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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Thursday Billboard Update - 12/23/10

Taylor Swift's Speak Now overtakes Susan Boyle's The Gift for #1, but blah blah blah. "Michael Jackson's" Michael debuts at #3 with 228,200 sold. R. Kelly's Love Letter debuts at #6 with 154,300. What can you say, the man has a real fan base. Dirty Money's Last Train To Paris exceeded expectations of 65,000 and sold 100,900. (Let the records show I was WAY closer with my prediction for the album. I guess that's why I'm the Industry Prognosticator and they aren't.)

Katy Perry's Firework is still #1, but it's becoming increasingly obvious that Bruno Mars' Grenade will finish the year out at #1, as it inches into the #2 spot this week. The biggest news on the Hot 100 this week is Lil Wayne bursting into the top 10 at #9 with his first post-prison single 6 Foot 7 Foot with Cory Gunz. It'll be interesting to see where it goes from here.

The Billboard 200 1-10
first week debuts in bold

1. Taylor Swift - Speak Now (2-1)
2. Susan Boyle - The Gift (1-2)
3. "Michael Jackson" - Michael (3)
4. Jackie Evancho - O Holy Night (5-4)
5. Glee Cast - Christmas Album (3-5)
6. R. Kelly - Love Letter (6)
7. Dirty Money - Last Train To Paris (7)
8. Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday (6-8)
9. Kid Rock - Born Free (15-9)
10. Glee Cast - Glee, The Music Vol. 4 (8-10)

• Tank's Now Or Never starts off at #35 with 43,700 sold.
• Ciara's Basic Instinct debuts at #44 with 36,700 sold.
  

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

1. Katy Perry - Firework (1-1)
2. Bruno Mars - Grenade (3-2)
3. Rihanna - What's My Name (2-3)
4. Pink - Raise Your Glass (4-4)
5. Ke$ha - We R Who We R (5-5)
6. Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are (7-6)
7. Rihanna - Only Girl (In the World) (6-7)
8. Black Eyed Peas - The Time (Dirty Bit) (8-8)
9. Lil Wayne - 6 Foot 7 Foot (9)
10. Nelly - Just A Dream (9-10)

• "Michael Jackson's" Hold My Hand with Akon jumps 16 spots 65-39.
• Jeremih's Down On Me featuring 50 Cent hops 9 spots 62-53.
• Twista's Make A Movie rises 9 spots 80-71.
• In its 2nd week, Jamie Foxx's Fall For Your Type with Drake flies 20 spots 95-75.
• Nicki Minaj's Moment 4 Life featuring Drake debuts at #82.
• Usher's More debuts at #88.
• R. Kelly's When A Woman Loves debuts at #93.
• Fabolous' You Be Killin' Em finally debuts at #94. Who knows what took so long, this song is dope.

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This Week In Flops 12/14/10

Before I start, I want to remind everyone that a Michael Jackson album called Michael also dropped this week. I would've included it in today's proceedings, but I felt uncomfortable with putting the King Of Pop under the title "flop."

Aight, we have a lot of albums to get through again, so I'm gonna make these short and sweet.

First up, the Last Train To Paris. If you're one of Diddy's 3,121,625 followers on Twitter, you're well aware this album is now in stores. Hopefully it's not all for nothing like Soulja Boy and his 2 million-plus followers last week. For Last Train To Paris, I'll say 115-140k.

All I've been hearing is good things about this R. Kelly album. I guess he's done making foolish tracks like Real Talk, and got back to the real shit that made him who he is. Is all the acclaim coming too late to sway his first week numbers?? Possibly, but he's the R, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say 80-110k.

Ciara is still the sexiest chick with no body in the world, and I'd still pick her #1 overall in the Sex Draft, but I'm not sure anybody is checking for this album. I hope they are because I like her, but I just don't feel it or see it. I'm gonna say it falls in the 30-60.

Good ol' Tank is back at them again, and I think he's good for 30-60k.

I don't know much about this project, but a lot of people watch that show she's on, so I'll say 20-45.

Donnie! Def Jam let's another one go under the radar, I'll say 10-25k.

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