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Post by Verisimilitude on Dec 16, 2011 23:03:05 GMT -5
HITS Year End Projections:
ALBUMS: Adele’s 21 (XL/Columbia) is far out in front of the pack with a mind-boggling 5.6m in the U.S. alone, according to our year-end projections. She’s trailed by Michael Buble’s fast-moving Christmas (2.5m), pushing back Lady Gaga’s Born This Way (2.1m), Interscope’s top seller, one position to #3. Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter IV (1.9m) is one of four Universal Republic releases in the Top 20, three on Cash Money—Wayne, #9 Drake (990k) and #17 Nicki Minaj (820k)—the another on Big Machine, #15 Taylor Swift (840k this year on 2010’s Speak Now). The next two, improbably enough, are 2010 indie releases: #4 Jason Aldean (1.5m on the year) on Broken Bow/RED, and #5 Mumford & Sons (1.4m in 2011) in another astounding coup for Daniel Glass and Glassnote. At #7, Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne (1.2m) is the first of five IDJ titles in the Top 25, one slot ahead of Justin Bieber’s Under the Mistletoe (1.2m), with Rihanna (830k) at #18 and Bieber’s Never Say Never Remixes (817k) at #19. Rounding out the Top 10 is Lady Antebellum’s Own the Night (910k), on Capitol Nashville, EMI’s best-seller, In the #11 slot is Beyonce’s 4 (1m), the second of three Columbia LPs in the Top 20; the third is Adele’s resurgent 2009 debut 19 (803k on the year). Katy Perry’s 2010 Teenage Dream (another 980k), is #12, two slots ahead of Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto (950k). The highest-ranking release from the Atlantic family is #13 Bruno Mars (adding 95k to last year’s Doo-Wops & Hooligans), with the label’s Zac Brown Band (740k) finishing #23. Idol champ Scotty McCreery makes the leader board with his Mercury Nashville/19/Interscope debut (875k), good for at #16, while #21 Chris Brown (800k) leads RCA, with Britney Spears (725k) at #25. Eminem’s Recovery (730k), 2010’s biggest record with 3.1m, is the second Interscope entry at #24. Overall, 11 albums have sold more than 1m on the year—but then, this is a singles-driven business.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2011 23:13:44 GMT -5
#9 Drake (990k) YTD- 9 TAKE CARE DRAKE 967,560 ??? Erm, I'm pretty sure he's going to sell more than 23k in the next 3 weeks. And how are Aldean and Mumford at #4 & 5 (respectively) with 4 albums ahead of both of them ??? Lady Antebellum’s Own the Night (910k) YTD- 10 OWN THE NIGHT LADY ANTEBELLUM 958,635 So Lady A is going to finish the year with less than it's sold so far ? that article is a mess
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2011 19:44:15 GMT -5
YTD Top 10 - Mediatraffic.de
01 13,643 Adele - 21 02 *5,169 Lady GaGa - Born This Way 03 *3,783 Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans 04 *3,737 Rihanna - Loud 05 *3,015 Michael Bublé - Christmas 06 *2,538 Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto 07 *2,532 Adele - 19 08 *1,996 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream 09 *1,986 Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More 10 *1,903 Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV
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Post by Au$tin on Dec 22, 2011 15:37:41 GMT -5
Adele slayed. Two albums in the top 10?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2011 9:56:50 GMT -5
1 21 ADELE 5,280,677 2 BORN THIS WAY LADY GAGA 2,029,529 3 CHRISTMAS MICHAEL BUBLE 1,964,601 4 THA CARTER IV LIL' WAYNE 1,826,435 5 MY KINDA PARTY JASON ALDEAN 1,475,951 6 SIGH NO MORE MUMFORD & SONS 1,365,922 7 WATCH THE THRONE JAY-Z & KANYE WEST 1,166,102 8 TAKE CARE DRAKE 1,044,066 9 OWN THE NIGHT LADY ANTEBELLUM 1,039,884 10 UNDER THE MISTLETOE JUSTIN BIEBER 1,003,158 11 4 BEYONCE 990,793 12 TEENAGE DREAM KATY PERRY 948,948 13 DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS BRUNO MARS 930,795 14 SPEAK NOW TAYLOR SWIFT 902,133 15 MYLO XYLOTO COLDPLAY 876,914 16 PINK FRIDAY NICKI MINAJ 843,889 17 LOUD RIHANNA 815,450 18 NEVER SAY NEVER: THE REMIXES (EP) JUSTIN BIEBER 801,860 19 F.A.M.E. CHRIS BROWN 775,624 20 19 ADELE 749,824 21 CLEAR AS DAY SCOTTY MCCREARY 748,022 22 YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE ZAC BROWN BAND 719,774 23 FEMME FATALE BRITNEY SPEARS 713,719 24 RECOVERY EMINEM 713,253 25 MY WORLD 2.0 JUSTIN BIEBER 699,036 26 NOW 37 VARIOUS ARTISTS 677,973 27 NEED YOU NOW LADY ANTEBELLUM 669,229 28 THE BAND PERRY THE BAND PERRY 666,217 29 DUETS II TONY BENNETT 650,418 30 HELL: THE SEQUEL (EP) BAD MEETS EVIL 641,202 31 WASTING LIGHT FOO FIGHTERS 639,579 32 GREATEST HITS…SO FAR! P!NK 638,332 33 NOW 38 VARIOUS ARTISTS 628,349 34 ROLLING PAPERS WIZ KHALIFA 617,408 35 DREAM WITH ME JACKIE EVANCHO 609,895 36 THIS IS COUNTRY MUSIC BRAD PAISLEY 585,845 37 TORCHES FOSTER THE PEOPLE 582,767 38 TAILGATES & TANLINES LUKE BRYAN 579,629 39 NOW 39 VARIOUS ARTISTS 508,711 40 CHIEF ERIC CHURCH 504,345 41 LUNGS FLORENCE + THE MACHINE 489,541 42 WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN SELENA GOMEZ & THE SCENE 486,824 43 NOTHING LIKE THIS RASCAL FLATTS 483,109 44 LASERS LUPE FIASCO 480,613 45 RED RIVER BLUE BLAKE SHELTON 473,869 46 HANDS ALL OVER MAROON 5 470,751 47 COLE WORLD: THE SIDELINE STORY J. COLE 463,410 48 I'M WITH YOU RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS 458,163 49 HERE AND NOW NICKELBACK 451,613 50 BROTHERS BLACK KEYS 425,701
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2012 7:57:41 GMT -5
Adele Leads SoundScan 2011 Year-End Charts With Top Selling Album, Song January 04, 2012 By Keith Caulfield ( keith_caulfield), Los Angeles Though it seemed a foregone conclusion months ago, Adele's "21" and her "Rolling in the Deep" single finish 2011 as the United States' top-selling album and song according to Nielsen SoundScan. "21" sold 5.82 million copies last year, while "Rolling" moved 5.81 million downloads. "21" -- Adele's second album -- is the biggest-selling set of any year since 2004, when Usher's "Confessions" sold 7.98 million. "21" also sells more than twice the amount of 2011's second-largest album -- Michael Buble's "Christmas," with 2.45 million. 2004 was the last year where the top selling set sold at least two times as much as the runner-up. "Confessions" was way ahead of Norah Jones' "Feels Like Home," which was the No. 2 seller of 2004 with 3.84 million. "21" bounded onto the Billboard 200 chart at No. 1 on the list dated March 21, 2011 -- selling 352,000 copies in its debut week, granting Adele her first chart-topper. In its so-far 44-week run on the chart, it has never left the top 10 -- and only slipped out of the top five on the weekly chart once. It is currently spending its 14th non-consecutive frame at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" is the year's third-biggest set, having moved 2.10 million, while Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter IV" is No. 4 on the top sellers list with 1.92 million. This is the third year in a row Gaga has placed an album among the year's top 10 sellers. In 2009 "The Fame" was No. 4 (2.24 million) while in 2010 "Fame" was No. 6 with 1.59 million. At No. 5 on 2011's year-end best-selling albums list is Jason Aldean's "My Kinda Party" (1.58 million), followed by Mumford & Sons' "Sigh No More" (No. 6; 1.42 million), Drake's "Take Care" (No. 7; 1.25 million), Justin Bieber's "Under the Mistletoe" (No. 8; 1.25 million -- about 2,000 copies behind Drake), Jay-Z & Kanye West's "Watch the Throne" (No. 9; 1.23 million) and Lady Antebellum's "Own the Night" (No. 10; 1.20 million). 2011 marks the first year since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991 that two Christmas sets are among the year-end top 10 best-sellers list. We last had a holiday set in the year-end recap in 2007, when Josh Groban's "Noel" was the year's biggest seller with 3.70 million. During the 52 weeks that ended Jan. 1, album sales in the U.S. rose -- for the first time since 2004 -- by 1% to 330.57 million units from 326.15 million in 2010. CD sales were down 6% while digital album downloads jumped by 20% to a record 103.1 million from the 86.3 million scanned in 2010. The top-selling digital album of 2011 was also Adele's "21," with 1.80 million downloads sold. For the fourth straight year, more vinyl albums were sold than in any other year since SoundScan began tracking data in 1991. In 2011, 3.9 million vinyl LPs were sold -- up compared to the previous record of 2.8 million in 2010. 67% of all vinyl albums sold in 2011 were purchased at an independent music store and nearly 3 out of every 4 vinyl LPs bought were a rock album. Adele's "Rolling in the Deep," which spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart earlier in 2011, leads the year's top-selling digital songs tally. It is ahead of LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" featuring Lauren Bennett and GoonRock (No. 2 with 5.47 million) and Katy Perry's "E.T" (No. 3 with 4.83 million). "Rolling in the Deep" is the biggest selling digital song of any year since SoundScan began tallying download sales in 2003. Further, this is the first year any song has sold at least 5 million downloads -- and two tunes did it in 2011 ("Rolling" and "Party Rock Anthem"). To compare, 2010's top selling digital song was Katy Perry's "California Gurls" (4.40 million) while 2009's biggest was the Black Eyed Peas' "Boom Boom Pow" (4.76 million). Adele has a pair of songs in the year-end 2011 top digital songs list, as "Someone Like You" (another former No. 1 Hot 100 single), is the No. 7-seller (3.75 million). As for the rest of the years top 10 songs, Maroon 5's "Moves Like Jagger" (featuring Christina Aguilera) is No. 4 with 4.11 million, followed by Pitbull's "Give Me Everything" (featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer) (No. 5; 3.87 million), Foster the People's "Pumped Up Kicks" (No. 6; 3.84 million), Cee-Lo Green's "Forget You (F**k You)" (No. 8; 3.72 million), Nicki Minaj's "Super Bass" (No. 9; 3.61 million) and Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" (No. 10; 3.48 million). Overall digital song sales grew 10% in 2011 as sales increased to a record 1.27 billion downloads last year, compared with 2010's then-record 1.17 billion. Keep checking back to Billboard.com and Billboard.biz throughout the day and week for more stories about SoundScan's year-end sales data.
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Post by kokuna on Jan 9, 2012 8:53:20 GMT -5
Final data of 50 best selling albums of 2011. please....
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Post by CookyMonzta on Jan 18, 2012 21:46:44 GMT -5
1 21 ADELE 5,280,677 2 BORN THIS WAY LADY GAGA 2,029,529 3 CHRISTMAS MICHAEL BUBLE 1,964,601 4 THA CARTER IV LIL' WAYNE 1,826,435 5 MY KINDA PARTY JASON ALDEAN 1,475,951 6 SIGH NO MORE MUMFORD & SONS 1,365,922 7 WATCH THE THRONE JAY-Z & KANYE WEST 1,166,102 8 TAKE CARE DRAKE 1,044,066 9 OWN THE NIGHT LADY ANTEBELLUM 1,039,884 10 UNDER THE MISTLETOE JUSTIN BIEBER 1,003,158 11 4 BEYONCE 990,793 12 TEENAGE DREAM KATY PERRY 948,948 13 DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS BRUNO MARS 930,795 14 SPEAK NOW TAYLOR SWIFT 902,133 15 MYLO XYLOTO COLDPLAY 876,914 16 PINK FRIDAY NICKI MINAJ 843,889 17 LOUD RIHANNA 815,450 18 NEVER SAY NEVER: THE REMIXES (EP) JUSTIN BIEBER 801,860 19 F.A.M.E. CHRIS BROWN 775,624 20 19 ADELE 749,824 21 CLEAR AS DAY SCOTTY MCCREARY 748,022 22 YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE ZAC BROWN BAND 719,774 23 FEMME FATALE BRITNEY SPEARS 713,719 24 RECOVERY EMINEM 713,253 25 MY WORLD 2.0 JUSTIN BIEBER 699,036 26 NOW 37 VARIOUS ARTISTS 677,973 27 NEED YOU NOW LADY ANTEBELLUM 669,229 28 THE BAND PERRY THE BAND PERRY 666,217 29 DUETS II TONY BENNETT 650,418 30 HELL: THE SEQUEL (EP) BAD MEETS EVIL 641,202 31 WASTING LIGHT FOO FIGHTERS 639,579 32 GREATEST HITS…SO FAR! P!NK 638,332 33 NOW 38 VARIOUS ARTISTS 628,349 34 ROLLING PAPERS WIZ KHALIFA 617,408 35 DREAM WITH ME JACKIE EVANCHO 609,895 36 THIS IS COUNTRY MUSIC BRAD PAISLEY 585,845 37 TORCHES FOSTER THE PEOPLE 582,767 38 TAILGATES & TANLINES LUKE BRYAN 579,629 39 NOW 39 VARIOUS ARTISTS 508,711 40 CHIEF ERIC CHURCH 504,345 41 LUNGS FLORENCE + THE MACHINE 489,541 42 WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN SELENA GOMEZ & THE SCENE 486,824 43 NOTHING LIKE THIS RASCAL FLATTS 483,109 44 LASERS LUPE FIASCO 480,613 45 RED RIVER BLUE BLAKE SHELTON 473,869 46 HANDS ALL OVER MAROON 5 470,751 47 COLE WORLD: THE SIDELINE STORY J. COLE 463,410 48 I'M WITH YOU RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS 458,163 49 HERE AND NOW NICKELBACK 451,613 50 BROTHERS BLACK KEYS 425,701 Is this the final figure for 2011? With the chart being posted on Christmas, I assume there is one more week of figures to be accounted for. Having said that, assuming Michael Bublé's Christmas album failed to sell another 35,399 copies in the year's final week, two 2-million-sellers during the calendar year is incredibly pathetic, and ten 1-million-sellers (11 if Beyoncé's final-week sales broke the threshold) is equally pathetic. In the year 2000, there were 88 two-million-sellers and 32 million-sellers. If not for Gaga, Adele would have been the only one to cross the 2-million threshold, and both albums were released in 2011. According to this chart, there were 40 albums that sold 500,000 during the calendar year (42 if Flo and the Machine and Selena Gomez crossed the threshold in the final week). In 2000, there were 202 (which would pretty much cover the entire 2000 year-end Billboard 200)! From what I remember, the number of 500,000-sellers seems to be holding steady from last year, but the number of million- and 2-million-sellers is slowly draining toward oblivion. As of this chart, the average of the top 10 is 1.719 million. I will assume that the final week's sales will bring the average up to around 1.75 million. In either case, that is a far cry from the 6.042 million of 2000. In 2009, the top 10 averaged 2.138 million. From what I read, overall sales supposedly picked up, but not nearly enough for the average of the top 10 to crack 2 million. As I said 2 years ago, I predicted that, if the industry's decline remains unabated, the average of the top 10 for 2019 will be around 836,000. That would mean a year in which 4 or 5 albums sell a million, and only 10 sell 500,000. Only 10 albums sold a million last year. I wouldn't bet against the industry's dismal trend continuing its torrid pace.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jan 18, 2012 22:25:16 GMT -5
This is the final chart from oldbloke at UKMIx:
Rank - Sales - TITLE - Artist
01 - 5,823,628 - 21 - Adele 02 - 2,452,140 - CHRISTMAS - Michael Buble 03 - 2,100,885 - BORN THIS WAY - Lady GaGa 04 - 1,916,909 - THA CARTER IV - Lil Wayne 05 - 1,575,681 - MY KINDA PARTY - Jason Aldean 06 - 1,419,952 - SIGH NO MORE - Mumford & Sons 07 - 1,246,774 - TAKE CARE - Drake 08 - 1,245,074 - UNDER THE MISTLETOE - Justin Bieber 09 - 1,231,676 - WATCH THE THRONE - Jay-Z & Kanye West 10 - 1,203,640 - OWN THE NIGHT - Lady Antebellum 11 - 1,058,292 - 4 - Beyonce 12 - 1,006,373 - TEENAGE DREAM - Katy Perry 13 - 1,006,352 - MYLO XYLOTO - Coldplay 14 - 978,183 - DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS - Bruno Mars 15 - 967,406 - SPEAK NOW - Taylor Swift 16 - 876,043 - PINK FRIDAY - Nicki Minaj 17 - 856,521 - 19 - Adele 18 - 855,509 - CLEAR AS DAY - Scotty McCreery 19 - 833,405 - LOUD - Rihanna 20 - 824,089 - NEVER SAY NEVER - THE REMIXES - Justin Bieber 21 - 810,999 - F.A.M.E. - Chris Brown 22 - 764,295 - YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE - Zac Brown Band 23 - 741,250 - RECOVERY - Eminem 24 - 738,678 - MY WORLD 2.0 - Justin Bieber 25 - 735,879 - FEMME FATALE - Britney Spears 26 - 731,046 - THE BAND PERRY - Band Perry 27 - 719,515 - DUETS II - Tony Bennett 28 - 705,000 - NOW 37 - Various 29 - 699,765 - NEED YOU NOW - Lady Antebellum 30 - 665,878 - HELL: THE SEQUEL - Bad Meets Evil 31 - 663,146 - WASTING LIGHT - Foo Fighters 32 - 661,881 - NOW 38 - Various 33 - 656,203 - TORCHES - Foster The People 34 - 653,381 - GREATEST HITS…SO FAR - Pink 35 - 651,264 - TAILGATES AND TANLINES - Luke Bryan 36 - 650,198 - ROLLING PAPERS - Wiz Khalifa 37 - 636,214 - DREAM WITH ME - Jackie Evancho 38 - 613,255 - THIS IS COUNTRY MUSIC - Brad Paisley 39 - 586,017 - HERE AND NOW - Nickelback 40 - 549,900 - NOW 40 - Various 41 - 545,247 - NOW 39 - Various 42 - 543,820 - CHIEF - Eric Church 43 - 536,350 - WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN - Selena Gomez & the Scene 44 - 529,003 - HANDS ALL OVER - Maroon 5 45 - 523,871 - SORRY FOR PARTY ROCKING - LMFAO 46 - 522,495 - LUNGS - Florence + The Machine 47 - 514,068 - TALK THAT TALK - Rihanna 48 - 507,653 - RED RIVER BLUE - Blake Shelton 49 - 498,365 - COLE WORLD: THE SIDELINE STORY - J Cole 50 - 498,000 - NOTHING LIKE THIS - Rascal Flatts
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2012 23:50:00 GMT -5
Disappointed an "official" list never materialized
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Post by CookyMonzta on Jan 21, 2012 2:33:18 GMT -5
Disappointed an "official" list never materialized Could it be that the industry is embarrassed by how dismal it remains for them? Three sold over 2 million, 13 sold at least a million, and 48 over 500,000. Again, in 2000 the entire year-end Billboard 200 was gold, and then some.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2012 7:54:45 GMT -5
So of the top 20 albums of 2011, only five were really pop/CHR:
- Born This Way - Teenage Dream - Doo-Wops & Hooligans - Loud - Never Say Never - The Remixes
And for that matter there are only three more pop albums on the entire list after that:
- Femme Fatale - Talk That Talk - and Sorry For Party Rocking
Adele is adult contemporary/AAA to me so I didn't include her. While I personally would vouch for including Loud and TTT in that pop list, I know some might argue Rihanna has enough of an urban base to not count as a solely pop album. And Bieber is a phenomenon that is unique to himself; his teen/tween appeal, despite lack of radio airplay, make him different from your typical pop artist.
This really seems to affirm my belief that pop just doesn't sell albums these days, that the most successful pop eras generally have a top-out of ~2m no matter how many consecutive smash hits they have, and that it's rather ridiculous to claim things like "BTW underperformed" or "Katy (or Rihanna) is only a singles artist." Frankly those three ARE pop's main album sellers. Their albums are the bar by which we should be measuring pop success now.
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Post by cesarams on Jan 21, 2012 13:30:18 GMT -5
So of the top 20 albums of 2011, only five were really pop/CHR: - Born This Way - Teenage Dream - Doo-Wops & Hooligans - Loud - Never Say Never - The Remixes And for that matter there are only three more pop albums on the entire list after that: - Femme Fatale - Talk That Talk - and Sorry For Party RockingI think When The Sun Goes Down it's a pop album, too.
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Post by jdanton2 on Jan 23, 2012 10:05:09 GMT -5
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