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Black Eyed Peas Settle For #6 As Susan Boyle Rules Billboard
The Beginning falls short as 'Glee' soundtracks climb the album charts.Say what you will about the sometimes morbid state of the modern music industry. But, for now, label bosses seem to have found at least one sure thing when it comes to ringing cash registers: Susan Boyle. The "Britain's Got Talent" runner-up continues to dominate the Billboard 200 at gift-giving time as her second effort, The Gift will slide back up to the #1 position on the chart next week on sales of 272,000, pushing her one-month total over the 1.1 million mark, according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan. That was more than enough to hold off the #2 album, Taylor Swift's Speak Now, which lost nearly 25 percent of its business from the previous week, but still managed to sell 182,000 copies, enough to cross the 2 million threshold in just six weeks. The highest debut of the week was from Glee, The Music, Volume 4, which comes in at #5 (128,000), edging out the chart bow of the Black Eyed Peas' The Beginning, which has a soft landing at #6 on sales of 119,000. That's a bit of a comedown from the mega-selling The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies), which debuted at #1 in June 2009 with sales of 304,000, their best week ever to date and their first #1 debut. The rest of the top 10: Jackie Evancho's O Holy Night (#3, 145,000); Glee: The Christmas Album (#4, 129,000); Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, which falls six spots to #7 after sales trailed off by 78 percent to 108,000; Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday, which suffers a similar major drop from #2 to #8 as sales dried up by 73 percent (103,000); Josh Groban's Illuminations (#9, 78,000) and Rihanna's Loud (#10, 77,000). Just outside the top 10, Justin Bieber's My Worlds Acoustic Walmart exclusive slides a few spots to #11 in week two (66,000), while Jazmine Sullivan pops up at #17 with her latest, Love Me Back (56,000). Fellow diva Chrisette Michele is a bit behind at #25 with Let Freedom Reign (42,000). Ne-Yo's Libra Scale shed 72 percent of its business in week two, tumbling 25 places to #34 (31,000) as Ke$ha's Cannibal hasn't fared much better, dropping 26 in its second week to #41 as sales shrunk by 65 percent to 26,000. Christmas collections are beginning to march up the charts as shoppers seemed to be searching for the right stocking stuffers, sending holiday-themed efforts from tenor Andrea Bocceli, Groban, Lady Antebellum, Michael Bublé , Mannheim Steamroller, Swift, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Celtic Thunder and yes, Barbie, into the top 100. Sales were up 56 percent for Mariah Carey, as her Merry Christmas II You climbs 16 slots to #12 (65,000), though the news was not as good for Jessica Simpson, whose Happy Christmas limped onto the charts at #123 last week and droops to #185 in the next cycle on anemic sales of just over 5,000. It was also a soft start for Soulja Boy Tell'em, as his DeAndre Way comes in at #90 (13,000), just behind Slim Thug's Tha Thug Show (#89, 14,000). While his status falls on the Billboard tally, Kanye is still #1 on the iTunes chart, where the BEPs are just behind at #2, followed by the "Glee" Christmas album and Vol. 4 collections, the "Burlesque" soundtrack and Nicki's Pink Friday. Rounding out the list are Rihanna, Florence and the Machine's Lungs, Swift and Bruno Mars' Doo-Wops & Hooligans. Katy Perry is still running hard on the iTunes singles chart with "Fireworks," which beat out the BEP's "The Time (Dirty Bit)." Bruno Mars is in at #3 with "Grenade," then Pink's "Raise Your Glass," Rihanna and Drake's "What's My Name," Ke$ha's "We R Who We R," the "Glee" cast's cover of "Dog Days Are Over," Coldplay's "Christmas Lights," Trey Songz's "Bottoms Up" and another "Glee" song, Train's "Hey, Soul Sister." The flood of holiday titles will start to trail off next week, with new efforts from an incarcerated T.I., Natasha Bedingfield, Duffy, Redman, Hinder and Daft Punk's "Tron" soundtrack.
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Their last two albums... it sounds like generic club music. Even will's studio album with guest artists from ages back sounds way better than this.
Nothing wrong with club music, but every song sounds the same. Even their first couple of albums had a range of pop and funk that I thought was fairly decent. "They Don't Want Music" with James Brown was the BOMB.
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Ouch! Serves them right; their latest single is an abomination. | |
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I heard it was horrendous, glad I stayed away. | |
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Susan Boyle ... PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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Wow,shocker for the Peas!
I cant wait to see how many units MJ moves when Michael is released. | |
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They're saying around 400,000 but somethin tells me it could be a lot more. I just have that feeling. | |
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But a lot of Jacksons fans aren't buying this, so they will lose a bunch. PRINCE: Always and Forever
MICHAEL JACKSON: Always and Forever ----- Live Your Life How U Wanna Live It | |
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We really don't know for sure until it hits the streets next week. This Is It did 373,000 with only one new song and recycled classics that were already put on several prior greatest hits.
I think a new Michael album full of unreleased material is bound to post larger numbers, especially one during the Christmas season regardless of this supposed boycott. [Edited 12/9/10 19:57pm] | |
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And they want BEP to perform at the Super Bowl???
They don't have nearly the fanbase as other acts that did the Halftime Special on their own! JERKIN' EVERYTHING IN SIGHT!!!!! | |
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Ms. Boyle and the fans Coming for them WIGS just like she did last year
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[Edited 12/9/10 20:11pm] Straight Jacket Funk Affair
Album plays and love for vinyl records. | |
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Hell it's already projected to do 400,000, it may even go one million by year's end but other than that yeah. | |
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their first single is whack.I listened to their entire CD and there are several strong tunes that they could have chosen as the first single. | |
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