As reported by hopespringseternal at MJJF

USA

SoundScan Information and commentary courtesy of JRKing. Thank you.


Sales For The Week Ending November 13th, 2005. Billboard Issue Date: November 26th, 2005.

*Note: This tally does not include sales for The Ultimate Collection (4 CD/1 DVD), single sales, certain music DVD titles (eg. 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.

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

Michael Jackson - 14,391 units (Sales Estimate)

Notes: Big news this week as the Number Ones (DVD) finally receives an updated certification from the RIAA. Amidst a week where most lost sales, Invincible manages a notable percentage increase. And Number Ones will pass the 1 million mark next week.

1. Number Ones: 3,310 (-3%) (Cumulative sales: 999,730 units)
2. The Essential (2 CD): 2,700 (Cumulative sales: 87,000 units)
3. Number Ones (DVD/Video): 2,680 (-4%) (CERTIFIED 4X PLATINUM this week by the RIAA signifying shipment of 400,000 units to U.S. retail.) (Moves down 25-31 on the Billboard Comprehensive Music Videos Chart, Week 86)
4. Live In Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour (DVD/Video): 2000 (Sales Estimate) (Moves down 32-38 on the Billboard Comprehensive Music Videos Chart, Week 16)
4. Thriller: 1,233 (-20.6%)
5. Greatest Hits: HIStory Volume 1: 770 (-10%)
6. Off The Wall: 467 (-1%)
7. Greatest Hits: HIStory (Video): 337 (-16%)
8. HIStory on Film- Volume 2: 267 (+10%)
9. Bad: 215 (-7.5%)
10. Dangerous: 170 (-4.5%)
11. Invincible: 147 (+35%)
12. HIStory 2CD: 76 (-11%)
13. Blood On The Dance Floor: 19 (+6%)

Plus the other superstars this week...

Madonna - 7,328 units

Notes: A decent pre-album-release week. Immaculate was sale-priced at several major outlets this week, so we'll see what kind of boost it gets. GHV2 should top 1K again next week. Ray of Light continues to be the top studio album. And look at Remixed & Revisited movin' on up.

1. The Immaculate Collection: 2,854 (+6%)
2. GHV2: 869 (+40%)
3. Ray of Light: 375 (+12%)
4. Like a Virgin: 285 (+13%)
5. Something to Remember: 280 (+28%)
6. Remixed & Revisited: 269 (+5%)
7. American Life: 246 (-6%)
8. Music: 229 (+20%)
9. Madonna: 221 (+28%)
10. The Immaculate Collection (Video): 211 (+19%)
11. True Blue: 194 (+18%)
12. Like a Prayer: 167 (-5%)
13. Ciao, Italia: Live From Italy: 142 (+25%)
14. Erotica: 137 (+41%)
15. The Video Collection 93:99: 123 (+3%)
16. Drowned World Tour 2001: 117 (+19%)
17. You Can Dance: 90 (-4%)
18. Girlie Show: Live Down Under: 88 (+11%)
19. Evita: 80 (+33%)
20. Love Profusion: 69 (+33%)
21. Bedtime Stories: 67 (+6%)
22. Nothing Fails: 56 (+19%)
23. Hollywood: 55 (+2%)
24. I'm Breathless: 46 (-21%)
25. Me Against the Music: 33 (-)
26. Vogue: 25 (+67%)


Cher – 4,078 units

Notes: Very Best Of keeps chugging along, whil the Very BEst Of video gets a boost. I think I had the two Millennium albums mixed up for a while there- I've fixed those and listed the to-date totals.

(excluding live Farewell Tour CD and the Gold CD)
1. Very Best of Cher: 1,631 (+4%)
2. Very Best of Cher (Video): 803 (+19%)
3. Very Best of Cher (Deluxe): 290 (-2%)
4. Farewell Tour (Video): 286 (+9%)
5. Best of Cher-Millennium Collection (2004 edition): 283 (-14%)- 81,000 total
6. Live in Concert (video, 1999): 201 (+5%)
7. If I Could Turn Back Time- Cher’s GH: 199 (+1%)
8. Believe: 111 (+7%)
9. Half Breed: 101 (-21%)
10. Heart of Stone: 93 (+3%)
11. Best of Cher-Millennium Collection (first edition): 80 (-16%)- 115,600 total

Whitney Houston – 3,564 units

Notes: One Wish sees a great gain again. The only other Whitney title to see an increase is Just Whitney. I'm Your Baby Tonight drops back to 1 copy.

1. One Wish: 2,085 (+48%)
2. The Greatest Hits (Album): 710 (-12%)
3. The Bodyguard: 195 (-8%)
4. The Greatest Hits: (Video): 145 (-9%)
5. The Preacher's Wife: 132 (-5%)
6. Whitney Houston: 103 (-18%)
7. Whitney: 66 (-14%)
8. Just Whitney: 53 (+18%)
9. My Love is Your Love (Album): 43 (-34%)
10. The Star Spangled Banner: 28 (-7%)
11. My Love is Your Love (Single): 4 (-43%)

I’m Your Baby Tonight: 1 (-83%)

Janet Jackson - 2,401 units

Notes: Design of a Decade reclaims the top spot.

1. Design of a Decade 1986/1996 (album): 481 (-7%)
2. Damita Jo: 451 (-16%)
3. janet.: 377 (-1%)
4. From janet. To Damita Jo: 243 (-9%)
5. The Velvet Rope: 213 (+8%)
6. Rhythm Nation: 196 (-1%)
7. All For You (album): 189 (+11%)
8. Control: 119 (-20%)
9. Live in Hawaii (DVD/video): 65 (-)
10. All For You (DVD): 34 (+36%)
11. Design of a Decade 1986/1996 (DVD/video): 33 (-27%)

Mariah Carey – 13,920 units (excluding TEOM)

Notes: The current album scanned 41,000 and change, raising its total to 3.753m or so. The re-release will push back into the top 10 next week (and possibly top 5). Some notable gains among the older albums this past week. I don't yet have info on the Merry Christmas DualDisc (unless its sales all of a sudden have been lumped with the original).

(excluding Live at MSG DVD)
1. Greatest Hits- 3,717 (+3%)
2. Merry Christmas: 6,666 (+205%)
3. #1s- 1,099 (-5%)
4. Remixes- 470 (-7%)
5. Butterfly- 334 (-4%)
6. #1s (Video): 278 (+12%)
7. Charmbracelet- 256 (-5%)
8. Rainbow- 253 (+68%)- from 60 to 163 at mass merchants
9. Glitter- 252 (+9%)
10. Music Box- 168 (+4%)
11. Daydream- 111 (-8%)
12. Mariah Carey- 96 (+20%)
13. Around the World (Video)- 88 (+24%)
14. Through the Rain- 60 (+28%)
15. Emotions: 55 (+267%)- up 999%, to 22 copies at non-trad outlets; up from 2 to 17 at independent
16. MTV Unplugged- 17 (-45%)
[Edited 11/20/05 22:12pm]
[Edited 12/30/05 19:41pm]

why did you exclude Mimi from Mariah's totals?

I didn't do the update this week.

You're welcome.

amit1234 said:

easy turbo..its a legitimate question to ask. can you kids add prince's tallies to this? i know your not the one that does them but just curious. and im asking in the nicest way possible..i would love to see all of their charts to compare. im not being rude or smarmy...i really appreciate all that you do....i love your threads...i love you. thank you thank you thank you.

there, did i say that nice enough?

lilgish said:

becasue he doesnt want MJ to be #2
he even includes his essential collection which also came out this year

Because it's catalogue sales, not from the Billboard 200.

*edit* Oh, well I suppose The Essential shouldn't be there either then.
[Edited 11/21/05 11:00am]

ok, what 1 person bought Whitney's I'm your baby? C'mon, you can admit it.

Ellie said:

You got it rite

catalogue sales are album which have been out atleast 2yrs and also have dropped outta the top200 album charts.

asg said:

wasnt esentials just released? or should that and be replaced with an "or"?

1. There's no need to make MJ appear #1 since he usually has the highest catalog sales out of all these artists (including Prince) each week anyway.

2. When I used to do the wrap up, I included The Emancipation Of Mimi in Mariah's totals but since I didn't do it this week (and don't plan on doing them anymore period), that's why they're not included.

3. I love how asq always tries to diminish the accomplishments of Prince's peers in order to try to somehow make him look better. Then again, since Prince has to give away CD's at his concerts in order to go platinum, I can see the reason for the inferiority complex.

amit1234 said:

1) did you miss my initial request?

2) lets not turn this personal. the fact of the matter is this list is incorrect. by including one recent album and not the other whomever created this was misleading. period. we move on. we grow.

3) see comment 1 again.

amit1234 said:

amit1234 said:

well i always put the numbers in prespective.

well musicology went platinum in retail sales alone

Look at madonnas latest album it will get a markettin budget of 20million
and i bet it cost atleast 10million to make

so total cost of everytthin is at the very least $30mil


just to break even u need to sell 5million albums


do the math and see why prince still is relevant

invincible cost $51 million

i think the money and hype sells albums but not necessarily makes money
or represents the best musical output

wheres the charity single then jacko? Is that yet a punchline on jay leno yet?

asg said:

quality doesnt sell either though.

asg said:

lol...Madonna's new CD did NOT cost $10 million to make.Most of it was recorded in Stuart Price's apartment.And I don't know where you get the absurd idea that Warners is spending $20-30 million to promote it.MJ is the only artist who would demand a budget that high.

"just to break even you need to sell 5 million albums"


COADF will certainly do that.Even if it sells just one million in the States,it will easily sell more than 5 million outside America.You just don't like to see other artists achieve any degree of success.Admit it.You are constantly downplaying other artists's record sales.


'Musicology' was a hit album,no doubt,but let's not pretend that giving it away during concerts didn't aid in it's success



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[Edited 11/21/05 15:46pm]

DavidEye said:

i read on the boston globe which put her marketin budget at 20mil

plus i heard ppl say in the UK there is an ad every 10mins aboue her album

no one can take away from the fact there r very few ppl who can market them sleves as madonna can do.

Most ppl think this album is just a rip off from klyie minogue.


madonna didnt get any advance on this album her last one still hasnt made the money back


similarly MJ made very little money on invicible

at the same time Prince made shit load of money from musicology
[Edited 11/21/05 16:09pm]

I can see where this thread is going

asg said:

id have to somewhat agree with this...mj's albums are made from his home studio but they still cost him an arm and a leg....what the heck does he spend all that dough on?

sosgemini said:

he doesnt have a studio at home , does he?

LightOfArt said:

i thought he did..i recall reading an interview where a producer was talking about how awesome it was to be in mj's homestudio working on songs with him.

sosgemini said:

81 songs were recorded for invicible b4 they made the cut

Plus ppl like dr dre charge somehwere in the 300k /per song

studio time , hire band all adds up

only HIP HOP albums can be made on the cheap

asg said:

wendy & lisa's girlbros was made in their bedroom with pro-tools. then later produced by tchad blake on the cheap.

sosgemini said:[quote]

asg said:

yes if u do all the work it wont cost u anything

big name producers cost u big money

just look at the studio time on MJs charity single

sosgemini said:

1. Yes, I saw your initial request.

From hopespringseternal at MJJForum, as posted Nov. 9, 2005:

I asked a friend of mine about Prince's and Usher's catalogue sales from last week...Prince sold 6300 CD's including his last album and Usher sold only 1700 CD's. This was a one time deal so I won't be able to provide this kind of information weekly, okay.

2. The list is not incorrect. It's just incomplete since it didn't include sales of TEOM. However, Mariah's 41k for TEOM is included in the notes. Seeing as we're all big boys and girls, I think we can do the math.

3. lilgish - Remind me to slap you upside the head later.

4. asq - $51 million my ass.

And please don't try and makes excuses for the flop that was Musicology. The album couldn't even hold it's breathe in any territory outside the USA. And as mentioned before, the only reason for it's U.S. chart performance was because the CD was given away with a concert ticket - a policy that Billboard has thankfully modified so that no one can cheat like that again.

http://www.mtv.com/news/a...ince.jhtml

While Prince's initiative may seem like a good way to introduce fans of "Purple Rain," "1999" or "Diamonds and Pearls" to his new material, it may put unwanted multiple copies in the hands of his followers. For instance, if a married couple attended a show, they'd come home with two copies in hand. Should they attend multiple shows, even more copies would clutter their CD collection.

amit1234 said:

all except for the person that did this list...




fyi: thanks for pointing out mimi's numbers..didnt notice it when i first reviewed it cause i only looked at the total numbers only.

amit1234 said:

sorry man

I was just kidding...but geesh...see what one little question can do?

let's get a Prince chart up in here.

Milty said:

Gold Experience: 0


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