from hitsdailydouble.com. They update their site through out the day Monday and Tuesday , with final chart complied around 6pm USA Eastern time on Tuesday. Interesting so far..keep in mind this is only with 0.59% in. These numbers are typically close to Soundcan but usally varies by a few thousand.


CHART DATE: 04/26/2004
LAST UPDATE: 04/26/2004 07:39:27
NOW IN: 0.59%


LW TW artist / album label power index
-- 1 PRINCE COLUMBIA/CRG 1,471
MUSICOLOGY
-- 2 GHOSTFACE DEF JAM/IDJ 1,148
PRETTY TONEY ALBUM
-- 3 ZAKK WYLDE SPITFIRE 918
HANGOVER MUSIC VOL. 6
-- 4 FEAR FACTORY 3CG RECORDS 910
ARCHETYPE
-- 5 MARIO WINANS BAD BOY/UNIVERSAL 877
HURT NO MORE
22 6 MODEST MOUSE EPIC 863
GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE...
1 7 USHER LAFACE/ZLG 824
CONFESSIONS
4 8 GUNS N'ROSES GEFFEN 589
GREATEST HITS
-- 9 DROWNING POOL WIND-UP 539
DESENSITIZED
9 10 KANYE WEST ROC-A-FELLA/IDJ 491
COLLEGE DROPOUT
-- 11 ROCK AGAINST BUSH VOL.6 FAT WRECK CHORDS 490
VARIOUS
18 12 AEROSMITH COLUMBIA/CRG 471
HONKIN' ON BOBO
3 13 HOOBASTANK ISLAND/IDJ 471
THE REASON
-- 14 PATTY GRIFFIN ATO/RCA 443
IMPOSSIBLE DREAM
48 15 KILL BILL VOL.2 MAVERICK 381
SOUNDTRACK
30 16 BLACK EYED PEAS A&M/INTERSCOPE 369
ELEPHUNK
17 17 ERIC CLAPTON REPRISE 343
ME AND MR. JOHNSON
-- 18 FRANZ FERDINAND DOMINO 337
FRANZ FERDINAND
26 19 JET ELEKTRA/EEG 333
GET BORN
-- 20 MACHINE HEAD ROADRUNNER/IDJ 327
THROUGH THE ASHES OF EMPIRES
15 21 MAROON 5 OCTONE/J RECORDS/RMG 274
SONGS ABOUT JANE
2 22 NOW 15 CAPITOL 267
VARIOUS
-- 23 YEAH YEAH YEAH INTERSCOPE 261
FEVER TO TELL
-- 24 HANSON 3CG RECORDS 249
UNDERNEATH
-- 25 DILATED PEOPLES CAPITOL 240
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH
38 26 N.E.R.D. VIRGIN 238
FLY OR DIE
-- 27 MUSE 234
ABSOLUTION
-- 28 JOE SATRIANI EPIC 234
IS THERE LOVE IN SPACE?
36 29 GODSMACK REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL 233
OTHER SIDE
7 30 NORAH JONES BLUE NOTE 232
FEELS LIKE HOME
11 31 OUTKAST LAFACE/ZLG 232
SPEAKERBOXXX/THE LOVE BELOW
13 32 J-KWON SO SO DEF/ZLG 232
HOOD HOP
23 33 THE PUNISHER WIND-UP 231
SOUNDTRACK
-- 34 BOB DYLAN LEGACY 230
BOOTLEG V.6: LIVE 1964
-- 35 BEN KWELLER ATO/RCA 230
ON MY WAY
41 36 BLINK 182 GEFFEN 229
BLINK 182
-- 37 SHINEDOWN ATLANTIC/ATL G 226
LEAVE A WHISPER
37 38 SUGARCULT ARTEMIS 225
PALM TREES AND POWER LINES
32 39 WILLIAM HUNG KOCH 218
INSPIRATION
-- 40 TOOTS & MAYTALS V2 218
TRUE LOVE
14 41 ALICIA KEYS J RECORDS/RMG 212
THE DIARY OF ALICIA KEYS
20 42 YELLOWCARD CAPITOL 210
OCEAN AVENUE
24 43 JAY-Z ROC-A-FELLA/IDJ 202
THE BLACK ALBUM
44 44 JOSS STONE S-CURVE/EMI 198
SOUL SESSIONS
-- 45 LOS LONELY BOYS EPIC 198
LOS LONELY BOYS
39 46 LOSTPROPHETS COLUMBIA/CRG 192
START SOMETHING
-- 47 NORTHSTAR TRIPLE CROWN/RAZOR & TIE 190
POLLYANNA
-- 48 DJ KAYSLAY COLUMBIA/CRG 188
STREETSWEEPER VOL.2
-- 49 JEM ATO/RCA 168
FINALLY WOKEN
-- 50 THE WHO GEFFEN 166
THEN AND NOW 1964-2004

Cool, our man is doing very well!

Beaten me to it!!!

LW TW artist / album label power index
-- 1 PRINCE COLUMBIA/CRG 1,513
MUSICOLOGY
-- 2 GHOSTFACE DEF JAM/IDJ 1,162
PRETTY TONEY ALBUM
22 3 MODEST MOUSE EPIC 949
GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE...
-- 4 ZAKK WYLDE SPITFIRE 918
HANGOVER MUSIC VOL. 6
-- 5 FEAR FACTORY 3CG RECORDS 910
ARCHETYPE
-- 6 MARIO WINANS BAD BOY/UNIVERSAL 877
HURT NO MORE
1 7 USHER LAFACE/ZLG 837
CONFESSIONS
4 8 GUNS N'ROSES GEFFEN 589
GREATEST HITS
-- 9 DROWNING POOL WIND-UP 539
DESENSITIZED
-- 10 PATTY GRIFFIN ATO/RCA 508
IMPOSSIBLE DREAM

it's like watching election results coming in

Not sure how they get results already when the sales run through the end of the day. I guess stores report twice?

still number 1, 1.12% in. Supposed to be a battle between Prince, Winans, and Usher for the top 3

pardon my non-hippness to the music scene, but who the heck is Ghostface?

newpower99 said:

The Ghostface Killah from the Wu-Tang Clan.

The abbreviated rankings to show the battle for the top 3:

NOW IN: 18.72%

MARIO 74,716
PRINCE 65,522
USHER 49,289

oh, and:

18 PRINCE THE VERY BEST OF 11,526
[This message was edited Mon Apr 26 9:43:53 2004 by alandail]

>>oh, and:

18 PRINCE THE VERY BEST OF 11,526<<

Thats incredible!


NOW IN: 20.27%


LW TW artist / album label power index
-- 1 MARIO WINANS BAD BOY/UNIVERSAL 78,370
HURT NO MORE
-- 2 PRINCE COLUMBIA/CRG 66,602
MUSICOLOGY
1 3 USHER LAFACE/ZLG 52,648
CONFESSIONS

-- 17 HANSON 3CG RECORDS 11,879
UNDERNEATH
-- 18 PRINCE WARNER BROS. 11,683
THE VERY BEST OF
6 19 JANET JACKSON VIRGIN 11,625
DAMITA JO

Dayum! Two albums in the Top 20 for Prince? And look at that Hanson album. I'm really liking how this chart's shaping up.

24.15% in now, the numbers look like:

1 - Winans - 79,037
2 - Prince - 71,261
3 - Usher - 55,106

An interesting observation. If the numbers are representative of how it's going to end up, usher's numbers are right on track for the 250k that was estimated wednesday. Prince is on track for 295k, about double the original estimates.



somehow this article disagrees, though

http://www.hitsdailydoubl...ws05065m01

Projects usher at 250k and forecasts a #1. I don't know what data they're looking at - Prince isn't even in the discussion yet already shows more reported sales than the ones they are talking about for 4th and 5th with 24% reporting.

no it's 33.12% in

1 - Mario - 93,530
2 - Prince - 80,028
3 - Usher - 70,046

http://www.hitsdailydoubl...ws05065m01 <<<

yes, that is very very odd that the discussion of Prince doesnt come up in the Top 5 when sales 1/3 of the way talled are past those of the albums they sey are battling for 4th and 5th ??? A blatant oversight or else they are banning him from the chart for giving away copies at concerts

When does Billboard come out with their weekly results for the top 200 albums??

When does Billboard come out with their weekly results for the top 200 albums??

When does Billboard come out with their weekly results for the top 200 albums??

billboard charts come out thursday

alandail said:

The actual full chart will be online Thursday, but Billboard does an article on the charts, covering debuts and big changes, on Wednesday afternoon. Just check out Billboard's main page Wednesday around 11am eastern time.

Well, at nearly 38%, Prince is number two with 99,755 copies sold. Mario Winans is no.1 with 114,046 sold. Since hitsdailydouble tracks over-the-counter sales, I guess they aren't factoring in the 17,000 copies from the Columbia show. If the numbers stay this tight, Prince might just pull through with a chart-topping album once SoundScan includes concert copies. Hmmm.....

49.01% now, prince is down to #3. However, it's clear he'll be in the top 3, and the total sold should be well over 200k.

1 - Mario Winans - 155,821
2 - Usher - 125,933
3 - Prince - 123,302

anyone know how they factor in sales from today? You'd think at least 5% of the weeks total would be sold today.

...and "The Best Of" still with a strong showing.....



-- 24 HANSON 3CG RECORDS 20,248
UNDERNEATH
-- 25 PRINCE WARNER BROS. 20,202
THE VERY BEST OF
30 26 BLACK EYED PEAS A&M/INTERSCOPE 19,530
ELEPHUNK

It does seem like a top 3 debut is guaranteed. For all the other chart freaks out there, this will be Prince's highest debuting album EVER. Diamonds & Pearls entered at no.5, and then climbed to it's peak of no.3 the next week, and the album entered and peaked at no.5. I think this will also be his best single-week sales ever in the Soundscan (1991-present) era. In the pre-Sounscan era, when albums typically debuted lower and moved up, Purple Rain debuted at no.11 and Around The World In A Day entered at no.14. If Soundscan had been around then, I think it's safe to say both would easily have entered at no.1.

Musicology will be Prince's 11th top ten album, and his first since The Gold experience peaked at no.6 in 1995. If it should debut and peak at no.2, it will be his first album ever to peak at no.2 on the pop album charts.

On the R&B albums side, I imagine Prince will enter at no.3 behind Mario and Usher. It will be his first top ten there since Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic entered at no.9 back in '99.

what did the batman soundtrack debut at?

Hitsdailydouble now forecasts:

1. Usher
2. Mario Winans
3. Prince

This is very very exciting .

PS: I think Prince will end up at No.2. Hitsdailydouble figures are usually off by 5-10 thousand and I think he'll pull ahead of Usher.
[This message was edited Mon Apr 26 15:36:21 2004 by VoicesCarry]

alandail said:

that was a massive hit! i don't remember what it debuted or peaked at but i know it went very quickly to number one because of all the batman hype at the time.

Now at 51.9%

1. Mario Winans (160.332)
2. Prince (131.957)
3. Usher (131.232)

next closest is Ghostface (53.594)

Check it. They just posted this:

http://www.hitsdailydoubl...?news05067

LW TW artist / album label power index
-- 1 MARIO WINANS BAD BOY/UNIVERSAL 160,332
HURT NO MORE
-- 2 PRINCE COLUMBIA/CRG 131,957
MUSICOLOGY
1 3 USHER LAFACE/ZLG 131,232
CONFESSIONS
-- 4 GHOSTFACE DEF JAM/IDJ 53,593
PRETTY TONEY ALBUM
3 5 HOOBASTANK ISLAND/IDJ 47,546
THE REASON

Looks like top3 for sure...

does any1 know if the final figures will include sales of the album from the Musicology Download Store? I figure it won't as these are not officially sales from the past week.....as most of the members would have purchased the album when it first came out.

well, the sales are now up to 67.81% reported, and usher just got a huge block of sales added - enough to challenge for #1. What would cause one artist to dominate a segment of the overall sales like that? Prince is still on track for over 200k in sales, though.

The count resumes...

NOW IN: 67.81%


LW TW artist / album label power index
-- 1 MARIO WINANS BAD BOY/UNIVERSAL 179,577
HURT NO MORE
1 2 USHER LAFACE/ZLG 177,732
CONFESSIONS
-- 3 PRINCE COLUMBIA/CRG 147,029
MUSICOLOGY l

looks like a definate # 3 right now. Will he crack 200,000?

also...

29 ZAKK WYLDE SPITFIRE 24,936
HANGOVER MUSIC VOL. 6
-- 30 PRINCE WARNER BROS. 24,058
THE VERY BEST OF
26 31 JET ELEKTRA/EEG 23,945
GET BORN