Yesterday’s initial SoundScan results had the Pussycat Dolls’ second album, Doll Domination, coming in at No. 5 with sales just under the 74,000 mark–and a first-week tally that was just 400 copies shy of the mark achieved by the No. 4 album, Kings Of Leon’s Only By The Night. But yesterday evening, through a miracle of album sales, the folks at SoundScan found 5,000 album sales under a couch in their offices and granted the Pussycat Dolls a higher chart position than the scruffy rock revivalists. Hands up if you think this hasty revision for one of Interscope’s most high-priority acts sounds a little fishy? Especially since it seems to be the only alteration to the chart that resulted in a top 20 act’s chart position flipping? (Sales for TV On The Radio’s Dear Science were revised upward by some 2,000 units, but that didn’t result in the album moving out of the No. 12 spot.) [Billboard]
October 2nd, 2008 // 4 Comments
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Slipknot anyone?
That was even more fishy.
@LiquidHeaven: I see hanging chads everywhere!
@Maura Johnston: Soundscan IS located in Broward County.
Okay, that’s a lie.
hmm. very weird. i love me some PCD BUT i would hate to think there’s some scandalous things happening w/Soundscan. but i dunno, why would an higher debut help them in the long run? fans usually don’t care about the sales but the radio singles. that’s wot drives the sales. so if something’s fishy going on, i hope interscope realizes in the end wot’s more important in boosting album sales.