Billboard 200: 6/5/10: "Glee" #1- 136,000

[HolidayGuy]

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Glee' Stops The Show At No. 1, Stones Come In Second
May 26, 2010

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

The third full-length "Glee" soundtrack arrives at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 136,000 copies in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan . . . The Rolling Stones' reissue of "Exile on Main St." re-enters the list at No. 2 with 76,000 after it was relaunched last week . . . "Glee" and the Stones lead a pack of six arrivals in the top 10, where Nas and Damian Marley, Black Keys, Band of Horses and LCD Soundsystem all start high . . . On the Digital Songs chart, Miley Cyrus' "Can't Be Tamed" dances in at No. 4 with 191,000 sold in its debut week.


FLASH POINTS

• The "Glee—The Music Volume 3: Showstoppers" soundtrack arrives at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 as expected, starting with 136,000 sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

• The cast of "Glee" claimed its first No. 1 recently with "The Power of Madonna" when that seven-song EP arrived at the top with 98,000. "Showstoppers" is the third proper full-length soundtrack from the Fox TV show. The first two volumes were released in quick succession last November and December. This third edition includes highlights from the second half of "Glee's" debut season. A forthcoming six-track EP titled "Journey to Regionals" is due June 8. (Don't peek at its tracklist if you don't want upcoming episodes to be spoiled.)

• The cast of "Glee" blocks the Rolling Stones from re-entering the chart at No. 1 with the reissue of its classic album "Exile on Main St." The set returns to the tally at No. 2 with 76,000 sold after Universal Republic/UMe relaunched the album last week.

• "Exile"—which spent four weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 upon its release in 1972—was reissued last week in an array of configurations, including the standard remastered album, a deluxe version with 10 additional tracks and a super deluxe boxed set. A separate Target-exclusive set, "Exile on Main St.—Rarities Edition," which contains only the 10 bonus cuts, charts separately and debuts at No. 50 with 9,000 copies.

• The "Glee" cast is also out in force on the Digital Songs chart, where its take on Aerosmith's "Dream On" (featuring Neil Patrick Harris) debuts at No. 13 with 84,000 sold. It's one of six debuts for the cast this week on the 75-position tally.

• However, the highest debut on the Digital Songs chart this week is Miley Cyrus' new single, "Can't Be Tamed." The song struts in at No. 4 with a 191,000 bow. It's her second-best debut sales week for a download, following "Party in the U.S.A.," which entered at No. 1 on Digital Songs last August with 226,000.

• The opener for "Tamed" will probably lock up a top 10 debut for the single on the Billboard Hot 100 when it's unveiled Thursday morning (May 27). If it bows as expected, it will be Cyrus' sixth top 10 hit on the sales/airplay-hybrid Billboard Hot 100 (including one credited to her TV character "Hannah Montana").

• Last week's Digital Songs No. 1, Katy Perry's "California Gurls," falls to No. 3, selling 231,000 (down 22%). Usher's "OMG" (featuring will.i.am) returns to No. 1 with 236,000 (despite a decline of 2%), while B.o.B's "Airplanes" climbs one spot to No. 2 with 232,000 (up 6%).

• A full recap of all the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart action will follow Thursday morning.

• Back on the Billboard 200, the kids of "Glee" and the elder statesmen of the Stones lead a jammed chart as four more albums also arrive in the top 10. After the Stones, the next-highest entry is the Black Keys with "Brothers" starting at No. 3 with 73,000. It's the highest-charting album and the best sales week for the duo. The pair previously earned both its highest-charting set (and sales frame) when its last album, "Attack and Release," debuted and peaked at No. 14 with 29,000.

• "Distant Relatives," the collaboration album from Damian Marley and Nas, bows at No. 5 with 57,000. It's the second top 10 for Marley, following "Welcome to Jamrock" (No. 7 in 2005) and the 10th top 10 for Nas.

• Band of Horses and LCD Soundsystem also arrive high—entering at Nos. 7 and 10, respectively, with their latest efforts. Band of Horses' "Infinite Arms" starts with 45,000 while LCD's "This Is Happening" opens with 31,000. They are the highest-charting albums—and best sales weeks—for both acts.

• Last week's No. 1 album, Justin Bieber's "My World 2.0," falls to No. 4 with 62,000 (pushed down despite its 3% increase). Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" drops four rungs to No. 6 (46,000; down 15%), Usher's "Raymond v Raymond" is down one to No. 8 (41,000; down 6%), and AC/DC's "Iron Man 2" falls five slots to No. 9 (32,000; down 33%).

• Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending May 23) totaled 5.31 million units, down less than 1% compared with the sum last week (5.32 million) and down 19% compared with the same sales week of 2009 (6.6 million) when Eminem's "Relapse" bowed at No. 1 with 608,000. Year-to-date album sales stand at 120.4 million, down 10% compared with the same total at this point last year (134.4 million).

• Digital track sales this past week totaled 21.9 million downloads, down 1% compared with last week (22.2 million) and up 1% compared with the comparable week of 2009 (21.7 million). Year-to-date track sales are at 466.2 million, down less than 1% compared with the same total at this point last year (467 million).


• AND NEXT WEEK:

• Next week on the Billboard 200, Stone Temple Pilots will return to the tally after a long absence, as its new self-titled set will be the chart's highest debut.

• Industry prognosticators think the album (the band's first studio release since 2001) could sell in the neighborhood of 60,000 to 70,000 copies by week's end on May 30. That might be enough to enable a No. 1 debut, depending on how the current week's topper, "Glee—The Music Volume 3: Showstoppers," declines in its second week.

• If "Stone Temple Pilots" arrives in the top 10, it will mark the sixth top 10 for the band—its entire output of studio albums. Only its greatest-hits package "Thank You" missed the top 10 (No. 26 in 2003).

• The second-highest debut might be the "Sex and the City 2" soundtrack, which may sell around 30,000 copies. With the film bowing in theaters this week, that number could grow, depending on how the movie's music resonates with consumers.

• Other sets we expect to debut high on the Billboard 200 next week include Marc Anthony's "Iconos" and Widespread Panic's "Dirty Side Down."


MARKET WATCH

• Album units, current chart week: 5.31 million units
• DOWN less than 1% from last week's charts: 5.32 million units
• DOWN 19% from the comparable week in 2009: 6.6 million units
• This week: Only the No. 1 album sells more than 100,000 copies.
• This week last year on the Billboard 200: Eminem's "Relapse" blasted in at No. 1 with 608,000 copies. The previous week's No. 1, Green Day's "21st Century Breakdown," fell to No. 2 in its second week with 166,000 (down 23%). Five more albums arrived in the top 10, with Kenny Chesney's "Greatest Hits II" earning the second-best bow, debuting at No. 3 with 89,000.


A LOOK AHEAD

• Among the albums released this week, due on next week's charts: Stone Temple Pilots' "Stone Temple Pilots," the "Sex and the City 2" soundtrack, Marc Anthony's "Iconos," Rihanna's "Rated R: Remixed" and Widespread Panic's "Dirty Side Down."

• Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2009 when: Eminem's "Relapse" refused to budge, as it held at No. 1 for a second week, selling 211,000 (down 65%). The highest debut on the chart belonged to Marilyn Manson's "The High End of Low," which arrived at No. 4 with 49,000. Two more sets started in the top 10 that week: Wisin and Yandel's "La Revolucion" (No. 7 with 36,000) and Grizzly Bear's "Veckatimest" (No. 8 with 33,000).

[malwaredie]

Beautifully poor sales.

[HolidayGuy]

If "Glee" declines by 65%, that brings it down to 48,000. Hopefully, STP will crack 60K, otherwise a record-low for No. 1 could hit.

[Wrecking Ball]

Those are good sales for Miley

[HolidayGuy]

Paul Grein's Yahoo! Music Chart Watch blog:

Week Ending May 23, 2010: Direct From 1972, The Rolling Stones
Posted by Paul Grein in Chart Watch

The Rolling Stones' 1972 classic Exile On Main St. re-enters The Billboard 200 at #2, just behind the latest Glee album, which debuts at #1. The last time Exile was in the top 10 (Aug. 19, 1972), Richard Nixon was President, the Carpenters were on top and Maude was a month away from its debut on CBS.

Exile is only the second catalog studio album to rank among the two best-selling albums in the U.S. in the Nielsen/SoundScan era. It follows Michael Jackson's Thriller, which, as a catalog album, sold enough copies to reach #2 twice (first with the Thriller 25 reissue in February 2008 and again after Jackson's death in June 2009).

Three other catalog studio albums sold enough copies to place in the top five. Pearl Jam's Ten sold enough to reach #5 in March 2009. The Beatles' Abbey Road and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band sold enough to hit #3 and #5, respectively, in September.

I use the term "studio album" to exclude a pair of Christmas albums (Kenny G's Miracles-The Holiday Album and Josh Groban's Noel) and a pair of greatest hits sets (Michael Jackson's Number Ones and The Essential Michael Jackson) which also made the top five as catalog albums.

Exile is 38 years old, which makes it one of the oldest albums ever to rank among the 10 best-selling albums in the country. But it's not the oldest. All five Beatles albums that ranked among the 10 best-sellers in September were older. Those albums were 1965's Rubber Soul, 1966's Revolver, 1967's Sgt. Pepper's, 1968's The Beatles (The White Album) and 1969's Abbey Road.

Exile was re-released in a range of configurations tailored to every interest level (and budget!). There was a standard remastered album, a deluxe version with 10 additional tracks and a super-deluxe boxed set. These albums sold a combined total of 76,000 copies. In addition, Target had an exclusive on an album containing just the 10 bonus tracks. That album, Exile On Main St. Rarities Edition, sold 15,000 copies and bows at #27.

Some may wonder why the Stones didn't hold off for two years until the 40th anniversary of Exile for this re-release. Re-releases of classic movies are usually tied to anniversaries that are divisible by five. The answer is that there is deep concern in the industry that there will be less of a market for albums two years from now than there is now.

Exile debuts at #1 in the U.K. The album also topped the U.K. chart back in 1972, though surprisingly it stayed on top for only one week. The album was booted from the top spot after a single frame by a K-Tel collection, 20 Dynamic Hits.

Pop Quiz: Exile is of only three albums from the 1970s to rank among the 10 best-selling albums in the U.S. since 1992, the first full year of Nielsen/SoundScan accounting. Name the other two. (Clue: The most obvious guess would be Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon. That's not one of them.)

Exile On Main St. first entered The Billboard 200 at #10 on June 10, 1972. It was the only album to debut in the top 10 that year. The album shot to #1 in its second week. Exile spawned a pair of top 30 hits, "Tumbling Dice," which was later revived by Linda Ronstadt, and "Happy," which featured a rare lead vocal by Keith Richards.

Matchbox Twenty paid homage to Exile (and tweaked their own vanilla image) with the title of their 2007 album Exile On Mainstream.

Most of you probably know that until December, catalog albums were barred from The Billboard 200, even if they sold enough copies to make the top 10 (or #1, in the case of Number Ones). That's why I use stilted phrases like "ranked among the 10 best-sellers" and "sold enough copies to reach the top 10." I'm glad The Billboard 200 now actually lists the 200 best-selling albums in the country, no matter their age.

Quiz Answer: The other two albums from the 1970s to rank among the 10 best-selling albums in the U.S. during the Nielsen/SoundScan era are the 1978 Grease soundtrack and Michael Jackson's 1979 smash Off The Wall. Grease ranked among the 10 best-sellers for two weeks in April 1998. It was boosted by a theatrical re-release of the movie. Off The Wall ranked among the 10 best-sellers for two weeks in July 2009, in the wake of the singer's death.

Glee: The Music, Vol. 3: Showstoppers is the second Glee album to reach #1 in the past five weeks, following Glee: The Music, The Power Of Madonna. Glee is one of only three weekly series in television history to spawn two or more #1 albums (during the run of the show). The Monkees, whose eponymous show ran from 1966 to 1968, had four #1 albums. Hannah Montana, which debuted in 2006, also yielded two #1 albums (not counting the movie soundtrack).

All four Glee albums are listed in the top 50 on this week's Billboard 200. In its first season, Glee has surpassed American Idol as the most buzzed-about music show on TV. It's also selling more music than its Fox lead-in. The four Glee albums that have been released to date have sold a combined total of 1,795,000 copies. The studio albums by the top four contestants on Idol last season have sold 1,194,000 copies.

Shameless Plug: Showstoppers spans 72 years of pop music, from Rodgers & Hart's 1937 classic "The Lady Is A Tramp" (written for the Broadway musical Babes In Arms) to Lady Gaga's 2009 smash "Bad Romance." Glee is making pop music history entertaining for 12 million people a week. On Friday, I'm going to look at the Glee phenomenon in a Chart Watch Extra, "I'm Turning Into A Gleek."

Showstoppers assumes the top spot with total sales of 136,000 copies. This is the seventh consecutive week in which the #1 album sold fewer than 150,000 copies. That's the longest stretch in which the #1 album sold fewer than 150K in 15 years. (There was an 11-week streak from March to June 1995 in which the #1 album sold fewer than 150K copies.) Happily, our current soft sales streak will probably end in two weeks with the entry of the latest Jack Johnson album.

Showstoppers sold nearly 56,000 digital copies, making it the week's #1 Digital Album. Digital accounts for 41% of the album's total sales this week.

"OMG" by Usher featuring will.i.am returns to #1 on Hot Digital Songs after two weeks at #2. The song sold 236,000 digital copies this week, bringing its eight-week total to 1,453,000. Two other songs were very close behind this week. "Airplanes" by B.o.B featuring Eminem and Hayley Williams sold 232,000 copies, while "California Gurls" by Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg sold 231,000. (Miley Cyrus' "Can't Be Tamed," which debuts at #4 with first-week sales of 191,000, is the highest-ranking song on this week's chart that isn't a collaboration.)

Song Scorecard: "Airplanes" tops the 1 million mark in paid downloads in its sixth week. Only one other song has reached the 1 million mark this quickly so far this year. That's "Break Your Heart" by Taio Cruz featuring Ludacris. ...As it happens, "Break Your Heart" tops the 2 million mark this week. The song took 13 weeks to reach this plateau, the fastest climb by any song since Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" rang the bell in its 10th week in January.

I told you last week that Lady Gaga and the Black Eyed Peas have each had six songs that have topped the 2 million sales mark and that this is the record for "lead artists." That's still true, but if you combine lead and "featuring" credits, Kanye West surges to the front of the pack, with seven 2 million-sellers. He has had five as a lead (or co-lead) artist: "Gold Digger," "Stronger," "Love Lockdown," "Heartless" and "Run This Town" (a co-lead effort with Jay-Z and Rihanna). He has also had two as a featured artist: Estelle's "American Boy" and Keri Hilson's "Knock You Down" (which crosses the 2 million mark just this week).

Nas & Damian "Jr Gong" Marley's Distant Relatives enters The Billboard 200 at #5. This is the second top 10 album for Marley, following 2005's Welcome To Jamrock. Marley has now had more top 10 albums than his famous father, Bob Marley. (That just seems wrong, doesn't it?) The late reggae legend had just one top 10 album, 1976's Rastaman Vibration. This is the ninth top 10 album for Nas, not counting a 1997 album by The Firm, in which he teamed with Foxy Brown, AZ and Nature.

I have both good news and bad news for Lady Antebellum. Good news first: Need You Now holds at #1 on Top Country Albums for the 17th straight week. It's the first album to spend its first 17 weeks at #1 on the country chart since Billy Ray Cyrus' Some Gave All topped the chart in each of its first 18 weeks in 1992.

Now for the bad news: Need You Now drops from #2 to #6 on The Billboard 200. It thus falls short of Taylor Swift's run with Fearless, which spent its first 18 weeks in the top five. (You might wonder how it is that Fearless spent its first 18 weeks in the top five, but didn't spend its first 18 weeks at #1 on the country chart. Because it was dislodged in what would have been its 13th week atop the country chart by an eponymous album by Dierks Bentley.) You win some, you lose some.

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

1. Various Artists, Glee: The Music, Vol. 3: Showstoppers, 136,000. This new entry is the second Glee album to reach #1. Eight songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by the cast's version of Aerosmith's "Dream On" (featuring Neil Patrick Harris) which bows at #13.

2. The Rolling Stones, Exile On Main St., 76,000. This re-entry is in its 12th week in the top 10. It spent 11 weeks in the top 10 during its first run in 1972. It's #1 on the Catalog Albums chart.

3. The Black Keys, Brothers, 73,000. This new entry is the blues-rock duo's second top 20 album in a row. Attack And Release reached #14 in April 2008. (I like the album cover. Things are so complicated these days. I appreciate the clarity.)

4. Justin Bieber, My World 2.0, 62,000. The album drops from #1 to #4 in its ninth week (even though its sales were up 2% over last week's tally). Three songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Eenie Meenie, a duet with Sean Kingston, which dips from #15 to #17.

5. Nas & Damian "Jr Gong" Marley, Distant Relatives, 57,000. This new entry is the second top 10 album for Marley; the ninth for Nas.

6. Lady Antebellum, Need You Now, 46,000. The former #1 album drops from #2 to #6 in its 17th week. Two songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs. "Need You Now" dips from #18 to #20. "American Honey" dips from #49 to #54.

7. Band Of Horses, Infinite Arms, 45,000. This new entry is the band's first top 10 album. Cease To Begin debuted and peaked at #35 in October 2007.

8. Usher, Raymond V Raymond, 41,000. The former #1 album dips from #7 to #8 in its eighth week. Four songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "OMG" (featuring will.i.am), which returns to #1.

9. AC/DC, Iron Man 2 soundtrack, 32,000. The soundtrack drops from #4 to #9 in its fifth week. It's the #1 theatrical movie soundtrack for the fifth week. The movie was #2 at the box-office after two weekends on top.

10. LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening, 31,000. This new entry is the act's first top 10 album. Sound Of Silver debuted and peaked at #46 in March 2007.

Six albums drop out of the top 10 this week. The National's High Violet dives from #3 to #15, Dead Weather's Sea Of Cowards plummets from #5 to #31, Carole King/James Taylor's Live At The Troubadour drops from #6 to #11, Charice's Charice drops from #8 to #28, Godsmack's The Oracle drops from #9 to #13, and As I Lay Dying's Powerless Rise drops from #10 to #29.

Janelle Monae's sophomore album, The ArchAndroid, bows at #17. It sold more than four times as many copies in its first week as Monae's 2008 debut, Metropolis: The Chase Suite, which debuted and peaked at #118...Talib Kweli & Hi Tek's reunion collabo, Revolutions Per Minute, bows at #18. This is a tad lower than the pair's first collabo, Reflection Eternal, which reached #17 in 2000.

"Nothin' On You" by B.o.B featuring Bruno Mars moves up to #1 in the U.K. this week, a few weeks after reaching #1 on the Hot 100. It is the 196th "transatlantic #1 hit" since 1952.

Jay-Z's current album, The Blueprint 3, is the first of his long career to spawn three top 10 hits on the Hot 100. "Run This Town" (with Rihanna and Kanye West) hit #2. "Empire State Of Mind" (with Alicia Keys) logged five weeks at #1. "Mr. Carter" (with Mr. Hudson) reached #10 two weeks ago. Two previous Jay-Z albums, The Blueprint 2 and The Black Album, each spawned two top 10 hits. The Blueprint 3 has sold 1,748,000 copies, making it Jay-Z's best-selling solo release since The Black Album.

Song Scorecard: Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats" tops the 3 million mark in paid downloads. It's only the fourth country song to hit this level, following Taylor Swift's "Love Story" (4,558,000), Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" (3,618,000) and Swift's "You Belong With Me" (3,240,000).

Jason Derulo lands his second 2 million seller in a row with "In My Head." Derulo's previous hit, "Whatcha Say," is up to 3,253,000...As noted above, Keri Hilson's "Knock You Down" (featuring Kanye West and Ne-Yo) tops the 2 million mark. Hilson first gained recognition as the featured artist on Timbaland's "The Way I Are," which has sold 2,782,000 digital copies.

Shrek Forever After, the fourth installment in the series, was #1 at the box-office over the weekend. The first three movies in the series all ranked among the top three box-office hits of the year.

R.I.P. Less than two years ago, Slipknot landed its first #1 album, All Hope Is Gone. On Monday, bassist Paul Gray, who co-founded the band in 1995, was found dead in an Iowa hotel room. Toxicology results are pending. He was 38.

Heads Up: Stone Temple Pilots' first studio album in nearly nine years, Stone Temple Pilots, will vie with Glee for the #1 spot next week. Also due: the Sex and the City 2 soundtrack, Marc Anthony's Iconos, Widespread Panic's Dirty Side Down, Rihanna's Rated R: Remixed, Cam'ron's Cam'ron & The U.N. Present: Heat In Here, Vol. 1 and Leela James' My Soul. Due in two weeks: the latest from Jack Johnson, whose last two albums have debuted at #1.

[areyoureadytojump]

Will the following albums be certified by the RIAA on tomorrow's chart?

Numbers are from the 5/29/10 chart:

Justin Bieber 1,042,803
Usher 680k
Now 33 478k
Ke$ha 689k
Ludacris 404k
Eminem 1,942,449
Mary J Blige 765k
Young Money 467k
Adam Lambert 638k
Drake 458k
Kenny Chesney 642k
Brad Paisley 546k
Robin Thicke 396k
Now 32 896k

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

[Minor Scratch]

Did not know Robin Thicke and Young Money sold that much. Crazy.

[Glove Slap]

Poor Thicke... :(

[singingrulebritannia]

How the heck does "Forever Young" become "Mr. Carter" lol. Jay-Z doesn't even have a song called "Mr. Carter", though he did feature on a Lil Wayne track by that name two years ago.

[HolidayGuy]

Grein isn't immune to errors, especially when he includes so much info in his blog.

Why "poor" Thicke"? He's had one album certified platinum- and that was three years ago. So, nothing all that wrong with gold for him.

[Minimalism]

It's nice to see LCD Soundsystem and Band Of Horses have their best chart showing yet. :)

Also, I didn't realize Brad Paisley's "American Saturday Night" just barely passed 500k. :o With all the success he's been experiencing with his various singles, that seems a tad low. I mean, he can even outsell Kenny's album?

[Creme de la Creme]

TOP 50 Sales chart



Courtesy of: vitalicnoise.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Screen-shot-2010-05-26-at-5.00.03-PM.png

[galvanize]

Current Albums chart though, as seen by the Rolling Stones difference.

[Deleted]

That would be the "current" albums chart

The Stones are at #2

[Spidey]

So this is the 3rd #1 album by Glee right?

[Enigma.]

No, second I believe

[Legoman]

I'm just amazed at how consistent Gaga has been.

[areyoureadytojump]

New RIAA certs:

Justin Bieber 1xp
Young Money Gold

[slicknickshady]

Interscope really doesnt care for certifying Eminem that is for sure.

[HolidayGuy]

^Not the only label that's lax on that front.

Gaga's release was weird. I mean, the original issue of the album is still selling without an active single because the deluxe edition contains the 8 newer tracks (though the four hits still get decent play and sales). It was nice for fans to have the EP as an option, but the EP's potential could have been even stronger- not that 1m is too shabby in this sales climate.

[3m3r7c]

"New RIAA certs:

Justin Bieber 1xp
Young Money Gold"

We Are Young Money is gold now? I checked the RIAA site and it does not have it...does it take a while to update?

[3m3r7c]

I know this is the wrong thread but i just had a question. For anybody who knows how to navigate through allaccess and other similar sites.

Does anybody know when "Got your back" by TI is getting released to radio or digitally?
Thanks in advance.

[areyoureadytojump]

May 27, 2010 13:41:42 GMT -5 3m3r7c said:

"New RIAA certs:

Justin Bieber 1xp
Young Money Gold"

We Are Young Money is gold now? I checked the RIAA site and it does not have it...does it take a while to update?

Yes. The RIAA just went 3 weeks without updating their website.

[areyoureadytojump]

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 5/23/10)

1) Glee Cast – Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers – 135,748
2) Black Keys – Brothers – 73,370
3) Justin Bieber – My Word 2.0 – 61,828 (After 9 weeks – 1,104,631)

Other Debuts
4) Damian Marley & Nas – Distant Relatives – 57,285
6) Band Of Horses – Infinite Arms – 45,071
9) LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening – 31,403
16) Janelle Monae – The Archandroid – 21, 039
17) Reflections Eternal: Talib Kweli & Hi Tek – Revolutions Per Minute – 20,882

[Choco]

May 27, 2010 12:39:05 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

^Not the only label that's lax on that front.

Gaga's release was weird. I mean, the original issue of the album is still selling without an active single because the deluxe edition contains the 8 newer tracks (though the four hits still get decent play and sales). It was nice for fans to have the EP as an option, but the EP's potential could have been even stronger- not that 1m is too shabby in this sales climate.

Ditto about GaGa. I'm pretty happy about the outcome of the re-release, but it was weird indeed, and Fame Monster had much more potential to sell 2m had it been an actual album and not a re-release. Still, the outcome was very nice. A 3xPlatinum album and a Platinum EP.

[chopped89]

No.61 Relapse - Eminem
No.65 The Blueprint 3 - Jay-z
Now where is the people who said Jay will easily outsell Em, he released it after Em's album and still Em is ahead of him....

[Oɴʟуßoy®]

^So???? just because hes ahead one week that doesnt mean his album will ultimately outsell him?

[chopped89]

May 28, 2010 21:27:40 GMT -5 Oɴʟуßoy® said:

^So???? just because hes ahead one week that doesnt mean his album will ultimately outsell him?

Keep wishing!

[slicknickshady]

I still get a kick out of the people who hated on us chopped89 when we said jay wouldn't pass him. I mean Relapse came out before Blueprint 3 and it sold more this week then the Blueprint 3.

[areyoureadytojump]

From musicweek.com:

Six debuts can't rescue US chart

By Alan Jones

There are six debuts in the Top 10 of the US albums chart this week but they can’t rescue the market, which continues at historically low levels.

For all the new entries, sales dipped a further 1% last week to 5.31m – the second lowest weekly tally in the last 20 years. All of the six lowest sales totals in the last 1,000 weeks have occurred within the last seven weeks.

A year ago, with Eminem debuting at number one, sales were 19.2% higher at 6.57m.

A blip because of a big new release, you think? No. Go back to the same week in 2008 and sales were 7.21m. Three years ago the same week brought 8.31m sales. In 2006, 9.9m albums were sold in the equivalent seven day period, and just five years ago, in 2005, album sales for the week were more than double last week’s tally at 10.7m.

In the circumstances, thank heaven for Glee. The Glee Cast racks up its fourth top five album since last November, and its second number one with Glee, The Music: Volume 3: Showstoppers, which sold 136,000 copies last week.

Taking runners-up slot, The Rolling Stones newly remastered Exile On Main Street sold 75,000 copies, and resumes a chart career that saw it spend four weeks at number one in 1972, from an overall run of 43 weeks on the chart. A CD containing just the 10 new tracks from the 2CD edition of Exile... was released exclusively through Target, - as Exile On Main Street (Rarities Edition) and sold nearly 15,000 copies to debut at number 27.

Ohio blues rock duo Black Keys land their first Top 10 album with sixth studio set Brothers, which arrives at number three with 73,000 sales.

Meanwhile the new duo of Nas and Damian Marley chart their collaboration Distant Relatives at number five on sales of 57,000 copies.

Band Of Horses and LCD Soundsystem complete the upper echelon’s new intake, both enjoying the biggest chart albums of their careers, with Infinite Arms and This Is Happening selling 45,000 and 31,000 respectively, for debuts at number seven and number 10.

Last week’s number one – My World 2.0 by Justin Bieber – slips to number four on sales of 62,000 copies.

Anglo-Australian rockers AC/DC’s Iron Man 2 soundtrack falls 4-9 as the film itself falls from the top of the box office chart.

Elsewhere in the top half of the chart there are declines for UK acts Bullet For My Valentine (28-38), Sade (41-48), Susan Boyle (63-71), Gorillaz (78-84) and Keane (25-98). But Muse’s The Resistance rallies 98-74 (a five week high) as their new track Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever) enters the Hot 100 singles chart at number 71.

La Roux are also reaping the rewards of a hit single, namely Bulletproof, which surges 19-14 on the Hot 100, helping their eponymous debut album to advance 121-100 – a new peak.

Mumford & Son’s Sigh No More, which reached a new high last week, dips 94-112.

Meanwhile,Tracey Thorn makes her second solo foray into the chart, debuting at number 144 with Love And Its Opposite. She reached number 172 with Out Of The Woods in 2007. She has also charted four albums as 50% of Everything But The Girl.