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Down to #80 (#53 last week) 12,261 copies sold this week for a grand total of 389,833


TWRank--Artist--Title--TWSales--%CHG--LWSales--RTDSales

1 TOOL 10000 DAYS 563,532 999 1,137 564,698
2 PEARL JAM PEARL JAM 279,137 999 419 279,564
3 MOBB DEEP BLOOD MONEY 105,747 999 628 106,381
4 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK 94,462 -11 106,085 1,882,917
5 RASCAL FLATTS ME AND MY GANG 89,208 -20 111,035 1,410,524
6 VARIOUS NOW 21 85,094 -14 98,521 940,747
7 GODSMACK IV 83,645 -60 211,019 294,916
8 JEWEL GOODBYE ALICE IN WONDERLAND 81,656 999 83 81,745
9 SPRINGSTEEN*BRUCE WE SHALL OVERCOME: SEEGER SESS 75,133 -50 149,445 224,846
10 VASSAR*PHIL VOL. 1-GREATEST HITS 64,644 999 39 64,696






80 PRINCE 3121 12,261 -22 15,750 389,833



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[Edited 5/10/06 6:46am]

Not great, but not bad. I believe once the show rolls out sales will go up.

The "Fury" single might turn things around.

he's not supporting the album. what can you expect?

without any real promotion from Prince's part since the release
of the album, i think it's done tremendously well considering
how many copies his albums roughly sold during the last decade.

sallysassalot said:

true dat.

hahaha Prince is something else....i hope he doesn't blame Universal for anything

Milty said:

of course he will. its his M.O.

sometimes i wonder why he even bothers writing music

Snap said:

simple: he doesn't know how to do anything else.

Its incredible how an album can be released at 1 and drop to 80 in 6 weeks.

I'm surprised it's still not on iTunes. What's up with that?? Red Hot Chili Peppers has the #1 album on iTunes and most likely in the US with it'd DOUBLE album, Stadium Arcadium!!

I was hoping it would outsell these albums, at this rate it'll top out at about 425,000, hopefully the upcoming promotion with Tamar and shows will boost sales.

The Gold Experience 492,000
Emancipation 628,000
Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic 487,000
[Edited 5/11/06 8:31am]

this is a mystery isn't it? why did he dissapear? did I spell dissappear wrong?

But how many copies have been burned, copied or bootlegged off these 389,833 legit albums sold. Surely this would go platinum.

NPG2045 said:

it will outsell all those albums but unless he starts promoting the album or gets a song on the radio...he wont get near a million sales which the inferior musicology nearly reached..

blackbob said:

ditto.

If Prince himself promoted these albums by going on different shows and radio stations, alot of his albums would have hit the platinum mark. Not that Prince really cares, but you have to rub the radio world in the right way sometimes.

Also, i think everyone from this site should just go out and buy another copy from the store and send it directly to the Pop/RnB/HipHop/Rock radio stations in your area. Have the return label be from Prince Rogers Nelson with his home address.

JaTeeluV said:

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It has sold a million copies worldwide. So it has gone Plantinum and to have hung in the top half of the charts this long with out a lot of promotion is pretty good.

Since he is going to be on GMA in June he must be planning to tour or do more T.V. so let's not write this project off yet.

Are Prince's sales that out of line for an 80's icon or are they about average?

Take a look at Springsteen's sales this week - which are his second week:

TWRank--Artist--Title--TWSales--%CHG--LWSales--RTDSales

#9 SPRINGSTEEN*BRUCE WE SHALL OVERCOME: SEEGER SESS 75,133 -50 149,445 224,846

And compare to Prince's sales in his second week:

#8 PRINCE 3121 75,519 -59 183,436 259,336

So is Springsteen doing as poorly as Prince
or is Prince doing as well as Springsteen?

DavidEye said:

What is he waiting on?

FURY IS THE MOST DATED SONG ON THE ALBUM, SO WE SHOULD NOT HOPE IT WILL BOOST SALES. IT IS A LAME SINGLE CHOICE. NO ONE AGED UNDER 25 WILL EVER LOVE THIS SHHHHH....(OK, IF YOU ARE UNDER 25 AND LOVE IT, DON'T JUMP AT ME: YOU ARE THE EXCEPTION)