Hope Frozen blocks 5SOS. Doesnt deserve to be dethroned by some one week wonder EP.
Surprised Christina Perri has such low sales. You'd think she'd be a big albums artist with her adult sound. Those are dismal sales especially on back of a song thats doing well.
If Frozen gets another week at #1 (& given the weak April schedule, it could get multiple weeks) it'll be just the 4th album to come out since 2000 to rule for 9 weeks, along with Adele, Taylor Swift, and Usher. Adele + Taylor won AOTY; Usher got in w/7 other noms (& 3 wins), when his 2nd-best year was 2 noms and otherwise he's never gotten into the general field.
It does look locked this week to get another T2 placement; the only 2000+ albums to spend as many weeks in the T2 are the above 3, plus: Britney Spears's Oops!...I Did It Again. Oops had the weirdest trajectory - only one week at #1, then an enormous 13 weeks at #2 behind three different multi-week #1 smashes.
YOUR TOP 15: The race for #1 heats up this week with Capitol's 5 Seconds of Summer providing a solid challenge to Frozen, Disney's powerhouse soundtrack. Here's how it looks headed into the weekend:
1. Frozen (Disney) 140-150k
2. 5 Seconds of Summer (Capitol) 135-145k
3. Chevelle (Epic) 40-45k
4. Christina Perri (Atlantic) 40-45k
5. Dan + Shay (Warner Bros. Nashville) 28-32k
6. Shakira (RCA/Sony Latin) 27-30k
7. Johnny Cash (Sony Legacy) 21-24k
8. Pharrell Williams (Columbia) 21-24k
9. Lorde (Lava/Republic) 18-20k
10. Nickel Creek (Nonesuch) 18-20k
11. The Used (Hopeless) 18-20k
12. Manchester Orchestra (Republic) 17-19k
13. Now 49 (NOW) 15-17k
14. Rick Ross (Def Jam) 15-17k
15. John Legend (Columbia) 15-17k
16. Luke Bryan (Capitol Nashville) 15-17k
17. YG (CTE/Def Jam) 15-17k
18. Steel Panther (Open E/Kobalt) 15-17k
In other news, the recent earthquakes caused fissures in the walls of the HITS cesspool, unearthing a trove of promotional cassingles from 1997. (4/3p)
Her first album debuted with more sales and I was hoping she would build some momentum.
