Top-Selling Albums - 2008 Calendar Year

[leilamaurizia]

The 2008 calendar year covers the period of December 31, 2007 to December 28, 2008.

2006
#3 Some Hearts - 3,016,031 (#2 country album)
2007
#12 Carnival Ride - 1,694,118 (#3 country album)
#17 Some Hearts - 1,535,558 (#5 country album)


Week 26:
Includes sales thru 6/29/08
26 weeks remaining in the calendar year

1 THA CARTER III LIL' WAYNE 1,525,516
2 Sleep Through The Static Jack Johnson 1,247,987
3 E=MC2 MARIAH CAREY 1,063,430
4 AS I AM ALICIA KEYS 986,275
5 VIVA LA VIDA OR DEATH AND ALL HIS FRIENDS COLDPLAY 970,864
6 TAYLOR SWIFT TAYLOR SWIFT 867,477
7 SPIRIT LEONA LEWIS 829,685
8 HERE I STAND USHER 805,856
9 JUNO SOUNDTRACK 790,494
10 NOW 27 VARIOUS ARTISTS 766,513
11 Growing Pains Mary J. Blige 680,207
12 Alvin And The Chipmunks SOUNDTRACK 655,070
13 THRILLER 25 MICHAEL JACKSON 607,170
14 TRILLA RICK ROSS 599,178
15 Hannah Montana 2 (Soundtrack)/Meet Miley Cyrus MILEY CYRUS 598,518
16 EXCLUSIVE CHRIS BROWN 595,819
17 LITTLE VOICE SARA BAREILLES 591,938
18 HARD CANDY MADONNA 570,410
19 BACK TO BLACK AMY WINEHOUSE 570,154
20 COCO COLBIE CAILLAT 559,578
21 In Rainbows Radiohead 555,393
22 DAUGHTRY DAUGHTRY 515,423
23 JONAS BROTHERS JONAS BROTHERS 512,535
24 JUST LIKE YOU KEYSHIA COLE 512,226
25 WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE DANITY KANE 510,099
26 CARNIVAL RIDE CARRIE UNDERWOOD 510,010
27 THE ULTIMATE HITS GARTH BROOKS 493,810
28 INDESTRUCTIBLE DISTURBED 464,314
29 NOW 28 VARIOUS ARTISTS 463,998
30 TROUBADOR GEORGE STRAIT 437,832
31 GOOD TIME ALAN JACKSON 432,371
32 JORDIN SPARKS JORDIN SPARKS 429,817
33 ENJOY THE RIDE SUGARLAND 429,616
34 NOW 26 VARIOUS ARTISTS 422,485
35 DREAMING OUT LOUD ONEREPUBLIC 413,756
36 Long Road Out Of Eden EAGLES 411,599
37 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD RIHANNA 400,504
38 ROCK N ROLL JESUS KID ROCK 396,793
39 DISCIPLINE JANET JACKSON 392,140
40 THE DUTCHESS FERGIE 386,921
41 STILL FEELS GOOD RASCAL FLATTS 382,131
42 RAISING SAND ROBERT PLANT/ALISON KRAUSS 374,068
43 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT LINKIN PARK 363,657
44 CAMP ROCK SOUNDTRACK 358,083
45 3 DOORS DOWN 3 DOORS DOWN 355,926
46 ONCE SOUNDTRACK 352,436
47 I CAN ONLY IMAGINE: ULTIMATE POWER ANTHEMS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH VARIOUS ARTISTS 349,458
48 EGO TRIPPIN SNOOP DOGG 344,430
49 CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE MICHAEL BUBLE 338,326
50 HANNAH MONTANA/MILEY CYRUS: BEST OF BOTH WORLDS CONCERT MILEY CYRUS 334,880

[CARRIES#1FAN4LIFE]

ehhh.
im not rly liking this.
taylor swift AND garth brooks above carrie. DEF NOT COOL.
shes way better.
we need to treat Carnival Ride as if it were Some Hearts.
and keeeeep buyingggg.

[UltimateCarrie]

Overall sales look dismal. Only two albums in the triple digits?
Boo. I'm sure CR will rise in the coming months.

[Triquetral]

i wont comment on the CR sales, nothing extra i can say i havnt said before. But i cant believe Taylor is doing so well after all this time...it doesnt make sense in my eyes!!!

[robinannhunt]

Thanks Desi for doing this again for us this year.

[pgk]

Originally Posted by Triquetral

i wont comment on the CR sales, nothing extra i can say i havnt said before. But i cant believe Taylor is doing so well after all this time...it doesnt make sense in my eyes!!!

Well I think it's easy to figure out...Taylor's cd was doctored up to sound more pop..a couple of new 'popish' songs added and her cd was re-released. Country and pop radio stations pick up on it ..she charts on pop and country and voila...after a year she's rediscovered or maybe I should say 'discovered'.

Who knows maybe her next cd will be so pop it won't be considered 'country' anymore. By the way who decides that?

But anyway ..there is no-0ne like Carrie..her cd and singles are doing great!

[pklongbeach]

I agree, It must be considered that TS released a Cd and when it began to decline, went back to the sudio changed it, rereleased it and refocused its audience and all sales still count for the original album. (It's a bit like takeing your album and resufacing it as a Best of.., getting people to buy it and then turning around and saying that all sales still count toward the orginal cause in fact it "is" the original ("fooled ya!")...but you marketed it as two diffrent things. Kind of cagey. Don't really like it. But it worked and no one seems to care.

[pklongbeach]

I have nothing against TS, but the practices of her management are alittle...alittle..well..
yuck.

[pgk]

Originally Posted by pklongbeach

I have nothing against TS, but the practices of her management are alittle...alittle..well..
yuck.

It's called, 'business' and the ultimate objective is money and sales..but yeah I agree it is... YUCK!

[Liatush]

yeah new year! good luck carrie(:

[comolaamapolaflor5285]

it's actually common practice to re release albums with extra material and even sometimes a dvd when the sales start to decline and they bounce up again

[Carrie4ever1]

I could not find A Carrie Underwood 2008 calander! I have the 2007 calander.

[donturner98]

Originally Posted by Carrie4ever1

I could not find A Carrie Underwood 2008 calander! I have the 2007 calander.

different type of calendar.

this sales calendar would need a pretty big thumb tack to hang on the wall.
(maybe just not as big as last year's thumb tack)