Thursday Billboard Update - 10/8/09

In an upset of epic portions, Mariah Carey's Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel not only doesn't get the #1 spot, but it doesn't even get the #2 either. Mariah's new shit starts off at #3 with a shocking 168,900 first week! Just last year her E=MC² did 463,000 in its 1st week. That's an substantial drop off for 1 year. I hate to say it, but this is what she gets for letting Gucci Mane hop on her track lol. By the way, Barbara Streisand (180,000) and Paramore (175,000) started out at #1 and #2 respectively.

In other top 10 news, Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 JUST missed the platinum barrier by less than 4,000 albums after selling 88,600 this week. One more week won't hurt.

In another bit of an upset, Jay Sean and his single Down finally knock the Black Eyed Peas out of the #1 spot on the Hot 100. BEP held down the top place for a record breaking 26 weeks with Boom Boom Pow and I Gotta Feeling.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Barbara Streisand - Love Is The Answer (1)
2. Paramore - Brand New Eyes (2)
3. Mariah Carey - Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel (3)
4. Breaking Benjamin - Dear Agony (4)
5. Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue (5)
6. Jay-Z - Blueprint 3 (2-6)
7. Madonna - Celebration (7)
8. Miranda Lambert - Revolution (8)
9. Selena Gomez & The Scene - Kiss & Tell (9)
10. Pearl Jam - Backspacer (1-10)

• Ghostface Killah's Wizard Of Poetry opens at #28 with 19,200 sold.
• Marques Houston's Mr. Houston (which should've been called Mr. Marques) lands at #65 with just 9,000 records sold.
• Playaz Circle's Flight 360: The Takeoff doesn't really take off coming in at #74 with 8,000.
• Skyzoo's first album Salvation debuts at #126 with 4,600 sold.
• Mack 10's Soft White (which I had no idea dropped) starts at #141 with just 3,900 sold.
  

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

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

• Meet Me Halfway moved a bit too slow to be the 3rd link in the Black Eyed Peas' #1 spot chain, but it still jumped 15 spots 47-32.
• Mariah Carey's I Want To Know What Love Is also sees a 15 spot jump as it moves 75-60 this week.

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This Week In Flops 9/29/09

Before I get into the album sales shit I just wanted to acknowledge how hot this Mariah album cover is! What's better than 2 perfectly shaped titties?? SIX perfectly shaped titties! Powerful, extremely powerful.

Anyway, MC is looking for another #1 and there's no doubt in my mind she's gonna get it. 1) She's going up against basically nobody and 2) her album is dropping a decent amount of weeks after Blueprint 3. Now the only thing left to be determined is how much this new album is gonna sell as it grabs that top spot. I don't think its gonna do more than E=MC²'s first week numbers (463,000), but its Mariah so I'm sure it won't be too far off. I'm going with 350-425k.

After Mariah its really a crap shot for the rest, but lets try to sort things out anyway.

Its hard to figure out the market on albums like this. You know, the ones you only really know are coming about a month in advance and don't have first singles. I'm really taking a wild stab in the dark here and saying this off the strength of Raekwon selling 68,000 the other week, but I'm gonna rock with 30-50k.

If you knew Marques Houston was dropping an album, please raise your hand. I bet some of y'all are lying y'all ass off because for me, this shit is coming out of nowhere. I don't really remember hearing about a single or anything. Oh well, I'm gonna say Mr. Houston still has a bit of a fanbase and sales somewhere between 15-35k.

(Side note: Instead of calling the album Mr. Houston, why not call it Mr. Marques?? You know like a play on the pornstar Mr. Marcus. I think that would've been pretty gangsta. Slighty homo, but hell, he ain't doing the album for me, its for the ladies.)

This album has been floating around for a little while now. I'm not sure how much traction its gained, but I know Warren is going out on store soon so hopefully all the attendees will cop the album. I'm guessing 10-25k.

Man, talk about no label support! This project has a good chance to do New Boyz numbers. Hell, maybe less! I'm gonna go with 6-15k and an independent label deal after this.

Last, but not least, is Skyzoo's debut album The Salvation. Dude is nice, but at the end of the day he's on an independent. I'll give him 5-15k to be safe, but I hope he can reach 20.

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This Week In Flops 10/30/07

Another slow week, don't expect to see major units moved on next week's Soundscans. Its far from the days of 1999 when Britney and Backstreet ran the chart, now they are both has beens and WILL flop. Then again, anytime you sale 13-14 million records then come back out and only go platinum once its a flop lol. Good thing for Britney she won't even get close to that, I'm guessing she'll do 250-275k.

Same thing for these guy, just less: 80-100k.

Even though I personally like the song, the duffle bag boys aint about to sale shit, 50-75k. Baby Bash's album drops too and even though he has a top 10 single he's not even gonna chart lol.

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Playaz Circle Keeping Busy

Even though their albums isn't gonna sell they are still out and about doing their rounds which is good, check it out:



Well best of luck to them but who knows what's gonna happen when that Duffle Bag record stops spinnin'.

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Playaz Circle - Duffle Bag Boy And Flo-Rida - Birthday (remix)

QUESTION: What's worst than trying to rap like Lil Wayne?? You guessed it, trying to rap like Lil Wayne on the same song as Lil Wayne lol. Well, despite that fact this joint is pretty dope. Highlighted by Weezy's hook and a blazing track, this song is the reason Luda pushed the DTP compilation back... and to think, all this time I thought Playaz Circle was an R&B group lol.



Well since we're talking about new artists, I might as well use this time to show Flo-Rida's video for the remix of his single Birthday with Rick Ross and Brisco. Now, despite Flo-Rida being the WORST and possibly least creative rap name of all-time, this beat is HOT! Check it out:



I know I can't be the only one thinking 'what happened to the video for the original song??' Oh well, yet another Miami mystery lol.

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