Billboard 200: 6/16/12: John Mayer #1: 65k

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Billboard.com:

John Mayer's No. 1 for Second Week on Billboard 200
by Keith Caulfield, L.A. | June 06, 2012

John Mayer's "Born and Raised" hangs in for a second week atop the Billboard 200, selling 65,000 copies according to Nielsen SoundScan (down 70%). It's Mayer's first album to spend more than a single week at No. 1, following solitary frames for "Heavier Things" and "Battle Studies."

As the No. 1 album only sells 65,000 this week, it's the smallest sum at the top of the chart since the tally dated Feb. 19, 2011, when Nicki Minaj's "Pink Friday" moved 45,000.

Adele's "21" has a slight gain in sales (up 4%), holding at No. 2, selling another 58,000. Some of that increase is owed to NBC's June 3 prime time special "Adele Live in London." There could be further impact from the show on next week's chart, once a full week's worth of impact is felt from the broadcast.

"21" is currently spending its 67th week in the top 10 on the Billboard 200. Only six albums have spent more weeks in the top 10 in history, led by the soundtrack to "The Sound of Music," with 109.

Three albums debut in the top 10 this week, starting with Regina Spektor's "What We Saw From the Cheap Seats" at No. 3 with 42,000. It matches the debut and peak of the singer/songwriter's last album, 2009's "Far," which launched with 50,000.

One Direction makes a big sales jump with its "Up All Night" set, rising 12% up one slot to No. 4. Promotion and publicity surrounding the act's home video release "Up All Night: The Live Tour" certainly drove sales last week. The video bows atop the Music Video Sales chart with 76,000 sold. It's the best debut sales week this year for any music video release, and the largest bow since Adele's "Live at the Royal Albert Hall" launched at No. 1 on Dec. 17, 2011 with 96,000.

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros' "Here" debuts at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 with 35,000. It's the act's highest charting album and best sales week yet. Its first album, "Up From Below," spent 27 weeks on the chart in 2010 and 2011, topping out at No. 76.

Carrie Underwood's "Blown Away" slips 3-6 with 32,000 (down 30%) while Sigur Ros visits the top 10 for the first time ever at No. 7. The Icelandic band's "Valtari" starts with 26,000 -- its third-best sales week. The new set is the group's first studio album in nearly four years. Its last one, 2008's "Med Sud I Eyrum Spilum Endalust," debuted and peaked at No. 15 with 32,000.

Closing out the album chart's top 10 are the "Now 42" compilation (9-8 with 26,000; down 16%), Luke Bryan's "Tailgates and Tanlines" (15-9 with 24,000; up 18%) and Lionel Richie's "Tuskegee" (6-10 with 22,000; down 35%).

Over on the Digital Songs chart, Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" is steady at No. 1 again with 284,000 (down 6%) while Maroon 5's "Payphone" (featuring Wiz Khalifa) rises a notch to No. 2 with 257,000 (down 3%). Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" is also up one to No. 3, selling 247,000 (down 6%).

The chart's highest debut is at No. 4, where Justin Bieber's "Die In Your Arms" bows with 185,000. It's the singer's 11th song to start in the top 10.

Pitbull's "Back In Time" climbs 7-5 (147,000; down less than 1%), Rihanna's "Where Have You Been" rises 8-6 (144,000; down 1%) and Bieber's "Boyfriend" jumps 9-7 (138,000; down 4%).

fun.'s "We Are Young" (featuring Janelle Monae) falls 6-8 (137,000; down 8%), Nicki Minaj's "Starships" tumbles 5-9 (135,000; down 12%) and One Direction's "What Makes You Beautiful" returns to the top 10, up two slots, to No. 10 (129,000; down less than 1%).

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending June 3) totaled 5.02 million units, down 5% compared to the sum last week (5.29 million) and down 9% compared to the comparable sales week of 2011 (5.52 million). Year to date album sales stand at 127.70 million, down 3% compared to the same total at this point last year (131.39 million).

Digital track sales this past week totaled 25.58 million downloads, down 2% compared to last week (25.98 million) and up 6% stacked next to the comparable week of 2011 (24.24 million). Year to date track sales are at 596.86 million, up 7% compared to the same total at this point last year (560.38 million).

Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2011 when: Adele's "21" returned to No. 1 for a tenth nonconsecutive week (114,000; down 5%). The highest debut was Tech N9ne's "All 6's & 7's" at No. 4 with 56,000.

[ListenToItTwice]

Congratulation to Regina Spektor on her second consecutive #3 album! :)

[Feelin'.$$$hady]

Idol albums

Carrie Underwood, Blown Away (32,000, -30%, 517,000) (#6 Billboard 200)
Adam Lambert, Trespassing (12,000, -47%, 112,000) (#24 BB200)
Phillip Phillips, Phillip Phillips: Journey to the Finale (12,000, -52%, 36,000)(#25 BB200)
Kelly Clarkson, Stronger (9,000, -15%, 815,000) (#41 BB200)
Haley Reinhart, Listen Up! (8,000, -61%, 28,000) (#51 BB200)
Scotty McCreery, Clear as Day (5,000, -21%, 1.064 million) (#92 BB200)
Kris Allen, Thank You Camellia (4,000, -74%, 21,000) (#105 BB200)
Mandisa, What If We Were Real (2,000, -12%, 184,000)
Jessica Sanchez, Jessica Sanchez: Journey to the Finale (1,000, -61%, 5,000)
Daughtry, Daughtry (1,000, +6%)

[ListenToItTwice]

Week Ending June 3, 2012. Albums: One Direction’s Vid Record
By Paul Grein | Chart Watch – 6 minutes ago


This week, for the first time, the week's #1 music video outsold the week's #1 album. One Direction's Up All Night: The Live Tour DVD sold 76,000 copies in its first week, which is more than the week's #1 album, John Mayer's Born And Raised (65K).

Up All Night: The Live Tour sold more copies this week than any other DVD has in any one week so far this year. The last DVD to sell this many copies in one week was Adele's Live At The Royal Albert Hall, which topped 80K in each of its first four weeks of release in December.

After just one week's sales, Up All Night: The Live Tour is already the #3 music video for the year-to-date. It trails Adele's DVD (426K so far this year) and Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom Of The Opera At The Royal Albert Hall (77K).

One Direction is also represented in the top 10 on the year-to-date lists of both albums and songs. The boy band is one of only two acts (the other of course being Adele) to be listed in the top 10 for the year-to-date on all three of these charts. (Nicki Minaj and Gotye are both listed in the top 10 for both albums and songs, but not music videos.)

One Direction's Up All Night album has sold 739K copies, which puts it at #4 for the year-to-date. The group's buoyant single "What Makes You Beautiful" has sold 2,460,000 copies, which puts it at #7 for the year-to-date.

Shameless Plug: Later today, I'll post a Chart Watch Extra in which I look at all the boy bands who have landed #1 videos since this chart was introduced in 1985. New Kids on the Block, Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC are the reigning boy bands, with four #1 videos each. If you're a teenage girl, or have been at any point in the last 27 years, this one's for you. Check it out later today.

John Mayer's Born And Raised holds at #1 on The Billboard 200 for the second straight week. This is Mayer's first album to spend a second week on top. Heavier Things spent one week at #1 in September 2003. Battle Studies had one week on top in November 2009. But Born And Raised sold just 65K copies, the thinnest total for a #1 album since Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday moved up to #1 with sales of 45K in February 2011. Born And Raised sold 38K digital copies this week, which puts it at #1 on Top Digital Albums for the second straight week.

Nobody sets out to hit #2, much less set a record for most weeks at #2, but that's what Adele's 21 does this week. The album logs its 24th week at #2. This matches Bruce Springsteen's 1984 album Born In The U.S.A. for the most weeks at #2 since 1963, when Billboard combined its separate mono and stereo surveys into one comprehensive chart.

These are, of course, two of the most celebrated albums of the modern pop era. But both albums, surprisingly, have spent more weeks at #2 than they have at #1. Springsteen's album spent just seven weeks at #1. Adele's album has spent 23 weeks at #1. (Adele's still active album will probably add to its tallies of weeks at #1 and #2. But for now at least, it has spent more time at #2 than it has at #1.)

Shameless Plug II: I'll also post a Chart Watch Extra later today in which I look at all albums that have logged 12 or more weeks at #2. The list stretches from Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass' Whipped Cream & Other Delights to Britney Spears' Oops!....I Did It Again and Adele's 21. It includes one album that never reached #1: Stray Cats' 1982 smash Built For Speed, which logged 15 frustrating weeks at #2. Check it out later today.

21 has never ranked below #7 in its 67 weeks of release. Only one other album in history has spent its first 67 weeks in the top 10. That's Born In The U.S.A., which spent its first 84 weeks in the top 10. (Two other albums have debuted in the top 10 and stayed there, without once falling out, for an entire year. Celine Dion's 1996 hit Falling Into You spent its first 59 weeks in the top 10. Fleetwood Mac's 1977 hit Rumours spent its first 52 weeks in the winners' circle.)

Will Adele equal or surpass Springsteen's record? I believe she will. Stay tuned.

21 this week becomes the third best-selling album of the past 10 years. The album has sold 9,264,000 copies, a total topped in the past 10 years only by Norah Jones' Come Away With Me (10,465,000 in this period) and Usher's Confessions (9,993,000).

The Fine Print: Eminem's The Eminem Album has sold 10,073,000 copies, but only 8,466,000 of those sales have transpired in the last 10 years. The album's gigantic opening, in which it sold 1,607,000 copies in its first two weeks, slips out of the "last 10 years" window this week. Come Away With Me sold 373,000 additional copies between its release in March 2002 and the start of the "last 10 years" tally.

This week's top 10 has an international flavor. Regina Spektor, who was born in Moscow, debuts at #3 with What We Saw From The Cheap Seats. Sigur Ros, which was formed in Reykavik, Iceland, debuts at #7 with Valtari. Sigur Ros is the second act from Iceland to land a top 10 album. Bjork, who was born in Reykavik, reached #9 in May 2007 with Volta.

What We Saw From The Cheap Seats is Spektor's second album to reach #3. Far reached that spot in June 2009. I like the self-deprecating title of the new album. Alabama had an album with a similar title in 1993. The country group's Cheap Seats reached #76.

Sigur Ros first charted in 2002 with (). The previous high for the eclectic band was #15 for 2008's Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust.

Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" logs it third week at #1 on Hot Digital Songs. That's the longest run by an unassisted female solo artist since Adele's "Someone Like You" had four weeks on top in September and October. Will "Call Me Maybe" finally jump to #1 on the Hot 100? You'll find out later today when we post Chart Watch: Songs.

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

The Top Five: John Mayer's Born And Raised holds at #1 for the second straight week. (65K)….Adele's 21 holds at #2 for the fourth straight week in its 67th week on the chart (58K). The former #1 album has been in the top 10 the entire time… Regina Spektor's What We Saw from the Cheap Seats debuts at #3 (42K). It's her second top five album…One Direction's Up All Night rebounds from #5 to #4 in its 12th week on the chart (41K). The former #1 album has been in the top 10 the entire time… Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros' Here debuts at #5 (35K). This is the group's first top 10 album.

The Second Five: Carrie Underwood's Blown Away drops from #3 to #6 in its fifth week on the chart (32K). The album has been in the top 10 the entire time. The album holds at #1 on Top Country Albums for the fifth week…Sigur Ros' Valtari debuts at #7 (26K). It's the act's first top 10 album…Now 42 rebounds from #9 to #8 in its fifth week on the chart (26K). It has been in the top 10 the entire time… Luke Bryan's Tailgates & Tanlines jumps from #15 to #9 in its 43rd week on the chart (24K). This is its sixth week in the top 10… Lionel Richie's Tuskegee drops from #6 to #10 in its 10th week on the chart (22K). The former #1 album has been in the top 10 the entire time.

Four albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Apocalyptic Love by Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators drops from #4 to #19… MercyMe's The Hurt & The Healer drops from #7 to #27… Sara Bareilles' EP Once Upon Another Time plummets from #8 to #66…Norah Jones' …Little Broken Hearts drops from #10 to #12.

For Today's Immortal debuts at #15. For Today is a Christian "metalcore" band…Atlanta rap trio Travis Porter debuts at #16 with its debut album, From Day 1…Two albums with the same title debut in this week's top 30. Rebecca Ferguson's Heaven debuts at #23…The Walkmen's Heaven debuts at #30. Ferguson was the runner-up on the U.K. version of The X Factor.

Adele's 2008 album 19 rebounds from #44 to #26 in its 137th week on the chart. It's #1 on Top Catalog Albums for the 40th week out of the past 68. The resurgence follows NBC's hour-long Adele special on Sunday night, in the final hours of the tracking week. Expect all Adele titles (albums, songs and video) to benefit next week.

Johnny Cash returns to the chart with the Starbucks-exclusive Opus Collection, which debuts at #28. The country legend first charted in 1958 with The Fabulous Johnny Cash.

Mary Mary's Go Get It rebounds from #54 to #36 in its fourth week. The album contains "music featured in and inspired by" the duo's eponymous TV show on the WE cable network. Go Get It is #1 on this week's Top Soundtracks chart.

Musique Pop De Paris debuts at #32…Melody Gardot's Absence debuts at #33…Scissor Sisters' Magic Hour debuts at #35.

The Avengers Assemble jumps from #76 to #71 in its fifth week. It's the highest-charting soundtrack to a theatrically-released movie for the third time in the past five weeks.

Juanes' MTV Unplugged debuts at #52. Only one MTV Unplugged album by a Latin artist has climbed higher. That's Ricky Martin's album, which hit #38 in November 2006. Other Latin artists who have charted with MTV Unplugged albums include Mana (#83 in July 1999), Shakira (#124 in March 2000), Los Tigres Del Norte (#134 in June 2011) and Julieta Venegas (#169 in July 2008).

Snow White and the Huntsman was #1 at the box-office over the weekend.

Coming Attractions: The Beach Boys' That's Why God Made The Radio is expected to be among next week's top new entries. Also due: Alan Jackson's Thirty Miles West, Neil Young & Crazy Horse's Americana, Curren$y's The Stoned Immaculate, Big K.R.I.T's Live From The Underground, Joe Walsh's Analog Man, Rock Of Ages soundtrack, Brandi Carlile's Bear Creek, The Temper Trap's The Temper Trap, the Hives' Lex Hives and Victorious Cast's Victorious 2.0 TV soundtrack,

[Enigma.]

Scissor Sisters :(

Travis Porter did worse than I expected

[badrobot]

I wonder why Scissor Sisters saw such a decline from their last two albums (which were both top 20)?

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Wow a 74% drop for Kris allen ...that album is d.o.a which is ashamed because its good.

[Honeymoon]

Yeah I thought with Kris, at least with a low opening he would see a softer second week drop... apparently not :(

His days at a major record label are probably numbered.

[Love Plastic Love]

I am surprised by just HOW bad Kris Allen is doing. Like, it isn't just flopping it is bombing worse than any other cd I can remember right now even for somewhat unknowns. What happened to his fanbase? It is a shame because he seems like a nice guy.

[Honeymoon]

^I don't think he ever mobilized one after Idol... even Taylor Hicks managed to get a Hot 100 #1 and a Platinum album. Lee DeWyze will do even worse with his second album assuming he gets one.

I'm not sure why Kris is having such trouble, there are plenty of great pop melodies, catchy tunes on the latest album that are at least very marketable towards a Hot AC/AC audience. "Live Like We're Dying" showed he could connect with a pop audience too even if radio begrudgingly played it at first.

[badrobot]

^People like handsome, wholesome, noncontroversial "normal" guys on TV. The music world seems to greatly prefer artists that are way more in-your-face/edgy/weird.

[Honeymoon]

That's true. Well with Scotty doing well and P2 off to a promising start, the AI machine is still going. I just am waiting for another female to win. After all, the two most successful alumni are women.

[areyoureadytojump]

Newer albums on the Billboard 200 that have not been RIAA certified yet:

Numbers from the 6/9 chart:

Carrie Underwood 485k
Nicki Minaj 492k
Now 41 686k
Pitbull 425k
Civil Wars 447k
Madonna 472k
Bruce Sprinsgteen 403k

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

[I Wish]

Let's not forget Kris' TVOL is currently only at #29 on HAC with virtually no radio support until the week of his album release. The song was simply released and forgotten until his AI performance over a month later, then once again forgotten until May 21st.

Since the AI performance, he's only performed again on Live With Kelly and done some local TV interviews for Fox affiliates. There was no hype built up for his album, the single wasn't released to Pop, and he's been gone from the music scene since The Truth fizzled back in June 2010.

There's only so much you can achieve with minimal label support, little mainstream exposure and one hit single over two years ago. You don't establish a dedicated fanbase overnight (regardless of American Idol) and constant exposure is necessary.

[jools]

I Wish, if a 70% drop is horrible when the opening numbers are 77k, what do you think about a 74% drop from 16k?

Jun 6, 2012 12:40:36 GMT -5 Honeymoon said:

Live Like We're Dying" showed he could connect with a pop audience too even if radio begrudgingly played it at first.

Trouble is it wasn't Kris that connected with a pop audience with LLWD it was the song. When LLWD was at its peak, Kris' album was dropping out of the BB200. To me that says it is the song that is connecting, not the artist.

There was a review of the American Idol tour that said Kris himself was kind of bland and his career would hinge on the strength of the songs. That reviewer got a lot of abuse from defensive fans, but I always thought he was spot on. LLWD was a great pop song and gave him his only post idol success to date. I don't think TVOL is a patch on LLWD myself, but perhaps the next single? I was unimpressed with TYC so I only really listened to it once - the only song that really stood out to me was You Got A Way and thats probably not single material?

If he can make it as a singles artist, i don't think it will matter in the long run if he struggles to connect personally and sell albums.

[I Wish]

^ Why don't you go back to that thread and reread it yourself. :) Meanwhile Adam continues free falling as well.

[ListenToItTwice]

Two albums with the exact debut within seven spots of each other: Heaven by Rebecca Ferguson and The Walkmen are numbers 23 and 30, respectively.

Also, Adele's 19 is, for the first time, one of the ten-longest chart sitters, with 137 non-consecutive weeks on the chart. It incidentally has a huge bullet this week, moving from #44 to #26.

[rosemoor]

Two reasons why Kris couldn't build a solid fanbase even with a hit like LLWD. First, the rest of kris' debut album sounds nothing like LLWD. second, LLWD is not a singer's song which showcase the artist's unique style and/or voice, it's just another catchy pop tune any semi-competent singer can deliver. So basically this time around he's like a brand new artist, and even though I think his new album is much better than his debut, I can't honestly say it's strong enough to launch a new artist, its style is just too middle-of-the-road. and all sound been done before.

I think both Adam and kris are in danger unfortunately, kris much more so, even though both albums are miles better than their debut.

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Caution: Soundscan data can't be posted here anymore

[areyoureadytojump]

New RIAA certifications:

Gotye Gold
Toby Keith Gold

[areyoureadytojump]

48 albums debut this week. 30 albums re-enter.

[areyoureadytojump]

Jun 7, 2012 9:57:36 GMT -5 @2m said:

Caution: Soundscan data can't be posted here anymore

Then what's the point of posting here anymore?

[ListenToItTwice]

^ To clarify, the rounded data that's given to us in Billboard articles, the Yahoo column, etc. are okay to post here. Anything without a source that we see on UKmix, for example, is not.

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Well, yes. The charts that arab at ukmix has been posting the last several months is a good example or basically anything that has unrounded Soundscan data leaked to another music forum or posted on a blog.

[ListenToItTwice]

I know that you were aware of it, I was just making sure others were ;)

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Jun 7, 2012 10:20:56 GMT -5 ListenToItTwice said:

I know that you were aware of it, I was just making sure others were ;)

Of course, just expanding on what you were saying too

[esoteric76]

Jun 7, 2012 9:39:54 GMT -5 rosemoor said:

I think both Adam and kris are in danger unfortunately, kris much more so, even though both albums are miles better than their debut.

Just an additional comment, let's not forget about Adam's international success, which is only going to keep growing from this point out. The guy has a worldwide fanbase and will continue to sell, even if he does falter here (which I don't think he will). Adam will also become a highly lucrative touring artist, and I'm sure the label has found a way to work that part into his contract. He's not going anywhere.

Kris needs to open for a big touring act. Any word on this?

[areyoureadytojump]

Can't we make Pulse private where you have to log in to view the forum?

[lugus15]

Jun 7, 2012 9:57:36 GMT -5 @2m said:

Caution: Soundscan data can't be posted here anymore

Why is that???

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