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Green Day Headed To No. 1 Debut On Billboard 200
May 13, 2009 05:16 PM ET
Keith Caulfield, L.A.
All signs point to a new No. 1 album at the top of the Billboard 200 chart next week, as we await the arrival of Green Day's "21st Century Breakdown."
The Reprise/Warner Bros. set will see an off-cycle release on Friday, May 15. (Most albums are released on Tuesdays.) Even though "Breakdown" will only have three days of sales on next week's Billboard 200 chart, it's likely it'll debut at No. 1. Sources say the set shipped over 650,000 to retailers — though it's not expected to blow through that quantity in three days.
The album will perhaps move what Green Day's last album, 2004's "American Idiot," did when it arrived atop the list with a career-best opening of 267,000. Of course, "Idiot" did so with a regular-length debut week, as opposed to the new set's abbreviated start.
No other new releases, nor holdovers on the chart, pose a threat to "Breakdown's" chart dominance next week.
Other new albums looking for a high debut include Cam'Ron's "Crime Pays" (Diplomatic Man/Asylum), Paul Wall's "Fast Life" (SwishaHouse/Asylum) and Aiden's "Knives" (Victory).
Nielsen SoundScan's sales tracking week, as reflected in the official Billboard 200 chart, runs from Monday through Sunday of each week. The newest Billboard 200 chart, released today (May 13) -- where Chrisette Michele's "Epiphany" (Def Jam) bowed at No. 1 with 83,000 -- reflected the week that ended on Sunday, May 10.
CHART FAILURE: If you're looking for sales relief, don't expect any this week. The two top debuts appear to be a pair of Asylum rappers in Cam'ron (40-45k) and Paul Wall (15-20k), followed by The Crystal Method on their own indie label Tiny E (8-10k) and Mercury's Parachute, an iTunes exclusive which is already #1 at the online store with between 6-8k. The week's big release, of course, is Friday's Green Day Reprise album, 21st Century Breakdown, which will certainly be #1 on next week's chart, though we won't have any significant numbers until the weekend. The market was up 5% vs. last week, down 20% vs. same week last year and still down 13% year to date. (5/13p)
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