Red-Hot Cobra Starship, the latest Decaydance/Fueled by Ramen release (home of Panic at the Disco, among others), distributed by Atlantic, are the next heighest debut at 40-45k
Red-Hot Cobra Starship, the latest Decaydance/Fueled by Ramen release (home of Panic at the Disco, among others), distributed by Atlantic, are the next heighest debut at 40-45k,
Their highest debut to date. I'm happy for them <3
Beyoncé's "I Am... Sasha Fierce" (Columbia/Sony Music Entertainment), now in its 38th week on the composite survey, climbs 15-7, returning to the top ten for the first time since May. That's fuelled by a 12-5 move in the United Kingdom, where the single "Sweet Dreams," up 6-5, has reawakened sales of the album, now at a total of 745,000. "Fierce" is also up 11-10 in Spain.
^ You can't really use P!nk as an example since Australia love her to death.
Album sales are falling here too though. Iirc, the top selling album (MJ's 'The Essential Michael Jackson') sold approx. 19.5k copies, and the higest entrant into the chart (Lisa Mitchell's 'Wonder' at number 6) sold somewhere in the 6k zone. Terrible numbers, even for a country of our size.
We tend to get huge first week numbers, then they plumet fast and sell constant rates of small amounts now.
Kings of Leon, P!nk and (obviously) MJ have been exceptions to this though. (Their numbers have been amazing this year and the latter part of last)
Music sales these days If you are a new artist and you will make an album this year, you have to release and promote many ***** before you even reach Gold