- Musicology stays top 15 on the Billboard 200 with sales around 60,000+ thanks to the 3 Chicago shows

-Strong showing continues on the R&B Catalog chart with 2 top 15 albums

-Call My Name offically goes Top 30 R&B as it continues its slow climb, thanks to strong Urban AC airplay (#2 Mediabase)

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last weeks chart position in ( )

Top 200 Albums
Musicology #15 (8)

Top R&B Albums
Musicology # 26 (22)

Pop Catalog Albums
The Very Best of Prince #25 (21)

R&B Catalog Albums
The Very Best of Prince #13 (18)
Purple Rain #14 (16)

Top R&B/Hip Hop Tracks/Singles
Call My Name #30 (32)

R&B Airplay
Call My Name #29 (32)
[This message was edited Thu Aug 5 12:21:59 2004 by newpower99]
[This message was edited Thu Aug 5 12:24:44 2004 by newpower99]

newpower99 said:

if u still want to push this single please look at the link below

newpower99 said:

ok Newpower99 now im totally xonfused on how they compile the billboard Urban chart a few weeks ago Call My Name had many more spins on Urban radio and we thought combined with the Urban AC chart that Call My Name should have been higher on the charts..now its dropped like a rock on the Urban airplay chart yet it has moved up 2 weeks in a row on the billboard chart even though its lost about 350 spins on the Urban and only gained like 200 more spins on the Urban Ac..strange eh?

MUSICOLOGY WEEKLY SCANS

Week One – 191,000
Week Two – 173,000
Week Three – 150,000
Week Four – 76,637
Week Five – 42,000
Week Six - 71,000
Week Seven – 93,000
Week Eight – 75,363
Week Nine – 81,261
Week Ten – 92,000
Week Eleven – 55,739
Week Twelve– 25,000
Week Thirteen – 74,000
Week Fourteen – 79,157
Week Fifteen – 58,000


Total – 1,337,157 copies scanned/sold

This last week's sales is a pure estimate, in that #14 on the Billboard charts sold 62,000 copies, and #18 on the charts sold 52,000. I can imagine that by now the majority of the scans are as a result of the CD bundling effect, but that's still WAY COOL! How many other albums do you know of that are staying in the top 20 for this long? Not even Janet Jackson and Lenny Kravitz can keep up. I do wish their records would get back up there, because they're both good records.

poetbear68 said:

Lenny kravitz CD in its opening week sold less then musicology which had been out for sometime and this didnt incude the concert CDs!!
I was lookin at the history of his CDs they never debut very high!! even the ones which were hits!! So i guess this is the range in which lenny opens

Janets was around but the sellin pace was more or less like musicology
[This message was edited Wed Aug 11 11:51:23 2004 by asg]

poetbear68 said:

well it looks like 2 shows were counted in the totals so that would mean it could have still sold 18,000 retail..not bad

Prince said in an interview, that soundscan didn´t counted 450.000 copies of musicology. It was the Biz interview, i think one or 2 weeks ago.

>>ok Newpower99 now im totally xonfused on how they compile the billboard Urban chart a few weeks ago Call My Name had many more spins on Urban radio and we thought combined with the Urban AC chart that Call My Name should have been higher on the charts..now its dropped like a rock on the Urban airplay chart yet it has moved up 2 weeks in a row on the billboard chart even though its lost about 350 spins on the Urban and only gained like 200 more spins on the Urban Ac..strange eh?<<<

MAZ-

poetbear68 said:

I have a question? Does this include the copies of the album that are downloaded off his NPG site?

jamaulredmond said:

I dont think those r included in this chart at all!!

even the internet sales chart is about real CDs shipped from
stores like amazon!!

All i know that the first week the sales from npg set a record according to a trade publication. with sales in 6figures
[This message was edited Fri Aug 6 11:10:47 2004 by asg]