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Chart Listings: The HITS & SoundScan Top Albums discussion thread.
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Billboard edited the article
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estimates suggest it could sell around 200,000 by June 5
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LOL! I kinda figured they made a mistake. They have been making errors a lot lately.
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1.1 all the way down to 200k? That's what I'm getting from the article anyway. That's a 80+% drop. Still good sales though.
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1 Lady Gaga 1,108,400 1,110,700
2 Brad Paisley 152,500 152,900
3 Adele 126,400 1,974,300
4 Glee Cast 79,800 79,900
5 Various 58,700 58,900
6 Various 45,000 288,000
7 NKOTBSB 39,500 39,600
8 Foster The People 33,300 33,500
9 Jason Aldean 32,600 1,237,000
10 Mumford & Sons 25,000 1,487,700
11 Seether 23,400 84,900
12 Scotty McCreery 23,100 23,100
13 Journey 21,400 21,400
14 Beastie Boys 19,500 213,800
15 Il Volo 19,200 43,100
16 Lady Gaga 19,200 4,201,400
17 Lemonade Mouth 19,000 207,800
18 Jennifer Lopez 18,000 156,400
19 Katy Perry 17,300 1,499,900
20 Bruno Mars 17,300 1,053,300
21 Fleet Foxes 16,400 166,000
22 Justin Bieber 16,100 620,800
23 Zac Brown Band 15,900 935,200
24 Rascal Flatts 15,800 843,000
25 Taylor Swift 15,700 3,435,500
26 Loney Island 14,700 106,300
27 Wiz Khalifa 14,500 417,000
28 Chris Brown 14,200 582,500
29 Rihanna 14,000 1,284,700
30 Foo Fighters 13,800 420,200
31 Christina Perri 13,400 93,200
32 Nicki Minaj 12,500 1,394,000
33 Britney Spears 12,400 531,100
34 Justin Bieber 12,300 2,786,300
35 Kirk Franklin 12,200 255,000
36 Glee Cast 11,900 170,300
37 The Band Perry 11,700 569,300
38 P!NK 11,100 766,200
39 Jadakiss 11,100 11,200
40 Lady Antebellum 10,700 3,511,400
41 Lauren Alaina 10,600 10,600
42 Paul Simon 10,200 190,800
43 Michael Grimm 10,100 32,100
44 Sara Evans 10,000 198,200
45 Cars 9,900 60,000
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Teenage Dream passed 1.5 Million , I see 2 million+ in it's future.
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I wish they would have included Adele's 19 like they did The Fame. It did enough to make the top 30.
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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
I wish they would have included Adele's 19 like they did The Fame. It did enough to make the top 30.
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I think this is the list of Top Current Albums and it doesn't include catalog albums.
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Originally posted by Green
I think this is the list of Top Current Albums and it doesn't include catalog albums.
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The Fame isn't a catalog album? How does that work?
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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
The Fame isn't a catalog album? How does that work?
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The Fame will be a catalog album when it falls off the top 100. After that it won't be on the Top Current Albums anymore. (But it will still chart on the Billboard 200 because that chart includes catalog albums too since December of 2009).
From wiki:
An album becomes a catalog title when it is more than 18 months old and has fallen below position 100 on the Billboard 200.
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29 Rihanna 14,000 1,284,700
33 Britney Spears 12,400 531,100
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Originally posted by FAN
Teenage Dream passed 1.5 Million , I see 2 million+ in it's future.
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19 Katy Perry 17,300 1,499,900
just 100 sales away from 1.5
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amazing numbers
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That is hardly a surprise that Gaga is gonna crash and burn. That pretty much eliminates her stans defense that all these 450k (or majority of them) would have bought the album anyway, if it wasn`t for the 99cent thingy.
If it was a great album/album of the decade....it would sell 300k easily from the million-promo and good word of mouth.
It just collapsed. Or...oh wait...i heard that Gaga-s team is on damage control already. 9.99 on Best Buy. Might smooth things a little.
Still...no real smashes on this album imo. It will scan 2 mil and crawl slowly towards 2,5mil. But its still pretty solid for a pop artist.
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
To compare Speak Now dropped to 320k, Tha Carter III 309k. Both 69-70%, usual drops. GaGa will do about 80%+.
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I didn't expect "BTW" to drop that much
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Gaga's album is at 7.99 at Best Buy too
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LADY GAGA SOLD OVER 1 MILLION COPIES IT'S FIRST WEEK! Of course, her sales are going to drop in it's second week! For the most part everyone has the album already.
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Originally posted by muddysquirrel
That is hardly a surprise that Gaga is gonna crash and burn. That pretty much eliminates her stans defense that all these 450k (or majority of them) would have bought the album anyway, if it wasn`t for the 99cent thingy.
If it was a great album/album of the decade....it would sell 300k easily from the million-promo and good word of mouth.
It just collapsed. Or...oh wait...i heard that Gaga-s team is on damage control already. 9.99 on Best Buy. Might smooth things a little.
Still...no real smashes on this album imo. It will scan 2 mil and crawl slowly towards 2,5mil. But its still pretty solid for a pop artist.
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Sounds exactly like Speak Now minus the fact that it won't be local to the US.
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Originally posted by muddysquirrel
That is hardly a surprise that Gaga is gonna crash and burn. That pretty much eliminates her stans defense that all these 450k (or majority of them) would have bought the album anyway, if it wasn`t for the 99cent thingy.
If it was a great album/album of the decade....it would sell 300k easily from the million-promo and good word of mouth.
It just collapsed. Or...oh wait...i heard that Gaga-s team is on damage control already. 9.99 on Best Buy. Might smooth things a little.
Still...no real smashes on this album imo. It will scan 2 mil and crawl slowly towards 2,5mil. But its still pretty solid for a pop artist.
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There's no reason to be that rude. Taylor Swift dropped to 320,000 her second week, and that was with her Target promotion and a few other outlets such as talkshows in place. Gaga is out of the country, a popstar, has TEOG slowly rising on the radio (no visible smash hits) and will be selling the majority through physical outlets from this point on.
I think you will be surprised by the long-term sales of this album. Of course her sales are going to crash the second week, that's what happens when you have a rabid fan base that buys the album the first day. It takes time to sell it to the public.
That's not to mention that a 200,000 sales week is on par with the first week sales of most of the other major girls in pop.
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