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Carrie #1 273k norah 106k CHART DATE: 05/07/2012 | |
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CARRIE HER TO #1
Underwood’s Chart-Topping Debut Leads Six Debuts in Top 10; Norah Jones #2 This is one American Idol winner who has lived up to the hype. 19/Arista Nashville country queen Carrie Underwood’s fourth album, Blown Away, did just that to the competition, debuting at #1 with a whopping 273k in sales.
The Underwood album was just one of six newcomers to the Top 10, topping Blue Note/EMI Grammy winner Norah Jones’ Danger Mouse-produced departure, Little Broken Hearts, which enters at #2 with 106k.
The latest installment of Capitol/EMI’s Now series, 42 if you’re counting, bows at #3, giving the soon-to-be-part-of-UMG company two of the top three. XL/Columbia U.K. chanteuse Adele’s long-running 21 continues its reign, the lone Top 5 holdover at #4, adding another 77k to a total which will go over 9 million next week. Grand Hustle/Atlantic hip-hop star B.o.B’s Strange Clouds debuts at #5, with a robust 74k in sales, while Mercury Nashville’s Lionel Richie surprise smash, Tuskegee, moves #3-6. Downtown’s Marilyn Manson album, Born Villain, his indie bow, rounds out the Top 10. Other Top 50 new entries include Hollywood’s Avengers Assemble soundtrack (#13), Atlantic’s Santigold (#19), UMe’s George Harrison Early Takes Vol. 1 (#25), Decca’s Rufus Wainwright (#41) and Machete Music’s Don Omar (#44).
The Beastie Boys’ classic Def Jam/IDJ album, Licensed to Ill, returns to the chart at #18 in the wake of founding member Adam Yauch’s passing last week, while Capitol/EMI’s Coldplay also returns at #48 after an American Idol performance, three sold-out Hollywood Bowl shows and an appearance at KROQ’s Weenie Roast Y Fiesta in Irvine, CA. Universal Republic’s Florence + the Machine album Ceremonials is the week’s biggest double-digit gainer (#49-45, +23%), followed by Capitol Nashville/EMI’s Lady Antebellum (#42-37, +17%), Broken Bow’s Jason Aldean (#27-23, +15%) and Universal Republic’s Of Monsters and Men (#40-32, +11%).
Hitting stores this week are Epic’s Karmin, Columbia’s Sade live, Dangerbird’s Silversun Pickups, Columbia’s Mary Mary, Atlantic’s Tank and Interscope’s Keane.
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I wish whoever leaked these put the cumulative totals in. | |
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Where are all of Norah's stans that bought Come Away With Me by the truckloads? It'd be funny if Adele struggles to go platinum next era. | |
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Norah was a fluke and she said it day one, she thought that Album would sell 10,000 if she was lucky not 10million, no one sets out thinking they can sell ten million, if they say they do they are lieing, or just plain nuts, 10 million is a fluke no matter who you are, especially your first album where no one ever heard your name before, outside of one rolling stone article that mentioned Norah as "the artist to look for in 2002" once that got it right, and about 100 of us here in nyc that saw Norah a dozen times before the bandwagoners jumped on. I dont view those 10 million as fans at all, sorry, if anyone thinks that selling 5,10,20 million is now your fan base, once again, you are crazy.
Also for Norah she is an artist that never played the "safe" route, but with shows already lined up for 45 dates and going to places like Lithuania? im sure Norah isnt sweating selling 106,000 week one in the USA, she actually owns her recordings straight out for those who dont know that, half of her "come away with me" album is owned by her, so worldwide sales of 22+million, shes paid for life, since she still has an apartment? not a mansion or funlands that others blew money on.
And just goes to show it matters nothing how good your record is, this is Norah's best and its gonna be her least selling most likely. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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Norah's two followup albums to Come Away With Me both went multiplatinum, and all her sales are respectable for an artist that gets no airplay in this age of Biebers and One Directions. [Edited 5/8/12 16:54pm] | |
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Norah Jones isn't exactly hurting for publicity or relevance. It wasn't like she saw the out-of-this-world sales for Come Away With Me and decided she needed to become a huge pop artist like Mariah, Beyonce, Britney, Xtina, or Alicia Keys. Her two follow up albums went multi-platinum despite getting little to no airplay, and her last album prior to her latest release went platinum as well. She'll have a very long and solid career as long as she wants to record music.
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Poor Rufus. The Most Important Thing In Life Is Sincerity....Once You Can Fake That, You Can Fake Anything. |
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Norah isnt going anywhere, she isnt going to stop doing music, people kill me with "sales" talk, and on someone that sells alot of records worldwide with never ever getting played, Norah is about as "grass roots" of an artist their has been since the freaking 70's, plus besides her work she has been worked with more artists and done more music this decade than ALL of the "pop stars" combined in their careers. "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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It amazes me how she was able to go Diamond without any sizeable hit it's incredible. I remember the first time I heard of Norah was her Grammy sweep in 03. I kept saying to myself who the hell is this and why is she winning everything? Adele had single smashes, Usher had single smashes, Carrie had single smashes...Jones did it all under the radar without any real mainstream support which to me makes her achievement even more impressive. | |
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Congrats to them both. | |
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