1.JADAKISS|KISS OF DEATH 245883
2.USHER|CONFESSIONS 149414
3.BEASTIE BOYS|TO THE 5 BOROUGHS 142729
4.JOJO|JOJO 94725
5.PRINCE|MUSICOLOGY 92282
6.WILSON*GRETCHEN|HERE FOR THE P 86294
7.SPIDER-MAN 2|SOUNDTRACK 82268
8.WILCO|GHOST IS BORN 81008
9.VELVET REVOLVER|CONTRABAND 78944
10.LAVIGNE*AVRIL|UNDER MY SKIN 75438


Musicology 10 week total : 1,045,203

Don't forget to mention that the loophole moved it up from #39.

lovemachine said:

It still counts. Loophole or not.

lovemachine said:

Hooboy! Here we go again with this "loophole" nonsense. Well, since some people just won't congratulate Prince for this success and give him credit for a great idea, let me do it for them. Congratulations, Prince! And may you continue this for the rest of the year.

here we go again....




here the numbers..have at it

this week
retail: 26k
Concert :66k

10 week total
retail: 628k
concert: 417k

the controversy continues,i see.

This album is a steady seller averaging 63k copies /week for 10 weeks

Remeber Rave came out and it only did 87k in first week and then fell off

Have any of the gripers ever thought that maybe the actual retail sales are low because people are waiting to get their copy when they go to the concert. Why assume that the concert goers weren't going to buy the retail copy if it was not included in the cost of the ticket..
[This message was edited Wed Jun 30 9:24:31 2004 by PurpleCharm]

I can see both sides of the debate. Personally I think it is brilliant. A great marketing scheme, an end run around the record industry. And with or without the concert numbers the album has been doing great! That said I "bought" six copies of Musicolgy that have been counted as Soundscan sales! That's the most copies of any Prince album I've ever bought!

I was thinking that too.

PurpleCharm said:

I know a lot of people that said " I'll wait until I go to the concert, I don't need two copies." #5