SUPERSTAR CATALOG UPDATE

USA

SoundScan Information and commentary courtesy of JRKing. Thank you!!

Sales For The Week Ending June 25th, 2006. Billboard Issue Date: July 8th, 2006.

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

Michael Jackson - 8,295 units

Note: This tally does not include single sales, certain music DVD titles (eg. Live In Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour, 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.

Take note that Ultimate Collection and Essential now are part of the report!

1. Number Ones: 2,254 (-8%)
2. Number Ones (DVD/Video): 1,918 (-6%)
3. Thriller: 1,279 (-11.5%)
4. The Essential Michael Jackson (2 CD): 900 (-19%)
5. Greatest Hits: HIStory Vol. 1: 546 (-14%)
6. Off the Wall: 505 (-12%)
7. Greatest Hits: HIStory (DVD/Video): 188 (-11%)
8. Bad: 175 (-1%)
9. Dangerous: 146 (-5%)
10. HIStory on Film- Vol. 2 (DVD/Video): 133 (-6%)
11. Invincible: 92 (-14%)
12. Ultimate Collection (4 CD/1 DVD): 71 (-38%)
13. HIStory (2 CD): 60 (+28%)
14. Blood on the Dance Floor: 28 (+33%)

Madonna - 6,440 units

Notes: Sales drop back to a more normal level, as sales of the 16 albums/EPs total 5,348, down 11.3% from the prior week. The tour videos have been scanning decently the last few weeks - whether the Virgin, Blond Ambition or Re-invention tours ever see a DVD release, who the heck knows.

1. The Immaculate Collection: 2,698 (-9%)
2. GHV2: 443 (-14%)
3. Ray of Light: 322 (-2%)
4. Like a Virgin: 291 (-10%)
5. Madonna: 256 (-25%)
6. The Immaculate Collection (Video): 251 (-2%)
7. Drowned World Tour 2001 (Video): 234 (+16%)
8. Something to Remember: 200 (-11%)
9. True Blue: 194 (-15%)
10. The Video Collection 93:99 (Video): 167 (+1%)
11. Music: 165 (-4%)
12. Ciao, Italia: Live From Italy (Video): 160 (-4%)
13. Girlie Show: Live Down Under (Video): 155 (+3%)
14. Erotica: 143 (-6%)
15. Remixed & Revisited: 140 (+4%)
16. Like a Prayer: 135 (-34%)
17. American Life: 127 (-7%)
18. Bedtime Stories: 74 (-11%)
19. You Can Dance: 65 (-40%)
20. I'm Breathless: 48 (-16%)
21. Evita: 47 (-2%)
22. Nothing Fails (Single): 39 (+26%)
23. Love Profusion (Single): 30 (-14%)
24. Hollywood (Single): 29 (-36%)
25. Die Another Day (Single): 27 (+23%)


Cher - 2,575 units

Notes: Gold now is part of the report. Very Best Of Cher looks to be at its lowest weekly numbers yet.

(excluding live Farewell Tour CD)
1. Very Best of Cher: 885 (-14%)
2. Gold: 352 (-14%)
3. Very Best of Cher (Deluxe): 206 (-29%)
4. Best of Cher-Millennium Collection (2004 edition): 217 (-13%)
5. If I Could Turn Back Time- Cher’s GH: 192 (-9%)
6. Very Best of Cher (Video): 173 (-14%)
7. Farewell Tour (Video): 134 (-14%)
8. Heart of Stone: 115 (+15%)
9. Half Breed: 87 (+14%)
10. Live in Concert (video, 1999): 78 (-20%)
11. Best of Cher-Millennium Collection (first edition): 71 (-10%)
12. Believe: 65 (+8%)

Living Proof scanned 25 units (steady with last week), while Love Hurts scanned 13 (up 63% from the prior week).


Whitney Houston - 1,471 units

Notes: Greatest Hits continues to lead the pack, while the debut album scans more than The Bodyguard this week.

1. The Greatest Hits (Album): 674 (-12%)
2. Whitney Houston: 186 (+33%)
3. The Bodyguard: 180 (-13%)
4. The Greatest Hits: (Video): 137 (-12%)
5. Whitney: 90 (-10%)
6. The Preacher's Wife: 78 (+13%)
7. Just Whitney: 50 (-4%)
8. My Love is Your Love (Album): 37 (-18%)
9. The Star Spangled Banner: 33 (-6%)
10. I’m Your Baby Tonight: 6 (-63%)


Janet Jackson - 2,164 units

Notes: Design of a Decade continues to be the top seller, while janet. continues to perform the best of the studio albums (though I suspect Damita Jo will scan higher numbers than janet. closer to the new album release).

1. Design Of A Decade 1986/1996 (album): 545 (+2%)
2. janet.: 381 (-13%)
3. Damita Jo: 274 (+14%)
4. Rhythm Nation 1814: 240 (-)
5. From janet. To Damita Jo (Video): 176 (-3%)
6. Control: 170 (-9%)
7. The Velvet Rope: 168 (-5%)
8. All For You (album): 150 (-1%)
9. Design Of A Decade 1986/1996 (DVD/video): 31 (+72%)
10. All For You (CD/DVD): 29 (-6%)

Mariah Carey - 4,057 units

Notes: Glitter continues to benefit from the Wal-Mart Rollback promotion (where it was being sold for $7.99).

(Excluding Live at MSG DVD)
1. Greatest Hits (2 CD): 1,728 (-10%)
2. #1'ss- 478 (-13%)
3. Remixes (2 CD): 378 (-8%)
4. Glitter: 307 (-)
5. Butterfly: 281 (+15%)
6. Charmbracelet: 172 (-20%)
7. #1's (Video): 146 (+7%)
8. Music Box: 119 (-21%)
9. Around the World (Video): 110 (-8%)
10. Rainbow: 100 (-15%)
11. Mariah Carey: 88 (+5%)
12. Daydream: 83 (-27%)
13. Emotions: 30 (-3%)
14. Through the Rain (Single): 15 (+7%)
15. MTV Unplugged: 13 (-41%)
16. Merry Christmas: 9 (-18%)

OK...I'll bite.


Didn't Madonna and Mariah have 'Confessions' and 'Emancipation' for sale this week? Or did 'Butterflies' sell more this week in MJ-land than Maddy and Mariah? Whoops now, Mariah's new 5X plattnium CD, Janet's new hit single, and Maddy's new disc have all been outsold in Kajnikikstan by MJ's 5year old greatest hits disc :shamon: :hee hee: :touch fedora: :

This is supposed to be back catalogue sales only.

And MJ always comes out on top, above Madonna, Mariah and Janet etc.

Probably because he's better.

MattyJam said:

Thanks amit.

I am curious as to Prince's numbers. Do you ever get that information?

Gayest thread title ever!!

jayaredee said:

Hey there - I just post what my source (JRKing) has available. If Prince #'s become available, I'll definitely post.

And to the blowhard who tried to insinuate that I didn't include "Confessions" or "Emancipation" because I'm trying to paint MJ's sales as being better, try and reread the post because it specifically says "SUPERSTAR CATALOG UPDATE." Doornob.


[Edited 6/29/06 8:21am]

amit1234 said:

Prince`s numbers would be very interesting...
But thank you for posting those sales numbers, amit1234....

You're welcome!

Some new chart info on Janet...

Janet's single is not yet available for download.

"Call On Me":
Hot 100: Debuts at 73*
Hot 100 Airplay: 71 to 39*
Pop 100: Debuts at 74*
Pop 100 Airplay: Debuts at 34*
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks: 48 to 23* (Greatest Gainer/Airplay)
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay: 46 to 21*
Rhythmic Top 40: Debuts at 28*

USA

Thanks JRKing!

UPDATED MJ CUMULATIVE SOUNDSCAN TOTALS

For The Week Ending June 25th, 2006

*- pre-SS-era release

Rounded-off album figures:

*Off the Wall (original): 1.166 million
Off the Wall (remastered): 274,190
*Thriller (original): 1.546 million
Thriller (remastered): 906,050
*Bad (original): 816,430
Bad (remastered): 209,600
Dangerous (original): 5.785 million
Dangerous (remastered): 126,180
HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Vol. 1: 2.537 million
Blood on the Dance Floor: 275,520
Invincible: 2.092 million
Greatest Hits: HIStory, Vol. 1: 869,250
Number Ones: 1.105 million
Ultimate Collection: 71,800
The Essential Michael Jackson: 140,310

Rounded-off Video Totals:
* Moonwalker: 137,150
HIStory- The Short Films: 224,670
HIStory on FIlm- Vol. 2: 269,340
Video Greatest Hits: HIStory: 205,435
Number Ones: 469,360