Thursday Billboard Update - 5/24/12

With a meager 77,100 albums sold, Adam Lambert's Trespassing is the new #1 album in the country. Coming in a #5 is Tenacious D's Rize Of The Fenix with 44,400 sold.

For the most part, nothing changed from last week's Hot 100.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Adam Lambert - Trespassing (1)
2. Adele - 21 (2-2)
3. Carrie Underwood - Blown Away (1-3)
4. Norah Jones - Little Broken Hearts (5-4)
5. Tenacious D - Rize Of The Fenix (5)
6. Various Artists - Now 42 (4-6)
7. Beach House - Bloom (7)
8. Glee Cast - Glee, The Music: Season Three - The Graduation Album (8)
9. Lionel Richie - Tuskegee (3-9)
10. One Direction - Up All Night (7-10)

• Killer Mike's R.A.P. Music debuts at #83 with just 5,300 sold. What a travesty.

The Billboard Hot 100 1-10
first time top 10's in bold

1. Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know (1-1)
2. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe (4-2)
3. Maroon 5 - Payphone (2-3)
4. fun. - We Are Young (3-4)
5. Nicki Minaj - Starships (6-5)
6. Flo Rida - Wild Ones (5-6)
7. One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful (7-7)
8. The Wanted - Glad You Came (8-8)
9. Justin Bieber - Boyfriend (9-9)
10. Train - Drive By (10-10)

• Usher's Scream hops another 10 spots 25-15.
• Nicki Minaj's Right By My Side featuring Chris Brown jumps 18 spots 78-60.
• J. Cole's Nobody's Perfect with Missy Elliot debuts at #90.

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Thursday Billboard Update - 12/3/09

Proving looks don't matter when it comes to talent, Susan Boyle's debut album I Dreamed A Dream (terrible title) annihilates her competition and moves 701,000 units in her first week. That's good for 2009's best sales week, beating out Eminem's Relapse's first week of 608,244.

After all that hoopla last week, Adam Lambert's For Your Entertainment comes in at #3 with 198,000 sold. I guess America wasn't as ready for that gay shit as it thought lol. Also underwhelming is Rihanna's Rated R at #4 with 181,400 sold. Now on the surface that's her best first week ever, but with all the extra press, sympathy, and 20/20 interviews she should've moved more. Especially with that extra day and Black Friday. Don't bode well for Chris Brown's Graffiti.

Same ol' same ol' on the Hot 100.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Susan Boyle - I Dreamed A Dream (1)
2. Andrea Bocelli - My Christmas (2-2)
3. Adam Lambert - For Your Entertainment (3)
4. Rihanna - Rated R (4)
5. Lady GaGa - The Fame Monster (5)
6. Lady GaGa - The Fame (34-6)
7. Miley Cyrus - The Time Of Our Lives (29-7)
8. Taylor Swift - Fearless (10-8)
9. Carrie Underwood - Play On (9-9)
10. Norah Jones - The Fall (3-10)

• Birdman's Pricele$$ debuts at #29 with 35,800 sold. I'm almost positive it reach that high because of Black Friday and a large amount of white mother's of teenagers buying whatever CD was on the "New Release" rack lol.
• Jay Sean All Or Nothing comes in at #33 with 30,800 sold.
• Angie Stone's Unexpected finds its way at #99 with 10,000 sold.
• I didn't even know the Blakroc album dropped, but it starts off at #125 with 7,400 sold.
• Wiz Khalifa's Deal Or No Deal debuts at #148 with 5,900 sold.
  

The Billboard Hot 100 1-10
first time top 10's in bold
1. Jay-Z - Empire State Of Mind (1-1)
2. Lady GaGa - Bad Romance (2-2)
3. Ke$ha - TiK ToK (5-3)
4. Owl City - Fireflies (3-4)
5. Iyaz - Replay (6-5)
6. Jason Rulo - Whatcha Say (4-6)
7. Black Eyed Peas - Meet Me Halfway (12-7)
8. David Guetta - Sexy Chick (7-8)
9. Jay Sean - Down (10-9)
10. Britney Spears - 3 (9-10)

• With her album now in stores, Rihanna's Hard featuring Young Jeezy soars 61 spots 80-19.
• Shakira's Give It Up To Me with Lil Wayne surges 32 spots 61-29.
• Lady Gaga's Telephone featuring Beyonce debuts at #30 this week.
• Alicia Keys' Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart (I'm sure she could just call up Mashonda if she really wanted to know what that was like) jumps 16 spots 58-42.
• Trey Songz's Say Aah moves 9 spots up 68-59.
• Two title tracks debut back to back as Adam Lambert's For Your Entertainment comes in at #61 and Susan Boyle's I Dreamed A Dream at #62.
• Beyonce's Video Phone starts off at #65.
• Chris Brown's Crawl debuts at #68.
• After debuting at #88 last week, Fiona Melanie's It Kills Me hops up to #75 this week.
• Timbaland's Morning After Dark comes in at #76.
• Birdman debuts his 4 My Town with Drake and Lil Wayne at #90.
• Lady Gaga's Speechless starts off at #94.
• Susan Boyle debuts another, Wild Horses, at #98.

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Thursday Billboard Update - 11/26/09

Wow, not only did 50 Cent not grab the #1 spot, but he couldn't manage numbers 2, 3, or 4 either. Debuting at #5 is 50 Cent's Before I Self Destruct with 161,200 sold (I believe I called that). The sales reign for 50 is over.

The man who actually does get to sit atop the Billboard 200 is John Mayer as his Battle Studies pushes 286,000 out the store.

Jay-Z's Empire State Of Mind with Alicia Keys hangs onto the #1 spot for another week after seeing gains in airplay, sales, and online streaming.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. John Mayer - Battle Studies (1)
2. Andrea Bocelli - My Christmas (2-2)
3. Norah Jones - The Fall (3)
4. Casting Crowns - Until The Whole World Hears (4)
5. 50 Cent - Before I Self Destruct (5)
6. Justin Bieber - My World EP (6)
7. Michael Jackson - This Is It sdtk (4-7)
8. Various Artists - Twilight Saga: New Moon sdtk (10-8)
9. Carrie Underwood - Play On (3-9)
10. Taylor Swift - Fearless (5-10)

• Last season's American Idol winner Kris Allen's self-title debut album comes in at #11 with 80,000 sold. I smell "Ruben Studdard/Clay Aiken 2.0" brewing with Kris and Adam Lambert. You know, the clearly gay guy, that didn't wanna admit he was gay during Idol, that came in 2nd place and ends up having a more successful career than the actual winner. I can smell it, I can see it.
• Leona Lewis' 2nd album Echo comes in at #13 with 67,300 sold, a far cry from her 2008 debut Spirit.
  
• Rakim's long awaited come back album The Seventh Seal comes in at #61 with 11,700 sold.
• Pretty Ricky's self-titled album debuts at #97, but I can find their sales figures anywhere. If Rakim did nearly 12,000 at #61, I'm guessing PR sold around 5,000.
  

The Billboard Hot 100 1-10
first time top 10's in bold
1. Jay-Z - Empire State Of Mind (1-1)
2. Lady GaGa - Bad Romance (11-2)
3. Owl City - Fireflies (2-3)
4. Jason Rulo - Whatcha Say (3-4)
5. Ke$ha - TiK ToK (10-5)
6. Iyaz - Replay (4-6)
7. David Guetta - Sexy Chick (12-7)
8. Lady GaGa - Paparazzi (9-8)
9. Britney Spears - 3 (6-9)
10. Jay Sean - Down (7-10)

• Leona Lewis' Happy see's a surge with her album coming out last week and goes 59-31 this week.
• Kris Allen's single Live Like We're Dying jumps 29 spots 71-40.
• Alicia Keys' Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart (I'm sure she could just call up Mashonda if she really wanted to know what that was like) debuts at #58.
• Gucci Mane's bullshit (aka first single) Spotlight jumps 19 spot 86-67. I told y'all this was gonna finally move once he went to jail. Lets see how long this lasts.
• Trey Songz's Say Aah moves 13 spots up 81-68.
• Rihanna's Hard with Young Jeezy starts off at #80 this week.
• Melanie Fiona's It Kills Me comes in at #88.
• In a true shocker, the intro to 50 Cent's new album, debuts on the Hot 100 this week. The Invitation starts off at #97, lets see if it can hang around.

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Kris Allen Upsets Adam Lambert For American Idol Crown

I, like many others, don't watch American Idol outside of the auditions, and with the Cavs/Magic game on last night, there was no way I was seeing the finale. In fact, I forgot it was even happening until I flipped it on the Preview Channel and saw them recapping it.

Anyway, in a shocking upset, Kris Allen defeats long time front-runner Adam Lambert for the A.I. crown. I'm glad too because we didn't need another one of these pansy, guy-liner wearing guys winning Idol. Plus, have you heard Adam Lambert sing?? He sounds like a woman lol. Thank goodness he didn't win and congrats to Kris Allen.

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