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ALBUM TITLE: F.A.M.E. / Fans Are My Everything
RELEASE DATE: March 22nd [3/22/11] US
LABEL: JIVE/ SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT/CBE
WEEKS ON RELEASE: 22
U.S. FACTFILE:
Released on March 22nd 2011 and peaking at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, where it shifted 270,000 units in 7 days,F.A.M.E. has went on to sell more than 700,000 copies in the US. The album has been certified Gold by the R.I.A.A. and has since earned the title of the best selling R&B album of 2011. The album has so far spawned 3 Top 15 Hot 100 singles [Look At Me Now #6, Deuces #14 and Yeah 3X #15], 2 Top 30 singles [Next to You #26 and She Ain't You #27] and a US Dance Club Chart #1 with Beautiful People. On the US charts, the album’s singles have spent an astonishing amount of weeks at #1. Deuces ran for 10 weeks at #1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop songs chart [source] followed by Look At Me Now which reigned at #1 on the same chart and spent 10 weeks at #1 on the Rap Songs chart. More impressive, are the album’s singles sales which total 6,600,000+ in the US. They are as follows;
Look At Me Now – 2,714,826 [8th Best Selling Song of 2011]
Deuces – 1,800,000 [Source]
Yeah 3X – 1,200,000 [Source]
She Ain’t You – 509,987
Next to You – 364,106
The next single to be taken from the Gold certified album will be Wet the Bed feat. Ludacris.
UK FACTFILE:
Released on March 21st 2011, F.A.M.E. entered the Official UK Album Chart at #10 and has since spent all (but one week) in the UK Top 40. F.A.M.E. has sold an impressive 150,000 copies, surpassing the sales threshold needed for Gold certification, although this has yet to be given by the B.P.I. as record labels’ must request certification. Currently, the album is the UK’s 34th best selling album of 2011 and the album’s singles have experienced great success on the UK charts. This year, Yeah 3X peaked at #6 in the UK and has so far sold an impressive 453,000 units granting it the title of the 16th best selling song of the year in the UK so far. Champion feat. Chipmunk, a bonus track on the European edition of F.A.M.E. peaked at #2 on the official UK singles chart and has since sold 394,400 units and is the 21st best selling sold in the UK this year, so far. Beautiful People has enjoyed the most success on the UK charts. The single, which peaked at #4 has sold an astounding 511,500 units in the UK giving it the honor of being the 12th best selling song in the UK. In total, F.A.M.E. has spawned single sales of 1,358,900 units in the UK ranking Chris as the second highest selling male in the UK so far this year, just behind Bruno Mars. Next to You currently sits at #14 on the UK singles chart. To date, all of the album’s singles have peaked in the Top 15 of the UK singles chart.
Australia Factfile:
Released March 18th 2011, F.A.M.E. entered the Austrian Album Chart at #3 and has since been certified Gold by the A.R.I.A. denoting sales of 35,000 units in Australia [source]. The album has spawned four largely successful singles. Yeah 3X which peaked at #4 on the Australian singles chart, has since been certified 5X Platinum (300,000+ units sold), becoming Chris Brown’s highest selling single there and the tenth best selling song of the new decade, besting the sales of Forever and With You. Beautiful People, another 2X Platinum certified single (140,000+ units sold), peaked at #7 and was closely followed by She Ain’t You which has thus far peaked at #27 and has been certified Gold. The album’s fourth single, ‘Next to You’ featuring Justin Bieber has since peaked at #22 and has been certified Gold. Look At Me Now, although peaking at a modest #46, has also been certified Gold. The success of the album resulted in Australia becoming the first stop of The F.A.M.E. Tour which has been planned to hit various countries across the Globe.
All the [Sources] can be found here -
http://musicjustice.net/?p=1016