The Hits Daily Double Thread

[NorfolkScot]

NOW IN: FINAL


LW TW artist / album label power index % change
-- 1 CARRIE UNDERWOOD 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 272,670 --
BLOWN AWAY
-- 2 NORAH JONES BLUE NOTE/EMI 106,048 --
LITTLE BROKEN HEARTS
-- 3 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 42 CAPITOL/EMI 95,400 --
VARIOUS ARTISTS
2 4 ADELE XL/COLUMBIA 77,140 -9%
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-- 5 B.O.B. GRAND HUSTLE/ATLANTIC 74,105 --
STRANGE CLOUDS
3 6 LIONEL RICHIE MERCURY NASHVILLE 65,211 -18%
TUSKEGEE
1 7 JACK WHITE THIRD MAN/COLUMBIA 62,847 -51%
BLUNDERBUSS
4 8 ONE DIRECTION SYCO/COLUMBIA 45,496 -7%
UP ALL NIGHT
-- 9 SMASH CAST COLUMBIA 41,833 --
MUSIC OF SMASH
-- 10 MARILYN MANSON DOWNTOWN 32,010 --
BORN VILLAIN
12 11 LUKE BRYAN CAPITOL NASHVILLE/EMI 27,404 +2%
TAILGATES & TANLINES
8 12 GOTYE FAIRFAX/UNIV REPUBLIC 26,650 -22%
MAKING MIRRORS
-- 13 AVENGERS ASSEMBLE HOLLYWOOD 26,097 --
SOUNDTRACK
5 14 LEE BRICE CURB 25,051 -45%
HARD 2 LOVE
6 15 KIP MOORE MCA NASHVILLE 21,041 -43%
UP ALL NIGHT
17 16 ERIC CHURCH CAPITOL NASHVILLE/EMI 19,399 -1%
CHIEF
9 17 NICKI MINAJ YM/CM/UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 19,048 -41%
PINK FRIDAY... ROMAN RELOADED
-- 18 BEASTIE BOYS DEF JAM/IDJ 18,209 --
LICENSED TO ILL
-- 19 SANTIGOLD ATLANTIC 17,025 --
MASTER OF MY MAKE BELIEVE
15 20 BONNIE RAITT REDWING 16,460 -22%
SLIPSTREAM
11 21 TRAIN COLUMBIA 16,456 -40%
CALIFORNIA 37
10 22 JASON MRAZ ATLANTIC 15,988 -46%
LOVE IS A FOUR LETTER WORD
27 23 JASON ALDEAN BROKEN BOW 15,923 +15%
MY KINDA PARTY
20 24 RASCAL FLATTS BIG MACHINE 14,972 -11%
CHANGED
-- 25 GEORGE HARRISON UME 14,555 --
EARLY TAKES, VOL. 1
13 26 BLACK KEYS NONESUCH 14,385 -45%
EL CAMINO
32 27 RIHANNA DEF JAM/IDJ 12,694 +1%
TALK THAT TALK
30 28 ADELE XL/COLUMBIA 12,412 -5%
19
22 29 THINK LIKE A MAN EPIC 12,344 -21%
SOUNDTRACK
26 30 DRAKE YM/CM/UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 12,296 -14%
TAKE CARE
28 31 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 41 CAPITOL/EMI 12,184 -12%
VARIOUS ARTISTS
40 32 OF MONSTERS & MEN UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 11,666 +11%
MY HEAD IS AN ANIMAL
16 33 ALABAMA SHAKES ATO 11,563 -43%
BOYS & GIRLS
7 34 THE WANTED MERCURY 11,374 -67%
THE WANTED
31 35 FUN. FUELED BY RAMEN 11,351 -13%
SOME NIGHTS
25 36 FUTURE EPIC 11,335 -22%
PLUTO
42 37 LADY ANTEBELLUM CAPITOL NASHVILLE/EMI 11,306 +17%
OWN THE NIGHT
33 38 SHINEDOWN ATLANTIC 11,298 -8%
AMARYLLIS
29 39 MONICA RCA 10,921 -21%
NEW LIFE
24 40 WHITNEY HOUSTON RCA 10,745 -26%
WHITNEY - THE GREATEST HITS
-- 41 RUFUS WAINWRIGHT DECCA 10,564 --
OUT OF THE GAME
23 42 HUNGER GAMES: SONGS FROM DISTRIC UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 10,151 -30%
SOUNDTRACK
19 43 BLAKE SHELTON WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE 10,083 -40%
RED RIVER BLUE
-- 44 DON OMAR MACHETE MUSIC 9,975 --
DON OMAR PRESENTS MTO2
49 45 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 9,904 +23%
CEREMONIALS
44 46 BRANTLEY GILBERT BIG MACHINE 9,465 +5%
HALFWAY TO HEAVEN
41 47 KELLY CLARKSON 19/RCA 9,427 -4%
STRONGER
-- 48 COLDPLAY CAPITOL/EMI 9,037 --
MYLO XYLOTO
39 49 SHAKE IT UP: LIVE 2 DANCE WALT DISNEY 8,899 -17%
SOUNDTRACK
35 50 KATY PERRY CAPITOL/EMI 8,784 -21%
TEENAGE DREAM

[Play]

49 45 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 9,904 +23%
CEREMONIALS

Pop that champagne!!!

[stevyy]

49 45 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 9,904 +23%
CEREMONIALS

Pop that champagne!!!

yeah man! yeah!

[NothingFails]

Yikes! License To Ill, an album that has already sold so much over the years, gets the boost and not Hot Sauce Committee, the final BB album, a somewhat recent (1 year ago this week) album that you'd think more people would want to pay tribute to Adam Yauch by supporting.

[NorfolkScot]

CARRIE HER TO #1

Underwood’s Chart-Topping Debut Leads Six Debuts in Top 10; Norah Jones #2

May 8, 2012

This is one American Idol winner who has lived up to the hype.
19/Arista Nashville country queen Carrie Underwood’s fourth album, Blown Away, did just that to the competition, debuting at #1 with a whopping 273k in sales.

The Underwood album was just one of six newcomers to the Top 10, topping Blue Note/EMI Grammy winner Norah Jones’ Danger Mouse-produced departure, Little Broken Hearts, which enters at #2 with 106k.

The latest installment of Capitol/EMI’s Now series, 42 if you’re counting, bows at #3, giving the soon-to-be-part-of-UMG company two of the top three.

XL/Columbia U.K. chanteuse Adele’s long-running 21 continues its reign, the lone Top 5 holdover at #4, adding another 77k to a total which will go over 9 million next week.

Grand Hustle/Atlantic hip-hop star B.o.B’s Strange Clouds debuts at #5, with a robust 74k in sales, while Mercury Nashville’s Lionel Richie surprise smash, Tuskegee, moves #3-6.

Last week’s chart-topper, Third Man/Columbia’s Jack White (#7), former #1 album Syco/Columbia’s One Direction (#8) and Columbia’s debuting The Music of Smash album (#9) give the label’s team of Stringer/Barnett four of the top nine.

Downtown’s Marilyn Manson album, Born Villain, his indie bow, rounds out the Top 10.

Other Top 50 new entries include Hollywood’s Avengers Assemble soundtrack (#13), Atlantic’s Santigold (#19), UMe’s George Harrison Early Takes Vol. 1 (#25), Decca’s Rufus Wainwright (#41) and Machete Music’s Don Omar (#44).

The Beastie Boys’ classic Def Jam/IDJ album, Licensed to Ill, returns to the chart at #18 in the wake of founding member Adam Yauch’s passing last week, while Capitol/EMI’s Coldplay also returns at #48 after an American Idol performance, three sold-out Hollywood Bowl shows and an appearance at KROQ’s Weenie Roast Y Fiesta in Irvine, CA.

Universal Republic’s Florence + the Machine album Ceremonials is the week’s biggest double-digit gainer (#49-45, +23%), followed by Capitol Nashville/EMI’s Lady Antebellum (#42-37, +17%), Broken Bow’s Jason Aldean (#27-23, +15%) and Universal Republic’s Of Monsters and Men (#40-32, +11%).

Hitting stores this week are Epic’s Karmin, Columbia’s Sade live, Dangerbird’s Silversun Pickups, Columbia’s Mary Mary, Atlantic’s Tank and Interscope’s Keane

[skycycle]

Yikes! License To Ill, an album that has already sold so much over the years, gets the boost and not Hot Sauce Committee, the final BB album, a somewhat recent (1 year ago this week) album that you'd think more people would want to pay tribute to Adam Yauch by supporting.

I would still expect to see Hot Sauce 2 somewhere in the BB200 though... surprising...

[NothingFails]

Yikes! License To Ill, an album that has already sold so much over the years, gets the boost and not Hot Sauce Committee, the final BB album, a somewhat recent (1 year ago this week) album that you'd think more people would want to pay tribute to Adam Yauch by supporting.

I would still expect to see Hot Sauce 2 somewhere in the BB200 though... surprising...

True true, part of me expected Hot Sauce to return to the top 50 too... because in the past whenever a music icon dies, if they have a fairly recent album, that is the one that really sees the biggest boost because consumers feel like supporting their final project (see Lennon's Double Fantasy or Elvis' Moody Blue)

[AutomaticBR]

Really happy for Norah crossing the 100k mark, hopefully it won't be different through Soundscan. Great debut for Carrie too, though I wish she had crossed 300k...

[swiftie13]

49 45 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 9,904 +23%
CEREMONIALS

Pop that champagne!!!

yeah man! yeah!

I'll join! (with water) Glad to see it a bit stable

[NothingFails]

A shame Rufus couldn't go top 40

[FliplovesMC]

Really happy for Norah crossing the 100k mark, hopefully it won't be different through Soundscan.

Me Too!

How did Come Away With Me debut, it was like 22k, right?

[tada]

damn! Carrie missed 300k with small differene ...and i also hope Norah will be at least 100,001 units on Soundscan!

[NorfolkScot]

TWO DIVAS: ONE THRONE

Looks Like It Could Be Carrie vs. Adele for #1 on Post-Mother’s Day Chart

May 9, 2012

Mother’s Day is turning out to be a mother of a battle between a pair of pop divas.

It may be a little too early to say, but it’s sure looking like a tussle for #1 next week between 19/Arista Nashville country star Carrie Underwood’s Blown Away, this week’s chart-topper, and XL/Columbia perennial Adele, set to go over 9 million sold in the U.S. for her Grammy-sweeping 21.

As always, we’ll have a clearer picture tomorrow, but none of this week’s debuts will have a shot t the to spot.

Dangerbird L.A. Silver Lake indie rockers Silversun Pickups’ third studio album, Neck of the Woods, will be the top newcomer, with an estimated total of 35-40k, which would compare favorably to the 43k they scored in April, ’09 with Swoon, which went on to sell a robust 318k. The band performed on the Jimmy Kimmel Live outdoor stage last night. The band received a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist in 2009.

Grammy-nominated Atlantic R&B singer-songwriter Tank’s This Is How I Feel, featuring collaborations with T.I., Chris Brown and Busta Rhymes, is on target for a 25-30k first week. The album, his fifth, is the follow-up to his 2010 label debut, Now or Never, which debuted with 44k in Dec. 2010. Tank’s collaboration on Chris Brown’s “Take My Time” earned him a nomination at last year’s Grammys in the “Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals” category, which joined his eight career nominations to date. In addition to his own music, Tank has contributed vocals and helped pen hit records for the likes of Jamie Foxx, Keri Hilson and Chris Brown.

Veteran Interscope U.K. popmeisters Keane’s fourth studio album, Strangeland, their first since 2008’s Perfect Symmetry, looks to be in the 17-20k range, about half the total of the previous album’s 43.5k.

Epic viral sensations and SNL hip-pop duo Karmin’s debut, Hello, is also looking at 17-20k in first-week sales on the heels of the Top 5 dance hit, “Brokenhearted.”

Columbia gospel duo Mary Mary’s seventh album, Go Get It, looks to be in the 12-15k range, off from last year’s Something Big, which debuted with 42k in sales. The two introduced the title track on the final episode of their new reality TV series.

[NothingFails]

yikes, Keane are done in the US

But then, Strangeland is a really mediocre album for their standards

[GUS]

yikes, Keane are done in the US

But then, Strangeland is a really mediocre album for their standards

Unfortunately Keane is flopping everywhere, even in the UK

[NothingFails]

I'm glad Mary Mary is having such a massive dropoff, they deserve it for their homophobic remarks after making a following in the gay community with remixes of their songs, only to tell those fans they are disgusting perverts. Good riddance to them.

[Timmy94]

I'm glad Mary Mary is having such a massive dropoff, they deserve it for their homophobic remarks after making a following in the gay community with remixes of their songs, only to tell those fans they are disgusting perverts. Good riddance to them.

I'm not following them so you could you tell me what happened?
Anyway, the text isn't clear about it because Go Get It is "just" a Greatest Hits albums, meaning this doesn't have to mean they are on decline...

[NothingFails]

I'm glad Mary Mary is having such a massive dropoff, they deserve it for their homophobic remarks after making a following in the gay community with remixes of their songs, only to tell those fans they are disgusting perverts. Good riddance to them.

I'm not following them so you could you tell me what happened?
Anyway, the text isn't clear about it because Go Get It is "just" a Greatest Hits albums, meaning this doesn't have to mean they are on decline...

oh ok.

Mary Mary are a gospel group, but they've had secular success. Several of their tracks were remixed in the mid/late 2000's and became hits on the dance (aka gay) chart, and then they decided to spew some "God hates gay people" BS in an interview with Vibe Magazine, pretty much telling the gays who liked those songs they belong in Hell.

[NorfolkScot]

Adele will have a sales boost the next few weeks with Mother's Day and the BB Awards, the interview with Matt Lauer on the Today Show and the concert on NBC in June will give her another huge boost.

[phoenix83]

yikes, Keane are done in the US

But then, Strangeland is a really mediocre album for their standards

Unfortunately Keane is flopping everywhere, even in the UK

They're nowhere near as good as they used to be.

[AutomaticBR]

Really happy for Norah crossing the 100k mark, hopefully it won't be different through Soundscan.

Me Too!

How did Come Away With Me debut, it was like 22k, right?

CAWM debuted with 10k

[joao]

I'm glad Mary Mary is having such a massive dropoff, they deserve it for their homophobic remarks after making a following in the gay community with remixes of their songs, only to tell those fans they are disgusting perverts. Good riddance to them.

I'm not following them so you could you tell me what happened?
Anyway, the text isn't clear about it because Go Get It is "just" a Greatest Hits albums, meaning this doesn't have to mean they are on decline...

oh ok.

Mary Mary are a gospel group, but they've had secular success. Several of their tracks were remixed in the mid/late 2000's and became hits on the dance (aka gay) chart, and then they decided to spew some "God hates gay people" BS in an interview with Vibe Magazine, pretty much telling the gays who liked those songs they belong in Hell.

I don´t think the dance club play chart has much impact on the album sales. You have people who have multiple numbers ones there and can´t even score a Top 200 album. I don´t even understand their methodology, since many of their Top 10 songs are unknown in most clubs. Yoko Ono has dozens of hits there, come on... Plus, Mary Mary haven´t said "God hates gays", they just said something like "homossexuality is a sin but God loves gays anyway". They would have faced a much bigger backlash if they said something like "homossexuality is fine", considering their public is mainly conservative. They were never that big anyway, so I don´t think these sales are too low for them.

[NorfolkScot]

Headed into the Mother's Day weekend, it now looks as if Carrie Underwood will score her first-ever second week at #1. Shockingly, no album by Underwood has ever spent more than one week at the top. Adele, who earlier in the week appeared as a likely challenger, may now have to settle for #2. Past history, however, suggests she can never be counted out, especially with Mother's Day this Sunday. Here's how it looks headed into the weekend:

Carrie Underwood (19/Arista Nashville) 105-115k
Adele (XL/Columbia) 90-95k
Now 42 (Capitol/EMI) 70-75k
Lionel Richie (Mercury Nashville) 60-65k
Norah Jones (Blue Note/EMI) 60-65k
*Silversun Pickups (Dangerbird) 35-40k
One Direction (Syco/Columbia) 35-40k
Jack White (Third Man/Columbia) 30-35k
*Tank (Atlantic) 27-30k
B.o.B. (Atlantic) 24-27k
Gotye (Fairfax/Universal Republic) 24-27k
Luke Bryan (Capitol Nashville/EMI) 24-27k
*Keane (Interscope) 18-21k
Smash (Columbia) 18-21k
Nicki Minaj (Young Money/Cash Money/Universal Republic) 18-21k
*Karmin (Epic) 18-21k

[joao]

Norah holding very well... her sales usually are not frontloaded. I wish Gotye would have bigger sales, with an enormous hit like STIUTK!

[tada]

AMAZING! i expected a lil higher sales of 130k, but still very strong for a second week