US Chart Talk: 6/28/08

[Alexz]

lol. ya, I was like WTF?? dont get it

I turned them on for a moment

So he updates it weekly?

[Ciccone's Cheeks]

^ ya, cause Kid Rock appeals to mid western Redneck/Hilbilly/White Trash types who buy sh*tloads of albums at WalMart as well albums from groups like "Journey", The Eagles, Tim Mcgraw etc etc.." LOL. Again, mainly local stars, yet they sell tons of fkin albums in the US 8/

[Guest mattcho]

She didn't work with US top hit makers on American Life, though. Hard Candy's obligation is to perform better. It has chart-wise but not sales-wise.

Yeah, but the market is down 30% since then.

- Matt

[Guest mattcho]

I was thinking Hard Candy would probably be poison for fathers day shopping.

Absolutely, except for fathers on the down low.

- Matt

[Cherish]

Maybe Madonna should do some promo for GITM/HARD CANDY? Why not an appearance on Ellen or Oprah?

HARD CANDY is a good album, not one of her best, but definitely deserving of better sales than this.

[Skin]

I turned them on for a moment

So he updates it weekly?

Dont be jealous cause Madonna is outselling Shitney.

[Alexz]

I'm beyond that.

[HolidayGuy]

Billboard.com:

Lil Wayne Cracks 1 Million With 'Tha Carter III'

June 17, 2008, 7:30 PM ET

Geoff Mayfield, L.A.

With "Tha Carter III," Lil Wayne becomes the first artist since 50 Cent in 2005 to sell more than 1 million copies of an album in a single week, according to chart reports that will be issued tomorrow morning (June 18) by Nielsen SoundScan.

In its first week on the market, "Tha Carter III" (Cash Money/Universal) sells just over 1 million units. The last album to top that milestone was 50 Cent's "The Massacre" in March 2005.

No album in 2006 sold as many as 800,000 copies in a single frame, and the largest sales week since "The Massacre" belonged to Kanye West's "Graduation," which netted an opener of 957,000 copies last year when it hit stores on Sept. 11.

Lil Wayne first appeared on The Billboard 200 in 1999. His previous biggest sales week was a 238,000-unit start for "Tha Carter II" in 2005. That set entered The Billboard 200 at No. 2 while becoming his fourth No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

[Guest Hafo]

Another week in the Top 10 digital chart The song refuses to die. 2M should come in 3 weeks, hopefully.

Coldplay for #1 this week?

[Guest LikeAHugeMFan!]

lawd, american music and the charts get worse and worse and worse LOL. Sespool of taste

[thebigham]

bks at Pulse:

BILLBOARD HOT DIGITAL SONGS - TOP 50

1 1 COLDPLAY VIVA LA VIDA 245504 -3 253076 1013136

2 2 PERRY*KATY I KISSED A GIRL 219239 9 201699 752621

8 3 METRO STATION SHAKE IT 119954 28 93684 643913

4 4 RIHANNA TAKE A BOW 111766 -5 117930 962696

5 5 BEDINGFIELD*NATASHA POCKETFUL OF SUNSHINE 109472 -3 113368 1346826

7 6 BROWN*CHRIS FOREVER 105328 3 102037 673811

3 7 LIL WAYNE LOLLIPOP 100238 -36 156257 2144369

6 8 LEWIS*LEONA BLEEDING LOVE 95626 -10 105706 2530528

11 9 MCCARTNEY*JESSE LEAVIN' 88329 26 70061 684718

9 10 MADONNA FEAT. JUSTIN TIMBERLAK 4 MINUTES 81064 -8 88499 1801823

15 11 PUSSYCAT DOLLS WHEN I GROW UP 74592 16 64338 168931

16 12 SPARKS*JORDIN/CHRIS BROWN NO AIR 65584 4 63179 2064645

14 13 RAY J FEAT YUNG BERG SEXY CAN I 58827 -11 66037 1566252

17 14 DANITY KANE DAMAGED 57552 -3 59178 857714

19 15 O'DONIS*COLBY WHAT YOU GOT 56326 11 50772 494465

12 16 USHER LOVE IN THIS CLUB 54794 -18 67187 1786614

32 17 ESTELLE AMERICAN BOY 52938 45 36482 317307

18 18 3 DOORS DOWN IT'S NOT MY TIME 50815 0 51020 478839

34 19 THREE 6 MAFIA FEATURING PROJEC LOLLI LOLLI (POP THAT BODY) 46576 31 35673 224720

27 20 MAYER*JOHN SAY 45561 16 39378 1044501

21 21 PLIES BUST IT BABY PART 2 45053 0 45126 468403

22 22 FLOBOTS HANDLEBARS 44220 2 43285 332864

10 23 COOK*DAVID TIME OF MY LIFE 43780 -45 79800 522891

49 24 NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK SUMMERTIME 43578 58 27567 155550

23 25 DUFFY MERCY 42335 -2 43138 354275

33 26 NE-YO CLOSER 41500 15 35944 232607

30 27 MAROON 5 IF I NEVER SEE YOUR FACE AGAIN 40258 9 36791 256569

-- 28 LIL WAYNE 3 PEAT 39141 999 0 39141

59 29 LIL WAYNE MR. CARTER 39012 73 22486 66089

28 30 CAILLAT*COLBIE REALIZE 38800 -1 39350 873163

39 31 KARDINAL OFFISHALL DANGEROUS 37614 14 32981 182326

26 32 UNDERWOOD*CARRIE LAST NAME 36911 -6 39336 306222

29 33 DEGRAW*GAVIN IN LOVE WITH A GIRL 36834 -4 38294 475041

31 34 ONEREPUBLIC STOP AND STARE 36240 -1 36731 1292702

36 35 V.I.C. GET SILLY 36160 2 35429 240071

40 36 MRAZ*JASON I'M YOURS 34819 6 32850 366073

37 37 COLDPLAY VIOLET HILL 34752 -1 35074 215095

41 38 FLYLEAF ALL AROUND ME 33851 3 32795 613281

38 39 FLO RIDA LOW 31895 -3 33024 3968585

20 40 YOUNG JEEZY PUT ON 31066 -33 46146 77212

43 41 CAREY*MARIAH BYE BYE 30424 -3 31206 302157

50 42 BANNER*DAVID GET LIKE ME 29851 12 26606 162324

24 43 LIL WAYNE MILLI 29279 -30 42073 327477

44 44 RIHANNA DON'T STOP THE MUSIC 28757 -5 30397 2020727

-- 45 ASHANTI BODY ON ME 28495 680 3653 32148

45 46 TIMBALAND FEAT. ONEREPUBLIC APOLOGIZE 27618 -6 29298 3654524

48 47 CYRUS*MILEY SEE YOU AGAIN 26961 -3 27781 1671508

55 48 CYRUS*MILEY 7 THINGS 25928 8 23918 49846

53 49 SWIFT*TAYLOR OUR SONG 24627 -4 25558 1595156

13 50 LIL WAYNE GOT MONEY 24028 -64 66802 204604

A FEW BONUSES:

72 52 TYGA FEAT. TRAVIS MCCOY COCONUT JUICE 23255 30 17952 82975

-- 61 N.E.R.D SPAZZ 20922 999 102 21281

-- 97 THICKE*ROBIN MAGIC 14199 999 0 14199

-- 116 BEDINGFIELD*NATASHA SOUL MATE 11231 438 2086 78579

-- 118 LIL WAYNE PHONE HOME 11093 999 0 11093

-- 125 LIL WAYNE COMFORTABLE 10705 999 0 10705

-- 132 LIL WAYNE LA LA 10426 999 0 10426

-- 160 LIL WAYNE MRS. OFFICER 9072 999 0 9072

-- 170 NDEGEOCELLO*ME'SHELL BEAUTIFUL 8578 999 60 17698

175 171 COLE*KEYSHIA HEAVEN SENT 8525 3 8278 93152

-- 174 LIL WAYNE TIE MY HANDS 8370 999 0 8370

-- 178 PALMER*RISSI NO AIR 8295 108 3983 12811

-- 196 LIL WAYNE LET THE BEAT BUILD 7801 999 0 7801

And here's how Hot 100 Airplay ended up before recurrents were removed:

No. 1 - Lil Wayne (-5.5 million)

No. 2 - Leona (-6.7 million)

No. 6 - Rihanna (+5.8 million)

No. 8 - Danity Kane (-2.5 million)

No. 11 - Keyshia Cole (+0.4 milllion)

No. 13 - Usher, Beyonce & Lil Wayne (+0.8 million)

No. 14 - Natasha Bedingfield (+5.1 million)

No. 15 - Chris Brown (+10.7 million) Forever

No. 16 - Chris Brown (+0.6 million) Take You Down

No. 17 - Jesse McCartney (+5.5 million)

No. 19 - Katy Perry (+12.8 million)

No. 21 - Alicia Keys (+6.0 million)

No. 24 - Mariah (-5.6 million)

No. 31 - Madonna (-11.1 million)

No. 75 - Coldplay (+6.9 million) Viva La Vida

No. 163 - Pussycat Dolls (+4.0 million)

[Guest Danny86]

Flo Rida is reaching 4 million in a week or two!

If Coldplay can be #1 on Hot 100 with #75 in airplay, I hope the "Hot 100 is an unfair chart because airplay matters more" debate will come to an end...

[iasonas]

Flo Rida is reaching 4 million in a week or two!

If Coldplay can be #1 on Hot 100 with #75 in airplay, I hope the "Hot 100 is an unfair chart because airplay matters more" debate will come to an end...

Yes but just the fact that the no1 song is no75 in airplay isn't unfair?

Anyway, the hot100 is good enough now.. When American Life was released you cannot say that it was a fair chart. The digital sales were ridiculous then.

[dimfanis]

If Coldplay can be #1 on Hot 100 with #75 in airplay, I hope the "Hot 100 is an unfair chart because airplay matters more" debate will come to an end...

umm .. no, if Coldplay can be #1 on Hot 100 with #75 in airplay, it means that a song can still be No 1 with no airplay if it is a massive seller after a massive marketing campaign.

[TOUR2008]

PERRY*KATY IS NO1???

[HolidayGuy]

When ALife was released, digital sales were hardly registerign (MATM debuted later that year, with 4,500 its first week). And, digital sales didn't start being included in the Hot 100 mix until Feburary 2005.

Very close for No.1 this week- Perry has a 24.8m airplay advantage, while Coldplay has a 26.2m airplay-equivalent sales advantage. Perry is at No. 456 in streamign, while Coldplay isn't ranked.

[thebigham]

Billboard Chart Alert:

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_dis...ae24758fd99eabd

[Guest Danny86]

Yes but just the fact that the no1 song is no75 in airplay isn't unfair?

Why would it be unfair? Isn't it safe to say that those who bought Coldplay aren't interested in what radio plays? And those who listen to radio prefer to hear Lil Wayne over Coldplay? Funny that many of you say radio forces songs on people, but you would force radio to play a song that was used as an iTunes ad and sold a lot...

[HolidayGuy]

Donna Summer remains on the BB 200 (at No. 158- 45,840 to date), but Cyndi Lauper drops right off after 2 weeks.

[Guest Bad Robot]

Oh I really hope Katy Perry snags #1!!!

[thebigham]

Billboard.com:

Lil Wayne Crushes The Competition To Debut At No. 1

June 18, 2008

by Katie Hasty, N.Y.

With the highest weekly sales figure since 2005, Lil Wayne crashes in at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 with "Tha Carter III. As reported yesterday, the Cash Money/Universal set moved just over 1 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, the first time the six-figure threshold was crossed since 50 Cent's "The Massacre" in March 2005.

Sales for "Tha Carter III," Lil Wayne's first No. 1 on The Billboard 200, were helped along by several of the rapper's new singles, including the Hot 100-topping "Lollipop" featuring Static Major. His previous biggest sales week was a 238,000-unit start for "Tha Carter II" in 2005, which entered The Billboard 200 at No. 2 and became his fourth No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

No album in 2006 sold as many as 800,000 copies in a single frame, and the largest sales week since "The Massacre" belonged to Kanye West's "Graduation," which netted an opener of 957,000 copies last year when it hit stores on Sept. 11.

Plies' "Definition of Real" (Big Gates/Slip-N-Slide) sold 215,000 to debut at No. 2, the same position his 2007 album "The Real Testament" achieved. His current hit "Bust It Baby Part 2" featuring Ne-Yo is working its way up the Hot 100, sitting at No. 12 with a bullet this week.

The multi-label "Now 28" compilation slips a notch 2-3 with 132,000 copies, a 28% sales decrease. Distrubed's Warner Bros. set "Indestructible falls from No. 1 to No. 4 after a 60% hit to 102,000. With 101,000 units, Usher's "Here I Stand (LaFace/Zomba) endures a 30% slip and drops 3-5. Journey's Wal-mart exclusive album "Revelation" is down 5-6 on a 15% sales slide to 89,000.

With its first album in four years, hip-hop trio N.E.R.D.'s "Seeing Sounds" (Star Trak/Interscope) bows at No. 7 with 80,000. Alanis Morisette's "Flavors of Entanglement" (Warner Bros.) debuts No. 8 with 70,000; her 2004 album, "So-Called Chaos," peaked at No. 5.

My Morning Jacket's "Evil Urges" sold 49,000 copies to give the band its first top 10 album, debuting at No. 9. MMJ's previous chart high-water mark came with 2005's "Z," which topped out at No. 67. Rounding out the top tier, Weezer's third self-titled Geffen set falls 4-10 with 46,000 (-64%).

Other debuts this week include country mainstay Montgomery Gentry's "Back When I Knew It All" (Columbia, No. 20, 27,000), veteran singer Emmylou Harris' "All I Intended to Be" (Nonesuch, No. 22, 27,000), Wallflowers frontman Jakob Dylan's "Seeing Things" (Columbia/Starbucks, No. 24, 24,000), the soundtrack to Nickelodeon's "iCarly" (Sony, No. 28, 20,000) and DJ Skribble's mix "Total Club Hits" (Thrive/Red, No. 30, 20,000).

Album sales are up 22.8% from last week's sum at 9.29 million units, but are down 3.1% compared to the same week last year.

[HolidayGuy]

If Perry gets No. 1 this week, good chance Coldplay will next (with the album release and all).

[thebigham]

HITS:

JUST LIKE OLD TIMES: I.B. Bad writes: With Universal Motown’s Lil Wayne album moving in the neighborhood of a million units—the biggest bow since 50 Cent’s Massacre did 1.14m more than three years ago—and with EMI’s Coldplay projected to break 650-700k next week, and possibly higher, the record business is in the midst of a euphoric, if probably brief, time-capsule moment.

The situation has industry watchers asking: if it’s still possible for records to explode out of the box in the dour days of 2008, why doesn’t it happen more often? More than anything, these two debuts illustrate that artist development remains the key to breaking records, and that the industry’s dilemma is attributable in large part to the majors’ abandonment of the practice. Coldplay has grown during the course of the decade into one of rock’s few record-selling behemoths.

Likewise, Lil Wayne has made incremental gains over several years, appearing as a featured guest on numerous hits, before reaching critical mass. The artist has three album cuts and a pair of guest appearances on the Rhythmic and Urban charts, evidencing the continuing power of massive airplay. Veteran label head Sylvia Rhone should be applauded for reading the tea leaves and seizing the moment. (6/18p)

ADD I.B.: In an intriguing sidenote, Coldplay has already shattered Jack Johnson's previous one-week iTunes sales record of 140k in a single day. The album appears ready to fly past previous projections of 200k album downloads for the week. By comparison, Lil Wayne has registered less than 100k at the online store. (6/18p)

[Guest nothingfails0603]

all that Coldplay at #75 on airplay proves is that radio is irrelevant and not reflective of what people want to listen to. The fact that the old ass track Chris Martin did with Kanye is higher at airplay than THE #1 SONG ON ITUNES shows that radio needs to get off it's ghetto obsession and move into 2008.

If Coldplay was ghetto shit, it would've exploded on radio the second it leaked. I hate our radio, UK stations are more openminded to other genres than just urban.

[thebigham]

Billboard.com:

Coldplay To Assume Control Of Billboard Hot 100

June 18, 2008, 1:30 PM ET

by Silvio Pietroluongo, N.Y.

In advance of its expected debut atop The Billboard 200 next week with "Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends," Coldplay claims its first-ever Hot 100 No. 1 with "Viva La Vida," which climbs 2-1 on the chart that will be released tomorrow (June 19).

The song shifts 246,000 downloads in its third week atop Hot Digital Songs, while the track continues to build at multiple radio formats, holding top 20 rankings at Adult Top 40 (No. 15) and Modern Rock (No. 16). Capitol has even more reason to celebrate, as the label's Katy Perry will move 4-2 with Greatest Gainer/Airplay honors on the Hot 100 for "I Kissed a Girl."

This will mark the first time that Capitol has had the top two slots on the Hot 100 in the same week since Billboard's Sept. 2, 1967 issue, when the label had Bobbie Gentry's "Ode To Billie Joe" at No. 1 and the Beatles' "All You Need is Love" as the runner up.

In other Coldplay news, the group has tapped Santogold as the opening act for most of its North American tour, which begins July 14 in Los Angeles.

[Lucy Goosie]

Donna Summer remains on the BB 200 (at No. 158- 45,840 to date), but Cyndi Lauper drops right off after 2 weeks.

Yay for Donna but Cyndi's run has been truly dire.

Her covers album actually did respectable numbers but there seems to be little interest in her own music.

[Guest Bad Robot]

Bummer that Katy didn't get #1. Maybe in a couple weeks?

[Guest nothingfails0603]

why be bummed? I think it's great that Coldplay hit #1. A total fuck you both to Billboard (whose rules make it so much easier for urban artists to have hits because of reparations because once urban artists didn't have a shot) and radio stations (who think that because Coldplay aren't rap that nobody wants to listen to them).

I am finally proud of the US singles charts for a change, someone who deserves to be #1 IS #1.

[Lucy Goosie]

So this year two UK acts have hit #1!

The last time this happened was in 1997 when the Spice Girls and Elton John both hit the top and before that it was in 1992 when George Michael/Elton John and Right Said Fred had #1 singles!

[Alexz]

UK to takeover America