Album Sales, Blown Away Era, week 10

[Pi314CA]

BA was at 6,747 at the 51% last week. It's at 9,026 at the 54% this week.

Notice the numbers are incredibly skewed due to the 99 cent Amazon sale for some of the albums.

CHART DATE: 07/09/2012
LAST UPDATE: 07/09/2012 11:35:20
NOW IN: 54.98%

LW TW artist / album label power index
-- 1 CHRIS BROWN RCA 56,273
FORTUNE
24 2 KATY PERRY CAPITOL/EMI 46,415
TEENAGE DREAM
3 3 JUSTIN BIEBER ISLAND/IDJ 45,807
BELIEVE
26 4 GOTYE FAIRFAX/REPUBLIC 36,720
MAKING MIRRORS
19 5 FUN. FUELED BY RAMEN 31,671
SOME NIGHTS
-- 6 BLACK KEYS NONESUCH 29,727
EL CAMINO
-- 7 FLO RIDA ATLANTIC 27,449
WILD ONES
41 8 JASON MRAZ ATLANTIC 27,398
LOVE IS A FOUR LETTER WORD
6 9 KENNY CHESNEY BLUE CHAIR/COLUMBIA NASH 27,302
WELCOME TO THE FISHBOWL
1 10 LINKIN PARK WARNER BROS. 26,866
LIVING THINGS
2 11 MAROON 5 A&M/OCTONE 21,583
OVEREXPOSED
7 12 ADELE XL/COLUMBIA 21,044
21
-- 13 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE HOLLYWOOD 20,750
CEREMONIALS
39 14 OF MONSTERS & MEN REPUBLIC 20,057
MY HEAD IS AN ANIMAL
-- 15 REGINA SPEKTOR SIRE 17,293
WHAT WE SAW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS
-- 16 ELLIE GOULDING INTERSCOPE 16,932
LIGHTS
35 17 LUMINEERS DUALTONE 16,884
LUMINEERS
-- 18 PHILLIP PHILLIPS 19/INTERSCOPE 16,455
AMERICAN IDOL EP
9 19 USHER RCA 16,110
LOOKING 4 MYSELF
8 20 ONE DIRECTION SYCO/COLUMBIA 15,631
UP ALL NIGHT
44 21 B.O.B. GRAND HUSTLE/ATLANTIC 14,699
STRANGE CLOUDS
5 22 R. KELLY RCA 13,816
WRITE ME BACK
4 23 MMG PRESENTS: SELF MADE, VOL. 2 MAYBACH MUSIC GROUP 13,684
VARIOUS
-- 24 WANTED MERCURY 13,553
WANTED
-- 25 KIMBRA WARNER BROS. 12,500
VOWS
-- 26 LANA DEL REY INTERSCOPE 12,322
BORN TO DIE
13 27 LUKE BRYAN CAPITOL NASHVILLE/EMI 11,632
TAILGATES & TANLINES
16 28 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 42 CAPITOL/EMI 11,381
VARIOUS ARTISTS
-- 29 BONNIE RAITT REDWING 9,479
SLIPSTREAM
18 30 ALAN JACKSON CAPITOL NASHVILLE/EMI 9,450
THIRTY MILES WEST
48 31 DRAKE YM/CM/REPUBLIC 9,029
TAKE CARE
20 32 CARRIE UNDERWOOD 19/ARISTA NASHVILLE 9,026
BLOWN AWAY
21 33 ERIC CHURCH CAPITOL NASHVILLE/EMI 8,551
CHIEF
25 34 NOW COUNTRY 5 UME 8,436
VARIOUS ARTISTS
15 35 LET IT SHINE WALT DISNEY 7,640
SOUNDTRACK
10 36 ROCK OF AGES WATERTOWER MUSIC 6,351
SOUNDTRACK
28 37 NICKI MINAJ YM/CM/REPUBLIC 5,681
PINK FRIDAY... ROMAN RELOADED
36 38 JASON ALDEAN BROKEN BOW 4,931
MY KINDA PARTY
22 39 RUSH ROADRUNNER 4,398
CLOCKWORK ANGELS
50 40 ADELE XL/COLUMBIA 4,242
19
-- 41 KIP MOORE MCA NASHVILLE 4,234
UP ALL NIGHT
-- 42 BEACH HOUSE SUB POP 4,220
BLOOM
-- 43 KELLY CLARKSON 19/RCA 4,192
STRONGER
32 44 JOSH TURNER MCA NASHVILLE 4,093
PUNCHING BAG
-- 45 HILLSONG LIVE HILLSONG 3,890
CORNERSTONE
45 46 BRANTLEY GILBERT BIG MACHINE 3,836
HALFWAY TO HEAVEN
-- 47 LEE BRICE CURB 3,726
HARD 2 LOVE
23 48 CHRIS CAGLE BIGGER PICTURE 3,529
BACK IN THE SADDLE
27 49 JOHN MAYER COLUMBIA 3,451
BORN AND RAISED
-- 50 WISIN Y YANDEL MACHETE MUSIC 3,427
LIDERES

[jimshoe]

Also, she's close to #3 country! Let's hope she can get there

[supercarriefan]

Which albums were on sale at Amazon or iTunes this week?

[Pi314CA]

I think these albums were on sale last week for $0.99-$2.99 for one day at Amazon, along with Tuskegee:

24 2 KATY PERRY CAPITOL/EMI 46,415
TEENAGE DREAM
26 4 GOTYE FAIRFAX/REPUBLIC 36,720
MAKING MIRRORS
19 5 FUN. FUELED BY RAMEN 31,671
SOME NIGHTS
-- 7 FLO RIDA ATLANTIC 27,449
WILD ONES
41 8 JASON MRAZ ATLANTIC 27,398
LOVE IS A FOUR LETTER WORD
-- 13 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE HOLLYWOOD 20,750
CEREMONIALS
39 14 OF MONSTERS & MEN REPUBLIC 20,057
MY HEAD IS AN ANIMAL
-- 15 REGINA SPEKTOR SIRE 17,293
WHAT WE SAW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS
-- 16 ELLIE GOULDING INTERSCOPE 16,932
LIGHTS
35 17 LUMINEERS DUALTONE 16,884
LUMINEERS
-- 24 WANTED MERCURY 13,553
WANTED
-- 25 KIMBRA WARNER BROS. 12,500
VOWS
-- 26 LANA DEL REY INTERSCOPE 12,322
BORN TO DIE
-- 29 BONNIE RAITT REDWING 9,479
SLIPSTREAM

[allamericangirl8]

Lana Del Rey is so creepy.

[teesharky]

I am just wondering if the reporting order is country heavy this week? Kenny's numbers seem awfully high. I don't think he will sell 50k this week but his first update is huge. Either he is really kicking butt or the reporting order is different.

Carrie had no appearances last week, no publicity, and no sales.....so I can't see her going up this week--- but I hope I am wrong.

It would be amazing if she at least leveled out finally and only decreased by a small margin.

[judes]

Lana Del Rey is so creepy.

I heard an interview with her on NPR and she was just a normal singer songwriter touring around singing
at clubs etc and then she changed her name to Lana Del Rey and made this album and took on this persona

[allamericangirl8]

I've only heard one song from her (Axl Rose Husband). If you took my love for Axl/GN'R and put a triple-digit exponent beside it, you would get Lana Del Rey. My obsession is... bad, but hers is, like, insane.

[clh_hilary]

Amazon discounted a lot of albums this past week, and they had a box-set or something that sold 250k copies of albums. iTunes also discounted a lot of albums. Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" does not only have the discounts, when her movie, "Part of Me", opens in theaters this past week with "Wide Awake" smashing at #1 on iTunes so she should be getting an even more noticeable boost. But notable debuts were only Chris Brown's album and Flo Rida's.

[teesharky]

I've only heard one song from her (Axl Rose Husband). If you took my love for Axl/GN'R and put a triple-digit exponent beside it, you would get Lana Del Rey. My obsession is... bad, but hers is, like, insane.

you make me laugh. ha ha I love that you love GNR! ha ha

I am still pissed at Axl for ditching the Hall of Fame though. I just felt it was a huge honor and to miss it over a 20 year olf grudge seemed silly. He must really hate Slash to his core to such an extent that he is still this angry 20 or more years later.

I wonder what Slash did??

Now THIS is the kind of E!hollywood story I would watch. lol

[teesharky]

Amazon discounted a lot of albums this past week, and they had a box-set or something that sold 250k copies of albums. iTunes also discounted a lot of albums. Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" does not only have the discounts, when her movie, "Part of Me", opens in theaters this past week with "Wide Awake" smashing at #1 on iTunes so she should be getting an even more noticeable boost. But notable debuts were only Chris Brown's album and Flo Rida's.

I wish they had discounted Carrie's stuff. lol

[carrieidol1]

Ew @ this week's sales.

[allamericangirl8]

you make me laugh. ha ha I love that you love GNR! ha ha

I am still pissed at Axl for ditching the Hall of Fame though. I just felt it was a huge honor and to miss it over a 20 year olf grudge seemed silly. He must really hate Slash to his core to such an extent that he is still this angry 20 or more years later.

I wonder what Slash did??

Now THIS is the kind of E!hollywood story I would watch. lol

SORRY IN ADVANCE FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T CARE BUT I MUST REPLY.

I already had a feeling Axl was gonna ditch the RNRHOF before he did, but I had blind hope he wouldn't. So when he wrote that letter, I was so prepared to tear him to sheds over it. I was so pissed. And then I read it, and I kind of understood his decision. The RNRHOF may have picked GN'R because they deserved it, but they also kind of did it to set Axl up for a reunion, y'know? I think Axl was in a no-win situation so he just decided to sit it out. I still wish he went, though. I mean, at least one of the two main songwriters should've shown up lol. I wish Izzy hadn't ditched either. He wrote pretty much all the hits. The whole RNRHOF thing was such a mess ugh.

Regarding Slash, it's well-documented that Axl really loved Slash (like, they had a real bromance, know what I'm sayin'?). So, it had to be something huge for Axl to hate him. Axl claimed in his RNRHOF letter basically that all he wants is for Slash to recant the "lies" he told about Axl. Now, it's also well-documented that Slash has lied about a few things. It could be that Slash did lie, try to paint Axl as the villain and save face after being stupid enough to sign over the GN'R name, or it could be that Slash, due to his addiction, remembered things in a totally different way and has no idea what "lies" Axl is accusing him of. Additionally, I think it really hurt Axl that Slash basically said that Axl worked his way and he wouldn't compromise, because Axl really tried to compromise with Slash. Axl saw the band as his and Slash's, saw the two of them as the top dogs, so when Slash seemed like he was pulling away from the band, Axl did try to compromise. By 1996, there was enough material to complete an album, but then Slash left the band, so Axl had to start from scratch. I think Axl holds Slash in contempt for that as well.

Now Axl ain't innocent either. He'd done some petty things to Slash over the years, like bringing in new people into the band without talking to Slash about it at all. To be fair, he did try to make up for it (he'd fire the guy and get one of Slash's friends to replace him, that sort of thing), but still. The band recorded a cover of Sympathy For the Devil for the movie Interview With a Vampire, and Slash and Axl got into an argument during this recording. So, almost as an act of revenge, Axl got his friend to record another guitar solo on top of Slash's. That offended Slash. So y'know, Axl ain't innocent.

Slash claims to have left the band because, in effect, direct communication between Axl and him had ceased, and it was annoying that he had to get through a ton of middlemen to talk to Axl. Axl had become a bit of a recluse at that point himself, and he distanced himself from many people, including the band.

I won't go into complete detail about what went on between Axl and Slash as I don't want to completely hijack this thread, but that's the gist of it, I guess. We'll never know what exactly went on, but those are just the facts as confirmed by multiple people. Even the part about Slash lying a lot was confirmed by Slash's best friend, Marc Canter, and by discrepancies between his book and his old interviews.

It's all so petty, though. They need to just kiss and makeup. It's irritating at this point. A 48-year-old man should not be calling another grownup "a cancer."

[carebear4eva]

Axl's a prick.

[allamericangirl8]

Axl's a prick.

no u

[Lstname89]

^Oh... Shi*....

[Lstname89]

I wish they had discounted Carrie's stuff. lol

You should consider it a compliment to Carrie, that all of her shi* isn't .99 cents.

She doesn't belong in the dollar bin at Wal-Mart.

Just sayin'!

Smile, Tee!

[JB172]

no u

Uh oh. lol

[Lstname89]

Axl's a prick.

I hope you're not fond of you e-dick, it's about to be chopped off!

[Marie2011]

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