CHART DATE: 11/30/2009
LAST UPDATE: 11/30/2009 13:05:42
NOW IN: 37.17%


LW TW artist / album label power index
-- 1 SUSAN BOYLE COLUMBIA 138,496
I DREAMED A DREAM
29 2 MILEY CYRUS HOLLYWOOD 107,999
TIME OF OUR LIVES
9 3 CARRIE UNDERWOOD 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 70,441
PLAY ON
-- 4 LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE 56,365
FAME MONSTER (EP)
-- 5 ADAM LAMBERT 19/RCA/RMG 56,128
FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT
-- 6 RIHANNA DEF JAM/IDJ 46,538
RATED R
8 7 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 45,656
THIS IS IT
15 8 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC SONY MUSIC 44,666
NOW 32
7 9 TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON CHOP SHOP/ATLANTIC 40,071
SOUNDTRACK
11 10 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 36,244
FEARLESS
2 11 ANDREA BOCELLI DECCA 35,016
MY CHRISTMAS
6 12 JUSTIN BIEBER ISLAND/IDJMG 33,346
MY WORLD
18 13 GLEE CAST COLUMBIA 32,147
GLEE, VOL. 1
3 14 NORAH JONES BLUE NOTE 28,252
THE FALL
-- 15 SHAKIRA COLUMBIA 27,589
SHE WOLF
1 16 JOHN MAYER COLUMBIA 26,363
BATTLE STUDIES
34 17 LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE 25,396
FAME
26 18 TIM MCGRAW CURB 25,058
SOUTHERN VOICE
24 19 LADY ANTEBELLUM CAPITOL NASHVILLE 22,665
LADY ANTEBELLUM
19 20 BON JOVI ISLAND/IDJMG 20,398
THE CIRCLE
37 21 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 17,535
NUMBER ONES
10 22 KRIS ALLEN 19/JIVE/ZLG 17,005
KRIS ALLEN
27 23 BLACK EYED PEAS INTERSCOPE 17,003
E.N.D. (ENERGY NEVER DIES)
35 24 OWL CITY UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 16,993
OCEAN EYES
16 25 MICHAEL BUBLE REPRISE 16,053
CRAZY LOVE
33 26 ZAC BROWN BAND ATLANTIC 15,783
FOUNDATION
42 27 JASON ALDEAN BROKEN BOW 15,520
WIDE OPEN
23 28 JOSH GROBAN REPRISE 14,284
NOEL
4 29 50 CENT SHADY/AFTERMATH/INT 12,703
BEFORE I SELF DESTRUCT
48 30 BEYONCE COLUMBIA 12,207
I AM... SASHA FIERCE
36 31 SUGARLAND MERCURY NASHVILLE 11,276
GOLD & GREEN
-- 32 PEARL JAM MONKEYWRENCH 11,252
BACKSPACER
-- 33 JAY SEAN CASH MONEY/UNIV MOTOWN 11,169
ALL OR NOTHING
44 34 HANNAH MONTANA: THE MOVIE WALT DISNEY 11,107
SOUNDTRACK
47 35 MIRANDA LAMBERT COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 10,442
REVOLUTION
-- 36 TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA LAVA/ATLANTIC 10,172
LOST CHRISTMAS EVE
30 37 TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA LAVA/ATLANTIC 9,563
NIGHT CASTLE
38 38 DARIUS RUCKER CAPITOL NASHVILLE 9,552
LEARN TO LIVE
28 39 MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER AMERICAN GRAMAPHONE 8,987
CHRISTMAS: 25TH ANNIVERSARY
-- 40 DAUGHTRY 19/RCA/RMG 8,539
LEAVE THIS TOWN
-- 41 TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA LAVA/ATLANTIC 8,290
CHRISTMAS EVE & OTHER STORIES
17 42 PAUL MCCARTNEY HEAR MUSIC 8,212
GOOD EVENING NEW YORK
22 43 JANET JACKSON A&M 8,207
#1'S
32 44 JAY-Z ROC NATION/ATLANTIC 8,150
BLUEPRINT 3
-- 45 BIRDMAN CASH MONEY/UNIV MOTOWN 8,099
PRICELE$$
41 46 CREED WIND-UP 7,792
FULL CIRCLE
13 47 LEONA LEWIS J RECORDS/RMG 7,660
ECHO
45 48 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 7,594
TAYLOR SWIFT
-- 49 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 7,565
ESSENTIAL
49 50 MICHAEL BUBLE REPRISE 7,561
LET IT SNOW

Miley

Looks like Gaga is not even going to be #2, PLZ, Don't get the same peak of "The Fame"...

Can someone please explain this chart for me?

^ explain what?

-- 1 SUSAN BOYLE COLUMBIA 138,496
I DREAMED A DREAM

29 2 MILEY CYRUS HOLLYWOOD 107,999
TIME OF OUR LIVES
She'll surprise everyone and she'll probably outsell Rihanna.
9 3 CARRIE UNDERWOOD 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 70,441
PLAY ON
I didn't expect this!
-- 4 LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE 56,365
FAME MONSTER (EP)
I hope this debuts in the top 3!
-- 6 RIHANNA DEF JAM/IDJ 46,538
RATED R

11 10 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 36,244
FEARLESS
Still selling.
-- 15 SHAKIRA COLUMBIA 27,589
SHE WOLF
This should be higher.

HITS is another sales monitor like Nielson Soundscan (which billboard uses for the charts) so as they're different monitors obviously final numbers will be different but usually there aren't too many drastic changes between the two.

HITS updates a few times today and tomorrow with various percentages in, such as the 37% in. The percentage is the percentage of retailers NOT the percentage of sales so really, the lower updates like this don't give much indication at all of what the final chart will look like.

The predictions HITS made earlier in the week are much more representative of the final chart than these updates. Although clearly Miley will be a big suprise this week seen as she wasn't even mentioned but HITS went down to about 75k:

Carrie Underwood (19/Arista Nashville) 100-120k
John Mayer (Columbia) 90-110k
* Shakira (Columbia) 85-100k
50 Cent (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope) 85-100k
Twilight Saga: New Moon (Chop Shop/Atlantic) 85-100k
Norah Jones (Blue Note/EMI) 85-100k
Taylor Swift Fearless (Big Machine) 85-100k
Michael Jackson's This Is It (Epic) 75-90k
Casting Crowns Peace on Earth (Provident/Reunion) 75-90k
Taylor Swift Holiday Collection (Big Machine) 75-90k

Thank you!

i love MILEY and all BUT WHY THE **** IS SHE AT #2???????????????????????????

i guess everyone that made predictions was WRONG!!!!!!!!! WOW this is a shocker to me

The chart is only at 37%. It will look radically different once it's complete.

Oh exactly. Usually the difference between Hits and Nielsen numbers are from 1,000 ~ 10,000 (in the worst case), both get the same information (from the same stores), the difference is that Hits gets earlier data while Billboard/Nielsen SoundScan wait for the sales to be recounted (more than once) so they can provide accurate numbers...

The percentage is the total of stores, not total of sales, huge stores (like Target, Wal-Mart, etc) in huge markets (like New York, Los Angeles, etc.) are usually counted after the 50%...

Thanks for the explanation!

When is the next update?

There's no set times, sometimes it's in a few hours where as other times it's more like 24 hours.

Why did Miley and Carrie sell that much???

^ Surprisingly. Guess Black Friday got girls under 14 to buy (or buy once again) Miley's EP....

Apparantly Miley was on sale for $5 on Black Friday.

DEATH at Miley coming out of no where....

Where did she come from and why wasn't she in the HDD predictions...?
How old is her album..?

GO susan, Adam, Miley, Carry and Gaga! pull the trigger

*go to the stores buy multiple copies of them*

Oh and who is the only album out last year coming back to the top yup yup the one and only queen