http://www.alancross.ca/a-journal-of...-may-2013.html
At number one this week is Random Access Memories from Daft Punk, selling an very good 46,000 copies, making it the biggest debut seller so far this year. For a better number, we have to go back to November when One Direction released their record, which sold 69,000 copies.
Of that 46,000 units, a full 30,000 were digital. Fitting, since we're talking about a couple of robots, yes?
At number two is Jean-Marc Couture, the winner of Quebec's Star Academie. His debut record, Si Tel Est Son Desire, sold 10,000 copies, almost all of which was in Quebec. The National was very close behind in third place with Trouble will find me while 30 Seconds to Mars' Love Lust Faith + Dreams bows at #6 with 5,000 copies.
Despite the big sales numbers for Daft Punk's album, "Get Lucky" could not bump off "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke off the top spot on the digital singles chart. It had 39,000 downloads to "Get Lucky's" 23,000. Drilling deeper and we find that "Get Lucky" actually finished in third spot behind Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' "Can't Hold Us" by one--that's ONE--download purchase.
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Bigger than Michael Buble's first week sales, now THAT'S impressive!
By the way, Demi fell 9 spots to #10 on the album chart.