Billboard 200: 6/27/09: BEP #1: 304,109

[PaNdeM0niuM!]

Jun 17, 2009 12:05:28 GMT -5 malwaredie said:

56 CLARKSON*KELLY ALL I EVER WANTED 9,436 -11 10,655 612,729

OUCH !!!

[Taste It On My Tongue]

Lol at Katy Perry outselling Kelly Clarkson.

[The Party Captain]

wow that blue october album sold horribly

[Deleted]

'THE E.N.D.' IS HERE WITH FIRST PEAS NO. 1
June 27, 2009

Keith Caulfield

The Black Eyed Peas' "The E.N.D." hits the No. 1 bull's-eye on the Billboard 200, selling 304,000 copies—the act's best sales week.

It's also the first chart-topper for the group, which had previously gone as high as No. 2. Its last set, 2005's "Monkey Business," bowed in the runner-up slot with a then-best 291,000. That album came out the same week as Coldplay's "X&Y," which kept the Peas at bay when it started at No. 1 with 737,000.

Target played a big part in the new Peas album's success, as did CBS.

The retail giant carried an exclusive version of the album that includes four additional songs and six remixes of past hits. Target sale-priced the two-disc set for $9.98 in its first week of release, and eye-popping TV commercials were scored by the new album track "I Gotta Feeling."

CBS used "Feeling" in spots hyping its new fall schedule. The commercial—part of the network's summer-long promotional campaign—premiered June 7 during the Tony Awards telecast.

The Peas performed "Feeling" on CBS' "Late Show With David Letterman" on the album's June 9 street date and on NBC's "Today" June 12.

Awareness of the album seemed to increase as the week progressed, as evidenced by how the set trended on Nielsen SoundScan's Building chart.

On Wednesday, June 10, with just one day's worth of unweighted sales, the set had sold 70,000 copies. By Friday it had sold more than double that amount: 152,000.

While the panel of reporters whose data is used to create the Building chart doesn't represent the full SoundScan universe, it still gives a good indication of how an album is trending.

This year we've found that for albums debuting at No. 1, the Wednesday Building chart figure usually accounts for about 30% of a set's first-week copies.

Based on that average, after "The E.N.D." rang up a first-day number of 70,000, one could have projected it would sell around 235,000 by the end of the week. (Industry prognosticators outside of Billboard suggested that 225,000 was reachable.)

As it turns out, the album's first day represented 23% of its debut-week sales. That indicates the album didn't nosedive after its first day and performed strongly over the weekend—and that promotional tie-ins and TV appearances paid off.

It also doesn't hurt to have had the most popular song on the radio for the past five weeks: The album's first single, "Boom Boom Pow," holds at No. 1 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart.

In addition, the quartet is the first duo or group to simultaneously claim the top spots on the Billboard 200 and the Billboard Hot 100 since 2004. The last to do so was OutKast, on the Feb. 7, 2004, charts. That was when "The Way You Move" topped the Hot 100 while "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" spent its last of seven weeks atop the albums tally.

In the past 10 years, only one other duo or group has managed the feat. For three weeks in October and November 1999, Santana's "Smooth" single and "Supernatural" album ruled the two charts.

It's rare for an act to snare concurrent No. 1s. Often an album's lead single—like "Boom Boom Pow"—is released digitally in advance of the set. The song usually peaks in sales and/or airplay—and therefore on the Hot 100—before the album is released.



gaga's million: She's "Beautiful, Dirty, Rich" . . . and a now million-seller. Lady GaGa's "The Fame" album surpasses the 1 million sales mark, 33 weeks after the singer's debut set bowed on the Oct. 28, 2008, chart.

Last week the album sold 47,000 copies, bringing its total to 1.04 million. The set has sold at least 40,000 copies each week since the seven-day frame that ended Feb. 22.

"The Fame" has spent the past 17 consecutive weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard 200. Taylor Swift's "Fearless" was the last album to spend as many weeks in the top 10, when it ended a 19-week streak April 4.

[Queen Britney & Beysus fan!]

Ouch! At Cerror... Is this going to be a bigger flop than Ashanti's last album(how embarassing).

And wow! I thought Kelly was doing alot better....She's flopping pretty bad, lets hope sales can start improving or thats 2 flops in a row for her....:(

But at least Bee is still top 50! And britney is already over 1.6 mill....And selling great ww..

[musicjunky318]

Maybe Britney's second U.S. leg will give C-Error a boost.

Clarkson's got some more promo coming up so that might help her.

[Queen Britney & Beysus fan!]

I think us Britney fans are smart enough not to buy C-errors album. Why buy donkey meat(Ciaras album)when you can have caviar(Circus).

And hopefully Kellly can improve, she has talent just not the total package like some(B&B)))))))))

[jj99$ - - LeLe]

No need to BAit the C-Error stan*s now..

[Queen Britney & Beysus fan!]

I'm a cerror fan...Pucker Up & Love Sex & Magic are hott! Her album just isn't selling, facts are facts...less than 85k first week is pretty bad....it seems cici isn't as "super" as her stan..s thinkk....lawls

[HolidayGuy]

Circus is caviar? Wow, I'd love to know what the TRULY GREAT albums in music history are, then. Maybe a better comparison would be Ciara being BK and Circus being McDonalds? ;)

Circus, BTW, isn't over 1.6m- it still has 37K and change to go.

[slw84]

Jun 19, 2009 22:43:07 GMT -5 musicjunky318 said:

Maybe Britney's second U.S. leg will give C-Error a boost.

Clarkson's got some more promo coming up so that might help her.

I love Britney but both Ciara and Britney should get a boost from the second leg

[slw84]

Jun 20, 2009 8:54:41 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Circus is caviar? Wow, I'd love to know what the TRULY GREAT albums in music history are, then. Maybe a better comparison would be Ciara being BK and Circus being McDonalds? ;)

Circus, BTW, isn't over 1.6m- it still has 37K and change to go.

More like, let's not overexaggerate Circus caliber and down ciara's new album. Love Sex Magic is not that strong IMO but Ciara just is not selling well that's all.

I thought with Promise and her last album era proved that she could be consistent. I guess I could be wrong.

Don't you just love when holidayboy always makes an effort for the passive negativity towards Britney.

[Keelzit]

^ Yeah I noticed that too. Whenever bks updates us, he always says something like ''I told ya so, Radar/IUSA won't even crack the top 30 on airplay blah blah blah''.

[musicjunky318]

Jun 20, 2009 11:22:43 GMT -5 slw84 said:

Jun 19, 2009 22:43:07 GMT -5 musicjunky318 said:

Maybe Britney's second U.S. leg will give C-Error a boost.

Clarkson's got some more promo coming up so that might help her.

I love Britney but both Ciara and Britney should get a boost from the second leg

Oh probably. But the key difference is Britney's already over 1.5 million.

Ciara hasn't scanned 200,000.

But yea I'd love for both of them to get a boost.

[cyrax]

Jun 20, 2009 14:34:29 GMT -5 Keelzit said:

^ Yeah I noticed that too. Whenever bks updates us, he always says something like ''I told ya so, Radar/IUSA won't even crack the top 30 on airplay blah blah blah''.

Well, it's not like he goes to a Britney forum and bashes her, so I don't see the big deal about that.

[Keelzit]

There is no big deal but he does it every single time and uses almost the same words. Nothing wrong with that but it gets annoying at times. It's like ''Go Bey!'', ''Go Brit!'' all over again

[Jorge_Str [Som3on3]]

Jun 18, 2009 12:55:05 GMT -5 @2m said:

Longest running albums in the BB 200 1997-present

1. 156 All The Right Reasons, Nickelback
2. 151 Come On Over, Shania Twain
3. 148 Come Away With Me, Norah Jones
4. 138 Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift*
5. 138 Greatest Hits, Guns N' Roses
6. 137 Some Hearts, Carrie Underwood
7. 134 Daughtry, Daughtry *
8. 134 Wide Open Spaces, Dixie Chicks
9. 133 Backstreet Boys, Backstreet Boys
10. 133 Flyleaf, Flyleaf

i can't see anyone who can stop Taylor Swift from taking the 1st place soon enough

[Abel]

300 weeks anyone?

[Deleted]

The all-time list is a lot deeper than this. Many albums have been on the chart for 300+ weeks. The list I posted is just sonce the point they started kicking albums to catalog after 2 years

[matelot]

162 YOUNG JEEZY RECESSION 3,309 20 2,768 855,766


Is this album already platinum ?
The increase is strange, could it be Def Jam scanning over and over the album in retail stores they got to make the album go platinum ? i read that somewhere and I don't know what to think about it

[HolidayGuy]

Now, now- it's not the same words every time. I try to vary it up a little bit. :) It's just that people often are way too optimistic in their predictions, so I try to bring em down to earth a little bit- that way, they don't end up disappointed. I'm just tryin' to help, that's all. :)

Will Taylor Swift's debut album make it another 18 weeks before going to catalog? I agree, would be nice to see her knock Nickelback down from that perch.

Did the two-year/catalog rule take effect in 1997? Or was it before? Can't remember exactly.

[Deleted]

Yes, which is why I started this list from that point

[Keelzit]

I know you're trying to help HolidayGuy but it's just that your down-to-earth comments mostly refer to Brintey, that's all. :)

[areyoureadytojump]

Best sellers on the BB200 over 1.0 million:

6/27/09 chart:

DAUGHTRY DAUGHTRY 4,466,755
SWIFT*TAYLOR TAYLOR SWIFT 4,175,739

SWIFT*TAYLOR FEARLESS 3,355,914
LIL WAYNE THA CARTER III 3,177,238

KID ROCK ROCK N ROLL JESUS 2,974,490
UNDERWOOD*CARRIE CARNIVAL RIDE 2,895,006

COLDPLAY VIVA LA VIDA 2,490,628
BEYONCE I AM...SASHA FIERCE 2,236,785
AC/DC BLACK ICE 2,085,353
TWILIGHT SOUNDTRACK 2,060,372
NICKELBACK DARK HORSE 2,027,417

T.I. PAPER TRAIL 1,961,783
METALLICA DEATH MAGNETIC 1,779,888
MAMMA MIA SOUNDTRACK 1,692,167
SUGARLAND LOVE ON THE INSIDE 1,644,925
SPEARS*BRITNEY CIRCUS 1,562,462
WEST*KANYE 808S & HEARTBREAK 1,554,598

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3 SDTK 1,432,789
CYRUS*MILEY BREAKOUT 1,432,082
VARIOUS NOW 29 1,261,846
MRAZ*JASON WE SING WE DANCE WE STEAL 1,225,767
COOK*DAVID DAVID COOK 1,176,534
P!NK FUNHOUSE 1,124,122
HANNAH MONTANA HANNAH MOVIE SNDTRK 1,100,290
NE-YO YEAR OF THE GENTLEMAN 1,066,274
EMINEM RELAPSE 1,049,076
PERRY*KATY ONE OF THE BOYS 1,045,523
LADY GAGA FAME 1,041,179
DISTURBED INDESTRUCTIBLE 1,019,534

Falling off:

LEWIS*LEONA SPIRIT 1,558,966

[areyoureadytojump]

Jun 21, 2009 11:14:16 GMT -5 matelot said:

162 YOUNG JEEZY RECESSION 3,309 20 2,768 855,766


Is this album already platinum ?
The increase is strange, could it be Def Jam scanning over and over the album in retail stores they got to make the album go platinum ? i read that somewhere and I don't know what to think about it

The album has been certified Gold by the RIAA.

[popindustrialist]

Jun 21, 2009 11:14:16 GMT -5 matelot said:

162 YOUNG JEEZY RECESSION 3,309 20 2,768 855,766


Is this album already platinum ?
The increase is strange, could it be Def Jam scanning over and over the album in retail stores they got to make the album go platinum ? i read that somewhere and I don't know what to think about it

The 'Get Allot' remix & video were serviced on June 11th. That's probably where he got this little bump from.

It's not like hardcore rap acts get a lot of love from the mainstream press. It dosent take much to get acts like Jeezy a sales bump.

[kylecburke]

anyone else lovin Sugarlands consitancy!

[Young Money]

Lil' Wayne on the charts for over a year! :)

[HolidayGuy]

Obsessive Radar- the comments refer to whoever has a new single out, actually. Mimi, Janet, and- yes- even Madonna. :) As we know, some hope and believe she can score a decent-sized second single release at radio (they thought that with COADF and HC eras), but, no mattee what the second (and third, etc.) releases are, unlikely to happen. On her own (no collabos), she will get so-so airplay with a fresh, new single, but then it's an uphill battle on U.S. radio.

[Deleted]

Jun 23, 2009 15:19:26 GMT -5 kylecburke said:

anyone else lovin Sugarlands consitancy!

Yes! Love how well Sugarland is doing!! :)