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Game Makes The Chart See ‘R.E.D.’
Wed Aug 31 2011 by Robbie Daw
The chart throne has been overtaken by Game, who bumps Jay-Z and Kanye West's collaborative LP Watch The Throne down to #2 with The R.E.D. Album this week. The record sold 98,000 copies in its first week, and overall it's the third #1 for the Cali MC on Billboard's Top 200. Game leads a trio of high debuts, which include Barbra Streisand's Whatever Matters Most (#4, 66,000) and Hell On Heels by Miranda Lambert's side project Pistol Annies (#6, 42,000). Catch the full Top 10 below.
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Live Blog: The 2011 Grammy Awards
Sun Feb 13 2011 by Robbie Daw
The day of the 53rd Grammy Awards is finally here, and we're live-blogging all the pop action, spectacular performances and general musical mayhem below the jump. Give yourself a refresh on the nominees up for golden statues this time around right here. All week long we threw out our thoughts on who will win and who should win in several areas tonight—Album, Song and Record Of The Year, Best New Artist and all the Pop categories. Will our predictions come true? Should we have our noggins examined by an analyst ASAP? Whatever the case may be, make sure you follow our live blog below! And we promise that if you bring the popcorn, we'll bring the sass.
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“Love” Is The Answer: Actually, Barbra Streisand Has The No. 1 Album This Week
Wed Oct 7 2009 by Maura
Barbra Streisand’s Love Is The Answer has blown past early sales predictions, selling 180,000 copies and coming in as this week’s top-selling album, according to SoundScan. Paramore’s brand new eyes (175,000 copies) is at No. 2, while Mariah Carey’s Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel (168,000 copies) bows at No. 3. And the key here, once again, would seem to be TV: Not only did Babs appear on Oprah, she hawked her album on QVC, which apparently gave her quite the direct-sales bump. More »
Paramore Tops Album Chart, Barbra Snags Second Place
Wed Oct 7 2009 by Maura
Preliminary sales numbers from industry rag Hits have last week’s top three slots on this week’s new-release-stuffed album-sales chart taken by Paramore, Barbra Streisand, and Mariah Carey, respectively—and yes, that’s Mariah coming in behind the new effort by Barbra Streisand. The “official” tally from SoundScan will come later today, but for now let’s speculate: More »
Is Paramore Going To Blast Past Mariah On The Charts?
Wed Sep 30 2009 by Maura
In what’s shaking up to be a battle of the butterfles, the bean-counters at industry rag Hits are claiming that brand new eyes from the Hayley Williams-led Tennessee outfit Paramore is, after its first day of official availability, on pace to outsell Mariah Carey’s Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel this week by a margin of about 20,000 copies; Paramore’s projected sales are in the 180k-190k range, while Mariah’s are around 160-170k. And as if that wasn’t enough to rile up the chart-obsessed lambs, turns out that Barbra Streisand’s Love Is The Answer is projected to sell between 150,000 and 160,000 copies! Hits‘ one-day projections for this week’s biggest debuts after the jump. More »
Navigating Your Way Through This Week’s New Releases, From Madonna To Miranda
Mon Sep 28 2009 by Maura
Tomorrow’s release-date schedule is pretty glutted with albums that—gasp!—might get people to actually spend money on music, from Madonna’s latest greatest-hits collection to new albums by the spunky likes of Miranda Lambert and Paramore. In order to help you navigate through this week, might I suggest a friendly game of Buy/Download/Kill, in which each album receives one of the three fates outlined by the game’s title? My personal preferences after the jump. More »
The Five Best Sales Showdowns Taking Place This Fall
Fri Aug 28 2009 by Maura
The folks at industry rag Hits have a handy chart of the albums coming out in the last months of the year, which, who knows, may be the last one in which a chart like this is even necessary! But even though we’re a long way from the days of 50 Cent and Kanye West squaring off on the anniversary of 9/11, it’s still sort of fun to see what CDs will be landing at America’s retailers on the same day. After the jump, five of the best battles that could arise from the coming release-date schedule. (Marketing departments, get your beef stew recipes ready!) More »
