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  • Chart Chat 5/21/09: It’s a Green Day

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    As expected, Green Day takes the #1 spot on this week’s Billboard charts with their new album, “21st Century Breakdown”. The pop-punk legends sold 215,000 units of the album in only three days of release, matching up favorably with 2004’s “American Idiot”, which sold a shade under 250K in its’ first full week out.

    After Green Day on the chart? Tumbleweed City, folks. The “Hannah Montana” Soundtrack is #2 with 68K sold, and after that, no other album approaches the 50K mark. As usual, “American Idol” is the biggest catalyst behind the chart’s biggest moves. OneRepublic’s 18-month old “Dreaming Out Loud” re-enters the chart at #178 with a 120% increase over the previous week’s sales, and Katy Perry is another big gainer, as a 25% increase pushes her up 25 spots on the chart and also zooms her album “One of the Boys” past the million sales mark. Conversely, looks like bad times are ahead for former platinum-selling rappers Cam’ron and Paul Wall. Cam’s “Crime Pays” opens at an impressive #3, but only scans 43K in it’s first frame, while Wall’s “Fast Life” sells barely more than half of Cam’ron’s total to land at #15. And to think that Paul Wall had a #1 album just a couple short weeks ago.

    Next week, it’s all about Slim Shady, as Eminem’s “Relapse” is scheduled to bump Green Day out of the top spot with the biggest sales week of the year, which could approach 650,000 units sold. Stay tuned, we’ll have Em’s final numbers in our Chart Chat column next week.

    Here are this week’s Top 20 Albums

    1) “21st Century Breakdown” Green Day

    2) “Hannah Montana Soundtrack” Various Artists

    3) “Crime Pays” Cam’ron

    4) “The Fame” Lady GaGa

    5) “Unstoppable” Rascal Flatts

    6) “Together Through Life” Bob Dylan

    7) “Fearless” Taylor Swift

    8) “Epiphany” Chrisette Michele

    9) “Deeper Than Rap” Rick Ross

    10) “Fantasy Ride” Ciara

    11) “Twilight Soundtrack” Various Artists

    12) “Now That’s What I Call Music 30” Various Artists

    13) “Dark Horse” Nickelback

    14) “Only by the Night” Kings of Leon

    15) “Fast Life” Paul Wall

    16) “In a Perfect World…” Keri Hilson

    17) “Foundation” Zac Brown Band

    18) “Wide Open” Jason Aldean

    19) “Townes” Steve Earle

    20) “All I Ever Wanted” Kelly Clarkson

  • American Idol Season 8 – Playing For 2nd Place

    Kris and Danny are playing for second place right?

    Paula isn’t sitting with the rest of the judges. Is she performing again? Ok, there she is. She must be dressed up as an empty chair.

    Katy Perry at YouTube Live
    Katy Perry at YouTube Live
    Jordin Sparks and Katy Perry are performing tonight.

    Cause you’re hot then you’re cold
    You’re yes then you’re no

    Right now Perry is hot. But I have a feeling that she is going to be cold very soon in this fickle music landscape.

    Noah is singing I’m The World’s Greatest. Who is Noah? I’m not sure, but Alicia Keys introduced him after talking about donating money to Africa. Is it really good to be having young kids perform R. Kelly songs these days? Yes, Noah is male. I guess that makes it better.

    Do you think that Kris Allen wishes he wasn’t quite so married these days? I think it will be great for his marriage when he doesn’t win this.

    Jordin Sparks is out singing her new single, Battlefield. It’s an ok song and is more dramatic than anything on her bubble gum rookie album. It’s what you’d expect her first single off her sophomore album to be. Thankfully she’s singing here because she needs some publicity badly. No, not like Cassie and Rihanna. You’ll see naked pictures of Adam Lambert before you’ll ever see pictures of Jordin Sparks. Ok, maybe that was a bad example.

    Before we find out who is eliminated, Katy Perry is singing Waking Up In Vegas. She’s wearing an Adam Lambert cape.

    Perry is neck and neck with Anne Hathaway in the contest to determine who the pastiest celebrity on earth is.

    And the first person who will compete next week for all the marbles is Kris Allen. His wife has to be upset.

    And the person who will compete next week against Kris Allen is Adam Lambert.

    This might be the hardest “Home Sweet Home” ever to watch. Danny dude, you walked tall.

    Photo of Katy Perry by thomascrenshaw and shared via creative commons

  • First Look: Kelly Clarkson’s “I Do Not Hook Up”

    Crisis averted. With a #1 single and album, Kelly Clarkson has been rescued from the “Might her career be over?” pile she was thrown on following the record company dispute that served as the backdrop to the campaign behind her third album, “My December”. And good for her. Although I don’t think she’s much beyond a very good singles artist, she seems like a perfectly normal, grounded girl.

    So anyway, her new video. It’s for the song “I Do Not Hook Up”, which was co-written by “American Idol” judge Kara Dioguardi and Katy “I Kissed a Girl” Perry. It’s a cute little record, and the video has a fun vibe which adds to the song’s flavor. Needless to say, I like it a lot more with a visual attached to it than I did initially. Check it out for yourself and let us know what you think.