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

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Jun 30, 2010 15:30:54 GMT -5 renfield75 said:

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.

Because MJ sold more copies of his album than any other album that week?

The rightful #1 and the reason for the subsequent rule change

[HolidayGuy]

^True- but the rule wasn't in effect until the first chart dated December 2010. it should have made a note about it being the Comprehensive Albums chart, before catalog albums became eligible for the BB 200.

Paul Grein's Yahoo Chart Watch blog:

Week Ending June 27, 2010: Eminem Tops Garth
Posted Wed Jun 30, 2010 by Paul Grein in Chart Watch

Eminem's Recovery enters The Billboard 200 at #1 with first-week sales of 741,000. That's the biggest one-week sales tally since AC/DC's Black Ice stormed on to the chart with sales of 784,000 in October 2008. Recovery is Eminem's fourth album to achieve weekly sales north of 700K. It follows The Marshall Mathers LP, The Eminem Show and Encore.

Eminem is the first artist in Nielsen/SoundScan history (which dates to 1991) to top the 700K plateau in weekly sales with four albums. Runner-up Garth Brooks topped that mark with three albums: The Hits, Sevens and Double Live.

Recovery sold substantially more copies in its first week than Eminem's last album, Relapse, which opened with sales of 608K in June 2009. In just one week, Recovery is already #8 for the year-to-date.

Recovery is Eminem's sixth #1 album. Among rappers, only Jay-Z has had as many or more #1 albums (11). What's more, Recovery is Eminem's sixth consecutive album to reach #1. That's the longest string of consecutive #1 albums (in which every charted album made #1) since the Beatles had eight in a row from Beatles VI in 1965 to the so-called White Album in 1968. (Eminem had seven of the 22 tracks on Eminem Presents: The Re-Up, which peaked at #2 in 2006, but that was marketed as a Various Artists album.)

This week's hefty total for Recovery pushes Eminem from #10 to #9 on Nielsen/SoundScan's running list of the best-selling album artists in its history. (He pushes ahead of Pink Floyd on this list, which reflects sales from 1991 to 2010.) Eminem has sold 36,519,000 albums, which makes him the top rapper on the list. He is way ahead of Jay-Z, who is #27 overall with sales of 27,888,000 albums.

Recovery sold 255,000 digital copies. Only one album has ever sold more digital copies in one week. That's Coldplay's Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, which sold 288,000 digital copies in its first week in June 2008.

Eminem is also breaking records on the digital song front. "Love The Way You Lie," Eminem's collabo with Rihanna, sold 338,000 copies this week. It's Eminem's third song to achieve one-week sales of 300K. "Crack A Bottle," his all-star collaboration with Dr. Dre and 50 Cent, opened with sales of 418,000 in February 2009. "Not Afraid" opened with sales of 379,000 in May. Eminem is the only artist who has topped 300K in weekly sales with three songs. Flo Rida, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift have each topped 300K with two songs.

"Love The Way You Lie" enters Hot Digital Songs at #1. It may well hit #1 on the Hot 100, which would make it Eminem's third #1 on that chart in 18 months, following "Crack A Bottle" and "Not Afraid." This is noteworthy because in his first 10 years of recording, he notched just one #1, 2002's monster hit "Lose Yourself." This would be the second time that Rihanna is featured on a #1 hit by a rap star. She was featured on T.I.'s 2008 smash "Live Your Life."

Eminem's 741K debut comes on the heels of Drake's 447K bow last week. This marks the first time that albums have debuted with sales north of 400,000 in back-to-back weeks since November and December 2008, when Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Kanye West and Britney Spears all opened with sales of 400K or more in successive weeks.

T-Pain recently told MTV.com, "Ain't nobody selling records unless you Susan Boyle." His one-liner was so provocative it was even picked up in TIME Magazine. While T-Pain was moaning about soft sales, Drake and Eminem were busy making themselves exceptions to the overall trend. Good for them.

Recovery also debuts at #1 in the U.K. this week. It sold nearly 140K in that market, which constitutes the best-one tally in the U.K. so far this year. It's Eminem's sixth straight album to hit #1 in the U.K. Eminem has sold more than 7.5 million albums in the U.K.

Pop Quiz: Eminem's only album to fall short of #1 was his 1999 debut, The Slim Shady LP, which logged three weeks at #2. Name the two albums that blocked it from the top spot. Answer below.

The back-to-back albums Relapse and Recovery mark the second time that Eminem has told a story in the titles of successive albums. He did the same thing with The Eminem Show, Encore and Curtain Call: The Hits. Kanye West picked up on this trick with the titles of his successive albums The College Dropout, Late Registration and Graduation.

If Recovery winds up in Nielsen/SoundScan's top 10 for 2010 (which it almost certainly will), this will be the fifth year that Eminem has had an album in research firm's year-end top 10. The Marshall Mathers LP was the #2 seller of 2000, The Eminem Show was the #1 seller of 2002, Encore was the #3 seller of 2004, and Relapse was the #8 seller of 2009.

Eminem has won the Grammy for Best Rap Album four times, more than any other artist. He'll probably be in the running again this year when the nominations are announced at the end of the year. But the competition this year is fierce. Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 and Drake's Thank Me Later are also front-runners. Ludacris' Battle Of The Sexes and B.o.B's B.o.B Presents The Adventures Of Bobby Ray are also in the mix. Who will take home the trophy? Discuss amongst yourselves.

The Fine Print: Because acts sometimes release oddities that have no chance of hitting #1, let me add a few names to the discussion in the third paragraph. Elton John had seven consecutive #1 albums from 1972 to 1975 if you discount a reissue of his debut album. Jay-Z has hit #1 with his last seven albums if you discount the three-CD The Blueprint: Collector's Edition and reboots of two albums. And Michael Jackson had six straight #1 albums if you discount a few Motown repackages and a couple of HIStory knock-offs and give him credit for Number Ones being a #1 album.

Quiz Answer: The two albums that kept The Slim Shady LP from hitting the #1 spot were TLC's Fanmail and Britney Spears' ...Baby One More Time.

"California Gurls" by Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg this week becomes only the second song in digital history to sell 300,000 digital copies four times. Flo Rida's "Right Round" was the first. "California Gurls" sold 302,000 copies this week, bringing its seven-week total to 2,110,000. The song took just seven weeks to top the 2 million mark, which is the second fastest pace in digital history. Again, only "Right Round" got there faster (five weeks).

"California Gurls" is a terrific single, but I have one complaint. The record makes California sound like the sexiest and most dynamic place on earth. It will probably entice even more people to come here. It's getting kind of crowded. Could somebody please write a song about our clogged freeways and jammed parking lots?

"California Gurls" dips to #2 on Hot Digital Songs, but it debuts at #1 in the U.K. This marks the first time the golden word "California" has appeared in the title of a U.K. #1, though I should note that Scott McKenzie's hippie classic "San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair") hit #1 in the U.K. in the Summer of Love (1967). "California Gurls" is Perry's second British #1, following "I Kissed A Girl." It's Snoop's first.

"Airplanes" by B.o.B featuring Hayley Williams dips from #2 to #3 on Hot Digital Songs with sales of 196,000. This is its 10th consecutive week in the top three. "OMG" by Usher featuring will.i.am dips from #3 to #4 (175,000), while "Billionaire" by Travie McCoy featuring Bruno Mars dips from #4 to #5 (170,000).

Drake's Thank Me Later dips to #2 on The Billboard 200 in its second week. The album sold 157,000 copies this week, bringing its two-week total to 604,000. It's already #12 for the year-to-date.

Miley Cyrus' Can't Be Tamed debuts at #3, with first-week sales of 102,000. This is Cyrus' third strictly-solo album release. It follows Breakout, which debuted at #1 in July 2008 with first-week sales of 371,000, and The Times Of Our Life, which debuted at #3 in August 2009 with first-week sales of just 62,000. (That EP subsequently rose to #2 and sold more than 1 million).

Ozzy Osbourne's Scream debuts at #4. It's the eighth top 10 album of Osborne's career. He first made the grade in September 1971 with Black Sabbath's Master Of Reality. He has made the top 10 at least once in each subsequent decade.

The Roots' How I Got Over debuts at #6. It's the veteran hip-hop group's first album since they became the house band for NBC's Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Neither Paul Shaffer or Max Weinberg, the previous band leaders for Late Night, has made The Billboard 200, but three band leaders for the show's legendary lead-in, The Tonight Show, have charted: Skitch Henderson, Doc Severinsen and Branford Marsalis.

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

1. Eminem, Recovery, 741,000. This new entry is Eminem's sixth consecutive album to reach #1. It will probably have three weeks on top, which would be his best showing since Encore, which had four. Twelve songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Love The Way You Lie" (featuring Rihanna), which debuts at #1.

2. Drake, Thank Me Later, 157,000. The former #1 album dips to #2 in its second week. Seven songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Find Your Love," which dips from #8 to #9.

3. Miley Cyrus, Can't Be Tamed, 102,000. This new entry is Cyrus' eighth album to make the top three in less than four years (counting Hannah Montana albums). Five songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Can't Be Tamed," which jumps from #16 to #12.

4. Ozzy Osbourne, Scream, 81,000. This new entry is Osbourne's seventh solo album to make the top 10. "Let Me Hear You Scream" enters Hot Digital Songs at #155.

5. Various Artists, NOW 34, 55,000. The compilation dips from #4 to #5 in its second week. This brings its sales to 143,000 after two weeks.

6. The Roots, How I Got Over, 51,000. This new entry is the hip-hop group's fifth top 10 album. It notched its first, Things Fall Apart, in 1999.

7. Jack Johnson, To The Sea, 44,000. The former #1 album dips from #5 to #6 in its fourth week. "You And Your Heart" dips from #147 to #151 on Hot Digital Songs.

8. Justin Bieber, My World 2.0, 43,000. The former #1 album dips from #7 to #8 in its 14th week. Three songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Somebody To Love," which jumps from #28 to #23.

9. Sarah McLachlan, Laws Of Illusion, 38,000. The album drops from #3 to #9 in its second week. This brings its sales to 132,000 after two weeks.

10. Various Artists, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, 38,000. The album drops from #6 to #10 in its fourth week. It's the #1 movie or TV soundtrack for the second week in a row.

Lady Antebellum's Need You Now drops from #8 to #12 in its 22nd week. This is the first time that the album has dropped out of the top 10, though it's still #1 on the country chart. It's the first album to rank #1 on Top Country Albums in each of its first 22 weeks since Garth Brooks' Ropin' The Wind, which was on top in each of its first 29 weeks in 1991-1992.

Three other albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' Mojo drops from #2 to #11, Christina Aguilera's Bionic drops from #9 to #22, and Glee: The Music, Journey To Regionals drops from #10 to #19.

Keith Sweat's Ridin' Solo debuts at #13. Sweat first cracked the top 15 in April 1988 with his debut album, Make It Last Forever. ..Jaron and the Long Road To Love's Getting Dressed In The Dark debuts at #16. Jaron Lowenstein first recorded with his identical twin brother Evan in the duo Evan and Jaron. Their song "Crazy For This Girl" was a top 15 hit on the Hot 100 in 2001.

Cyndi Lauper's Memphis Blues debuts at #26. Lauper's 1983 debut album, She's So Unusual, logged 21 weeks in the top 10 and spawned four top five hits. Better yet: More than 25 years later, she's still in the game.

Chris Tomlin's Hello Love leaps from #51 to #31. It moves up to #1 on Top Catalog Albums, replacing the Rolling Stones' Exile On Main St. This is the second time this year that the Contemporary Christian star has had the #1 catalog album. His See The Light topped the chart for four weeks in March and April.

Michael Jackson's Number Ones vaults from #100 to #42 due to the focus on the one-year anniversary of his death. Jackson's albums sold a combined total of 43,000 copies last week.

Herbie Hancock's The Imagine Project debuts at #54. This is Hancock's follow-up to River: The Joni Letters, which won a Grammy as Album of the Year for 2007. In February 2008, the week after its Grammy win, it vaulted from #159 to #5 on The Billboard 200. It was the first top 10 album of Hancock's 45-year career.

The Broadway Revival Cast Album to Promises, Promises, with Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth, debuts at #60. This is higher than the show's original cast album, which peaked at #95 in 1969. Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote the show in 1968 when they were at the top of their game. (And Bacharach and David at the top of their game is about as good as it gets in pop music). Two songs from the show became top 20 hits for Dionne Warwick: the title song and the instant-standard "I'll Never Fall In Love Again."

Song Scorecard: Two recent pop smashes, Miley Cyrus' "Party In The U.S.A." and Train's "Hey, Soul Sister," both top the 4 million mark in paid downloads this week. Cyrus is the youngest artist to land a 4 million digital seller. Cyrus, 17, swipes the title from Taylor Swift, 20.

"Forever" by Drake featuring Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Eminem tops the 2 million mark in paid downloads this week. I like the sense of community in rap, evidenced by three of the biggest rappers in the business supporting a hot newcomer (and potential rival).

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's London Calling Live In Hyde Park enters Top DVDs/Music Videos at #1, with first-week sales of 27,000. The title is an homage to The Clash's classic 1980 album, London Calling. Classic rock acts sweep the top three spots on this week's DVD chart. The Rolling Stones' Stones In Exile vaults from #47 to #2. U2's U2 360 At The Rose Bowl slips to #3 after three weeks on top.

Toy Story 3 was #1 at the box-office for the second straight weekend. This is the fifth time in the past six weekends that an animated movie has come out on top. Shrek Forever After was #1 for three weekends, before yielding to the live-action The Karate Kid.

Raw Numbers: A total of 6,062,000 albums were sold last week.

Heads Up: The-Dream's Love King is expected to be next week's top new entry. His previous album, Love Vs. Money, debuted and peaked at #2 in March 2009. Also due: 3OH!3's Streets Of Gold, Scissor Sisters' Night Work, Kenny G's Heart And Soul and Dwele's W.ants W.orld W.omen.

Shameless Plug: On Thursday or Friday, I'll have a Chart Watch Extra in which I count down the top 20 songs and the top 10 albums of the first six months of 2010. Only two acts appears in the top five on both lists. Who could they be?

[slicknickshady]

A lot of good info in that Paul Grein article.

[HolidayGuy]

^Yeah- he packs quite a bit into his blog/column.

[HolidayGuy]

Also of note- The Essential Michael Jackson narrowly reaches a new BB 200 peak of No. 53. Of course, we must mention that last a year ago, it was among the top 3 selling albums in a week, due to the extraordinary circumstances of MJ's passing, but chart rules kept it off the BB 200 at that time.

[slicknickshady]

I just wish Interscope would start certifying Eminem more.

SSLP - 4X Platinum (Even though it's sold more than 5 Million)
MMLP - 9X Platinum (Even though it's sold more than 10 million)
TES - 8X Platinum (Even though it's sold more than 9.85 million)
Encore - 4X Platinum (Even though it's sold more than 5 Million)
Curtain Call - 2X Platinum (Even though it's sold more than 3 Million)
Relapse - Not Certified (Even though it's a few weeks away from being over 2 Million)
Recovery - Just Came Out

But my guess is 5 Years from now these certifications still wont be changed. Interscope just didnt give a crap. They are screwing Eminem out of plaques.

[jgizzle89]

^wow. i can't believe they didn't certify 'relapse'. that's just ridiculous.

[Honeymoon]

Maybe they're just waiting for it to hit 2 million so they can just certify it for 2xp instead of certifying it Gold, then Platinum, then 2xp

[Choco]

They could certify it already, because they certify shipments, not sales. However, as stated every week, Interscope doesn't care.

[Deleted]

Jun 30, 2010 18:08:44 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Also of note- The Essential Michael Jackson narrowly reaches a new BB 200 peak of No. 53. Of course, we must mention that last a year ago, it was among the top 3 selling albums in a week, due to the extraordinary circumstances of MJ's passing, but chart rules kept it off the BB 200 at that time.

Over time, I would suspect more acknowledgement about what #1 really was in 2009 as we get further away from it. I would even suspect that you would see a future Joel Whitburn book acknowledge that Michael Jackson really did hit #1 last year and we all didn't just imagine it.

Billboard may be starting to acknowledge it now because under current chart rules it was #1, no question about it.

[slicknickshady]

Jun 30, 2010 21:25:40 GMT -5 Choco said:

They could certify it already, because they certify shipments, not sales. However, as stated every week, Interscope doesn't care.

Interscope is cheap. Come on Jimmy Iovine. You are not hurting.

[Rodze]

Top 20:

1 EMINEM RECOVERY 741413 744406
2 DRAKE THANK ME LATER 156694 604001
3 MILEY CYRUS CAN'T BE TAMED 102389 102679
4 OZZY OSBOURNE SCREAM 81493 81865
5 VARIOUS NOW 34 54991 143413
6 THE ROOTS HOW I GOT OVER 50961 51446
7 JACK JOHNSON TO THE SEA 43795 446097
8 JUSTIN BIEBER MY WORLD 2.O 42971 1345950
9 SARAH MCLACHLAN LAWS OF ILLUSION 38478 132333
10 TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE (ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE) SOUNDTRACK 38339 239407
11 TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS MOJO 32644 158032
12 LADY ANTEBELLUM NEED YOU NOW 32365 2324813
13 KEITH SWEAT RIDIN' SOLO 24477 24937
14 USHER RAYMOND V RAYMOND 24014 874459
15 CAROLE KING & JAMES TAYLOR LIVE AT THE TROUBADOUR 23916 291160
16 JARON AND THE LONG ROAD TO LOVE GETTING DRESSED IN THE DARK 23813 23849
17 LADY GAGA FAME 23459 3514333
18 ZAC BROWN BAND FOUNDATION 21663 2048698
19 GLEE CAST GLEE: THE MUSIC - JOURNEY TO REGIONALS [EP] 20815 214024
20 B.O.B. B.O.B. PRESENTS: THE ADVENTURES OF BOBBY RAY 18974 267968

[r.enato]

:o :o :o LMAO @ this happening after Mariah called him a mom-&-pop.

[Cerbius]

Hmm...I wonder if Eminem can catch up to Lady A for the year-end chart.

[HolidayGuy]

Well, on the flip side, it's unlikely a future Joel Whitburn book will not count what did appear at #1 on the Billboard 200 as No. 1. MJ's albums would not have sold what they did in those weeks had he still been with us and had his passing not received the enormous coverage that it did. Note should be made, though, especially for Number Ones and The Essential, that those albums were the top sellers for those weeks and did not appear on the BB 200 because of rules that kept them off the chart.

Eminem a mom-and-pop? That hardly ever was the case. That was just a sweet, sweet, fantasy.

[areyoureadytojump]

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 6/27/10)

1) Eminem – Recovery – 741,413
2) Drake – Thank Me Later – 156,694 (After 2 weeks – 604,001)
3) Miley Cyrus – Can’t Be Tamed – 102,389

Other Debuts
4) Ozzy Osbourne – Scream – 81,493
6) Roots – How I Got Over – 50,961
13) Keith Sweat – Ridin’ Solo – 24,477
26) Cyndi Lauper – Memphis Blues – 13,901
37) Macy Gray – Sellout – 11,000

[Cham]

Jul 1, 2010 9:37:25 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Well, on the flip side, it's unlikely a future Joel Whitburn book will not count what did appear at #1 on the Billboard 200 as No. 1. MJ's albums would not have sold what they did in those weeks had he still been with us and had his passing not received the enormous coverage that it did. Note should be made, though, especially for Number Ones and The Essential, that those albums were the top sellers for those weeks and did not appear on the BB 200 because of rules that kept them off the chart.

Eminem a mom-and-pop? That hardly ever was the case. That was just a sweet, sweet, fantasy.

Ok.,Not that much but he will certainly have some surge in his album sales with the planned O2 concerts. And they were planning on going world tour after that too. Therefor it would have increased world wide album sales considerably as well.

On your point what if he hadn't died ---- I would say it's all about when.,.The huge surge we saw last year will happen any way if his death occured in someother time instead in 2009. It was meant to happen when a huge global act like Michael Jackson dies. What matters is when.

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As catalog sales take up a gradually larger market share, A catalog album would have hit #1 at some point anyway.

Rolling Stones just recently hit #2, without a death

[Me. I Am l!nk!nfan815...]

Jul 1, 2010 9:10:47 GMT -5 r.enato said:

:o :o :o LMAO @ this happening after Mariah called him a mom-&-pop.

Well..overall he's still a "mom n pop" compare to Mariah.

Besides, every time he goes into those spurs of obsession over her he acts like a moron, I'm glad she wrote something back.

Anyhow, congrats on his achievements.

[Donnie5]

Jul 1, 2010 11:18:55 GMT -5 Me. I Am l!nk!nfan815... said:

Jul 1, 2010 9:10:47 GMT -5 r.enato said:

:o :o :o LMAO @ this happening after Mariah called him a mom-&-pop.

Well..overall he's still a "mom n pop" compare to Mariah.

Mariah stans.

[Deleted]

Jul 1, 2010 11:06:33 GMT -5 @2m said:

As catalog sales take up a gradually larger market share, A catalog album would have hit #1 at some point anyway.

Rolling Stones just recently hit #2, without a death

Michael also would have been N0.2 in Feb. 2008 on the BB 200 with Thriller 25 had the rules been different. He was alive then.

[The Orignal Kevin]

Recovery sales is truly amazing...
Question: Why are there never sales like that for pop artist ?

[tsw2008]

Why ?

Fickle audience with an attention span of a 5 year old. Pop is mostly about catchy singles, pop audiences prefer to buy a single than an album full of material. Hip Hop/Rap differs, there is the concept of mixtapes, etc I guess those audiences just prefer to buy a body of work rather than just a single.

I don't know just a guess.

[slicknickshady]

LOL at Mariah fans in this thread.

[HolidayGuy]

Yes- a 25th anniversary edition of the biggest-selling album in history was the second-best-selling album in the week it was issued- no surprise there. But until MJ's passing, there were not enough instances of BIG-selling catalog albums in a week to make Billboard consider changing the catalog rule. Because the post-MJ-passing sales were so big, that made Billboard look at the situation- knowing it was extraordinary circumstances- and, ultimately, change the rule. Once the MJ mania calmed down some, the result has been that few catalog albums have reached the upper reaches of the Billboard 200. Outside of passings of a big star like MJ, reissues of notable albums (Beatles and Rolling Stones most recently) and some holiday albums, catalog albums don't appear among the top 10 selling albums in a given week.

I have no problem with catalog albums charting on the BB 200. But, as evidenced, barring the aforementioned special circumstances, big weekly sales for catalog albums are not a major occurrence.

[PDC1987]

Jul 1, 2010 9:10:47 GMT -5 r.enato said:

:o :o :o LMAO @ this happening after Mariah called him a mom-&-pop.

Her comment already came back to bite her in the ass when MOAIA opened with less than 1/3 of what Relapse opened with last year. (And it will never match his first week sales in total.)

[PDC1987]

Jul 1, 2010 10:31:54 GMT -5 Cham said:

Jul 1, 2010 9:37:25 GMT -5 HolidayGuy said:

Well, on the flip side, it's unlikely a future Joel Whitburn book will not count what did appear at #1 on the Billboard 200 as No. 1. MJ's albums would not have sold what they did in those weeks had he still been with us and had his passing not received the enormous coverage that it did. Note should be made, though, especially for Number Ones and The Essential, that those albums were the top sellers for those weeks and did not appear on the BB 200 because of rules that kept them off the chart.

Eminem a mom-and-pop? That hardly ever was the case. That was just a sweet, sweet, fantasy.

Ok.,Not that much but he will certainly have some surge in his album sales with the planned O2 concerts. And they were planning on going world tour after that too. Therefor it would have increased world wide album sales considerably as well.

On your point what if he hadn't died ---- I would say it's all about when.,.The huge surge we saw last year will happen any way if his death occured in someother time instead in 2009. It was meant to happen when a huge global act like Michael Jackson dies. What matters is when.

Please. The only reason his sales exploded the way they did was because of his death, and his death only had THAT big of an impact because he was only 50 and was about to start a string of live shows.

[joeysbluerose]

can't wait for the whole chart to leak specifically to see taylor swifts sales

[areyoureadytojump]

Jul 1, 2010 13:15:49 GMT -5 The Orignal Kevin said:

Recovery sales is truly amazing...
Question: Why are there never sales like that for pop artist ?

Isn't Lady Gaga pop? She had 6 songs go to #1 on the Top 40 chart.

[areyoureadytojump]

Jul 1, 2010 17:33:41 GMT -5 joeysbluerose said:

can't wait for the whole chart to leak specifically to see taylor swifts sales

Don't expect the chart to leak each week. You might have jinxed us this week! lol