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Chart Listings: Billboard 200 Albums (December 25, 2013-January 1, 2014)
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164 RE 01 163 Katy Perry - Teenage Dream
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Why Katy album started selling all of the sudden?
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Originally posted by dussymob
Why Katy album started selling all of the sudden?
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PRISM has been selling well since its debut.
Teenage Deity is a classic, and it will continue to chart/sell for years to come.
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27 31 Taylor Swift Speak Now 49,000 3,911,000
36 37 Taylor Swift RED 21,000 3,947,000
RED is still tracking ahead of Speak Now in the same time-frame, despite the latter receiving a huge boost the week before Christmas. Apparently BMR has halt shipments of RED, per several anecdotal evidence. Maybe that could be the reason why RED saw such a small boost in sales; it's been out of stock at most retailers!
Hopefully RED will move another 500k once she wins that AotY Grammy trophy.
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is Teenage Dream close to 3M yet?
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Originally posted by cheers09
is Teenage Dream close to 3M yet?
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200K away. In other words -- in another life.
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Beyoncé's "Beyoncé" sold 991K copies in its first 10 days of release. In so doing, it has become the best-selling album by a female artist in 2013.The old record was held by P!nk's "The Truth About Love," which has sold 920K copies in 2013 (on top of 945K copies it sold in 2012).
"Beyoncé" sold 374K copies in its second week, which was its first full week of release. It sold 617K copies last week, even though it was available for only three days in that tracking week.
Beyoncé's album ranks #1 on The Billboard 200 for the second week. Beyoncé's previous album, "4," also spent its first two weeks at #1, but its sales tally after two weeks was a much more modest 426K.
"Beyoncé" sold 235K digital copies this week, which puts it at #1 on the Top Digital Albums chart for the second week.
"Beyoncé" is a cinch to top the 1 million mark in U.S. sales next week. It will become Beyoncé's first album to sell 1 million copies in just three weeks. Her previous fastest album to reach 1M was "I Am…Sasha Fierce," which took four weeks. Here's the number of weeks her other previous solo albums took to reach the 1 million mark: "Dangerously In Love" (seven), "B'Day" (eight) and "4" (an uncharacteristically slow 26).
If "Beyoncé" sells about 100K copies in the coming week, it will wind up as one of the top 10 albums of 2013. (Next week's chart, for the tracking week ending Sunday Dec. 29, will be the final one of the year. FYI, the album that is currently #10 for the year-to-date, Mumford & Sons' "Babel," has sold 1,083,000 copies in 2013.)
"Beyoncé" is vying to become the first album to wind up in the year-end top 10 based on just three weeks of sales availability since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking music sales in 1991. The current record-holder as the album that wound up in the year-end top 10 based on the fewest number of weeks in the marketplace is Garth Brooks' "Sevens," which ranked among the top 10 albums of 1997 even though it was available for just the last five weeks of that year.
Moreover, if "Beyoncé" winds up in the year-end top 10, this will be the sixth year that Beyoncé has achieved that feat (counting her work with Destiny's Child). This would put her in a tie with Garth Brooks, Mariah Carey and Eminem as the only artists to have made the year-end top 10 in six different years since 1991, when Nielsen SoundScan began tracking music sales.
"Beyoncé" is the singer's fifth studio album. It's rather unusual for an artist to release an eponymous album this deep into a career. There are only five other cases where an artist has reached #1 with an eponymous album this far along. Fleetwood Mac's "Fleetwood Mac" (1976) was that band's 10th studio album (but its first with the line-up that brought it to superstardom). The Beatles' "The Beatles" (1968, often called The White Album) was the Fab Four's ninth studio album in the U.S. (excluding soundtracks and compilations). Heart's hit-studded "Heart" (1985) was that group's eighth studio album. Metallica's "Metallica" (1991) was that band's fifth studio album. Janet Jackson's "janet." (1993) was her fifth studio album.
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Some sales for this week :
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- Justin Timberlake, "The 20/20 Experience (2 of 2)" - No. 19 - The album sports an 89% sales gain this week, vaulting from No. 27 to No. 19, following his guest turn on "Saturday Night Live" (Dec. 21). (The album owns the largest percentage gain in the top 20 this week.) On the show -- which also featured surprise guests Madonna and Paul McCartney -- Timberlake performed twice and appeared in numerous sketches. His first "20/20 Experience" album also sees a gain, as it flies 94-49 with 17,000 (up 94%).
-- Celine Dion, "Loved Me Back To Life" - No. 26 - The diva's latest album jumps 38-26 with a 72% sales gain thanks to a busy week of promotion. The set sold 28,000 copies in the wake of a performance on the season finale of NBC's "The Voice" (Dec. 17) and her hosting (and singing) duties on CBS' "A Home for the Holidays" special (Dec. 18).
-- Lady Gaga, "ARTPOP" - No. 34 - Another performer that sees a gain thanks to "The Voice" (see Celine Dion, above) is Lady Gaga, who sees her "ARTPOP" set earn a 45% sales gain. On the show, Gaga sang her current single "Do What U Want" with "Voice" coach Christina Aguilera. "ARTPOP" sold 50,000 for the week -- its second-largest sales week in its six weeks of release. Only its debut frame (258,000) has been larger.
Other "Voice" finale performers that see big gains this week: OneRepublic, Blake Shelton and Paramore. OneRepublic's "Native" rises 50-23 (28,000; up 107%), Shelton's "Based On a True Story" climbs 32-30 (25,000; up 39%) and Paramore's self-titled album re-enters at No. 139 (8,000; up 108%)
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Not much ,though it would be nice if "Bwerde" accidently posted full sales as an accidental x-mas present
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Chart News @chartnews
US album sales: The World From The Side Of The Moon, Phillip @Phillips 1,058,000.
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US album sales: Unorthodox Jukebox, @BrunoMars 1,856,000.
US album sales: Night Visions, @Imaginedragons 1,758,000.
#61 @Pink, The Truth About Love 16,000 (1,865,000 total).
US album sales: #18 ARTPOP, @ladygaga 50,000 (547,000 total).
#49 @jtimberlake, The 20/20 Experience 17,000 (2,407,000 total).
#19 @jtimberlake, The 20/20 Experience: 2 Of 2 - 45,000 (726,000 total).
Great sales. Albums close to scanning platinum/2x platinum
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Originally posted by umichgrad07
PRISM has been selling well since its debut.
Teenage Deity is a classic, and it will continue to chart/sell for years to come.
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Can you show me the weekly stats of PRISM?
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Originally posted by dussymob
Can you show me the weekly stats of PRISM?
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US SALES (per Billboard)
Week 1: 286,000 (#1)
Week 2: 92,000 (#2)
Week 3: 61,000 (#4)
Week 4: 46,000 (#5)
Week 5: 39,000 (#11)
Week 6: 136,000 (#5)
Week 7: 51,000 (#9)
Week 8: 59,000 (#9)
Week 9: 99,000 (#7)
Total US Sales: 869,000
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Originally posted by umichgrad07
US SALES (per Billboard)
Week 1: 286,000 (#1)
Week 2: 92,000 (#2)
Week 3: 61,000 (#4)
Week 4: 46,000 (#5)
Week 5: 39,000 (#11)
Week 6: 136,000 (#5)
Week 7: 51,000 (#9)
Week 8: 59,000 (#9)
Week 9: 99,000 (#7)
Total US Sales: 869,000
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Is there an archive with this information?
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WW sales: The Marshall Mathers LP 2 - 2,928,000.
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garth brooks slaying with a walmart only release
how?
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Because he was the king of country in the '90s...plus the box set is good..
Just release that qweeng catalog on iTunes!
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