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LW TW artist / album label power index % change
-- 1 COMMON GEFFEN 157,216 --
FINDING FOREVER
-- 2 KORN VIRGIN 125,736 --
UNTITLED
1 3 NOW 25 UTV 123,931 -15%
VARIOUS ARTISTS
4 4 HANNAH MONTANA 2 - MEET MILEY WALT DISNEY RECORDS 83,011 -8%
SOUNDTRACK
2 5 HAIRSPRAY NEW LINE 78,428 -22%
ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
-- 6 SEAN KINGSTON EPIC 74,376 --
SEAN KINGSTON
-- 7 KIDZ BOP KIDS RAZOR & TIE 71,827 --
KIDZ BOP 12
5 8 T.I. ATLANTIC/ATL G 59,452 -10%
T.I. VS. T.I.P.
6 9 FERGIE A&M/INTERSCOPE 53,126 -1%
THE DUTCHESS
8 10 LINKIN PARK WARNER BROS. 43,885 +5%
MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT
9 11 AMY WINEHOUSE UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 37,959 -9%
BACK TO BLACK
13 12 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 36,289 0%
TAYLOR SWIFT
12 13 NICKELBACK ROADRUNNER 35,865 -6%
ALL THE RIGHT REASONS
3 14 PRINCE COLUMBIA 33,587 -63%

Ouch.

This really shouldnt' surprise anyone.

He got some good press, but his marketing campaign wasn't all that big.

And, as much as we love him, he just doesn't have the general popularity (at least in terms of ablums sales) that he once did. Nothing wrong with that.

He'll make a bunch of cash from his concerts and go from there.

On an unrelated note, I'd like to see a definitive live album (One Nite Alone was good, but too unwieldy) with great acoustics. Prince's "At Budokan" or "Alive."

33,000 copies ... better then I thought ...

Not suprising to me unfortunately. Its amazing to me how much he's not in the conscious of the general public despite this recent "comeback" or whatever most people call it. Proof of it was on the air locally where I listened to a conversation of people talking about greatest live performers and were listing names like J.T. (don't wanna start no hating on him but he was a name brought up), Madonna, Garth Brooks and people like that and as names came out noone said Prince at any time. I know he hasn't sold shit lately as far as number of albums really (compared to his height anyhow) but damn I thought it was known far and wide that he's one of the greatest live performers in music history.

It saddened me greatly

Prince actually sold more records in the first week of release than Sean Kingston? I thought that song Beautiful Girls was supposed to be so hot.
Anyway, Planet Earth is still #2 on iTunes R&B and it rose from #51 to #31 on the main itunes page.
Not bad for an album with no promotion and no mainstream airplay. I'm assuming it's doing well on the R&B side cause of FBM getting play on urban stations.
Nice to see Common on top. Much better than that idiotic NOW series.

damn! ppl need to buy the CD- i was unsuccessful in converting a few of my classmates- but damn if i'm not gonna try....

2020 said:

a 63 % decline in the second week is standard and not half bad considering some decline more than 70%.


these are not Billboard numbers . They come out tomorrow. It may vary a little

Time 4 me 2 go buy more copies!

Listen, this cd didn't have any real promotion, outside the Verizon commercials. That's why this doesn't surprise me. Most people didn't and don't know that the cd is out. Also, Columbia/Prince hurt things by not releasing a video. In addition, releasing FBM only two weeks before the cd dropped wasn't smart. No interviews. No big time U.S. tours. Blah, blah blah. However, things can still improve. All it may take is for FBM or another single to do really well. It's not unusual for slow selling albums to pick up once a single gets hot. There's still time. It's all riding on the success of FBM now.

well he had the 3rd best selling album in the world last week....some japanese group had the top two.....not bad for a 50 year old pop star with little promotion for his 400th album release !!!....

for the good of the country, just look away.

Is'nt it something how us fans/fams really try to push a new Prince cd, while Prince acts as if he never released it? Why even release to the mass.

FLOP!

2020 said:

Well it looks like this album won't go gold; unlike "3121."

Still it should sell 200,000 - 350,000.

Not too bad for an album with very llttle stateside support from its artist.

sexxydancer said:

blackbob said:

Thats Nice! You got a link to that??? And anybody knows how much the album has sold Worldwide?

Who gives a fuck about album sales?
...

Love2tha9s said:

Yeah. I think we fans often over-estimate his supposed "comeback". He's still very much a mystery for the majority of the mainstream. The "comeback" has more to do with his public perception than it does a recognition of his talent (ie. he's not as 'weird' as he used to be).

The other day a work colleague asked me who my favorite artist was (knowing I'm a musician in my spare time), to which I replied "Prince". She looked at me with horror and said something like "Prince? Isn't he just a singer?" (don't worry, I've already got my Prince-indoctrination plan all sorted )

For the people that know anything about musicianship, Prince will always be respected. But the fact is that most people know shit all about what musicianship is these days. So it doesn't surprise me one bit that his albums don't do so well in the charts anymore.
[Edited 8/7/07 23:30pm]

I don't think Prince cares how this CD does on the charts.He's probably already working on the next album,lol.

FuNkeNsteiN said:

Obviously the people talking about it do - go back to sleep

Astasheiks said:

I doubt he has a link as it's obviously not true - just because it made it to No.3 in USA doesn't by a long shot mean it was the 3rd biggest selling album in the world for the week - it was barely top 20 anywhere else (though it was No.1 in Switzerland - though i doubt that would off-set the rest of the planets sales....)

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[Edited 8/8/07 0:45am]

I figured as much! Prince isn't promoting this in the US at all, so this comes as no surprise.

prime said:

yeah,I'm surprised it even sold that much,considering the lack of promotion.

He just needs a hot vid for "guitar" and a creamy one for "..Wanna C..".1UWC is a major hit song waiting to get exposure.It is a perfect pop song.

It is #14

sonicfreak said:

Thats not billboard either and it wasnt even #13

but the billboard is #11

Sales data provided and compiled from Nielsen SoundScan
*1 New COMMON Finding Forever (G.O.O.D. / Geffen / IGA)
*2 New KORN Untitled (Virgin )
3 1 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW 25 (Universal / EMI / Sony BMG / Zomba / UMRG)
4 2 SOUNDTRACK Hairspray (New Line )
5 4 MILEY CYRUS Hannah Montana 2 (Soundtrack)/Meet Miley Cyrus (Walt Disney / Hollywood )
*6 New SEAN KINGSTON Sean Kingston (Beluga Heights / Koch / Epic / Sony Music)
*7 New KIDZ BOP KIDS Kidz Bop 12 (Razor & Tie )
8 5 T.I. T.I. Vs T.I.P. (Grand Hustle / Atlantic / AG)
9 6 FERGIE The Dutchess (will.i.am / A&M / Interscope / IGA)
*10 8 LINKIN PARK Minutes To Midnight (Machine Shop / Warner Bros.)
11 3 PRINCE Planet Earth (NPG / Columbia / Sony Music)
12 9 AMY WINEHOUSE Back To Black (Universal Republic / UMRG)
13 13 TAYLOR SWIFT Taylor Swift (Big Machine )
14 11 NICKELBACK All The Right Reasons (Roadrunner )
15 12 BON JOVI Lost Highway (Mercury / Island / UMGN/IDJMG)
16 14 RIHANNA Good Girl Gone Bad (SRP / Def Jam / IDJMG)
17 10 PLAIN WHITE T'S Every Second Counts (Fearless / Hollywood)
18 17 MAROON 5 It Won't Be Soon Before Long (A&M / Octone / IGA)
19 19 T-PAIN Epiphany (Konvict / Nappy Boy / Jive / Zomba)
*20 27 MICHAEL BUBLE Call Me Irresponsible (143 / Reprise / Warner Bros.)

asg said:

Thanks asg! Get this he's still # 1 for a second week in Switzerland!

http://swisscharts.com/we....asp?cat=a

It's the diehard fans buying it when it's first released that got it so high to begin with. How else would an album by someone like Prince even make the charts considering that everything else on the charts is absolute bullshit music? Once all the fans have it, it will disappear from the charts.