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Chart Listings: HITS & SoundScan Top Albums (Nov. 30-Dec. 7, 2009)
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Originally posted by GreenRocks1
Best Selling Opening Weeks By Females:
1 6/3/2000 Oops...I Did It Again Britney Spears 1,319,193
4 11/24/2001 Britney Britney Spears 745,744
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Oh how times have changed. Britney sold over a million in a week? 
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Originally posted by Yahhh!
Oh how times have changed. Britney sold over a million in a week? |
Yessss, 500k in one day!
Oops! (1.3 million)
Britney (745k)
In The Zone (609k)
Circus (505k)
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
Yessss, 500k in one day!
Oops! (1.3 million)
Britney (745k)
In The Zone (609k)
Circus (505k)
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wow she *******.  
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Originally posted by Yahhh!
wow she *******. |
 You best slyly bow on her birthday!
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Nielsen Soundscan numbers (official YAY) are even better than HDD's. SuBo over 700k, Rihanna above Gaga! Cool!
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
Yessss, 500k in one day!
Oops! (1.3 million)
Britney (745k)
In The Zone (609k)
Circus (505k)
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She is such a legend.
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Susan Boyle Tops Billboard 200 With Stellar First Week Sales
December 02, 2009
By Keith Caulfield, L.A.
YouTube sensation and former "Britain's Got Talent" contestant Susan Boyle's debut album "I Dreamed a Dream" opens at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with 701,000 copies sold in its first week according to Nielsen SoundScan -- the best sales week for an album in the U.S. this year.
2009's previous high-water mark came when Eminem's "Relapse" sold 608,000 in its opening week. In fact, Boyle's sales frame is the best the chart has seen since AC/DC's "Black Ice" bowed with 784,000 upon its release in October 2008.
Boyle's SYCO/Columbia effort was released last Monday, Nov. 23, and the sales tracking week ended at the close of business on Sunday, Nov. 29.
The arrival of "I Dreamed a Dream" also marks the best opening week for a female artist's debut album since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. Boyle beats out Ashanti for the title, as her self-titled debut began with 503,000 in 2002.
All told, in SoundScan's tracking history, only one other debut album has seen a bigger opening week. Snoop Dogg's album "Doggystyle" barked with 803,000 in its first week back in 1993.
Boyle wasn't the only artist to drop an album in the very busy Thanksgiving shopping week, as the reality TV star led a packed release schedule.
2009 "American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert's debut "For Your Entertainment" starts at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 198,000 copies. Last week, "Idol" champ Kris Allen saw his self-titled debut bow at No. 11 with 80,000.
Rihanna's fourth album "Rated R" climbs in at No. 4 with 181,000 -- the
young diva's best sales week yet. Her previous best came when her third album "Good Girl Gone Bad" started with 162,000 at No. 2 in 2007.
Lady Gaga's new eight-song quasi-EP "The Fame Monster" bows at No. 5 with 174,000 while her first album "The Fame" rises from No. 34 to No. 6 (151,000; up 429%). The latter "Fame's" total jumps this week because it combines sales of her debut set in addition to a two-disc deluxe "The Fame" package that contains both "The Fame" and the new "Monster" disc.
As for holdovers in the top 10, Andrea Bocelli's "My Christmas" stands strong at No. 2 for a third week as it shifts 218,000 (up 18%) while Miley Cyrus' Wal-Mart-exclusive EP "The Time Of Our Lives" vaults from No. 29 to No. 7 with 150,000 (up 385%) thanks in part to its $5 sale tag at the retailer last week. Taylor Swift's "Fearless" moves from No. 10 to No. 8 with 125,000 (up 48%), Carrie Underwood's "Play On" holds at No. 9 with 124,000 (up 44%) and Norah Jones' "The Fall" falls from No. 3 to No. 10 with 110,000 (down 39%).
Last week's Billboard 200 No. 1, John Mayer's "Battle Studies," slips to No. 13 in its second week with 92,000 (down 68%).
Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Nov. 29) totaled 10.73 million units, up 34% compared to the sum last week (7.99 million) and down 12% compared to the Thanksgiving sales week of 2008 (12.21 million). Year to date album sales stand at 320.2 million, down 13% compared to the same total at this point last year (369.9 million).
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-- 4 RIHANNA RATED R 180,890 999 552 181,442
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YAY! 
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Originally posted by GreenRocks1
Final numbers:
-- 1 BOYLE*SUSAN I DREAMED A DREAM 700,779 999 632 701,411
2 2 BOCELLI*ANDREA MY CHRISTMAS 217,569 18 184,791 687,068
-- 3 LAMBERT*ADAM FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT 198,466 999 437 198,903
-- 4 RIHANNA RATED R 180,890 999 552 181,442
-- 5 LADY GAGA FAME MONSTER (8 TRK) 173,515 999 411 173,926
34 6 LADY GAGA FAME 151,393 429 28,600 1,809,786
29 7 CYRUS*MILEY TIME OF OUR LIVES EP 149,663 385 30,871 929,561
10 8 SWIFT*TAYLOR FEARLESS 124,601 48 84,010 4,510,382
9 9 UNDERWOOD*CARRIE PLAY ON 123,870 44 86,218 656,342
3 10 JONES*NORAH FALL 110,150 -39 180,425 290,673
7 11 JACKSON*MICHAEL MICHAEL JACKSON'S THIS IS IT 108,121 13 95,740 890,381
8 12 NEW MOON (TWILIGHT) SOUNDTRACK 104,100 11 93,435 639,820
1 13 MAYER*JOHN BATTLE STUDIES 92,153 -68 285,548 377,883
6 14 BIEBER*JUSTIN MY WORLD 90,755 -34 136,741 227,545
-- 15 SHAKIRA SHE WOLF 89,061 999 471 89,613
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don't we have THE E.N.D figures???? wanna know them 
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<---------- Few pages back someone posted 'em.
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^ I think he's looking for the Billboard official figures...
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^ I think he's looking for the Billboard official figures...
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yes, I am hehehe thanks 
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Originally posted by Vini
^ I think he's looking for the Billboard official figures...
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It's not like this is the BEP' debut week so numbers are pretty much the same. 
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Rihanna 181k
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Originally posted by GreenRocks1
Best Selling Opening Weeks By Females:
1 6/3/2000 Oops...I Did It Again Britney Spears 1,319,193
2 2/28/2004 Feels Like Home Norah Jones 1,022,149
3 12/7/2002 Up! Shania Twain 874,000
4 11/24/2001 Britney Britney Spears 745,744
5 11/24/2007 As I Am Alicia Keys 742,426
6 1/7/2006 The Breakthrough Mary J. Blige 727,163
7 12/12/2009 I Dreamed A Dream Susan Boyle 700,779
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OMG Brit such a legend  Two albums in Top 5
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Any predictions for this week?
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Susan Boyle vs. Andrea Bocelli for #1 next week?
My friends, whoda thunk it?
As the holiday season heats up, the Syco/Columbia matron of the U.K. heartlands and Decca’s blind Italian tenor will battle it out for the top spot on HITS Top 50, each of them flirting with the 350k level. Can that figure go even higher? Stay tuned.
Building on a number of TV appearances this week, including Oprah, Leno, CBS Morning Show and Larry King, Bocelli, now #1 at iTunes, is picking up some serious steam, while Boyle has strong momentum carrying over from her chart-topping, 700k debut.
The new releases taper off some before the year-end rush, with Jive/JLG’s R. Kelly album, Untitled, the biggest, expected to debut in the 95-105k range.
19/Jive/JLG Idol contestant Allison Iraheta is the next-highest newcomer, in the 25-30k range for her label debut, Just Like You.
Veteran UTP/Atlantic rapper Juvenile is both Cocky and Confident that he’ll end up doing 20-25k, the same total expected for Rhino’s Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel soundtrack and Warner Bros.’ Very Best of Enya album.
Next Tuesday (12/8), it’s all about Jive/JLG’s Chris Brown, Mailboat’s Jimmy Buffett, Virgin’s Thirty Seconds to Mars, Columbia’s Glee Vol. 2, Priority/EMI’s Snoop Dogg, Blackground/Interscope’s Timbaland, Columbia’s Clipse and S-Curve’s We the Kings.
The market was up 34% vs. last week, down 12% vs. same week last year and still down 13% year to date.
You may now return to pondering how many more irons there are in Tiger Woods’ golf bag.
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Go Italy sei bravissima.
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