Billboard 200: 6/25/11- Adele No. 1: 114,000

[when the pawn...]

She might get next week (after BME, before Beyonce). And if SFTTR catches on, she could really move up on that list.

[Peaches. [Ch, r. is]]

idk. Eminem's album/orwhatever may catch fire as well and remain at the top.

[singingsparrow]

It is mind-boggling to see how aggressively how even the Associated Press in some instances are spinning the story regarding Lady Gaga's inevitable descent from behemoth first-week sales over these past two weeks.

As I logged on to check my Yahoo e-mail just now, what title do I read:


Older album knocks Gaga off top of charts

A young artist's four-month-old effort topples Lady Gaga's latest on the best-sellers list.


Funny how, after the Foo Fighters were replaced once more by Adele at the top of the chart upon debuting at #1, that journalists/contributors didn't specify an "older album" dislodging "Wasting Light"............but Adele. Or even when Adele will all but inevitably return to the top after Bad Meets Evil presumably debut on top next week because, after all..............it's an EP!

*

The article, itself, while surfeit of researched chart data, nonetheless makes some logical fallacies, including this one:

Adele is front-runner for the honor at next year's Grammys.

Says who?

It's one thing to claim, all things considered (chart success, commercial acclaim, cross-genre appeal, etc.) why many see Adele as quite likely the one to beat. But it's another thing to flat out claim she is the "frontrunner" when the Grammy Awards are more than six months away and the eligibility period for the 2012 Grammy Awards stretches for nearly another four months, if I recall correctly.

All in all I see Paul Grein is at least trying to sound neutral in that he does his research..........so it baffles me why he couldn't contain himself there.

Namaste,
lisping HIBISCUS

[applechic]

Shocker.

[Deleted]

It is a 4 month old album that knocked off a fairly new album from the charts

One of the points of the article was that it is not everyday that an album this old CLIMBS to #1

The fact that it replaced Gaga is irrelevant

[onefrayedrepublic]

Except that Gaga has been acting as if she's reinvented the pop album ... no one expected that, say, the Foo Fighters would stay at number 1 for long. But Gaga ... when you build such great expectations, you bring on the inevitable critics. Take a gander, the bigger they are the harder they fall...

[areyoureadytojump]

GaGa scans 100k:

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 6/12/11)

1) Adele ¨C 21 ¨C 114,314 (After 16 weeks ¨C 2,209,533)
2) Lady Gaga ¨C Born This Way ¨C 100,255 (After 3 weeks ¨C 1,385,313)
3) Book Of Mormon Original Cast Recording ¨C 60,690 (After 4 weeks ¨C 80,535)

Other Debuts
4) Tech N9Ne ¨C All 6¡äs & 7¡äs ¨C 55,715
5) Ronnie Dunn ¨C Ronnie Dunn ¨C 45,376
6) All Time Low ¨C Dirty Work -43,606
12) Tedeschi Trucks Band ¨C Revelator ¨C 25,926
15) Arctic Monkeys ¨C Suck It & See ¨C 19,848
16) Def Leppard ¨C Mirrorball ¨C 19,830
19) Randy Travis ¨C Anniversary Celebration ¨C 19,274

[pnobelysk]

Jun 15, 2011 13:22:33 GMT -5 Envoirment said:

Leona looks likely to release this fall, perhaps she can help sales out? ;)

if it goes anything like her last era it wont

[pnobelysk]

Jun 15, 2011 13:15:16 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

I don't see releases from Kelly Clarkson or Mimi Carey being ones that would rack up big numbers (well, most albums these days don't see BIG numbers, but).

Excluding any others, there always could be an Adele-like breakout, though.

kelly could at least contribute a gold album with a proper single, which isnt bad at all

[pnobelysk]

Idol albums

Jennifer Hudson, I Remember Me (7,000, +30%, 350,000) (#72 Billboard 200)
Carrie Underwood, Play On (3,000, -14%, 2.009 million)
Scotty McCreery, American Idol Season 10: Scotty McCreery (3,000, -68%, 34,000)
Mandisa, What If We Were Real (2,000, +2%, 42,000)
Carrie Underwood, Some Hearts (1,000, -18%, 7.111 million)
Lauren Alaina, American Idol Season 10: Lauren Alaina (1,000, -65%, 14,000)

Idol-related

Jason Aldean, My Kinda Party (41,000, +23%, 1.311 million) (#7 Billboard 200)
Brad Paisley, This Is Country Music (38,000, -29%, 243,000) (#8 BB200)
Randy Travis, Anniversary Celebration (featuring Is It Still Over? duet with Carrie Underwood) (19,000, debut, 19,000) (#19 BB200)
Jennifer Lopez, Love? (12,000, -23%, 184,000) (#38 BB200)
Big Time Rush, BTR (5,000, -1%, 514,000) (#91 BB200)
Civil Wars, Barton Hollow (5,000, -10%, 114,000) (#104 BB200)
Aerosmith, Best of Aerosmith: The Millennium Collection (4,000, -10%, 287,000) (#134 BB200)
Glee Cast, Glee: The Music, Vol. 1 (2,000, -21%, 1.182 million)
Aerosmith, Devil's Got a New Disguise (2,000, -16%, 634,000)
Aerosmith, Greatest Hits (2,000, -14%, 5.31 million)
Aerosmith, Ultimate Greatest Hits (1,000, -16%, 1.796 million)
Glee Cast, Glee: The Music, Vol. 2 (1,000, -21%, 890,000)

Glad jhud hit the 350k mark, should eaisly hit 400k. 500k might be hard.

Mandisa shouldnt have trouble getting over 50k, not bad for her 4th album as a 9th place idol finisher

Glee volume 2 almost at 900k

[cube84]

it's true that Femme fatale jumped from 37 to 23 or it's a fake news?

[c0ldasfire]

Jun 15, 2011 21:01:44 GMT -5 @cube84 said:

it's true that Femme fatale jumped from 37 to 23 or it's a fake news?

believe it is true, sold nearly 17k this week

[Honeymoon]

Yeah HITS was quite off, a near 5k difference for Femme Fatale between HITS and Soundscan. Its current total is 559k

[HolidayGuy]

Femme Fatale had some sale pricing and circular placement last week, didn't it?

[Honeymoon]

Yeah, 3.99 one-day sale on Amazon mp3 and iTunes $7.99 for the week. Still, satisfying to see it at 17k this week when we originally thought 12k

[Living Legend]

Interscope really overshipped Lady Gaga's album (2.1 million were shipped to stores). Her sales breakdown as of this week is 720,000 (Digital) and 664,000 (Physical). With the album dropping like it is and the majority of the sales being digital, this might end up with 1 million unsold copies in stores. This might be a wake up call to not shop over 1 million+ copies (Unless of course it's Taylor or Eminem).

[Deleted]

^How much of a loss would that be for the label?

[street]

The retailers got killed by the Amazon 99 cents deal. I guess the label takes the loss in the end though.

[Enigma.]

Lovely to see the use of "end up" and "in the end" after the album has been out for 3 weeks and has a fast-growing single out atm.

It's not a holiday album by Susan Boyle which is relevant for 3 weeks a year.

[areyoureadytojump]

Will the following albums be certified by the RIAA on today's new chart?

Numbers are from the 5/28/11 chart except where noted:

Katy Perry 1,515,985 (6/18 chart)
Now 37 576k
Eminem 3,852,987
Rascal Flatts 816k
Black Eyed Peas 668k
Arcade Fire 591k - 4/16 chart
Justin Bieber 592k - 4/16 chart
Avenged Sevenfold 504k - 4/16 chart
Rascal Flatts GH 1,035,769 - 4/16 chart
Burlesque Soundtrack 407k

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

[Deleted]

Jun 16, 2011 8:48:53 GMT -5 Enigma. said:

Lovely to see the use of "end up" and "in the end" after the album has been out for 3 weeks and has a fast-growing single out atm.

It's not a holiday album by Susan Boyle which is relevant for 3 weeks a year.

What Living Legend said would be true if it sells around 2.5 million, and that's being optimistic...to sell that much it would need an average of around 60k/week until January...

[areyoureadytojump]

No new RIAA certifications this week.

[HolidayGuy]

SuBo's album sold for more than three weeks. :)

[gagagigigugu]

Jun 15, 2011 18:17:27 GMT -5 @singingsparrow said:

It is mind-boggling to see how aggressively how even the Associated Press in some instances are spinning the story regarding Lady Gaga's inevitable descent from behemoth first-week sales over these past two weeks.

As I logged on to check my Yahoo e-mail just now, what title do I read:


Older album knocks Gaga off top of charts

A young artist's four-month-old effort topples Lady Gaga's latest on the best-sellers list.


Funny how, after the Foo Fighters were replaced once more by Adele at the top of the chart upon debuting at #1, that journalists/contributors didn't specify an "older album" dislodging "Wasting Light"............but Adele. Or even when Adele will all but inevitably return to the top after Bad Meets Evil presumably debut on top next week because, after all..............it's an EP!

*

The article, itself, while surfeit of researched chart data, nonetheless makes some logical fallacies, including this one:

Adele is front-runner for the honor at next year's Grammys.

Says who?

It's one thing to claim, all things considered (chart success, commercial acclaim, cross-genre appeal, etc.) why many see Adele as quite likely the one to beat. But it's another thing to flat out claim she is the "frontrunner" when the Grammy Awards are more than six months away and the eligibility period for the 2012 Grammy Awards stretches for nearly another four months, if I recall correctly.

All in all I see Paul Grein is at least trying to sound neutral in that he does his research..........so it baffles me why he couldn't contain himself there.

Namaste,
lisping HIBISCUS

he always relate sales with the Grammys which is not really accurate

thats why he sucked at this year's predictions

i just wished Gaga releases TEOG as the second single so she can just shut Paul's mouth!

[Deleted]

That wasn't a knock on Gaga. That was to point out that it is not every day that a 4 month old album RISES to #1

Those upset by this should try reafing the artucle again

[gagagigigugu]

Jun 16, 2011 10:18:43 GMT -5 @2m said:

That wasn't a knock on Gaga. That was to point out that it is not every day that a 4 month old album RISES to #1

Those upset by this should try reafing the artucle again

u should have read the history

[Deleted]

Jun 16, 2011 11:55:59 GMT -5 gagagigigugu said:

Jun 16, 2011 10:18:43 GMT -5 @2m said:

That wasn't a knock on Gaga. That was to point out that it is not every day that a 4 month old album RISES to #1

Those upset by this should try reafing the artucle again

u should have read the history

I know you read the title of the article but did you read the actual article.

I did, I got the main point as Adele's accession to #1 for an album this old is rather unusual.

[Deleted]

If the point was adele then it would have been called "Adele knocks off new album" or something...

[Deleted]

If it was Gaga or Jackie Evancho, I don't think it would have made a difference

A 4 month old album knocks a 3 week old album out of the top spot. That is the story here

Not Paul Grien hates Gaga

[Honeymoon]

I thought it was pretty clear (not really even just this week) that Grien has a bone to pick with Gaga