Bebe Reptar
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Post by Bebe Reptar on Jul 25, 2012 21:19:43 GMT -5
It’ll be an OG rapper vs. a country-rocker for the top spot on next week’s HITS Album chart.
The last two best-sellers—Nas’ Def Jam/IDJ album, Life is Good, and Zac Brown Band’s Atlanti9c release Uncaged, #1-2 on this week’s chart—should vie for the lead on Tuesday’s tally as well.
While yet another Def Jam/IDJ hip-hop biggie, Rick Ross’ new album, God Forgives, I Don’t, is the next major release, coming out on Tuesday (7/31), this week the pickings are relatively slim.
Top new debut should be Mercury/IDJ’s New Jersey neo-Springsteen garage-rockers the Gaslight Anthem with their major label bow, Handwritten, after graduating from L.A. indie SideOneDummy, the band’s fourth studio effort overall. First-week sales estimates from our crack network of retail reporters and numbers-crunchers put the figure at between 30-35k.
Columbia Cambridge, MA, techno-rock duo Passion Pit’s Gossamer, the follow-up to 2009’s debut Manners, is up next, with estimates in the 28-32k area.
Touted RCA Nashville group Love and Theft, the singer/songwriter pair of Stephen Barker Liles and Eric Gunderson, will see their eponymous sophomore album do between 12-15k.
Epic’s Jennifer Lopez greatest hits collection, to fulfill her deal with the label, should also do in the 12-15k neighborhood.
Album sales were down 4% vs. last week, down 5% vs. same week last year and down 3% year to date.
Track sales were down 2% vs. last week, up 2% vs. same week last year and up 6% year to date.
TEA sales were down 3% vs. last week, down 3% vs, same week last year and flat year to date.
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Bebe Reptar
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Post by Bebe Reptar on Jul 26, 2012 20:21:47 GMT -5
It's too close to call today for #1 next week between Nas and Zac Brown Band. Whichever title finishes on top, it will be the lowest total so far this year for a #1 album. Here's how it looks headed into the weekend:
Nas (Def Jam/IDJ) 45-50k Zac Brown Band (Atlantic) 45-50k Kidz Bop Kids (Razor & Tie) 35-40k Justin Bieber (Island/IDJ) 35-40k *Gaslight Anthem (Mercury/IDJ): 35-40k One Direction (Syco/Columbia) 30-35k Adele (XL/Columbia) 30-35k Frank Ocean(Def Jam/IDJ) 30-35k *Passion Pit (Columbia) 28-32k Maroon 5 (A&M/Octone) 24-27k Katy Perry (Capitol/EMI) 20-23k Luke Bryan (Capitol Nashville/EMI) 18-21k Linkin Park (Warner Bros.) 18-21k Kenny Chesney (Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville) 17-20k Chris Brown (RCA) 17-20k Dark Knight Rises (WaterTower) 17-20k
*Debuts
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Bebe Reptar
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Post by Bebe Reptar on Jul 31, 2012 15:24:17 GMT -5
LW TW artist / album label power index % change 2 1 ZAC BROWN BAND ATLANTIC 47,092 -38% UNCAGED 1 2 NAS DEF JAM/IDJ 42,510 -70% LIFE IS GOOD -- 3 GASLIGHT ANTHEM MERCURY 37,688 -- HANDWRITTEN 3 4 KIDZ BOP KIDS RAZOR & TIE 34,757 -46% KIDZ BOP 22 -- 5 PASSION PIT COLUMBIA 34,657 -- GOSSAMER 5 6 JUSTIN BIEBER ISLAND/IDJ 33,749 -25% BELIEVE 7 7 ONE DIRECTION SYCO/COLUMBIA 32,863 -10% UP ALL NIGHT 8 8 ADELE XL/COLUMBIA 29,776 -14% 21 4 9 FRANK OCEAN DEF JAM/IDJ 26,922 -55% CHANNEL ORANGE 10 10 MAROON 5 A&M/OCTONE 24,244 -17% OVEREXPOSED 14 11 LINKIN PARK WARNER BROS. 20,613 -14% LIVING THINGS 17 12 LUKE BRYAN CAPITOL NASHVILLE/EMI 20,120 +1% TAILGATES & TANLINES 15 13 KENNY CHESNEY BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASH 18,905 -19% WELCOME TO THE FISHBOWL 16 14 KATY PERRY CAPITOL/EMI 17,906 -17% TEENAGE DREAM 19 15 USHER RCA 17,709 0% LOOKING 4 MYSELF 13 16 CHRIS BROWN RCA 17,538 -33% FORTUNE 9 17 DARK KNIGHT RISES WATERTOWER 15,986 -47% SOUNDTRACK - HANS ZIMMER 24 18 FUN. FUELED BY RAMEN 14,271 +3% SOME NIGHTS 22 19 MMG PRESENTS: SELF MADE, VOL. 2 MAYBACH MUSIC GROUP 14,041 -13% VARIOUS -- 20 BEATLES CAPITOL/EMI 13,995 -- TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS 23 21 LUMINEERS DUALTONE 13,825 -8% LUMINEERS -- 22 SLIPKNOT ROADRUNNER 13,666 -- ANTENNA TO HELL 25 23 CARRIE UNDERWOOD 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 13,045 -2% BLOWN AWAY -- 24 LOVE AND THEFT RCA NASHVILLE 13,011 -- LOVE AND THEFT -- 25 JENNIFER LOPEZ EPIC 12,805 -- DANCE AGAIN... THE HITS 27 26 ERIC CHURCH CAPITOL NASHVILLE/EMI 12,066 -6% CHIEF -- 27 SKRILLEX BIG BEAT/ATLANTIC 11,877 -- BANGARANG 31 28 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 42 CAPITOL/EMI 10,403 -13% VARIOUS ARTISTS 33 29 OF MONSTERS & MEN REPUBLIC 10,399 -5% MY HEAD IS AN ANIMAL -- 30 JAY-Z ROC NATION/ 9,610 -- BLUEPRINT 3 43 31 NICKI MINAJ YM/CM/REPUBLIC 9,086 +9% PINK FRIDAY... ROMAN RELOADED 35 32 JASON ALDEAN BROKEN BOW 8,946 -14% MY KINDA PARTY 29 33 R. KELLY RCA 8,710 -28% WRITE ME BACK 32 34 GOTYE FAIRFAX/REPUBLIC 8,038 -27% MAKING MIRRORS 46 35 MUMFORD & SONS GLASSNOTE 8,015 -2% SIGH NO MORE 44 36 FLO RIDA ATLANTIC 7,789 -5% WILD ONES -- 37 HUNTER HAYES ATLANTIC 7,488 -- HUNTER HAYES 38 38 JOHN MAYER COLUMBIA 7,264 -17% BORN AND RAISED -- 39 ALABAMA SHAKES ATO 7,004 -- BOYS & GIRLS 39 40 LIONEL RICHIE MERCURY NASHVILLE 7,003 -20% TUSKEGEE 41 41 ALAN JACKSON CAPITOL NASHVILLE/EMI 6,830 -19% THIRTY MILES WEST -- 42 KELLY CLARKSON 19/RCA 6,828 -- STRONGER 49 43 ADELE XL/COLUMBIA 6,724 -12% 19 42 44 PHILLIP PHILLIPS 19/INTERSCOPE 6,707 -20% AMERICAN IDOL EP -- 45 BLACK KEYS NONESUCH 6,573 -- EL CAMINO -- 46 RIHANNA DEF JAM/IDJ 6,571 -- TALK THAT TALK -- 47 ED SHEERAN NEW ELEKTRA 6,531 -- + 48 48 NOW COUNTRY 5 UME 6,514 -17% VARIOUS ARTISTS 20 49 HELLYEAH ELEVEN SEVEN MUSIC 6,385 -62% BAND OF BROTHERS -- 50 BRANTLEY GILBERT BIG MACHINE 6,221 -- HALFWAY TO HEAVEN
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