Tough Break, Nerds: The Jocks Win Again

waitarewestilldoingtheawfualbumartcontest.jpgHITS Daily Double’s chart predictions for the coming week are slightly good news for the music industry, with five albums selling in the six-digit range, and bad news for humanity, what with Disturbed taking the top spot with around a quarter of a million copies sold of their latest album, Indestructible. The last Disturbed disc had a similar first-week sales tally (239,000), so either Warner Brothers’ strategy of keeping the band from playing new material live is paying off or the band’s fans haven’t made a lot of progress in figuring out the Internet. Likely filling out the top five are Weezer (150,000-160,000), the 28th volume of the unsinkable Now series (145,000-155,000), Usher’s Here I Stand (140,000-150,000), and the Wal-Mart-only Journey disc (100,000-110,000). Ashanti seems to have been hit the hardest by time, with her nearly 250,000-copy first-week sales total for 2004’s Concrete Rose dipping to a meager 75,000-85,000 for The Declaration. She should really consider recording a country record. [HITS Daily Double]

 
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  1. Anonymous  |   Posted on Jun 6th, 2008

    That album cover is AWESOME!

  2. Halfwit  |   Posted on Jun 6th, 2008

    @owenmeany: It’s like the Predator.. but he’s on FIRE!!

    Seriously, though, that’s the kind of stuff that needs to be on vinyl, if only so you can roll your joints on that image.

  3. Anonymous  |   Posted on Jun 6th, 2008

    oh man. it looks like a SPAWN comic…matter of fact, I think I just stumbled upon a perfect cross promotion concept.

    [music.pluggedin.com]

  4. Anonymous  |   Posted on Jun 6th, 2008

    yeah, seriously, that cover…there’s something about it. makes me want to completely disregard the fact that there’s a disc containing horrible music inside the packaging, and buy the fucking thing. looks like an advertisement for a shitty superhero movie, but still, why haven’t major label hard rock bands done that before? brilliant in it’s utter shittiness. i feel rendered speechless, yet i can’t stop talking about it.

  5. walkmasterflex  |   Posted on Jun 6th, 2008

    OH WAH-AH-AH-AH!

  6. alec_baldwin  |   Posted on Jun 6th, 2008

    Am I the only one who is a little scared by that vision?

  7. alec_baldwin  |   Posted on Jun 6th, 2008

    @cosmiclove: Oh, I should have said a little disturbed by that vision.

  8. Lax Danja House  |   Posted on Jun 7th, 2008

    The Disturbed album ain’t too bad actually. It’s kind of strange that the major publications have shunned the album since it’s a major ratings-winner online.

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