USA

SoundScan Information and commentary courtesy of JRKing. Thank you.

Sales For The Week Ending July 24th, 2005/Billboard Issue Date: August 6th, 2005.

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

MADONNA - 5,146 units

1. The Immaculate Collection: 2,262 (-8%)
2. GHV2: 359 (-7%)
3. Ray Of Light: 253 (+12%)
4. Like A Virgin: 238 (+4%)
5. Something To Remember: 234 (+14%)
6. The Immaculate Collection (Video): 198 (+1%)
7. True Blue: 167 (+1%)
8. American Life: 154 (+25%)
9. Music: 146 (+4%)
10. Remixed & Revisited: 122 (-16%)
11. Madonna: 120 (-21%)
12. The Video Collection 93:99 (Video): 90 (-26%)
13. Like a Prayer: 86 (-19%)
14. Girlie Show: Live Down Under (Video): 75 (+21%)
15. Erotica: 72 (-5%)
16. You Can Dance: 70 (-9%)
17. Ciao, Italia: Live From Italy (Video): 66 (+20%)
18. Bedtime Stories: 54 (+4%)
19. Evita: 52 (+30%)
20. Me Against the Music: 48 (-8%)
21. Drowned World Tour 2001 (Video): 46 (-34%)
22. Love Profusion: 43 (+13%)
23. I'm Breathless: 40 (+3%)
24. Hollywood: 34 (+55%)
25. Die Another Day: 27 (+35%)
26. Music: 24 (+50%)
27. Nothing Fails: 22 (-24%)
28. What it Feels Like For a Girl: 22 (+100%)
29. Frozen: 22 (+450%)

MICHAEL JACKSON - 20,290 units
(Does not include sales for The Ultimate Collection (4 CD/1 DVD), single sales, certain music DVD titles,material recorded with The Jacksons, and Motown era solo and Jackson 5 albums.)

1. The Essential (2 CD): 8,003 (#128 on Billboard 200, #64 on Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Album Chart, 8,204 units sold.)
2. Number Ones: 4,189 (5,029) (-17%) (944,327 units sold.)
3. Number Ones (Video): 3,125 (3,023) (+3%) (Move down 15-17 on the Billboard Comprehensive Music Videos Chart, 70 weeks on the chart.)
4. Thriller (Special Edition): 2,008 (2,364) (-15%)
5. Greatest Hits: HIStory Vol. 1: 894 (1,225) (-27%)
6. Off the Wall (Special Edition): 613 (809) (-24%)
7. Greatest Hits: HIStory (Video): 409 (425) (-4%)
8. HIStory on Film - Vol. 2 (Video): 333 (352) (-5%)
9. Bad (Special Edition): 258 (291) (-11%)
10. Dangerous (Special Edition): 207 (241) (-14%)
11. Invincible: 110 (128) (-14%)
12. HIStory: Past, Present, and Future, Book I (2 CD): 97 124 (-22%)
13. Blood On The Dance Floor: HIStory In The Mix: 44 (27) (+63%)


MARIAH CAREY - 97,155 units (7,155 units excluding sales of The Emancipation Of Mimi)
(Excluding Live At Madison Square Garden DVD and digital single sales)

1. The Emancipation Of Mimi: 90,000 (-10%) (#2 on Billboard 200, #6 on Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Album Chart)
2. Greatest Hits (2 CD): 3,209 (-7%)
3. #1's- 1,695 (-8%)
4. Remixes (2 CD): 482 (-9%)
5. Charmbracelet: 342 (+9%)
6. Butterfly: 215 (-6%)
7. #1's (Video): 208 (+5%)
8. Glitter: 208 (+7%)
9. Music Box: 191 (-14%)
10. Daydream: 141 (-16%)
11. Rainbow: 117 (-9%)
12. Mariah Carey: 109 (+16%)
13. Around the World (Video): 94 (-31%)
14. Through the Rain (single): 75 (+7%)
15. Emotions: 35 (+59%)
16. MTV Unplugged: 34


CHER - 5,306 units

1. The Very Best of Cher (2 CD): 1,456 (+1%)
2. The Farewell Tour (Video): 958 (-18%)
3. The Best of Cher-Millennium Collection (first edition): 867 (-14%)
4. The Very Best of Cher (Video): 644 (+5%)
5. The Best of Cher-Millennium Collection (2004 edition): 395 (-30%)
6. The Very Best of Cher (Deluxe): 372 (+11%)
7. If I Could Turn Back Time- Cher’s GH: 233 (+6%)
8. Heart of Stone: 104 (-29%)
9. Half Breed: 100 (-13%)
10. Live In Concert (video, 1999): 89 (+19%)
11. Believe: 88 (-16%)


JANET JACKSON - 2,480 units

1. Design Of A Decade 1986/1996 (album): 573 (-13%)
2. Damita Jo: 330 (-10%)
3. janet.: 328 (-8%)
4. From janet. To Damita Jo (Video): 301 (-4%)
5. Rhythm Nation 1814: 255 (-1%)
6. The Velvet Rope: 171 (-19%)
7. All For You (album): 191 (+1%)
8. Control: 128 (-26%)
9. Live in Hawaii (Video): 140 (-1%)
10. All For You (CD/DVD): 33 (-18%)
11. Design Of A Decade 1986/1996 (Video): 30 (+50%)


WHITNEY HOUSTON - 1,828 units

1. The Greatest Hits (2 CD): 899 (-2%)
2. The Bodyguard: 244 (-26%)
3. The Greatest Hits (Video): 190 (-12%)
4. Whitney Houston: 134 (-13%)
5. The Preacher's Wife: 90 (-16%)
6. Whitney: 76 (-28%)
7. My Love is Your Love (Album): 67 (+5%)
8. Just Whitney: 59 (-11%)
9. The Star Spangled Banner: 42 (+68%)
10. It's Not Right But It's Okay (single): 11 (+38%)
11. One Wish: 6 (+50%)
12. I'm Your Baby Tonight (Album): 5 (-17%)
13. My Love Is Your Love: 5 (+150%)

And for those interested in how Michael Jackson's The Essential is performing around the world...

WORLD

The Essential (2 CD) - United World Album Chart
Week #01 (29/07/05): #23

The Essential (2 CD) - United World R&B Album Chart
Week #01 (29/07/05): #6

EUROPE

The Essential (2 CD) - Eurochart Top 100 Albums
Week #01 (06/12/03): #6

The Essential (2 CD) - Eurochart Top 100 R&B Albums
Week #01 (06/12/03): #1

SPAIN

The Essential (2 CD) - Top 50 Albums
Week #01 (28/07/05): #26

IRELAND

Good news from Ireland as The Essential moves up 4-2. Since it's very rare for an album to actually increase in sales during its second week, this is indeed a nice little coup for MJ - especially considering he seems oblivious to this release.

The Essential (2 CD) - Top 75 Albums
Week #01 (24/07/05): #4
Week #02 (31/07/05): #2

UK

The Essential (2 CD) - UK Top 200 Album Chart
Week #01 (24/07/05): #2 (Sales: 45,527)

The Essential (2 CD) - UK Top 40 R&B Albums Chart
Week #01 (24/07/05): #1

NETHERLANDS

The Essential (2 CD) - Top 100 Albums
Week #01 (28/07/05): #32

ITALY

The Essential (2 CD) - Top 75 Album Chart
Week #01 (28/07/05): #44

SWITZERLAND

The Essential (2 CD) - Top 100 Albums
Week #01 (24/07/05): #29

CANADA

The Essential (2 CD) - National Top 100 Albums
Week #01 (28/07/05): #24

The Essential (2 CD) - National Top 100 R&B Albums
Week #01 (28/07/05): #5

The Essential is doin' alright!

Thanks for everything, amit!

BTW, Mariah's album is currently at 2.6 million in the USA.

Hey dude,

Can you get Prince's Soundscan info? Where do you find this?

This is the hardest thing to find online is soundscans. Weekly & Career wise?

WHY is this so hard to find?

Can you give me links to sites that show this? OR post Prince's Career-Weekly-Monthly Soundscans.

Thanks

ElectricBlue said:

amit doesn't have access to those - he's told us that in the past.