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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jan 13, 2010 10:15:06 GMT -5
SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 1/10/10)
1) Ke$ha – Animal – 151,942
2) Susan Boyle - I Dreamed A Dream – 93, 236 (After 7 weeks – 3,196, 449)
3) Lady Gaga – Fame – 65, 763 (After 63 weeks – 2, 453, 429)
Other Debuts
27) Katherine McPhee – Unbroken – 15, 346
46) Elvis Presley – Elvis 75 – 10,071
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Post by AutomaticBR on Jan 13, 2010 10:29:40 GMT -5
Ke$ha did really well with her albums this week, I wasn't expecting not even half of that amount!
I'm glad that GaGa is still moving some relatively big numbers after xmas, I'm anxious to see TF going 3x Platinum and TFM 1x!
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Post by RockaByeBaby on Jan 13, 2010 10:34:15 GMT -5
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Post by HolidayGuy on Jan 13, 2010 10:48:36 GMT -5
Wonder how much of Ke$sha'total was digital (perhaps Billboard or someone will report on that). Itunes had the album for $6.99, which is a fantastic deal.
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Post by bibliotheque on Jan 13, 2010 10:53:45 GMT -5
Wonder how much of Ke$sha'total was digital (perhaps Billboard or someone will report on that). Itunes had the album for $6.99, which is a fantastic deal. HDD said it was discounted in the big physical retailers as well though, so I don't know if so many would be swayed to online because they could get it cheap everywhere. |
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Post by Adam (UTR) on Jan 13, 2010 11:55:40 GMT -5
As expected, Ke$ha opens at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with her debut album "Animal," shifting 152,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The newcomer's set replaces Susan Boyle "I Dreamed a Dream," which drifts to No. 2 with 93,000 (down 32%) after a six-week run at the top of the heap. Young fans of Ke$ha must be delighted to see the 22-year old party-hearty girl bump the soaring sounds of the 48-year old Scottish reality TV star.
With 152,000, "Animal" actually sold better than first projected. Initially, some industry sources thought it was going to sell around 100,000 copies in its first frame. That prediction came as a result of how "Animal" sold a boatload of downloads in it first two days of release. Albums that initially sell big download numbers generally tend to trail off quicker as the week progresses. Thus, some industry projectors figured "Animal" would sell around 100,000.
As it turns out, "Animal" held up very well all week long, especially at digital download stores. It also helps that set carried an attractive developing artist list price of $9.98, and it was on sale for less than that at the big physical retailers. Additionally, both the Amazon MP3 and iTunes stores sold it for only $6.99.
In total, 76% of the album's first-week sales came from download retailers. That's the largest weekly digital percentage share for an album at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
As for the rest of the top 10 this week, Lady Gaga's "The Fame" gets bounced down one rung to No. 3 with 66,000 (down 20%) while Alicia Keys' "The Element of Freedom" (62,000; down 22%) and Mary J. Blige's "Stronger With Each Tear" (47,000; down 25%) each also drop one spot, respectively, to Nos. 4 and 5.
The "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" soundtrack climbs one position to No. 6 with 44,000 (down 13%), Taylor Swift's "Fearless" falls two spots to No. 7 (38,000; down 36%) and the Black Eyed Peas' "The E.N.D." holds steady at No. 8 (36,000; down 24%). Closing out the top 10 are Justin Bieber's "My World," falling three places to No. 9 (34,000; down 34%) and Lady Gaga's "The Fame Monster," down one notch to No. 10 with 31,000 (down 30%).
Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Jan. 10) totaled 5.92 million units, down 24% compared to the sum last week (7.76 million) and down 5% compared to the comparable sales week of 2009 (week ending Jan. 11; 6.25 million).
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Post by bibliotheque on Jan 13, 2010 12:08:40 GMT -5
In total, 76% of the album's first-week sales came from download retailers.
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Post by Tanisha Thomas. on Jan 13, 2010 12:16:45 GMT -5
Most of Ke$ha's success is coming from the digital world. No surprise there. It should be interesting to see how well she does next week.
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Post by Young Money on Jan 13, 2010 12:23:48 GMT -5
In total, 76% of the album's first-week sales came from download retailers. :o This is why it is going to hurt her. Her album was 6.99 on itunes or something That is mainly why she sold so much. She probably would have done like 50k without those sales lol |
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Post by Tanisha Thomas. on Jan 13, 2010 12:24:37 GMT -5
In total, 76% of the album's first-week sales came from download retailers. :o This is why it is going to hurt her. Her album was 6.99 on itunes or something That is mainly why she sold so much. She probably would have done like 50k without those sales lol Exactly. |
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jan 13, 2010 12:25:41 GMT -5
Billboard Chart Alert for January 13, 2010
In this week's Chart Alert: Newcomer Ke$ha opens at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with her debut album, "Animal," shifting 152,000 copies . . . Of that figure, an eye-popping 76% was made up of digital downloads . . . After a six-week run at No. 1, Susan Boyle's "I Dreamed a Dream" drifts to No. 2 with 93,000 (down 32%) . . . Next week, Ke$ha may step aside for Vampire Weekend's second album, "Contra," which has a chance of starting at No. 1 with perhaps 75,000.
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Post by lugus15 on Jan 13, 2010 12:26:23 GMT -5
Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Jan. 10) totaled 5.92 million units, down 24% compared to the sum last week (7.76 million) and down 5% compared to the comparable sales week of 2009 (week ending Jan. 11; 6.25 million). Could album sales recuperate a little this year??? Last year is was 13% down from the previous year, and it stayed there all year. This year is only 5% Something to look forward to |
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jan 13, 2010 12:32:26 GMT -5
Billboard Chart Alert: www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/charts/chart_alert/e3i3fdb706572f41f07160fc508cf9f2eafKe$ha's 'Animal' Bites At No. 1 With Big Digital Debut January 13, 2010 Editor: Keith Caulfield; Contributors: Gary Trust, Alex Vitoulis; Editorial Director: Silvio Pietroluongo Newcomer Ke$ha opens at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with her debut album, "Animal," shifting 152,000 copies . . . Of that figure, an eye-popping 76% was made up of digital downloads . . . After a six-week run at No. 1, Susan Boyle's "I Dreamed a Dream" drifts to No. 2 with 93,000 (down 32%) . . . Next week, Ke$ha may step aside for Vampire Weekend's second album, "Contra," which has a chance of starting at No. 1 with perhaps 75,000. FLASH POINTS • Ke$ha replaces Susan Boyle at the top of the Billboard 200 heap, thanks to the arrival of the former's debut album, "Animal," with 152,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. • The youthful fans of Ke$ha must be delighted to see the 22-year-old party-hearty girl bump the soaring sounds of the 48-year-old Scottish reality TV star's "I Dreamed a Dream" out of the top slot after a six-week run. This week, Boyle slips to No. 2 with 93,000 (down 32%). • With 152,000, "Animal" actually sold better than first expected. Initially, some industry sources thought it was going to sell around 100,000 copies in its first frame. That comparatively conservative figure came as a result of how "Animal" sold a boatload of downloads in it first two days of release. Generally, albums that intially sell crazy download numbers tend to trail off quicker as the week progresses. Thus, some industry projectors figured "Animal" would sell around 100,000. • But as it turns out, "Animal" held up very well all week long, especially at digital download stores. It also helps that the set carried an attractive developing-artist list price of $9.98, and it was on sale for less than that at the big physical retailers. Additionally, both the Amazon MP3 and iTunes Stores sold it for only $6.99. • In total, 76% of the album's first-week sales came from download retailers. That's the largest weekly digital percentage share for an album at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. It's also the largest digital sales week for any album—in terms of number of downloads—since John Mayer's "Battle Studies" debuted with 129,000 downloads in November. But, consider that his 129,000 downloads came as a part of an overall 286,000 copies that week (for a 45% digital share). • As for the rest of the top 10 this week, Lady Gaga's "The Fame" gets bounced down one rung to No. 3 with 66,000 (down 20%) while Alicia Keys' "The Element of Freedom" (62,000; down 22%) and Mary J. Blige's "Stronger With Each Tear" (47,000; down 25%) each also drop one spot, respectively, to Nos. 4 and 5. The "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" soundtrack climbs one position to No. 6 with 44,000 (down 13%), Taylor Swift's "Fearless" falls two spots to No. 7 (38,000; down 36%), and the Black Eyed Peas' "The E.N.D." holds steady at No. 8 (36,000; down 24%). Closing out the top 10 are Justin Bieber's "My World," falling three places to No. 9 (34,000; down 34%) and Lady Gaga's "The Fame Monster," down one notch to No. 10 with 31,000 (down 30%). • Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Jan. 10) totaled 5.9 million units, down 24% compared with the sum last week (7.8 million) and down 5% compared with the comparable sales week of 2009 (week ending Jan. 11; 6.3 million). • NEXT WEEK... • As for next week on the Billboard 200, it's looking like Vampire Weekend's sophomore album, "Contra," will be the highest debut and seems like a good bet for No. 1. Industry sources are projecting—based on first-day sales numbers—that the album could sell between 60,000 to 75,000 copies by week's end on Sunday, Jan. 17. • Ke$ha's "Animal" will likely slide out of the No. 1 position to make way for Vampire Weekend, though it's too early to tell what kind of second-week sales drop "Animal" may face. • Vampire's new set is being sold for $9.99 in iTunes' Store and for $3.99 in Amazon's MP3 Store. The latter retailer got a head start on the Vampire action, as it began selling the set Monday, Jan. 11—one day earlier than the album's official street date. Target and Best Buy are each also offering the title for not quite $8. • Vampire Weekend's self-titled debut entered and peaked on the Billboard 200 at No. 17 with 28,000 nearly two years ago. It has sold far sold 491,000 in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. • Nielsen SoundScan's sales tracking week, as reflected in Billboard's sales charts, runs from Monday through Sunday of each week. Next week's album charts will be revealed Wednesday, Jan. 20, and will reflect data through the week ending Sunday, Jan. 13. MARKET WATCH • Album units, current chart week: 5.9 million units • DOWN 24% from last week's charts: 7.8 million units • DOWN 5% from the comparable week in 2009: 6.3 million units • This week: Only the No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 sells more than 100,000 copies. • This week last year on the Billboard 200: Taylor Swift's "Fearless" was a familiar face at No. 1, selling 72,000. The chart's top debut came at No. 16 from "Total Club Hits 2" with 20,000 copies. A LOOK AHEAD • Among the albums released this week, due on next week's charts: Vampire Weekend's "Contra," OK Go's "Of the Blue Colour of the Sky," Omarion's "Ollusion" and Ringo Starr's "Y Not." • Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2009 when: Taylor Swift's "Fearless" was yet again No. 1 (63,000) while the biggest new entry came from the soundtrack to "Notorious" at No. 4 with 43,000. |
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Post by vinyl on Jan 13, 2010 12:32:59 GMT -5
PROPS TO KE$HA.
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Post by bibliotheque on Jan 13, 2010 12:35:24 GMT -5
In total, 76% of the album's first-week sales came from download retailers. :o This is why it is going to hurt her. Her album was 6.99 on itunes or something That is mainly why she sold so much. She probably would have done like 50k without those sales lol Will they keep the album at 6.99 on iTunes or bump the price up later? |
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Post by Adonis the DemiGod! on Jan 13, 2010 12:36:51 GMT -5
In total, 76% of the album's first-week sales came from download retailers. :o This is why it is going to hurt her. Her album was 6.99 on itunes or something That is mainly why she sold so much. She probably would have done like 50k without those sales lol How is that any different from an album being 6.99 from a retailer. 6.99 is 6.99. People are just more comfortable with just having the mp3s now than they were in the past. Almost all albums go on sale during the first week out. |
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Post by shaq91 on Jan 13, 2010 12:42:01 GMT -5
Congrats to Ke$ha, and I really wish that Katharine sold more :(
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Post by realityBITES on Jan 13, 2010 13:10:04 GMT -5
Idol Sales Glee Cast, Glee: The Music, Vol. 2 (25,000, -43 percent, 454,000 total/9,000 digital, -32 percent, 95,000 digital total) Carrie Underwood, Play On (22,000, -34 percent, 1.205 million/5,000 digital, -30 percent, 124,000) Glee Cast, Glee: The Music, Vol. 1 (20,000, -36 percent, 662,000/8,000 digital, -22 percent, 132,000 digital total) Various, Now That's What I Call Music! 32 (20,000, -42 percent, 695,000/1,000 digital, -36 percent, 12,000 digital total) Katharine McPhee, Unbroken (15,000, debut, 15,000/4,000 digital total) Adam Lambert, For Your Entertainment (11,000, -35 percent, 445,000/2,000 digital, -31 percent, 56,000 digital total) Daughtry, Leave This Town (8,000, -29 percent, 890,000/2,000 digital, -28 percent, 150,000 digital total) Various, WOW Hits 2010 (8,000, -17 percent, 252,000/1,000 digital, -24 percent, 7,000 digital total) Kris Allen, Kris Allen (5,000, -37 percent, 233,000/1,000 digital, -33 percent, 38,000 digital total) Rod Stewart, Soulbook (5,000, -30 percent, 333,000) Various, Now That's What I Call Music! 31 (4,000, -44 percent, 854,000) Kelly Clarkson, All I Ever Wanted (4,000, -30 percent, 819,000/1,000 digital, -31 percent, 171,000 digital total) Various, Now That's What I Call Country Vol. 2 (3,000, -27 percent, 222,000) Daughtry, Daughtry (3,000, -28 percent, 4.617 million) Soundtrack, Hannah Montana 3 (3,000, -36 percent, 561,000) Carrie Underwood, Carnival Ride (3,000, -26 percent, 3.048 million) Carrie Underwood, Some Hearts (2,000, -27 percent, 6.919 million) Allison Iraheta, Just Like You (2,000, -43 percent, 77,000) Kellie Pickler, Kellie Pickler (2,000, -28 percent, 374,000) Various, Now That's What I Call Country (less than 1,000, -40 percent, 406,000) content.usatoday.com/communities/idolchatter/post/2010/01/album-sales-carrie-underwood-plays-on-katharine-mcphee-debuts/1 |
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Post by Young Money on Jan 13, 2010 13:29:41 GMT -5
This is why it is going to hurt her. Her album was 6.99 on itunes or something That is mainly why she sold so much. She probably would have done like 50k without those sales lol Will they keep the album at 6.99 on iTunes or bump the price up later? I think it is already bumped. This is why it is going to hurt her. Her album was 6.99 on itunes or something That is mainly why she sold so much. She probably would have done like 50k without those sales lol How is that any different from an album being 6.99 from a retailer. 6.99 is 6.99. People are just more comfortable with just having the mp3s now than they were in the past. Almost all albums go on sale during the first week out. I never said it was different than an album being $6.99 from a retailer. What I am saying is that $6.99 is VERY cheap. The standard is for a CD to sell at $9.99 in week one. Occasionally stores will do it a little more expensive, or a little cheaper. 9/10 new releases are sold for $9.99. $3 is a big difference, especially in these times. I have bought a few albums before for new artists because of them being so cheap. If Ke$ha's album was $10 on iTunes/stores, without a doubt it would have sold much, much, MUCH less. She would have had Flo Rida sales. Most of her entire first week came from iTunes! That is a very, very bad sign. and I have nothing against Ke$ha either. so no one bring that up |
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Post by Creme de la Creme on Jan 13, 2010 15:01:32 GMT -5
Week Ending Jan. 10, 2010: Putting The $ In Ke$ha (by Paul Grein in Chart Watch)
The charts often make for strange bedfellows, but that seems especially true this week. Ke$ha's debut album, Animal, enters The Billboard 200 at #1, dethroning Susan Boyle's I Dreamed A Dream. The two women are polar opposites. Boyle, 48, is old enough to be Ke$ha's mother. Boyle's conservative image and traditional adult contemporary musical approach are also far removed from Ke$ha's edgy, bratty style. Here's a factoid that underscores the difference in their appeal: Animal sold more digital copies this week (115,000) than I Dreamed A Dream has in its entire seven-week run (89,000).
More than three-quarters (76%) of this week's total sales for Animal came from the digital realm. Billboard's Keith Caulfield reports that this is the highest digital share for any #1 album in chart history.
This is the first time that a debut album has sold more than 100,000 digital copies in any one week. And Animal is only the third album by a female artist to top 100,000 in digital sales in any one week. It trails Taylor Swift's Fearless, which sold 129,000 digital copies in its first week out, and Britney Spears' Circus, which sold 118,000.
Ke$ha is also making waves on Hot Digital Songs. "TiK ToK" tops the chart for the fourth straight week. The sassy smash sold 252,000 digital copies this week, bringing its 16-week total to 2,695,000. Ke$ha also has the week's #2 song, "Blah Blah Blah" (featuring 3OH!3), which sold 206,000 copies this week. Only two other artists in the past two years have had the top two songs on Hot Digital Songs. Beyonce scored in November 2008 with "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" and "If I Were A Boy." The Black Eyed Peas scored for two weeks in June 2009 with "I Gotta Feeling" and "Boom Boom Pow."
("Between "Blah Blah Blah" and "Boom Boom Pow," I don't know why people say "they don't write songs like they used to.")
"Blah Blah Blah" must surely be the first collaboration in recording history in which both artists had an oddball punctuation mark embedded in their name. Ke$ha and 3OH!3 are clearly on the same wavelength. ("Blah Blah Blah" has already climbed higher on Hot Digital Songs than 3OH!3's breakthrough smash "Don't Trust Me," which peaked at #3 in May. It has sold 2,670,000 digital copies as of this week.)
Female solo artists hold down the top five spots on The Billboard 200 for the second week in a row. Until last week, this had never happened in all of chart history. Now it has happened two weeks running.
This week also marks the first time that debut albums have appeared at #1 on The Billboard 200 back-to-back since July 2001, when Alicia Keys' Songs In A Minor replaced D-12's Devil's Night in the top spot.
In a related note, this is the second week in a row that debut albums have held down the top two spots on the chart. Last week, it was I Dreamed A Dream and Lady Gaga's The Fame. This week, it's Animal and I Dreamed A Dream. Until these past two weeks, debut albums hadn't held down the top two spots simultaneously since January 2003, when Norah Jones' Come Away With Me and Avril Lavigne's Let Go did the trick.
Incidentally, Lady Gaga has two entries in the top 10 for the third time in the past seven weeks. The Fame slips from #2 to #3, while The Fame Monster EP dips from #9 to #10.
The Black Eyed Peas' The E.N.D. logs its 18th week in the top 10. You may remember that, last June, the album's run at #1 was broken up by Jonas Brothers' Lines, Vines And Trying Times. The E.N.D. would have had three straight weeks at #1, but JoBros' album sold 99,000 more copies in the middle week. And where is Lines, Vines And Trying Times these days? Last week, it slipped off The Billboard 200 after a 27-week run. The album has sold 622,000 copies, about one-third of the 1,823,000 tally rung up by The E.N.D.
Shameless Plug: Taylor Swift's Fearless logs its 52nd week in the top 10 on The Billboard 200. It's one of only 18 albums to spend a full year in the top 10 since 1963, when Billboard combined its separate mono and stereo surveys into one comprehensive chart. On Friday, I'll have a Chart Watch Extra in which I count them down. The list couldn't be more eclectic, running the gamut from Doctor Zhivago to Appetite For Destruction. Check it out on Friday.
Here's the low-down on this week's top 10 albums.
1. Ke$ha, Animal, 152,000. The new entry is the first #1 album of 2010. I guess you could say it's #1 for the year-to-date! Six songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "TiK ToK," which holds at #1 for the fourth week.
2. Susan Boyle, I Dreamed A Dream, 93,000. The album slips to #2 after six straight weeks at #1. No songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs.
3. Lady Gaga, The Fame, 66,000. The album slips from #2 to #3 in its 63rd week. This is its 29th week in the top 10. Six songs from the expanded version of the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Bad Romance," which dips from #2 to #3.
4. Alicia Keys, The Element Of Freedom, 62,000. The album dips from #3 to #4. This is its fourth week in the top five. Two songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart," which jumps from #82 to #55.
5. Mary J. Blige, Stronger Witheach Tear, 47,000. The album slips from #4 to #5. This is its third week in the top five. "I Am" jumps from #182 to #122 on Hot Digital Songs.
6. Soundtrack, Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, 44,000. The soundtrack inches up from #7 to #6 in its sixth week. This is its second week in the top 10. It's the #1 movie soundtrack for the second week. The Chipettes' version of Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" drops from #100 to #143 on Hot Digital Songs.
7. Taylor Swift, Fearless, 38,000. The album slips from #5 to #7 in its 61st week. This is its 52nd week in the top 10. It's #1 on the country chart for the 33rd week. Three songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "You Belong With Me," which drops from #24 to #37.
8. The Black Eyed Peas, The E.N.D., 36,000. The album holds at #8 in its 31st week. This is its 18th week in the top 10. Four songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "I Gotta Feeling," which dips from #7 to #8.
9. Justin Bieber, My World, 34,000. The seven-song EP drops from #6 to #9 in its eighth week. This is its sixth week in the top 10. Four songs from the EP are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "One Time," which drops from #17 to #28.
10. Lady Gaga, The Fame Monster, 31,000. The eight-song EP dips from #9 to #10 in its seventh week. This is its third week in the top 10. Two songs from the EP are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Bad Romance," which dips from #2 to #3.
One album drops out of the top 10 this week. Owl City's Ocean Eyes drops from #10 to #14.
Katharine McPhee's sophomore album, Unbroken, debuts at #27. Katharine McPhee debuted and peaked at #2 in February 2007. McPhee was the runner-up (to Taylor Hicks) on Season 5 of American Idol.
The Avatar soundtrack inches up from #32 to #31 in its fourth week. Avatar is the second highest-grossing movie of all time, behind Titanic. But this album isn't performing like the Titanic soundtrack did. In its fourth week, the Titanic soundtrack was already #11. (In its fifth week, it was #1.) Leona Lewis' "I See You" is, so far, not living up to the impossibly high standard set by Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On," which was one of the successful movie songs of all time.
More Avatar: Avatar topped the box-office for the fourth straight week. It's the first movie to do that since The Dark Knight in July and August 2008. It's the first Christmas release to top the box-office four weekends since The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King in December 2003/January 2004.
Michael Jackson's Number Ones dips from #33 to #35. It's the #1 Catalog Album for the 20th time in the past 29 weeks. Only 10 albums have logged as many weeks at #1 on the Catalog Albums chart since May 1991, when Nielsen/SoundScan began tracking sales for Billboard. The leader is Bob Marley & the Wailers' Legend, which has topped the chart an incredible 110 times, most recently in May 2009. Number Ones topped the 4 million mark in U.S. sales two weeks ago. Its sales tally currently stands at 4,076,000.
Elvis Presley's Elvis 75 debuts at #47. This is a one-disk, 25-song distillation of Elvis 75: Good Rockin' Tonight, a four-disk, 100-song collection that was released last month to commemorate what would have been Presley's 75th birthday on Jan. 8. The box set has sold nearly 9,000 copies in five weeks. RCA Victor released a lavish, six-disk set to mark what would have been Presley's 50th birthday in 1985. That compilation, Elvis-A Golden Celebration, peaked at #80. Will there be a fancy new release to mark the centennial of Presley's birth in 2035? I'd say that's a safe bet.
Ella Fitzgerald's Twelve Nights In Hollywood debuts at #175. Fitzgerald first hit what is now The Billboard 200 in 1949, when she teamed with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Evelyn Knight for an album of songs from Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific. "The First Lady Of Song," as she was known, first hit the album chart on her own steam in 1956 with Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Song Book. Fitzgerald had song hits dating back to 1936, when she was just 18. She scored her biggest hit in 1938 with "A-Tisket, A-Tasket," which was #1 for 10 weeks. Was Ella the Ke$ha of her day? That, and then some.
More 2009 Wrap-Up: I thought my 2009 year-end wrap-up was reasonably complete (here's a link), but I thought of a couple more things in the last week.
I told you that Michael Jackson became the first artist in Nielsen/SoundScan history to put four albums in the year-end top 20, but I neglected to add that Miley Cyrus had two albums in the top 20: Hannah Montana: The Movie at #6 and The Time Of Our Lives EP at #17. The 17-year old star is the youngest artist to have two albums in the year-end top 20 since LeAnn Rimes, who was just 15 when she scored a double in 1997 with You Light Up My Life-Inspirational Songs and Blue.
And speaking of Michael Jackson, the late pop star had the top four best-selling music videos of 2009: Number Ones, Live In Bucharest, Video Greatest Hits: History and History on Film-Vol. 2. These four videos sold a combined total of 1,379,000 copies during the year.
Heads Up: Vampire Weekend's Contra is expected to debut at #1 on next week's chart, with sales in the 60,000 to 75,000 range. The group's eponymous debut album debuted and peaked at #17 in February 2008, with first-week sales of 28,000. The album has sold 491,000 copies to date. Also due on next week's chart: Omarion's Ollusion, OK Go's Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, Ringo Starr's Y Not and Total Club Hits 4.
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Post by Rodze on Jan 13, 2010 15:06:03 GMT -5
The album was projected to sell 110k based on initial sales, by HDD.
110,000 * 9.99 = U$ 1,098,900
However, the cheaper price made it reach 150k copies in the end.
150,000 * 6.99 = U$ 1,048,500
Minimal loss that maybe didn't even happen when you take into account that not every copy was sold at the cheaper price and that the first day sales were already based on the cheaper price (i.e., it could have sold way less than 100k at 9.99).
More power to those willing to try something different.
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Post by soundUPsceneDOWN on Jan 13, 2010 15:06:22 GMT -5
Blah to Ke$ha (or Blah Blah Blah, I guess). Third-rate Lady Gaga. And cool for Vampire Weekend possibly going #1 next week! |
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Post by Creme de la Creme on Jan 13, 2010 15:14:52 GMT -5
HDD predictions were almost spot on this week.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2010 15:20:51 GMT -5
Way to go Ke$ha!!! Great numbers! As for the whole discount thing, didn't Rihanna do it like a month ago(and her lable even promoting the 3 dollars offf---99 cent deal)? And it's not like Rated R was a huge first week seller or anything.
So glad that Ke$ha is going to have the #1 album, #1 digital song, and #1 on the Hot 100 all on the same week! Props! :)
And ouch, Lambert, Allen, and Ireheta's sales are all pretty low. Will Kris even scan 500k? I really thought both would have seen higher x-mas sales, hopefully they have legs.
It also makes David Cooks numbers look fantastic(he even beat JSparks first album), and Archie's numbers look good too, compared to Lambert & Allen.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2010 15:24:54 GMT -5
Week Ending Jan. 10, 2009: Putting The $ In Ke$ha
Posted 56 minutes ago by Paul Grein in Chart Watch
The charts often make for strange bedfellows, but that seems especially true this week. Ke$ha's debut album, Animal, enters The Billboard 200 at #1, dethroning Susan Boyle's I Dreamed A Dream. The two women are polar opposites. Boyle, 48, is old enough to be Ke$ha's mother. Boyle's conservative image and traditional adult contemporary musical approach are also far removed from Ke$ha's edgy, bratty style. Here's a factoid that underscores the difference in their appeal: Animal sold more digital copies this week (115,000) than I Dreamed A Dream has in its entire seven-week run (89,000).
More than three-quarters (76%) of this week's total sales for Animal came from the digital realm. Billboard's Keith Caulfield reports that this is the highest digital share for any #1 album in chart history.
This is the first time that a debut album has sold more than 100,000 digital copies in any one week. And Animal is only the third album by a female artist to top 100,000 in digital sales in any one week. It trails Taylor Swift's Fearless, which sold 129,000 digital copies in its first week out, and Britney Spears' Circus, which sold 118,000.
Ke$ha is also making waves on Hot Digital Songs. "TiK ToK" tops the chart for the fourth straight week. The sassy smash sold 252,000 digital copies this week, bringing its 16-week total to 2,695,000. Ke$ha also has the week's #2 song, "Blah Blah Blah" (featuring 3OH!3), which sold 206,000 copies this week. Only two other artists in the past two years have had the top two songs on Hot Digital Songs. Beyonce scored in November 2008 with "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" and "If I Were A Boy." The Black Eyed Peas scored for two weeks in June 2009 with "I Gotta Feeling" and "Boom Boom Pow."
("Between "Blah Blah Blah" and "Boom Boom Pow," I don't know why people say "they don't write songs like they used to.")
"Blah Blah Blah" must surely be the first collaboration in recording history in which both artists had an oddball punctuation mark embedded in their name. Ke$ha and 3OH!3 are clearly on the same wavelength. ("Blah Blah Blah" has already climbed higher on Hot Digital Songs than 3OH!3's breakthrough smash "Don't Trust Me," which peaked at #3 in May. It has sold 2,670,000 digital copies as of this week.)
Female solo artists hold down the top five spots on The Billboard 200 for the second week in a row. Until last week, this had never happened in all of chart history. Now it has happened two weeks running.
This week also marks the first time that debut albums have appeared at #1 on The Billboard 200 back-to-back since July 2001, when Alicia Keys' Songs In A Minor replaced D-12's Devil's Night in the top spot.
In a related note, this is the second week in a row that debut albums have held down the top two spots on the chart. Last week, it was I Dreamed A Dream and Lady Gaga's The Fame. This week, it's Animal and I Dreamed A Dream. Until these past two weeks, debut albums hadn't held down the top two spots simultaneously since January 2003, when Norah Jones' Come Away With Me and Avril Lavigne's Let Go did the trick.
Incidentally, Lady Gaga has two entries in the top 10 for the third time in the past seven weeks. The Fame slips from #2 to #3, while The Fame Monster EP dips from #9 to #10.
The Black Eyed Peas' The E.N.D. logs its 18th week in the top 10. You may remember that, last June, the album's run at #1 was broken up by Jonas Brothers' Lines, Vines And Trying Times. The E.N.D. would have had three straight weeks at #1, but JoBros' album sold 99,000 more copies in the middle week. And where is Lines, Vines And Trying Times these days? Last week, it slipped off The Billboard 200 after a 27-week run. The album has sold 622,000 copies, about one-third of the 1,823,000 tally rung up by The E.N.D.
Shameless Plug: Taylor Swift's Fearless logs its 52nd week in the top 10 on The Billboard 200.
It's one of only 18 albums to spend a full year in the top 10 since 1963, when Billboard combined its separate mono and stereo surveys into one comprehensive chart. On Friday, I'll have a Chart Watch Extra in which I count them down. The list couldn't be more eclectic, running the gamut from Doctor Zhivago to Appetite For Destruction. Check it out on Friday.
Here's the low-down on this week's top 10 albums.
1. Ke$ha, Animal, 152,000. The new entry is the first #1 album of 2010. I guess you could say it's #1 for the year-to-date! Six songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "TiK ToK," which holds at #1 for the fourth week.
2. Susan Boyle, I Dreamed A Dream, 93,000. The album slips to #2 after six straight weeks at #1. No songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs.
3. Lady Gaga, The Fame, 66,000. The album slips from #2 to #3 in its 63rd week. This is its 29th week in the top 10. Six songs from the expanded version of the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Bad Romance," which dips from #2 to #3.
4. Alicia Keys, The Element Of Freedom, 62,000. The album dips from #3 to #4. This is its fourth week in the top five. Two songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart," which jumps from #82 to #55.
5. Mary J. Blige, Stronger Witheach Tear, 47,000. The album slips from #4 to #5. This is its third week in the top five. "I Am" jumps from #182 to #122 on Hot Digital Songs.
6. Soundtrack, Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, 44,000. The soundtrack inches up from #7 to #6 in its sixth week. This is its second week in the top 10. It's the #1 movie soundtrack for the second week. The Chipettes' version of Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" drops from #100 to #143 on Hot Digital Songs.
7. Taylor Swift, Fearless, 38,000. The album slips from #5 to #7 in its 61st week. This is its 52nd week in the top 10. It's #1 on the country chart for the 33rd week. Three songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "You Belong With Me," which drops from #24 to #37.
8. The Black Eyed Peas, The E.N.D., 36,000. The album holds at #8 in its 31st week. This is its 18th week in the top 10. Four songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "I Gotta Feeling," which dips from #7 to #8.
9. Justin Bieber, My World, 34,000. The seven-song EP drops from #6 to #9 in its eighth week. This is its sixth week in the top 10. Four songs from the EP are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "One Time," which drops from #17 to #28.
10. Lady Gaga, The Fame Monster, 31,000. The eight-song EP dips from #9 to #10 in its seventh week. This is its third week in the top 10. Two songs from the EP are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Bad Romance," which dips from #2 to #3.
One album drops out of the top 10 this week. Owl City's Ocean Eyes drops from #10 to #14.
Katharine McPhee's sophomore album, Unbroken, debuts at #27. Katharine McPhee debuted and peaked at #2 in February 2007. McPhee was the runner-up (to Taylor Hicks) on Season 5 of American Idol.
The Avatar soundtrack inches up from #32 to #31 in its fourth week. Avatar is the second highest-grossing movie of all time, behind Titanic. But this album isn't performing like the Titanic soundtrack did. In its fourth week, the Titanic soundtrack was already #11. (In its fifth week, it was #1.) Leona Lewis' "I See You" is, so far, not living up to the impossibly high standard set by Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On," which was one of the successful movie songs of all time.
More Avatar: Avatar topped the box-office for the fourth straight week. It's the first movie to do that since The Dark Knight in July and August 2008. It's the first Christmas release to top the box-office four weekends since The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King in December 2003/January 2004.
Michael Jackson's Number Ones dips from #33 to #35. It's the #1 Catalog Album for the 20th time in the past 29 weeks. Only 10 albums have logged as many weeks at #1 on the Catalog Albums chart since May 1991, when Nielsen/SoundScan began tracking sales for Billboard. The leader is Bob Marley & the Wailers' Legend, which has topped the chart an incredible 110 times, most recently in May 2009. Number Ones topped the 4 million mark in U.S. sales two weeks ago. Its sales tally currently stands at 4,076,000.
Elvis Presley's Elvis 75 debuts at #47. This is a one-disk, 25-song distillation of Elvis 75: Good Rockin' Tonight, a four-disk, 100-song collection that was released last month to commemorate what would have been Presley's 75th birthday on Jan. 8. The box set has sold nearly 9,000 copies in five weeks. RCA Victor released a lavish, six-disk set to mark what would have been Presley's 50th birthday in 1985. That compilation, Elvis-A Golden Celebration, peaked at #80. Will there be a fancy new release to mark the centennial of Presley's birth in 2035? I'd say that's a safe bet.
Ella Fitzgerald's Twelve Nights In Hollywood debuts at #175. Fitzgerald first hit what is now The Billboard 200 in 1949, when she teamed with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Evelyn Knight for an album of songs from Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific. "The First Lady Of Song," as she was known, first hit the album chart on her own steam in 1956 with Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Song Book. Fitzgerald had song hits dating back to 1936, when she was just 18. She scored her biggest hit in 1938 with "A-Tisket, A-Tasket," which was #1 for 10 weeks. Was Ella the Ke$ha of her day? That, and then some.
More 2009 Wrap-Up: I thought my 2009 year-end wrap-up was reasonably complete (here's a link), but I thought of a couple more things in the last week.
I told you that Michael Jackson became the first artist in Nielsen/SoundScan history to put four albums in the year-end top 20, but I neglected to add that Miley Cyrus had two albums in the top 20: Hannah Montana: The Movie at #6 and The Time Of Our Lives EP at #17. The 17-year old star is the youngest artist to have two albums in the year-end top 20 since LeAnn Rimes, who was just 15 when she scored a double in 1997 with You Light Up My Life-Inspirational Songs and Blue.
And speaking of Michael Jackson, the late pop star had the top four best-selling music videos of 2009: Number Ones, Live In Bucharest, Video Greatest Hits: History and History on Film-Vol. 2. These four videos sold a combined total of 1,379,000 copies during the year.
Heads Up: Vampire Weekend's Contra is expected to debut at #1 on next week's chart, with sales in the 60,000 to 75,000 range. The group's eponymous debut album debuted and peaked at #17 in February 2008, with first-week sales of 28,000. The album has sold 491,000 copies to date. Also due on next week's chart: Omarion's Ollusion, OK Go's Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, Ringo Starr's Y Not and Total Club Hits 4
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Post by foxxden on Jan 13, 2010 15:34:20 GMT -5
Wow, that means only 36,466 copies of Kesha's album was purchased in physical stores such as Walmart or Best Buy. While her sales are impressive, this leads me to expect a huge decline next week especially if the online retailers such as iTunes discontinue the $6.99 sale.
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Post by wavetunes on Jan 13, 2010 15:55:05 GMT -5
Can she still continue to sell that much digitally? Will be interesting to see her sales next week.
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Post by bibliotheque on Jan 13, 2010 15:59:10 GMT -5
^ She's fallen to two on iTunes to Vampire Weekend who I imagine aren't selling such a high percentage of their sales digitally and are projected 100k so I guess not.
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Post by KingB on Jan 13, 2010 16:08:44 GMT -5
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Post by HolidayGuy on Jan 13, 2010 16:33:35 GMT -5
The typical second-we slide is 65%-70%, so a 65% dip would bring Ke$ha's album to 53,000. So, if vampire Weekend does 60K-75K, it would be an easy #1. That would mean SuBo's album would have to suffer a 35% drop or so, to finish behind VW.
EDIT: I posted this before seeing the HITS numbers.
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