US Sales:
At No. 2 on the Billboard 200, the much buzzed-about R&B singer/
songwriter Frank Ocean bows with his debut studio effort, "Channel
Orange." The set sold 131,000 in its first week -- mostly from the iTunes
Store. However, about 3,000 of that sum were physical CDs.
The set was initially exclusively released via iTunes on July 10 -- a
week before its advertised street date of July 17. Since it dropped
digitally, physical retailers were instructed by Ocean's label to start
selling the CD version as soon as it arrives in stores. In turn, many brick-
and-mortar retailers had the album on its shelves over the weekend.
Ocean's debut surpasses Usher's recent first-week with "Looking 4
Myself" (128,000) and almost matches the figure Chris Brown
launched with "Fortune" a week ago (135,000). Ocean's bow is thus
rather stunning. Consider how his album -- with comparably little
promotion compared to Brown and Usher and basically only available at
iTunes -- basically sold as well as two superstars with multiple hit radio
singles and wall-to-wall promotion.
SOURCE
UK Sales:
Debut at #2 with
13,173;
It is the first album to make even the Top 20 without any physical sales. The previous record holder was Slash, whose self-titled 2010 album debuted at number 30 on digital sales of 4,455 to be replaced as the top download only title just seven weeks ago by his follow-up Apocalyptic Love (feat Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators), which debuted at number 27, selling 4,527 downloads. SOURCE
Canada Sales:
“Channel Orange” racked up sales of
6,700, according to Nielsen SoundScan data, at
3.
SOURCE
Worldwide Sales:
24 year-old singer / songwriter Frank Ocean from New Orleans arrives behind Zac Brown at
no.2 with his first studio album 'Channel Orange'. Most of its
161.000 sales are digital downloads, because the album was released one week earlier on iTunes.
SOURCE
Album Performance:
Album Performance:
Australian Albums Chart
18-23-26-30-29-34-36-33-19-31-40-42
Belgium Albums Chart
46-38-18-28-30-38-43-57-71-87-84
Canadian Albums Chart
3-4-11-21-OUT
Danish Albums Chart
2-5-4-3-3-4-10-12-21-19
Dutch Albums Chart
36-14-13-18-26-49-63-63-78-90-85-OUT
France Albums Chart
91-67-130-114-108-97
Germany Albums Chart
47-28-OUT
Irish Albums Chart
45-28-14-32-50-53-OUT
New Zealand Albums Chart
16-1515 -19-20-24-31-27-14-26-39-OUT
Norwegian Albums Chart
1-2-5-5-3-6-8-13-17-24-31
Sweden Albums Chart
35
Swiss Albums Chart
38-20-23-31-42-42-47-90-73-83-OUT
UK Albums Chart
2-3-12-19-20-33-45-61-54-59-71
UK R&B Albums Chart
1-1-2-3-3-3-4-7-4-4-4
US Billboard 200 Albums Chart
2-4-8-14-22-33-40-45-21-25-30-47
US Digital Albums Chart
2-3-2-8-15-15-22-OFF-12-12-19-25
US Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart
1-2-2-4-4-7-11-11-4-4-3-6
US Billboard Tastemakers Albums Chart
7-2-4-6-7-7-13-16-15-23-23-OFF
World Albums Chart
2-8-10-15-18-22-34-36-29-35-OFF
Last Updated: October 5th, 2012
