NOW IN: FINAL


LW TW artist / album label power index % change
2 1 USHER LAFACE/ZLG 266,467 +3%
CONFESSIONS
1 2 D12 SHADY/INTERSCOPE 200,379 -64%
D12 WORLD
-- 3 PETEY PABLO JIVE/ZLG 118,979 --
STILL WRITING IN MY DIARY: 2ND..
12 4 NORAH JONES BLUE NOTE 94,322 +77%
FEELS LIKE HOME
7 5 HOOBASTANK ISLAND/IDJ 92,953 +15%
THE REASON
4 6 MARIO WINANS BAD BOY/UNIVERSAL 90,407 -25%
HURT NO MORE
18 7 JOSH GROBAN 143/REPRISE 81,208 +105%
CLOSER
3 8 DIANA KRALL VERVE 79,107 -36%
GIRL IN THE OTHER ROOM
6 9 NOW 15 CAPITOL 75,645 -12%
VARIOUS
5 10 PRINCE COLUMBIA/CRG 73,930 -23%
MUSICOLOGY
9 11 EVANESCENCE WIND-UP 65,934 +16%
FALLEN
10 12 OUTKAST LAFACE/ZLG 61,226 +13%
SPEAKERBOXXX/THE LOVE BELOW
16 13 KENNY CHESNEY BNA 60,722 +36%
WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN
-- 14 KIMBERLEY LOCKE CURB 57,329 --
ONE LOVE
8 15 KANYE WEST ROC-A-FELLA/IDJ 56,821 -7%
COLLEGE DROPOUT
-- 16 PATTI LABELLE DEF SOUL/IDJ 56,619 --
TIMELESS JOURNEY
-- 17 TOTALLY HITS 2004 BMG ENTERTAINMENT 55,733 --
VARIOUS
11 18 GUNS N'ROSES GEFFEN 53,814 0%
GREATEST HITS
14 19 JESSICA SIMPSON COLUMBIA/CRG 51,300 +1%
IN THIS SKIN
23 20 ALICIA KEYS J RECORDS/RMG 46,624 +28%
THE DIARY OF ALICIA KEYS
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add his concert sales to be added by Soundscan/Billboard of about 70,000. That will put him at around 140-145,000 and # 3 for the third week in a row.

newpower99 said:

Prince is fudging the numbers. Kind of unfair.

Coooool. The great thing is that not too many other artists could do the "giveaway" concert CD successfully (not enough tickets sold) or would WANT to. It's another innovative aproach by Prince that's paying off.

2freaky4church1 said:

The only "fair" in this world is a place with cotton candy and livestock.

Nothing's "fair" about advertising dollars spent by huge corporations on terrible blockbuster movies, or blockbuster albums by other far less talented, people. It's a new approach that anyone could do if they wanted to do.

2freaky4church1 said:

actually, this reflects ONLY sales. when billboard comes out with their figures, the tour numbers will be factored in. hitsdailydouble only shows what was actually sold in wrecka stows/music outlets.

sro100 said:

He's had another? I just think he got lucky, or somebody at Columbia did.

The orginal estimate for concert give aways was only 400k

but looking at the added concerts this will increase to around 900k+

dont u think thats the true figure/?

Remeber the concert CDs r manufacutred by NPG and not sony

and the deal he has with sony gives him a % of sales

and dont include a signin bonus

It'll be interesting to see the chart position drop and then bounce up again during these two and half weeks with no concerts and then when they pick up again.

2freaky4church1 said:

is it fair he recieves little to no airplay on radio while D12 and Mario get over 8,000 spins each week? NO so the way i see it..this evens the playing field

Marrk said:

its been said that he has been quoted in interviews as far back as 96 with a plan to give his latest album away with a concert ticket. he's basically bided his time until now to do it. but basically his plan sounds about 8 years old. whats mental is its so revolutionary now imagine how it owuld have been then?