With sales off after a brisk Thanksgiving weekend, whose late date is chopping a full week off the holiday shopping season, buyers have returned to the marketplace with a vengeance.
Overall, sales on top titles will be up anywhere from 20-30% from the previous week, with chart-topping Mercury Nashville superstar Shania Twain leading the way, headed towards 400k in sales, a boost of 25% from this week's total of 328k.
This week's runner-up, fellow country icon Tim McGraw's Curb album could approach 300k, a rise of about 20%, leaving him vying for second place with Arista skate punk phenom Avril Lavigne, Blackground/Universal's Aaliyah, UTV's Now 11 and Open Wide/Monument/Columbia's Dixie Chicks.
Lavigne is showing a remarkable 50% rise, from 184k this week to a projected total of 250-260k next week, for a total sales figure of more than 3 million to date.
The Chicks, meanwhile, will be the week's single largest gainers, with an estimated 100% rise, from 130k to a predicted 260k, based largely on Tuesday's (12/10) widely watched prime-time TV showing of Live From the Kodak Theatre.
As far as this week's new releases (those which came out last Tuesday [12/16]) and debut on the chart next week), Epic's B2K is gaining steam and could well approach the 200k mark, while Arista's Whitney Houston project is now looking at a first-week total of 180-200k.
Retailers are looking for a comparable 20-30% jump the following week as well, leading into Dec. 25.
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THE NEW UMG
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TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
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TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
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