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Chart Listings: Billboard 200 Albums (July 11-18, 2012)
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http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/....cgi?news09045
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A SECOND CONSECUTIVE BROWN-OUT ON THE CHARTS
Zac Brown Band Looking at Big Opening, Frank Ocean Storms Out on iTunes
July 11, 2012
We know it’s hot out, but two Brown-outs in a row on the HITS Top 50 Album sales chart?
Following up RCA R&B bruiser Chris Brown’s #1 debut yesterday, look for a very different act with the same name—Atlantic country-rockers Zac Brown Band’s Uncaged—to bow in the top spot on next week’s tally, with a total that looks headed for between 210-225k.
That number beats the group’s last studio album, You Get What You Give, which came out in Sept. 2010 with 154k in sales, by more than 45%. This is the band’s third album for Atlantic after two independent releases.
The week’s big story is controversial Def Jam/IDJ R&B hyphenate Frank Ocean, a member of the L.A.-based hip-hop collective Odd Future, who will open with a very impressive 110-125k as an iTunes exclusive for his major label bow, Channel, Orange. Ocean surprised everyone by Tweeting the album would be made available after his network TV debut Monday night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon singing “Bad Religion” from the release. With an appearance on Jay Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne album—that’s him introducing the disc’s “No Church in the Wild”—as well as a best-selling mixtape, Nostalgia, Ultra, Ocean is burning up the blogosphere.
Ocean’s tour begins in Seattle this Friday (7/13) and hits L.A. Wiltern next Tuesday (7/17) in what is sure to be the show of the year.
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Awesome sales for ZZB and Ocean (with just iTunes)!
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King of R&B/Pop debuting higher than Usher
Another #1 album, so haters and critics can suck it
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Great numbers for Frank
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OMG!!!
HDD Predict wrong!! i wasnt 75k i was 80k for Katy
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Originally posted by staracademy1990
King of R&B/Pop debuting higher than Usher
Another #1 album, so haters and critics can suck it
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Confessions alone outsolds Chris Brown's ENTIRE career/five studio album sales.
Confessions: 10,000,000+
Chris Brown's five studio albums combined: 5,598,000
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Originally posted by Devon
How did Katy go to #2?!?!? Was it because of the movie?
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That and the discount on Amazonn
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Originally posted by Beatz
Confessions alone outsolds Chris Brown's ENTIRE career/five studio album sales.
Confessions: 10,000,000+
Chris Brown's five studio albums combined: 5,598,000
King of R&B
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Thank you
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Originally posted by staracademy1990
King of R&B/Pop debuting higher than Usher
Another #1 album, so haters and critics can suck it
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Usher the king is better and more succesful than Chris Brown So suck it
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The week’s big story is controversial Def Jam/IDJ R&B hyphenate Frank Ocean, a member of the L.A.-based hip-hop collective Odd Future, who will open with a very impressive 110-125k as an iTunes exclusive for his major label bow, Channel, Orange. Ocean surprised everyone by Tweeting the album would be made available after his network TV debut Monday night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon singing “Bad Religion” from the release. With an appearance on Jay Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne album—that’s him introducing the disc’s “No Church in the Wild”—as well as a best-selling mixtape, Nostalgia, Ultra, Ocean is burning up the blogosphere.
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Very impressive start. Frank and his team should be pleased.
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Originally posted by staracademy1990
King of R&B/Pop debuting higher than Usher
Another #1 album, so haters and critics can suck it
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but chris has much more hype and promo than usher, usher barley promoted this album in the states and he only released three singles from the album, and no one even knew he had an album out, and to top it all off he is in the 19th year of his career, instead of comparing chris album sales to usher compare to justin bieber and bruno mars (whose sales totally eclipsed his),and as the good sis beatz stated confessions alone outsold chris discograpy hell even 8701 outsold his whole discography.
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Originally posted by Beatz
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the king slaying as usual when will the others?
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Originally posted by ryanpittman97
but chris has much more hype and promo than usher, usher barley promoted this album in the states and he only released three singles from the album, and no one even knew he had an album out, and to top it all off he is in the 19th year of his career, instead of comparing chris album sales to usher compare to justin bieber and bruno mars (whose sales totally eclipsed his),and as the good sis beatz stated confessions alone outsold chris discograpy hell even 8701 outsold his whole discography.
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Lies. Chris and Usher had about the same amount of promo. Usher (and Chris) just flopped.
But you're right about Confessions outsold Chris' entire discography, and Chris probably won't ever see an album sell that much, especially after his actions in recent years.
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Zac Brown Band's "Uncaged" is aiming for No. 1 on next week's Billboard 200, while Frank Ocean's "Channel Orange" is selling faster than expected.
The new Billboard 200 chart's top 10 will be revealed on the morning of Wednesday, July 18.
Zac Brown Band, 'Uncaged': Track-By-Track Review
Industry sources indicate "Uncaged" could top the Billboard 200 with around 200,000 to 220,000 copies sold by the end of the tracking week on Sunday, July 15. That number is a little larger than expected, thanks to Amazon MP3 sale pricing the set for $3.99. The retailer has discounted the title since it bowed on Tuesday, July 10.
"Uncaged" will mark the second No. 1 for the group on the Billboard 200, following 2010's "You Get What You Give," which launched with a career-high 153,000 according to Nielsen SoundScan.
While Amazon MP3 is helping Zac Brown Band, one title it won't be helping this week is Frank Ocean's debut studio album "Channel Orange." It may launch at No. 2 with a robust 100,000 to 120,000 copies -- nearly all from Apple's iTunes Store.
Ocean, an R&B singer/songwriter and a member of Odd Future, released "Channel Orange" one week early (July 10) to iTunes. The retailer is the sole digital seller of the album until July 17.
Target Won't Carry Frank Ocean's 'Channel Orange'
"Channel Orange" -- released by Def Jam and distributed by Universal Music Group Distribution -- is beating early, pre-release sales forecasts, which had pinned its start somewhere in the 40,000 to 50,000 range. That would have fallen in line with the bows of Odd Future's own debut studio set "The OF Tape Vol. 2" earlier this year (No. 5 with 40,000) and Odd Future member Tyler, the Creator's "Goblin" (No. 5 in 2011 with 45,000).
While the album's CD version wasn't supposed to go on sale until July 17, physical retailers have been told by Universal to start selling the album as soon as they receive it. Thus, some physical CDs will be in the mix when the album makes it debut on the Billboard 200 next week.
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http://www.billboard.com/news#/news/...07556152.story
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Anyone has total sales for the Idol Walmart EPs? I see their ranking on Billboard top 200 but wanna know their total sales
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Originally posted by Beatz
Confessions alone outsolds Chris Brown's ENTIRE career/five studio album sales.
Confessions: 10,000,000+
Chris Brown's five studio albums combined: 5,598,000
King of R&B
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#OOP
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Teenage Dream sold 67K digital copies this week (out of 80K total). That put it at #1 on Top Digital Albums for the second week. It debuted at #1 on that chart in August 2010 with sales of 50K digital copies.
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Thank you Amazon, I guess
I can't at it selling more this week than when it was re-released!
Congrats Katy!
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Quote:
Originally posted by Beatz
Confessions alone outsolds Chris Brown's ENTIRE career/five studio album sales.
Confessions: 10,000,000+
Chris Brown's five studio albums combined: 5,598,000
King of R&B
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kajskjjadksjids
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Quote:
Originally posted by Beatz
Confessions alone outsolds Chris Brown's ENTIRE career/five studio album sales.
Confessions: 10,000,000+
Chris Brown's five studio albums combined: 5,598,000
King of R&B
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Clocked.
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