Billboard 200: 8/28/10: Eminem #1 132k

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Eminem Meets Susan Boyle At No. 1 On Billboard 200
August 18, 2010

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

Eminem's "Recovery" slips back to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 132,000, marking its sixth nonconsecutive week at the top. It's the most weeks at No. 1 for an album since Susan Boyle's "I Dreamed a Dream" claimed six straight weeks at the top in December and January . . . Last week's No. 1, Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs," drops to No. 2 with 52,000 (down 66%) . . . Four albums debut in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 this week, led by the soundtrack to Disney Channel's "Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam" and followed by new efforts from Black Label Society, Blake Shelton and Mike Posner.

FLASH POINTS

• Eminem's "Recovery" rebounds to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 after two weeks of standing by in the runner-up slot. It climbs back to the top with 133,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan (down 13%). It's the most weeks at No. 1 for an album since Susan Boyle's "I Dreamed a Dream" claimed six straight frames at the top in December and January.

• "Recovery" also earns its eighth consecutive week of selling at least 100,000 copies—its entire chart life. The last time a set sold 100,000 or more in each of its first eight frames was in November and December of last year, when Andrea Bocelli's "My Christmas" managed the achievement. Prior to that, the last album with a greater initial start was the "Now 20" compilation, which began with nine consecutive weeks of 100,000 or more in November and December 2005.

• Total sales for "Recovery" also surpass the 2 million threshold this week (2.1 million), marking just the second album to do so this year. It's currently 2010's second-best seller behind Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" (2.5 million).

• At this point last year, no album had exceeded 2 million in sales, though seven had shifted at least 1 million. This year, six have hit the million mark, with Usher's "Raymond v Raymond" the latest to cross the line. It sells another 15,000 this week, bringing its current sum to slightly more than 1 million.

• Last week's No. 1 album, Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs," drops to No. 2 in its second week with 52,000 (down 66%). With its debut frame perhaps overly weighted with download sales generated from sale pricing via Amazon's MP3 store, its second-week decline isn't a shocker. (It's down 74% in download sales.)

• Eminem also returns to No. 1 on the Digital Songs chart, where his "Love the Way You Lie" (featuring Rihanna) moves up one spot with 254,000 (down 9%). It replaces last week's No. 1-debuting "Mine" from Taylor Swift, which started with 297,000. This week, "Mine" drops to No. 4 with 176,000 (down 41%).

• Back on the Billboard 200, the tally's top debut is the soundtrack to Disney Channel's "Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam": It starts at No. 3 with 41,000. Unlike the first "Camp Rock" album, which was released the same week as its TV movie's premiere back in 2008, the sequel set arrives before the second film's bow on Sept. 3. The first "Camp Rock" album began with 188,000 at No. 3. Like the previous set, the new one sports new music from the show's stars, the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato.

• The chart's second-highest entry is Black Label Society, as the band fronted by Zakk Wylde earns its highest-charting album with the No. 4 bow of "Order of the Black" (33,000). The act's previous best chart rank came in 2005 when "Mafia" started at No. 15 with the band's highest sales week: 42,000.

• Blake Shelton's second EP release of the year, "All About Tonight," starts at No. 6 with 33,000. The six-song set opens on the tally the same week its title track rises to No. 1 on our Hot Country Songs chart, marking the singer's seventh topper on that list. The new EP follows his earlier six-song "Hillbilly Bone," which bowed at No. 3 in March with 71,000 and has sold 234,000 to date.

• The final bow in the top 10 this week is Mike Posner's debut effort, "31 Minutes to Takeoff"—it flies in at No. 8 with 29,000. The set was led by the single "Cooler Than Me," which has been in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 for the past seven weeks.

• As for the rest of the top 10 this week, Justin Bieber's "My World 2.0" climbs two spots to No. 5 (33,000; down 11%), Rick Ross' "Teflon Don" falls two rungs to No. 7 (30,000; down 25%), the "Kidz Bop 18" set rises two to No. 9 (28,000; up 4%), and Avenged Sevenfold's "Nightmare" slides seven positions to No. 10 (27,000; down 41%).

• Next week on the Billboard 200 look for Eminem to probably stand steady for a seventh week at No. 1 with "Recovery," as none of this week's new releases are projected to knock him off his perch.

• If "Recovery" makes it a seventh week at No. 1, it'll mark the first album to do so since Taylor Swift's "Fearless" strung together 11 nonconsecutive weeks in the penthouse in late 2007 and early 2008.

• The biggest new entry next week could be R&B singer Kem's third effort, "Intimacy," which may sell 75,000 to 85,000 by week's end on Sunday, Aug. 22, according to industry gurus. His last album, 2006's "Kem II," started at No. 5 with 140,000 sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

• Other albums on the hunt for a possible top 10 debut include Ray LaMontagne's "God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise," Iron Maiden's "The Final Frontier," Trace Adkins' "Cowboy's Back in Town," John Mellencamp's "No Better Than This" and David Gray's "Foundling." Both LaMontagne and Iron Maiden could shift perhaps around 50,000, according to prognosticators, while Adkins is aiming for a figure near 45,000.

• Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Aug. 15) totaled 5 million units, down 6% compared with the sum last week (5.3 million) and down 16% compared with the comparable sales week of 2009 (5.9 million). Year-to-date album sales stand at 185.1 million, down 12% compared with the same total at this point last year (211.1 million).

• Digital track sales this past week totaled 20.2 million downloads, down 3% compared with last week (20.7 million) and down 3% stacked next to the comparable week of 2009 (20.7 million). Year-to-date track sales are at 722.1 million, down 1% compared with the same total at this point last year (726.7 million).

MARKET WATCH

• Album units, current chart week: 5 million units
• Down 6% from last week's charts: 5.3 million units
• Down 16% from the comparable week in 2009: 5.9 million units
• This week: Only the No. 1 album sells more than 100,000 copies.
• This week last year on the albums charts: George Strait secured his fifth No. 1 with "Twang" arriving in the top slot, selling 155,000. The country king bumped Michael Jackson's "Number Ones" from the penthouse, as it slipped to No. 2 with 80,000.

A LOOK AHEAD

• Among the albums released this week, due on next week's charts: Kem's "Intimacy," Ray LaMontagne's "God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise," Iron Maiden's "The Final Frontier," Trace Adkins' "Cowboy's Back in Town," John Mellencamp's "No Better Than This," David Gray's "Foundling" and Brian Wilson's "Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin."

• Next week's album charts competes with the same week in 2009 when: Reba McEntire's "Keep On Loving You" debuted as the country's best seller, shifting 96,000. The previous week's topper, George Strait's "Twang," fell to No. 3 with 61,000 (down 61%).

[Diego]

Yay, another top 5 week for Bieber! Also congrats to Usher for 1m, and Em for tying Subo.

[slicknickshady]

Yeah! Eminem going for week 7!

[3m3r7c]

Hopefully the sales leak this week, been 2 weeks in a row without.

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Week Ending Aug. 15, 2010: The Odd Couple

Posted 30 minutes ago by Paul Grein in Chart Watch

Eminem's Recovery, which returns to #1 on The Billboard 200, is the first album to log six weeks on top since Susan Boyle's I Dreamed A Dream late last year. The two albums have little in common (OK, they have nothing in common), though they may find themselves squaring off for Album of the Year when the Grammy nominations are announced on Dec. 1..

Recovery is the first rap album to spend six weeks at #1 since 50 Cent's The Massacre more than five years ago. And the album isn't done yet. Recovery will probably stay on top for a seventh week next week. That would be the longest run in the top spot since Taylor Swift's Fearless had 11 weeks in the lead in late 2008 and 2009..

Recovery tops the 2 million mark in U.S. sales this week. It crossed the threshold in just eight weeks, faster than the year's only other 2 million-selling album, Lady Antebellum's Need You Now (which took 15 weeks to ring the bell) and much faster than Eminem's 2009 album Relapse (which took 60 weeks)..

The fact that two albums have topped the 2 million mark in sales so far this year marks an improvement over last year. Last year at this point, no albums had topped the 2 million mark. The first album to hit the hit the 2 million mark in 2009 sales was Michael Jackson's Number Ones, which scored in the week ending Oct. 25..

Recovery also logs its sixth week at #1 on the Official U.K. Albums chart. Recovery is the first album to spend six or more weeks at #1 in both the U.S. and the U.K. since the Beatles' 2000 compilation 1 (which logged eight weeks at on top in the U.S. and nine weeks on top in the U.K.). Recovery is the first regular studio album to log six or more weeks on top in both countries since Alanis Morissette's 1996 album Jagged Little Pill (which amassed 12 weeks on top in the U.S. and 11 weeks on top in the U.S.)..

"Love The Way You Lie," Em's smash collabo with Rihanna, logs its seventh week at #1 on Hot Digital Songs. That's the longest run on top since the Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" topped the chart for 10 weeks last year. Two subsequent songs, Miley Cyrus' "Party In The U.S.A." and Ke$ha's "TiK ToK" logged six weeks at #1..

The key to the success of Recovery has been broad-based airplay for "Not Afraid" and "Love The Way You Lie." Both songs have topped the 2 million mark in paid downloads. Recovery is the fourth rap album to spawn two or more 2 million-sellers. It follows T.I.'s Paper Trail, Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 and B.o.B's B.o.B Presents The Adventures Of Bobby Ray. (Kanye West's 808s & Heartache also yielded a pair of 2 million sellers, but the album was considered more pop than rap.).

Rihanna deserves special mention here. She was featured on a 2-million seller (or better) on the aforementioned albums by T.I., Jay-Z and Eminem. She graced T.I.'s "Live Your Life," which has sold 3,918,000 digital copies; Jay-Z's "Run This Town," which has sold 2,551,000 and Eminem's "Love The Way You Lie," which is up to 2,455,000. That settles it: If I ever cut an album, I'm calling Rihanna..

Two final Eminem notes: Recovery returns to #1 on the Digital Albums chart, with sales of 28K digital copies this week. The album has sold 578K digital copies, which is 27% of its total to date..

And Eminem moves up to #8 on Nielsen/SoundScan's running list of artists who have sold the most albums in its history (which dates to 1991). Em has sold 38,014,000 albums. He pushes ahead of Alan Jackson, who has sold 37,924,000 albums in the same period. (For the record, Jackson's first album was released in March 1990, about a year before Nielsen/SoundScan began tracking sales.).

Arcade Fire's critically-lauded The Suburbs dips to #2 after debuting at #1 last week. Arcade Fire is the first Canadian band to land a #1 album in the U.S. since Nickelback scored in October 2005 with All The Right Reasons. In the nearly five years since then, four solo acts from Canada have topped the chart: Nelly Furtado, Avril Lavigne, Michael Buble (twice) and Justin Bieber..

The seven-member band includes two women, Regine Chassagne and Sarah Neufeld. Arcade Fire is the third mixed-gender group, following Lady Antebellum and Sade, to land a #1 album so far this year. This is only the second time that three mixed-gender groups have landed #1 albums in a calendar year. It also happened in 1997, with No Doubt (a holdover from 1996), Fleetwood Mac and the all-star rap group The Firm. In February, I posted a list of mixed-gender groups to land #1 albums. (If you missed it, here's a link.).

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Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam enters The Billboard 200 at #3. This matches the #3 peak of the original Camp Rock soundtrack in 2008, though the new album's first-week sales are less than one-quarter of what they were for Camp Rock. (The new album was released three weeks before the movie's Sept. 3 premiere on The Disney Channel. The first Camp Rock soundtrack was released the same week as the TV movie's premiere.) Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato starred in both movies..

JoBros replace themselves at the top of the Top Soundtrack Albums chart. Camp Rock 2 displaces Jonas L.A., which held the top spot the last three weeks. Fellow Disney teen phenom Miley Cyrus was the last artist to headline soundtracks that were #1 in back-to-back weeks. In July 2009, the Hannah Montana: The Movie soundtrack was replaced at #1 by the Hannah Montana 3 TV soundtrack..

Black Label Society's Order Of The Black debuts at #4. The band is fronted by Zakk Wylde, who played guitar for Ozzy Osbourne for nearly two decades. Wylde played on four Osbourne albums that reached the top 10, but this is his first top 10 album without the rock legend. Black Label Society first charted in 2002 and has slowly but surely gained ground. This #4 entry matches the #4 entry of Osbourne's latest album, Scream, in June. .

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Blake Shelton's All About Tonight debuts at #6. You may remember that Shelton's record company, Warner Bros., is experimenting with a series of EPs, on the theory that a lower-priced EP may be a better option on a mid-level artist like Shelton than a full-priced album. So, how's the experiment going? Shelton's first EP, Hillbilly Bone, has sold 233,000 copies since its release in March. That's slightly more than his last full-length album, Startin' Fires, which has sold 214,000 copies since its release in November 2008..

That's not a big improvement, and obviously an EP doesn't bring in as much revenue as a full-length album. On the other hand, the label can return to the market more frequently with an EP than with an album..

One discouraging sign is that the new EP sold less than half as many copies in its first week as Shelton's first EP did. All About Tonight sold 33,000 copies this week. Hillbilly Bone started with sales of 71,000..

Here's some good news for Shelton: All About Tonight enters Top Country Albums at #1. It's Shelton's first #1 on that chart after several near misses. This is only the second time in the past 29 weeks that Lady Antebellum's Need You Now has not been #1 on the country chart..

B.o.B Riddle: "Magic" by B.o.B featuring Rivers Cuomo jumps from #11 to #7 on Hot Digital Songs. This is the 23rd consecutive week that B.o.B has had one or more songs in the top 10 on that chart. Yet B.o.B's album, B.o.B Presents The Adventures Of Bobby Ray has sold just 356,000 copies in its first 16 weeks on the market. (The tracks from the album have sold a combined total of 6,602,000 copies.).

Here's the top 10 on Hot Digital Songs, as tabulated by Nielsen/SoundScan. Eminem featuring Rihanna's "Love The Way You Lie" returns to #1 (254K). Taio Cruz's "Dynamite" returns to #2 (232K). Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" jumps from #5 to #3 (185K). Taylor Swift's "Mine" drops from #1 to #4 (176K). Enrique Iglesias featuring Pitbull's "I Like It" dips from #4 to #5 (165K). Usher featuring Pitbull's "DJ Got Us Falling In Love" holds at #6 (141K). B.o.B featuring Rivers Cuomo's "Magic" jumps from #11 to #7 (136K). Mike Posner's "Cooler Than Me" holds at #8 for the third week (127K). Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg's "California Gurls" dips from #7 to #9 (121K) and Jason Derulo's "Ridin' Solo" holds at #10 for the second week (108K)..

"Club Can't Handle Me" by Flo Rida featuring David Guetta jumps from #15 to #11. The song, which is featured on the Step Up 3D soundtrack, sold 96K this week. The song is doing even better in the U.K., where it jumps to #1 this week. It's Flo Rida's second #1 in the U.K. as a lead artist, following "Right Round.".

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

1. Eminem, Recovery, 133,000. The album returns to #1 for a sixth week. Five songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Love The Way You Lie" (featuring Rihanna), which returns to #1..

2. Arcade Fire, The Suburbs, 52,000. The former #1 album slips to #2 in its second week. It has sold 209,000 copies in its first two weeks..

3. Various Artists, Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam, 41,000. This new entry matches the #3 peak of the initial Camp Rock soundtrack. Three songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Wouldn't Change A Thing" by Demi Lovato & Joe Jonas, which debuts at #93..

4. Black Label Society, Order Of The Black, 33,000. This new entry is the group's first top 10 album. The band's 2005 album Mafia peaked at #15..

5. Justin Bieber, My World 2.0, 33,000. The former #1 album rebounds from #7 to #5 in its 21st week. Three songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "Somebody To Love," which drops from #58 to #64..

6. Blake Shelton, All About Tonight, 33,000. This new entry is Shelton's fourth top 10 entry. "All About Tonight" enters Hot Digital Songs at #57..

7. Rick Ross, Teflon Don, 30,000. The album drops from #5 to #7 in its fourth week. "B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast)" (featuring Styles P) inches up from #107 to #106 on Hot Digital Songs..

8. Mike Posner, 31 Minutes To Takeoff, 29,000. This new entry is Posner's debut album. Two songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs. "Cooler Than Me" holds at #8. "Bow Chicka Wow Wow" debuts at #120..

9. Kidz Bop Kids, Kids Bop 18, 27,000. The album slips from #6 to #9 in its third week. The album has sold 126K copies in its first four weeks..

10. Avenged Sevenfold, Nightmare, 27,000. The former #1 album drops from #3 to #10 in its third week. "Nightmare" drops from #106 to #125 on Hot Digital Songs..

Five albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Bun B's Trill O.G. dives from #4 to #17, Lady Gaga's The Remix drops from #6 to #16, Drake's Thank Me Later drops from #8 to #11, Lady Antebellum's Need You Now drops from #9 to #12, and Buckcherry's All Night Long plummets from #10 to #30..

Usher's Raymond V Raymond tops the 1 million mark in sales in its 20th week. (It dips from #17 to #19 on The Billboard 200.) It's Usher's fifth album to sell 1 million or more copies. We all know that sales are down, but this puts it in some perspective: Usher's 2004 blockbuster Confessions sold more copies (1,096,000) in its first week than Raymond has sold in its first 20 weeks..

The soundtrack to the Julia Roberts movie Eat Pray Love jumps from #39 to #21 in its fourth week. It's the week's #1 soundtrack to a theatrically released movie, displacing Step Up 3D. Eddie Vedder has two songs on Eat Pray Love. This is the second time that Vedder has been connected to a hit soundtrack. His album from Into The Wild was the #1 theatrical movie soundtrack for one week in October 2007. (It peaked at #11 on The Billboard 200.).

The soundtrack to Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World bows at #24. The movie stars Michael Cera, who played the male lead in Juno. The album features four tracks by Sex Bob-Omb. (I guess he's the reigning stud at the Office of Management & Budget.) The album also features budget-busting tracks by the Rolling Stones, Beck and T Rex..

The Expendables was #1 at the box-office over the weekend. Brian Tyler's original score sold fewer than 1,000 copies this week, too few to make The Billboard 200..

Katy Perry's One Of The Boys jumps from #89 to #79. It hits #1 on the Catalog Albums chart for the first time, with sales of 5,000 copies this week. The album has sold 1,270,000 copies since its release in 2008. The panel that selects the final nominees for the Grammy Awards passed over Perry for Best New Artist of 2008, probably because her first hit, "I Kissed A Girl," had a novelty flavor. They went instead with Adele (who won), Lady Antebellum, Duffy, Jazmine Sullivan and Jonas Brothers. All awards are a snapshot in time, and it has been nearly two years since this field was selected, but I suspect if the panel had it to do over again, Ms. Perry would go in and JoBros would fall out..

Miley Cyrus' "The Climb," from Hannah Montana: The Movie, tops the 3 million mark in paid downloads this week. It's Cyrus' second song to top 3 million. The first was "Party In The U.S.A," which is up to 4,134,000..

Brad Paisley this week becomes the first male country solo artist to land three million-selling song downloads. He achieves the feat as "Whiskey Lullaby" tops the 1 million mark. It follows "She's Everything" and "Then." The only other country acts with three or more million-selling downloads are Taylor Swift, with 10; Carrie Underwood and Rascal Flatts, with four each; and the Zac Brown Band, also with three..

Heads Up: Kem's Intimacy is expected to be next week's top new entry, with sales in the range of 80,000. The R&B star's last album, Kem II, debuted at #5 in 2005. The new album will probably debut at #2. Intimacy is one of six albums that have a good chance of debuting in the top 10 next week. The others are Ray LaMontagne And The Pariah Dogs' God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise, Iron Maiden's The Final Frontier, Trace Adkins' Cowboy's Back In Town, John Mellencamp's No Better Than This and David Gray's Foundling. Also set to debut next week: Brian Wilson's Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin and Filter's The Trouble With Angels.

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

Numbers are from the 8/7/10 chart:

Eminem 1,980,373 - 8/21 chart
Train 410k - 8/21 chart
Carole King/James Taylor 390k - 8/21 chart - close enough
Ke$ha 872k - 8/21 chart
Now 33 625k
Luke Bryan 398k - close enough
Eminem 2,013,817
Brooks & Dunn 399k - close enough
Phoenix 457k
Kid Cudi 418k
Mary J Blige 808k
Three Days Grace 409k
Rascal Flatts GH 891k

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Aug 18, 2010 15:18:18 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

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Rihanna deserves special mention here. She was featured on a 2-million seller (or better) on the aforementioned albums by T.I., Jay-Z and Eminem. She graced T.I.'s "Live Your Life," which has sold 3,918,000 digital copies; Jay-Z's "Run This Town," which has sold 2,551,000 and Eminem's "Love The Way You Lie," which is up to 2,455,000. That settles it: If I ever cut an album, I'm calling Rihanna..

[melody56]

Top 30 Albums

1 EMINEM RECOVERY 132,623 -13 152,073 2,112,996
2 ARCADE FIRE SUBURBS 52,386 -66 156,079 209,088
3 SOUNDTRACK CAMP ROCK 2: FINAL 41,069 999 104 41,173
4 BLACK LABEL SOCIETY ORDER OF THE BLACK 33,409 999 49 33,458
5 BIEBER*JUSTIN MY WORLD 2.0 32,904 -11 37,090 1,617,566
6 SHELTON*BLAKE ALL ABOUT TONIGHT 32,607 999 51 32,658
7 ROSS*RICK TEFLON DON 29,547 -25 39,395 308,389
8 POSNER*MIKE 31 MINUTES TO TAKEOFF 29,211 999 44 29,256
9 KIDZ BOP KIDS KIDZ BOP 18 27,290 4 26,270 126,249
10 AVENGED SEVENFOLD NIGHTMARE 26,817 -41 45,193 234,954
11 DRAKE THANK ME LATER 24,289 -22 31,173 970,171
12 LADY ANTEBELLUM NEED YOU NOW 23,779 -17 28,539 2,514,411
13 LADY GAGA FAME 20,949 -8 22,725 3,686,828
14 BROWN*ZAC BAND FOUNDATION 19,075 6 17,914 2,191,271
15 VARIOUS NOW 34 18,374 -9 20,152 336,229
16 LADY GAGA REMIX 16,691 -58 39,391 56,258
17 BUN B TRILL O.G. 16,146 -60 40,530 56,935
18 BLACK EYED PEAS E.N.D. (ENERGY NEVER DIES) 15,067 -7 16,286 2,733,317
19 USHER RAYMOND V RAYMOND 14,919 -9 16,327 1,005,043
20 MUMFORD & SONS SIGH NO MORE 14,500 23 11,751 139,722
21 SOUNDTRACK EAT PRAY LOVE 14,353 48 9,727 42,315
22 LAMBERT*MIRANDA REVOLUTION 13,851 8 12,767 783,123
23 CROW*SHERYL 100 MILES FROM MEMPHIS 13,284 -25 17,795 110,667
24 SOUNDTRACK SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD 13,200 999 64 13,264
25 KE$HA ANIMAL 12,496 8 11,623 885,223
26 TRAIN SAVE ME SAN FRANCISCO 12,244 -15 14,366 422,362
27 KING*CAROLE & JAMES TAYLOR LIVE AT THE TROUBADOUR 11,952 -8 13,024 401,964
28 JOHNSON*JACK TO THE SEA 11,783 -4 12,303 595,406
29 VARIOUS ARTISTS STEP UP 3D 11,648 16 10,004 27,288
30 BUCKCHERRY ALL NIGHT LONG 11,375 -59 27,556 39,128

[lugus15]

Aug 18, 2010 17:50:22 GMT -5 melody56 said:

13 LADY GAGA FAME 20,949 -8 22,725 3,686,828

I think it's safe to say that by the end of this year's Holiday Season, this will be safely above 4,000,000 albums scanned.

And by the looks of it, it will probably stay in the B200 for like 2-3 more years.

Also, Eminem will end up getting the #1 album this year, with Antebellum #2.

[Deleted]

Steady sales for Miranda & Ke$ha =)

[pnobelysk]

Aug 18, 2010 18:06:04 GMT -5 lugus15 said:

Aug 18, 2010 17:50:22 GMT -5 melody56 said:

13 LADY GAGA FAME 20,949 -8 22,725 3,686,828

I think it's safe to say that by the end of this year's Holiday Season, this will be safely above 4,000,000 albums scanned.

And by the looks of it, it will probably stay in the B200 for like 2-3 more years.

Also, Eminem will end up getting the #1 album this year, with Antebellum #2.

if gaga released monster, the fame could be racking even more weeks up in the top 10

[Honeymoon]

At this rate Miranda will make it to 1 million before leaving the Billboard 200

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Album Sales Hit SoundScan Era Low—Again
August 18, 2010 - Retail

By Keith Caulfield

While Eminem’s “Recovery” returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200, celebrating its sixth week atop the list, the rest of the album market isn't quite partying it up.

Overall album sales in this past chart week ending Sunday, Aug. 15 totaled 4.95 million units, marking the lowest weekly sales figure since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.

It’s also only the second time the weekly album sales total has dipped below 5 million. The first time it occurred was with the week ending May 30, when 4.98 million were sold.

At the time when Billboard reported on that back in June, we only had accessible archival SoundScan data going back to January 1994, so we couldn’t verify that it was the lowest sales week since SoundScan started in 1991. But since then, we’ve been able to confirm that statistic. (Nothing like verifiable bad news, right?)

Perhaps this week’s slate of new releases will perk up the overall album sales sum next week.

The Billboard 200 is aiming to welcome top 10 debuts with new sets from Kem, Iron Maiden and Ray LaMontagne — all with first-week sales projected to be in the range of 60,000 to 75,000 according to industry prognosticators. Kem’s new “Intimacy” looks like it will be the highest new entry and could shift around 75,000 according to industry prognosticators.

This past week, the highest bow came from the “Camp Rock 2” soundtrack, which started at No. 3 with a rather tepid 41,000.

[kt1990]

Go Miranda!

[areyoureadytojump]

No new RIAA certs this week.

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Aug 18, 2010 18:06:04 GMT -5 lugus15 said:

Aug 18, 2010 17:50:22 GMT -5 melody56 said:

13 LADY GAGA FAME 20,949 -8 22,725 3,686,828

I think it's safe to say that by the end of this year's Holiday Season, this will be safely above 4,000,000 albums scanned.

And by the looks of it, it will probably stay in the B200 for like 2-3 more years.

Also, Eminem will end up getting the #1 album this year, with Antebellum #2.

And no albums released in the next 4 months will achieve these levels?

[ListenToItTwice]

No. They won't.

[lugus15]

Aug 19, 2010 9:22:06 GMT -5 @2m said:

Aug 18, 2010 18:06:04 GMT -5 lugus15 said:

I think it's safe to say that by the end of this year's Holiday Season, this will be safely above 4,000,000 albums scanned.

And by the looks of it, it will probably stay in the B200 for like 2-3 more years.

Also, Eminem will end up getting the #1 album this year, with Antebellum #2.

And no albums released in the next 4 months will achieve these levels?

I'm going to go out on a limb, and say that Eminem will end up having the #1 album. Antebellum, maybe #2, #3 or #4.

[pnobelysk]

Aug 19, 2010 9:07:20 GMT -5 areyoureadytojump said:

www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i724a018466b894117e7bb6f877ff7049

Album Sales Hit SoundScan Era Low—Again
August 18, 2010 - Retail

By Keith Caulfield

While Eminem’s “Recovery” returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200, celebrating its sixth week atop the list, the rest of the album market isn't quite partying it up.

Overall album sales in this past chart week ending Sunday, Aug. 15 totaled 4.95 million units, marking the lowest weekly sales figure since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.

It’s also only the second time the weekly album sales total has dipped below 5 million. The first time it occurred was with the week ending May 30, when 4.98 million were sold.

At the time when Billboard reported on that back in June, we only had accessible archival SoundScan data going back to January 1994, so we couldn’t verify that it was the lowest sales week since SoundScan started in 1991. But since then, we’ve been able to confirm that statistic. (Nothing like verifiable bad news, right?)

Perhaps this week’s slate of new releases will perk up the overall album sales sum next week.

The Billboard 200 is aiming to welcome top 10 debuts with new sets from Kem, Iron Maiden and Ray LaMontagne — all with first-week sales projected to be in the range of 60,000 to 75,000 according to industry prognosticators. Kem’s new “Intimacy” looks like it will be the highest new entry and could shift around 75,000 according to industry prognosticators.

This past week, the highest bow came from the “Camp Rock 2” soundtrack, which started at No. 3 with a rather tepid 41,000.

while camp rock 2 didnt debut too well the album should still sell well for the next few weeks since the movie will be coming and then it will fall down but rise again for christmas sales which seem to really help anything related to disney

[Honeymoon]

Billboard 200 chart?

[neally]

Wow @ Lady Gaga's, Lady Antebellum's, Zac Brown Band's, Black Eyed Peas, and Miranda Lambert's consistency. Country is really representing !

[Cerbius]

Aug 19, 2010 9:54:09 GMT -5 lugus15 said:

Aug 19, 2010 9:22:06 GMT -5 @2m said:

And no albums released in the next 4 months will achieve these levels?

I'm going to go out on a limb, and say that Eminem will end up having the #1 album. Antebellum, maybe #2, #3 or #4.

I say:

Eminem #1
Lady A #2
Taylor #3

[Deleted]

I would say that 2 out of the last 3 years we have seen surprise releases come out in the holidays(one album released in October finished at #1, another released at Thanksgiving nearly finished at #1). For something that strikes big with the public in the holidays, it won't take that long to get 3 million plus and challenge for #1

[bat1990]

19 USHER RAYMOND V RAYMOND 14,919 -9 16,327 1,005,043

FINALLY!!! I was afraid Usher wouldn't be able to cross 1 million w/o a re-release.

[areyoureadytojump]

SOUNDSCAN (WEEK ENDING 8/15/10_

1) Eminem – Recovery – 132,623 (After 8 weeks – 2,112,996)
2) Arcade Fire – Suburbs – 52,386 (After 2 weeks – 209,088)
3) Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam Soundtrack – 41,069

Other Debuts
4) Black Label Society – Order Of The Black – 33, 409
6) Blake Shelton – All About Tonight – 32,607
8 ) Mike Posner – 31 Minutes To Takeoff – 29,211
24) Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Soundtrack – 13,200

[ListenToItTwice]

I'm blown away that Recovery is going to be the first album in five years to do nine straight weeks at above 100K.

[Cerbius]

Aug 19, 2010 21:55:32 GMT -5 ListenToItTwice said:

I'm blown away that Recovery is going to be the first album in five years to do nine straight weeks at above 100K.

What was the last album to do so? TEOM?

[Diego]

^ I think it was The Massacre.

Edit: The Now 20 compilation was the last album to login 9 100K weeks.

[Push The Button]

TEOM did 13 consecutive weeks above 100k.

[Cerbius]

^ Thanks for the info guys. :)