SUMMER HEAT: Based on explosive pre-orders, the forthcoming EP from Capitol's Pop phenom 5 Seconds of Summer (streeting on 4/1) is now looking to move 200k in its first week, with an overwhelming majority of that digital, although there will be a physical release as well. The Aussie lads will hit the road with fellow Modest Management clients One Direction in the summer. If you couldn't hear any of the preceding over the screams of teenage girls, we'll gladly repeat it. (3/10a)
*Keep in mind that the EP is 4 songs and is on pre-order for $3.96 at the moment.
http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/rumormill.cgi
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Its four-song EP, "She Looks So Perfect," is due out April 1 in the United States on Capitol Records.
The set could sell upwards of 150,000 to 200,000 copies in its first week, according to industry forecasters (if not more).
That sizable prognostication is based partly on robust pre-orders of the set in the iTunes Store, in addition to first-week performance of comparable albums, media exposure, radio and YouTube trends for an album's first single, and so on.
As always, a forecast can be wildly different from the final outcome. In general, you can best guess an album's debut sales week once it's actually on sale.
The buzz around the EP debut equates to a 68% rise in weekly conversation across Facebook and Twitter about the band, which helped lead to the addition of more than 128,000 fans on Facebook (up 62%) and 59,000 on Twitter (up 55%).
The band's current single, "She Looks So Perfect," is bubbling under the threshold of the Pop Songs airplay chart (known as Mainstream Top 40 on billboard.biz and in Billboard magazine). In the week ending March 23, the song was being played on 32 monitored top 40 stations, including KIIS Los Angeles, WBBM Chicago and WIHT Washington, D.C.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/co...sales-forecast
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The four-song set, "She Looks So Perfect," was released on April 1 and may sell upwards of 140,000 to 160,000 copies by the end of the tracking week on Sunday, April 6 (according to industry forecasters).
http://www.billboard.com/articles/ne...-billboard-200
