RUMOR MILL
XIX/Interscope’s Aloe Blacc, who sang Avicii’s smash and who’s provided the soundtrack to a huge, sports-themed Beats Studio headphones campaign, arrives on the chart this week with his Wake Me Up EP.
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
RE-FROZEN!
Disney's Massive ST Ices Our Album Chart Again; Beyoncé, Kid Ink, Eminem, Lorde in Top 5
The icy juggernaut that is Disney’s Frozen soundtrack once again rules the HITS Album Sales Chart this week—becoming the first ST to an animated feature to do so since 1994’s The Lion King—moving 85k (-49%). Once again, we hail winter king Ken Bunt and his team.
Columbia’s Beyoncé holds the #2 spot with 78k (-40%), blowing past the 1.5 million mark, while the only debut in the upper reaches of the chart, RCA’s Kid Ink, bows at #3 with 51k. Shady/Aftermath/Interscope’s Eminem (37k, -27% and homing in on 2 million) and Lava/Republic’s Lorde (35k, -24%, now at about 770k RTD) round out the Top 5.
The rest of the Top 10 is an array of familiar faces: SYCO/Columbia’s One Direction (24k, -46%), Capitol’s newly platinum Katy Perry (23k, -55%), RCA’s Miley Cyrus (19k, -40%), Kidinakorner/Interscope’s Imagine Dragons (17k, -46%) and YM/CM/Republic’s Drake (17k, -25%).
Epic's Sara Bareilles rides Grammy noms and an Ellen performance into the Top 20, Republic’s John Newman debuts at #24 and XIX/Interscope’s Aloe Blacc, who sang Avicii’s smash and who’s provided the soundtrack to a huge, sports-themed Beats Studio headphones campaign, arrives on the chart this week with his Wake Me Up EP.
The week’s biggest gainer—no doubt spurred by the departure of Phil Everly—was Reprise’s Foreverly tribute by Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones, which vaulted #48-19 (+73%). Also moving up is the T Bone Burnett-driven Inside Llewyn Davis soundtrack (Nonesuch), which moved #31-16 (+23%). Virgin’s Bastille (#23) is virtually flat in a down marketplace.
Streeting today are Columbia’s Bruce Springsteen, Razor & Tie’s Kidz Bop Kids and Mercury Nashville’s Jennifer Nettles, among others. The week after brings the full-length debut by Black Magnetic/Epic’s A Great Big World.
Columbia’s Beyoncé holds the #2 spot with 78k (-40%), blowing past the 1.5 million mark, while the only debut in the upper reaches of the chart, RCA’s Kid Ink, bows at #3 with 51k. Shady/Aftermath/Interscope’s Eminem (37k, -27% and homing in on 2 million) and Lava/Republic’s Lorde (35k, -24%, now at about 770k RTD) round out the Top 5.
The rest of the Top 10 is an array of familiar faces: SYCO/Columbia’s One Direction (24k, -46%), Capitol’s newly platinum Katy Perry (23k, -55%), RCA’s Miley Cyrus (19k, -40%), Kidinakorner/Interscope’s Imagine Dragons (17k, -46%) and YM/CM/Republic’s Drake (17k, -25%).
Epic's Sara Bareilles rides Grammy noms and an Ellen performance into the Top 20, Republic’s John Newman debuts at #24 and XIX/Interscope’s Aloe Blacc, who sang Avicii’s smash and who’s provided the soundtrack to a huge, sports-themed Beats Studio headphones campaign, arrives on the chart this week with his Wake Me Up EP.
The week’s biggest gainer—no doubt spurred by the departure of Phil Everly—was Reprise’s Foreverly tribute by Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones, which vaulted #48-19 (+73%). Also moving up is the T Bone Burnett-driven Inside Llewyn Davis soundtrack (Nonesuch), which moved #31-16 (+23%). Virgin’s Bastille (#23) is virtually flat in a down marketplace.
Streeting today are Columbia’s Bruce Springsteen, Razor & Tie’s Kidz Bop Kids and Mercury Nashville’s Jennifer Nettles, among others. The week after brings the full-length debut by Black Magnetic/Epic’s A Great Big World.
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