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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Top 15

YOUR TOP 15: Post-Black Friday brings the expected sales drops, only one new release in the Top 15 and several Christmas titles showing seasonal gains. Here's how it looks headed into the weekend:

* Alicia Keys (RCA) 150-160k
Rod Stewart "Merry Christmas Baby" (Verve) 130-140k
Taylor Swift (Big Machine) 120-130k
Phillip Phillips (19/Interscope) 80-85k
One Direction (Syco/Columbia) 75-80k
Rihanna (Def Jam/IDJ) 70-75k
Michael Bublé "Christmas" (Reprise) 70-75k
Lady Antebellum "On This Winter's Night" (Capitol Nashville) 65-70k
Blake Shelton "Cheers It's Christmas" (Warner Bros. Nashville) 55-60k
Kid Rock (Atlantic) 50-55k
Now 44 (Capitol) 40-45k
Scotty McCreery "Christmas with Scotty McCreery" (Mercury Nashville/19/Interscope) 40-45k
Keyshia Cole (Geffen) 35-40k
P!nk (RCA) 35-40k
Led Zeppelin (Atlantic) 30-35k
Mumford & Sons (Glassnote) 30-35k
Jason Aldean (Broken Bow) 30-35k

* Debut

And what are you planning to do for the holidays? That so? Uh-huh. Wow. That's really, um ... know what? I gotta take this. (11/29p)

 
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