THREE INTO TWO WILL GO
Lil Wayne’s platinum-plus Tha Carter III and Coldplay’s million-selling Viva La Vida switched places this week, and could do the same next. Or not. But they will be #1-2 in any case, with Hollywood’s Camp Rock riding the Jonas Brothers into the #3 spot, leaving the Top 3 the same for the fourth straight week.
Among next week’s newcomers, Beck’s much-ballyhooed DGC collaboration with Danger Mouse, Modern Guilt, compared by no less than the L.A. Times’ Ann Powers to Pixar’s Wall-E, looks to be in the 70k range, which should be good enough for #4. Decca’s soundtrack to the film version of the ABBA movie Mamma Mia, which opens a week from Friday (7/18), could do 50k or even higher.
Maroon 5’s deluxe edition of their best-selling A&M/Octone album, It Won’t Be Soon Before Long, appears to be headed for first-week sales of 15k.
The market was down 1% vs last week, down 13% vs same week last year and now down 11% year-to-date. You may now return to fantasizing about Madonna, A-Rod, C-Rod and Lenny Kravitz in a foursome.
