Looks to be on a 35-40,000 retail pace this week . CDs distributed at these 5 shows will be included this week on Billboard/Soundscan.(5/28 LA , 5/29, 5/30 Las Vegas, 6/1, 6/2 San Jose)


NOW IN: 53.90%

LW TW artist / album label power index
3 1 USHER LAFACE/ZLG 108,439
CONFESSIONS
1 2 AVRIL LAVIGNE ARISTA/RMG 88,987
UNDER MY SKIN
4 3 GRETCHEN WILSON EPIC/SONY NASHVILLE 63,123
HERE FOR THE PARTY
2 4 SLIPKNOT ROADRUNNER/IDJ 54,162
VOL 3: (THE SUBLIMINAL VERSES)
6 5 HOOBASTANK ISLAND/IDJ 53,881
THE REASON
8 6 D12 SHADY/INTERSCOPE 38,424
D12 WORLD
15 7 EVANESCENCE WIND-UP 33,375
FALLEN
5 8 METHOD MAN DEF JAM/IDJ 33,211
TICAL 0: THE PREQUEL
17 9 KANYE WEST ROC-A-FELLA/IDJ 32,703
COLLEGE DROPOUT
9 10 NEW FOUND GLORY DRIVE-THRU/GEFFEN 32,010
CATALYST .....


20 21 PETEY PABLO JIVE/ZLG 23,004
STILL WRITING IN MY DIARY: 2ND..
23 22 MODEST MOUSE EPIC 22,642
GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE...
10 23 ALANIS MORISSETTE MAVERICK 21,712
SO-CALLED CHAOS
28 24 LOS LONELY BOYS EPIC 21,695
LOS LONELY BOYS
30 25 JET ELEKTRA/EEG 20,941
GET BORN
12 26 GEORGE MICHAEL EPIC 20,887
PATIENCE
21 27 PRINCE COLUMBIA/CRG 20,878
MUSICOLOGY
32 28 YELLOWCARD CAPITOL 20,555
OCEAN AVENUE
38 29 TEENA MARIE CASH MONEY/UNIVERSAL 20,347
LA DONA
33 30 MAROON 5 OCTONE/J RECORDS/RMG 20,333
SONGS ABOUT JANE

5 shows worth of cd sales. This could be very interesting.

i remember last week with about 80% in Prince was at about #29 and then made a nice comeback and finished at #21 lets hope he can do the same thia week

wow, after 5 shows

he should be at about #6

He could essentially b back in the top 5 this week! If he makes a slight increase like he did last week that could put him at 130.000 sales!

With almost 70% in, Prince is at 24,115 so it looks like 32,000-35,000 this week (a minimal dropoff from last week). The album will in all likliehood finish Top 25 without the concert sales and Top 5 with. I am happy about both but, as I have said for the last 7 weeks, I think the concert CD flap has outweighed the relative success of the album in its own right. This album has legs, extremely unusual for a Prince album released in the last 10-15 years. The fact that it is still hovering in the 20's with scant airplay and STILL no video for "Call My Name" is amazing. No it's not Usher but hell, I'll take almost 500,000 retail sold in 7 weeks with the possibility of a decently long chart run. I just wish I didn't have this sinking feeling that all involved (Prince and Columbia) are happy enough with the success of the tour that they are not going to do much more pushing of the CD. They really could elevate this to the next level (blockbuster) if they tried a little harder.