HITS 11/24: Drake #1. Dolly #2. Taylor #3.

[areyoureadytojump]

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Saturday, November 18, 2023

A DOLLY/DRAKE/TAY BATTLE FOR #1

There’s going to be a lot on next week’s chart to be thankful for; at least three titles are in the running for #1, each finishing over 100k.

Drake’s For All the Dogs: Scary Hours Edition is projected to do 110-130k. In its fourth week of release, 1989 (Taylor’s Version) looks like it will come in slightly lower, 110-120k, creating a possible Thanksgiving skirmish for #1.

Dolly Parton’s Rockstar could be a spoiler, however—the beloved entertainer's highly publicized, star-studded rock album is headed for a solid 95-105k opening, with a potential boost from those bastions of hard-rocking culture Home Shopping Network and Cracker Barrel.

K-pop group ENHYPEN is projecting 80-90k for a Top 5 debut.

Drake, For All the Dogs: Scary Hours Edition (OVO/Republic): 110-130k
Dolly Parton (Butterfly/Big Machine/BMLG): 95-105k
ENHYPEN (BELIFT LAB/Geffen): 80-90k

[fridayteenage]

a bit surprised about dolly, especially in the post-bundles era.

apparently she hasn't hit the top 5 before.

[jdanton2]

Nov 18, 2023 16:39:11 GMT -5 fridayteenage said:

a bit surprised about dolly, especially in the post-bundles era.

apparently she hasn't hit the top 5 before.

she had two albums reach #6 . in 1987 a collab album with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris reached #6 as did a solo album in 2014.

[NeRD]

Would be cool if Dolly somehow got it.

[Music Fan]

unexpected!! Based on this estimate, kind of rooting for:

1. Dolly
2. Drake
3. Taylor

[Ryan]

Let's go, Dolly!

[onebuffalo]

I hope Dolly Parton can clear 100,000 SPS. It should be her highest charting album on the top 200 chart.

[Envoirment]

I hope Dolly does it! *_* Hopefully she trends upwards and Drake/Taylor downwards. Amazing to see her looking at her highest charting album and possible highest sales week(?).

[Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ]

#6 is her highest-peaking album??? This just proves numbers and chart peaks don't mean everything and we shouldn't rely on them. I mean, Jolene peaked at #60...
Dolly will always be a legend, and I hope she reaches #1 just because she can it's a nice achievement to have, nothing else.

[Gary]

Trio was a number one country album

[85la]

To get a #1 album, what, 60 years into her career would be such a way to top off her legacy!

[Darkest Hour]

Just give her the #1 album at this point.

[sportytheartist]

Nov 18, 2023 22:11:21 GMT -5 85la said:

To get a #1 album, what, 60 years into her career would be such a way to top off her legacy!

Her first single “Puppy Love” was released in 1959, so yeah pretty much 65 years! I hope she gets that #1!

[shayonce]

oh, so drake's release wasn't new album but deluxe edition of previous album with 6 new tracks.

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

^Yep. Scary Hours 3 EP never actually existed, LOL.

[JamaicaFunk²]

Giving Dolly’s album a listen (wow over 2 hours!) and I have to say, it’s fantastic. Really rooting for her this week!!

[WolfSpear]

It would certainly one of the longest waits for a #1 album, if not the longest. Pretty sure this would eclipse Tony Bennett’s wait.

[hughster1]

Nov 19, 2023 11:37:56 GMT -5 WolfSpear said:

It would certainly one of the longest waits for a #1 album, if not the longest. Pretty sure this would eclipse Tony Bennett’s wait.

It'll be close. Tony first hit the precursor to the Billboard 200 some time in 1957, and topped the Billboard 200 for the first time on the chart for the week of October 8, 2011 with "Duets II". Dolly first hit the Billboard 200 with "My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy" on the chart dated November 22, 1969, debuting and peaking at number 194. So Dolly will have waited 54 years and a week, and Tony probably waited 54 years and some number of months. Of course, if you use a different starting point, either Tony or Dolly might win out. I'm rooting for Dolly to make it, since it would be an incredible achievement. And considering Big Machine is distributing it, I bet they'll be extra motivated to make it happen if the chief competition is Taylor....

[hughster1]

Also, if Dolly does it, her "Rockstar" will knock Stray Kids' "ROCK-STAR" out of the top slot!

[areyoureadytojump]

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Tuesday, November 21, 2023

PARTON US, IT'S THE TOP 20

With an incredible number of moving parts, including availability at Cracker Barrel, Home Shopping Network and Dollar General Stores, Dolly Parton's Rockstar (Butterfly/Big Machine/BMLG) could be on its way to give the music legend her very first #1 album overall. We must caution, however, that with so many moving parts, the Thanksgiving holiday and the always formidable Taylor Swift as variables, there will be a greater than usual margin of error in today's projections.

[ccchui]

Will Dolly really going to get her first #1 Album in Billboard 200??

[Baby Yoda Hot100Fan]

Go Dolly! 11 albums out of the top 20 are projected to have other 10k in pure sales.

[Mayman]

Hope Dolly can take the #1.

[Push The Button]

Nov 18, 2023 21:52:01 GMT -5 Ｓｏｕｎｄｃｌ🕤ｃｋ said:

#6 is her highest-peaking album??? This just proves numbers and chart peaks don't mean everything and we shouldn't rely on them. I mean, Jolene peaked at #60...
Dolly will always be a legend, and I hope she reaches #1 just because she can it's a nice achievement to have, nothing else.

Remember, it wasn’t until Soundscan that people realized how popular Country music truly was in the U.S. It was definitely popular on the charts in the ‘70s and ‘80s, but Billboard’s old way of collecting data didn’t paint a complete picture.

[bat1990]

I'm tempted to get a copy to help boost her total!

[WolfSpear]

Rooting for Dolly this week! Would be an amazing achievement in her legendary career.

[HolidayGuy]

Taylor Swift and her team would not DARE do anything to interfere with Dolly's moment to shine- right?

I gather Dolly's album will appear on both the rock and country charts? I haven't listed yet- do any of the tracks double as rock and country, or would it chart on country just because it's Dolly?

[hughster1]

Nov 21, 2023 18:53:51 GMT -5 WolfSpear said:

Rooting for Dolly this week! Would be an amazing achievement in her legendary career.

I wonder if there's anyone not rooting for Dolly?!!!

[fridayteenage]

this decade, no woman born before 1980 had a 100k sales week.
and she was born in the 40s.

[hughster1]

Nov 22, 2023 1:33:50 GMT -5 fridayteenage said:

this decade, no woman born before 1980 had a 100k sales week.
and she was born in the 40s.

The last female artist born before 1980 to top 100,000 in sales was Celine Dion in November 2019 with "Courage," which had 109,000 units in pure sales (113,000 album-equivalent units). Before that, fellow Canadian Shania Twain took "Now" to the top in October 2017, with sales of 134,000 units (137,000 album-equivalent units). And the last born in the 40's to top the chart with over 100,000? Barbra Streisand, who in September 2016, at age 74, took "Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway" to the top with 148,000 in pure sales (149,000 in album-equivalent sales). It made Streisand, at that time, the oldest woman to top the charts - a title Dolly could take this coming week. And of course Streisand has topped the chart many times - at least once in six consecutive decades, 11 times in total - whereas this would be Dolly's first time ruling the Billboard 200.