Thursday Billboard Update - 5/17/12

Carrie Underwood's Blown Away keeps the #1 spot for a 2nd week by moving an additional 119,500 copies. Coming in at #9 is Tank's new album This Is How I Feel with 33,100 sold.

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

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Carrie Underwood - Blown Away (1-1)
2. Adele - 21 (4-2)
3. Lionel Richie - Tuskegee (6-3)
4. Various Artists - Now 42 (3-4)
5. Norah Jones - Little Broken Hearts (2-5)
6. Silversun Pickups - Neck Of The Woods (6)
7. One Direction - Up All Night (8-7)
8. Jack White - Blunderbuss (7-8)
9. Tank - This Is How I Feel (9)
10. Luke Bryan - Tailgates & Tanlines (13-10)

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

1. Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know (1-1)
2. Maroon 5 - Payphone (3-2)
3. fun. - We Are Young (2-3)
4. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe (4-4)
5. Flo Rida - Wild Ones (5-5)
6. Nicki Minaj - Starships (7-6)
7. One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful (9-7)
8. The Wanted - Glad You Came (7-8)
9. Justin Bieber - Boyfriend (8-9)
10. Train - Drive By (11-10)

• Rihanna's Where Have You Been jumps 11 more spots 29-18.
• Pitbull's Back In Time skips 9 more spots 30-21.
• Usher's Scream surges 21 more spots 46-25.
• 2 Chainz's first single No Lie featuring Drake debuts at #45.
• Justin Bieber's Turn To You debuts at #60.
• Usher's Lemme See featuring Rick Ross debuts at #98.

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Jimmy Kimmel & Carrie Underwood Duet Before You Freak

Gotta love Kimmel lol.

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Thursday Billboard Update - 5/10/12

Carrie Underwood's Blown Away is the new #1 album this week with 267,300 sold. Down at #5 is B.o.B's Strange Clouds which debuts with 76,500 copies sold.

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

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Carrie Underwood - Blown Away (1)
2. Norah Jones - Little Broken Hearts (2)
3. Various Artists - Now 42 (3)
4. Adele - 21 (2-4)
5. B.o.B - Strange Clouds (5)
6. Lionel Richie - Tuskegee (3-6)
7. Jack White - Blunderbuss (1-7)
8. One Direction - Up All Night (4-8)
9. Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman - Smash sdtk (9)
10. Marilyn Manson - Born Villain (10)

• Following the death of MCA last week, the Beastie Boys' License To Ill leaps back onto the Billboard 200 at #18 with 19,100.

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

1. Gotye - Somebody That I Used to Know (1-1)
2. fun. - We Are Young (2-2)
3. Maroon 5 - Payphone (3-3)
4. Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe (5-4)
5. Flo Rida - Wild Ones (6-5)
6. The Wanted - Glad You Came (4-6)
7. Nicki Minaj - Starships (8-7)
8. Justin Bieber - Boyfriend (7-8)
9. One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful (9-9)
10. Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You) (10-10)

• B.o.B's Both Of Us featuring Taylor Swift (Word?) debuts at #18.
• Rihanna's Where Have You Been soars 49 spots 78-29.
• Pitbull's Back In Time off the "Men In Black 3" soundtrack flies 18 more spots 48-30.
• Usher's Scream jumps 24 spots 70-46 in its 2nd week.

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Thursday Billboard Update - 11/12/09

Terrible week for Hip-Hop on the Billboard 200 so fuck it, on to the next one.

Owl City's Fireflies returns to the top spot and Jay-Z's Empire State Of Mind moves up to #2, but the real story this week is Rihanna's Russian Roulette soaring 66 spots to land in the top 10 at #9. We all knew it was going to pick up, but there it goes and it only took 3 weeks.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Carrie Underwood - Play On (1)
2. Michael Jackson - This Is It sdtk (1-2)
3. Andrea Bocelli - My Christmas (3)
4. Glee Cast - Glee: Season One sdtk (4)
5. Various Artists - Now 32 (5)
6. Taylor Swift - Fearless (3-6)
7. Weezer - Raditude (7)
8. Michael Bublé - Crazy Love (7-8)
9. Sting - If On A Winter's Night (6-9)
10. Various Artists - Twilight Saga: New Moon sdtk (8-10)

• Amerie's In Love & War debuts at #46 with 12,700 sold.
• Ryan Leslie's Transition comes in at #50 with 12,000 sold.
  

The Billboard Hot 100 1-10
first time top 10's in bold
1. Owl City - Fireflies (2-1)
2. Jay-Z - Empire State Of Mind (3-2)
3. Jason Rulo - Whatcha Say (1-3)
4. Iyaz - Replay (12-4)
5. Jay Sean - Down (4-5)
6. Miley Cyrus - Party In The U.S.A. (5-6)
7. Lady GaGa - Paparazzi (6-7)
8. Britney Spears - 3 (8-8)
9. Rihanna - Russian Roulette (75-9)
10. Beyonce - Sweet Dreams (11-10)

• Jay Sean's second single, Do You Remember featuring Sean Paul and Lil Jon, debuts at #27.
• Birdman's Money To Blow starring Drake and Lil Wayne jumps another 11 spots 51-40.
• The New Boyz try to prove their career isn't completely over as their single Tie Me Down with Ray-J moves 24 spots north 82-58.
• Trey Songz's I Invented Sex jumps 19 spots 80-61 one week after it debuted online and captivated every female 15-34's mind and body.

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Thursday Billboard Update - 10/1/09

Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 loses ground at the top and falls to #2 with 134,100 sold. Drake's So Far Gone EP hangs into the top 10, falling to #9 with 36,100 in its 2nd week.

Only one new entry in the top 10 this week, and its actually been here before. Mariah Carey's Obsessed is the song and it sees its way back into the top 10 at #9. I can see it landing as high as #4 next week with her new album dropping this past Tuesday and all.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Pearl Jam - Backspacer (1)
2. Jay-Z - Blueprint 3 (1-2)
3. Three Days Grace - Life Starts Now (3)
4. Whitney Houston - I Look To You (2-4)
5. Miley Cyrus - The Time Of Our Lives (5-5)
6. Brand New - Daisy (6)
7. Five Finger Death Punch - War Is The Answer (7)
8. Harry Connick Jr. - Your Songs (8)
9. Drake - So Far Gone EP (6-9)
10. Muse - The Resistance (3-10)

• Sean Kingston's Tomorrow comes in at #37 with a raggedy little 12,600 first week. That's just sad.
  

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

1. Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling (1-1)
2. Jay Sean - Down (3-2)
3. Miley Cyrus - Party In The U.S.A. (6-3)
4. Jay-Z - Run This Town (2-4)
5. Jason Rulo - Whatcha Say (10-5)
6. Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me (4-6)
7. Lady GaGa - Paparazzi (7-7)
8. Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody (9-8)
9. Mariah Carey - Obsessed (11-9)
10. Jay-Z - Empire State Of Mind (5-10)

• I usually don't have country artists, but Carrie Underwood's Cowboy Casanova soared 85 spots 96-11 this week and I thought she needed to be acknowledged.
• After debuting at #75 last week, Black Eyed Peas' Meet Me Halfway jumps to #47 this week.
• Ester Dean's Drop It Low with Chris Brown jumps 14 spots 63-49. Will Ester Dean usher Chris Brown back into the game??
• Homewrecker Alicia Keys sees her new single Doesn't Mean Anything debut at #61 this week. I guess the title is what A. Keys responded when asked "You know Swizz Beatz is married, right??" lol.
• Sean Kingston's Face Drop debuts at #70.
• Maxwell's jam Bad Habits finally debuts this week at #96.

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