HITS 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]
Idolator
The likes of The Singing Office and the show where they lend babies to people have shown that the wellspring of creativity at this nation's television stations is running even drier than usual these days, so anything that shows even the slightest flicker of inspiration is greatly appreciated. Which is why you should know that it's OK to get excited by Primary Wave Music Publishing's announcement that it's shopping an animated program starring John Oates' mustache.
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