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3121 is lucky number for Prince!

With 100% of sales reported at 13:53 PST


LW TW artist / album label power index % change
-- 1 PRINCE UNIVERSAL 184,450 --
3121
1 2 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL WALT DISNEY RECORDS 153,202 +14%
SOUNDTRACK
2 3 JAMES BLUNT CUSTARD/ATLANTIC/ATL G 112,186 -10%
BACK TO BEDLAM
20 4 BARRY MANILOW ARISTA/RMG 73,959 +127%
THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE...
4 5 NE-YO DEF JAM/IDJMG 69,200 -10%
IN MY OWN WORDS
-- 6 B.G. KOCH 62,046 --
THE HEART OF THA STREETZ VOL.2
-- 7 BEN HARPER VIRGIN 56,018 --
BOTH SIDES OF THE GUN
8 8 JOHNNY CASH ISLAND/IDJMG 54,170 -3%
I WALK THE LINE: THE LEGEND...
-- 9 TEDDY GEIGER COLUMBIA/CRG 53,453 --
UNDERAGE THINKING
18 10 ALAN JACKSON ACR/ARISTA NASHVILLE 51,193 +36%
PRECIOUS MEMORIES
6 11 CARRIE UNDERWOOD ARISTA/RMG 49,055 -24%
SOME HEARTS
13 12 MARY J. BLIGE GEFFEN 45,386 +3%
[Edited 3/28/06 22:50pm]
[Edited 3/28/06 22:52pm]

Juvenile hot on our man's tails! "Work dat, twirk dat, move dat..."

down to no 7 now, a no 1 position is possible but not 4 sho.

its not selling that well.

Manilow #1 right now? (damn American Idol,lol) I'm not worried yet though, this chart tends 2 fluctuate in the beginning, wait til we get 2 about 40+% A lot of country releases in the top 10 right now, do they count these by areas of the U.S. 3121 stayed the same from the last update but a lot of country releases sold.

CHART DATE: 03/27/2006
LAST UPDATE: 03/27/2006 08:45:01
NOW IN: 10.32%


LW TW artist / album label power index
20 1 BARRY MANILOW ARISTA/RMG 8,474
THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE...
1 2 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL WALT DISNEY RECORDS 4,229
SOUNDTRACK
8 3 JOHNNY CASH ISLAND/IDJMG 4,125
I WALK THE LINE: THE LEGEND...
18 4 ALAN JACKSON ACR/ARISTA NASHVILLE 3,969
PRECIOUS MEMORIES
6 5 CARRIE UNDERWOOD ARISTA/RMG 3,438
SOME HEARTS
-- 6 KENNY ROGERS CAPITOL 3,248
21 NUMBER ONES
-- 7 PRINCE UNIVERSAL 3,155
3121
[Edited 3/27/06 8:57am]

NPG2045 said:

7's his lucky number

Damn you, Manilow!

It ain't a sprint, it's a marathon people. It does look like that Number 1 prediction from hitsdailydouble might have been off. A top 5 would be fine.

dont freak out these buildung sales charts are bogus....every week at the very end of this 2 day tedious process it ends up being drasticly different.

It will come down to Prince and High School musical , regardless of whats showing here now.


Let me tuesday night how it ends up
[Edited 3/27/06 8:59am]

something is wrong . johnny cash sold 3400 units in the last 20 minutes and prince 0 ????

updates please

newpower99 said:

True, but that's why it's so fun to watch..

trickster said:

case in point.

MarcelJ said:

It is fun .... but i knew this was gonna happen. People were gonna start to panic and freak out . They probably tally the small mom & pop retailers first and the big boys (Wal- Mart, Amazon ) come in late in the process.

the reason why some artists like cash increase and other like prince dont at particular points is because the sales figures for some artists arent calculated until later on. But then it is slightly worrying that princes sales arent super strong if he is the biggest release of the week!

GottaLetitgo said:

It does worry me that people and hitsdailydouble seemed to ignore Manillow and the American Idol factor. I mean 30 million people saw him on AI last week. Wouldnt surprise me to see a HUGE jump for is album , but i think it will be enough to make it all the way to # 1...i hope

He should release it on iTunes...fast!! Ben Harper is #1 there.

I loved following this during Musicology...yeah, it is very misleading and until it hits about 70 or 80%.

#2 now, Manilow is getting big numbers.


CHART DATE: 03/27/2006
LAST UPDATE: 03/27/2006 09:35:15
NOW IN: 14.02%


LW TW artist / album label power index
20 1 BARRY MANILOW ARISTA/RMG 11,667
THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE...
-- 2 PRINCE UNIVERSAL 7,414
3121
12 3 ANDREA BOCELLI DECCA 5,854
AMORE
8 4 JOHNNY CASH ISLAND/IDJMG 4,971
I WALK THE LINE: THE LEGEND...
2 5 JAMES BLUNT CUSTARD/ATLANTIC/ATL G 4,429
BACK TO BEDLAM
[Edited 3/27/06 9:38am]

A little over 14% sold

20 1 BARRY MANILOW ARISTA/RMG 11,667
THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE...
-- 2 PRINCE UNIVERSAL 7,414
3121


Neck and neck with Manilow. Didn't see that one coming. May be one of the signs of the apocalypse.

Prince will end up on top.

CHART DATE: 03/27/2006
LAST UPDATE: 03/27/2006 09:40:17
NOW IN: 27.02%


LW TW artist / album label power index
1 1 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL WALT DISNEY RECORDS 35,256
SOUNDTRACK
18 2 ALAN JACKSON ACR/ARISTA NASHVILLE 26,499
PRECIOUS MEMORIES
20 3 BARRY MANILOW ARISTA/RMG 24,842
THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE...
6 4 CARRIE UNDERWOOD ARISTA/RMG 20,947
SOME HEARTS
2 5 JAMES BLUNT CUSTARD/ATLANTIC/ATL G 18,048
BACK TO BEDLAM
-- 6 PRINCE UNIVERSAL 17,634
3121
8 7 JOHNNY CASH ISLAND/IDJMG 17,272
I WALK THE LINE: THE LEGEND...

GottaLetitgo said:

Looks like manilow is going to win by a nose.

na dont think it has a chance at no 1 now, that high school cd has double sales at 30%

ps whats all that shit about 3121 already reaching its 200,000 estimate. Its nowhere near it, if it continues on its current sales/percentage track we'll b lucky to hit 100,000

FunkyBrotha said:

There was no *shit* about it already reaching that estimate. Some people just can't read and comprehend properly.

#2

CHART DATE: 03/27/2006
LAST UPDATE: 03/27/2006 11:35:54
NOW IN: 29.74%


LW TW artist / album label power index
1 1 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL WALT DISNEY RECORDS 36,187
SOUNDTRACK
-- 2 PRINCE UNIVERSAL 27,891
3121
18 3 ALAN JACKSON ACR/ARISTA NASHVILLE 26,499
PRECIOUS MEMORIES
20 4 BARRY MANILOW ARISTA/RMG 25,518
THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE...
6 5 CARRIE UNDERWOOD ARISTA/RMG 20,947
SOME HEARTS

Yeah guys...no need for a freakout....The Building Album charts doesn't include sales from last week and this past weekend....The High School soundtrack spiked in sales this week because of the re-airing of the show...The midget still looks like he's a good bet for no. 1...
[Edited 3/27/06 11:58am]

funkybrotha - i make it to be 8k ahead with 30% in, not double! he's still looking good for #1. or at least beating musicologys debut position!

It should come up on top. I'd be surprised if it doesn't.

Prince is lucky it got that high on the list. Had he produced a great album instead of a mediocre one, he could have easily hit #1.

I give up trying to explain this to people.
[Edited 3/27/06 15:35pm]

TimeKeeper said:

you telling us 3121 isn't any greater than the other albums on that list?

anyway... wait 'til all the results are in
not to mention what happens after the songs get "out" and people start talkin'