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Chart Listings: HITS & SoundScan Top Albums (November 1-8, 2010)
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SN: Many people (outside of this board) thought Drake would sell a million copies in one week due to his hype. He is at about 1.2 million TOTAL. Some people thought Taylor would only do around 400k, even with all of these early reports, yet she did 1 million plus first week. It's kinda ironic... at least to me.
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FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO WERE TALKING MESS ABOUT TAYLOR'S CHEAP AMAZON TRICK, FEEL DRAGGED!
So only 40k sold at Amazon. Take that away from 1.047 million copies and you still have over 1 million copies sold (about 1.007 million). Stay mad but give props too. 
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Taylor slaying and shutting up the haters, I can't 
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Taylor's final numbers from Billboard are bigger than HITS
1,047,000
WHO'S MAD?
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Originally posted by Billboard
Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" album spoke loud and clear last week, as it will debut at No. 1 on this week's Billboard 200 chart with a whopping 1,047,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It's the largest sales week for an album since 50 Cent's "The Massacre" bowed at No. 1 with 1,141,000 in March of 2005.
Since SoundScan began tracking music sales in 1991, there have only been 16 instances where an album sold at least a million copies in a week. The last time we had a million-plus frame was when Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter III" launched at No. 1 with 1,006,000 in June of 2008. The SoundScan-era record week is still held by NSYNC's "No Strings Attached," when it debuted at No. 1 with 2,416,000 in 2000.
Nielsen SoundScan, which fuels Billboard's music sales charts, tracks point-of-purchase sales of recorded music product, aggregating data from more than 20,000 retailers in the U.S. (including digital download services like iTunes and Amazon MP3), which represents more than 95% of retail music product sales in the U.S.
A day after its Oct. 25 release, industry pundits were projecting that "Speak Now" would sell between 800,000 and 900,000 by the end of SoundScan's tracking week on Sunday, Oct. 31. Those predictions got even sunnier over the weekend, and by yesterday (Nov. 1), it seemed a sure bet that the 1 million mark would be met.
"Speak Now" marks Swift's second Billboard 200 No. 1 after her last set, "Fearless" started with 592,000 in November of 2008. It spent 11 non-consecutive weeks at the summit.
A few more Swift milestones to note: "Speak Now" has the second-largest sales week of any country album since 1991. Only Garth Brooks' 1998 effort "Double Live" moved more, when it started with 1,085,000. Thus, Swift also achieves the biggest sales week of any female country act since 1991. Previously, the high-water mark was set by fellow crossover diva Shania Twain when her "Up!" started with 874,000 at No. 1 in 2002.
And, "Speak" owns the biggest week for any album by a woman -- regardless of genre -- since 2000, when Britney Spears' "Oops! I Did It Again" danced into the No. 1 spot with 1,319,000. In total, just four albums by women have notched million-plus weeks. Aside from Swift and Spears, Whitney Houston's "The Bodyguard" soundtrack moved 1,061,000 over the busy Christmas week of 1992, and Norah Jones' "Feels Like Home" debuted at No. 1 with 1,022,000 in 2004.
http://www.billboard.com/news/taylor...04125158.story
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Paul Grein dropping shade outside SYG 
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After just one week of sales, Speak Now is already the eighth best-selling album so far this year. It sold more copies in one week than Ke$ha's Animal (993K) and Lil Wayne's Rebirth (683K) have sold all year.
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Paul Grein dropping shade outside SYG |
I will have to send Paul a little invite. He'll dragged these delusional stans with his chart expertise.
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This week’s surge brings Swift’s career album sales to 13,036,000. This puts her ahead of such longer-established acts as John Mayer, Michael Buble and Carrie Underwood.
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No he didn't. 
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8 5 eminem shady/aftermath/int 37,757
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I've always had this nagging feeling Paul Grein reads forums like this (maybe this one in particular, maybe not). He started giving the full top ten digital songs sales when he didn't before for two previous years, because we lost them.
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I've always had this nagging feeling Paul Grein reads forums like this (maybe this one in particular, maybe not). He started giving the full top ten digital songs sales when he didn't before for two previous years, because we lost them.
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CONSPIRACY
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Originally posted by Haus_of_Nicole
Paul Grein dropping shade outside SYG |
 I saw this too and the shade came to me instantly
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Recovery Chart Run
Eminem - Recovery
6/27/10 1. 741.000
7/4/10 1. 313.000 (-58%)
7/11/10 1. 229.000 (-27%)
7/18/10 1. 195.000 (-15%)
7/25/10 1. 187.000 (-4%)
8/1/10 2. 159.000 (-14%)
8/8/10 2. 152.000 (-4%)
8/15/10 1. 133.000 (-13%)
8/22/10 1. 116,000 (-12%)
8/29/10 3. 98,000 (-14%)
9/5/10 3. 93,000 (-6%)
9/12/10 2. 81,000 ( -12%)
9/19/10 3. 89,000 (+10%)
9/26/10 6. 66,000 (-26%)
10/3/10 5. 59,000 (-10%)
10/10/10 4. 52,000 (-12%)
17/10/10 5. 50,000 (-4%)
24/10/10 8. 43,000 ( -15%)
31/10/10 5. 38,000 (-11%)
Total: 2,899,000
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I've always had this nagging feeling Paul Grein reads forums like this (maybe this one in particular, maybe not). He started giving the full top ten digital songs sales when he didn't before for two previous years, because we lost them.
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What are this week's predictions?
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What are this week's predictions?
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SWIFT REIGNS, ALDEAN DEBUTS AS COUNTRY RULES
Jason Aldean Represents Seventh Country Artist in a Row with Top Sales Debut
November 3, 2010
The fourth quarter finally got underway with this week's million-selling, chart-topping debut by Taylor Swift, who will certainly get another week at #1.
Based on one-day sales from those music retailers not trying to star whack Randy Quaid and his wife Evi, next week's top debut go to Broken Bow artist Jason Aldean's My Kinda Party, which is certainly not about the Republicans, but should do between 175-200k anyway.
That makes it the seventh straight week a country performer will have scored the week's top debut.
Next up, Mariah Carey gives birth to her Island/IDJ holiday album, Merry Christmas II You, expected to sell in the 50-60k range for the mom-to-be.
Neil Diamond's self-produced Columbia album, Dreams, finds him covering classics like "Ain't No Sunshine," "Blackbird," "MIdnight Train to Georgia," "Desperado" and "A Song for You" as well as a version of his own "I'm a Believer," originally performed by the Monkees. The album, which will hopefully provide some momentum for his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction bid, should be around 30-35k.
Fader's Brooklyn indie phenoms Matt & Kim are back with a projected 20-25k for their latest, Sidewalks, the same total on tap for Arista Nashville country star Brad Paisley's Hits Alive package.
Cherrytree/Interscope Neptunes rock spinoff N.E.R.D. returns with Nothing, which should do 17-20k in sales, as will Good Charlotte with their Capitol/EMI debut, Cardiology.
The market was up 12% vs. last week (of course, almost one out of five of those albums sold were by Taylor Swift), down 8% vs. same week last year and still down 13% year to date. You may now return to attempting to locate President Obama's coattails.
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