My bad. All the grocery stores, drug stores, and restaurants in my area were open. I assumed the huge warehouse and department stores were open but I looked up online and most of them actually closed. It seems so unlike Wal-Mart to pass up an opportunity to sell more stuff.
Wal-Mart has never been open on Christmas even the 24 hrs Wal-Marts closed early on Christmas Eve.
With no new complete chart this week, HITS nevertheless plows forward with its Top 15, which will once again be headed by Big Machine's Taylor Swift, whose Speak Now should do between 275-300k to remain at #1. That will top her total of 255k last week and bring her cumulative sales to a warming 2.9 million.
he must have bought multiple copies for himself + has tabs on it
Do you really believe the artist and the labels have to wait for HDD to update? They get real updates all during the sales week. The week ends on Sunday so they know as early as Monday what the final numbers will be for soundscan.
300k from the UK, let's say 150k from the US, that's 450k. Where is she getting the rest of the 200k?
the rest of the world?....... (Australia, NZ, France, Ireland, Canada, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Brazil, South Africa, Russia, Belgium, Netherlands....)
the rest of the world?....... (Australia, NZ, France, Ireland, Canada, Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan, Scandinavia, Switzerland, Brazil, South Africa, Russia, Belgium, Netherlands....)
The world is not reduced to The UK and The US....
And you think she can sell 200k in these conutries? Their album sales are minimal. The max she can do in them is probably 50k.
And she is still predominantly a singles artist. She's not pulling Beyoncé, Britney, Taylor numbers. Sales are inflated now for obvious reasons--we'll see where she's at in 3-6 months.
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Originally posted by dposton
Beyonce IASF after 8 weeks 2.3 M (Nov release)
Britney Circus after 6 weeks 2.3M (Dec release)
Rihanna Loud after 6 weeks 2.2-2.3M (Nov release)
Rihanna Loud 650k projected this week , once again outselling Taylor for the 6th straight week , decreasing the gap in sales
annnnnnnnnd your done.
girl, those are not Britney sales. Britney's sales came from no promotion except the first week of release. Rihanna's sales are coming mostly from the UK where she has promoted on the biggest show not once, not twice but THREE times.
not to mention Rihanna had BLACK FRIDAY sales. Britney's weeks also landed in January which is the month with the lowest sales while all of Rihanna's weeks have been in shopping season weeks.
she's having good sales but that's because of the promotion. if she were to pull a "Britney". her sales would be awful.
girl, those are not Britney sales. Britney's sales came from no promotion except the first week of release. Rihanna's sales are coming mostly from the UK where she has promoted on the biggest show not once, not twice but THREE times.
she's having good sales but that's because of the promotion. if she were to pull a "Britney". her sales would be awful.
annndddddd you're done.
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Is it so difficult to accept that Rihanna is having Beyonce numbers and Britney numbers??? I dont know why is it so hard.....
And she could be in every US show ATM and she's not.
And by the way.... NOT BEYONCE OR BTRINEY has ever had 306K sold in a week in the UK.... and Beyonce did go to the X factor too....
Is it so difficult to accept that Rihanna is having Beyonce numbers and Britney numbers??? I dont know why is it so hard.....
And she could be in every US show ATM and she's not.
And by the way.... NOT BEYONCE OR BTRINEY has ever had 306K sold in a week in the UK.... and Beyonce did go to the X factor too....
go back and read my post because i added something. Rihanna is having Beyonce sales but it's IMPOSSIBLE for ANY artist to have Britney sales. Britney is the ONLY artist that could drop an album and have it sell like hot cakes without promoting it left to right. Rihanna is having amazing sales thanks to her promotion but her sales aren't on Britney's level. I already proved this with my point.
Neither have Beyonce or Britney performed at the biggest show in the UK 3 times in one season.
go back and read my post because i added something. Rihanna is having Beyonce sales but it's IMPOSSIBLE for ANY artist to have Britney sales. Britney is the ONLY artist that could drop an album and have it sell like hot cakes without promoting it left to right. Rihanna is having amazing sales thanks to her promotion but her sales aren't on Britney's level. I already proved this with my point.
Neither have Beyonce or Britney performed at the biggest show in the UK 3 times in one season.
let me remind you that Britney's BLACKOUT sold THE SAME as Rated R
and CIRCUS sold 4 Million copies.... And Britney DID perform in the X Factor.....