From drownedmadonna.com:

Reports from HitsDailyDouble this week indicate that there's a close race between Madonna and American Idol winner Carrie Underwood for the #1 spot for album sales. The international Queen of Pop and the local star karaoke country singer have both been selling strongly this week, with Madonna having a slight edge, but because sales are so close things could easily change in either direction when the sales week period is over.

If you live in the U.S. and haven't bought the Confessions on a Dance Floor album yet, be sure to buy it this weekend! If you have already purchased the CD for yourself, you should also consider also buying the separated tracks version of the album on iTunes. In addition to the continuous mix (that you hear on the CD), iTunes sells a non-continuous version with fade-outs which make for a less jarring listening experience when playing songs randomly on your iPods or other media players. iTunes sales of the album are also counted by Soundscan/Billboard for the Billboard 200. The holiday shopping season is almost here, buy the CD this weekend for friends, family, co-workers, neighbors, significant others, ex-es, whoever! Spread the word to other fans, fansites, forums and other people to buy this GREAT album this weekend.

Well, besides the Madonna fans on this site, i think you encouraged everyone to buy Carrie's cd.

I think this should be in the sticky, we've already discussed it there.

jayaredee said:

Why? She has enough money and the album blows.

truevirgin said:

I bought th cd in a store & the tracks are seperated. I can program in the songs. Before the cd came out I kept reading this continous track business & I was expecting something like Lovesexy which is one big track.
Its a regular cd just sounds like one big track if you play it straight thru.

Hell

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truevirgin said:

I bought the mix on Itunes....not a bad purchase but it was dumb to get the deluxe edition since the video doesn't play well....Fucking Itunes videos!

thedoorkeeper said:

I was never expecting a "LoveSexy" sort of disc. I knew it would be like this with the album, with the music never ending but the tracks seperated.

jayaredee said:

Well, I think most people in this forum love Madonna or at least they are not Madonna haters so they may want to support her cd rather than Carrie's...
[Edited 11/19/05 9:32am]

truevirgin said:

the fact that she's in a sales dogfight with the least popular of the AI winners speaks volumes in itself

meltwithu said:

The soundscan numbers r for what the retailers have ordered and not what the public is buyin but itunes numbers will be added . just buyin the album might effect the next weeks chart

I heard madonna is exceedin projections above her predicted numbers

meltwithu said:

Please, Madonna is coming off her worst selling album of her career, not to mention that Carrie is a country girl and just performed at the Country Music awards. You know how those country singers sell, and she is coming from one of the US' highest rated shows which undoubtably gives her a good push.

truevirgin said:

You gotta hang out here more often, there are more naysayers of lady M than fans. That's why they created a Madonna sticky, so we could have our territory without being attacked.

meltwithu said:

If Carrie does sell 350, I guess she isn't the least popular AI winner because none of the winners had first week sales that high (at least I don't think they did....although Clay might have had better numbers, but don't ask me to explain what that is all about).

Fuck off. Go buy Red hot chillis, Oasis, or Hendrix instead... hell, even kiss!! but NOT Madonna!

yeah....Madonna is over

DOWN THE BACKSTRETCH: Pop icon Madonna and American Idol winner Carrie Underwood are still locked in a heated battle for the #1 slot on next week’s chart going into the weekend. Both are looking to tally some 320k-340k, but who will have the bigger weekend? Your guess is as good as ours, but give a slight edge to Madonna. Tune in here on Monday morning to find out who will reign supreme

with 33.74% of the ballots counted we have

CHART DATE: 11/21/2005
LAST UPDATE: 11/21/2005 13:32:18
NOW IN: 33.74%


LW TW artist / album label power index
-- 1 CARRIE UNDERWOOD ARISTA/RMG 99,076
SOME HEARTS
-- 2 MADONNA WARNER BROS. 97,217
CONFESSIONS ON A DANCEFLOOR
[Edited 11/21/05 13:56pm]

lol...does it really matter if Madonna debuts at Number One or Number Two? Keep in mind that 'Ray Of Light' debuted at Number Two and never reached the Number One position in America.The 'Titanic' soundtrack kept it out of the top spot,but it still went on to sell millions.

pkidwell said:

an artist who sells over 300,000 CDs in a week is far from over,lol.

When do we find out who won?

GangstaFam said:

Hitsdailydouble.com have their totals in Tuesday late afternoon. Soundscan (Billboard) releases their data Wednesday morning. They are often close but depending how close Carrie and Madge are be interesting if the results are different.

aww heyyyyulll to tha mutha fuckin nawwwww

only 33% of sales that's third all is still in the air

[sticky fodder folks-sos]