Weekly Billboard Charts (USA)
By Damien | January 20, 2011
CHARTS
This week’s Billboard 200 (album chart) and Billboard Hot 100 (singles charts) look like this:
ALBUMS
#1. Cake - Showroom of Compassion - 42,000 sold
#2. Cage The Elephant - Thank You Happy Birthday - 38,000
#3. Taylor Swift - Speak Now - 35,000
#4. Bruno Mars - Doo Wops & Hooligans - 32,000
#5. Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday - 32,000
SINGLES
#1. Britney Spears - Hold It Against Me - 410,000 digital downloads
#2. Bruno Mars - Grenade
#3. Katy Perry - Firework
#4. Rihanna - What’s My Name
#5. Wiz Khalifa - Black and Yellow
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Britney’s “Hold It Against Me” Debuts at #1
By Damien | January 20, 2011
Britney Spears has become the second artist to have more than one single debut at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 after “Hold It Against Me” shot straight to the top this week.
410,000 digital downloads saw Britney secure the top spot, pushing Bruno Mars’ “Grenade” to #2, Katy Perry’s “Firework” to #3 and Rihanna’s “Whats My Name” to #4.
Britney’s other debut #1 was “3″, back in October 2009.
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Cake, But No Celebration - Worst Sales Record Broken!
By Damien | January 19, 2011
42,000 copies of an album sold during the course of a week would normally land you somewhere on the charts, but NEVER at #1… Until now.
The Billboard 200 OFFICIAL chart isn’t in just yet but hitsdailydouble.com have reported what should represent this week’s chart, and corresponding sales, and it aint pretty!
The album “Showroom of Compassion” from Cake has landed at #1 on debut after selling only 42,000 copies around America. This goes down in history at the LOWEST total of sales for an album at #1 on the USA Charts, beating the record Taylor Swift set just last week.
Cage The Elephant’s “Thank You Happy Birthday” came in at #2, missing the top spot by only 4,000 units (38,000 sold).
Taylor Swift’s run on top end’s with a 33% dive in sales. He week end total got her to #3 with 36,000 units of her “Speak Now” going from shelves to homes in the US.
Not overly noteworthy, but considering a lot of MJ fans tune into this blog, The Estate of MJ/Sony Music’s album ‘Michael’ sold only 11,000 units this week, a poor enough effort to land him at #31 - down ten places and a 35% sales reduction on last week.
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Weekly UK Charts
By Damien | January 17, 2011
UK Charts are in (almost 24 hours ago, sorry for the delay in sharing them)
Rihanna continues her domination of the UK ALBUM charts with “Loud” selling 45,000 copies this week across the UK.
13,000 copies separates #1 and #2, with Plan B selling 32,000 copies this week. An additional 13,000 copies separates #2 and #3 - the third place album being Cee Lo Green with 19,000 copies sold.
In regards to SINGLES it was a whitewash!
Bruno Mars racked up 150,000 sales of his hit “Grenade” for a landslide #1 ranking this week, with his nearest competitor coming in a cool 95,000 LESS than him - that being Jessie J at #2 with 55,000.
Top 5’s this week are as follows:
ALBUMS
#1. Rihanna - Loud
#2. Plan B - The Defamation Of Strickland Banks
#3. Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer
#4. Rumer - Seasons of my Soul
#5. Mumford & Sons - Sign No More
SINGLES
#1. Bruno Mars - Grenade
#2. Jessie J - Do It Like A Dude
#3. Rihanna - What’s My Name
#4. Katy B - Lights On
#5. Matt Cardle - When We Collide
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Australian (ARIA) Charts - P!nk Domination Continues
By Damien | January 16, 2011
ARIA CHART UPDATE - Week ending 16.1.2011
P!nk has continued her incredible run atop the Australia album charts by spending her 9th consecutive week at #1 with her latest release “Greatest Hits… So Far!”
Australia is P!nk’s biggest market in the world when you analyse the ratio album sales or concert ticket sales to the population. Greatest Hits… So Far!” has already sold over 300,000 copies Down Under alone!
An honorable mention must also go to Bon Jovi, who’ve been continually trailing P!nk in the #2 spot. Their latest set “Bon Jovi Greatest Hits” has sold in excess of 220,000 copies since it was released 10 weeks ago to a #1 debut.
Top 5 Albums
#1. P!nk - Greatest Hits… So Far!
#2. Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi Greatest Hits
#3. Bruno Mars - Doo Wops & Hooligans
#4. Altiyan Childs - Altiyan Childs
#5. Guy Sebastian - Twenty Ten
Top 5 Singles
#1. Wynter Gordon - Dirty Talk
#2. Enrique Inglesias - Tonight (I’m Lovin’ You)
#3. Bruno Mars - Grenade
#4. Guy Sebastian - Who’s That Girl
#5. Chris Brown - Yeah 3x
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Weekly Global Single Sales
By Damien | January 14, 2011
Katy Perry spends her third consecutive week at #1 on the Global Singles chart, just as Rihanna has does on the albums chart. Perry scores 398,000 points around the world with her single “Firework” this week.
Top 5 Singles Worldwide this week are:
#1. Katy Perry - Firework - 398,000 points
#2. Black Eyed Peas - The Time (Dirty Bit) - 382,000
#3. Bruno Mars - Grenade - 310,000
#4. P!nk - Raise Your Glass - 295,000
#5. Rihanna - Only Girl (In The World) - 288,000
(stats according to mediatraffic.de)
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‘Michael’ Worldwide - Week 4
By Damien | January 14, 2011
I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS ALBUM
The Sony Music/MJ Estate album ‘Michael’ (which Michael Jackson himself did not put together or produce) is about to begin what I am going to call the “plummet from the summit”. The reason behind it is mainly the album’s content. The album is packed with songs we have already heard, some songs recorded 30 years ago, and three tracks which 50% of the MJ fan base (including Musicgoss.com) don’t even believe include MJ’s vocals. There are one or two highlights including “Best Of Joy”, which Michael recorded in 2009, but besides that it’s a very forgettable and embarrassing edition to the legacy of music’s greatest ever contributor.
The plummet is already in full effect in most English speaking countries such as USA, UK and Australia, where the album is no longer in ANY of their Top 20 Album Chart markets (it’s even fallen straight off the UK Top 40 charts altogether after only 3 weeks!)
But the fall is only just starting to happen on the Global charts now. Week by week the sales are reducing, steadily but by large margins. Just a month ago it debuted at #1 with 734,000 sales on the Global Albums chart, but this week (only 3 weeks later) the album has racked up only 93,000 sales around the world bringing it’s overall total to 1.5 million.
The album was predicted to be a blockbuster, and made an initial shipment of approximately 3 million units worldwide! That now seems like a major over-estimation and the odds of all 3 million units moving from store shelves to people’s homes is “slim to none” with the more likely of the two options being “none”.
There is talk of more singles being released from this album, but as an MJ fan I am looking to the future. I am looking to forget this mess of an album as quickly as possible and hope that the Estate and Sony feel the same way. In my opinion they need to hit the abort button, and fast!
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Weekly Global Album Chart
By Damien | January 14, 2011
Rihanna spends her third consecutive week at #1 on the Global Albums chart with 145,000 copies of her “Loud” album selling around the world this week.
Top 5 Albums Worldwide this week are:
#1. Rihanna - Loud - 145,000 copies sold
#2. Black Eyed Peas - The Beginning - 99,000
#3. Estate of MJ/Sony Music - Michael - 93,000
#4. TVXQ (Tohoshinki) - Keep Your Head Down - 90,000
#5. P!nk - Greatest Hits So Far - 75,000
(stats according to mediatraffic.de)
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Michael Jackson’s Slave To The Rhythm
By Damien | January 14, 2011
An unreleased song by the King Of Pop called “Slave To The Rhythm” has been floating around online for a while now, leaked by DJ Stolen. The song was previously littered with DJ Stolen tags.
However today a “clean” version has come out on Twitter to the MJ fans delight.
The song is AMAZING! It’s a sure-fire hit which would top the charts around the world. Michael Jackson at his best.
CLICK HERE to listen on Twitter.
CLICK HERE to listen to and download the track from Zippyshare (recommended)
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Billboard Hot 100 - Bruno Mars #1
By Damien | January 13, 2011
Bruno Mars boots Katy Perry out of the top spot this week on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Grenade”
Top 5 looks like this:
#1. Bruno Mars - Grenade
#2. Katy Perry - Firework
#3. Rihanna - What’s My Name
#4. Ke$ha - We R Who We R
#5. P!nk - Raise Your Glass
Britney Spears’ “Hold It Against Me” is likely to debut atop the charts next week with record radio airplay and an estimated 400,000 plus digital downloads.
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