Comments on: Josh Groban Is Already Having A Pretty Happy Holiday

By: Chris Molanphy

Chris Molanphy — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:04:19 +0000

Minor quibbles:

For Celine, 40% is a pretty decent drop in the current environment and better than Keys's 50something percent drop. (Then again, Keys had higher from which to fall, and she's already platinum.) I think the lesson on the marketing of this Dion album is this: post-Vegas, you can't go home again to straight-up pop listeners and expect them to line up for you.

Sparks's debut really is weak. She dropped the album in the same sales week as Daughtry's last year, and that timing didn't hurt him any. Even Taylor Hicks did a fatter-first-week number, and his album landed in a somewhat slower mid-December week. Seriously, not to return to my shitting on Sparks, but the entire business model for Idol winners appears to be wounded, if not broken.

By: sweetivy

sweetivy — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:48:51 +0000

my younger cousins have that NOW cd and played it constantly over thanksgiving. i think parents see it as an easy way to give their kids music without having to worry about what is on it because all the songs have been (pre)approved by the masses. also, i am apparently the only person that does not know the crank that dance

By: Nunya B

Nunya B — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:37:59 +0000

B’Day is $5 at Wal-Marts across the country. I think that might have helped it more than anything, really.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:31:12 +0000

Interesting how the singles top 10 is packed with the hip-hop and the album top 10 is filled to the brim with hokey country/AC.

Please tell me Josh will show up on Cribs with LV leather seats in his Enzo.

By: Chris N.

Chris N. — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:04:39 +0000

This is one of the strangest stretches of chart territory I've seen in a long while:

12. Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus (99,000)
13. Taylor Swift (88,000)
14. Jay-Z, American Gangster (87,000)
15. Mercyme, All That Is Within Me (84,000)
16. Led Zeppelin, Mothership (82,000)

I'm sure somebody out there owns all five of these albums, and I would not want to meet him/her.

By: Rob Murphy

Rob Murphy — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:55:31 +0000

I can understand Hannah Montana 2 selling so well, what with the parents out shopping for the holidays and buying her CDs because they can't afford the secondary-market concert tickets, but I'm still quite impressed with that number. Do you guys have total numbers for that CD?

By: Nicolars

Nicolars — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:44:32 +0000

Celine has been everywhere plugging Taking Chances, and it is still not a hit.

By: Maura Johnston

Maura Johnston — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:26:12 +0000

@Halfwit: Ah, good call. It's sold 259,000 copies to date, actually.

By: Halfwit

Halfwit — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:21:46 +0000

Is "waiting for Celine to go gold" going to become the new "waiting for Curtis to go platinum"?

Aren't we still waiting for "Brave" to break 6 digits?

By: Clevertrousers

Clevertrousers — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:20:37 +0000

I hate music.