A Girl Like Me started out the same way and ended up doing great .. the new video will help her this week <3

Rihanna A Girl Like Me started out the same way and that ended up doing great & her new video will help her next week

ONE-DAY SALES: Kelly vs. Miley for all the Marbles

It’s a horse race between a pair of thoroughbred fillies.

Former Idol queen Kelly Clarkson vs. Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus for the #1 spot on next week’s gala Fourth of July HITS album chart.

Clive’s well-oiled RCA Music Group machine vs. Disney’s multi-media marketing team for all the marbles.

Folks, it doesn’t get any better than that. Just make sure you don’t blow your fingers off with the cherry bombs.

So far, with early returns from eager retailers looking for some early-July fireworks, it’s way too early to make a call.

This much can be said. Both Clarkson’s My December and the new Hannah Montana album will sell between 320-350k for their first week, enough to put them in a lively dead heat for top of the chart.

Consulting the tea leaves, Clarkson is showing strengths from a pair of reporting precincts in iTunes and Best Buy. Ms. Cyrus is ahead, as expected, at mass merchants and non-traditional retail. Both have visibility and sales at Costco and Limited II clothing stores, but Miley, of course, has the Disney Stores and JC Penney as well.

Look for plenty of foot traffic this weekend in front of the 4th of July, with observers opining Ms. Montana will take the mini-van market.

But, our cracked retail expert Mark Pearson insists, it’s way, way too close right now to make any kind of clear-cut pick.

A couple other new albums hit the streets today, including alt-country mainstay Ryan Adams’ new album, Easy Tiger, for Luke Lewis’ Nashville-based Lost Highway, which is looking like a pretty robust 50k, with #3 ranking at iTunes and Starbucks spinner visibility.

The Beastie Boys’ all-instrumental Capitol album, The Mix-Up, is being accompanied by a massive online push and a tour, and is expected to garner 30k, give or take.

Overall, at the six-month point of 2007, the market was down 7% vs. last week, down 5.2% over same week last year and now down 15% to date, marking a slight uptick in a year that has been less than impressive.

lol, well i´ll sigh over the state of business a couple of seconds, then go back to normal and don´t really care that much...

well i´ll sigh over the sadness of that facta couple of seconds, but then basicaly don´t care that much at all, i look forward to other releases more

it saddens me to compare kelly with hannah whatever she is

some sales are nice [Daughtry,Carrie, Kellie] but damn! McPhee is nowhere to be seen

i got curious, as to see who has the most comments on this thread and this is what i found:
(above 100 posts)

blackbeatxx 249
Cesar 142
Oasis 101
HaydenPPride 100

I know this is waaaayyy off topic, but just got bored

WTF. Kelly Clarkson needs to be #01 this time. She was only #03 with "Breakaway," but seriously, not Hannah Montana...- _ -

I hate to bring Christina up but weren't most of Blackbeat's posts in this thread regarding the Back 2 Basics CD?

Let me guess, denying the flop

And aren't most of yours bashing T-Pain, Akon, etc. and talking about Aly & AJ's platinum status.

You seriously need to brush up on your facts!

If by by Queen of flops you mean the worst selling female musician of all-time, then lets see if your accusations match up, shall we?

Rihanna | Albums: 3 | Domestic Sales: 1.958 million (average 652,666) | Worldwide: 6.5 million (average 2.2million)

I mean artists like Kelis, Mandy Moore, Christina Milian and Mya, who all have been around when album sales were gargantuan, still have lower averages than Rihanna. While Rihanna became a singer in 2005, the hatchmark for the decline of record sales. I mean some who had their starts in 2005-06-07 have not sold well at all, but Rihanna manged to do well. Singers who used to shine in the golden age of album sales (Hilary Duff, Jessica Simpson, Christina Milian, Jennifer Lopez, etc.,) all are selling worse then Rihanna, so I certainly would not be bitchin around!

Oh! And if we want to compare Rihanna and Paul ****in McCartney, then have this: Paul used to release multiple STUDIO albums in one year (1971, 1973, 1999) and people bash Rihanna for having a new album consecutive years, seriosuly grow up and brunsh up on facts.

When are you going to get it through your miniscule mind? 1.5 Million sales (almost 1.6) in 2006/2007 isnt flop material?

And explain me how 1971, 1973, 1999 are consecutive years??
I'm curious

erm hello read, I said he released multiple STUDIO albums in those years

1.5 is ok for Lindsay Lohan and Hilary Duff, for Christina is a FLOP, FACT

You should made it clearer

you still dont get it do you? it was 2006 and 1.5 mill is exemplary sales!