Thursday Billboard Update - 4/7/11

Grabbing her 6th #1 album is Britney Spears as her Femme Fatale bangs out 277,100 first week. This puts her in a 3rd place tie for most #1s all-time by a female artist with Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson. (Sounds odd for Britney's name to be in the same sentence as Mariah and Janet, right?) Coming in at #2 is Wiz Khalifa's weed plate, coincidentally named Rolling Papers, with 198,200 copies sold. Snoop Dogg's Doggumentary debuts at #8 with 50,500 sold while Mary Mary's Something Big checks in at #10 with 42,000 sold.

Katy Perry's E.T. featuring Kanye West remains at #1 for a 2nd week, while Rihanna's S&M slides up a spot to #2, and Black Eyed Peas' Just Can't Get Enough hops 2 to #3. Just one new entry in the top 10 this week and its Adele's Rolling In The Deep flying 17-10.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Britney Speaks - Femme Fatale (1)
2. Wiz Khalifa - Rolling Papers (2)
3. Adele - 21 (3-3)
4. Chris Brown - F.A.M.E. (1-4)
5. Various Artists - Songs For Japan (6-5)
6. Radiohead - The King of Limbs (6)
7. Jennifer Hudson - I Remember Me (2-7)
8. Snoop Dogg - Doggumentary (8)
9. Kirk Franklin - Hello Fear (5-9)
10. Mary Mary - Something Big (10)

• E-40's Graveyard Shift debuts at #40 with 13,600 sold while Overtime Shift debuts at #42 with 13,400 sold.
  

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

1. Katy Perry - E.T. (1-1)
2. Rihanna - S&M (2-2)
3. Black Eyed Peas - Just Can't Get Enough (5-3)
4. Cee-Lo - Fuck You (3-4)
5. Lady Gaga - Born This Way (4-5)
6. Chris Brown - Look At Me Now (7-6)
7. Jeremih - Down On Me (9-7)
8. Jennifer Lopez - On The Floor (10-8)
9. P!nk - Fuckin' Perfect (8-9)
10. Adele - Rolling In The Deep (17-10)

• In its 2nd week, Lil Wayne's John featuring Rick Ross skyrockets 35 spots 57-22.
• Bruno Mars' The Lazy Song hops 10 spots 37-27.
• Wiz Khalifa's When I'm Gone debuts at #57.
• Pitbull's Give Me Everything featuring Ne-Yo, AfroJack & Nayer debuts at #60.
• Britney Spears' I Wanna Go debuts at #73.
• Snoop Dogg's Boom with T-Pain debuts at #81.
• YC's Racks debuts at #86.

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This Week In Flops 3/29/11

Coming in at #1 next week will be Britney Spears' Femme Fatale, the only thing left to settle now is how much she'll sell. Britney's 2008 effort Circus moved 505,000 first week, and while I don't think this album will reach those heights, it should still be an great opening week. My guess is 375-450k.

Wiz Khalifa is arguably the hottest rapper in the game right now (overall, not musically), now it's time to see if that heat can translate into record sales. Generally, weed-based rappers don't perform well, but I think Cruella Khalifa has a good shot at that #2 spot. For him, I'm going with 115-150k.

I can't think of a Snoop Dogg album less anticipated since Doggumentary the No Limit days. Now I'm not saying the album sucks or anything, but its been a LONG time since Dogg has had little-to-no buzz surrounding an album.

Regardless, its hitting stores today, and I'm expecting sales in the range of 50-90k.

This is the first time I've had a gospel album on TWIF, so I'm not familiar with what they usually sell. And yes, that is a built in excuse because I expect to be totally wrong with my guess of 30-60k.

I'm not sure we needed dual E-40 albums in consecutive years, but nevertheless he's back with Graveyard and Overtime Shirt of his Revenue Retrievin' series. Sales of both album should be nearly identical once again, and I'm guessing 10-15k.

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Thursday Billboard Update - 3/10/11

Adele's 21 fends off Marsha Ambrosius' Late Nights & Early Mornings to remain at #1 for a 2nd week with 168,000 sold. The aforementioned Marsha Ambrosius checks in at #2 with 96,000 copies of her solo debut sold. Pretty decent numbers.

Not too much is going on this week in the top 10 of the Hot 100 besides Ke$ha's Blow hopping in at #7 after a 4 spot rise.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Adele - 21 (1-1)
2. Marsha Ambrosius - Late Nights & Early Mornings (2)
3. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More (3-3)
4. Justin Bieber - Never Say Never: The Remixes (2-4)
5. Various Artists - Now 37 (4-5)
6. Dropkick Murphys - Going Out Of Style (6)
7. Aaron Lewis - Town Line (8)
8. Justin Bieber - My World 2.0 (5-8)
9. Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans (6-9)
10. P!nk - Greatest Hits... So Far!!! (12-10)

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

1. Lady Gaga - Born This Way (1-1)
2. Cee-Lo - Fuck You (2-2)
3. Rihanna - S&M (5-3)
4. P!nk - Fuckin' Perfect (4-4)
5. Jennifer Lopez - On The Floor (9-5)
6. Bruno Mars - Grenade (3-6)
7. Ke$ha - Blow (11-7)
8. Katy Perry - E.T. (8-8)
9. Enrique Iglesias - Tonight (I'm Lovin' You) (7-9)
10. Katy Perry - Firework (6-10)

• Jeremih's Down On Me featuring 50 Cent inches closer to breaking the top 10 by jumping 8 spots 20-12.
• Britney Spears' Till The World Ends debuts at #20.
• The Black Eyed Peas' Just Can't Get Enough flies 28 spots 66-38.
• Mike Posner's Bow Chicka Wow Wow featuring Lil Wayne skies 33 spots 82-49.
• Gorilla Zoe's Twisted with Lil Jon debuts at #77.
• DJ Khaled's Welcome To My Hood featuring Rick Ross, Plies, Lil Wayne, and T-Pain hops 8 spots 90-82 in its 2nd week.
• Big Sean's My Last featuring Chris Brown debuts at #89. I do believe this is Big Sean's first Hot 100 debut. Congrats.
• Nicki Minaj's Did It On'em debuts at #92.
• Mary Mary's Walking debuts at #97.
• Willow Smith's 21st Century Girl debuts at #99.

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