If one-day sales figures from those fine record retailers who haven’t chucked it all for swampland on the Gulf of Mexico are any indication, approximately 65-70k of Americans will do just that, snapping up enough copies of the Pilots’ Atlantic Records album to make it #1 on next Tuesday’s HITS sales chart. The self-titled release is the band’s first since 2001’s Shangri-La
Awaiting the onslaught of high visibility releases in June, starting with next Tuesday’s Jack Johnson album on Brushfire, the next highest chart debut will be registered by Watertower/Fontana’s Sex and the City 2 album at 25-30k.
Sidewalk/Curb’s Hank Williams III album is up next at 15-18k, as is Sony Latin's Marc Anthony, both followed by a wide range of albums in the 10-15k range, including Island/IDJ’s Rihanna, Roadrunner metal standby Soulfly and Widespread Records’ veteran jam band Widespread Panic.
The market was flat vs. last week, down 19% vs. same week last year and still down 10% year to date. And you thought BP had problems with an oil spill.
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