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Fly Like The Eagles
So, at the 11th hour, Billboard made an adjustment to it’s chart reporting system, which allowed the new Eagles album (“Long Road Out of Eden”), which is available only through Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club and their respective websites, to chart. End result? The Eagles album scans well over 700,000 units, making it easily the #1 album in the country and another feather in the cap of the band with the biggest-selling album of all-time (although personally […]
High School Musical-Something Like A Phenomenon?
So, everyone knows about record sales being in the crapper…yadayadayada.
But the fact is…people are still running in to buy certain things. It’s just that phenomenons are fewer and further between.
This week, the High School Musical 2 Soundtrack marks it’s fourth consecutive week on top of Billboard’s Album Chart, with sales at a very healthy 170,000 copies. It’s sold nearly 1.5 million copies in four weeks. This comes after the soundtrack to the first movie sold […]
The Battle – Kanye vs. 50 Cent
The numbers are in and it looks like the three of us (me, Mike and Dayo) were all low on our projections for Kanye. Dayo’s projection of 50 Cent’s record was a bit high, but not as high as originally thought.
Here are the numbers (from Mike who works in the music industry):
Kanye West’s Graduation: 957,000 units sold
50 Cent’s Curtis: 691,000 units sold
Here’s what Mike posted on The Epinions Music Source message board.
Kanye sold 957,000 units of “Graduation”, making it easily the biggest debut of the year. Actually, if you take away 50 Cent and Eminem, the last album to debut with this strong a number was ‘N Sync’s “Celebrity” in 2001.
50 Cent debuted at #2 with a still-impressive 691,000 units sold, making it the second biggest debut of the year, and for those interested, Kenny Chesney was a distant third place with 387K sold, a number which looks lame next to Kanye’s and 50’s, but would have been the #1 record of the week for about 80% of the year so far.
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