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What you say Cole ain’t hot? According to a Hits Daily Double, J.Cole’s debut, Cold World: The Sideline Story has sold an estimated 217,234 copies in it’s first week. If the tally holds up, this will be the highest solo hip-hop debut this year. Congrats to the entire Roc Nation and Dreamville team. Finally scores [...]
According to Hits projections, ‘Cole World: The Sideline Story’ is on pace for a BIG debut with opening week sales predicted at between 225,000 and 250,000. This will most likely make the album debut at number 1 on the charts. Great start by the boy from North Carolina! Looks like it will indeed be a Cole [...]
Lil Wayne ( @liltunechi) debuts on the charts at No.1 with 964,000 copies of Carter IV sold in the first week according to Billboard. Carter III, which was released in 2008 sold 1,005,545 copies in its first week of release. Carter IV was anticipated to crack that 1mill copies mark too but it didnt quite [...]
The official album figures are in and Kelly Rowlands ‘Here I Am’ has sold 76k in the past week and enters the Billboard 200 at number 3. Kelly Rowlands previous album ‘Simply Deep’, debuted on the chart at #12 in 2002 but managed to sell more than ‘Here I Am’ by over 1k while Kelly’s [...]
As expected, Beyonce’s new album, ’4′, scored the #1 spot on the sales chart this week. 4 sold 310,000 copies in its opening frame, according to Nielsen SoundScan, giving B her fourth solo #1 album. She is only the third act in history to see her first four albums debut atop the Billboard 200 chart, following Britney Spears and DMX. ’4′ also marks the third-largest sales [...]
Reportedly Beyonce’s 4 will debut at #1 next week on the HITS album chart with between 275-300k in first-week sales. Her previous album, ‘08’s multiple Grammy winning I Am… Sasha Fierce, debuted with 463k. Meanwhile here in the UK Beyoncé’s ’4′, is currently topping the midweek chart. Outselling all other artists by a ratio of around 3:1 PHP [...]
Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” album debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 1,108,000 million copies sold in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It’s only the 17th album to sell a million in a week since SoundScan began tracking sales data in 1991, and the highest sales week since 2005. [...]
As extensive as my interview this morning was, Puff and his crew still have a statement to get off their chests concerning SoundScan. Hey, don’t ever underestimate a Bad Boy. Ha! Men lie, women lie… you know the rest. “On Monday, the ‘experts’ projected that our ‘Last Train To Paris’ album would move approximately 65k [...]
Kanye West is on track to top the charts next week, with his critically acclaimed album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy”. West is estimated to sell around 525,000 to 575,000 copies in its first week. If these figures follow through, he will beat first week sales of his last record, 808s and Heartbreak—which sold over 450,100 [...]
The final numbers aren’t in until tomorrow, but Hits Daily Double tally that Eminem’s Recovery has moved over 750,000 copies. If the figures hold up, the album becomes this year’s highest seller and Em’s fifth consecutive solo number one. The album has sold more than his previous album ‘Relapse’ which sold 608k records in it’s [...]
