LW TW artist / album label power index % change
-- 1 HANNAH MONTANA 2 - MEET MILEY WALT DISNEY RECORDS 322,924 --
SOUNDTRACK
-- 2 KELLY CLARKSON RCA/RMG 300,089 --
MY DECEMBER
1 3 BON JOVI ISLAND 124,822 -56%
LOST HIGHWAY
3 4 BRAD PAISLEY RCA/RMG 79,008 -60%
5TH GEAR
2 5 WHITE STRIPES WARNER BROS. 75,421 -64%
ICKY THUMP
7 6 AMY WINEHOUSE UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 61,678 0%
BACK TO BLACK
5 7 LINKIN PARK WARNER BROS. 56,936 -12%
MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT
-- 8 RYAN ADAMS LOST HIGHWAY/IDJ 55,773 --
EASY TIGER
8 9 MAROON 5 A&M/OCTONE 52,747 -14%
IT WON'T BE SOON BEFORE LONG
6 10 PAUL MCCARTNEY HEAR MUSIC 49,845 -21%
MEMORY ALMOST FULL
10 11 T-PAIN JIVE/ZLG 47,689 -14%
EPIPHANY
15 12 FERGIE A&M/INTERSCOPE 45,299 +6%
THE DUTCHESS
4 13 TOBY KEITH SHOW DOG NASH/UNIVERSAL 44,604 -38%
BIG DOG DADDY
12 14 RIHANNA DEF JAM/IDJMG 44,311 -13%
GOOD GIRL GONE BAD
14 15 R. KELLY JIVE/ZLG 38,396 -22%
DOUBLE UP
9 16 FABOLOUS DEF JAM/IDJMG 37,930 -33%
FROM NOTHIN' TO SOMETHIN'
-- 17 BEASTIE BOYS CAPITOL 36,391 --
MIX-UP
16 18 AVRIL LAVIGNE ARISTA/RMG 35,141 -9%
BEST DAMN THING
18 19 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 34,457 +1%
TAYLOR SWIFT
17 20 DAUGHTRY RCA/RMG 34,247 -7%
DAUGHTRY
24 21 NE-YO DEF JAM/IDJMG 30,329 +6%
BECAUSE OF YOU
19 22 MICHAEL BUBLE REPRISE 28,650 -11%
CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE
21 23 CARRIE UNDERWOOD ARISTA/RMG 28,489 -10%
SOME HEARTS
13 24 SHOP BOYZ UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 27,452 -45%
ROCKSTAR MENTALITY
27 25 NICKELBACK ROADRUNNER 27,102 +2%
ALL THE RIGHT REASONS
20 26 BIG & RICH WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE 25,562 -20%
BETWEEN RAISING HELL AND AMAZING
30 27 THE POLICE A&M 25,442 0%
THE POLICE
42 28 AKON SRC/UNIVERSAL MOTOWN 23,095 +20%
KONVICTED
11 29 LIFEHOUSE GEFFEN 21,590 -58%
WHO WE ARE
37 30 PLAIN WHITE T'S HOLLYWOOD 21,472 +2%
EVERY SECOND COUNTS
34 31 HANNAH MONTANA WALT DISNEY RECORDS 20,884 -13%
SOUNDTRACK
31 32 JASON ALDEAN BROKEN BOW 20,470 -16%
RELENTLESS
43 33 ROBIN THICKE STAR TRAK/INTERSCOPE 20,400 +9%
THE EVOLUTION OF ROBIN THICKE
22 34 DJ KHALED KOCH 20,110 -35%
WE THE BEST
36 35 NOW 24 EMI 19,643 -9%
VARIOUS ARTISTS
29 36 TRAVELING WILBURYS RHINO/WSM 18,833 -28%
TRAVELING WILBURYS
38 37 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE JIVE/ZLG 18,215 -10%
FUTURE SEX/LOVE SOUNDS
39 38 GWEN STEFANI INTERSCOPE 17,486 -12%
THE SWEET ESCAPE
-- 39 TIMBALAND INTERSCOPE 16,992 --
TIMBALAND PRESENTS SHOCK VALUE
45 40 TIM MCGRAW CURB 16,955 -6%
LET IT GO
47 41 RASCAL FLATTS LYRIC STREET 15,714 -6%
ME AND MY GANG
48 42 FALL OUT BOY ISLAND/IDJMG 15,277 0%
INFINITY ON HIGH
40 43 PARAMORE FUELED BY RAMEN 15,066 -24%
RIOT!
46 44 BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY INTERSCOPE 15,065 -12%
STRENGTH & LOYALTY
28 45 INSTANT KARMA WARNER BROS. 14,746 -44%
VARIOUS ARTISTS
44 46 OZZY OSBOURNE EPIC 14,408 -22%
BLACK RAIN
49 47 HINDER UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 13,894 -9%
EXTREME BEHAVIOR
41 48 MARILYN MANSON INTERSCOPE 13,741 -30%
EAT ME, DRINK ME
26 49 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS INTERSCOPE 13,604 -49%
INSOMNIAC
35 50 DADDY YANKEE INTERSCOPE 13,545 -40%
EL CARTEL: THE BIG BOSS

HANNA MONTANA

PANDURITO said:

Ouch that hurts

but on a happy note, Paul McCartney is still in the top 10!

waw2002 said:

Exactly it clearly shows that Starbucks at least can push a record by a 65 year old guy, with no Radio or Vh1 or MTV play and keep him in the top 10 for a month, while people on radio and mtv 24/7 can do that.

You mean can't

lastdecember said:

Starbucks...who would have thought 10 years ago that a coffee company would start their own label and have a market share in the music business!

I heard they've been considering taking on other 'not of the moment but still can be relevant given the proper promotion' artists such as Alanis Morisette and Jewel...both who are no longer or are one album away from leaving their current label contracts.

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VANITYSprisonBYTCH said:

Yeah those two are both label-less at the moment, Alanis already did something with Starbucks and that Jagged Little Acoustic CD which did well for her. Jewel i can see doing well too, Jewel said recently that she doesnt fit at Pop radio because singer songwriters are for some reason called "Country" now. The other reason that this really works for Starbucks and the artists, is that they really can just do the promotion themselves, via their own websites, and if they have good loyal followings, Starbucks cant lose at all. I think Starbucks and these moves might actually save the "music".

CandaceS said:

My students told me about this one...Hanna Montana is Billy Ray Cyrus' (Achy Breaky Heart) daughter.

COMPUTERBLUE1984 said:

I'd hate to be a "DICK" and all, but that young lady has to be one of the most homely....*Clears Throat*....I mean, "TRAILER PARKLY"-looking girls I have ever seen. Okay, I'm done and now, I feel like such a "DICK" for it. I mean, she is a nice girl and all, but, even her speaking voice is just.....*Cringes*!

FarrahMoan said:

You would be right about that

FLASH POINTS

• At first it seemed like it was going to be a tough battle for the top slot on The Billboard 200, with fresh-faced Disney darling Miley Cyrus going up against everyone's favorite "American Idol," Kelly Clarkson. However, in the end, Cyrus easily scores her first No. 1 album, as the confusingly titled "Hannah Montana 2 (Soundtrack)/Meet Miley Cyrus" set bows atop the chart with a whopping 326,000 units. Clarkson's "My December" starts with a still very handsome 291,000 in the runner-up slot ... The "Hannah/Miley" album is a two-disc, 20-song set evenly divided between music from Cyrus' TV series "Hannah Montana" and Cyrus' debut studio album. On one side of the album is cover art for the "Hanna Montana 2" soundtrack, while the other side boasts artwork for "Meet Miley Cyrus." Think of it as a more complicated "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below," but for the tween set. The first "Hannah Montana" soundtrack also debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 last October with 281,000 ... Because of the nature of the new double album, it also is eligible for our Top Soundtracks chart, where it starts at No. 1 as well ... The two-disc set carries a list price of $22.98, but was sale priced between $11.98 and $14.99 last week.

• Cheer up Kelly Clarkson fans. Just because "My December" didn't debut at No. 1, all hope is not lost. After all, her smash "Breakaway" album -- which spent 103 weeks on The Billboard 200 and sold 5.8 million in the U.S. -- debuted and peaked at No. 3 (with 250,000 in its first week). Clarkson does have one chart-topper -- her 2003 "Thankful" debut started in the penthouse with 297,000 ... The new "December" album has been caught in a public relations nightmare over the past few months. Its first single, "Never Again," stalled at No. 20 the CHR/Top 40 radio chart -- a disappointment considering Clarkson's recent track record. All five singles from "Breakaway" reached the top five on the CHR/Top 40 chart ... Then, there was all of that talk -- true or not -- about how Clarkson's record label, RCA, had allegedly reacted negatively to "My December." You know the rest of the story: Clarkson goes on the defensive, splits with her manager and cancels her summer concert tour due to poor ticket sales ... Will "My December" be around in December? Time well tell -- after all, "Breakaway" was in it for the long haul. This week, "My December's" second single, "Sober," officially hits U.S. radio.

• Ryan Adams scores his first top 10 album as "Easy Tiger" debuts at No. 7 with 61,000 units. He's charted eight previous times on The Billboard 200, with his highest placing album being 2005's "Cold Roses," which topped out at No. 26. His last effort, 2006's "29," debuted and peaked at No. 144 ... "Easy Tiger" was available in Starbucks and Hear Music stores packaged with an extra track. Additionally, the Apple iTunes Store offered the album as a pre-order where consumers received a bonus track, a video and access to concert tickets before the general public. 30% of the album's first-week sales were sold via digital retailers ... Beastie Boys' instrumental album "The Mix-Up" starts at No. 15 with 44,000. The trio's last instrumental set, "The In Sound From The Way Out!," debuted and peaked at No. 45 with 22,000 in 1996. The Boys are on tour through the summer. On Saturday (7) they play the Live Earth concert at Wembley Stadium in London, followed by the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland on July 9 and 10. They are mingling their own solo stops with festival shows and currently have dates slated through September 9.

• Other big debuts on The Billboard 200 this week include Pearl Jam's "Live at the Gorge" at No. 36 with 19,000 units. The seven-disc Rhino package, which carries a $43.98 list price, chronicles three shows at the Gorge venue near the Columbia River in Washington ... Paul Simon's double disc "Essential" album bows at No. 42 with 17,000 units. The Warner Bros. set gathers together his solo hits dating back to his 1972 No. 4 Billboard Hot 100 hit "Mother and Child Reunion" ... The late Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwo'ole debuts at No. 44 with "Wonderful World," selling 17,000 units. It's his biggest sales week ever, helping him garner his second No. 1 on Top World Music. The album was released on June 26, exactly 10 years after his death in 1997. The set pairs Kamakawiwo'ole's vocals and ukelele instrumentation with a newly recorded full orchestra. Kamakawiwo'ole has been a fixture on our World Music charts since early 1997. Collectively, the nine albums from Kamakawiwo'ole that are being tracked by Nielsen SoundScan have sold 1,841,000 in the U.S

MARKET WATCH

• Album units, current chart week: 8.83 million units
• DOWN 0.84% from last issue's charts: 8.90 million units
• DOWN 8% from same week, 2006: 9.59 million units
• This week: The top three albums sell more than 100,000 copies.
• This week last year on The Billboard 200: India.Arie scored her first No. 1 as "Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship" opened in the top spot with 161,000. Dashboard Confessional's "Dusk & Summer" arrived at No. 2 with 134,000. Only the top two albums sold more than 100,000 units.

BORDERLINES

• The No. 50 album this week, Ozzy Osbourne's "Black Rain," (Epic/Sony Music) sold 14,000.
• The No. 50 album for the same week of 2006, Andrea Bocelli's "Amore," (Sugar/Decca/Universal) sold 18,000.
• Average total of the No. 50 album for the same week of the year during the past 10 years (1998-2007): 24,582.

PROGRESS REPORTS

• Kenny Chesney logs the quickest ascent into the top five on the Hot Country Songs chart in three years as "Never Wanted Nothing More" rises 9-5 in its fifth chart week. Chesney's rise is the fastest since Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying" jumped 8-5 in its fifth frame on the Country list dated June 25, 2004. "Dying" would go on to spend seven weeks at No. 1 -- McGraw's longest-running chart-topper ... To find a new title with fewer weeks than Chesney's single on the chart, you have to look all the way down to No. 24, where Toby Keith's "Love Me If You Can" moves 29-24 in its fourth week ... Sugarland rises 20-18 with "Everyday America," its fifth consecutive top 20 single (and seventh overall). The duo's last two singles, "Want To" and "Settlin'," both reached the top of the chart. Thus far, the act's new album, "Enjoy The Ride," has sold 1.1 million copies in its first 34 weeks -- that's more than double what debut set "Twice the Speed Of Life" did in the same span of time ... Meanwhile, Josh Turner debuts on Hot Country Songs at No. 58 with "Firecracker." It's the first single from his third album, due Oct. 30. Of his previous six chart entries on Hot Country Songs, four of them reached the top 20, including the back-to-back No. 1s "Your Man" and "Would You Go With Me" in 2006. His two albums -- 2003's "Long Black Train" and 2006's "Your Man" -- have sold 3.1 million in the U.S. according to Nielsen SoundScan.

• Hollywood Records claims its first top 10 on the CHR/Top 40 radio chart in more than two years as "Hey There Delilah" by Plain White T's jumps 12-9. The label was last in the top 10 on the chart dated March 26, 2005, when Jesse McCartney's "Beautiful Soul" spent its final week in the top 10 ... Also making a move into the top 10 is season six "American Idol" finalist Elliott Yamin with his debut single "Wait For You." The track -- which moves up one spot to No. 10 -- also becomes independent label Hickory Records' first-ever top 10. Yamin is the fifth "American Idol" contestant to reach the chart's upper quadrant, following Kelly Clarkson, Chris Daughtry (as leader of Daughtry), Mario Vazquez and Carrie Underwood.


• Linkin Park's "What I've Done" spends an amazing 13th week at No. 1 on the Alternative/Modern Rock chart, becoming the band's longest-running No. 1 hit. It surpasses the 12 weeks lined up by "Numb" in 2003 and 2004 ... Since the chart began in 1988, only 10 songs have spent 13 weeks or more atop the list. They are: Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Otherside" (13), Nickelback's "How You Remind Me" (13), Incubus' "Drive" (13), Red Hot Chili Peppers' "Dani California" (14) and "By The Way" (14), Marcy Playground's "Sex and Candy" (15), the Peppers' "Scar Tissue" (16), Staind's "It's Been Awhile" (16) and Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (16) ... Back on this week's Alternative/Modern Rock chart, Linkin Park's new single, "Bleed It Out," rises from No. 28 to No. 22 in its third week ... At No. 40, Evans Blue debuts with "The Pursuit," the act's second chart entry. It follows "Cold (But I'm Still Here)," which peaked at No. 28 in April 2006. "The Pursuit" is the first single from the band's new Hollywood Records album, "The Pursuit Begins When This Portrayal of Life Ends," due July 24 ... Finally, in completely different news, thanks to new dance mixes of Stevie Nicks' classic "Stand Back," the single rises 14-6 on Hot Dance Club Play this week, surpassing the No. 12 peak of the original tune back in 1983 ... Nicks is currently on tour with dates lined up through July 28 in Phoenix.

COMPUTERBLUE1984 said:

Right about what?

RYAAAAAN do ya thang

FarrahMoan said:

About her being homely

COMPUTERBLUE1984 said:

Oh, okay! I thought that I was alnoe there, for a second.

BILLBOARD HOT DIGITAL SONGS - TOP 50
3 1 PLAIN WHITE T'S HEY THERE DELILAH 145574 5 138614 1092564
1 2 RIHANNA UMBRELLA 137175 -14 159010 1215594
4 3 FERGIE BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY 130749 -5 137434 954863
2 4 SHOP BOYZ PARTY LIKE A ROCKSTAR 127335 -14 147485 964139
11 5 TIMBALAND WAY I ARE 84671 58 53493 232528
6 6 T-PAIN FEATURING YUNG JOC BUY U A DRANK (SHAWTY SNAPPIN' 69843 -10 77893 1230602
7 7 MAROON 5 MAKES ME WONDER 69394 -11 77692 1318347
5 8 LAVIGNE*AVRIL GIRLFRIEND 69287 -11 78179 1818064
8 9 WINEHOUSE*AMY REHAB 65474 -11 73863 461408
10 10 FALL OUT BOY THNKS FR TH MMRS 60571 -8 65714 642839
17 11 T.I. BIG THINGS POPPIN' (DO IT) 56488 18 47735 245083
12 12 CLARKSON*KELLY NEVER AGAIN 56062 10 50813 672574
9 13 LIL MAMA LIP GLOSS 54842 -18 66822 297500
-- 14 MONTANA*HANNAH LIFE'S WHAT YOU MAKE IT 54018 999 0 54018
20 15 MONTANA*HANNAH NOBODY'S PERFECT 53302 22 43628 201559
27 16 HURRICANE CHRIS BAY BAY 53145 51 35105 88250
15 17 T-PAIN BARTENDER 49888 3 48420 201535
79 18 CHESNEY*KENNY NEVER WANTED NOTHING MORE 44207 220 13810 59254
14 19 FABOLOUS MAKE ME BETTER 44013 -9 48513 144189
16 20 TIMBERLAKE*JUSTIN SUMMER LOVE 43937 -8 47932 631422
13 21 HUEY POP, LOCK & DROP IT 42754 -15 50077 809125
21 22 UNDERWOOD*CARRIE BEFORE HE CHEATS 39129 -10 43431 1556612
25 23 FERGIE GLAMOROUS 39116 2 38308 1728616
23 24 LINKIN PARK WHAT I'VE DONE 38503 -2 39362 681916
24 25 YAMIN*ELLIOTT WAIT FOR YOU 37264 -4 38833 324479
22 26 LLOYD GET IT SHAWTY 35339 -13 40817 410985
26 27 STEFANI*GWEN SWEET ESCAPE 33384 -12 37725 1893311
37 28 RIHANNA SHUT UP AND DRIVE 32640 17 28001 97264
31 29 BOYS LIKE GIRLS GREAT ESCAPE 32460 -6 34443 300399
39 30 NICKELBACK ROCKSTAR 31802 16 27531 589992
32 31 DAUGHTRY HOME 30858 -10 34440 821721
18 32 WHITE STRIPES*THE ICKY THUMP 30296 -32 44736 268665
29 33 BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY I TRIED 30258 -12 34542 638664
33 34 PINK U + UR HAND 30076 -12 34059 949316
28 35 UNK 2 STEP 29701 -15 34955 527045
19 36 IGLESIAS*ENRIQUE DO YOU KNOW? (THE PING PONG SO 28960 -35 44469 256821
35 37 DOWN AKA KILO LEAN LIKE A CHOLO 28936 -2 29385 201682
41 38 TIMBALAND GIVE IT TO ME 27514 2 27021 1060907
43 39 EVE TAMBOURINE 27364 8 25389 124851
30 40 BON JOVI (YOU WANT TO) MAKE A MEMORY 26196 -24 34491 223651
34 41 JOURNEY [ROCK] DON'T STOP BELIEVIN' 25065 -19 30860 877391
44 42 SWIFT*TAYLOR TEARDROPS ON MY GUITAR 24905 0 24874 410438
-- 43 MCENTIRE*REBA/CLARKSON*KELLY BECAUSE OF YOU 24673 999 0 24673
53 44 MIMS LIKE THIS 24481 19 20616 137815
49 45 DELUNA*KAT WHINE UP 23875 8 22159 93469
45 46 BIG & RICH LOST IN THIS MOMENT 23469 -3 24192 270854
38 47 DJ KHALED WE TAKIN' OVER 23439 -15 27671 401613
42 48 NE-YO BECAUSE OF YOU 23143 -11 26034 496198
71 49 R. KELLY SAME GIRL 22555 45 15564 80285
47 50 PAISLEY*BRAD TICKS 22226 -4 23217 266011

A FEW BONUSES:
51 54 STEFANI*GWEN 4 IN THE MORNING 20103 -7 21530 137837
102 76 LAVIGNE*AVRIL WHEN YOU'RE GONE 14533 47 9867 70261
-- 101 CLARKSON*KELLY SOBER 10535 999 0 10535
119 105 PINK WHO KNEW 10241 18 8714 274368
-- 168 TIMBERLAKE*JUSTIN LOVESTONED 6819 47 4642 107392

PLUS, THE HANNAH MONTANA TAKEOVER:
-- 14 MONTANA*HANNAH LIFE'S WHAT YOU MAKE IT 54018 999 0 54018
20 15 MONTANA*HANNAH NOBODY'S PERFECT 53302 22 43628 201559
-- 72 CYRUS*MILEY G.N.O. (GIRL'S NIGHT OUT) 15629 999 0 15629
169 73 MONTANA*HANNAH MAKE SOME NOISE 15574 127 6862 29830
-- 83 MONTANA*HANNAH TRUE FRIEND 12791 999 0 12791
-- 99 CYRUS*MILES I MISS YOU 10808 999 0 10808
-- 104 MONTANA*HANNAH ONE IN A MILLION 10274 999 0 10274
-- 116 MONTANA*HANNAH ROCK STAR 8783 999 0 8783
190 132 MONTANA*HANNAH IF WE WERE A MOVIE 8135 30 6263 329245
-- 174 MONTANA*HANNAH WHO SAID 6748 34 5032 286592
-- 189 MONTANA*HANNAH BEST OF BOTH WORLDS 6215 36 4574 353505

lastdecember said:

VH1 is actually playing the video...when they play videos, which is around 5 AM!

TI 500k
kelly rowland 100k
velvet revolver 100k

T.I. TOO MUCH: Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. will have the best-selling album in the country next week. Better known as Atlanta rapper T.I., the Grammy-winning hip-hop star’s new release, T.I. vs. T.I.P., on his own Grand Hustle label through Atlantic, looks headed over the 500k mark, heating up the summer sales season and easily making him next week’s #1 album. Destiny’s Child member Kelly Rowland is up next with her sophomore album for Columbia, Ms. Kelly, the follow-up to her 2002 effort, Simply Deep, on target for sales over 100k, according to reports from retailers still recovering from Fourth of July fireworks. RCA’s new Velvet Revolver album, Libertad, the successor to the 2004 double-platinum debut, Contraband, sees the rock supergroup at, or just shy of, the 100k mark. (7/5p)

Since Hanna Montana and High School Musical are carrying labels at this point they should sign this girl to a deal fast, Im sure she would sell a few million just on her popularity from the teen crowd and tv show.

lastdecember said:

I'm sure thats the plan...very much the way Hilary Duff went from 'Lizzy McGuire' to using her real name...

...

VANITYSprisonBYTCH said:

Well, hopefully, if they do, she doesn't change her eating habits.