BS music video now at #31 on iTunes!! I hope it hits the top 20 soon!!

Is the Black Sweat cd single still being released on March 7th?
Thats only a week away & I haven't seen it listed anywhere.

Update:
According to posts on HQ
the cd single won't be released until March 21st.


[Edited 3/1/06 8:30am]

BS music video inching closer to top 20 music videos at iTunes-- now at #25!!

interesting stuff re: the video, though i suppose ultimately the audio is what counts at the moment.

Hows the 'album' doing? Still at #1? On HQ they're saying its been at #2 for a few days now. Will figures be released at the end of the week?

SO do all these sales carry over until the week a "physical" single is released?

If so, it's a long awaited return to the "TOP TEN" 4 Prince.

GoldenGlove said:

No , all digital sales in the past week will go towards this weeks Hot 100.

Black Sweat is #4 on the iTunes album chart now and #24 on the music video chart.

And 3121 is now #44 at Amazon.
[Edited 3/1/06 10:19am]

Over at Housequake, MsJamieStarr just revealed that "Black Sweat" is the week's top-selling single according to Soundscan, racking up 11,370 sold. Way back in second place is Beyonce's "Check On It" with sales of 4,187.



Peace, David

livewire said:

It would seem like that would help it debut in the top 40 in the chart I think is released tomorrow. I'm wondering if the retail single will still be released next week?

Soundscan Top Selling Singles... also from our friend MsJamieStarr at Housequake



1 UNIV --- --- 1 * PRINCE|BLACK SWEAT 11370 14
10 COL 1 1 2 BEYONCE|CHECK ON IT 4187 4604
2 DOMI --- 2 3 ARCTIC MONKEYS|WHEN THE SUN GO 2106 2696
1 INT --- --- 4 YEAH YEAH YEAHS|GOLD LION 1995 3707
2 INV --- 4 5 SCOUNDREL SQUAD|SISTER FEAT. B 1701 1592
8 BSMG 2 5 6 PRESLEY*ELVIS|HEARTBREAK HOTEL 1273 1454
1 WAR --- --- 7 MADONNA|SORRY 1228 992
10 UNIV 7 3 8 PRINCE|TE AMO CORAZON 1216 1836
6 CLD 3 7 9 DAIS*JOVAN|GOTTA GET TO MY BAB 1177 912
15 WAR 4 6 10 MADONNA|HUNG UP 973 1239

Interesting that Te Amo Corazon has been in the top 10 of soundscan sales, yet has not been charting.

MarcelJ said:

Te Amo - near zero airplay, about 1,000 copies sold.

Black Sweat - minor airplay across serveral formats - 11,000 copies sold.


Im gonna guess 40's or 50's for tomorrows Hot 100


Willie Nelson debuted at #52 last week , with little airplay and strong sales

BLB moves up to #22 on Urban AC radio and BS is #3 New and Active.

http://www.radioandrecord..._chart.asp
[Edited 3/1/06 16:45pm]

This is freakin awesome! This song is going to be a hit. If for nothing else, the digital sales and then the single sales will do it for him. I can't wait to see what's going to happen this month.

It looks like Black Sweat debuts at #60 on the Hot 100 this week.

Axchi696 said:

yes indeed and its this weeks hot shot debut


http://billboardradio.com...o/4160.jsp

60 - 1
Black Sweat, Prince
UMRG | 006371* | NPG/Universal

What were the Hot 100 peaks of the Musicology singles?

I'm so glad digital sales account for the Hot 100 now. It just makes things a little more fair.

so how many did willie nelson have to download to get to number 52 on the hot100, when prince has been at #1 or #2 on album downloads on iTunes all week? i presume the album charts have fewer downloads than the singles though?

its great news, the highest prince has been in 6 or 7 years IIRC?
it might be the peak, but it might help radio decide to play it abit more!

if only they synchronised the different format releases he might chart even higher, and i'll say it again - if the NPGMC released sales figures to soundscan and billboard!

all in all though, good news.

Call My Name was the only musicology single to chart on the Hot100, i think it peaked at like 77 in a 16 weeks non-consectutive chart run, pretty good going really. Musicology the single would have charted from iTunes sales alone, probably Top40, if they were counted then.

jayaredee said:

softandwet was close..."Call My Name" debuted and peaked at #75 on the Hot 100 and charted for 18 non-consecutive weeks.

On the R&B chart, "Musicology" peaked at #44 and "Call My Name" at #27. "Cinnamon Girl" didn't chart on any of Billboard's charts.

Here is Prince's Hot 100 chart history for the last few years:

2006 "Black Sweat," #60 (to date)
2004 "Call My Name," #75
1999 "The Greatest Romance Ever Sold," #63
1999 "1999," #40
1995 "Gold," #88
1995 "I Hate U," #12
1995 "Purple Medley," #84

In 1996, "Betcha By Golly Wow" reached #32 on the airplay charts, and "Holy River" peaked at #57 on the same chart, but neither made the Hot 100 because they weren't released as physical CD singles (a chart requirement at the time).

So, discounting the re-release of "1999" in 1999, "Black Sweat" is already Prince's highest charting new single since "I Hate U" eleven years ago.

asg said:

"Black Sweat" also enters the Pop 100 chart (slightly different than the Hot 100) at number 50.

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