YOUR TOP 15: Post-Black Friday brings the expected sales drops, only one new release in the Top 15 and several Christmas titles showing seasonal gains. Here's how it looks headed into the weekend:
* Alicia Keys (RCA) 150-160k
Rod Stewart "Merry Christmas Baby" (Verve) 130-140k
Taylor Swift (Big Machine) 120-130k
Phillip Phillips (19/Interscope) 80-85k
One Direction (Syco/Columbia) 75-80k
Rihanna (Def Jam/IDJ) 70-75k
Michael Bublé "Christmas" (Reprise) 70-75k
Lady Antebellum "On This Winter's Night" (Capitol Nashville) 65-70k
Blake Shelton "Cheers It's Christmas" (Warner Bros. Nashville) 55-60k
Kid Rock (Atlantic) 50-55k
Now 44 (Capitol) 40-45k
Scotty McCreery "Christmas with Scotty McCreery" (Mercury Nashville/19/Interscope) 40-45k
Keyshia Cole (Geffen) 35-40k
P!nk (RCA) 35-40k
Led Zeppelin (Atlantic) 30-35k
Mumford & Sons (Glassnote) 30-35k
Jason Aldean (Broken Bow) 30-35k
* Debut
And what are you planning to do for the holidays? That so? Uh-huh. Wow. That's really, um ... know what? I gotta take this. (12/29p)
Tight competition in the Holiday Albums department, but we know that Michael Buble will always slay WW. I expect him to sell 100,000+ for this week since his album is officially re-released.
Christmas
#1 Chile
#1 Dominican Republic
#1 Ecuador
#1 El Salvador
#1 Greece
#1 Guatemala
#1 Honduras
#1 Hungary
#1 Peru
#2 Austria
#2 Estonia
#2 Norway
#2 Slovenia
#2 Sri Lanka
#3 United Kingdom
#3 Germany
#3 Ireland
#3 Luxembourg
#3 Mexico
#3 Philippines
#3 Singapore
#4 Canada
#4 Malta
#4 Portugal
#5 Cyprus
#5 Finland
#5 Italy
#5 Panama
#5 Poland
#5 Romania
#6 United States
#6 Brazil
#6 Netherlands
#6 Slovakia
#7 Argentina
#7 Bulgaria
#7 Costa Rica
#7 Thailand
#7 Venezuela
#8 Czech Republic
#8 Latvia
#10 Colombia
#10 Denmark
#11 Sweden
#11 Switzerland
#12 Lithuania
#12 New Zealand
#13 Australia
#13 Hong Kong
#15 Belgium
#15 Spain
#18 Malaysia
#33 France
#54 Paraguay
#98 Nicaragua
#124 Brunei Darussalam
#196 Vietnam
#230 Japan
#293 Taiwan