Yeah. Hip Hop acts ALWAYS have the highest opening numbers. That's just the way it is. The people in the demographic for hip hop seem to buy albums more frequently than pop. It's kinda the same for R&B, too.
I'm glad Christina flopped, but I'm feeling sorry for her as well.
I have grown to really like the album and I don't understand why she didn't even crack 200k, her first week sales only went up with each album, and this is a really huge downgrade.
I really thought she had an established fanbase by now.
One thing I noticed about Hip Hop fans is that they are more concerned about first week sales than overall sales. Every time a big rapper or a rapper with hype comes out with a CD, it's "a milli" first week. Hip Hop fans drop off after the first week.
Twilight has fans of the books and the movies...and the artists on the soundtracks are popular. How is it a question why they sell? It's a popular series.
Back on this week's chart, Christina Aguilera's fourth English-language studio album, "Bionic," bows at No. 3 with 110,000. Her last effort, the 2006 double-length album "Back to Basics," bowed at No. 1 with 346,000 copies sold. Over on the Digital Songs chart, her new album's title track debuts at No. 39 with 43,000 downloads, while the set's first single, "Not Myself Tonight," re-enters at No. 56 with 30,000 (up 149%).
Kelly Clarkson: My December - 291,000
Madonna: American Life - 241,000
Mariah: Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel – 168,000
Pink: Try This – 147,000
Janet: 20 Y.O. – 297,000, Discipline – 181,000 Christina: Bionic – 111,000
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