GonnaGetcha720
08-10-2005, 01:46 PM
SALES COMPARISON WITH UP!
_______UP!__________________GH___________
Week #) Week's Sales (Total)----Week's Sales (Total)
01) 874,000 (0,874,000)----531,100 (0,531,100)
02) 623,000 (1,497,000)----232,400 (0,763,500)
03) 317,000 (1,814,000)----383,700 (1,147,200)
04) 373,000 (2,187,000)----195,300 (1,342,500)
05) 459,000 (2,646,000)----237,500 (1,580,000)
06) 263,000 (2,909,000)----311,200 (1,891,200)
07) 083,000 (2,992,000)----346,700 (2,237,900)
08) 068,500 (3,063,500)----098,100 (2,336,000)
09) 050,000 (3,113,500)----068,700 (2,404,700)
10) 049,000 (3,162,500)----073,800 (2,478,500)
11) 063,000 (3,225,500)----043,700 (2,522,200)
12) 047,000 (3,272,500)----044,900 (2,567,100)
13) 087,000 (3,359,500)----047,800 (2,614,900)
14) 038,000 (3,397,500)----060,200 (2,675,100)
15) 039,000 (3,436,500)----049,940 (2,725,040)
16) 049,229 (3,485,729)----035,159 (2,760,199)
17) 026,000 (3,511,729)----029,547 (2,789,746)
18) 026,576 (3,538,305)----030,566 (2,820,312)
19) 017,701 (3,564,858)----027,917 (2,848,229)
20) 017,588 (3,582,583)----035,052 (2,883,281)
21) 017,475 (3,591,069)----021,805 (2,905,086)
22) 026,965 (3,618,034)----020,622 (2,925,708)
23) 015,022 (3,633,056)----019,337 (2,945,045)
24) 015,873 (3,648,929)----017,245 (2,962,290)
25) 023,574 (3,672,503)----016,881 (2,979,171)
26) 022,809 (3,695,312)----021,173 (3,000,344)
27) 023,558 (3,718,870)----014,944 (3,015,288)
28) 026,713 (3,743,583)----015,229 (3,030,517)
29) 028,065 (3,773,648)----014,045 (3,044,562)
30) 028,741 (3,802,389)----014,869 (3,059,431)
31) 026,146 (3,828,535)----012,696 (3,072,127)
32) 026,124 (3,854,659)----015,299 (3,087,426)
33) 025,739 (3,880,398)----013,125 (3,100,551)
34) 026,469 (3,906,867)----012,930 (3,112,240)
35) 026,321 (3,933,188)----011,109 (3,123,349)
36) 027,600 (3,960,788)----010,405 (3,133,754)
37) 028,000 (3,988,788)----010,144 (3,143,898)
38) 026,683 (4,015,471)----010,743 (3,154,641)
39) 027,357 (4,042,828)----010,599 (3,165,240)
40) 046,593 (4,089,421)----009,236 (3,174,476)
41) 032,031 (4,121,452)----008,791 (3,183,267)
42) 025,738 (4,147,190)----008,500 (3,191,767)
UP!'s AVG. Sales Per Week: 98,749
GH's AVG. Sales Per Week: 75,994
I expect a 4x platinum certification in early fall. My soundscan prediction is that by December the album should break the 3.45 Million mark.
GH Sales By Year
2004: 2,237,900
2005: 0,953,867
The GH has sold nicely this year. It will pass the 1,000,000 mark on the year by October-November. I predict it will sell about 1.25 million this year.
Faith is strong, but overall album sales drag
By Geoff Mayfield
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Faith Hill's new "Fireflies" falls shy of her biggest-ever sales week, but in the slow summer of a down year, a one-week sum north of 300,000 is still an encouraging sight.
This marks Hill's third No. 1 on the Billboard 200, as well as her third on Top Country Albums. The 472,000-unit start of her 2002 album "Cry" marked the only opening week she has seen a larger number than the 329,000 that brightens "Fireflies."
Hill's is the third country set to lead the big chart this year, following albums by George Strait six weeks ago and Kenny Chesney in February.
This also marks the biggest sales week by any country title since Christmas week of 2004, when Shania Twain's "Greatest Hits" led Nashville's scorecard with 347,000.
DOWNTIME
The bad news is that only one other album besides Hill's has sold more than 100,000 this week. The hits compilation "Now 19" falls to second place with 177,000 sold (down 25 percent).
By comparison, the 31st sales week of 2004 saw each of the top six albums surpass 100,000 copies, including a 504,000-unit start for "Now 16." Overall album sales have declined yet again, as the gap from 2004 widens from 7.9 percent last week to 8.1 percent.
The year-to-date album tally includes the 7.9 million copies that have been sold this year via digital download.
BIGGER PICTURE
We first heard the call during fourth-quarter 2004, when the acceleration of album sales that occurred during that year's first eight months evaporated into a sea of comparable-week declines. This year, the idea is beginning to echo in a couple of influential industry corners.
Simply put, the notion is that we may already have reached the point where album sales alone are not an adequate measure of the music industry's health.
These thinkers suggest that to build a more precise gauge, one should divide the number of digital tracks and master ringtones by nine to approximate album sales for these fast-growing electronic offerings.
In the meantime, we know that 190.8 million digital tracks have been sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan, up 138 percent from this point last year. Dividing that total by nine would add another 21.2 million album units to a comprehensive ledger. Add that to this year's album numbers, and the volume grows to 355.7 million.
Make the same adjustment to last year's album tally, and even without master ringtones, the gap from last year's sales is almost halved, to 4.2 percent.
Look for more voices to join this chorus as the year progresses.
COCKTAIL CHATTER
In its 17 chart weeks, Mariah Carey's "The Emancipation of Mimi" has yet to fall below the top five -- the album is No. 3 this week, with another 99,000 sold. It's her most consistent start since her chart-topping 1996 album "Daydream" spent its first 23 weeks in that part of the chart. "The Emancipation of Mimi" has scanned 2.8 million to date.
Rise Against's "Siren Song of the Counter Culture" reaches the pinnacle on Top Heatseekers, as well as its highest Billboard 200 rank (No. 148) since it entered at No. 136 in August 2004. Tour dates with Alkaline Trio, plus radio and MTV2 play for the album's second track -- "Swing Life Away" (No. 15 on Modern Rock) -- were catalysts that gave the album a push.
Reuters/Billboard
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