Batdance89 said:

I bought a few cause Prince should never come second to country music, oh no not gonna happen.

I am curious to see Prince´s strategy to sell it around the world (specially in Europe, where he has lots of fans)

I am brazilian, but I have an american friend that will buy it for me, and the other international fans? Will have only the download version at the site?

billboard update

Black Eyed Peas On Course For First Hot 100 No. 1
April 03, 2009 - Retail

By Keith Caulfield, L.A.

The Black Eyed Peas' new single, "Boom Boom Pow" (will.i.am/Interscope), will make a big boom on next week's singles charts.

Interscope is projecting the song, released on March 31, will sell more than 400,000 downloads in its first week, enabling a debut high atop the Hot Digital Songs chart.

That sum will likely propel the single to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving the act its first chart-topper.

The group has charted nine singles on the tally, including "Boom," but has only gone as high as No. 3 (with both "Don't Phunk With My Heart" and "My Humps"). This week, "Boom" is at No. 39 on the Hot 100 based solely on its strong out-of-the-gate airplay.

Meanwhile, Keith Urban and Prince are both still in the hunt for a No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200 albums chart next week. Industry prognosticators suggest Urban's "Defying Gravity" (Capitol Nashville) could sell between 170,000-180,000, while Prince's Target-exclusive "LotusFlow3r" (NPG) may shift in the range of 160,000-170,000.

Those projections have grown since April 1, when the Urban album was forecast to move 150,000-160,000, while Prince was in the range of 140,000-150,000.

The new Billboard Hot 100 chart will be unveiled on April 9, while the new Billboard 200 albums chart will hit Billboard.com on April 8.
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Bring it home P!

Go Prince!

he's not gonna be #1 sorry

he better, I just went to target again today and bought 4 more copies. Now I have ten LOL. I know I know I know, but it's a good deal. And if it's a target exclusive, in a few years that album will be hard to track down and be hard to find (except web of course). And will there be a time when itunes will be able to sell it? I wish I would of bought more than one copy of The gold Exp. since it's OOP now. Now to get new from the web is a ridiculous price. So i'm going to buy more copies of the prince cd's in his catalog that i already don't have multiple copies of.



Go Prince GO prince, please beat Keith Urban lol

seriously is it that big of a deal for him to be #1 that people are buy 5+ copies? that's just really unnecessary

etaylor67 said:

I think that's deliberate. To foil torrents.

InsatiableCream said:

very very necessary!!! lol. Definately, especially if your ware cd's out like i do.

djdaffy1227 said:

true, kieth urban copies prince on stage when he lays on the floor and starts playing the guitar. and kieth has that prince sound but with western feel.
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purplecam said:

SAY THAT .... I will buy 1 more as well ! my PIMP needs me to hit the stroll lol

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InsatiableCream said:

Especially since Prince and his fans say it's not about sales

If he's number 1 or 2 doesn't matter

I agree with that, and it's another reason I didn't buy it, 'cause I don't do record stores no more, iTunes locked it down!

sovembol said:

ARock said:

co- . couldn't have said it better myself . still thinking about another copy for the house, since i'm already fucking up the one i got in my car , but i'm kinda cheap, so

3121 debuted at #1 with 183k without an iTunes release as well, but that one had a video and a charting single, so I have to say doing 160k 3 years later is fantastic.

LiveToTell86 said:

It had 3 videos and they all got some airplay on the video channels. This record has zero promotion and no radio airplay at all. It also had the golden ticket thing
It will be gold on its first week out

The real test is where it will be next week and the week after .....

SUPRMAN said:

I had no problems with iTunes recognizing the songs, but it didn't recognize the albums and artist for MPLSound and Elixer. Go figure.

purplecam said:

Got one given to me as a gift, bought one for Kalyn. Was thinking of buying one for Kia, but that chick has been pissing me the hell off, so maybe I'll get another one and let Christopher have it. LOL

We'll see if I make it out the house today. The winds are blowing here like we're about to take flight and leave Kansas any minute Toto.

I'd love 2 c Prince debut at #1 and b very impressed if he does it without iTunes, Best Buy, Amazon or Walmart-- places I usually buy my albums from.

utopia7 said:

Vysyons said:

ITunes recognized all 3 CDs with no problems when I imported them 2 my laptop.

Copycat said:

True. The fact that it is a multi-disk set (3 CDs) will come into play with certification from the RIAA. As we know from the way Emancipation was certified, each set sold represents 3 disks. To go platinum (1 million) each set will have to sell one third of that, 333,333 copies.

Would it help if we each buy 100 copies each this week and return them next week?

evatorres said:

There won't be any test. There's no single on radio to keep people buying it, and Prince is not doing constant tv promo to plug the release. From next week it's gonna drop like a rock.

psychodelicide said:

that's not irony at all.

I think prince will win this one

dumbass said:

Well, I think it is, but let's just agree to disagree, shall we? Interesting how quick you are to judge me, when you don't even know me.
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Let the games begin!