LADY A ALL THE WAY
The pop-country trio’s Capitol Nashville/EMI follow-up to last year’s 3.6 million selling Need You Now, is set to debut at #1 next Tuesday, with a total that should be between 275-300k. Need You Now was released back in January 2010 with 481k in first-week sales.
That’s from one-day sales estimates from those music retailers who haven’t paved paradise and put up a parking lot…or a Five Guys hamburger joint.
Next highest debut should be Big Machine/Valory Music Group country-rocker Brantley Gilbert, with a deluxe version of the album, Halfway to Heaven, which is looking at sales figures of 45-50k in its first week, thanks to the hit single, “Country Must Be Country Wide.”
Roadrunner/Atlantic’s veteran Berklee School of Music-bred prog-rockers Dream Theater releases their 12th studio album, A Dramatic Turn of Events, which is slated for an estimated 30-35k, the same amount as Ferrett/WB/ADA Dayton, OH, Christian metalcore group The Devil Wears Prada’s Dead Throne.
Megaforce metal vets Anthrax’s Worship Music, their first since 2003’s We’ve Come for You All, looks headed for sales of 24-27k.
UMe Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Alice Cooper’s Welcome 2 My Nightmare, the sequel to his 1975 solo debut, for a projected 20-22k
ATO/RED’s Primus returns with Green Naugahyde, their first studio album in 12 years (since 1999’s Antipop) as Les Claypool and company eye a 19-21k sales bow.
Zuma Rock’s independently released new Bush album, The Sea of Memories, buoyed by its hit Rock single, “The Sound of Winter,” appears on track for 18-20k.
Equal Vision
Album sales are down 17% vs. last week, up 14% vs. same week last year and up 3% year to date. Track Sales are down 5% vs. last week, up 6% vs. same week last year and up 11% year to date. TEA (Track Equivalent Album) sales are down 14% vs. last week, up 11% vs. same week last year and up 5% year to date.
