July 12, 2012

Thursday Billboard Update - 7/12/12

Chris Brown's (I'm assuming mostly techno) album Fortune debuts at #1 with 134,000 sold. Also, Amazon put 20 albums on sale for 99 cents for one day, and as a result, 4 old albums (Katy Perry's Teenage Dream, Gotye's Making Mirrors, fun.'s Some Nights, Black Keys' El Camino) return to the top 10.

And as usual, a lot of nothing happened in the top 10 of the Hot 100.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Chris Brown - Fortune (1)
2. Katy Perry - Teenage Dream (21-2)
3. Justin Bieber - Believe (3-3)
4. Maroon 5 - Overexposed (2-4)
5. Linkin Park - Living Things (1-5)
6. Gotye - Making Mirrors (31-6)
7. fun. - Some Nights (23-7)
8. Kenny Chesney - Welcome To The Fishbowl (6-8)
9. Adele - 21 (7-9)
10. Black Keys - El Camino (55-10)
  • Flo Rida's surely shitty new album Wild Ones debuts at #14 with 30,700 copies sold. I guess he's not as popular with white folks as we thought.
The Billboard Hot 100 1-10
first time top 10's in bold

1. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe (1-1)
2. Maroon 5 - Payphone (2-2)
3. Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know (3-3)
4. Katy Perry - Wide Awake (4-4)
5. Ellie Goulding - Lights (6-5)
6. Rihanna - Where Have You Been (5-6)
7. David Guetta - Titanium (9-7)
8. fun. - We Are Young (7-8)
9. Nicki Minaj - Starships (8-9)
10. Usher - Scream (10-10)
  • P!nk's Blow Me (One Last Kiss) debuts at #58.
  • DJ Khaled's I Wish You Would featuring Kanye West and Rick Ross debuts at #78m.
  • MMG's Bag Of Money with Wale, Rick Ross, Meek Mill and T-Pain jumps 12 spots 93-81.
  • Trey Songz's 2 Reasons featuring T.I. debuts at #97.
  • Pitbull's Get It Started with Shakira debuts at #99.