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Chart Listings: Billboard 200 Albums (December 4-11, 2013)
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Katy pulled through 
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There are some retailers that report to HDD but do not report to Soundscan (the official source for Billboard) and vice versa. This is why there are differences between the two numbers.
That's just dismal. No excuse.  I think Global Warming opened higher last year |
To be fair it is a rerelease 
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Global Warming sold more this week than his new album 
#93. Pitbull - Global Warming - 10,400 (355,000) |
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To be fair it is a rerelease |
Oh I see what happened. My apologies. Meltdown (which contains Global Warming and a couple of new songs) is the rerelease to Global Warming (like TD:CC to TD), so the sales of the rerelease were combined with the original. The Meltdown EP charts separately because those only contain the new songs and nothing from Global Warming.
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There are some retailers that report to HDD but do not report to Soundscan (the official source for Billboard) and vice versa. This is why there are differences between the two numbers.
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Awesome explanation. Thanks 
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The Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire soundtrack drops from #5 to #31. That's a disappointment and a surprise: The movie was #1 at the box-office for the second straight weekend.
Four other albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Five Finger Death Punch's Wrong Side Of Heaven & The Righteous Side Of Hell, Vol. 2 drops from #2 to #34. Daughtry's Baptized drops from #6 to #22. Yo Gotti's I Am drops from #7 to #45. Cities 97 Sampler, Vol. 25 plunges from #10 completely off the chart. It sold out its limited, 40K pressing in its first week.
Florida Georgia Line's Here's To The Good Times rebounds from #18 to #13, thanks to the release of a deluxe version. This is the album's 52nd week on the chart. It has ranked in the top 30 for all but one of those weeks (when it slipped to #31). The album has sold 1,337,000 copies. That's the most by any album by a country duo since Sugarland's Love On The Inside, which has sold 2,308,000 copies since its release in 2008.
Michael Buble's Christmas rebounds from #19 to #16 in its 25th chart week. The album is #1 on Top Catalog Albums for the 12th week. That's the longest run at #1 on the catalog chart for a Christmas album since Now That's What I Call Christmas! led the catalog chart for 14 weeks from 2002 to 2005. What's more, Buble's album this week becomes the first Christmas album to top the 500K mark in digital sales. Christmas albums appeal to traditionalists, so CDs still rule in this market. But Buble's reach into young demos has enabled him to do well in the digital realm. That said, the album has sold far more copies on CD (2,669,000) than it has digitally (514K)
The Frozen soundtrack debuts at #18. It's #1 on Top Soundtracks, dethroning the aforementioned The Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire. On the box-office chart, Frozen vaulted from #22 to #2 in its second weekend.
Danielle Bradbery's eponymous debut album opens at #19. Bradbery was the Season 4 winner of The Voice. This is her second album to crack the top 20. The Complete Season 4 Collection also reached #19. Cassadee Pope's Frame By Frame remains the highest-charting album by a contestant on The Voice. It debuted and peaked at #9 in October. (Question: The Voice has surpassed American Idol in TV ratings, Emmy recognition and overall buzz-worthiness. So why haven't its winners yet emerged as really big record sellers?)
Speaking of The Voice, Blake Shelton's Based On A True Story…, which rebounds from #32 to #20 in its 36th week, tops the 1 million mark in sales this week. It's the 10th album to hit this milestone in 2013. Three of the 10 are country, three are hip-hop, two are pop and two are rock. Shelton's album reached 1M much faster than his only previous million-seller, Red River Blue, which took two years to reach the milestone.
Songs For The Philippines debuts at #28. The 39-song collection features such stars as The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Eminem, Beyonce and Katy Perry. It's designed to aid victims of Typhoon Haiyan. The artists, record companies and music publishers are donating their proceeds from the album to the Philippine Red Cross. A similar collection, Songs For Japan, spent its first four weeks in the top 10 in the spring of 2011. It peaked at #5 and has sold 366K copies.
Pentatonix's PTXmas re-enters the chart at #29. That's a new peak for the EP, which debuted and initially peaked at #45 in November 2012. You may remember that the vocal ensemble's second album, PTX: Vol. II, debuted in the top 10 a few weeks ago.
Billie Joe & Norah's Foreverly debuts at a disappointing #40. (That's Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones, if you're not on a first-name basis with them—and judging from this debut, not everyone is.) The album consists of the 12 songs that appeared on the Everly Brothers' 1958 album Songs Our Daddy Taught Us. That album didn't crack The Billboard 200, which was dominated at that time by movie soundtracks and Broadway cast albums. Foreverly is one of the most intriguing cross-genre collabos since Robert Plant/Alison Krauss' Raising Sand, which debuted and peaked at #2 in 2007. That album went on to win a Grammy for Album of the Year.
http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/music-n...153633462.html
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11. The Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience: 2 of 2 - 77,000 (633,000)
36. Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience: 1 of 2 - 23,000 (2,373,000)
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The 20/20 collection tops 3 million. 
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"One Direction's first-week sales have also steadily grown with each successive album. Their first set, "Up All Night," bowed atop the list with 176,000, while "Take Me Home" launched with 540,000."
I don't agree with the word "steadily."
It went up 207% or so for TMH.
Then 1% for MM.
That's NOT steady.
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Wow @ Garth. That's incredible.
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"One Direction's first-week sales have also steadily grown with each successive album. Their first set, "Up All Night," bowed atop the list with 176,000, while "Take Me Home" launched with 540,000."
I don't agree with the word "steadily."
It went up 207% or so for TMH.
Then 1% for MM.
That's NOT steady.
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They just meant that 1D increased with each album.
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Humanitarian KATY is a single artist no more...
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One Direction's "Midnight Memories" debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart this week with 546,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
The act makes history as the first group to debut at No. 1 with their first three albums. "Midnight Memories" follows two No. 1s for the act in 2012: their debut album "Up All Night" and sophomore set "Take Me Home."
More 1D U
Further, One Direction is -- as we forecast last Thursday -- the first group since the Monkees, in 1967, to reach No. 1 with their first three albums.
The Monkees' self-titled debut was released in 1966 and climbed to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in its sixth week on the chart. The TV-born act -- riding high with its hit ABC series -- followed up the No. 1 success with three more consecutive No. 1s in 1967: "More of the Monkees," "Headquarters" and "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd."
One Direction's first-week sales have also steadily grown with each successive album. Their first set, "Up All Night," bowed atop the list with 176,000, while "Take Me Home" launched with 540,000.
They follow recent successes of Drake, Selena Gomez, Luke Bryan and Vampire Weekend in 2013 -- all of which have seen their respective albums bow with a bigger first week than the one before it. (You can also include Eminem in that list, to a degree. His last two albums each debuted stronger than the one before.)
With "Midnight Memories'" start, One Direction also becomes only the third pop group to log multiple half-million sales weeks in the Nielsen SoundScan era. Since the company began tracking sales in 1991, only two other pop groups have notched more than one sales week of 500,000: 'N Sync and Backstreet Boys.
'N Sync did it seven times with three different albums, while Backstreet Boys did it nine times with two albums. Other duos/groups and bands have earned numerous 500,000-plus frames, but they were all R&B, rap, country or rock acts. (They are: Coldplay, Creed, Dave Matthews Band, Dixie Chicks, Eagles, Guns N' Roses, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Outkast, Rascal Flatts, Santana, the Beatles and Tool.)
Last week's No. 1 album, Eminem's "The Marshall Mathers LP 2," is pushed down to No. 2, despite a 65% sales gain. It sold 199,000 for the week.
All but four of the albums in the top 75 of the chart this week have sales increases, courtesy of the very busy Thanksgiving holiday shopping weekend and Black Friday promotions. Scrolling down the chart, the first album to see a dip in sales is way down at No. 23: Daughtry's "Baptized," which falls by 35% in its second week. All four of the albums in the top 75 that see sales declines are also only in their second week on the chart. (It's always difficult for any album, even over Thanksgiving, to see a gain in their second week on the chart.)
Coming in at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 this week is Garth Brooks' new Walmart-exclusive box set, "Blame It All On My Roots." The six CD/two DVD set carries a bargain list price of $29.98 -- but was sale priced for $24.96. It moved 164,000 copies in less than four days on sale, as the album was released on Thanksgiving day (Thursday, Nov. 28). The newest tracking sales tracking week ended on Sunday, Dec. 1.
The effort is the highest-charting album with more than two discs since April 18, 2009. That week, Prince and Bria Valente's triple-disc set "Lotus Flow3r/MPLSound/Elix3r" debuted and peaked at No. 2. (It also happened to be exclusive to one retailer: Target.)
Brooks is no stranger to high-charting multi-disc sets. He famously debuted at No. 1 in 1998 with "The Limited Series," a six-CD box of his previously-released studio albums (each with a bonus track).
"Blame It All On My Roots" features four discs of newly-recorded cover songs, along with two discs of greatest hits. (The hits CDs are actually his 2007 "The Ultimate Hits" album.) The release was supported by a two-hour live CBS concert special that aired on Nov. 29.
Brooks last charted on the Billboard 200 with "The Ultimate Hits," which debuted and peaked at No. 3 on the Nov. 24, 2007 chart. Unlike the new box set, "The Ultimate Hits" was not exclusive to Walmart.
"Blame It All On My Roots" also arrives at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart, the country icon's 13th No. 1 on that list. Of his 16 chart entries, only three missed the top: his 1989 self-titled debut, and two Christmas efforts (1992's "Beyond the Season" and 2001's "The Magic of Christmas - Songs from 'Call Me Claus'").
One Direction and Brooks are the only two new arrivals in the top 10 this week. The next-highest debut is the soundtrack to "Frozen," which bows at No. 18 with 44,000.
Back in the top 10 though, the Robertsons' "Duck the Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas" is steady at No. 4 with 137,000 (up 127%) and Katy Perry's "PRISM" vaults 11-5 with 136,000 (up 252%). Both albums were among the many sets that were sale priced at big box retailers for Black Friday. Both went for $6.99 at Walmart, while "PRISM" also sold for $7 at Target and $4.99 at Amazon MP3.
Kelly Clarkson's "Wrapped In Red" rises 9-6 with 131,000 (up 195%). Like "Duck the Halls" and "PRISM," Clarkson's set was discounted to an attractive post-Thanksgiving price. It sold for $7 at Target.
Lady Gaga's "ARTPOP" moves up one position to No. 7 with 116,000 -- and a 154% gain. The diva experiences a bump in sales thanks to sale pricing, and exposure gleaned from her Thanksgiving night ABC TV special, "Lady Gaga & the Muppets' Holiday Spectacular." The album went for $4.99 at Amazon MP3, $6.99 at Walmart and $7 at Target.
Two more discounted sets see gains in the top 10: Luke Bryan's "Crash My Party" climbs 15-8 with 109,000 (up 318%) and Miley Cyrus' "Bangerz" rises 16-9 with 79,000 (up 228%). Bryan was $6.99 at Walmart, while Cyrus was $7 at Target.
Closing out the top 10 is the "Now 48" album, down seven slots, selling 77,000 (up 22%).
Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Dec. 1) totaled 8.59 million units, up 62% compared with the sum last week (5.29 million) and up 14% compared with the comparable sales week of 2012 (7.52 million). Year to date album sales stand at 253.60 million, down 8% compared to the same total at this point last year (275.31 million).
Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2012 when: Taylor Swift's "Red" returned to No. 1, selling 167,000 (up 22%). Wiz Khalifa's "O.N.I.F.C." was the top debut, bowing at No. 2 with 141,000.
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Billboard mentioning Gagas album sold at $4.99 @ amazon. any other albums sold below $5?
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Billboard mentioning Gagas album sold at $4.99 @ amazon. any other albums sold below $5?
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while "PRISM" also sold for $7 at Target and $4.99 at Amazon MP3.
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Not just Gaga, most were under $5.
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Billboard mentioning Gagas album sold at $4.99 @ amazon. any other albums sold below $5?
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Back in the top 10 though, the Robertsons' "Duck the Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas" is steady at No. 4 with 137,000 (up 127%) and Katy Perry's "PRISM" vaults 11-5 with 136,000 (up 252%). Both albums were among the many sets that were sale priced at big box retailers for Black Friday. Both went for $6.99 at Walmart, while "PRISM" also sold for $7 at Target and $4.99 at Amazon MP3.
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HDD also had greater room for error with it being Holiday, as far as large differences in projections.
Glad the Kings got it.
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Queen Katy 
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Originally posted by fridayteenage
"One Direction's first-week sales have also steadily grown with each successive album. Their first set, "Up All Night," bowed atop the list with 176,000, while "Take Me Home" launched with 540,000."
I don't agree with the word "steadily."
It went up 207% or so for TMH.
Then 1% for MM.
That's NOT steady.
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Steady doesn't mean massive change.. anything to rain on a parade.
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Katy Perry's "PRISM" vaults 11-5 with 136,000 (up 252%).
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The longevity, proving Billboard wrong when they called her a "single artist"
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Bangerz
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PRISM selling more in its 6th week than artpop in its 3rd one?
Unexpected but great news nonetheless. Gaga just keeps on giving, how can we not love her? I am loving the artpop era.
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Lady Gaga's "ARTPOP" moves up one position to No. 7 with 116,000 -- and a 154% gain. The diva experiences a bump in sales thanks to sale pricing, and exposure gleaned from her Thanksgiving night ABC TV special, "Lady Gaga & the Muppets' Holiday Spectacular." The album went for $4.99 at Amazon MP3, $6.99 at Walmart and $7 at Target.
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I love how they always make sure people know she sold x amount because of discounts and tricks.
I am ready for the massive drop that is about to come.
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YAS!
Midnight Memories above Take Me Home!
(I think the $20 price point for the deluxe edition really hurt it.)
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