it's not as bad as it looks it's actually pretty close from the #9 position to where Musicology is at #22..there were a lot of big releases this week


so far CHART DATE: 05/24/2004
LAST UPDATE: 05/24/2004 18:43:48
NOW IN: 49.66%

LW TW artist / album label power index
1 1 USHER LAFACE/ZLG 103,061
CONFESSIONS
-- 2 METHOD MAN DEF JAM/IDJ 103,007
TICAL 0: THE PREQUEL
-- 3 NEW FOUND GLORY DRIVE-THRU/GEFFEN 95,101
CATALYST
2 4 GRETCHEN WILSON EPIC/SONY NASHVILLE 67,409
HERE FOR THE PARTY
-- 5 ALANIS MORISSETTE MAVERICK 59,670
SO-CALLED CHAOS
5 6 HOOBASTANK ISLAND/IDJ 47,075
THE REASON
4 7 D12 SHADY/INTERSCOPE 45,528
D12 WORLD
3 8 8BALL & MJG BAD BOY/UNIVERSAL 35,956
LIVING LEGENDS
-- 9 MORRISSEY ATTACK/SANCTUARY 29,791
YOU ARE THE QUARRY
-- 10 MONTGOMERY GENTRY COLUMBIA/CRG 28,799
YOU DO YOUR THING
-- 11 LENNY KRAVITZ VIRGIN 27,493
BAPTISM
26 12 MODEST MOUSE EPIC 27,310
GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE...
11 13 OUTKAST LAFACE/ZLG 26,053
SPEAKERBOXXX/THE LOVE BELOW
7 14 NOW 15 CAPITOL 26,028
VARIOUS
17 15 GUNS N'ROSES GEFFEN 25,887
GREATEST HITS
14 16 EVANESCENCE WIND-UP 25,745
FALLEN
15 17 KANYE WEST ROC-A-FELLA/IDJ 24,538
COLLEGE DROPOUT
9 18 MARIO WINANS BAD BOY/UNIVERSAL 24,213
HURT NO MORE
8 19 PETEY PABLO JIVE/ZLG 23,784
STILL WRITING IN MY DIARY: 2ND..
6 20 TEENA MARIE CASH MONEY/UNIVERSAL 23,683
LA DONA
16 21 KENNY CHESNEY BNA 22,578
WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN
10 22 PRINCE COLUMBIA/CRG 22,234
MUSICOLOGY
23 23 JAY-Z ROC-A-FELLA/IDJ 21,909
THE BLACK ALBUM
27 24 TWISTA ATLANTIC/ATL G 20,109
KAMIKAZE
-- 25 GEORGE MICHAEL EPIC 19,989
PATIENCE
31 26 LOS LONELY BOYS EPIC 19,789
LOS LONELY BOYS
22 27 BLACK EYED PEAS A&M/INTERSCOPE 19,484
ELEPHUNK
29 28 JET ELEKTRA/EEG 18,861
GET BORN
12 29 NORAH JONES BLUE NOTE 18,484
FEELS LIKE HOME
25 30 MAROON 5 OCTONE/J RECORDS/RMG 18,480
SONGS ABOUT JANE
18 31 JESSICA SIMPSON COLUMBIA/CRG 18,463
IN THIS SKIN
21 32 ALICIA KEYS J RECORDS/RMG 18,456
THE DIARY OF ALICIA KEYS
30 33 YELLOWCARD CAPITOL 17,989
OCEAN AVENUE
13 34 DIANA KRALL VERVE 17,863
GIRL IN THE OTHER ROOM
40 35 SHREK 2 DREAMWORKS 17,635
SOUNDTRACK
-- 36 FRANZ FERDINAND DOMINO 17,216
FRANZ FERDINAND
28 37 LIL' FLIP COLUMBIA/CRG 17,182
U GOTTA FEEL ME
33 38 SHERYL CROW A&M/INTERSCOPE 16,188
VERY BEST OF
20 39 JOSH GROBAN 143/REPRISE 16,167
CLOSER
-- 40 GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROY.. CAPITOL 16,120
GREATEST HITS: 30 YEARS OF ROCK
36 41 BRITNEY SPEARS JIVE/ZLG 15,347
IN THE ZONE
38 42 NICKELBACK ROADRUNNER/IDJ 15,058
LONG ROAD
24 43 TOTALLY HITS 2004 BMG ENTERTAINMENT 14,484
VARIOUS
-- 44 BIG & RICH WARNER BROTHERS NASHVILLE 14,323
HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR
-- 45 JOSS STONE S-CURVE/EMI 13,664
SOUL SESSIONS
43 46 THE PUNISHER WIND-UP 13,503
SOUNDTRACK
35 47 BEYONCE COLUMBIA/CRG 13,492
DANGEROUSLY IN LOVE
34 48 KEITH URBAN CAPITOL 13,484
GOLDEN ROAD
39 49 TOBY KEITH DREAMWORKS NASHVILLE 13,264
SHOCK'N Y'ALL
-- 50 JUVENILE CASH MONEY/UNIVERSAL 13,112

wow.

Sales for ALL these albums are weak...

100,000 copies for the best selling album on the charts, damn.

So, 3, 3, 3, 10, 22, including concert cd giveaways.

I guess the big comeback many were anticipating seems to be a dud.

But that's okay, they're just numbers and I learned long ago that you can't equate good sales with good music.

all he needs is 4 shows in a week and he could be back in the top 9. in the next 10 days he has LA, Vegas and San Jose ... he should crawl back up there.

They need to release the Call My Name video on MTV/BET/VH1 soon!!

savoirfaire said:

no the totals are only half in.. the rest of the sales figures come out tommorow

savoirfaire said:

3-5-10-10 maybe 22 is WITHOUT the concert cd's figured in

heys its better then his last few albums

they were 18-64-108-gone

I thought that this week there are no concert CD's to be figured in. That is why it dropped way down. Once the tour gets rolling again it should shoot back up!

savoirfaire said:

Actually, it's 3, 3, 3, 7, ?(this week) on billboard...
...and 3, 5, 10, 10, ?(this week) on Soundscan...

How exactly is that a dud for Prince?

Byron said:

Well, by today's accounts, that's not exactly what I would call blockbuster numbers, and it was the "comeback" that was a dud. It's possible this album will be a long-time seller, but I'm already seeing Prince mentions dropping SUBSTANTIALLY in the media, and I highly doubt sales will rebound. But once again, see my original post, numbers are pretty much meaningless.

the album is still selling around 50,000 copies a week over a month after the album came out, it is sitting at number 14 on the chart, it has already sold around half a million copies before you include the concert cds!!!!!...this is a massive success for prince. his best commercially since the batman soundtrack in 1989.
..
..all this without a hit single remember, i think some of you need a reality check

Besides Usher,not too many artists are really selling alot of CDs these days.Lenny's new album is dead on arrival.It's already May,where are the big,heavily anticipated releases at? You know,the big albums that are usually released just before summer??

blackboab said:

Did you forget about Diamond and Pearls?

nope, it's doing better than diamonds and pearls did in the first five weeks...amazing isn't it!

blackboab said:

Does anyone have the weekly soundscan #s for Diamonds and perls??

savoirfaire said:

So you consider going gold a "dud"? You consider sales of over 600K a "dud"? You call a successful concert that is selling out multiple dates in arenas a "dud"? The album reached number 3 and was there for 3 weeks and you consider "the comback" a "dud"? Wow, some people sure turn on their favorite artist quickly. That's really being negative and putting a negative spin on something that has done so well.

It's a pretty big success at this stage of Prince's career.

How could anyone seriously argue with that?

wyld1 said:

wow if they consider Musicology a "dud" what would you call The Rainbow Children when it debut'd at #108!

All I'm thinking is that Musicology would have been a #1 album had it made its debut THIS WEEK rather than 5 weeks ago...

How is he selling overseas?

wyld1 said:

GOOD GOD!! Why does everyone focus on that one freaking word, "dud". I'm not being negative, I am stating a fact, that his sales have done far from put him back at the top of the charts. AND, I never "turned" on my favourite artist at all! I never turned from him with NEWS, TRC, or even Rave, because I loved them all. And I'm not turning on him for Musicology! but TRC was not over-promoted and sold-up as a chance for a pop-comeback, and Musicology was. In that respect it failed, ie. was a dud. Take it for what it's worth.

Because nobody seemed to pay attention to my reply, let me repeat myself:

1) Numbers never mattered to me, and I am not insulting this album!
2) Going gold is no big deal by today's standards at all!
3) His media presence went from respectable to non-existant in about two weeks!
4) He dropped off the charts quickly and his album is fast on track to being forgotten by the majority of the population
5) He might get long-term sales and this album COULD rebound, and I am not saying he is going to fail with this, but I BELIEVE that the train of success that everyone seems to be expecting will never arrive.
6) NOT talking about his concerts, talking about his new CD!

Every time somebody suggest Prince just maybe, maybe, isn't some perfect stellar super-genius superstar they instantly become negative. Whatever.

savoirfaire said:

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You know you are being negative.
1.Going gold is a big deal when artist like Lenny Kravitz can't sell 50,000.00 copies in a week.
CD's just aren't selling like they use to.
2.He took a break dude. He is not a machine.
3.They CD has not dropped off the charts and he is not going to be forgotten as long as he is out on the road.
4.He has not failed. The goal was to get pubilcity, get a CD in the top ten and have a sell-tour. He is doing great. Rome wasn't built in a day. It is going to take time but he is on the right track.