Everyone who looks at the album chart will be deceived if they don't see numbers. I could've gotten into the top 50 this week...#50 has less than 5,000 units...
Album sales, nothing less than depressing.
Except B.o.B & Usher of course!
9 4 USHER LAFACE/JLG 26,125
RAYMOND VS. RAYMOND
12 19 B.O.B. ATLANTIC 10,915
ADVENTURES OF BOBBY RAY
Everyone who looks at the album chart will be deceived if they don't see numbers. I could've gotten into the top 50 this week...#50 has less than 5,000 units...
Album sales, nothing less than depressing.
Except B.o.B & Usher of course!
9 4 USHER LAFACE/JLG 26,125
RAYMOND VS. RAYMOND
12 19 B.O.B. ATLANTIC 10,915
ADVENTURES OF BOBBY RAY
You have the wrong stats my friend !!
B.O.B sold 26K and usher sold 46K and the #50 sold close to 10K ...
The boys and girls at Steve Barnett’s Columbia are rockin’ out and singing cover versions of cover versions, as the red-hot label appears poised to drop two debuts into next week’s Top 10, one from the Glee franchise, the other from heralded indie outfit Band of Horses (the subject of a big thumbs-up review from our own Bud Scoppa in the current ish of Uncut). Another indie mainstay group, the two-man Black Keys, is trending even stronger on its major label debut. Enough people are buying into the Exile legend—prodded along by the wall-to-wall TV appearances by the Glimmer Twins—to land the remastered/expanded reissue at #2. Universal Republic also has a pair of debuts in the thick of it. Here’s the story as of late Thursday:
* Glee: The Music, Vol. 3 Showstoppers (Columbia) 120-130k
* Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street (UMe) 70-75k
* Black Keys (Nonesuch) 55-60k
Justin Bieber, My World 2.0 (Island/IDJ) 50-55k
* Nas & Damian Marley (Universal Republic) 45-50k
Lady Antebellum (Capitol Nashville/EMI) 45-50k
Usher (LaFace/JLG) 40-45k
* Band of Horses (Fat Possum/Columbia) 40-45k
AC/DC (Columbia) 30-35k
* LCD Soundsystem (Virgin/EMI) 30-35k
Lady Gaga (Interscope) 27-30k
Godsmack (Universal Republic) 27-30k
B.O.B (Atlantic) 22-25k
* Talib Kweli (Warner Bros.) 22-25k
Carole King & James Taylor (Hear Music) 22-25k
* Denotes debut
You may now return to messing around with your iTunes Genius function. (5/21a)