The other night, Chelsea Handler joked to Justin Bieber that she would help him knock John Mayer out of the way in this week’s album sales race. However, judging by Billboard’s early estimates, it’ll take a lot more than the E! host’s quips to slay Mayer’s Battle Studies. MORE »
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Justin Bieber Launches A War Of The Tweets With John Mayer
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Bon Jovi, Jay-Z And Alicia Keys Control The Charts
Perhaps not surprisingly, Bon Jovi bumped Carrie Underwood down and rocked their way to the top of the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart with The Circle in a week that is pretty much the calm before the high-profile release storm. But—yeeowch!—the 163,000 copies the New Jersey band moved over the seven days sales were tracked is quite a dip from the 292,000 their last set, Lost Highway, did. MORE »
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Owl City Back At #1
Reluctant pop star Adam Young—aka one-man band Owl City—is back at #1 for a second non-consecutive week on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with “Fireflies.” We’re using “reluctant” here because it’s somewhat hard to track down a press shot of this guy where he’s not shoe-gazing or doesn’t have beams of sunlight obscuring his face.
Not that we’re happy to see “Whatcha Say” booted from the top down to #3, because someday the world will come to appreciate the whaaaaa…? that was a minimal Imogen Heap tune filtered through a Jason Derulo pop song. MORE »
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Carrie Underwood Plays On At #1, ‘Billboard’ Adjusts Its Chart Rules
Carrie Underwood’s aptly-titled Play On has landed at #1 on the new Billboard Top 200 Albums chart this week, after sales of roughly 318,000 copies. The “Country Casanova” singer now has the distinction of having the best opening sales week of 2009 by a female artist. But if those 318,00 folks who picked Play On just can’t get enough of the American Idol Season 4 champ, she’s set to co-host the Country Music Awards tonight with Brad Paisely. MORE »
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Amerie Gets Trounced In The Charts
Maybe there really is no accounting for taste. Despite the healthy heaping of critical accolades for Amerie’s fourth album In Love & War—not to mention Idolator’s own five very legit reasons you should pick the record up (there’s still time!)—the sales figures don’t lie. MORE »
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Carrie Underwood, Apparently Playing In Peoria
Trade rag Hits is projecting a No. 1 debut for Carrie Underwood’s third album Play On, which came out yesterday. The magazine is claiming that between 300,000 and 350,000 copies of Play On will be moved during the record’s first week on store shelves—a total that would make the album one of the stronger-debuting releases of 2009. Which is, I have to say, kind of strange, given something I noticed while shopping for sundries last night! MORE »
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That Owl City Song Is No. 1 On The Pop Charts
Owl City’s “Fireflies” moved into the Hot 100 penthouse this week after shifting 196,000 paid downloads last week—it’s currently at No. 5 on the iTunes chart, behind a couple of bonus tracks from Taylor Swift’s re-released Fearless and Lady GaGa’s “Bad Romance.” More on this slightly unexpected triumph of post-Postal Service bedroom pop from Chris Molanphy on Friday, but for now, let’s all wonder if this means that the next Twilight soundtrack will move on from Pitchfork darlings to Jimmy Tamborellos in training. [Billboard / Dailymotion] MORE »
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Jay Sean: What Goes “Down” Might Come Up
This week’s installment in the sorta-halfhearted scuffle between songs that are biding time at the top of the Hot 100 until the Black Eyed Peas return to the No. 1 slot for the kajillionth week this year: Jay Sean’s “Down” reclaimed the top spot after last week’s No. 1, Britney Spears’ Real Dollish “3,” sagged in sales by 33% and fell to No. 5. (It’s gaining in airplay, though, so don’t count her out just yet.) Rounding out the top 5 is a trio of familiar tunes to any chart-watcher: Jason DeRulo’s “Whatcha Say” (No. 2), Miley Cyrus’ “Party In The U.S.A.” (No. 3), and the Jay-Z/Rihanna/Kanye collab “Run This Town” (No. 4). [Billboard] MORE »
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What Does Susan Boyle’s Amazon Record Really Mean?
This morning a press release went out touting Amazon presales for Britain’s Got Talent-propelled belter Susan Boyle’s debut album; “Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream is Amazon.com Music’s Largest CD Pre-Order,” the headline touted, and once again, many a media outlet eagerly reported this bit of non-news. While the appetite for Boyle’s sorta-brassy voice and up-from-under backstory among the segment of people who still buy CDs—your Streisand fans, your Bubléholics—is probably undeniable, the lack of numbers in the press release is enough to make me get all existential. You know—what does it all mean, man? After the jump, a little bit of number-crunching with the press release’s top 10. MORE »
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Britney Spears Is A Woman On Top
Britney Spears’ Real Doll-ish ode to three-ways “3″ will debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week, thanks to the Max Martin-assisted track selling 255,000 copies at digital-music outlets and blanketing pop radio in anamatronic sexiness since its release Sept. 29. (It will enter this week’s Hot 100 Airplay chart, which tracks radio play across the dial, at No. 49.) After the jump, a few fun facts about Britney’s latest chart-topper, and a stream in case you haven’t heard the track yet. MORE »
