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Chart Listings: HITS & SoundScan Top Albums (February 21-28, 2011)
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BEP The Beginning
Totals: 526,059
I need JCGE to smash!!!!
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Good haha. Glad this went Gold. Now let's go for Platinum next.
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Official numbers are in:
Saigon sells five-figures worth of his highly-anticipated debut, and the Grammy moments pull the pack ahead of Nicki Minaj, and bring Janelle Monae back to the charts.
In the weekly-round-robin of rankings, it was Bruno Mars that surged ahead. After a Grammy performance with label-mates B.o.B. and Janelle Monae, Mars' Doo Wops & Hooligans re-entered the Top 5. The annual Grammy compilation album, which includes Mars, B.o.B. and Goodie Mob member Cee Lo Green, also climbed for spots, nearly reaching the 150,000 mark.
Another Grammy performer and winner, Eminem and his Recovery, climbed a spot. The rapper ended the week by shooting a video for "Space Bound," co-starring former adult film sensation Sasha Grey.
Nicki Minaj fell five spots with Pink Friday, the only act of the pack that need make a Grammy performance or snag an award.
Despite Grammy support and a long-legged NBA All-Star game performance alongside Kanye West and Drake, Rihanna's Loud fell two more sports from the previous week.
* Please note: figures below approximated to nearest thousandth.
Top 200 Album Sales (Top 5 Hip Hop/R&B)
Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
5
Bruno Mars
Doo Wops & Hooligans 61,000
727,000
6
Eminem
Recovery 61,000
3,634,000
7
Various Artists 2011 Grammy Nominees 56,000
149,000
9
Nicki Minaj
Pink Friday 46,000
1,127,000
10
Rihanna
Loud 45,000
976,000
Lil Wayne's digital-turned-physical 2010 release I Am Not A Human Being climbed eight spots to close out the Top 25.
Down 11 places from last week was Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. The platinum album remains a constant Top 10 and Top 20 performer week-to-week. Last week, 'Ye released the Hype Williams-directed video for "All of the Lights," featuring Rihanna and Kid Cudi.
T.I.'s No Mercy slid eight more spots to #43. The emcee and label owner's latest album was released while he was incarcerated for probation violations earlier this year, involving drugs. The latest album from Tip features Kid Cudi, Scarface and Rocko, with production by DJ Toomp, Kanye West and Jake One.
After seven-plus years in the making, New York's Saigon finally released his proper studio album, The Greatest Story Never Told. Created and conceptualized on Atlantic Records, Kottonmouth Kings' Suburban Noize imprint worked with Sai to acquire the release rights to the album which sold 11,000 first-week units. Despite being on the independent label, the critically-heralded work still includes appearances by Jay-Z, Swizz Beatz, Black Thought, as well as production from Just Blaze and Kanye West. The album's FYE physical version includes a second CD with five unreleased songs.
After her Grammy moment, Atlantic's Janelle Monae climbed back on the charts with her critically-acclaimed The Archandroid. The Diddy and Big Boi protege - and DXnext alum new sits just above 140,000 overall units.
Rank Artist Album This Week Est. Total
25
Lil Wayne
I Am Not A Human Being 21,000
770,000
36
Kanye West
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
17,000
1,032,000
43
T.I.
No Mercy
15,000
440,000
58 Saigon
The Greatest Story Never Told
11,000
11,000
171
Janelle Monae
The Archandroid
3,900
141,000
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25
Lil Wayne
I Am Not A Human Being 21,000
770,000
HDD was off by 3K and 6 positions ... oh well !!! he still sold 21K and is almost at 800K total sales
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Happy Nicki Remained at #9
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Rihanna
Loud 45,000
976,000
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01 NE 01 Justin Bieber, Never Say Never: The Remixes 161,000
02 02 48 Mumford & Sons, Sigh No More 133,000
03 01 02 Various Artists, NOW 37 95,000
04 17 56 Lady Antebellum, Need You Now 85,000
05 06 20 Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans 61,000
06 07 35 Eminem, Recovery 61,000
07 11 04 Various Artists, 2011 Grammy Nominees 56,000
08 03 48 Justin Bieber, My World 2.0 54,000
09 04 13 Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday 46,000
10 08 14 Rihanna, Loud 45,000
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01 NE 01 Justin Bieber, Never Say Never: The Remixes 161,000
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What is happening to the world
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What is happening to the world
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His movie's out. A movie = MILLIONS watching. That's bound to fuel hundreds of thousands in sales.
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Im just happy she's stayed in the top 10!
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Nicki Minaj fell five spots with Pink Friday, the only act of the pack that need make a Grammy performance or snag an award.
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ADELE KEEPS “ROLLING”
XL/Columbia Diva Set to Approach 300k with Sophomore Album, 21
February 23, 2011
It took a couple of months, but the record industry finally discovered 2011.
Adele’s sophomore XL/Columbia Records release, 21, is on target to debut at #1 next week with the year’s highest sales total, expected to be anywhere from 275-300k, and possibly even higher.
With more than 150k in first-day sales reported by those music retailers who haven’t been robbed blind by Lindsay Lohan, the album will be fueled by a non-stop parade of TV appearances and a full-court press by Steve Barnett and Team Columbia.
Adele’s run began at last Friday’s Today Show, continued with a performance for Late Night with David Letterman and the show’s online site Monday (2/21), stints on Ellen and Jimmy Kimmel tomorrow (2/24), a CBS Early Show appearance Friday (2/25) and a Monday (2/28) slot on Chelsea Lately. In addition, she’ll tape a Live from the Artist’s Den for PBS this Friday that will air later this year.
The stateside push comes in the wake of her Brits Awards performance last week, which sent two of her albums and singles into the Top 5 in the U.K., the best such showing for a living artist since The Beatles.
Adele broke in with a bang for her debut album, 19, which came out in January, 2008, and earned her a pair of Grammy awards at the 2009 ceremony, including Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. The album had sold over 903k copies and 1.85 million digital tracks in the U.S. since its release
The only other newcomers to make a dent will be veteran Wind-up Bayside and Sire’s Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows, both in the 14-17k range.
In a strange quirk, due to the Grammys airing two weeks later than last year and an extra day of Valentine's shopping, the market was actually up 10% vs. the same week last year, up 12% over last week and now down just 11% to date.
Well, it’s a start.
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+300k?
Good for Adele, such an amazing album
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26 23 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 23,315 +39%
LUNGS
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Good to see Adele's prediction INCREASING!!
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Rihanna
Adele!
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I hope Adele can reach the 300k mark
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OMG ADELE
Honestly never expected such big numbers! Congrats!
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05 06 20 Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans 61,000
Great numbers for Bruno!
This album is growing on me!
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Some numbers:
11 PERRY*KATY TEENAGE DREAM 41,817 30 32,152 1,200,374
14 P!NK GREATEST HITS SO FAR 33,311 -18 40,704 468,885
15 SWIFT*TAYLOR SPEAK NOW 30,518 -5 32,285 3,198,887
19 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE LUNGS 23,907 49 16,087 474,554
27 BLACK EYED PEAS THE BEGINNING 20,672 -33 30,852 526,448
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Looks like The Beginning is on the road to irrelevance unless JCGE picks up. Reaching Platinum is going to be an uphill battle.
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