RUMOR MILL
Thursday, March 19, 2015
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BUTTERFLY COLLECTING
Kendrick to Have Year's 10th Six-Figure-Plus Bow
Kendrick Lamar will top next week's albums and SPS charts with the year's second-largest debut, behind only Drake. This will be the 10th album this year to debut over 100k. By this time last year, only four albums had hit six figures. Here's how it looks in Sales Plus Streaming (SPS) and albums as we head into the weekend:
- *Kendrick Lamar (TDE/Aftermath/Interscope) 340-365k SPS (300-325k albums)
- Empire ST (Twentieth Century Fox/Columbia) 80-85k SPS (60-65k albums)
- *Modest Mouse (Epic) 65-70k SPS (60-65k albums)
- Fifty Shades of Grey (Republic) 60-65k SPS (25-28k albums)
- Drake (YMCMB/Republic) 50-55k SPS (24-27k albums)
- Taylor Swift (Big Machine) 50-55k SPS (30-35k albums)
- Ed Sheeran (Atlantic) 50-55k SPS (25-28k albums)
- *Marina and the Diamonds (Atlantic) 45-50k SPS (40-45k albums)
- Sam Smith (Capitol) 45-50k SPS (23-26k albums)
- Maroon 5 (222/Interscope) 40-45k SPS (13-16k albums)
- Luke Bryan (Capitol Nashville) 40-45k SPS (30-35k albums)
- *Sleeping With Sirens (Epitaph) 40-45k SPS (35-40k albums)
- Meghan Trainor (Epic) 35-40k SPS (21-24k albums)
- *Mark Knopfler (Verve) 35-40k SPS (35-40k albums)
- Big Sean (G.O.O.D./Def Jam) 30-35k SPS (17-20k albums)
- *Passion (sixstepsrecords) 28-32k SPS (28-32k albums)
*Debuts
