Barring an unforeseen charge by Mariah Carey (whose Island/IDJ album is the CD equivalent of the Eveready bunny), Coldplay, the year’s biggest-selling band, will easily hold on to the #1 position for the third week in a row. The expected 30% drop from this week’s total of 336k will still put X&Y (Capitol) well over 200k, while this week’s #2 and #3, the debuting Foo Fighters (Roswell/RCA) and Backstreet Boys (Jive/ZLG) will likely do the standard 50% second-week swan dives, keeping both well out of contention.
It isn’t often that the first mention of the week’s new releases appears in the third paragraph, but that’s the sort of week we’re likely to see, kiddies. The biggest bow will probably be from Boyz N Da Hood—the first act to see the light of day under Bad Boy’s new deal with WMG—who are looking at around 100k, give or take, from this admittedly early vantage point. Behind da Boyz will be A&M/Interscope’s Keysha Cole, who should be close at 90k-95k.
Taking one last look over our shoulder, the industry experienced another comparatively positive week, paced by Coldplay, the Foos and Backstreet, moving 11.9 million units overall. That total represents an 8.2% (or 908k) increase over last week, and 10.1% (or 1.1 million) increase over the same week in 2004. Thus, the year-to-date deficit continues to decrease—it’s now at just 7.2%, which sounds good, equating to -20.4 million units, which sounds not good. Total sales for the first five-and-a-half months of ’05: 261.5 million.
VMAs BEAMING BACK
TO THE BIG APPLE Getting back to where they once belonged (4/24a)
THE COUNT: ALL THE DESERT'S A STAGE
Jon Wayne is rolling over in his grave. (4/24a)
| ||
THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
|