Billboard 200: 3/13/10: Sade #1 126k

[areyoureadytojump]

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 2/28/10)

1) Sade – Soldier Of Love – 126,629
2) Lady Antebellum – Need You Know – 118,041
3) Johnny Cash – American VI: Ain’t No Grave – 54,147

Other Debuts
11) Alkaline Trio – This Addication – 25,511
23) Chayanne – No Hay Imposibles – 16,811
28) Josh Thompson – Way Out Here – 15,174
38) The Rocket Summer – Of Men And Angels – 13,274
42) K.D. Lang – Beautifully Combined – 12,587

[thehellion]

Glad to see Johnny Cash made it No.3. I knew HITS were underestimating him when they made their predictions last week.

[galvanize]

Mar 3, 2010 10:39:59 GMT -5 thehellion said:

Glad to see Johnny Cash made it No.3. I knew HITS were underestimating him when they made their predictions last week.

Although thank goodness for Sade & Lady A., not because I didn't want Cash at #1 but those sales for a #3 are still too awful for a #1 album.

[Rodze]

www.billboard.com/#/news/sade-clocks-third-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-1004072227.story?tag=hpfeed

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Feb. 28) totaled 5.99 million units, down 8% compared to the sum last week (6.53 million) and down 13% compared to the comparable sales week of 2009 (6.91 million).

1) Sade – Soldier Of Love – 127,000 / 821,000
2) Lady Antebellum – Need You Know – 118,000 / 1,159,000
3) Johnny Cash – American VI: Ain’t No Grave – 54,000 / 54,000
4) Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D. - 50,000 / 2,181,000
5) Lady Gaga - The Fame - 48,000 / 2,913,000
6) Lil Wayne - Rebirth - 37,000 / 361,000
7) Kesha - Animal - 32,000 / 407,000
8) Susan Boyle - I Dreamed a Dream - 30,000 / 3,592,000
9) Taylor Swift - Fearless - 28,000 / 5,629,000
10) Justin Bieber - My World - 26,000 / 971,000

[areyoureadytojump]

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Third Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 for Sade
March 03, 2010

Editor: Keith Caulfield; Contributors: Gary Trust, Alex Vitoulis; Editorial Director: Silvio Pietroluongo

There's no stopping the Sade party at No. 1 as the group's "Soldier of Love" retains the top slot on the Billboard 200 for a third straight week ... Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" spends its third week at No. 2 -- and fifth week in the top two altogether ... The tally's highest new entry comes in at No. 3 from Johnny Cash with his "American VI: Ain't No Grave."


FLASH POINTS

• Sade's "Soldier of Love" sits tight for a third week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 as it sells 127,000 (down 34%). In the runner-up slot, Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" holds down No. 2 position for a third week as well, shifting 118,000 (down 18%).

• Unlike last week, where the chart was so sleepy you had to scroll all the way down to No. 42 to find the highest debut, this week there are a pair of new entries in the top 15.

• First up is Johnny Cash's "American VI: Ain't No Grave," starting at No. 3 with 54,000. It's late legend's final installment in his American Recordings series with producer Rick Rubin. The last one, "American V: A Hundred Highways," debuted at No. 1 with 88,000 in July of 2006.

• Just outside the top 10 is the tally's second-best debut, where Alkaline Trio's "This Addiction" bows at No. 11 with 26,000. It's the second top 20 album for the band -- and its highest charting set. The act's previous high-water mark came with "Agony and Irony" in 2008, which debuted and peaked at No. 13 off a 36,000 start.

• Ke$ha's "Animal" roars back into the top 10 this week, climbing seven rungs to No. 7 with 32,000 (up 7%), likely partially owed to a $7.99 sale tag it carried at Best Buy last week. Meanwhile, the Black Eyed Peas' "The E.N.D." slips one spot to No. 4 (50,000; down 23%), Lady Gaga's "The Fame" is also down one to No. 5 (48,000; down 23%) and Lil Wayne's "Rebirth" falls one position to No. 6 (37,000; down 36%). Susan Boyle's "I Dreamed a Dream" descends two spot to No. 8 (30,000; down 41%), Taylor Swift's "Fearless" climbs one to No. 9 (28,000; down 13%) and Justin Bieber's "My World" returns to the top 10 for the first time since January, as it rises two slots to No. 10 (just under 26,000; down 20%).

• Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Feb. 28) totaled 5.99 million units, down 8% compared to the sum last week (6.53 million) and down 13% compared to the comparable sales week of 2009 (6.91 million).

• A LOOK AHEAD:

• The highest debut on the Billboard 200 next week will likely come from country singer Blake Shelton, as industry observers suggest his new "Hillbilly Bone" may sell in the range of 60,000 to 75,000 by week's end on Sunday, March 7. That figure will probably place the album somewhere in the top five of next week's chart, depending on how the rest of the week shakes out.

• Shelton's album is an experimental release of sorts, containing just six songs and offered for a very attractive low price. Wal-Mart, Target and Amazon are currently selling the album for a sale price of $4.99, while Best Buy has it for $6.99. Surprisingly, both the iTunes and Amazon MP3 stores are selling it for a higher price than their physical competitors, as the etailers have it listed for $5.99.

• Shelton's plan is to release at least one or two more six-song sets before the end of the year.

• The Billboard 200's top 20 is already playing host to a pair of shorter-than-usual albums: Justin Bieber's seven-song "My World" and Lady Gaga's eight-track "The Fame Monster." The latter titles, both economically priced, have sold 971,000 and 827,000, respectively.

• As for the rest of the albums aiming for a high debut on next week's Billboard 200 -- "American Idol" fans, rejoice! Last year's third-place finisher, Danny Gokey, could be the tally's second-highest new entry, as his "My Best Days" should bow in the top 10. Also looking for a nice start: Jason Derulo's self-titled debut, the "Almost Alice" companion album/soundtrack to the film "Alice in Wonderland" and Raheem Devaughn's "The Love and War Masterpeace."



MARKET WATCH

• Album units, current chart week: 5.99 million units
• Down 8% from last week's charts: 6.53 million units
• Down 13% from the comparable week in 2009: 6.91 million units
• This week: the top two albums on the Billboard 200 sell more than 100,000 copies.
• This week last year on The Billboard 200: Taylor Swift's "Fearless" closed out its 11th and final frame at No. 1, selling 73,000 (up 18%). Nos. 2 and 3 were debuts, coming from Lamb of God' "Wrath" (68,000) and the Jonas Brothers' "3D Concert Experience" (50,000).



A LOOK AHEAD

• Among the albums released this week, due on next week's charts: DJ Khaled's "Victory," Blake Shelton's "Hillbilly Bone," Lifehouse's "Smoke and Mirrors," Peter Gabriel's "Scratch My Back," Jamie Cullum's "The Pursuit," Danny Gokey's "My Best Days," Jason Derulo's "Jason Derulo," the "Almost Alice" soundtrack/compilation and Point of Grace's "No Changin' Us."

• Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2009 when: U2's "No Line On The Horizon" blasted in at No. 1 with 484,000 -- outselling the titles at Nos. 2 through 18 combined. The previous week's No. 1, Taylor Swift's "Fearless," fell to No. 2 with 52,000 (down 29%) while the second-highest debut arrived at No. 3 from Neko Case's "Middle Cyclone" (44,000).

[HolidayGuy]

Another double-digits drop compared to a year ago. is the decline for year-to-date sales in the single digits?

[Rodze]

Mar 3, 2010 14:08:15 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Another double-digits drop compared to a year ago. is the decline for year-to-date sales in the single digits?

I have for eight weeks:

2009 - 55.28 million
2010 - 51.01 million (-7.7%)

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Week Ending Feb. 28, 2010: Beyond The "Grave"
Posted 6 minutes ago by Paul Grein in Chart Watch

As of this week, Johnny Cash has amassed more top 10 albums since he died in September 2003 than he did while he was alive. American VI: Ain't No Grave opens at #3, becoming Cash's third posthumous album to crack the top 10. It follows The Legend Of Johnny Cash, which reached #5 in 2005, and American V: A Hundred Highways, which hit #1 in 2006. During Cash's lifetime, he made the top 10 with just two albums: Johnny Cash At San Quentin (#1 in 1969) and Hello, I'm Johnny Cash (#8 in 1970).

Cash isn't the first music star to have more top 10 albums after he died than he did in his lifetime. But most of the other stars of whom this is true died years before their time. 2Pac, for example, had just two top 10 albums during his lifetime, and has had nine since he was shot to death in September 1996.

As part of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain had two top 10 albums during his lifetime and three since he took his own life in April 1994. Janis Joplin had two top 10 albums during her lifetime (counting one with Big Brother & the Holding Company) and two since she died of an overdose in October 1970. R&B star Aaliyah had one top 10 album before she died in a plane crash in August 2001 and one afterwards.

Several other stars never reached the top 10 during their lifetimes, but scored repeatedly after they died. These include Jim Croce and The Notorious B.I.G., each of whom had four top 10 albums posthumously, and Selena, who had two.

How to explain this? Why is Cash, who died at 71 of diabetes, the only artist who led a full life in this discussion? Until the advent of Nielsen/SoundScan in 1991, country music was under-represented on the Billboard album chart. If Nielsen/SoundScan had been around since 1958, when Cash first charted, he would probably have had several more top 10 albums during his lifetime.

This is Cash's sixth and final collaboration with Rick Rubin, a two-time Grammy winner for Producer of The Year (2006 and 2008). The first three installments in the collaboration didn't exactly set the chart on fire. 1994's American Recordings peaked at #110, 1996's Unchained stalled at #170 and 2000's American III: Solitary Man made it to #88. But the last three were solid hits. 2002's American IV: The Man Comes Around reached #22 and, as noted above, the fifth and sixth installments both made the top 10.

Sade's Soldier Of Love and Lady Antebellum's Need You Now hold down the top two spots for the third consecutive week. Soldier Of Love sold 127,000 copies, bringing its three-week total to 820,000. It's Sade's longest-running #1 album, topping Promise, which had two weeks on top in 1986.

The #1 album on The Billboard 200 sold at least 120,000 copies every week in January and February. It's the first time that's been true since 2001, when the chart-topping albums in the first two months of the year were the Beatles' 1, Jennifer Lopez's J. Lo and Shaggy's Hotshot. For an industry that has been battered over the past five years, this is very good news.
Need You Now is the first country album to spend its first five weeks at #1 or #2 on The Billboard 200 since Shania Twain's Up! spent its first six weeks in the top two in November and December 2002.

Lady Antebellum also heads Top Country Albums for the fifth straight week, and thus keeps Johnny Cash out of the #1 spot. He debuts at #2. The Man in Black amassed 10 #1 country albums from 1964 to 2006. In fact, Cash had the very first #1 album when this chart debuted in January 1964: Ring Of Fire (The Best Of Johnny Cash).

Cash's album is #1 on the Digital Albums chart, with sales of 16,000 digital copies. That's the slimmest weekly sales tally for a #1 Digital album since George Strait's Twang topped the chart with the same number in August. (It's not that country can't deliver big digital numbers. Carrie Underwood's Play On headed the chart in November with digital sales of 63,000.)
Lady Gaga's The Fame makes news on both sides of the Atlantic. The album logs its 36th week in the top 10, which is the longest run for a debut album by a female solo artist since Norah Jones' Come Away With Me had a 36-week run. If The Fame is still in the top 10 next week, which is a safe bet, it will pull even with Avril Lavigne's 2002 album Let's Go.
In the U.K., The Fame returns to #1 for a fifth week. The album was on top for four weeks in April and May. This is the longest run at #1 in the U.K. for an album by an American artist since The Essential Michael Jackson was on top for seven weeks last summer. If The Fame stays on top in the U.K. for another week, it will become the longest-running #1 album by an American artist since Madonna's 1990 smash The Immaculate Collection headed the chart for nine weeks. The Fame has yet to reach #1 in the U.S. (it has climbed as high as #2)...Jason Derulo's "In My Head" is the new #1 U.K. single. His "Whatcha Say" peaked at #3 in the U.K.

The Black Eyed Peas' "Imma Be" returns to #1 on Hot Digital Songs, with sales of 187,000. The song first hit #1 three weeks ago, then spent two weeks at #2 behind Artists for Haiti's "We Are The World: 25 For Haiti." This week, that charity single plummets from #1 to #17, which cleared the way for the Peas' resurgence.

The Peas have two more bits of good news this week. "Meet Me Halfway" tops the 2 million mark in paid downloads. It's the group's third single from The E.N.D. to reach (or exceed) this threshold. "Imma Be" is about two weeks away from becoming the fourth. Also, "I Gotta Feeling" jumps to #2 on the list of all-time top digital songs. It sends "Just Dance" by Lady Gaga featuring Colby O'Donis down to #3. Only "Low" by Flo Rida featuring T-Pain has sold more digital copies.

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

1. Sade, Soldier Of Love, 127,000. The album logs its third week at #1. "Soldier Of Love" drops from #82 to #112 on Hot Digital Songs.

2. Lady Antebellum, Need You Now, 118,000. The former #1 album logs its third week at #2. This is its fifth week in the top 10. Two songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Need You Now," which inches up to #3.

3. Johnny Cash, American VI: Ain't No Grave, 54,000. This new entry is Cash's fifth top 10 album. He scored his first, Johnny Cash At San Quentin, in August 1969.

4. The Black Eyed Peas, The E.N.D., 50,000. The former #1 album dips from #3 to #4 in its 38th week. This is its 25th week in the top 10. Four songs from the album are listed in the top 50 on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Imma Be," which returns to #1.

5. Lady Gaga, The Fame, 48,000. The album dips from #4 to #5 in its 70th week. This is its 36th 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 drops from #7 to #11.

6. Lil Wayne, Rebirth, 38,000. The album dips from #5 to #6 in its fourth week. "Drop The World" (featuring Eminem) dips from #48 to #55.

7. Ke$ha, Animal, 32,000. The former #1 album rebounds from #14 to #7 in its eighth week. This is its fourth week in the top 10. Two songs from the album are listed in the top 10 on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "TiK ToK," which inches up from #6 to #5.

8. Susan Boyle, I Dreamed A Dream, 30,000. The former #1 album drops from #6 to #8 in its 14th week. This is its 14th week in the top 10.

9. Taylor Swift, Fearless, 28,000. The former #1 album inches up from #10 to #9 in its 68th week. This is its 58th week in the top 10. Three songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "You Belong With Me," which drops from #66 to #80.

10. Justin Bieber, My World, 26,000. The EP rebounds from #12 to #10 in its 15th week. This is its seventh week in the top 10; its first since Jan. 10. Three songs from the EP are listed on

Hot Digital Songs, topped by "One Time," which dips from #84 to #91.
Three albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Alicia Keys' The Element Of Freedom drops from #7 to #13, Jaheim's Another Round drops from #8 to #15 and Josh Turner's Haywire drops from #9 to #18.

Alkaline Trio's, This Addiction debuts at #11, becoming the group's third top 20 album, and its highest-charting release to date. The group reached #20 with 2003's Good Mourning and #13 with 2008's Agony & Irony...Chayanne's No Hay Imposibles debuts at #23. It's the highest-charting Latin music album since Aventura's Last debuted at #5 in June.
Train's "Hey, Soul Sister" jumps to #2 on Hot Digital Songs, its highest ranking to date. This is a sweet comeback story for Train, which had three top 20 hits early in the decade and then had some hard years. Two of their singles "bubbled under" the Hot 100, which means they showed some signs of life, but never made it. A solo single by front man Pat Monahan experienced the same fate. Bottom line: The group was absent from the Hot 100 for nearly six years. As I've said before, this is a tough business for artists.

A month ago, Nicki Minaj was a virtual unknown. Now, she is on the brink of becoming an international superstar. Maybe I'm overstating things, but Minaj is featured on three songs on this week's Hot Digital Songs chart. She has featured billing on Ludacris' "My Chick Bad," which debuts at #27, Lil Wayne's "Knockout," which inches up to #44 and Mariah Carey's "Up Out My Face," which falls to #153.

Kris Allen's cover of the Beatles' "Let It Be," which he performed on American Idol, enters Hot
Digital Songs at #29. Proceeds go to Haiti earthquake relief. Allen's performance is poignant and characteristically understated. But I suspect there are other factors at work, too. A You Tube clip of him performing the song on Idol inspired one poster to write: "hes sooooooooooooooooooooo hotttttttt." This is the second Haiti-inspired cover of this classic to chart, following one by Jennifer Hudson featuring the Roots. Allen's "Live Like We're Dying" jumps to #19 on Digital Songs. It will top the 1 million mark in paid downloads next week.
Song Scorecard: Iyaz's "Replay" tops the 3 million mark in paid downloads this week.

Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel dips from #19 to #22 on The Billboard 200. It's the #1 movie soundtrack for the seventh week...Shutter Island was #1 at the box-office for the second weekend. The soundtrack, helmed by Robbie Robertson, sold about a thousand copies this week, still not enough to put it on the chart.

Michael Jackson's Number Ones dips from #50 to #53. It's the #1 Catalog Album for the 27th week. It helps that the album is widely stocked at Target and Best Buy and other stores that carry CDs. Most other catalog CDs have to be ordered, for example, through Amazon.com.
You may vaguely recall that Beyonce's I Am...Sasha Fierce and Nickelback's Dark Horse entered the chart at #1 and #2 the same week in November 2008. While Beyonce's album has had a far higher media profile, they have been very evenly-matched in terms of sales. Beyonce's album has sold 2,785,000 copies to date. Nickelback's has sold 2,636,000. So Beyonce is 149,000 copies ahead. Now here's the amazing part: Beyonce sold 156,000 more copies than Nickelback in that long-ago first week. If you were to exclude that first week, Nickelback is slightly ahead, by 7,000 copies. And Nickelback did it without a ubiquitous hit like "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)," a six-pack of Grammys and all the other hoop-de-do that (not undeservedly) greeted Beyonce's album. Nickelback just plods along, quietly selling tons of records.

Heads Up: Blake Shelton's Hillbilly Bone is expected to be next week's highest-debuting new title. The six-song EP will probably bow in the top five. Danny Gokey's My Best Days appears to be headed for a top 10 bow. Jason Derulo, whose "Whatcha Say" has sold more than 3 million copies, will chart with his eponymous debut album. Also due: the Almost Alice companion album/soundtrack to the movie Alice In Wonderland, Raheem DeVaughn's The Love And War Masterpeace, DJ Khaled's Victory, Lifehouse's Smoke And Mirrors, Peter Gabriel's Scratch My Back, Jamie Cullum's The Pursuit and Point of Grace's No Changin' Us.

Shameless Plug: If you missed my Chart Watch Extra listing all the mixed-gender groups and duos to land #1 albums, here's the link. An alert reader let me know that I left out Smashing Pumpkins, which rang the bell in 1995 with Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness. So I inserted them where they belong in the chronology, between Ace Of Base and the Fugees. Where else are you going to find a list that features such wide-ranging groups?

[HolidayGuy]

No catalog album in the top 50- go current albums. :)

[musicjunky318]

I love how Paul mentioned Beyonce's minutes on-screen. Her st@ns are always bragging and doing a vs about her sales when she makes a dozen appearances compared to her fan-made opponents. No one's throwin shade, I for one say God bless her. I wish most people had her work ethic. But st@ns please stop gasing her up when the situation isn't the least bit balanced.

I find it amazing how Nickleback is basically 100k short of her and Oprah, and Larry King, and Ellen, and the Inauguration Ball, and 106 & Park, and TRL, and the VMAs, and the BET Awards, and the AMAs, and the Grammys, and David Letterman, and The View, and Primetime Specials, and so and and so on.

And even after all of it she still hasn't hit 3 million.

[HolidayGuy]

It's not like Nickelback bypassed live appearances/performances- or did it? Nonetheless, no denying Beyonce is a workhorse. But, at the same time, Nickelback's last album sold 7 million+ units, and there's an audience for middle-of-the-road "rock."

[musicjunky318]

^You know what the hell I'm talking about Holiday don't play with me.

[hitseeker.]

Mar 3, 2010 11:54:22 GMT -5 Rodze said:

www.billboard.com/#/news/sade-clocks-third-week-at-no-1-on-billboard-1004072227.story?tag=hpfeed

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Feb. 28) totaled 5.99 million units, down 8% compared to the sum last week (6.53 million) and down 13% compared to the comparable sales week of 2009 (6.91 million).

1) Sade – Soldier Of Love – 127,000 / 821,000
2) Lady Antebellum – Need You Know – 118,000 / 1,159,000
3) Johnny Cash – American VI: Ain’t No Grave – 54,000 / 54,000
4) Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D. - 50,000 / 2,181,000
5) Lady Gaga - The Fame - 48,000 / 2,913,000
6) Lil Wayne - Rebirth - 37,000 / 361,000
7) Kesha - Animal - 32,000 / 407,000
8) Susan Boyle - I Dreamed a Dream - 30,000 / 3,592,000
9) Taylor Swift - Fearless - 28,000 / 5,629,000
10) Justin Bieber - My World - 26,000 / 971,000

great, Ke$ha and Bieber returned to the Top10 and good sales for both of them

[Creme de la Creme]

Numbers for Rap Albums in the Rap Top 50:

Weeks On Chart/This Week Rank/Artist/Title/This Week Sales/Total Sales

4/1/Lil Wayne/Rebirth/37,600/361,389
11/2/Young Money/We Are Young Money/15,110/345,779
26/3/Jay-Z/Blueprint 3/13,477/1,644,961
12/4/Gucci Mane/State Vs. Radric Davis/11,282/290,113
42/5/Eminem/Relapse/10,989/1,864,395
12/7/Snoop Dogg/Malice N Wonderland/7,948/219,677
25/8/Drake/So Far Gone/7,129/393,756
25/9/Kid Cudi/Man on the Moon/6,168/314,299
15/10/Birdman/Priceless/4,295/138,148
2/11/Freeway & Jake One/Stimulus Package/3,468/12,610
24/13/New Boyz/Skinny Jeanz & A Mic/2,407/93,483
75/15/T.I./Paper Trail/2,107/2,070,379
26/16/Pitbull/Rebelution/2,100/163,874
16/17/Wale/Attentioneficit/2,072/80,337
24/19/Lil Boosie/Superbad:The Return of Boosie/1,778/143,107
13/20/Juvenile/Cocky And Confident/1,689/68,587
18/21/Tech N9Ne/K.O.D./1,688/88,099
12/22/B.G./Too Hood 2 Be Hollywood/1,607/53,244
12/23/Clipse/Til The Casket Drops/1,435/74,545
32/24/Fabolous/Loso's Way/1,378/301,127
46/25/Rick Ross/Deeper Than Rap/1,375/416,431
67/27/Ludacris/Theater of the Mind/1,244/674,777
39/28/Mos Def/Estatic/1,242/132,511
3/29/DJ Kayslay/More Than Just A DJ/1,200/9,953
2/30/Wu Tang Clan/Return of the Wu and Friends/1,104/4,538
25/31/Raekwon/Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2/1,056/162,823
1/32/Snoop Dogg/West Coast Blueprint/931
15/33/Rakim/7th Seal/915/39,845
33/36/Twista/Catagory F5/878/162,273
14/37/Blakroc/Blakroc/843/47,740
18/38/Triple C's/Custom Cars & Cy/793/41,695
63/39/Soulja Boy Tell Em/Isouljaboytellem/351,395
48/41/Jadakiss/Last Kiss/763/353,738
18/42/Z-Ro/Cocaine/747/24,319
4/43/Styles P & DJ Green Lantern/Green Ghost Project/743/5,596
63/44/Plies/Da Realist/699/381,136
26/46/Insane Clown Posse/Bang!Pow!Boom!/694/107,477
48/47/Flo Rida/R.O.O.T.S/685/253,617
1/49/Plies/The Lost Sessions/922

[jayy]

Its sad to see the #1 album total so low...

[Love Plastic Love]

Mar 3, 2010 16:40:07 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

It's not like Nickelback bypassed live appearances/performances- or did it? Nonetheless, no denying Beyonce is a workhorse. But, at the same time, Nickelback's last album sold 7 million+ units, and there's an audience for middle-of-the-road "rock."

Nickelback really does do VERY little promo for how successful they are. It impresses the hell out of me that they have outsold most of the albums released recently and I don't even think they had half the promo or a top 10 hit this era. There certainly is a huge audience for their sound and them in general whether it is acknowledged or not.

[HolidayGuy]

There's definitely an audience, no question. It's not that their following isn't acknowledged; the band itself just isn't regarded highly- a lot of commercially successful acts aren't big critical hits or super highly regarded (except by fans), so nothing new on that front.

jayy, we have two #1 albums topping 100K- we've seen weeks where it was a lot worse than that. Sade and Lady A. are helping keep album sales going, somewhat anyway.

[z]

@creme de la Creme #6 Fif's album right ? how much it sold this week ?

[Love Plastic Love]

Mar 3, 2010 17:26:50 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

There's definitely an audience, no question. It's not that their following isn't acknowledged; the band itself just isn't regarded highly- a lot of commercially successful acts aren't big critical hits or super highly regarded (except by fans), so nothing new on that front.
.

I think it is a bit different in Nickelback's case. You have no idea how many times I have heard people on here (who supposedly follow charts) or chart people in general claim that "no one listens or likes Nickelback." That is different to me from people saying "omg why do so many people like Britney or Gaga" They also get extremely little respect from awards shows all compared to how HUGE they are in sales. They are (rightfully) one of the top 5 most successful artists of the entire decade and even their new album has outsold or at least come close to matching most big albums out there today, yet I honestly cannot remember an awards show performance from them in any type of recent history as opposed to Beyonce's EVERY awards show, Gaga, Green Day, etc.
They are a strange band-wildly, wildly popular, though largely ignored even by awards shows who normally at least acknowledge massive popularity and apparently "absolutely no one likes them or listens to them"


Sorry for the dissertation-they just fascinate me for some reason especially with how they are treated or not treated.

[Creme de la Creme]

^^ I got those numbers from this site: www.futureproducers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=325993

Some catalog album rtds:
Bob Marley & The Wailers/Legend/10,209,939
Usher/Confessions/9,751,065
Metallica/Metallica/15,519,725
Beatles/Beatles 1/11,588,859
Linkin Park/Hybrid Theory/9,717,653
Norah Jones/Come Away With Me/10,603,450
50 Cent/Get Rich Or Die Tryin/7,933,926
Lauryn Hill/Miseducation of Lauryn Hill/6,956,476
Eminem/Eminem Show/9,381,621
Dr Dre/Dr Dre 2001/7,372,161
Eminem/Marshall Mathers LP/10,226,675

[Rodze]

Top 20 All albums: gothamjungle.com/GothamBlog/?p=7721

3 1 SADE SOLDIER OF LOVE 126,629 820212
5 2 LADY ANTEBELLUM NEED YOU NOW 118041 1159461
1 3 JOHNNY CASH AMERICAN VI: AIN'T NO 54139 54465
38 4 BLACK EYED PEAS E.N.D. (ENERGY NEVER DIES) 50139 2181410
70 5 LADY GAGA FAME 48307 2913734
4 6 LIL WAYNE REBIRTH 37600 361389
8 7 KE$HA ANIMAL 32192 407080
14 8 SUSAN BOYLE I DREAMED A DREAM 30322 3591838
68 9 TAYLOR SWIFT FEARLESS 28062 5629236
15 10 JUSTIN BEIBER MY WORLD 25601 970879
1 11 ALKALINE TRIO THIS ADDICTION 25511 25582
14 12 LADY GAGA FAME MONSTER (8TRK) 25233 827516
11 13 ALICIA KEYS ELEMENT OF FREEDOM 24338 1101956
14 14 RIHANNA RATED R 23910 687676
3 15 JAHEIM ANOTHER ROUND 23452 171613
67 16 ZAC BROWN BAND FOUNDATION 23278 1657555
10 17 MARY J. BLIGE STRONGER 21865 654601
3 18 JOSH TURNER HAYWIRE 20884 138906
21 19 MICHAEL BUBLE CRAZY LOVE 20083 1442825
3 20 TOBYMAC TONIGHT 18000 55786

[z]

Creme de la Creme Aight Thanks.

50 Cent/Get Rich Or Die Tryin/7,933,926 <-- smfh its 8x plat and RIAA only certified it 6x plat
Eminem/Eminem Show/9,381,621 <-- I hope this goes 10x plat

[bat1990]

Looks like The Fame will be triple platinum in about 2 weeks!

[chopped89]

Mar 3, 2010 17:35:05 GMT -5 z said:

@creme de la Creme #6 Fif's album right ? how much it sold this week ?

8,400 copies!!total : 411k

thats a bit good, at least he been pushing 8k for 2 months now!!

[z]

Mar 3, 2010 17:56:02 GMT -5 chopped89 said:

Mar 3, 2010 17:35:05 GMT -5 z said:

@creme de la Creme #6 Fif's album right ? how much it sold this week ?

8,400 copies!!total : 411k

thats a bit good, at least he been pushing 8k for 2 months now!!

Thanks a lot, I see that project pushing 600k
by the end of the year.

[damita34]

Mary J Blige is holdin' quite well ! :)

[Baby In a New Dress]

Mar 3, 2010 16:29:08 GMT -5 musicjunky318 said:

I love how Paul mentioned Beyonce's minutes on-screen. Her st@ns are always bragging and doing a vs about her sales when she makes a dozen appearances compared to her fan-made opponents. No one's throwin shade, I for one say God bless her. I wish most people had her work ethic. But st@ns please stop gasing her up when the situation isn't the least bit balanced.

I find it amazing how Nickleback is basically 100k short of her and Oprah, and Larry King, and Ellen, and the Inauguration Ball, and 106 & Park, and TRL, and the VMAs, and the BET Awards, and the AMAs, and the Grammys, and David Letterman, and The View, and Primetime Specials, and so and and so on.

And even after all of it she still hasn't hit 3 million.

That is so true!

Beyonce seems to have to do EVERYTHING to sell albums. Re-release her re-release, deluxe, special DVD edition, tour edition, Spanish edition... everything! Haven't all of Alicia's albums outdsold Beyonce's? And with what seems like a lot less effort. With this new album, Jay-Z's song seems to be doing more for her album than its doing for his! Craziness.

It like comparing Britney to Pink. As much as I love Pink, look how much she had to do to outsell Britney. 3 big radio hits, performing all the songs on talk shows (including Oprah!), and performing at what seems like EVERY major award show! She's worked so hard for all this, hasn't she? Britney didn't perform at any award show, or any show, actually, and has gotten a lot of negative press for lipsynching. Yet, they sold the same.

It seems like some people just have to work super hard to get big album sales.

[Baby In a New Dress]

48/47/Flo Rida/R.O.O.T.S/685/253,617
12/7/Snoop Dogg/Malice N Wonderland/7,948/219,677

Looks like Snoop Dogg's album is set to outsell Flo Rida's. I don't believe he has had any radio support for this project. Very nice. We'll wait and see if 50 C*nt's albums can even make the top 200 in the year 2020.

[Creme de la Creme]

Mar 3, 2010 18:11:01 GMT -5 z said:

Mar 3, 2010 17:56:02 GMT -5 chopped89 said:

8,400 copies!!total : 411k

thats a bit good, at least he been pushing 8k for 2 months now!!

Thanks a lot, I see that project pushing 600k
by the end of the year.

RIAA certified "Before I Self Destruct" Gold on 21st January of this year when it had moved 372k ( www.rapbasement.com/50-cent/012810-50-cents-before-i-self-destruct-certified-gold-despite-only-selling-372-thousand-copies.html)

[z]

Mar 3, 2010 18:29:56 GMT -5 Creme de la Creme said:

Mar 3, 2010 18:11:01 GMT -5 z said:

Thanks a lot, I see that project pushing 600k
by the end of the year.

RIAA certified "Before I Self Destruct" Gold on 21st January of this year when it had moved 372k ( www.rapbasement.com/50-cent/012810-50-cents-before-i-self-destruct-certified-gold-despite-only-selling-372-thousand-copies.html)

I see , there are rumors he might re-release it, but
I highly doubt that.

Its interesting to see how's his commercial gonna do
next year.