions slightly less random. But I can see that isn't the case...
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Post by surfy on Dec 15, 2014 21:49:41 GMT -5
I'll say 250K without TEA/SEA
Then 300K with TEA/SEA
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Post by Duca on Dec 16, 2014 10:48:00 GMT -5
CHART MURMUR: Roc Nation/Dreamville/Columbia's J. Cole will touch down on the HITS Building Album Sales Chart and SPS (Sales Plus Streaming) Chart with a sizable #1 later today with 2014 Forest Hills Drive. How big will this hotly anticipated set be? How will the week's other debuts, as well as chart veterans like Taylor Swift, Pentatonix, One Direction and Sam Smith, stack up? Keep checking here—refreshing constantly, even if you must ignore your faculties to do so—until things finalize this afternoon. (12/16a)
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Post by The Upper Hand on Dec 16, 2014 16:42:54 GMT -5
CHART DATE: 12/15/2014 LAST UPDATE: 12/16/2014 13:32:09 NOW IN: FINAL
LW TW artist / album label sales index % change -- 1 J. COLE ROC NATION/COLUMBIA 361,120 -- 2014 FOREST HILLS DRIVE 1 2 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 278,950 +21% 1989 2 3 PENTATONIX RCA 203,210 -2% THAT'S CHRISTMAS TO ME 3 4 AC/DC COLUMBIA 94,001 -43% ROCK OR BUST -- 5 CARRIE UNDERWOOD 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 91,010 -- GREATEST HITS: DECADE #1 -- 6 K. MICHELLE ATLANTIC 83,404 -- ANYBODY WANNA BUY A HEART? 5 7 ONE DIRECTION SYCO/COLUMBIA 68,405 +20% FOUR 7 8 GARTH BROOKS PEARL/RCA NASHVILLE 60,766 +9% MAN AGAINST MACHINE 8 9 SAM SMITH CAPITOL 60,649 +15% IN THE LONELY HOUR 4 10 IDINA MENZEL WARNER BROS. 56,366 -9% HOLIDAY WISHES 28 11 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY HOLLYWOOD 50,127 +138% SOUNDTRACK 6 12 MICHAEL BUBLE REPRISE 50,074 -11% CHRISTMAS 11 13 BARBRA STREISAND COLUMBIA 48,428 +33% PARTNERS 17 14 FROZEN: THE SONGS WALT DISNEY 46,936 +61% VARIOUS ARTISTS 12 15 FROZEN WALT DISNEY 44,280 +29% SOUNDTRACK 13 16 NOW 52 NOW 37,861 +19% VARIOUS ARTISTS 19 17 JASON ALDEAN BROKEN BOW 35,460 +32% OLD BOOTS, NEW DIRT 29 18 ED SHEERAN ATLANTIC 33,108 +63% X 16 19 TONY BENNETT & LADY GAGA COLUMBIA/INTERSCOPE 30,810 +5% CHEEK TO CHEEK 26 20 BETTE MIDLER WARNER BROS. 29,998 +36% IT'S THE GIRLS 36 21 ARIANA GRANDE REPUBLIC 27,060 +71% MY EVERYTHING 24 22 PINK FLOYD COLUMBIA 25,917 +15% THE ENDLESS RIVER 9 23 MARY J. BLIGE CAPITOL 25,604 -48% THE LONDON SESSIONS 21 24 FOO FIGHTERS ROSWELL/RCA 24,927 -4% SONIC HIGHWAYS 31 25 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE REPUBLIC NASHVILLE 24,559 +25% ANYTHING GOES 37 26 MAROON 5 222/INTERSCOPE 24,503 +58% V 20 27 DARIUS RUCKER CAPITOL NASHVILLE 24,445 -9% HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS 14 28 PENTATONIX RCA 23,260 -25% PTXMAS 35 29 HOZIER COLUMBIA 22,340 +37% HOZIER -- 30 SMASHING PUMPKINS BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT 22,229 -- MONUMENTS TO AN ELEGY 15 31 MICHAEL W. SMITH & FRIENDS SPARROW 20,995 -29% THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS 22 32 FROZEN WALT DISNEY 20,326 -19% DISNEY KARAOKE SERIES 23 33 NICKELBACK REPUBLIC 20,297 -14% NO FIXED ADDRESS 33 34 GEORGE STRAIT MCA NASHVILLE 18,709 +11% THE COWBOY RIDES AWAY 39 35 LUKE BRYAN CAPITOL NASHVILLE 17,320 +25% CRASH MY PARTY 50 36 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER CAPITOL 17,101 +52% 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER -- 37 CHRIS BROWN RCA 16,794 -- X -- 38 ANGELS & AIRWAVES TO THE STARS 16,741 -- THE DREAM WALKER 18 39 SHADYXV SHADY/AFTERMATH/INT 16,406 -41% VARIOUS ARTISTS 45 40 ELLEN'S THE ONLY CHRISTMAS ALBUM WATERTOWER 16,093 +31% VARIOUS ARTISTS 32 41 JOSH GROBAN REPRISE 16,017 -17% NOEL 42 42 MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER AMERICAN GRAMAPHONE 15,980 +24% 30/40 -- 43 BLAKE SHELTON WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE 15,804 -- BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE 43 44 KELLY CLARKSON RCA 15,189 +19% WRAPPED IN RED 40 45 ELVIS PRESLEY SONY SPECIAL MARKETS 14,424 +7% IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME 46 46 VINCE GUARALDI TRIO FANTASY 13,831 +13% A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS 41 47 SAM HUNT MCA NASHVILLE 12,801 -3% MONTEVALLO 48 48 NEIL DIAMOND CAPITOL 12,686 +7% MELODY ROAD -- 49 ROBERTSONS EMI NASHVILLE 12,394 -- DUCK THE HALLS -- 50 ZAC BROWN BAND ATLANTIC 12,063 -- GREATEST HITS SO FAR
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Post by Duca on Dec 16, 2014 17:05:32 GMT -5
RANK | ARTIST / ALBUM | SALES | CHANGE | TOTAL | 1 | Taylor Swift 1989 | 1,316,427 | -- | 1,316,427 | 1 | Taylor Swift 1989 | 402,895 | -69% | 1,719,322 | 1 | Taylor Swift 1989 | 309,787 | -23% | 2,029,109 | 2 | Taylor Swift 1989 | 212,839 | -31% | 2,241,948 | 1 | Taylor Swift 1989 | 279,331 | +31% | 2,521,279 | 1 | Taylor Swift 1989 | 227,933 | -18% | 2,749,212 | 2 | Taylor Swift 1989 | 278,950 | +21% | 3,028,162 |
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Dec 16, 2014 17:07:46 GMT -5
Kill it J. Cole! His 3rd straight #1 album with an increase in sales each time!
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Post by kanimal on Dec 16, 2014 17:09:34 GMT -5
RANK | ARTIST / ALBUM | SALES | CHANGE | TOTAL | 1 | Taylor Swift 1989 | 1,316,427 | -- | 1,316,427 | 1 | Taylor Swift 1989 | 402,895 | -69% | 1,719,322 | 1 | Taylor Swift 1989 | 309,787 | -23% | 2,029,109 | 2 | Taylor Swift 1989 | 212,839 | -31% | 2,241,948 | 1 | Taylor Swift 1989 | 279,331 | +31% | 2,521,279 | 1 | Taylor Swift 1989 | 227,933 | -18% | 2,749,212 | 2 | Taylor Swift 1989 | 278,950 | +21% | 3,028,162 |
To confirm, the Billboard/SoundScan figure going into this week was 2.726 million, right? Will make tomorrow's chart a nail-biter if so.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Dec 16, 2014 17:10:06 GMT -5
www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/sales_sps.cgiSPS CHART DATE: 12/16/2014 LW TW Artist Title Label SPS Index % change -- 1 J. COLE 2014 FOREST HILLS DRIVE ROC NATION/COLUMBIA 375,214 -- -- 2 TAYLOR SWIFT 1989 BIG MACHINE 332,820 -- -- 3 PENTATONIX THAT'S CHRISTMAS TO ME RCA 214,150 -- -- 4 CARRIE UNDERWOOD GREATEST HITS: DECADE #1 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 97,527 -- -- 5 AC/DC ROCK OR BUST COLUMBIA 94,816 -- -- 6 K. MICHELLE ANYBODY WANNA BUY A HEART? ATLANTIC 84,204 -- -- 7 SAM SMITH IN THE LONELY HOUR CAPITOL 83,924 -- -- 8 ONE DIRECTION FOUR SYCO/COLUMBIA 80,565 -- -- 9 GARTH BROOKS MAN AGAINST MACHINE PEARL/RCA NASHVILLE 60,766 -- -- 10 ED SHEERAN X ATLANTIC 60,273 -- -- 11 IDINA MENZEL HOLIDAY WISHES WARNER BROS. 58,984 -- -- 12 MICHAEL BUBLE CHRISTMAS REPRISE 57,912 -- -- 13 HOZIER HOZIER COLUMBIA 51,089 -- -- 14 FROZEN VARIOUS ARTISTS WALT DISNEY 50,387 -- -- 15 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: AWESOME MIX, VOL. 1 SOUNDTRACK HOLLYWOOD 50,127 -- -- 16 BARBRA STREISAND PARTNERS COLUMBIA 48,548 -- -- 17 FROZEN: THE SONGS VARIOUS ARTISTS WALT DISNEY 46,936 -- -- 18 ARIANA GRANDE MY EVERYTHING REPUBLIC 43,884 -- -- 19 JASON ALDEAN OLD BOOTS, NEW DIRT BROKEN BOW 39,756 -- -- 20 NOW 52 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW 39,659 -- -- 21 MAROON 5 V 222/INTERSCOPE 37,952 -- -- 22 MEGHAN TRAINOR TITLE EPIC 36,574 -- -- 23 CHRIS BROWN X RCA 33,783 -- -- 24 TONY BENNETT & LADY GAGA CHEEK TO CHEEK COLUMBIA/INTERSCOPE 31,857 -- -- 25 FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE ANYTHING GOES REPUBLIC NASHVILLE 30,464 -- -- 26 BETTLE MIDLER IT'S THE GIRLS WARNER BROS. 30,090 -- -- 27 LUKE BRYAN CRASH MY PARTY CAPITOL NASHVILLE 28,358 -- -- 28 PENTATONIX PTXMAS RCA 26,761 -- -- 29 PINK FLOYD ENDLESS RIVER COLUMBIA 26,432 -- -- 30 FOO FIGHTERS SONIC HIGHWAYS RCA 26,170 -- -- 31 MARY J. BLIGE LONDON SESSIONS CAPITOL 25,694 -- -- 32 DARIUS RUCKER HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS CAPITOL NASHVILLE 25,217 -- -- 33 BEYONCE BEYONCE COLUMBIA 24,947 -- -- 34 SMASHING PUMPKINS MONUMENTS TO AN ELEGY BMG 22,726 -- -- 35 MICHAEL W. SMITH THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS SPARROW 22,203 -- -- 36 BLAKE SHELTON BRINGING BACK THE SUNSHINE WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE 21,886 -- -- 37 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER CAPITOL 21,695 -- -- 38 NICK JONAS NICK JONAS ISLAND 21,480 -- -- 39 NICKELBACK NO FIXED ADDRESS REPUBLIC 21,434 -- -- 40 FROZEN KARAOKE DISNEY KARAOKE SERIES WALT DISNEY 20,376 -- -- 41 GEORGE STRAIT THE COWBOY RIDES AWAY: LIVE MCA NASHVILLE 19,344 -- -- 42 SHADYXV VARIOUS ARTISTS SHADY/AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE 19,010 -- -- 43 SAM HUNT MONTEVALLO MCA NASHVILLE 17,969 -- -- 44 KELLY CLARKSON WRAPPED IN RED RCA 17,743 -- -- 45 SELENA GOMEZ FOR YOU HOLLYWOOD 17,727 -- -- 46 JOSH GROBAN NOEL REPRISE 17,215 -- -- 47 MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER 30/40 AMERICAN GRAMAPHONE 17,063 -- -- 48 ANGELS & AIRWAVES THE DREAM WALKER TO THE STARS 17,041 -- -- 49 VINCE GUARALDI TRIO CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS FANTASY 16,244 -- -- 50 VARIOUS ELLEN'S THE ONLY HOLIDAY ALBUM WATERTOWER 16,093 --
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Post by Rican@ on Dec 16, 2014 17:18:46 GMT -5
Hmm some sales feel brought, but anyway, great for J Cole and K Michelle also nice hold for Mary J Blige
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Post by 14887fan on Dec 16, 2014 17:53:14 GMT -5
Great Top 10 debuts all around!
Thrilled with Carrie Underwood's opening. Biggest opening for a solo GH album since Eminem in '05, and the biggest opening for a Country GH album since Shania Twain in '02. Woo!
Also, holy shit @ PTX.
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Post by HolidayGuy on Dec 16, 2014 18:23:07 GMT -5
^Did you forget about Garth Brooks' The Ultimate Hits, which sold 352,000 in its first week in 2007? ;) If so, there could be more that sold more- why it's best to wait for the official numbers. But, we could discount Brooks all together, and say it's the biggest first-week sales for a country act's first GH album since Shania Twain. In any event, given that GH albums don't sell what they used to (like albums in general), it's a decent opening.
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Post by pnobelysk on Dec 16, 2014 18:24:28 GMT -5
40k for both frozen albums nice . I wonder how much having the second album Takes away from the original. I doubt it would be getting all 40k extra but still curious
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Post by 14887fan on Dec 16, 2014 18:31:02 GMT -5
^Did you forget about Garth Brooks' The Ultimate Hits, which sold 352,000 in its first week in 2007? ;) If so, there could be more that sold more- why it's best to wait for the official numbers. But, we could discount Brooks all together, and say it's the biggest first-week sales for a country act's first GH album since Shania Twain. In any event, given that GH albums don't sell what they used to (like albums in general), it's a decent opening. Oops That's the last time I don't fact check something posted by another Carrie fan. And lol, it's a great opening.
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