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Chart Listings: Billboard 200 Albums (August 22-29, 2012)
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My question is, will Pink be outsold by Wiz Khalifa?
Funhouse debuted at #2 with 180K (behind AC/DC's Black Ice)
Rolling Papers debuted at #2 with 197K (behind Femme Fatale)
And what's interesting to note about Khalifa is that his album was released in Q1, while Pink's was a Q4.
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Originally posted by ClashAndBurn
My question is, will Pink be outsold by Wiz Khalifa?
Funhouse debuted at #2 with 180K (behind AC/DC's Black Ice)
Rolling Papers debuted at #2 with 197K (behind Femme Fatale)
And what's interesting to note about Khalifa is that his album was released in Q1, while Pink's was a Q4.
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I think Wiz Khalifa's sales will decline without a "Black and Yellow" type hit. WHPH flopped in the U.S. for a lead single, so that won't help his sales.
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Originally posted by ClashAndBurn
My question is, will Pink be outsold by Wiz Khalifa?
Funhouse debuted at #2 with 180K (behind AC/DC's Black Ice)
Rolling Papers debuted at #2 with 197K (behind Femme Fatale)
And what's interesting to note about Khalifa is that his album was released in Q1, while Pink's was a Q4.
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It should be interesting I'm expecting P!nk to do about 150k but I have no idea about Wiz.
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Interesting
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
Between the momentum of "Payphone" and now the infectious "One More Night," it is natural.
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One More Night seems to be selling the album.
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Originally posted by ClashAndBurn
My question is, will Pink be outsold by Wiz Khalifa?
Funhouse debuted at #2 with 180K (behind AC/DC's Black Ice)
Rolling Papers debuted at #2 with 197K (behind Femme Fatale)
And what's interesting to note about Khalifa is that his album was released in Q1, while Pink's was a Q4.
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Don't see Wiz matching those numbers this time around.
And looks like Pink will be blocked from a #1 again if that G.O.O.D. Music's date sticks.
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Originally posted by TheGeoKing
I think Wiz Khalifa's sales will decline without a "Black and Yellow" type hit. WHPH flopped in the U.S. for a lead single, so that won't help his sales.
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I'm really surprised he hasn't released a follow-up single yet, since his album is being released so soon...
Either way, Rick Ross's singles have been flopping harder, and he had a pretty big debut even then...
"Blow Me" hasn't been slaying the charts either. Not at all the number one smash that some people here were predicting/hoping it to be.
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One More Night seems to be selling the album.
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No surprise, one of the best songs of the year
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Originally posted by ClashAndBurn
I'm really surprised he hasn't released a follow-up single yet, since his album is being released so soon...
Either way, Rick Ross's singles have been flopping harder, and he had a pretty big debut even then...
"Blow Me" hasn't been slaying the charts either. Not at all the number one smash that some people here were predicting/hoping it to be.
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He is going to release a remix with Wayne + Drake soon, so that might boost it.
Ross is an established rap artist though, Wiz Khalifa isn't.
"Blow Me" is still gaining a lot on radio though, I think it still has Top 3 hit potential in it.
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Who's going to buy that Wiz album with that cover?
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LOL Wiz doesn't need a hit like "Black & Yellow". The hype from the Taylor Alderice mixtape alone will help him shift many copies just from his following and "Work Hard, Play Hard" hardly "flopped".
I can't predict what he may do though, but he wasn't going to be the reason P!nk misses No. 1 again. "Blow Me" is the bomb here, she generally has no real momentum going into this album's release. The VMAs performance of "Try" needs to be resounding, as well as the song needs to be better, as "BM" sucks.
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don't forget his hit song with snoop dog & bruno mars young, wild and free, the song has already hit 3M in sales and it's so popular on youtube, so he's gonna be fine, he might even open up with a better number than his debut album.
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Wiz and The Killers ain't outselling P!nk I think...she's getting number one.
I mean Wiz....no top 10 hit, no pop hit, horrible album cover, forgettable album name, much less hype than before, no big promo.
And we have seen the pediction for the Killers
Cruel Summer ain't attacking 200K in its third week NO WAY. They are a theat only if they delay it for Pink's week.
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Wiz and The Killers ain't outselling P!nk I think...she's getting number one.
I mean Wiz....no top 10 hit, no pop hit, horrible album cover, forgettable album name, much less hype than before, no big promo.
And we have seen the pediction for the Killers
Cruel Summer ain't attacking 200K in its third week NO WAY. They are a theat only if they delay it for Pink's week.
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They did. It's been pushed back to September 18.
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They did. It's been pushed back to September 18.
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The ****
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Originally posted by Sexy Boy
The ****
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So yeah, P!nk ain't getting that number one album.
Such a shame too. But she's a bit like Rihanna in that they release in the wrong weeks. She released against AC/DC's second week of sales in 2008, which had already debuted huge (around 750K, I think).
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Originally posted by ClashAndBurn
So yeah, P!nk ain't getting that number one album.
Such a shame too. But she's a bit like Rihanna in that they release in the wrong weeks. She released against AC/DC's second week of sales in 2008, which had already debuted huge (around 750K, I think).
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GOOD music might delay one more time tho...like the album doesn't even have a tracklist yet, right?...And if it gets released the 18th - with a bit of luck and good second single and promo Pink might still outsell it.
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Originally posted by Sexy Boy
GOOD music might delay one more time tho...like the album doesn't even have a tracklist yet, right?...And if it gets released the 18th - with a bit of luck and good second single and promo Pink might still outsell it.
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They've pushed it back twice already. And label collabs tend to do well... Maybach Music Group and Odd Future are examples. The fact that Kanye himself is a bigger name than individuals like Rick Ross and Tyler, The Creator will mean even more.
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Originally posted by Rico Shameless v2
LOL Wiz doesn't need a hit like "Black & Yellow". The hype from the Taylor Alderice mixtape alone will help him shift many copies just from his following and "Work Hard, Play Hard" hardly "flopped".
I can't predict what he may do though, but he wasn't going to be the reason P!nk misses No. 1 again. "Blow Me" is the bomb here, she generally has no real momentum going into this album's release. The VMAs performance of "Try" needs to be resounding, as well as the song needs to be better, as "BM" sucks.
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WHPH flopped for a lead single, I mean is it even Platinum yet?
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