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Chart Listings: HITS & SoundScan Top Albums (August 23-30, 2010)
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She's also been in the news a lot.
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I don't want to sound bitter (don't get me wrong), but that suicide attempt seems to be a good promo.
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Fantasia has a big urban hit right now, Bittersweet. It might be selling her album.
Congrats to Fantasia
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And the sympathy factor...
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Oh yeah, sex tape rumors and suicide attempt a couple weeks before the album release? A little too coincidental if you ask me.
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they probably expected her to debut with less than 100K or something
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Fantasia will probably sell 150-200K. I don't know how she could sell anything more than 200K.
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Originally posted by TRL Is Rigged!
they probably expected her to debut with less than 100K or something
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Exactly, hence the "exceeding expectations." To be honest, I didn't think she would do well either. So, we'll see.
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Originally posted by Haus_of_Nicole
Oh yeah, sex tape rumors and suicide attempt a couple weeks before the album release? A little too coincidental if you ask me.
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Originally posted by Kirill
I don't want to sound bitter (don't get me wrong), but that suicide attempt seems to be a good promo.
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THIS. I knew something was foul about that "Suicide Attempt" anyway. . .The VERY next day she was already having filming scenes for her Vh1 show.
I see somewhere 150-180k for 'Tasiaso So if they're already putting her as a potential challenge to Katy then there's a good chance Katy might end up not living up to people's expectations. . .That 700k figure can go right out the door
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I doubt Fantasia's album is selling close to Katy's. On iTunes, TD is #1 & #2, with two more versions charting as well. Back to Me is #4.
I know iTunes =/= total sales, but that's just an example.
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Originally posted by MusicTalker
I doubt Fantasia's album is selling close to Katy's. On iTunes, TD is #1 & #2, with two more versions charting as well. Back to Me is #4.
I know iTunes =/= total sales, but that's just an example.
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It probably isnt THAT close but if its within 50-75k then people might have overestimated Katy. .
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It probably isnt THAT close but if its within 50-75k then people might have overestimated Katy. .
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... or understimated Fantasia.
I think Katy will do about 250-300k. Fantasia may be #2 with 175k.
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I have a feelin' you all are taking this the wrong way.
I don't see Katy pulling something over 300k, honestly, I don't even see her break 250k.
It's all looking good and all but damn, her last album barely broke the 1m mark, we all seen huge artists with strong first and second singles doing less than 100k so I maybe hoping for her to do alot but I think she will end up at the 200k range.[I'm really thinking about 150-200k but I'll give her the extra boost].
Hopefully I'm wrong and she does like 350k.
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^Animal did 150k though...
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^ That's part of my point and why I don't think she will do way over 150-200k.
Than again, she had crazy single sales so who knows I just don't want to think she will do 300-400k and than watching her doing 150k .
Pink did 175k with the strongest first single she has ever had, than again P!nk first week sales never been huge but that's another exemple.
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Katy, the album, the songs, the promo, everything is bigger than Animal.
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I kinda agree with both of you.
Because I don't see Katy pulling 300-400K, but on the other hand, she has 2 HUGE singles and massive promo, so....
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The fact that they are putting Fantasia as a possible threat to Katy makes me believe that the 500k talk is just that.. talk. I think Katy will open up with strong numbers. Do not get me wrong, but a lot of her sales are coming from digital sites. Let's see how much she sells in stores, though we may not know that info.
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^ A lot of the times BB tells you the digital numbers of an album, usually if they are strong..
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CHART DATE: 08/23/2010
LAST UPDATE: 08/24/2010 13:52:05
NOW IN: FINAL
LW TW artist / album label power index % change
1 1 EMINEM SHADY/AFTERMATH/INT 116,558 -11%
RECOVERY
-- 2 KEM UNIVERSAL MOTOWN 76,406 --
INTIMACY
-- 3 RAY LAMONTAGNE RCA/RMG 63,817 --
GOD WILLIN' & THE CREEK DON'T RI
-- 4 IRON MAIDEN COLUMBIA 61,935 --
FINAL FRONTIER
-- 5 TRACE ADKINS SHOW DOG 48,419 --
COWBOY'S BACK IN TOWN
2 6 ARCADE FIRE MERGE 34,121 -32%
SUBURBS
12 7 LADY ANTEBELLUM CAPITOL NASHVILLE/EMI 33,084 +39%
NEED YOU NOW
6 8 JUSTIN BIEBER ISLAND/IDJMG 30,169 -8%
MY WORLD 2.0
-- 9 DAVID GRAY DOWNTOWN 25,610 --
FOUNDLING
-- 10 JOHN MELLENCAMP ROUNDER 23,777 --
NO BETTER THAN THIS
8 11 RICK ROSS DEF JAM/IDJ 23,508 -19%
TEFLON DON
11 12 DRAKE YM/CASH MONEY/UNIV MOTOWN 23,333 -3%
THANK ME LATER
10 13 AVENGED SEVENFOLD WARNER BROS. 22,228 -17%
NIGHTMARE
3 14 CAMP ROCK 2: THE FINAL JAM WALT DISNEY 22,120 -47%
SOUNDTRACK
9 15 KIDZ BOP KIDS RAZOR & TIE 20,407 -28%
KIDZ BOP 18
13 16 LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE 19,397 -5%
FAME
21 17 MUMFORD & SONS GLASSNOTE 18,417 +32%
SIGH NO MORE
-- 18 LADY ANTEBELLUM CAPITOL NASHVILLE/EMI 17,610 --
ITUNES SESSION
5 19 BLAKE SHELTON WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE 17,106 -52%
ALL ABOUT TONIGHT
14 20 ZAC BROWN BAND ATLANTIC 16,597 -13%
FOUNDATION
22 21 MIRANDA LAMBERT COLUMBIA NASHVILLE 15,588 +18%
REVOLUTION
25 22 CAROLE KING & JAMES TAYLOR HEAR MUSIC 15,583 +30%
LIVE AT THE TROUBADOUR
15 23 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 34 CAPITOL/EMI 15,144 -18%
VARIOUS ARTISTS
24 24 KE$HA KEMOSABE/RCA/RMG 15,085 +23%
ANIMAL
16 25 EAT PRAY LOVE MONKEYWRENCH 14,785 -16%
SOUNDTRACK
18 26 BLACK EYED PEAS INTERSCOPE 13,149 -12%
E.N.D. (ENERGY NEVER DIES)
26 27 SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD ABKCO 12,949 +9%
SOUNDTRACK
23 28 SHERYL CROW A&M 12,732 -2%
100 MILES FROM MEMPHIS
-- 29 HEY MONDAY COLUMBIA 12,388 --
BENEATH IT ALL
19 30 USHER LAFACE/JLG 12,351 -17%
RAYMOND VS. RAYMOND
32 31 B.O.B. ATLANTIC 11,510 +4%
ADVENTURES OF BOBBY RAY
27 32 JACK JOHNSON BRUSHFIRE/UNIV REPUBLIC 11,465 -3%
TO THE SEA
17 33 LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE 11,036 -31%
THE REMIX
28 34 TRAIN COLUMBIA 10,647 -9%
SAVE ME SAN FRANCISCO
36 35 BLACK KEYS NONESUCH 10,474 0%
BROTHERS
20 36 BUN B RAP-A-LOT 10,399 -26%
TRILL O.G.
35 37 LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE 10,046 -5%
FAME MONSTER (EP)
7 38 MIKE POSNER J RECORDS/RMG 10,022 -66%
31 MINUTES TO TAKEOFF
4 39 BLACK LABEL SOCIETY E1 MUSIC 9,988 -72%
ORDER OF THE BLACK
39 40 MILEY CYRUS HOLLYWOOD 9,907 +14%
CAN'T BE TAMED
38 41 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 9,525 -4%
EUPHORIA
-- 42 DONDRIA MALACO 9,422 --
DONDRIA VS. PHATFFFAT
37 43 JUSTIN BIEBER ISLAND/IDJMG 9,368 -9%
MY WORLD
34 44 JERROD NIEMANN ARISTA NASHVILLE 9,194 -14%
JUDGE JERROD & THE HUNG JURY
33 45 JONAS L.A. WALT DISNEY 9,035 -18%
SOUNDTRACK
41 46 CARRIE UNDERWOOD 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 8,717 +5%
PLAY ON
42 47 BIG BOI DEF JAM/IDJ 8,303 +2%
SIR LUSCIOUS LEFT FOOT
40 48 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 8,085 -5%
FEARLESS
48 49 TAIO CRUZ MERCURY 7,955 +8%
ROKSTARR
30 50 TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS REPRISE 7,728 -32%
MOJO
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Dang, the Today Show performance + TIO really helped Ke$ha.
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