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SoundScan Corrects Albums-Chart Figures: Pussycat Dolls Are Actually #4, Kings Of Leon #5

Posted 10/2/08 3:08 pm EST by in Charts


For the second time in a month, national album-sales figures released Wednesday morning by SoundScan — the firm that tracks and reports record sales in the U.S. — have been revised, making part of our report yesterday incorrect.

It seems that the Pussycat Dolls actually sold nearly 5,000 more copies of their latest LP, Doll Domination, than was originally reported by SoundScan. On Wednesday morning, the chart posted on the SoundScan site had PCD debuting at #5 on next week's albums chart with 74,000 copies sold, and the Kings of Leon's Only By the Night opening at #4, with 74,400 copies scanned.
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Why Didn't Miley Cyrus Crack A Milli?

Posted 7/30/08 1:34 pm EST by in Miley Cyrus


Miley Cyrus is a consumerist's dream. The teen sensation has become nothing if not a household name. She manages to spark international headlines every time she flashes any part of her midriff and, like papa Billy Ray at the height of his fame, she's sold out arenas across the nation. Her supple, puffy cheeks are splashed across millions of youngster-geared products, too: everything from lunchboxes and backpacks to throw pillows and press-on nails.

So, would it shock you one bit to find out Miley's latest studio recording, Breakout, is the nation's best-selling LP? It shouldn't. But we were mildly surprised about the album's sales totals. In its first week in stores, Breakout scanned a healthy 371,400 copies. But we were expecting she'd sell a lot more, perhaps even challenging the 1-million-and-change Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III sold almost two months ago.

Maybe the fact that the record is a true solo effort, and not a "Hannah Montana" property, hurt Breakout's sales a touch. Perhaps Cyrus' fans don't actually need to buy her records, what with the Disney Channel inundating them with her music during every commercial break. Or maybe Miley fever is starting to cool?

What about you? Did you think Miley would sell more albums than she did? Let us know by commenting below!

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Weezy, Coldplay Continue To Battle It Out For Billboard's #1

Posted 7/16/08 12:41 pm EST by in Charts, Coldplay, Lil Wayne


For more than a month, there's been a heated battle happening on the weekly Billboard albums sales chart, waged between 2008's best-selling albums: rapper Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III and Coldplay's Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends. After Wayne's latest debuted at #1, selling more than a million copies, Coldplay's LP swooped in, knocking Tha Carter III from the top spot, where the rockers' record stayed for two weeks. Last week, Wayne made a comeback, reclaiming the peak position.

According to the latest figures released by Nielsen SoundScan, Wayne's newest will hold at #1 on next week's top 200, selling another 124,700 units and bringing total sales of the disc to 1.8 million. Coldplay's Viva la Vida clings to the #2 spot with sales reported at 112,600. Meanwhile, the soundtrack to the Disney Channel original movie "Camp Rock" follows at #3 — a position it's held since its release four weeks ago — with 88,500 scans.

Climbing two spots next week to #5, with 61,000 sold, is Kid Rock's Rock N Roll Jesus, which experienced a 35 percent sales boost on the strength of the LP's latest single, "All Summer Long." Now That's What I Call Music! Vol. 28 follows at #6 with 48,000 sold, while Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad moves one spot to #8 with 47,000 scans. G-Unit's T.O.S. (Terminate on Sight) follows at #9, selling another 36,400, while John Mayer's Where the Light Is rounds things out at #10 with 33,700 sold.

As far as new releases go, there are a total of 23 making their impact felt on next week's chart, with two opening in the top 10. Beck's latest, Modern Guilt, enters the chart at #4, having sold 84,300 copies, while the soundtrack to the big-screen adaptation of "Mamma Mia!" bows at #7 with 48,400 sold. Elsewhere on the chart, the Maine's Can't Stop Won't Stop debuts at #40, scanning 12,100 copies, while New York electronica outfit Ratatat's LP3 follows at #82, selling 7,800 units.

3Oh!3's Want enters at #89, having scanned 7,500 copies, with Hit the Lights' Skip School, Start Fights trailing at #97 on sales of 7,000 and change. Maroon 5 and Whitechapel are tied at #117, as Live from Le Cabaret and This Is Exile both scanned exactly 5,907 copies. Kerli's Love Is Dead bows at #126 with 5,500 sold, while Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr.'s sophomore solo offering, ¿Como Te Llama? debuts at #145, after selling 4,500 copies. The Melvins' Nude With Boots follows at #148 with 4,400 sold, while Me First and the Gimme Gimmes' Have Another Ball claims the #164 slot with 4,000 scans.

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Coldplay, Lil Wayne And 'Camp Rock' Sit Tight On Billboard Albums Chart

Posted 7/2/08 12:32 pm EST by in Music


Viva La VidaFor a second straight week, Coldplay's Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, one of the year's best-selling debuts, will top the Billboard albums chart, thanks to week-two sales of nearly 249,000 — which was more than enough to fend off the year's biggest seller, Lil Wayne. Tha Carter III comes in at #2 after selling 209,000 copies during its third week in stores, according to the latest Nielsen SoundScan figures. The latest chart will also boast 21 debuts, including Mötley Crüe's Saints of Los Angeles, which opens at #4 with 99,000 scans, and Three 6 Mafia's Last 2 Walk, which bows at #5, after selling close to 77,000 units.

Elsewhere on the chart we find Shinedown's The Sound of Madness entering at #8 with a reported 50,000 sold, while Sigur Rós' Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust follows at #15 on the strength of 31,600 scans. Cute Is What We Aim For's Rotation impacts the chart at #21, having sold 22,700 copies, while Less Than Jake's GNV FLA surfaces at #61 after selling 10,000-plus. Right behind them, at #63, is G. Love & Special Sauce's latest, Superhero Brother, which sold 10,000 units, followed at #65 by Superchick's Rock What You Got, which moved 9,700 copies.

The Very Best of Billy Idol: Idolize Yourself is also new to the chart, landing at #73 with 9,000 sold, while at #99 with 7,300 sold is The 3rd World, a mixtape from rapper Immortal Technique. Digi Snacks, the fourth solo album by rapper/producer RZA, enters at #111, having sold 6,600 copies, while Reckless Kelly's Bulletproof follows at #117 after selling 6,500.

The rest of the new top 10 is filled out by the usual suspects. The soundtrack to the Disney Channel original movie "Camp Rock" holds at #3 with 170,000 copies snatched up, while the 28th installment in the Now That's What I Call Music! franchise falls two to #6 with 65,500 sold. Usher's Here I Stand drops one to #7 after selling another 51,600 copies, while Disturbed's Indestructible slides a single slot to #9 on 50,000 scans. Lastly, tumbling three spots to #10, it's Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad with 46,500 copies sold.

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Danity Kane, 17 Others Make It Newbie Week on the Billboard Charts

Posted 3/26/08 11:41 am EST by in Charts


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Two albums, two #1 debuts. That’s just what Danity Kane can claim, now that their sophomore LP, Welcome to the Dollhouse, will enter next week’s Billboard albums chart on top. The set sold more than 236,000 copies, which is a slight improvement on sales of the band’s first, self-titled release; that record also bowed at #1, but sold 234,300 units.

But DK weren’t the chart’s sole newcomers, as 18 releases in all crack next week’s top 200. Opening at #4, with sales reported at 85,900, its Flo Rida’s debut disc, Mail on Sunday. Surprisingly, and perhaps due to the band’s bumping up the album’s release, Gnarls Barkley’s The Odd Couple debuts at #18, selling a mere 31,000 copies, while rapper Rocko’s Self-Made follows at #21, with 27,700 scans. (Must've been that successful street-marketing campaign).

Newsroom homeboy, Sheek Louch, and his Silverback Gorilla album, enters the chart at #41, with 17,500 sold, while young metallers Black Tide’s Light from Above sold 11,400 units, to bow at #73. Right behind the Tide at #75, it’s the Hush Sound’s Goodbye Blues, which sold to the tune of 11,200, and opening at #81 with 10,200 sold, is She & Him’s Volume One. The Buzzcuts’ self-titled LP sold 9,500 copies, which lands the album at #87, and Jason Mraz’s We Sing EP enters at #101 with 8,500 snatched up.

The Kills’ Midnight Boom follows at #133, selling 6,500 units (awesome record, btw), while PlayRadioPlay!’s Texas sold 5,300, for a #157 opening. New Found Glory’s Hits collection enters at #167 with 5,000 sold, and Bury Your Dead’s self-titled LP enters at #176 with sales of 4,600. The Matches’ Band In Hope debuts at #179, with 4,600 scans, and lastly, coming in at #182 with 4,500, its Addison Road’s self-titled latest.

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Two Jacksons and a Johnson Top This Week's Soundscan

Posted 3/12/08 9:43 am EST by in Charts


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It's a bit of a tongue-twister reading the top of this week's (well, next week's, but released this week) Billboard album sales chart, with two Jacksons and a Johnson leading the charge. Opening at #1 with 119,000 copies sold is Alan Jackson’s Good Time, which drops last week’s #1, Janet Jackson’s Discipline, to #3 this week, with 57,400 units scanned. Sandwiched between the Jackson’s is Jack Johnson’s Sleep Through the Static, with sales clocked at around 64,800.

Flogging Molly’s Float opens on the top 200 at #4, having sold 47,700 copies, while the Black Crowes’ Warpaint enters at #5 with 45,700 sold. Meanwhile, one of our favorite new albums around the office, Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah Part One (4th World War), follows at #6 with 41,500 sold, and Sara Bareilles’ Little Voice climbs two spots to #7, with 39,200 copies snatched up.

Alicia Keys’ As I Am scanned 38,500 copies, while Taylor Swift’s self-titled debut finished at #9 with 31,900. Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black rounds out the top 10, selling 31,500. Elsewhere on the chart, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks’ Real Emotional Trash bows at #64, with 10,100 in first-week sales, and Bauhaus’ Go Away White sold 7,000 copies for a #105 debut. Also, Lil’ Flip’s All Eyes On Us opens at #137 with 5,400 scans.

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