Billboard Hot 100 - 12/04/10

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Nov 24, 2010 11:04:32 GMT -5 Adonis the DemiGod! said:

Nov 24, 2010 10:30:01 GMT -5 @peigan68 said:

Congratulations to Rihanna's marketing team for creating a situation where OG would sell enough copies to finally make it to #1, since it clearly couldn't do it on its own merit.

Chart manipulation lives.

I'm sorry but I am going to have to call you out on this stupidity. Every song is the subject of chart manipulation. The whole point is to sell records to begin with. The Beatles manipulated the charts in the 1960's to their advantage as other artists do to this very day. Record companies are in the business of selling records and no amount of chart manipulation will make a song #1 or chart at all that people simply have no interest in....take a seat.

The Beatles manipulated the charts in the 60's? Really? Got any proof of that?

[ListenToItTwice]

Billboard's Wednesday Report of the BB 200 and Digital Songs:

Susan Boyle's "The Gift" scores a rare second-week increase from a No. 1 debut as it sells 335,000 (up 5%), according to Nielsen SoundScan, and holds atop the Billboard 200. It bowed at No. 1 last week with 318,000.

The last No. 1 debut to post a sales jump in its second week was Justin Bieber's "My World 2.0," which went from 283,000 to 291,000 (up 3%) in its sophomore frame on the chart dated April 17. Bieber had the Easter shopping holiday on his side in his second week, though his set was pushed down to No. 2 behind the No. 1 arrival of Usher's "Raymond V Raymond" (329,000)

Susan Boyle 'Perfect Day' Video Premieres, Directed by Lou Reed

Perhaps because of "The Gift's" unique appeal in the marketplace, it was able to build momentum in its second week, unlike most albums, which usually tumble. "Gift's" target demographic of older consumers tend not to focus on an album's street date and buy music at a more leisurely pace -- thus helping it stay steady. Also, as it's a holiday-themed set, it reaps the benefit of consumers searching for seasonal music in the march towards Christmas.

Former "Britain's Got Talent" contestant Boyle is joined by a kindred TV spirit in the top two his week, as 10-year-old "America's Got Talent" runner-up Jackie Evancho sees her "O Holy Night" bow with 239,000 at No. 2. The four song EP -- bolstered with a DVD of performances -- carries an economical list price of $8.

Boyle and Evancho's albums are two of three holiday efforts in the top 10; the "Glee" cast's "Christmas Album" starts at No. 8 with 161,000. We haven't had this many holiday albums in the top 10 since the tally dated Jan. 2, 1993, when four sets populated the region.

Evancho's "O Holy Night" and the "Glee" cast's "Christmas" set are among the eight new entries in the top 10, tying a record set on the Oct. 17, 2009 tally when Barbra Streisand's "Love Is the Answer" bowed at No. 1, followed by arrivals at Nos. 2-5 and 7-9.

Also, the top nine albums this week all sold more than 100,000 each, the first time that's happened since the chart dated Jan. 9 (reflecting the sales week ending Dec. 27, 2009), when the top 16 all moved 100,000 copies.

Diva Rihanna captures her fifth top 10 set with "Loud" coming in at No. 3 with 207,000 -- her best sales week yet. All five of her studio efforts have reached the upper tier. She previously hit the top 10 with "Music of the Sun" (No. 10, 2005), "A Girl Like Me" (No. 5, 2006), "Good Girl Gone Bad" (No. 2, 2007) and "Rated R" (No. 4, 2009).

Rihanna's 'Only Girl' Rebounds to No. 1 on Hot 100

Josh Groban's "Illuminations" lights up at No. 4 with 191,000 start while Kid Rock's "Born Free" bows at No. 5 with 189,000. It's the sixth top 10 for both singers. While you couldn't find "Born" on iTunes, is was available through other digital retailers (like Amazon MP3), but only as a full album purchase. Downloads account for 23,000 of its overall 189,000-start.

Rascal Flatts' Big Machine debut "Nothing Like This" enters at No. 6 with 165,000, marking the band's seventh top 10 album. Meanwhile, Keith Urban sees his latest release, "Get Closer," start at No. 7 with 162,000. It's his fourth top 10 and follows "Defying Gravity," which opened at No. 1 in 2009 with 172,000.

Keith Urban: The Billboard Cover Story

The eighth and final top 10 debut this week belongs to Nelly, who starts at No. 10 with his "5.0" shifting 63,000. It's his sixth top 10.

Aside from Boyle, the only holdover in the top 10 this week is Taylor Swift's "Speak Now," which descends seven slots to No. 9 in its fourth week with 146,000 (down 30%).

Over on the Digital Songs chart, the "Glee" cast's take on Cee Lo Green's "Forget You," featuring actress Gwyneth Paltrow, arrives at No. 1 with 192,000. The cast thus replaces itself atop the list, as its rendition of Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" was No. 1 last week with 214,000. This week, "Teenage" tumbles to No. 19 with 72,000 (down 66%). This is actually Paltrow's second No. 1 on a Billboard music chart, following "Cruisin'," a duet with Huey Lewis, which topped the Adult Contemporary radio chart in 2000.

Watch: Gwyneth Paltrow Covers Cee Lo's 'F**k You' on 'Glee'

Green's original version of "Forget You" (aka "F*** You") feels the "Glee" love, as it rallies up 10 slots to a new peak of No. 2 with a one-week high of 191,000 downloads (up 94%).

The cast of "Glee" also bows a second single in the top 10 this week, as its mash-up of "Singing in the Rain/Umbrella" opens at No. 7 with 140,000.

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Nov. 21) totaled 8.12 million units, up 29% compared to the sum last week (6.30 million) and up 2% compared to the comparable sales week of 2009 (7.99 million). Year to date album sales stand at 261.78 million, down 13% compared to the same total at this point last year (300.98 million).

Digital track sales this past week totaled 22.47 million downloads, up 5% compared to last week (21.30 million) and up 19% stacked next to the comparable week of 2009 (18.95 million). Year to date track sales are at 1 billion, up less than 1% compared to the same total at this point last year (999.55 million).

[areyoureadytojump]

I'm glad the orginal version of Fuck You had a big increase.

[HolidayGuy]

Ms. Paltrow THIS close to scoring a top 10 Hot 100 hit.

[ListenToItTwice]

2010 is now (finally) winning the race for most digital song sales in a year.

"Teenage Dream" is already probably #6 or #7 on the all-time list of Glee songs. With a few more weeks of sales (plus the episode eventually getting re-run), it should end up at #2.

Amazing second-week sales for Ms. Boyle.

"Speak Now" up to 1,724,000 after four weeks. (It's okay, Taylor. Take your time.)

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One question: Could you honestly say that Rihanna still would have sold enough copies of OG to go to #1 if they hadn't reduced the price to 99 cents for those few days?


Yeah, that's what I thought. ;)

[HolidayGuy]

^No way of really knowing that. It's not chart manipulation, though- the only people who can "manipulate" the charts are those who compile them. :) hasn't it been discussed that there has to be some interest in buying a track? Heck, I like "Only Girl," but I have not purchased it. Said it before, but I wouldn't pay 1 cent for a track if I didn't have an interest in it.

[Honeymoon]

Idol-related digital song sales via Idol Chatter Blog

Kelly Clarkson's duet with Jason Aldean led all tracks from American Idol alumni for a third week, and Carrie Underwood's Chronicles of Narnia song made its debut -- but the big story on the Nielsen SoundScan list of top digital tracks was the arrival of the Beatles catalog. Forty-six Fab Four tracks, led by Here Comes the Sun, made the top 200.

The sudden influx of Beatles music to the chart also helped knock Adam Lambert's If I Had You out of the top 200. Carrie's Mama's Song and Daughtry's September did stick around, though both saw their place on the chart drop significantly.

Top track sales

Jason Aldean w/Kelly Clarkson, Don't You Wanna Stay (29,000, -43%, 105,000 total)
Carrie Underwood, There's a Place for Us (21,000, debut, 21,000)
Carrie Underwood, Mama's Song (16,000, -26%, 190,000)
Daughtry, September (12,000, -20%, 344,000)

Additional track sales

Carrie Underwood, Undo It (8,000, -27%, 909,000)
Carrie Underwood, Cowboy Casanova (4,000, -18%, 1.521 million)
Carrie Underwood, Temporary Home (4,000, -8%, 612,000)
Carrie Underwood, Before He Cheats (3,000, -9%, 3.104 million)
Jason Castro, You Are (1,000, -30%, 3,000 total)
Jason Castro, Hallelujah [Album Version], (1,000, -21%, 48,000)

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

Nov 24, 2010 11:35:02 GMT -5 @peigan68 said:

One question: Could you honestly say that Rihanna still would have sold enough copies of OG to go to #1 if they hadn't reduced the price to 99 cents for those few days?


Yeah, that's what I thought. ;)

People would've bought it regardless and there is not way for you to prove one way or another so it's best you move on to something else. It's a waste of time discussing a 30 cent price drop. I actually think the song was going to sell what it was going to sell regardless. I think the record company was wasting it's time trying to entice more people with a price drop of 30 cents. I doubt it had any noticeable effect at all. How many of you who are responsive to a 30 cent drop in price? Judging by HG"s response none. I know for me it makes no difference if the song is 99 cents or 1.29. With downloads as cheap as they are small price drops aren't going to matter so long as the person likes the song. I don't want music I don't like taking up space on my computer. If anything I think OG was helped by the TV shows and the fact that it was Rihanna's new album release week. LOL!@ the original version of FU blocking Glee's version from hitting the Top 10.

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Congrats rihanna.

Where is the update.. please

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Nov 24, 2010 11:35:02 GMT -5 @peigan68 said:

One question: Could you honestly say that Rihanna still would have sold enough copies of OG to go to #1 if they hadn't reduced the price to 99 cents for those few days?


Yeah, that's what I thought. ;)

Can you say that she wouldn't have? If you can't provide the receipts, then you really don't have grounds for a debate.

Whether it did or not is besides the point in any case.

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Nov 24, 2010 11:35:02 GMT -5 @peigan68 said:

One question: Could you honestly say that Rihanna still would have sold enough copies of OG to go to #1 if they hadn't reduced the price to 99 cents for those few days?


Yeah, that's what I thought. ;)

Could you honestly say with certainty that she wouldn't?

Yeah, that's what I thought. ;)
Are the album charts invalid too now for specific weeks because there are discounts for retailers, such as Amazon, that sell select releases for a fraction of the price?

[HolidayGuy]

^iTunes has a much larger market share than Amazon, so probably not the best example. Just keeping all the facts straight; as stated above, I'm not a believer in the record label chart "manipulation" theory- rather, it's marketing.

[nighttime]

true
I guess in a more general way, if all stores sell a album for $12 - I highly doubt anyone would be yelling "chart manipulation!/cheating!" against the total of an album that sells for $10 3 days.

[Push The Button]

We know that Only Girl was down to #9 on the chart before the price drop, then went up to #5 after it was discounted.

[elementd5]

Nov 24, 2010 12:23:19 GMT -5 Push The Button said:

We know that Only Girl was down to #9 on the chart before the price drop, then went up to #5 after it was discounted.

We also know that the week of an album's release, current or previous singles generally increase in sales, so, that doesn't give any type of indication either.

[strikeleo]

Nov 24, 2010 12:23:19 GMT -5 Push The Button said:

We know that Only Girl was down to #9 on the chart before the price drop, then went up to #5 after it was discounted.

that was because the glee effect was dying down, to be quite honest. She was #9 because there were a bunch of Glee tracks in the top 10, and as they fell down, she regained her previous position.

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

Nov 24, 2010 12:26:38 GMT -5 elementd5 said:

Nov 24, 2010 12:23:19 GMT -5 Push The Button said:

We know that Only Girl was down to #9 on the chart before the price drop, then went up to #5 after it was discounted.

We also know that the week of an album's release, current or previous singles generally increase in sales, so, that doesn't give any type of indication either.

People have been appearing on TV shows and what not during their release week etc.

[Junkiex]

Nov 24, 2010 11:05:47 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

I think that Madge interview may have occurred before Mimi reached her 11th with "Always Be My Baby"; but no matter. As we've been discussing wirh the number of "Glee" Hot 100 entries, amounts of hits really don't mean anything more in the big picture. Sure, "Glee" is a big part of pop culture right now, extending beyond music to TV- but no one's going to be proclaiming the cast one of the best or most important musical acts of all time. Sort of how it is for Mimi, in terms of the amount of No., 1 Hot 100 hits she has and how it does not put her at or near the level of other acts with a high number of No. 1 hits (musically, culturally, etc.)- though she's certainly more notable than "Glee" in musical terms, as well as Westlife (who I often use as a comparison in UK purposes, with its 14 Uk No. 1 hits). :)

StreetDate, Madonna is fine with Whitney and respects her. She's actually fine with all the "divas" at this point.

peigan- no chart manipulation with Rihanna. But the marketing team does deserve come credit. Nothing wrong there, as all labels have the opportunity to pull out their best marketing strategies.

Glee is a monster of its own kind. There's no way I think anyone would dare taking them into account. They're a product of pop culture, but not artists of the music business. Hell, they don't even sing original songs! Rihanna and Mimi are true artists who truly dedicate themselves to their music.

Point is, people -and music critics- can talk s**t, but numbers don't lie. Mariah does not have 18 #1s just because. Is it a different kind of success than, say, Madonna's? Absolutely! Is Madonna a better performer and has she had a broader impact on pop culture? Yes. Is Mariah the queen of radio and charts? Also true.

[HolidayGuy]

Haven't current singles been decreasing the week of an album's release, because of the "Complete My Album" thing? I recall back in 2005-2006, some tracks would see larger gains the week of an album release, but as of late it seems less frequent.

[d.t.m]

This certainly makes up for Rihanna not getting to #1 on BB 200, but she will eventually. She has no signs of slowing down and I think the success she's been achieving is nothing short of remarkable. I think these girls (Ri, GaGa) are making it so Beyonce won't exactly have a bed of roses whenever she returns.

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

Nov 18, 2010 18:43:17 GMT -5 SPRΞΞ said:

Nov 18, 2010 14:13:39 GMT -5 Junkiex said:

I'm gonna have to buy another copy of OG then...

and i'll buy 2 of RYG just to counter you.

You all do that.

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Nov 24, 2010 12:44:08 GMT -5 d.t.m said:

I think these girls (Ri, GaGa) are making it so Beyonce won't exactly have a bed of roses whenever she returns.

G0rl, I've kept it quite cute on RihRih so let's not go there.

Bey will experience no problems whatsoever from these girls.

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Nov 24, 2010 12:44:08 GMT -5 d.t.m said:

This certainly makes up for Rihanna not getting to #1 on BB 200, but she will eventually. She has no signs of slowing down and I think the success she's been achieving is nothing short of remarkable. I think these girls (Ri, GaGa) are making it so Beyonce won't exactly have a bed of roses whenever she returns.

Bey will have no trouble, this is said everytime between era's.
And Congrats Ri, Only Girl is great, glad to see it at the top :)

[kingofpain]

Glad that OG climbed to #1... that's the way it should be done. Garbage like "What's My Name" should never have gone to number one, didn't even have to work for it other than having that one stellar opening sales week and help from urban radio.

Girls like Katy and Pink really have to work to get to number one, as did Rihanna with Only Girl because it doesn't have urban radio help.

I guess on a more positive note, I'm glad Cee Lo got a top 10 here finally. If it wasn't for Glee helping him out, he would have missed out here - thank god for the few radio stations who are still spinning the track. On the digital sales spike alone I don't think he would have made the top 10 without any remaining airplay.

I wonder if The Script's "For The First Time" cracked the Hot 100 this week.

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Week Ending Nov. 21, 2010: A 10-Year-Old At #2
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Jackie Evancho, a 10-year old vocal prodigy who was the runner-up in September on America's Got Talent, enters The Billboard 200 at #2 with O Holy Night. Evancho is the youngest artist ever to land a top 10 album. Michael Jackson was 11 in 1970 when the Jackson 5 landed their first top 10 album. Zac Hanson was 11 in 1997 when Hanson first scored. Stevie Wonder, LeAnn Rimes and Miley Cyrus were each 13 when they first reached the top 10 (counting Hannah Montana for Cyrus).

Evancho is a "classical crossover" artist in the style of Charlotte Church and Hayley Westenra, who were 13 and 17, respectively, when they first cracked The Billboard 200.
O Holy Night is a four-song EP which consists of two Christmas standards ("O Holy Night" and "Silent Night") and two classical crossover pieces. Evancho sang one of those pieces, "Pie Jesu," on both America's Got Talent and Oprah. The singer, who lives with her family near Pittsburgh, has also appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Today Show and The View. (When I was 10, I had a paper route.)

Evancho first charted last summer with an (aptly-titled) album, Prelude To A Dream, which debuted and peaked at #121. The independently-released, digital-only album was thereafter pulled from the market on the theory that it didn't reflect the singer's current sound. Evancho's new release is on Columbia Records.

(Amazingly, Evancho isn't the only 10-year old who is making noise on this week's charts. Willow, the daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pickett Smith, is riding high with her hit "Whip My Hair," which reached #11 on the Hot 100 a few weeks ago. Bruce Springsteen and Jimmy Fallon (as Neil Young) sang a deadpan parody of the song last week on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.)

O Holy Night debuts just behind Susan Boyle's The Gift, which holds at #1 for the second week. This marks the first time that holiday collections have held down the top two spots on The Billboard 200 since December 1957, when Bing Crosby's Merry Christmas and Elvis Presley's Elvis' Christmas Album were #1 and #2.

Boyle was the runner-up in 2009 on Britain's Got Talent, so both of this week's top two albums are by artists who rose to fame on reality TV shows. Simon Cowell is credited with discovering both artists.

Boyle's album sold 335,000 copies this week, a 5% increase over its first-week total of 318,000. The Gift is only the third album so far this year to top 300K in each of its first two weeks. It follows Eminem's Recovery and Taylor Swift's Speak Now. Far from posting increases in their second weeks, those albums experienced steep second-week declines (which is far more common). Recovery dropped 58% in sales in its second week. Sales of Speak Now dropped by 69%.

Two factors led to Boyle's strong second week. Her audience is older, and as such is less inclined to rush out and snap up an album in its first week of release. Also, The Gift is mostly a Christmas album. Its appeal will grow as we get closer to the holidays.

Rihanna's Loud debuts at #3, giving us an all-female top three for the first time since January. As the year began, female solo artists held down the entire top five for two weeks running. Boyle was part of the action then, as she is now. Rihanna's album sold 77,000 digital copies (out of 207K total), which puts it at #1 on the digital chart.

But the best news for Rihanna is on the Hot 100. "Only Girl (In The World)" will rise to #1 when that chart is officially released tomorrow. "Only Girl" is Rihanna's fourth #1 hit on the Hot 100 so far this year, following "Rude Boy," Eminem's "Love The Way You Lie" (on which Rihanna is featured) and "What's My Name?" (featuring Drake), which hit the top spot just two weeks ago. Rihanna is the first artist to amass four #1 hits in a calendar year since Usher scored in 2004.

"Only Girl (In The World)" hit #1 in the U.K. last week. It's Rihanna's third song to reach #1 in both the U.S. and the U.K., following "Umbrella" (featuring Jay-Z) and "Take A Bow." Among female artists, only Madonna has had more transatlantic #1 hits (five). Whitney Houston is tied with Rihanna with three.

Two songs from Glee are listed in the top 10 on Hot Digital Songs for the first time in the show's history. Gwyneth Paltrow's cover of Cee Lo Green's "Forget You" debuts at #1, based on sales of 192K copies. The cast's medley of Gene Kelly's 1952 classic "Singin' In The Rain" and Rihanna/Jay-Z's 2007 smash "Umbrella" debuts at #7, based on sales of 140K copies. This is Glee's first "mash-up" to make the top 10.

Green's original version of "F*** You (Forget You)" vaults from #12 to #2. It sold 191K copies, putting it a little more than 1,000 copies behind Paltrow's version. This pushes Green's version over the 1 million mark in paid downloads. (For all this multi-media attention, Green's album, The Lady Killer, drops from #9 to #39 in its second week on The Billboard 200.)
Paltrow is also featured on the Country Strong soundtrack, which was last week's top-charting soundtrack to a theatrically-released film. In 2000, she had a #1 hit on the adult contemporary chart in a duet with Huey Lewis. That's more chart success than a lot of full-time music acts have had.

Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album enters The Billboard 200 at #8. It's the seventh Glee title to reach the top 10 in a little more than a year. (The tally includes four full-length albums and three EPs.) This is the lowest entry position for any Glee album or EP to date, but the album may well move up after the Glee Christmas episode airs. Glee is the first series in television history to spawn more than five top 10 albums (during the run of the show).
The new album includes such holiday perennials as the Carpenters' "Merry Christmas Darling," Wham!'s "Last Christmas" and Jerry Herman's "We Need A Little Christmas" from Mame.

Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is expected to debut at #1 next week, with sales north of 500K. Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday is expected to bow at #2, with sales north of 400K.

Eminem's Recovery this week becomes the first album to sell 3 million copies in 2010. This is the earliest in the year that an album has topped 3 million in year-to-date sales since 2006, when the first High School Musical album hit that plateau in the week ending Sept. 3. Josh Groban's Noel was the only album to top the 3 million mark in 2007. It reached that plateau in the week ending Dec. 23. In 2008, no album reached 3 million. Taylor Swift's Fearless was the first to top the 3 million mark in 2009. It rang the bell in the week ending Dec. 27. This is a little bit of good news for the beleaguered music industry.

Here's the top 10 on Hot Digital Songs. The Glee version of "Forget You" debuts at #1 (192K). Cee Lo Green's original version of "F*** You (Forget You)" vaults from #12 to #2 (191K). Ke$ha's "We R Who We R" dips from #2 to #3 (189K). Katy Perry's "Firework" holds at #4 (175K). P!nk's "Raise Your Glass" holds at #5 (171K). Rihanna featuring Drake's "What's My Name?" holds at #6 (147K). The Glee version of "Singin' In The Rain"/"Umbrella" debuts at #7 (140K). The Black Eyed Peas' "The Time (Dirty Bit)" drops from #3 to #8 (140K). Rihanna's "Only Girl (In The World)" dips from #8 to #9 (131K). Far*East Movement featuring Cataracs & Dev's "Like A G6" drops from #7 to #10 (130K).
Three of the acts that debut in the top 10 on this week's Billboard 200 have reason to be both pleased and a little concerned. Kid Rock, who debuts at #5, opened at #1 with his last album. Rascal Flatts, which debuts at #6, bowed at #1 with its last four studio albums. Keith Urban, who debuts at #7, started in the top three with his last three studio albums. These lower debuts are largely a function of the logjam in the top 10. With so many superstars releasing albums at the same time, some acts are bound to lose ground in the chart wars.
The outlook is worse for Nelly, who debuts at #10 with sales of just 64K (compared to 140K or more for every other album in the top 10). Nelly opened in the top three with his last five studio albums. The slow start is not for want of a hit. Nelly's current hit, "Just A Dream," tops 2 million in paid downloads this week. It's his first 2-million-seller.

Shameless Plug: The Beatles were late to the digital "Revolution," but they're "Here, There and Everywhere" on the digital charts in the first week after they finally allowed their music to be sold digitally. Forty seven Beatles songs enter the Top Digital Songs chart this week, while 17 of the group's albums enter the Top Digital Albums chart. I have all the details in a Chart Watch Extra that will go up today.

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

1. Susan Boyle, The Gift, 335,000. The album holds at #1 for the second week. It's the first #1 album to post a sales increase in its second week atop the chart since Michael Buble's Crazy Love in October 2009.

2. Jackie Evancho, O Holy Night, 239,000. This new entry is the first top 10 album for the 10-year old singer. It's also #2 on this week's Christmas Albums chart.

3. Rihanna, Loud, 207,000. This new entry is Rihanna's fifth studio album in a row to make the top 10; her fourth in a row to make the top five. Five songs from the album are listed in the top 10 on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "What's Your Name?" (featuring Drake), which holds at #6.

4. Josh Groban, Illuminations, 191,000. This new entry is Groban's sixth top 10 album. Groban's last album, Noel, debuted at #10 in 2007. His last non-holiday studio album, Awake, debuted at #2 in 2006.

5. Kid Rock, Born Free, 189,000. This new entry is Kid's sixth top 10 album. That's his entire output except for a 2006 live album.

6. Rascal Flatts, Nothing Like This, 165,000. This new entry is the country trio's seventh straight top 10 album. It's the band's sixth #1 album on the country chart. "Why Wait" drops from #114 to #177 on Hot Digital Songs.

7. Keith Urban, Get Closer, 162,000. This new entry is Urban's fourth top 10 album. "Put You In A Song" drops from #95 to #107 on Hot Digital Songs.

8. Various Artists, Glee: The Music, The Christmas Album, 161,000. This new entry is the seventh Glee album or EP to crack the top 10. It's also the week's top soundtrack. Two songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs. "O Holy Night" debuts at #116. "Baby, It's Cold Outside" bows at #179.

9. Taylor Swift, Speak Now, 146,000. The former #1 album drops from #2 to #9 in its fourth week. Two songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs. "Mine" drops from #42 to #56. "Back To December" drops from #51 to #74.

10. Nelly, 5.0, 63,000. This new entry is the rapper's sixth top 10 album. Two songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs. "Just A Dream" drops from #9 to #11. "Liv Tonight" (featuring Keri Hilson) debuts at #46.

Eight albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Kid Cudi's Man On The Moon II: The Legend Of Rager drops from #3 to #21. Now 36 drops from #4 to #13, Bon Jovi's Bon Jovi Greatest Hits drops from #5 to #18, Jason Aldean's My Kinda Party drops from #6 to #12, Reba's All The Women I Am drops from #7 to #33, Sugarland's The Incredible Machine drops from #8 to #15, Cee Lo Green's The Lady Killer drops from #9 to #39 and Lil Wayne's I Am Not A Human Being drops from #10 to #31.


A Day To Remember's What Separates Me From You opens at #11. This is the metal band's first top 20 album...P!nk's Greatest Hits...So Far!! bows at #14. This is P!nk's fifth album to crack the top 20, though it failed to follow the other four into the top 10. Greatest hits albums simply don't mean what they used to.


Bruce Springsteen's The Promise bows at #16. The Promise: The Darkness On The Edge Of Town Story debuts at #27. The former album includes 21 previously-unreleased songs that were recorded during the sessions that produced Springsteen's 1978 album Darkness At The Edge Of Town. The latter album is a three-CD, three-DVD box set. (If the sales for the two albums had been combined, Springsteen would have debuted at #10 this week, which would have upped his total of top 10 albums to 17.) Darkness, which reached #5 in July 1978, was Springsteen's follow-up to his 1975 breakthrough album Born To Run. (That album also inspired a successful archival project, Born To Run: 30th Anniversary Edition, which hit #18 in November 2005.)


Contemporary Christian star Chris Tomlin is the only artist with two albums in this week's top 20. His new album And If Our God Is For Us bows at #17, becoming his fourth consecutive top 20 album. His 2009 album Glory In The Highest: Christmas Songs Of Worship dips from #19 to #20. The latter album is #1 on the Catalog chart for the second straight week. Tomlin has headed the Catalog chart for 11 weeks this year, more than any other artist.

Lee DeWyze's Live It Up bows at #19. This is the lowest entry for an album by an American Idol winner. Last year, Kris Allen became the first Idol winner to fall short of the top 10 with his debut. (Kris Allen opened and peaked at #11.) While DeWyze and Allen haven't set off the sparks of such Idol superstars as Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood, these diminished chart numbers are largely a reflection of the series being past its peak. It's still a hit show, but it's not the force it was. If Clarkson and Underwood had won the competition in the last two years, instead of in Seasons 1 and 4, would they have been able to overcome this Idol fatigue and still chart powerfully? Discuss amongst yourselves.

Norah Jones' ...Featuring Norah Jones bows at #29. This collection of duets is Jones' first album to fall short of the top 10.

Take That's Progress enters the U.K. chart at #1. The album sold nearly 520,000 copies during the week, according to the Official Charts Company. That's the biggest one-week sales tally in the U.K. since Oasis' Be Here Now, which sold 663,000 in its first week in August 1997. Progress is Take That's sixth #1 album in the U.K.
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, Part One was #1 at the box-office over the weekend.

All seven movies in the series have opened at #1. The score by Alexandre Desplat enters The Billboard 200 at #74. It's the week's highest-charting soundtrack to a theatrically-released film. All seven Potter soundtracks have made the top half of The Billboard 200. This is the first Potter movie that Desplat has scored. John Williams did the honors on the first three. Patrick Doyle scored the fourth. Nicholas Hooper handled the last two.


Song Scorecard: Three songs top the 1 million mark in paid downloads this week: Cee Lo Green's "F*** You (Forget You)," Sugarland's "Stuck Like Glue" and OneRepublic's "Secrets."


Coming Attractions: Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday are expected to enter The Billboard 200 in the top two slots next week. Also due: Ne-Yo's Libra Scale, My Chemical Romance's Danger Days The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys, Ke$ha's Cannibal, Lloyd Banks' H.F.M. 2 (Hunger For More 2), Jay-Z's The Hits Collection-Volume One and Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine: 2010 Remastered.


Be Thankful: What's the best Thanksgiving song of all time? The list would certainly include William DeVaughn's 1974 hit "Be Thankful For What You Got." The Rolling Stones also expressed the day's sentiments perfectly in their 1969 classic "You Can't Always Get What You Want" (the next line: "But if you try sometimes you just might find/You get what you need)." I also like Andrew Gold's 1978 hit "Thank You For Being A Friend," which gained immortality when it was used as the theme song for The Golden Girls. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.

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HOT 100 TOP 11
1. Rihanna - Only Girl (In the World) (+1)
2. P!nk - Raise Your Glass (+2)
3. Far East Movement - Like a G6 (featuring Cataracs & Dev) (-2)
4. Ke$ha - We R Who We R (+2)
5. Nelly - Just a Dream (=)
6. Katy Perry - Firework (+3)
7. Bruno Mars - Just the Way You Are (-4)
8. Rihanna - What's My Name? (featuring Drake) (-1)
9. Cee Lo Green - f**k You (+13)
10. Trey Songz - Bottoms Up (featuring Nicki Minaj) (=)
11. Glee Cast - Forget You (Glee Cast Version) HOT SHOT DEBUT
18. "Singing in the Rain/Umbrella"

So now Glee has 3 T15 songs. Oh, the other 2 Glee songs didn't hit the H100 at all. I find it mildly amusing that the reason Glee didn't get another T10 was that it had a big part in doubling the sales of another song.

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Nov 24, 2010 11:46:21 GMT -5 Adonis the DemiGod! said:

Nov 24, 2010 11:35:02 GMT -5 @peigan68 said:

One question: Could you honestly say that Rihanna still would have sold enough copies of OG to go to #1 if they hadn't reduced the price to 99 cents for those few days?


Yeah, that's what I thought. ;)

People would've bought it regardless and there is not way for you to prove one way or another so it's best you move on to something else. It's a waste of time discussing a 30 cent price drop. I actually think the song was going to sell what it was going to sell regardless. I think the record company was wasting it's time trying to entice more people with a price drop of 30 cents. I doubt it had any noticeable effect at all. How many of you who are responsive to a 30 cent drop in price? Judging by HG"s response none. I know for me it makes no difference if the song is 99 cents or 1.29. With downloads as cheap as they are small price drops aren't going to matter so long as the person likes the song. I don't want music I don't like taking up space on my computer. If anything I think OG was helped by the TV shows and the fact that it was Rihanna's new album release week. LOL!@ the original version of FU blocking Glee's version from hitting the Top 10.

People would have bought it enough for it to go to #1? Sure, because it was right in that position before they discounted the single. And I'll move on when I'm ready to move on NOT when you tell me to move on, got it?

Oh and I'm still waiting for the proof of the chart manipulation the Beatles used in the 60's. ;)

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Nov 24, 2010 15:23:40 GMT -5 @peigan68 said:

Nov 24, 2010 11:46:21 GMT -5 Adonis the DemiGod! said:

People would've bought it regardless and there is not way for you to prove one way or another so it's best you move on to something else. It's a waste of time discussing a 30 cent price drop. I actually think the song was going to sell what it was going to sell regardless. I think the record company was wasting it's time trying to entice more people with a price drop of 30 cents. I doubt it had any noticeable effect at all. How many of you who are responsive to a 30 cent drop in price? Judging by HG"s response none. I know for me it makes no difference if the song is 99 cents or 1.29. With downloads as cheap as they are small price drops aren't going to matter so long as the person likes the song. I don't want music I don't like taking up space on my computer. If anything I think OG was helped by the TV shows and the fact that it was Rihanna's new album release week. LOL!@ the original version of FU blocking Glee's version from hitting the Top 10.

People would have bought it enough for it to go to #1? Sure, because it was right in that position before they discounted the single. And I'll move on when I'm ready to move on NOT when you tell me to move on, got it?

Oh and I'm still waiting for the proof of the chart manipulation the Beatles used in the 60's. ;)

I'm still waiting for you to prove that Rihanna wouldn't have gone to #1 if it weren't for the 30cent drop in the price of the download. In fact she didn't even gain in sales at all. Her sales remained the same as last week. She just has stronger airplay than the competition which supports my theory that she probably would've gotten #1 regardless of the temporary drop in the price of the single if anyone even noticed the 30cent drop in OG's price other than us chart junkies. Downloads are a different game than physical singles. Price drops of 1.00 or more may affect physical singles but a price drop from 1.29 to .99 makes no difference at all because it's all the same price point in the average consumer's mind. They simply by what they want when they want it. They aren't sitting around checking OG prices to see if it will go on sale so they can buy it like they would for a computer or something else.

You prove that Rihanna wouldn't have gone to #1 anyway and then I'll prove that Beatles' record companies tried to manipulate the charts so they could sell the most records and get extra hits...Since you made the first claim I'll let you prove your claim first.

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People can be bitter and throw tantrums every time Rihanna hits #1 and try to discredit the charts. But the #1s are the #1s. No one can take them away from her