Comments on: Josh Groban Pretty Much Has The Album Chart On Lockdown Until Christmas

By: MrStarhead

MrStarhead — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:02:11 +0000

What in the world has happened to Bo Bice? Apparently, nobody’s buying the album, but the video is #1 on VH1 this week. Any explanations, besides the obvious “VH1 is really, really out of touch”?

By: Pope John Peeps II

Pope John Peeps II — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:36:34 +0000

THE GROBE!

By: Chris Molanphy

Chris Molanphy — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:57:29 +0000

P.S. Billboard's report on the week's sales includes an interesting stat about how Blake fared compared with other Idol runners-up: "...lower than that of three [others'] debuts (Clay Aiken, Bo Bice and Katharine McPhee), but larger than two others (Justin Guarini and Diana DeGarmo)."

By: Chris Molanphy

Chris Molanphy — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:55:28 +0000

@GovernmentNames: I agree that the December hip-hop release pattern -- pioneered in '98 when DMX dropped his second album less than a year after his first and sold nearly 700,000 discs to kids trading in the crap their relatives bought them -- is dying out. Those same kids are all downloading now.

By: Al Shipley

Al Shipley — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:19:57 +0000

Given all the hype about December 4th being a super Tuesday for mid-level hip hop stars (Saigon and Wu Tang were also originally on that date), the sales were pretty weak: Big Doe Rehab had almost exactly the same first week tally as More Fish, which itself was a third of Fishscale's first week. Maybe Ghostface needs to rethink this whole rushing out albums in the 4th quarter thing. Also, Scarface's sales were closer to that of his last two thrown-together compilations, My Homies Part 2 and Balls & My Word, than his last Def Jam album, The Fix, but I pretty much expected that, given how under the radar promotions for Made have been. Styles P. in at #52 is also lower than it deserves to be, but it's actually higher than his major label album last year peaked (albeit with a lower sales total).