USA

SoundScan Information and commentary courtesy of JRKing. Thank you.

Sales For The Week Ending June 5th, 2005/Billboard Issue Date: June 18th, 2005.

Rank, Title, Sales This Week, +/- percentage

MARIAH CAREY - 180,375 units (8,375 units excluding The Emancipation Of Mimi)
(excluding Live at Madison Square Garden DVD and "It's Like That" and "We Belong Together" digital single sales)

1. The Emancipation Of Mimi: 172,000 (-4%) (#1 BB200 and #1 BB R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)
2. Greatest Hits (2 CD): 2,900 (+7%)
3. #1's: 2,331 (+23%)
4. Remixes (2 CD): 754 (+22%)
5. Charmbracelet: 453 (+16%)
6. Butterfly: 292 (-)
7. #1's (Video): 288 (+11%)
8. Music Box: 288 (+16%)
9. Glitter: 198 (+1%)
10. Daydream: 190 (+7%)
11. Around the World (Video): 185 (+9%)
12. Rainbow: 181 (+37%)
13. Mariah Carey: 150 (+6%)
14. Through the Rain (Single): 102 (+59%)
15. MTV Unplugged: 33 (+3%)
16. Emotions: 30 (-39%)

Notes: A solid week. The two GH compilations top 2K, and Remixes sees a decent boost. Rainbow sees the biggest percentage among the albums. Actually, just one album loses sales, and that is Emotions. The "Through The Rain" single rebounds to 100+ units. As we know, TEOM returned to No. 1 on the Billboard 200, with roughly 172,000 units.

MICHAEL JACKSON - 10,857 units
(Does not include sales for The Ultimate Collection (4 CD/1 DVD), single sales, certain music DVD titles like The One, Dangerous: The Short Films, etc., material recorded with The Jacksons, and Motown era solo and Jackson 5 albums. Weekly sales information for those titles is not available at this time.)
1. Number Ones: 3,209 (2,737) (+17%)
2. Thriller: 2,529 (2,704) (-6.5%) (Top 20 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Catalog Chart.)
3. Number Ones (Video): 1,878 (1,867) (+1) (Moves up 22-20 on the Billboard Comprehensive Music Videos Chart, 63 weeks on the chart.)
4. Greatest Hits: HIStory Vol. 1: 1,121 (970) (+16%)
5. Off the Wall: 684 (579) (+18%)
6. HIStory on Film - Vol. 2 (Video): 344 (316) (+9%)
7. Greatest Hits: HIStory (Video): 309 (341) (-9%)
8. Bad: 272 (222) (+23%)
9. Dangerous: 214 (201) (+6%)
10. Invincible: 159 (112) (+42%)
11. HIStory: Past, Present, and Future, Book I (2-CD): 98 (107) (-8%)
12. Blood on the Dance Floor[/b][/i]: 40 (19) (+111%)

Notes: Good news as Number Ones regains the #1 position in MJ's Weekly Top Sellers Chart. Elsewhere, Greatest Hits: HIStory Volume I is back to shifting over 1,000 units per week. Thriller and the Number Ones DVD meanwhile continue to exemplify their solidity. How will the album sales be affected by today's long overdue wonderful news? Let's wait and see.

MADONNA - 5,276 units

1. The Immaculate Collection: 2,454 (-4%)
2. GHV2: 421 (+25%)
3. Like A Virgin: 218 (-1%)
4. Ray Of Light: 213 (-2%)
5. Something To Remember: 207 (+7%)
6. The Immaculate Collection (Video): 203 (-)
7. American Life: 155 (+4%)
8. Madonna: 131 (+8%)
9. Remixed & Revisited: 125 (-19%)
10. The Video Collection 93:99 (Video): 113 (+6%)
11. Music: 105 (-27%)
12. True Blue: 105 (-23%)
13. Like A Prayer: 91 (-15%)
14. Girlie Show: Live Down Under (Video): 88 (+42%)
15. Ciao, Italia: Live From Italy (Video): 81 (+17%)
16. You Can Dance: 78 (+70%)
17. Erotica: 76 (+17%)
18. Me Against The Music (Single): 61 (+65%)
19. Drowned World Tour 2001 (Video): 60 (-)
20. Bedtime Stories: 59 (+20%)
21. Evita: 56 (+75%)
22. Nothing Fails (Single): 53 (+66%)
23. Love Profusion (Single): 42 (+40%)
24. Die Another Day (Single): 41 (+215%)
25. I'm Breathless (Single): 40 (+29%)

Notes: Madonna's The Immaculate Collection reaches its lowest weekly total of 2005 - if Madonna didn't have things planned for the rest of the year, I'd say it wason track for around 160,000 by year's end- though that number could be goosed by new projects. GHV2 returns to the 400+ mark (though still a weak number compared to Immaculate).

CHER - 5,676 units
(excluding Live Farewell Tour CD)

1. Very Best of Cher: 1,730 (-6%)
2. Farewell Tour (Video): 1,517 (+313%)
3. Very Best of Cher (Video): 744 (+4%)
4. Best of Cher-Millennium Collection (2004 edition): 517 (+7%)
5. Very Best of Cher (Deluxe): 340 (-6%)
6. If I Could Turn Back Time- Cher’s GH: 251 (+16%)
7. Half Breed: 134 (+28%)
8. Heart of Stone: 119 (-26%)
9. Believe: 107 (+14%)
10. Live in Concert (video, 1999): 90 (+14%)
11. Best of Cher-Millennium Collection (first edition): 72 (+11%)
12. Living Proof: 35 (+133%)
13. Love Hurts: 20 (+25%)

Notes: Not sure why Cher's Farewell Tour video saw the huge percentage gain it did...

JANET JACKSON - 3,352 units

1. Design Of A Decade 1986/1996 (album): 718 (+23%)
2. Damita Jo: 500 (+27%)
3. janet.: 403 (+13%)
4. Rhythm Nation 1814: 372 (+5%)
5. From janet. To Damita Jo (Video): 350 (+1%)
6. The Velvet Rope: 283 (+22%)
7. All For You (album): 279 (+20%)
8. Live In Hawaii (Video): 203 (+37%)
9. Control: 175 (+41%)
10. All For You (CD/DVD): 38 (-16%)
11. Design of a Decade 1986/1996 (Video): 31 (+35%)

Notes: Nice to see all album garnered percentage increases after a few weeks of steady declines.

WHITNEY HOUSTON - 2,145 units

1. The Greatest Hits (Album): 1,041 (+9%)
2. The Bodyguard: 264 (+4%)
3. The Greatest Hits (Video): 196 (+8%)
4. Whitney Houston: 158 (+22%)
5. The Preacher's Wife: 155 (+10%)
6. Whitney: 91 (-13%)
7. Just Whitney: 90 (+3%)
8. My Love is Your Love (Album): 87 (-4%)
9. The Star Spangled Banner: 38 (-7%)
10. It’s Not Right But it’s Okay: 16 (+167%)
11. One Wish: 6 (-25%)
12. I'm Your Baby Tonight (Album): 3 (-25%)

Notes: Nice to see TGH top 1K again. IYBT looks like it has reached a new low.
[Edited 6/13/05 21:47pm]

Not a single person interested in last week's sales?

Anyways, for those interested, MJ's sales have shot up on Amazon.com. It should be interesting to see how sales are affected in the USA over the next week. Meanwhile, sales are also increasing in the UK.

Last hour

Michael Jackson: The Ultimate Collection
3. Up 6717% today ~ Amazon.com Sales Rank: 323 (was 22022)

Off the Wall [Bonus Tracks]
4. Up 6431% today ~ Amazon.com Sales Rank: 211 (was 13781)

Thriller [Bonus Tracks]
6. Up 3077% today ~ Amazon.com Sales Rank: 124 (was 3940)

Number Ones
7. Up 2149% today ~ Amazon.com Sales Rank: 117 (was 2632)

This hour

Michael Jackson: The Ultimate Collection
4. Up 6431% today ~ Amazon.com Sales Rank: 211 (was 13781)

Off the Wall [Bonus Tracks]
6. Up 3077% today ~ Amazon.com Sales Rank: 124 (was 3940)

Thriller [Bonus Tracks]
7. Up 2149% today ~ Amazon.com Sales Rank: 117 (was 2632)

Number Ones
10. Up 700% today ~ Amazon.com Sales Rank: 125 (was 1001)

amit1234 said:

where do you get these numbers?

Hey lilgish - You can check for the updated # on Amazon.com (USA), Amazon.co.uk (UK), and Amazon.de (Amazon Germany).

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