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  • Chart Check: 3/30/08: Leona Lewis,Danity Kane & More

    Courtesy of the good folks at Billboard, here are this week’s Albums & Singles charts:
    Top 20 Albums:
    1) Welcome To The Dollhouse-Danity Kane
    2) Now That’s What I Call Music 27-Various Artists
    3) Trilla-Rick Ross
    4) Mail On Sunday-FloRida
    5) Sleep Through The Static-Jack Johnson
    6) Hannah Montana 2 Soundtrack/Meet Miley Cyrus-Miley Cyrus
    7) Ego Trippin’-Snoop Dogg
    8) Taylor Swift-Taylor Swift
    9) Little Voice-Sara Bareilles
    10) Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert-Miley Cyrus
    11) Alvin & The Chipmunks-Soundtrack
    12) Jonas Brothers-Jonas Brothers
    13) As I Am-Alicia Keys
    14) Good Time-Alan Jackson
    15) Carnival Ride-Carrie Underwood
    16) Kidz Bop 13-Various Artists
    17) Discipline-Janet Jackson
    18) The Odd Couple-Gnarls Barkley
    19) Coco-Colbie Caillait
    20) Radio Disney Jams 10-Various Artists
    Top 20 Singles:
    1) Bleeding Love-Leona Lewis
    2) Love in this Club-Usher feat. Young Jeezy
    3) Sexy Can I-Ray J. & Yung Berg
    4) With You-Chris Brown
    5) Love Song-Sara Bareilles
    6) No Air-Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown
    7) Low-FloRida feat. T-Pain
    8) Don’t Stop The Music-Rihanna
    9) Lollipop-Li’l Wayne
    10) Shortie Get Loose-Lil’ Mama feat. Chris Brown & T-Pain
    11) Apologize-Timbaland feat. OneRepublic
    12) Stop & Stare-OneRepublic
    13) Superstar-Lupe Fiasco feat. Matthew Santos
    14) See You Again-Miley Cyrus
    15) Touch My Body-Mariah Carey
    16) Independent- Webbie feat. Li’l Phat & Li’l Boosie
    17) No One-Alicia Keys
    18) Sorry-Buckcherry
    19) Elevator-FloRida feat. Timbaland
    20) New Soul-Yael Naim
    *Off the chart, the big news is the loud thudding sound made by “American Idol” judge Randy Jackson’s compilation album “Music Club Vol. 1”, which debuted at #50 last week and drops to #137 this week. This development raises two questions: 1) in light of “Idol” finalists with far more impressive sales pedigrees getting relieved of their contracts, is The Dawg going to receive the same unceremonious boot? and 2) Why do I feel like the *other* Randy Jackson (brother of Michael and Janet) could put out an album right now and have a similar or better response at the cash registers?
    *Brit newcomer Leona Lewis enjoys an impressive move to #1 on the charts this week, but her happiness will be short lived, as Mariah Carey (at #15) will see a sales lift next week due to “Touch My Body”‘s iTunes availability. If Mariah makes it to the top, it will be her 18th chart topper, jumping her ahead of Elvis Presley into 2nd place as the artist with the most #1 singles in history (The Beatles are #1, with 20)
    *Gnarls Barkley enjoy an impressive #18 debut with only about a half-week of sales, as their sophomore effort, “The Odd Couple” didn’t arrive in record stores until Thursday or Friday, two to three days after the tracking week began.
    *Chris Brown manages the impressive feet of scoring three songs in the Top 10 this week, a feat that was most recently accomplished by T-Pain last year. Mr. Pain is no slouch himself, with two songs in the Top 10, including one shared with Mr. Brown
    *Lil’ Mama, believe it or not, is only the fourth female rapper to score two Top Ten hits on the pop chart. The others? Li’l Kim, Da Brat and Missy Elliott.
    *Nice week to be Diddy, eh? Not only was the L.A. Times story that implicated him in Tupac’s 1994 shooting revealed to be a fraud, but his proteges Danity Kane enter the charts at #1 for the second time, making them the only female act to debut at #1 with two consecutive albums. Next week, Puff’s boy-band counterpart, Day26, will ALSO enter the charts at the top with their debut. Expect to see lots of Puffy smiling with those little-ass teeth!!

  • Can Diddy Do It Again?

    First off, will we ever get to call him Sean “Puffy” Combs ever again?

    This coming Tuesday, all girl pop group Danity Kane releases their sophomore album Welcome To The Doll House. It seems like just yesterday when Puffy, I mean Diddy, put the group together through the MTV show, Making The Band. When he whittled down the hopefuls, the result was Shannon, Aundrea, Aubrey, Dawn, and D. Woods. Having many weeks of television is a great marketing opportunity, as millions of people were able to watch the girls blend into a mature girl group. Also, Diddy and company utilized MySpace as a marketing tool better than any professional that I’ve ever seen. As a result, the girls sold over 200,000 units during the first week of release and eventually went platinum.

    Puff Daddy, I mean Diddy, is trying to strike while the iron is hot. Trying to duplicate his success with Danity Kane, Diddy put together an all male R&B group, called Day26, during the fourth iteration of Making The Band. The show was just as much boot camp as it was singing competition, but it worked, and when the latest version of the show featured Danity Kane, Day26, and solo artist Donnie J. all fighting for studio time, my thought was that Diddy done did it again. However, the music landscape has changed even more so than when Danity Kane’s first album was released. MySpace was still the hottest website around.

    If you’ve watched the season, the girls are desperately trying hard to match the success of the first album. The guys are just trying to find their place. Donnie J., who is sort of a mix between Jordan Knight and Justin Timberlake, is simply trying to not get lost in the shuffle.

    The good news is, Day26 looks to have the chops to be a real R&B group. Danity Kane needs a hot single to hit, but I can’t imagine their new album will be that much different from what worked last time. And at this point, who really knows about Donnie J., as we haven’t seen a release date for him yet? But you have to give Diddy props for being one of the hardest working executives in the game. Traditional music marketing isn’t necessarily working as well as it did in the past, and he’s taking chances and being creative in selling his artists. It’s worked once, and we’ll see if it can work three more times.

    Day26’s album drops March 25, 2008 and you can listen to Danity Kane’s new album, Welcome To The Doll House on MTV’s The Leak.