final numbers here

http://www.hitsdailydoubl...lescht.cgi

1 - USHER - 257,074
2 - MARIO WINANS - 235,494
3 - PRINCE - 172,349
4 - NOW 15 - 100,412

big enough gap that the 17k concert giveaways won't have any impact at all. Now if they could count all of the concert giveaways for the week, he'd have a shot at #1. As it is, someone said a #3 debut may be the highest a Prince album has ever debuted.

Anyone know what Around the world in a day and Batman soundtrack debuted at? Those seem the most likely of the ones that weren't listed before to have had a high debut.

Around the World in a Day and Batman debuted in my house in 1985 and 1989 respectively. Charts wise ...not really sure..

Both ATWIAD and Batman would have debuted before Soundscan, so they would have had that old build up on the charts. Nowadays, established artists often make their highest debuts in the first week because Soundscan can chart all the people who rush out to buy the album...

I'm pretty sure ATWIAD debuted in the top 3 -- at number 1 I think, then quickly fallingé

Aerogram said:

Yup, I'm fairly certain ATWIAD debuted at number one...

Anxiety said:

It debuted at number one and stayed there for 3 weeks according to my alcohol effected memory.

Am I the first to say, well done, Prince!

around the world in day debuted at number 1 and stayed there 3 weeks

batman did the same #1 stayed there 6 weeks..

parade # 3
grafiti bridge #3
sign o the times #6
lovesexy # 11
diamonds and pearls #3
symbol # 5
gold experience # 6

oh by the way, that info is provided from the book Billboard top pop albums 1955-1996


welcome

Kinda sad that he couldn't beat Mario Winans with all this promotion and "free" sales from the concerts...Usher is understandable...but MARIO WINANS?

mattmcbr said:

It sure is sad. Shows you where our world is today. But in the end, it great to see Prince debut so high. He deserves it. Now can he stay there.

mattmcbr said:

Yeah, but I remember some article that said the priced download of the entire album at NPGMC had like 500,000 customers. So, that combined with the sales of the album makes for a damn good final result so far of ppl who were willing to pay for the new music.

PurpleKnight said:

That's dollars not customers and a good portion of that would be the live stuff, Chocolate Invasion and Slaughterhouse.

mattmcbr said:

nah, not really. mario is getting a lot of radio AND video support. prince is getting lots of press but unless you watch videos, you haven't really heard the new music. hopefully radio will cave soon and start playing more from the record.

172,349 subtracted by 100,000 concert tickets sold within the past week = 72,349 copies sold in the US.
[This message was edited Tue Apr 27 17:18:04 2004 by TheGoldExperience]

TheGoldExperience said:

What the fuck are you talking about? Billboard officially stated that they'd only be counting that one concert of 17,000 CDs "given" away for the first week's tally.

mattmcbr said:

OK 1 MORE TIME the numbers you see today are actual sales and NOT the cd's givin away at the concert..and there are ONLY about 17,500 to be added....

anyway you have to remember these factors
1. many people downloaded the album already on the music club & several thousand free cd's from earlier concerts were not counted in this weeks total
2.Mario's song got played over 8,000 times this week on top 40 radio to Musicology's NONE
3.and Prince's last album to chart The Rainbow Choldran only got to #108 on the billboard chart

far from sad

TheGoldExperience said:

YOU CANT be this effin dumb...can you?

Mazerati said:

Yes, thank you. Very well said.

TheGoldExperience said:

have you not read ANY of the articles and posts about the subject?

The 17K CD's from the concerts were not added to the total yet. The official tally will be on Thurs.

Don't even get this silliness started again. I swear, TGE must be Enya's publicist or something.

In another thread, I've already proven why that's false.

TheGoldExperience said:

And Billboard published and article that proves you are wrong.

PurpleKnight said:

Histdailydouble numbers are over-the-counter reports only. These don't include the concert giveaways. So add 17 000 to that total.

whats with the influx of loosers on the org lately? why are some prince fans so bitter about his success? makes no sense...

it's so great to see Prince back at the top, when it comes down to it who cares about all the facts, figures, and statistics? it's just nice to see him getting the spotlight again like he richly deserves.

ultrraviolette said:

yup! the sales and press is great fun but more importantly, its just awesome to see him get some props!

manonearth said:

Issues.