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Chart Chat 11/10/09: Carrie-On To The Top!!
As expected. Carrie Underwood enters the Billboard Album chart at the #1 position with her new album “Play On”. 318,00 country fans made their way over to the cash registers for this one, making it Carrie’s third consecutive chart topper. While it’s less than the 527,000 scans her second album, “Carnival Ride” garnered in it’s debut week, it’s about on pace with what her debut, “Some Hearts” scored in it’s first week (314,000). That particular […]
Billboard Changes Chart Methodology: The Michael Jackson Rule?
Billboard announced this morning that they are revising their chart methodology so that older albums can appear on the Top 200 album chart. Previously, albums were removed from the chart after 2 years (which was changed to 78 weeks fairly recently).
This will result in some significant changes to the make up of the album chart. Particularly when it comes to albums that are perennials, like Bob Marley’s “Legend”, or to use a more recent example, […]
Chart Chat 11/4/09: Yup, More MJ News
Surprising absolutely no one, Michael Jackson rules the Billboard Album Charts this week. The soundtrack to the movie “This is It” opens at the top spot with an impressive 373,000 units sold. An additional 6,000 units of the iTunes only collection of the album’s demos were also sold. The buzz around “This is It” was so intense that even the debut album by the intended tour’s guitarist, Orianthi, debuts at #125 this week with over […]