the sales figures for Musicology's 2nd week start coming in at 9:30am central
at http://www.hitsdailydoubl...lescht.cgi

i think it bodes well that it's still at #3 at amazon.com ..we'll see

yeah , remember this week you have to add 60,000-80,000 (?) for the 5 shows he did 4/22-4/28 to get the Soundscan/Billboard total. should keep him in the Top 5.

any numbers yet?

He's currently a shade below 10,000 with about 13% of the returns in. That puts him currently in 4th place. But that's without the concert totals.

Prince will likely stay at no 3 this week once the concert sales are added, he is looking at 90,000 retail sales! With the 80,000 concert sales thats 170,000 copies only 20,000 less than 1st week totals!

Total U.S. sales could be 350,000 by the end of the week!

CHART DATE: 05/03/2004
LAST UPDATE: 05/03/2004 10:47:11
NOW IN: 29.91%


LW TW artist / album label power index
-- 1 D12 SHADY/AM/INTERSCOPE 252,962
D12 WORLD
1 2 USHER LAFACE/ZLG 69,868
CONFESSIONS
2 3 MARIO WINANS BAD BOY/UNIVERSAL 44,562
HURT NO MORE
-- 4 DIANA KRALL VERVE 44,050
GIRL IN THE OTHER ROOM
3 5 PRINCE COLUMBIA/CRG 31,733
MUSICOLOGY
5 6 HOOBASTANK ISLAND/IDJ 30,346
THE REASON
8 7 KANYE WEST ROC-A-FELLA/IDJ 24,639
COLLEGE DROPOUT
9 8 GUNS N'ROSES GEFFEN 18,411
GREATEST HITS
6 9 GHOSTFACE DEF JAM/IDJ 17,164
PRETTY TONEY ALBUM
12 10 OUTKAST LAFACE/ZLG 16,592
SPEAKERBOXXX/THE LOVE BELOW

Bye, Usher. Hope you had fun at #1 because it looks like your time there is up.

I'm really at D12's numbers. They didn't do that well before.

hmm, no 5 now, but still adding on the 60-80,000 could keep him at no 3! 2nd week sales are not that impressive at retail tho, its a shame because i feel if columbia had organised a proper single/video/mtv/radio play this album could have exploded! It is with this in mind that i feel prince will not top Diamonds And Pearls in the US!

Anyway just for info, how many copies did D&P sell in the US!

FunkyBrotha said:

I couldn't disagree more!

These early figures are fantastic when you consider that the hardcore fans have already bought the album and and tens of thousands of casual fans have concert tickets and are waiting to get their copies at the shows.

"Musicology" is an unqualified commercial success.

Peace, David

livewire said:

i agree Livewire...this is great considering how fast Prince's last couple albums have sunk in the charts

bsbd2luvr said:

No, but they never had a smash single before either. "My Band", however
grating it is on your ears, is a bonafide smash.

They seem to be pretty good numbers but could be much better if he had a smash single with lots of radio play.

Bring on A Million Days asap.

So... any news on sales?

I'll check again at the end of the day...I'm off to work now!!

NOW IN: 50.44%


LW TW artist / album label power index
-- 1 D12 SHADY/INTERSCOPE 284,829
D12 WORLD
1 2 USHER LAFACE/ZLG 129,312
CONFESSIONS
-- 3 DIANA KRALL VERVE 75,653
GIRL IN THE OTHER ROOM
2 4 MARIO WINANS BAD BOY/UNIVERSAL 57,929
HURT NO MORE
3 5 PRINCE COLUMBIA/CRG 49,569
MUSICOLOGY
5 6 HOOBASTANK ISLAND/IDJ 46,316
THE REASON
4 7 NOW 15 CAPITOL 38,598
VARIOUS
9 8 GUNS N'ROSES GEFFEN 32,655
GREATEST HITS
10 9 EVANESCENCE WIND-UP 30,694
FALLEN
8 10 KANYE WEST ROC-A-FELLA/IDJ 30,585
COLLEGE DROPOUT
12 11 OUTKAST LAFACE/ZLG 27,618

NOW IN: 61.66%


LW TW artist / album label power index
-- 1 D12 SHADY/INTERSCOPE 374,836
D12 WORLD
1 2 USHER LAFACE/ZLG 162,053
CONFESSIONS
-- 3 DIANA KRALL VERVE 95,270
GIRL IN THE OTHER ROOM
2 4 MARIO WINANS BAD BOY/UNIVERSAL 77,268
HURT NO MORE
3 5 PRINCE COLUMBIA/CRG 64,555
MUSICOLOGY
5 6 HOOBASTANK ISLAND/IDJ 60,363
THE REASON
4 7 NOW 15 CAPITOL 51,485
VARIOUS
10 8 EVANESCENCE WIND-UP 39,438
FALLEN
8 9 KANYE WEST ROC-A-FELLA/IDJ 39,031
COLLEGE DROPOUT
9 10 GUNS N'ROSES GEFFEN 38,925
GREATEST HITS


Final numbers will be in, in a few hours. Looks like it's going to be in the neighborhood of 90-100 thousand. Then add 60-80 thousand (? guessing ) to come up with Billboard/Soundscan total.

Final numbers in!!