Billboard 200: 7/10/10: Eminem #1 741k

[Honeymoon]

I know these Billboard 200 threads are usually started late Wednesday morning but Billboard just tweeted that Recovery has debuted at #1 with 741k, a bit less than HDD's estimate but still spectacular numbers.

[slicknickshady]

twitter.com/Billboarddotcom

Billboarddotcom: interscope: @eminem /recovery tops billboard charts this week with 741k sold; best week since 10/08 @ac_DC /Black Ice/784k - @bwerde

Here from the AP.

www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iIZQ7pwHqypmM6PrXLZkkL5c7wHgD9GLA2LO0

Eminem has biggest sales debut since 2008

(AP) – 2 hours ago

NEW YORK — Eminem's "Recovery" is going quite well. The rapper's CD sold 741,000 in its first week of release, making it the best debut of the year.

The figures were released by Eminem's record label, Interscope, on Tuesday and confirmed by Nielsen SoundScan. It's actually the best album debut since October 2008, when AC/DC's "Black Ice" topped the charts with sales of 784,000.

Eminem released the CD "Relapse" last year, but "Recovery" has gotten much better reviews.

The 37-year-old rapper was named the best-selling artist of the last decade by Billboard.

www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/eminem-dominates-with-recovery-new-album-bows-with-first-week-sales-of-741000-the-biggest-debut-of-any-release-since-2008-97449104.html

Eminem Dominates With Recovery; New Album Bows With First Week Sales of 741,000, the Biggest Debut of Any Release Since 2008


SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Eminem, the Nielsen SoundScan Artist of the Decade for 2000-2009, is already kicking off the new decade with more of the same. His latest album, Recovery (Aftermath Entertainment/Interscope Records), makes its debut atop the charts this week with sales of 741,000 copies; easily outpacing any other release for this year, and setting a bar that no other album has reached for first week sales in almost two years.

The album's first single, "I'm Not Afraid," debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in May. The song was only the 16th in the 52-year history of the Hot 100 to debut at the top spot, and the first rap song to do so in 13 years. The second single from the album, "Love The Way You Lie" (featuring Rihanna), is already showing tremendous growth at radio, and debuts at #1 on the Singles chart this week, with sales of 337,000.

"It's been 12 years since Eminem signed to Aftermath and Interscope," remarked Jimmy Iovine, Chairman, Interscope Geffen A&M Records. "This is a real watershed moment in his career. In my opinion, with this album Eminem's impact on popular culture, and as a lyricist and writer, puts him on course to be mentioned in the same sentence as Dylan, Springsteen, and Bono."

Recovery is being hailed as a tour de force for the rapper, receiving a four-star review in the current issue of Rolling Stone, and being described as "his fiercest and most focused work in a long time ... a strong return to the form that made him a star in the first place." (USA Today, 6/21/10)

Eminem performed "Not Afraid" on the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater for an appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman" that aired Friday night, as well as at Sunday night's "2010 BET Awards." He heads to Europe next week for headlining slots at Switzerland's Freuenfeld festival (July 9), T In The Park in Scotland (July 10), and wraps up in Ireland at Oxegen (July 11). Eminem and Jay-Z also will perform co-headlining dates at Comerica Park in Detroit (September 2 and 3) and New York's Yankee Stadium (September 13 and 14). Tickets for the four shows went on sale late last week and quickly sold out.

SOURCE Interscope Records; Aftermath

[jamrock16]

Wow, Eminem can REALLY sell albums. Considering Relapse only came out a year ago I expected to see a diminishing return with this one. Congrats to him though!

[slicknickshady]

Also it looks like Love The Way You Lie is going to Debut #1.

www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/eminem-dominates-with-recovery-new-album-bows-with-first-week-sales-of-741000-the-biggest-debut-of-any-release-since-2008-97449104.html

The second single from the album, "Love The Way You Lie" (featuring Rihanna), is already showing tremendous growth at radio, and debuts at #1 on the Singles chart this week, with sales of 337,000.

[cking33]

Jun 29, 2010 23:16:05 GMT -5 slicknickshady said:

Also it looks like Love The Way You Lie is going to Debut #1.

www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/eminem-dominates-with-recovery-new-album-bows-with-first-week-sales-of-741000-the-biggest-debut-of-any-release-since-2008-97449104.html

The second single from the album, "Love The Way You Lie" (featuring Rihanna), is already showing tremendous growth at radio, and debuts at #1 on the Singles chart this week, with sales of 337,000.

I'd be surprised if that's true. They may mean Digital sales chart. Katy should have the airplay to beat that. He sales would've had to fall about 67% over last week for Eminem to get to #1 with that number.

[slicknickshady]

That's what i thought as well cking33 but we will see. If it is it should have by labeled as such.

The Billboard Biz article says Digital Sales Chart. So i think that's got to be what they meant.

www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i1776da49f7137563fca0950aecaee969

Eminem also naturally makes big news on the Digital Songs chart with his "Recovery" collaboration with Rihanna, titled "Love the Way You Lie." It debuts at No. 1 with 338,000 downloads sold. It's the sixth time the rapper has topped the Digital Songs chart and the second time he's done it this year, following "Not Afraid's" entry atop the list back in May with 379,000.

[fridayteenage]

"Much better reviews." More like slightly better reviews; even some of the most positive reviews had better words to say about Relapse. Still, congrats, and he'll probably be the 3rd artist this year to sell 2 mil. Him or Gaga.

[Cerbius]

With the right single choices, Recovery will easily outsell Relapse by the end of this year.

I'm glad Em outsold SuBo first week out.

[cking33]

Jun 29, 2010 23:27:37 GMT -5 slicknickshady said:

That's what i thought as well cking33 but we will see. If it is it should have by labeled as such.

The Billboard Biz article says Digital Sales Chart. So i think that's got to be what they meant.

www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i1776da49f7137563fca0950aecaee969

Eminem also naturally makes big news on the Digital Songs chart with his "Recovery" collaboration with Rihanna, titled "Love the Way You Lie." It debuts at No. 1 with 338,000 downloads sold. It's the sixth time the rapper has topped the Digital Songs chart and the second time he's done it this year, following "Not Afraid's" entry atop the list back in May with 379,000.

I should've said 33% for the Katy Perry drop, which would be a pretty steep drop, and one that probably didn't happen. That first release was a PR release and they can be vague sometimes by what they mean when a song or album goes #1.

[David]

Great numbers for Eminem!

[slicknickshady]

Jun 30, 2010 0:45:21 GMT -5 cking33 said:

Jun 29, 2010 23:27:37 GMT -5 slicknickshady said:

That's what i thought as well cking33 but we will see. If it is it should have by labeled as such.

The Billboard Biz article says Digital Sales Chart. So i think that's got to be what they meant.

www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i1776da49f7137563fca0950aecaee969

I should've said 33% for the Katy Perry drop, which would be a pretty steep drop, and one that probably didn't happen. That first release was a PR release and they can be vague sometimes by what they mean when a song or album goes #1.

Yep. I almost didnt post it because i figured it had to be wrong because following how much california girls get's played it seemed pretty far fetch.

[kt1990]

I forget, did this beat Susan Boyle's opening week?

[Rodze]

^ It does. 701,000 for her.

Someone said it is the highest debut since AC/DC's "Black Ice" in Oct. 2008 with 784,000.

[Minor Scratch]

741K??? In mid-2010?? Unbelievable.

[areyoureadytojump]

Great news for the record business.

[Ke$ha's Left Tittie]

The more interesting chart story to me this week is Cyndi Lauper’s Memphis Blues.

Hits had it pegged with a #24 debut with 15k +.

That would be her best peak since 1987’s True Colors.

Considering this is her first full length LP to be released independently (on Downtown Records), this is a fantastic achievement.

Hopefully, the album will have legs. I’m very interested in seeing what the final total will be when all is said and done.

Her best bet is to probably keep making performances on various talk shows.

IMO, the album is fantastic – a return to her Blue Angel roots.

“Romance In The Dark,” “Mother Earth,” and “Early In The Mornin’” are my among my early favorites thus far.

[HolidayGuy]

^I noted as much in the HITS thread, amit- and it's 1986. How are ya, btw?

Eminem is proof that even amidst continually declining album sales, the right record and act still can pull off a whopping debut.

Accounting for a 70% second-week decline, Eminem easily should hold the top spot, with around 220K.

[tsw2008]

Jun 30, 2010 8:26:13 GMT -5 Minor Scratch said:

741K??? In mid-2010?? Unbelievable.

very, very impressive. music industry and albums aren't dead just yet.

[Deleted]

Eminem has the 6th biggest soundscan week since 2005

Biggest Soundscan weeks since 2005 (ranking listed below is where it stands overall)

8 3/19/2005 The Massacre 50 Cent 1,140,638
15 6/28/2008 Tha Carter III Lil' Wayne 1,005,545
16 9/29/2007 Graduation Day Kanye West 956,936
39 11/8/2008 Black Ice AC/DC 784,288
41 3/26/2005  The Massacre 50 Cent 770,887
48 7/10/2010 Recovery Eminem 741,000

[HolidayGuy]

^The "divos" continue to smash it.

[Rodze]

Jun 30, 2010 9:07:26 GMT -5 @2m said:

8 3/19/2005 The Massacre 50 Cent 1,140,638
15 6/28/2008 Tha Carter III Lil' Wayne 1,005,545
16 9/29/2007 Graduation Day Kanye West 956,936
39 11/8/2008 Black Ice AC/DC 784,288
41 3/26/2005  The Massacre 50 Cent 770,887
48 7/10/2010 Recovery Eminem 741,000

AC/DC are hip-hop rappers confirmed.

[Rodze]

www.billboard.com/#/news/eminem-s-huge-recovery-leads-big-week-on-1004101453.story

1 EMINEM - RELAPSE 741,000
2 DRAKE - THANK ME LATER 157,000
3 MILEY CYRUS - CAN'T BE TAMED 102,000
4 OZZY OSBOURNE - SCREAM 81,000
5 VARIOUS - NOW 34 55,000
6 ROOTS - HOW I GOT OVER 51,000
7 JACK JOHNSON - TO THE SEA 44,000
8 JUSTIN BIEBER - MY WORLD 2.0 43,000
9 SARAH MACLACHLAN - LAWS OF ILLUSION 38,000
10 SOUNDTRACK - TWILIGHT: ECLIPSE 38,000

42 MICHAEL JACKSON - NUMBER ONES 10,000
53 MICHAEL JACKSON - ESSENTIAL 8,000
79 MICHAEL JACKSON - THRILLER 6,000
96 MICHAEL JACKSON - THIS IS IT 5,000


A s reported earlier today, Eminem's "Recovery" debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with a massive 741,000 copies sold in its first week according to Nielsen SoundScan. It's the biggest sales week for a single album since October 2008, when AC/DC's "Black Ice" debuted with 784,000 in its first week.

"Recovery" is the hip-hop king's sixth straight No. 1 debut -- and sixth overall chart-topper. His only set to miss the top spot was his "Slim Shady LP" debut, which bowed and peaked at No. 2 in 1999. Among hip-hop acts with the most No. 1 albums, only Jay-Z has earned more, with 11.

"Recovery's" debut week sales surpasses the first week of Eminem's last set, "Relapse," which began at No. 1 in 2009 with 608,000. It also beats the opening of 2005's "Curtain Call: The Hits" which entered at No. 1 with 441,000 in 2005.

Eminem's new album also wows digitally, as downloads made up 255,000 of its first week. That's the second-biggest digital week for an album in history. Only Coldplay's "Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends" notched a larger frame, when it debuted with 288,000 downloads in the summer of 2008.

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending June 27) totaled 6.06 million units, down 1% compared to the sum last week (6.13 million) and down 3% compared to the comparable sales week of 2009 (6.22 million). Year to date album sales stand at 148.4 million, down 11% compared to the same total at this point last year (165.9 million).

[Ke$ha's Left Tittie]

Nice to see MJ back with 4 titles in the Top 100 with combined sales of 29k. I expected as much since The Essential and Number Ones posted strong iTunes sales over the weekend (the former peaking at #8).

I don't think MJ's total includes last week's QVC sales since they usually report sales weeks after the fact.

"Man In The Mirror" might also have re-entered Top Digital Songs.

HG - All good here. Thanks for asking! I can't believe I screwed up the year True Colors was released. Old age catching up.

Did you pick up Cyndi's latest?

[slicknickshady]

www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.11599/title.hip-hop-album-sales-the-week-ending-6-27-2010

Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)
Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
1
Eminem
Recovery
741,000
744,000

2
Drake Thank Me Later
157,000
604,000

6
The Roots
How I Got Over
51,000
51,000

14
Usher
Raymond v. Raymond
24,000
874,000

20
B.o.B. Presents
The Adventures of Bobby Ray
19,000
268,000



43
Nas & Damian Marley
Distant Relatives
8,900
134,000


47
Eminem
Relapse
8,400
1,986,000


112
Drake So Far Gone
4,500
489,000


131
Z-Ro
Heroin
3,900
4,100


179
Lil Jon
Crunk Rock
2,900
17,000

[Enigma.]

lol at Lil Jon

[areyoureadytojump]

www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/charts/chart_alert/e3i5b94756fffe163f94af57297bbc473e2

Eminem's 'Recovery' Explodes At No. 1 On Billboard 200 With 741,000 Debut
June 30, 2010

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

Eminem's "Recovery" blasts in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 741,000—the largest sales week for a single album since October 2008 . . . It's his sixth straight No. 1 debut and sixth overall chart-topper . . . He also tops the Digital Songs tally this week with "Love the Way You Lie" (with Rihanna) . . . Joining "Recovery" on the Billboard 200 are debuts in the top 10 from Miley Cyrus, Ozzy Osbourne and the Roots.

FLASH POINTS

• As projected last week, Eminem's "Recovery" debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with a massive 741,000 copies sold in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It's the biggest sales week for a single album since October 2008, when AC/DC's "Black Ice" debuted with 784,000 in its first week.

• "Recovery" is the hip-hop king's sixth straight No. 1 debut and sixth overall chart-topper. His only set to miss the top spot was his "Slim Shady LP" debut, which bowed and peaked at No. 2 in 1999. Among hip-hop artists with the most No. 1 albums, only Jay-Z has earned more, with 11.

• The debut-week sales for "Recovery" surpass the first week of Eminem's last set, "Relapse," which began at No. 1 in 2009 with 608,000. It also beats the opening of 2005's "Curtain Call: The Hits," which entered at No. 1 with 441,000.

• Eminem's new album also wows digitally, as downloads made up 255,000 of its first week. That's the second-biggest digital week for an album in history. Only Coldplay's "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends" notched a larger frame, when it debuted with 288,000 downloads in the summer of 2008.

• It's likely that "Recovery" will hold at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for at least another week—if not two more—as yesterday's (June 29) slate of new releases probably won't pose a threat to the hip-hop king's chart reign. Next week we'll see new entries from 3Oh!3's "Streets of Gold" and the-Dream's "Love King," and the week after, Enrique Iglesias' "Euphoria" and Kylie Minogue's "Aphrodite," among other titles.

• Eminem also naturally makes big news on the Digital Songs chart with his "Recovery" collaboration with Rihanna titled "Love the Way You Lie." It debuts at No. 1 with 338,000 downloads sold. It's the sixth time Em has topped the Digital Songs chart and the second time he's done it this year, following the entry of "Not Afraid" atop the list in May with 379,000.

• Last week's Billboard 200 No. 1, Drake's "Thank Me Later," falls to No. 2 with 157,000 (down 65%). The chart's second-highest debut is Miley Cyrus' "Can't Be Tamed," which enters at No. 3 with 102,000. Cyrus' last proper full-length studio album was 2008's "Breakout," which started at No. 1 with 371,000. Since then, she's charted with three different "Hannah Montana" releases and the "Time of Our Lives" EP.

• Ozzy Osbourne's "Scream" bows at No. 4 with 81,000, giving the rock legend his lucky seventh top 10 album. His last release, "Black Rain," entered at No. 3 in 2007 with 152,000. This week's final top 10 debut comes from the Roots' "How I Got Over," starting at No. 6 with 51,000. It's the hip-hop group's fifth top 10 effort and it follows 2008's "Rising Down," which started at No. 6 with 54,000.

• As for the rest of the top 10 this week, the "Now 34" compilation drops one slot to No. 5 (55,000; down 38%), and Jack Johnson's "To the Sea" slips two rungs to No. 7 (44,000; down 36%). Justin Bieber's "My World 2.0" slips one position to No. 8 (43,000; down 9%), Sarah McLachlan's "Laws of Illusion" descends from No. 3 to No. 9 with 38,000 (down 59%), and the "Twilight: Eclipse" soundtrack falls four to No. 10 (38,000; down 30%).

• This week last year on the album charts, in the wake of Michael Jackson's death, the King of Pop ruled with the top three best-selling albums in the United States as "Number Ones," "The Essential Michael Jackson" and "Thriller" ranked at Nos. 1-3 with 108,000, 102,000 and 101,000, respectively. This week, as the public commemorated the first anniversary of his death on June 25, a number of Jackson's albums make gains on the Billboard 200. His "Number Ones" set rises from No. 100 to No. 42 (10,000; up 86%) while "Essential" climbs from No. 157 to No. 53 (8,000; up 116%) and "Thriller" re-enters at No. 79 (6,000; up 71%), as does "This Is It" at No. 96 (5,000; up 64%).

• Also, Nielsen BDS reports that last week, between June 25 and June 28, Jackson's songs (solo, or with the Jackson 5 or the Jacksons) earned 25,703 detections on monitored U.S. terrestrial radio stations. Comparatively, last year between June 25 and June 28, his songs were played 64,237 times.

• Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending June 27) totaled 6.06 million units, down 1% compared with the sum last week (6.13 million) and down 3% compared with the comparable sales week of 2009 (6.2 million). Year-to-date album sales stand at 148.4 million, down 11% compared with the same total at this point last year (165.9 million).

• Digital track sales this past week totaled 21.6 million downloads, up 1% compared with last week (21.4 million) and down 8% compared with the comparable week of 2009 (23.4 million). Year-to-date track sales are at 575.9 million, up less than 1% compared with the same total at this point last year (575.7 million).

MARKET WATCH

• Album units, current chart week: 6.06 million units
• DOWN 1% from last week's charts: 6.13 million units
• DOWN 3% from the comparable week in 2009: 6.22 million units
• This week: The top three albums each sell more than 100,000 copies.
• This week last year on the album charts: In the wake of Michael Jackson's death, the King of Pop ruled with the top three best-selling albums in the United States as "Number Ones," "The Essential Michael Jackson" and "Thriller" ranked at Nos. 1-3 with 108,000, 102,000 and 101,000, respectively.

A LOOK AHEAD

• Among the albums released this week, due on next week's charts: The-Dream's "Love King," 3Oh!3's "Streets of Gold," Scissor Sisters' "Night Work," Andre Rieu's "Forever Vienna," Kenny G's "Heart and Soul," Gilberto Santa Rosa's "Irrepetible," Semi Precious Weapons' "You Love You," Hillsong Live's "A Beautiful Exchange," Wolf Parade's "Expo 86" and Dwele's "Wants World Women."

• Next week's album charts compete with the same week in 2009 when: The late Michael Jackson owned both the Nos. 1 and 2 albums in the States with "Number Ones" (339,000; up 215%) and "Thriller" (187,000; up 86%). His "Essential Michael Jackson" also posted an increase, shifting 125,000 (up 23%), landing at No. 5.

[slicknickshady]

When is the next big album release coming up? I think Eminem can hold on for at least 4 weeks total. That was my conclusion a few weeks back looking at the upcoming weeks after Recovery dropped.

[renfield75]

Interesting that Billboard is acknowledging MJ as being number one a year ago this week...no mention of the artist who actually was ranked number one on the BB200. What an embarrassment for them.

[Honeymoon]

In a week where the sales of the Billboard Top 200 increased 15% (thanks in large part to Eminem's Recovery, which debuted with 741,000 sales), the Idols on the chart all dropped. In fact, Carrie Underwood is the only Idol in the top 100 of this week's Billboard 200, with 13,000 sales of Play On, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Carrie Underwood, Play On (13,000, -21%, 1.621 million total) (#27 Billboard Top 200)
Adam Lambert, For Your Entertainment (5,000, -7%, 671,000) (#108 BB200)
Daughtry, Leave This Town (5,000, -25%, 1.086 million) (#110 BB200)
Daughtry, Daughtry (3,000, -11%, 4.694 million) (#166 BB200)
Clay Aiken, Tried and True (3,000, -47%, 41,000) (#167 BB200)
Danny Gokey, My Best Days (2,000, -14%, 168,000)
Lee DeWyze, Slumberland (less than 1,000, -28%, 11,000)
Mandisa, Freedom (less than 1,000, -22%, 113,000)

Idol-related

Various, Now That's What I Call Music! 33 (12,000, -21%, 587,000) (#33 BB200)
Glee Cast, Glee: The Music, Vol. 1 (8,000, -27%, 893,000) (#56 BB200)
Glee Cast, Glee: The Music, Vol. 2 (6,000, -29%, 676,000 (#70 BB200)
Various, Now That's What I Call the USA (6,000, -24%, 14,000) (#71 BB200)
Kidz Bop Kids, Kidz Bop 17 (3,000, +8%, 221,000) (#176 BB200)
Various, WOW Hits 2010 (3,000, -24%, 388,000)

[chopped89]

Yaay, Eminem never disappoints!