Billboard 200: 7/31/10: Eminem #1- 195K

[HolidayGuy]

www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/charts/chart_alert/e3iabea5ee8f01f624a3982041db18910b3

Eminem Still Tops On Billboard 200, Korn And Newsboys Arrive High
July 21, 2010

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

Eminem holds at No. 1 for a fourth week on the Billboard 200 with "Recovery," marking the longest streak atop the list since Susan Boyle's "I Dreamed a Dream" wrapped a six-week run at No. 1 on the Jan. 16 chart . . . Korn claims its 10th top 10 album with "Korn III: Remember Who You Are" . . . Newsboys return with their first top 10 album and best sales week . . . Sting arrives in the top 10 as well with his classical crossover set "Symphonicities" . . . Closing out the six new entries in the top 10 are new sets from country singer Jerrod Niemann, rock super group HellYeah and M.I.A.

FLASH POINTS

• Eminem's "Recovery" hangs in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for a fourth consecutive week, selling 195,000 (down 15%), according to Nielsen SoundScan. It's the first set to notch four straight frames at No. 1 since Susan Boyle's "I Dreamed a Dream" spent six consecutive weeks atop the tally, and the first by a solo male since Josh Groban's "Noel" did so for five weeks in December 2007.

• No doubt the continued success of "Recovery" is aided by its hit single "Love the Way You Lie" (featuring Rihanna), which holds at No. 1 on Digital Songs with 352,000 sold this week (up 12%).

• This week's highest debut on the Billboard 200—and first of six entries in the top 10—is Korn's "Korn III—Remember Who You Are." It starts at No. 2 with 63,000 and is the rock band's 10th top 10 album out of 12 entries. Only its 1995 self-titled debut and 2006's "Live & Rare" missed the region, peaking at Nos. 72 and 51, respectively. "Korn III" is the act's first effort on Roadrunner Records, after three albums with Virgin/Capitol. Its last album, 2007's "Untitled," debuted and peaked at No. 2 with 123,000 sold in its first week.

• Newsboys notch their best showing yet on the Billboard 200 as their "Born Again" bows at No. 4 with 45,000—the act's best sales week since SoundScan began tracking data in 1991. The set is the first from the quartet to feature dc Talk's Michael Tait as its lead vocalist, who steps in for Peter Furler. Newsboys have been charting on the Billboard 200 since 1996, when "Take Me to Your Leader" debuted and peaked at No. 35, but the act had never risen higher than No. 28 with "In the Hands of Good" in 2009. The new "Born Again" album also naturally debuts at No. 1 on Top Christian Albums—the act's fourth No. 1 there.

• Pop veteran Sting is no stranger to throwing the Billboard 200 curve balls in his career. His last album, 2009's No. 6 hit "If on a Winter's Night," was a seasonal effort featuring traditional music of the British Isles. And before that, in 2006, he reached No. 25—and No. 1 on our Classical chart—with "Songs From the Labyrinth." Now Sting brings us "Symphonicities," an album's worth of Sting and Police songs classically reinvented by noted composers and performed with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. The set debuts at No. 6 with 36,000 and marks Sting's 10th solo top 10 album.

• Country newcomer Jerrod Niemann climbs onto the Billboard 200 at No. 7 with "Judge Jerrod & the Hung Jury," selling 34,000 in its opening week. He's currently riding high on our Hot Country Songs chart at No. 3 with "Lover, Lover"—his first top 10 hit. The album was sale-tagged for less than $7 at both Best Buy and Walmart, and carries a list price of just $9.99. On Top Country Albums the set enters at No. 1, pushing Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" aside after a 24-week run at the top.

• Rock super group Hellyeah's second album, "Stampede," charges in at No. 8 with 28,000. Its self-titled debut opened at No. 9 in 2007 with 45,000. The act consists of Chad Gray and Greg Tribbett (both of Mudvayne), Vinnie Paul (Pantera), Tom Maxwell (Knives Out! and Nothingface) and Bob Zilla (Damageplan).

• The final arrival in the top 10 this comes from M.I.A.'s "Maya," starting at No. 9 with 28,000. It easily surpasses the No. 18 debut and peak of her last set, 2007's "Kala," though it started with a shade more: 29,000.

• As for the rest of the top 10, Drake's "Thank Me Later" slips a spot to No. 3 (50,000; down 32%), Justin Bieber's "My World 2.0" holds at No. 5 (41,000; down 5%), and the soundtrack to "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" drops six rungs to No. 10 (28,000; down 37%).

• Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending July 18) totaled 5.21 million units, down less than 1% compared with the sum last week (5.23 million) and down 23% compared with the comparable sales week of 2009 (6.8 million). Year-to-date album sales stand at 164.4 million, down 12% compared with the same total at this point last year (186.9 million).

• Digital track sales this past week totaled 20.9 million downloads, down less than 1% compared with last week (21.1 million) and down 1% stacked next to the comparable week of 2009 (21.2 million). Year-to-date track sales are at 639.5 million, down less than 1% compared with the same total at this point last year (642.5 million).

• AND NEXT WEEK:

• Next week, it looks like Rick Ross' "Teflon Don" could be the Billboard 200's new No. 1 as industry prognosticators predict the set might sell somewhere around the 150,000 to 180,000. Ross' last three studio albums all debuted at No. 1 as well, with his last set, 2009's "Deeper Than Rap," arriving with 158,000. Eminem's "Recovery," which has been No. 1 for four weeks running, will likely slide to No. 2.

• Sheryl Crow's "100 Miles From Memphis" might be the second-biggest new entry, with perhaps 45,000 to 55,000. The singer/songwriter's last effort, "Detours," debuted and peaked at No. 2 with 92,000 in 2008. It was her fourth set to peak at No. 2—she has yet to claim a No. 1 album.

• The new "Kidz Bop 18" collection may start with around 35,000 to 45,000, while the Jonas Brothers' soundtrack to their "Jonas L.A." Disney Channel series could also bow in the top 10 with maybe 30,000.

MARKET WATCH

• Album units, current chart week: 5.21 million units
• Down less than 1% from last week's charts: 5.23 million units
• Down 23% from the comparable week in 2009: 6.8 million units
• This week: Only the No. 1 album sells more than 100,000 copies.
• This week last year on the albums charts: Daughtry was the week's top seller, as the band's "Leave This Town" bowed with 269,000 copies. Michael Jackson's "Number Ones" slid to the No. 2 spot with 192,000 (down 45%). Jackson still owned six out of the top 10 best-selling albums for a second week, with additional titles at Nos. 3, 4, 8, 9 and 10.


A LOOK AHEAD

• Among the albums released this week, due on next week's charts: Sheryl Crow's "100 Miles From Memphis," the "Kidz Bop 18" set, Rick Ross' "Teflon Don," the "Jonas L.A." soundtrack, Brian Culbertson's "XII" and David Garrett's "Rock Symphonies."

• Next week's album chart competes with the same week in 2009 when: Michael Jackson's "Number Ones" returned to No. 1 with 154,000 (down 20%), marking its fourth nonconsecutive week as the country's best-selling set. Demi Lovato's "Here We Go Again" opened as the second-biggest, with 108,000.

[badrobot]

Glad that M.I.A. snuck into the top ten, despite not making it in the Hits tally. A similar thing happened to Bjork's "Volta."

Bummer that Gaga likely is at #11 (or 12?), just missing another top ten week.

Gotta give props to Eminem. I'm not much of a fan of his but he is definitely bucking the trend with impressively small drops.

[areyoureadytojump]

Thanks, HG, for starting this thread. I'm on vacation.

Ouch:

• Down 23% from the comparable week in 2009: 6.8 million units

[HolidayGuy]

^You're welcome. I know- the year-to-year drop is up to 12%. It's unlikely to drop back below a double-digit decline. But maybe Taylor Swift can help things somewhat later this year- but, this year has to compete with the SuBo phenomenon from last year, so not looking great.

[Diego]

LTWYL sold 352k? It will definitely be #1 on the Hot 100!

[slicknickshady]

I think they are underestimating Eminem for next week.

[jgizzle89]

Wow, i hope Rick Ross does sell 150k+. i know he's done it with every other album, but it always surprises me when an artist sell that much without a huge radio hit. then again, Ross has never been huge on any other format besides urban, where he is doing great this time around.

[Diego]

It'll definitely be a tight battle for No. 1 on albums next week, at least much moreso than the past few weeks.

[slicknickshady]

I agree. It will be tight. I just think billboard is being stupid again with there predictions. To act like it's a foregone conclusion Teflon Don will be #1.

[Honeymoon]

via IdolChatter

No major developments on the album-sales charts this week: Carrie Underwood's Play On is the top seller among American Idol alumnae, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Adam Lambert and Daughtry both have albums in the Billboard Top 200.

After several weeks going back into the Idol season, Lee DeWyze's Slumberland has fallen off the Billboard Heatseekers chart.

Carrie Underwood, Play On (12,000, -4%, 1.658 million) (#35 Billboard Top 200)
Adam Lambert, For Your Entertainment (5,000, +1%, 686,000) (#95 BB200)
Daughtry, Leave This Town (5,000, -17%, 1.102 million)
Daughtry, Daughtry (3,000, -2%, 4.703 million) (#191 BB200)
Danny Gokey, My Best Days (1,000, -10%, 172,000)
Mandisa, Freedom (less than 1,000, +9%, 115,000)

Idol-related

Various, Now That's What I Call Music! 33 (9,000, -12%, 618,000 total) (#49 Billboard Top 200)
Glee Cast, Glee: The Music, Vol. 1 (8,000, -6%, 917,000) (#55 BB200)
Glee Cast, Glee: The Music, Vol. 2 (6,000, -14%, 695,000) (#65 BB200)
Kidz Bop Kids, Kidz Bop 17 (5,000, +7%, 234,000) (#102 BB200)
Various, Now That's What I Call the U.S.A. (3,000, -30%, 32,000) (#185 BB200)
Various, WOW Hits 2010 (3,000, +8%, 396,000) (#186 BB200)

[fridayteenage]

"Looks like" & "likely" are stupid & acting like it's a foregone conclusion? I mean, unless they've changed the meaning of the words, this sounds like stanning.

[Love Plastic Love]

Jul 21, 2010 11:08:04 GMT -5 slicknickshady said:

I agree. It will be tight. I just think billboard is being stupid again with there predictions. To act like it's a foregone conclusion Teflon Don will be #1.

Huh? Are you reading a different article from the one posted here?

[Choco]

Jul 21, 2010 11:08:04 GMT -5 slicknickshady said:

I agree. It will be tight. I just think billboard is being stupid again with there predictions. To act like it's a foregone conclusion Teflon Don will be #1.

So, now BB is stupid because Eminem is most likely not going to be #1 next week?
???

[slicknickshady]

Jul 21, 2010 13:58:40 GMT -5 Choco said:

Jul 21, 2010 11:08:04 GMT -5 slicknickshady said:

I agree. It will be tight. I just think billboard is being stupid again with there predictions. To act like it's a foregone conclusion Teflon Don will be #1.

So, now BB is stupid because Eminem is most likely not going to be #1 next week?
???

According to HDD "Recovery" is in the early lead.

www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/newsPage.cgi?news08149m01

With placement in Target and Best Buy circulars, Eminem’s Recovery, off just 15% this week, is in the early lead, but the outcome is still very much in doubt.

So those calling me a Stan when i'm just coming with facts. Billboard has been whack with there last few predictions. That's why i said what i did. Not because im an Em fan.

[HolidayGuy]

Paul Grein's Yahoo! Chart Watch blog:

Week Ending July 18, 2010: Boomer Icons Invade Top 10
Posted Wed Jul 21, 2010 by Paul Grein in Chart Watch

Sting's Symphonicities enters The Billboard 200 at #6. It's the latest in a long line of albums by artists whose careers date back to the 1970s (or even earlier) to crack the top 10 this year. It follows Barry Manilow's Greatest Love Songs Of All Time (#5 in January), AC/DC's Iron Man 2 (#4 in April), Jimmy Buffett's Encores (#7 in April), Carole King/James Taylor's Live At The Troubadour (#4 in May), the Rolling Stones' Exile On Main St (#2 in May), Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' Mojo (#2 in June) and Ozzy Osbourne's Scream (#4 in July).

And I'm not even counting two albums by artists who have passed away (which takes some of the kick out of having a top 10 album). Johnny Cash's American VI: Ain't No Grave hit #3 in February. The Jimi Hendrix Experience's Valleys Of Neptune reached #4 in March.

Cash first cracked what is now The Billboard 200 in the 1950s. The Stones and Hendrix first made it in the ‘60s. All the rest of these acts first scored in the ‘70s.

Why are so many veteran artists landing top 10 albums? Their core fans are the consumers who are most loyal to the album format. They grew up on (and may even still have their worn vinyl copies of) Back In Black, Tapestry, Sweet Baby James, Are You Experienced?, Damn The Torpedoes and Master Of Reality.

Symphonicities features orchestral versions of Sting's biggest hits, with backing by London's Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. It's Sting's 10th top 10 album as a solo artist. He has amassed more than twice as many top 10 albums on his own as he did in The Police. He had four top 10 albums in that classic pop/rock trio.

The title of the new album is a play on Synchronicity, the title of the Police's most successful album. Synchronicity was #1 for 17 weeks in 1983, second only to Michael Jackson's Thriller, which logged 22 weeks at #1 that year (and 15 more weeks in 1984).

Symphonicities debuts at #1 on the Classical chart. Sting topped that chart for four weeks in 2006 with Songs From The Labyrinth. Sting has a long history of flirting with classical music. His 1986 hit "Russians" sampled a melody from a suite by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev.

Eminem's Recovery sold 195,000 copies this week, bringing its four-week total to 1,482,000. It's already #2 for the year to date, trailing only Lady Antebellum's Need You Now (2,410,000). In just four weeks, Recovery has sold more copies than Justin Bieber's My World 2.0 has sold in 17 weeks (1,471,000).

Recovery logs its fourth straight week at #1. It's the third album to spend four weeks on top so far this year, following Need You Now and My World 2.0. Recovery is the first rap album to log four weeks at #1 since 50 Cent's The Massacre had six weeks on top in 2005. It's Eminem's first album to spend four weeks at #1 since Encore in 2004.

Recovery is the first album to log four consecutive weeks at #1 since Susan Boyle's I Dreamed A Dream (which had six weeks in a row on top in late 2009).

Recovery sold 49,000 digital copies this week, bringing its four-week total to 446,000. It's already the eighth best-selling digital album of all time. How high will it go on the all-time list? Stay tuned. The album also returns to #1 in the U.K., booting Kylie Minogue's Aphrodite out of the top spot.

"Love The Way You Lie" by Eminem featuring Rihanna this week becomes only the third song in digital history to top 300,000 in weekly sales three times. It follows Flo Rida's "Right Round" and "California Gurls" by Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg, each of which topped 300K four times. "Love The Way You Lie" sold 352K this week (its heftiest sum to date), bringing its four-week total to 1,288,000.

"Love The Way You Lie" tops Hot Digital Songs for the fourth straight week. This is Eminem's longest run at #1 on this chart, surpassing "Just Lose It," which had three weeks on top in 2004. (Em's biggest hit, 2002's "Lose Yourself," pre-dated the advent of digital charts.)

As of this week, the tracks on Lady Gaga's The Fame Monster album have sold a combined total of 25,054,000 digital copies. That's more than any other album in history. Tracks from the Black Eyed Peas' The E.N.D. (Deluxe Edition) have sold a combined total of 18,112,000 copies. Tracks from Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded have sold a combined total of 17,081,000 copies.

Shameless Plug: On Friday, I'll have a list of the 20 albums whose songs have sold the most total digital copies. I just gave you the top three, but I have a lot more where those came from. This isn't a list of big album sellers, but of albums whose songs have dominated the digital marketplace. I have never seen such a list. So I dug into the Nielsen/SoundScan database and created one. Check it out on Friday.

Shameless Plug II: I'll also have a Chart Watch Extra in the next day or two which looks at the pop/rap collaborations that have dominated the chart this year. B.o.B, Ludacris, Jay-Z and Usher have all used the genre-bending formula to land multiple hits this year.

Korn doesn't have a fraction of the media profile of a Sting or an Eminem, but the California-based band sells a lot of albums. Korn III: Remember Who You Are debuts at #2, becoming the band's 10th top 10 album. (Were it not for an incidental release, 2006's Live & Rare, this would be its 10th consecutive top 10 album.) Korn has sold 18,669,000 albums. Yet the band has had only one top 40 single on the Hot 100: "Did My Time" from the 2003 movie Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life. (And that stalled at #38.)

Pop Quiz: Korn has won two Grammys, including one for Best Short Form Music Video. What Korn video did Grammy voters consider award worthy? Answer below.

Jerrod Niemann's first major-label album, Judge Jerrod And The Hung Jury, debuts at #7. It enters Top Country Albums at #1, dethroning Lady Antebellum's Need You Now after 24 weeks on top. Niemann has written three songs for Garth Brooks. He's also written for such artists as Jamey Johnson and Neal McCoy.

Lady A's album was the first album to spend its first 24 weeks at #1 since Brooks' Ropin' The Wind spent its first 29 weeks at #1 in 1991-1992. Need You Now will doubtless return to #1 on the country chart, but it is no longer in the chase for this particular record (Garth pun intended).

M.I.A.'s /|/|/|Y/| debuts at #9. The singer's breakthrough smash "Paper Planes" returns to Hot Digital Songs. It has sold 3,371,000 copies to date. The song was featured in two hit movies, Slumdog Millionaire and Pineapple Express. It received a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year for 2008.

Quiz Answer: Korn won a Grammy for its 1999 video for "Freak On A Leash."

I told you that "Love The Way You Lie" holds at #1 on Hot Digital Songs for the fourth week. Here's the rest of this week's top 10. Taio Cruz's "Dynamite" jumps from #3 to #2 (221K). "California Gurls" slips from #2 to #3 (196K). "Airplanes" holds at #4 for the third week (166K). "I Like It" by Enrique Iglesias featuring Pitbull holds at #5 for the second week (163K). Mike Posner's "Cooler Than Me" jumps from #7 to #6 (160K). "Billionaire" by Travie McCoy featuring Bruno Mars dips from #6 to #7 (146K). Jason Derulo's "Ridin' Solo" holds at #8 for the fifth week (138K). Eminem's "Not Afraid" holds at #9 for the third week (134K). "OMG" by Usher featuring will.i.am holds at #10 for the second week (116K).

Two songs that echo 1970s adult contemporary-style hits continue to do well. Shontelle's "Impossible" jumps from #12 to #11. The piano opening is so similar to Richard Carpenter's arrangement for the Carpenters' 1970 smash "We've Only Just Begun" that Shontelle should send him a thank you note. Michael Buble's "Haven't Met You Yet" tops the 1.5 million mark in paid downloads in its 41st week. The song has the irrepressibly happy vibe of such 1970s hits as Barry Manilow's "Daybreak" and Sammy Davis Jr.'s "The Candy Man." So, if you like Buble's song, download those two earlier hits and go nuts.

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

1. Eminem, Recovery, 195,000. The album holds at #1 for the fourth straight week. Six songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Love The Way You Lie" (featuring Rihanna), which holds at #1.

2. Korn, Korn III: Remember Who You Are, 63,000. This new entry is the band's 10th top 10 album. The band first cracked the top 10 in October 1996, when Life Is Peachy debuted at #3.

3. Drake, Thank Me Later, 50,000. The former #1 album dips from #2 to #3 in its fifth week. Four songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Find Your Love," which dips from #11 to #12.

4. Newsboys, Born Again, 45,000. This new entry is the veteran Christian rock band's highest-charting album to date. Its previous best mark was #28 for 2009's In The Hands Of God. The band first charted in March 1996. This is its first release to feature dc Talk's Michael Tait on lead vocals.

5. Justin Bieber, My World 2.0., 41,000. The former #1 album holds at #5 in its 17th week. Three songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Somebody To Love," which drops from #14 to #22.

6. Sting, Symphonicities, 36,000. This new entry is Sting's 14th top 10 album (counting four albums with the Police).

7. Jerrod Niemann, Judge Jerrod And The Hung Jury, 34,000. This new entry is Niemann's first top 10 album. "Lover, Lover" holds at #32 on Hot Digital Songs.

8. Hellyeah, Stampede, 28,000. This new entry is the second top 10 album for the metal band, which consists of members of such bands as Mudvayne and Pantera. Hellyeah hit #9 in April 2007.

9. M.I.A., /|/|/|Y/|, 28,000. This new entry is M.I.A.'s first top 10 album. Kala hit #18 in August 2007. The artist, who was born in England and raised in India, first charted in 2005. "Space" enters Hot Digital Songs at #107.

10. Various Artists, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, 28,000. The album drops from #4 to #10 in its sixth week. It's the #1 theatrical movie soundtrack for the sixth week.

Six albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Big Boi's Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty dives from #3 to #14, NOW 34 drops from #6 to #12, Jack Johnson's To The Sea drops from #7 to #15, Lady Gaga's The Fame drops from #8 to #13, Lady Antebellum's Need You Now drops from #9 to #11, and Enrique Iglesias' Euphoria drops from #10 to #18.

Two of the album titles in this week's top 10 are recycled. The Notorious B.I.G. had a posthumous #1 album titled Born Again in December 1999. The Doobie Brothers had a top five album titled Stampede in 1975.

Live At The Troubadour by Carole King/James Taylor dips from #16 to #21. The King/Taylor tour was the third highest grossing tour of the first six months of 2010, according to Pollstar, which is to concert touring statistics what Nielsen/SoundScan is to record sales. The King/Taylor tour grossed $41 million in the first half of 2010, behind only to the Bon Jovi tour, which grossed 52.8 million, and the Eagles' tour, which grossed $48.1 million.

Chris Tomlin's 2008 album Hello Love dips from #36 to #37. It's #1 on Catalog Albums for the fourth straight week...The soundtrack to Inception debuts at #53. The movie was #1 at the box-office over the weekend, displacing Despicable Me. Hans Zimmer composed the score for Inception. He was the "score producer" on Despicable Me, which was scored by Heitor Pereira.

"My First Kiss" by 3OH!3 featuring Ke$ha tops the 1 million mark in paid downloads this week. It's the second million-seller of the year for the "brat-pop" pairing, following "Blah Blah Blah," which rang the bell in March. Two other songs top the 1 million mark in paid downloads this week. "Love The Way You Lie" by Eminem featuring Rihanna rings the bell in just its fourth week (which ties "California Gurls" by Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg as the fastest-breaking million-seller of 2010). Mike Posner's "Cooler Than Me" reaches the mark in its 13th week.

"Airplanes" by B.o.B featuring Hayley Williams jumps to #1 in the U.K. It's B.o.B's second #1 in a row there, following "Nothin' On You" (featuring Bruno Mars). "Airplanes" just missed hitting #1 in the U.S. It reached #2 on the Hot 100 in June.

Heads Up: Rick Ross' Teflon Don is expected to end Eminem's run at #1 next week. It will probably sell in the range of 150,000 to 180,000 copies. It would be Ross' fourth #1 album in a row. Also due: Sheryl Crow's 100 Miles From Memphis, Kidz Bop 18, Jonas Brothers' Jonas L.A. TV soundtrack, Brian Culbertson's XII and David Garrett's Rock Symphonies.

To My Readers: I normally respond to a dozen or so reader questions on Wednesday, but I wasn't able to do it until Thursday last week. So if you had a question for me, check last week's comments section. Green Day and Celine Dion were both represented, as usual, so all is right with the (chart) world.

[areyoureadytojump]

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

Numbers are from the 7/24/10 chart:

Drake 782k
Jack Johnson 510k
Ke$ha 826k
Now 33 609k
Eminem 2,001,196
Phoenix 448k
Kid Cudi 410k
Three Days Grace 402k
Mary J Blige 801k

[slicknickshady]

More Numbers From Paul!

Paul answered me again. He is the one who answered me the last two weeks with how much each Tool Album and How much each APC album sold.

new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/58556/week-ending-july-18-2010-boomer-icons-invade-top-10/;_ylt=AoyM7rED.Zqtb7uHlz843jUPwiUv?page=2#comments

Nicholas Richardson, the Puscifer fan.

V Is For Vagina: 112K
V Is For Viagra: 23K
C Is For --: 10K

[cking33]

I'm looking forward to the list Paul Grein compiles on Friday of the top 20 albums in terms of combined digital sales of their singles. That should be interesting.

[areyoureadytojump]

No new RIAA certifications this week.

[areyoureadytojump]

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 7/18/10)

1) Eminem – Recovery – 195,461 (After 5 weeks – 1,482,455)
2) Korn – Korn III: Remember Who You Are – 63,168
3) Drake – Thank Me Later – 50, 339 (After 833,100)

Other Debuts
4) Newsboys – Born Again – 45,311
6) Sting – Symphonicities – 35,785
7) Jerrod Niemann – Judge Jerrod & The Hung Jury – 33,818
8 ) Hellyeah – Stampede – 28,436
9) M.I.A. – Maya – 28,366
16) The Maine – Black & White – 24,513
19) Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Mojo – 17,766
24) Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse – Dark Night Of The Soul – 15,803

[livelikedying111]

Em's sales are to die for. I haven't seen this high & consistent sales in a long time. I think the last time was with Susan Boyle. It's so heart-warming to see it. If only other artists could pull it off...It seems no one is immune to flopping anymore...

[Rodze]

www.billboard.com/#/column/chartbeat/ask-billboard-rating-rihanna-1004105967.story

...here is a recap of Rihanna's Billboard 200 chart history and sales totals, according to Nielsen SoundScan:

Billboard 200 Peak Position, Title, Sales To-Date, Release Year
No. 10, "Music of the Sun," 593,000, 2005
No. 5, "A Girl Like Me," 1,330,000, 2006
No. 2, "Good Girl Gone Bad," 2,616,000, 2007
No. 106, "Good Girl Gone Bad: the Remixes," 49,000, 2009
No. 4, "Rated R," 943,000, 2009
No. 158, "Rated R: Remixed," 13,000, 2010

All albums combined, Rihanna has sold 5,563,000 units in the U.S., according to SoundScan.

[wavey.]

Nice

[Deleted]

^ That shows that she really is a singles artist. In five years she scored over 5 #1's and sold over 20 million digital songs, but failed to have an impact with album sales.

[#LisaRinna]

No. 2, "Good Girl Gone Bad," 2,616,000, 2007

:o @ how low that total is for an album released in 2007, with multiple hits and a re-release.

[lugus15]

Jul 23, 2010 18:55:34 GMT -5 Rodze said:

www.billboard.com/#/column/chartbeat/ask-billboard-rating-rihanna-1004105967.story

...here is a recap of Rihanna's Billboard 200 chart history and sales totals, according to Nielsen SoundScan:

Billboard 200 Peak Position, Title, Sales To-Date, Release Year
No. 10, "Music of the Sun," 593,000, 2005
No. 5, "A Girl Like Me," 1,330,000, 2006
No. 2, "Good Girl Gone Bad," 2,616,000, 2007
No. 106, "Good Girl Gone Bad: the Remixes," 49,000, 2009
No. 4, "Rated R," 943,000, 2009
No. 158, "Rated R: Remixed," 13,000, 2010

All albums combined, Rihanna has sold 5,563,000 units in the U.S., according to SoundScan.

Ya'll realize that GaGa is like 1 year or 1 album away to catch up with Rihanna.

[Glove Slap]

Jul 24, 2010 6:58:49 GMT -5 #LisaRinna said:

No. 2, "Good Girl Gone Bad," 2,616,000, 2007

:o @ how low that total is for an album released in 2007, with multiple hits and a re-release.

+ 2 holiday seasons

[stooki3]

Jul 23, 2010 18:55:34 GMT -5 Rodze said:

www.billboard.com/#/column/chartbeat/ask-billboard-rating-rihanna-1004105967.story

...here is a recap of Rihanna's Billboard 200 chart history and sales totals, according to Nielsen SoundScan:

Billboard 200 Peak Position, Title, Sales To-Date, Release Year
No. 10, "Music of the Sun," 593,000, 2005
No. 5, "A Girl Like Me," 1,330,000, 2006
No. 2, "Good Girl Gone Bad," 2,616,000, 2007
No. 106, "Good Girl Gone Bad: the Remixes," 49,000, 2009
No. 4, "Rated R," 943,000, 2009
No. 158, "Rated R: Remixed," 13,000, 2010

All albums combined, Rihanna has sold 5,563,000 units in the U.S., according to SoundScan.

I cant with these sales! Dead

[Honeymoon]

Rihanna's sales are fine. She released three albums within three years and they all are selling more than one million (it's only a matter of a few short months before Rated R hits 1 mil). She's a singles artist and so to consistently do over a million in albums each time after the debut is great.

[pnobelysk]

i was really thinking and im being serious in a few years the lowest albums on the top 200 chart might be selling less the 1000 copies. do u think at any time the billboard 200 could be come billboard 150?