According to Hitsdaily:

What a dissapointment

NOW AND AGAIN: UTV/UMe’s Now 25 will top next week’s HITS Album Sales Chart with a second-week total of around 130-135k, which will be enough to turn back Prince’s Columbia debut, Planet Earth, now looking in the 95-100k range. The only other Top 10 debut among new releases looks to be Island’s Sum 41, now slated for a #7 bow at 45-50k. Disney’s Hannah Montana 2 is on target for #3 (80-85k), followed by New Line’s resilient Hairspray soundtrack (85-90k), Grand Hustle/Atlantic’s T.I. (60-65k), Interscope/A&M’s Fergie (50-55k), Sum 41, with WB’s Linkin Park, Hollywood’s Plain White T’s (making their bow in the Top 10 on the strength of the monster #1 single, “Hey There Delilah”) and Roadrunner’s Nickelback all in the 40-45k range. (7/27p)

http://www.hitsdailydoubl...ormill.cgi

linus4000 said:

so that means:

Musicology : No. 3
3121 : No. 1
Planet Earth : No. 2

Does that mean his next album will go to No. 1

which would mean his albums have gone to 3, 1, 2, 1?

linus4000 said:

Having a #2 album in the USA is a great thing. Until Musicology, Prince hadn't sniffed the Top 10 album chart for several years. Musicology went #3, 3121 went #1, and Planet Earth went #2. Plus he gave away almost 3 million copies, has no video, real single, and didn't do any promotion. Nonetheless, another great accomplishment in the career of Prince. Nobody cares about charts anymore. The record industry is dead.

yeah, number 2 is great, too. But the actual sales number is really low.
And this after the verizon campaign and the ALMA show, the Super Bowl.
And Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan sold so much more the first week.
Could it be that everybody downloaded the album for free?
Or perhaps the music industry is really dead...

The problem with predictions is that people predict. Let's see just what happens...

RumAndRaisin said:

Cheek said:

x2

if Prince would have sang Guitar at the Super Bowl and dropped that single on Itunes two days later.....released Planet Earth a couple weeks after that.

The sales would have been huge.....but oh well
[Edited 7/28/07 6:39am]

Considering Prince gave the album out a week before its release and that Planet Earth flooded EBay, him coming in at no. 2 (at a relatively low number) is no suprise...Remember folks, Prince already had a video released during the release of 3121...Planet Earth doesn't even have a video, so let's be real here...It's doing what its supposed to do under the circumstances...
[Edited 7/28/07 12:54pm]

#2 ain't bad





Anyone remember the 1999-TNM days?

RUHip2TheJive said:

x3

And plus nobody watches tv anymore, so who really saw the verizon commercial? there is no full length video (who cares, video channels are worthless), radio isn't playing anything worth listening to, the album is not on itunes, and prince has done squat for talk show or performance appearances. The record industry is dead anyway, The annual Prince CD is the only CD i buy all year. CDs are deader than dead. If there's any other music I want to hear, i'll download it somewhere else. I don't support record companies.

Having your CD debut at #2 on the album charts is a great accomplishment for any artist. It isn't like a movie debuting at number 1 at the box office. Sometimes the posts on this board are extremely stupid.

Wowugotit said:

Your own post perhaps , too


It is not that an album at #2 is not great, but selling only 100k copies is weak.
A hits compilation is the second week at number one and Prince can`t sell more than 100 000 copies??
It never was so easy for Prince to have the #1 album than this week...!

linus4000 said:

Ofcourse I downloaded it 4 free a few weeks back, why because I'm a diehard. But I for damn sure bought an official copy on day one! Just wish Prince had put a lil more work in2 the linernotes for Planet Earth.Who played on what tracks? Still diggin the album, but we need much more than10 tracks per year brutha Prince!

Who gives a what the charts say anyway? Enjoy the earcandy and live life baby!

linus4000 said:

Planet Earth will be lucky to top 300,000 total in the US . So if you look st it hes pretty much let the Musicology wave die....

US Sales:
Musicology : 1.0 million (2.1m total counting concert giveaways)
3121: 500,000 +
PE : ??

linus4000 said:

More likely is that Prince is becoming less and less relevant. I don't say that as a good or bad thing, but just as an observation. The music buying public doesn't really care about him or his music, even with all the press he got regarding the giveaway, superbowl (almost 1/2 a year ago), etc.

I'm not surprised, Prince has never been a major seller, the Purple Raind and Diamonds and pearls sales are the exception...For God's sake, even SOTT, easily the best 80's album, had modest sales...
But as long as he is a MAJOR LIVE ARTIST, I will be happy

RumAndRaisin said:

linus4000 said:

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No one can sell more than 100,000 copies. All sales of CD's are low. Why do you think he gave so many away. I can't figure out why some orgers can't see how or will not see that CD 's sales are on the decline and have been since the begining of this decade.

linus4000 said:

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linus4000 said:

I dont think its really anything to worry about, this album is just coming out, there has been no promotion at all, theres no single/video, tv stuff,tour,etc..This is exactly the amount i thought it would sell week 1, i actually didnt even think it would be 2, i thought it would be lower in the top 10, possibly 5,6. But there really wasnt anything coming out this week, that had alot of media attention and that drives people into stores at this point. And we also have to remember that the lack of "STORES" still being around takes those numbers of all artists way down, i mean since the beginning of 2006 over 1000 stores have closed, and as much as people think that everyone is just going to get their stuff at iTunes, digital downloads is still a very small % of music sales at this point, though its increasing, because people are being forced into it.

truefunksoldier said:

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It must something to be irelevant and sell all those concert tickets.

laurarichardson said:

didn't paul mccartney just do it?

JoeTyler said:

Exactly i have always wondered why People freaked out about sales with Prince. With the exception of 1999, Purple Rain and Diamonds and Pearls, u can really find a reason why others sold. BATMAN well the whole craze around that movie, who really cared who did the music, ATWIAD was selling off of the whole Purple Rain craze, he could have anything at that point and the mainstream would have bought it. But lets face it Prince's albums usually land in the GOLD range, depending on how its distributed, if he does it then he probably will sell about 100-200,000 if a label does it, usually around 400,000-500,000. Will Planet Earth hit that, who knows, does it really matter at this point??

lastdecember said:

Yeah, I forgot the BATMAN album; one of his lesser albums it's in fact one of his major sellers of all time:lol: amusing, I just love P career

JoeTyler said:

Yeah Prince has always been a very modest seller, i dont know why people are so shocked, and remember he's 49 and people are still hoping for these "blockbuster" numbers, get real already it aint gonna happen. At this point in Prince's career, you are not taking on any new fans, you pretty have your fan base that has always bought you and like with any other artist, it decreases as the years go on, deal with it everyone, shit Chaos and Disorder sold 150,000 copies overall, and that was with Prince badmouthing and every reviewer trashing it (though i loved it) .

pennylover said:

x3121