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fitz
Acrobat
Place 20, with a sale of 5.736 
I hope things will get better
I hope things will get better
Popmartijn
Blue Crack Supplier
First results, with 8,97% in:
-- 1 EMINEM ENCORE 25,734
-- 2 GREEN DAY AMERICAN IDIOT 20,385
-- 3 LIL' JON & THE EASTSIDE BOYZ CRUNK JUICE 18,614
-- 4 LUDACRIS THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT 15,250
-- 5 SNOOP DOGG R&G (RHYTHM & GANGSTA) 13,125
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-- 20 U2 HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB 5,736
Hopefully the first 10% were from rap-oriented stores...
-- 1 EMINEM ENCORE 25,734
-- 2 GREEN DAY AMERICAN IDIOT 20,385
-- 3 LIL' JON & THE EASTSIDE BOYZ CRUNK JUICE 18,614
-- 4 LUDACRIS THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT 15,250
-- 5 SNOOP DOGG R&G (RHYTHM & GANGSTA) 13,125
...
-- 20 U2 HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB 5,736
Hopefully the first 10% were from rap-oriented stores...
fitz
Acrobat
Things are better but not good enough, now in 11,77%:
13. with 9.046 (1. Eminem with 28.903)
13. with 9.046 (1. Eminem with 28.903)
Posted on Hits
WEEK IN PREVIEW: EMINEM, GREEN DAY ALIVE IN '05
Sales Down 50% Over Last Week, Though 2004 Is Up 3%, Thanks to Extra Week
January 3, 2005
Eminem's Encore and Green Day's American Idiot appear to be the main beneficiaries of kids spending their holiday dollars.
In early reports, those two albums will fight it out for the #1 slot on this week's sales chart, with both looking to sell just this side of the 200k range.
Not surprisingly, the market will be down 50% from last week's end-of-the-year sales rush, though the extra 53rd week will result in 2004 being up 3% in total sales over 2003.
The rest of this week's Top 10, which should all top 100k, will be, in no particular order, Jay-Z/Linkin Park (Warner Bros.) Lil' Jon & the East Side Boyz (TVT) Now 17 (Capitol), Destiny's Child (Columbia), Usher (LaFace/ZLG), U2 (Interscope), Tupac and Ludacris (Def Jam South/IDJ).
Eminem, U2 and Tupac would give Interscope three of the Top 10 on the first chart of the new year.
Keep checking the hitsdailydouble.com Building Sales Chart for more complete information.
WEEK IN PREVIEW: EMINEM, GREEN DAY ALIVE IN '05
Sales Down 50% Over Last Week, Though 2004 Is Up 3%, Thanks to Extra Week
January 3, 2005
Eminem's Encore and Green Day's American Idiot appear to be the main beneficiaries of kids spending their holiday dollars.
In early reports, those two albums will fight it out for the #1 slot on this week's sales chart, with both looking to sell just this side of the 200k range.
Not surprisingly, the market will be down 50% from last week's end-of-the-year sales rush, though the extra 53rd week will result in 2004 being up 3% in total sales over 2003.
The rest of this week's Top 10, which should all top 100k, will be, in no particular order, Jay-Z/Linkin Park (Warner Bros.) Lil' Jon & the East Side Boyz (TVT) Now 17 (Capitol), Destiny's Child (Columbia), Usher (LaFace/ZLG), U2 (Interscope), Tupac and Ludacris (Def Jam South/IDJ).
Eminem, U2 and Tupac would give Interscope three of the Top 10 on the first chart of the new year.
Keep checking the hitsdailydouble.com Building Sales Chart for more complete information.
fitz
Acrobat
a little bit disappointing
Popmartijn
Blue Crack Supplier
First wait until the final numbers are in tomorrow. A lot can change.
Popmartijn
Blue Crack Supplier
Before I go to bed, here's Hits' latest. 
With 29.39% in:
-- 1 EMINEM ENCORE51,409
-- 2 NOW THAT WHAT I CALL MUSIC! V.17 44,345
-- 3 USHER CONFESSIONS 38,117
-- 4 LIL' JON & THE EASTSIDE BOYZ CRUNK JUICE 36,645
-- 5 SHANIA TWAIN GREATEST HITS 34,632
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-- 11 U2 HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB 26,426
With 29.39% in:
-- 1 EMINEM ENCORE51,409
-- 2 NOW THAT WHAT I CALL MUSIC! V.17 44,345
-- 3 USHER CONFESSIONS 38,117
-- 4 LIL' JON & THE EASTSIDE BOYZ CRUNK JUICE 36,645
-- 5 SHANIA TWAIN GREATEST HITS 34,632
...
-- 11 U2 HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB 26,426
doctorwho
Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS
Popmartijn said:
Completely true.
For example, HITS's own report stated that the #1 spot will be either Eminem's "Encore" or Green Day's "American Idiot". Yet, if you look at the results as of now (30.91% of the data in), Em is #1 and has sold over 53K copies while Green Day is just shy of 32K and sitting at #7. That 21K lead seems huge, but as we've all seen before, often that lead can change in a hurry.
U2 is currently at #10 with a little over 29K sold. They are less than 100 copies away from Ludacris at #9. With 70% of the stores left to report data, I expect some major changes in the Top 20, especially given how close everyone is.
And then, SounScan might have slightly different numbers which could bump U2 up or down.
As far as I'm concerned, the longer U2 can stay in the Top 10, the better. Hopefully with ESPN playing "All Because of You" during the college football national championship game, this will give U2 an added boost next week (in terms of album sales and in terms of getting "All Because of You" up on the charts).
mikeuk
War Child
With 33.44% in, U2 are at 9 with sales of 32,916 -I agree with others that they could rise to around 7 this week but will as a result of a drop here & elsewhere probably lose top slot in the world chart.
Mike
Mike
doctorwho
Rock n' Roll Doggie VIP PASS
I believe they are on California time. As it's just 9 a.m. here on the east coast of the U.S., it's only 6 a.m. in California. So don't expect any updates for at least 3 more hours, if not longer. Usually, the full results are any time between 6 and 9 p.m. Eastern time.
Article on HITS:
USHER'S THE EIGHT MILLION MAN
Confessions Is 2004's Best-Selling Album, Followed by Norah Jones, Eminem, Chesney, Gretchen Wilson
January 3, 2005
Oh "Yeah!"
Thanks to that and other hit singles like "Burn" and "My Boo," his duet with Alicia Keys, Usher's Confessions was 2004's best-selling album, moving almost 7.9 million units since its chart-topping release last March.
That was over twice as many as its nearest competitor, Norah Jones' Feels Like Home, which garnered 3.8 million in sales last year to earn the #2 spot.
Eminem's Encore was #3 with 3.3 million, followed by Kenny Chesney's When the Sun Goes Down (3.04 million), Gretchen Wilson's Here for the Party (2.9 million), Tim McGraw's Live Like You Were Dying (2.7 million), Evanescence's Fallen (2.68 million), Maroon 5's Songs About Jane (2.65 million), Ashlee Simpson's Autobiography (2.5 million) and Now 16 (2.5 million).
Chesney, Wilson and McGraw gave country superstars three of the Top 10, while rock also grabbed three (Evanescence, Maroon 5 and Ashlee Simpson), with R&B (Usher), hip-hop (Eminem) and blues/jazz (Jones) nabbing one apiece and miscellaneous (Now 16) the other.
Of the Top 10, Sony BMG had five (Usher, Chesney, Wilson, Evanscence and Maroon 5), UMG three (Eminem, Ashlee Simpson and UME's Now 16), and WMG (McGraw) and EMI (Jones) one apiece.
Josh Groban's Closer was #11 (2.5 million), while the rest of the Top 20 included Kanye West's College Dropout (2.4 million), Avril Lavigne's Under My Skin (2.38 million), Nelly's Suit (2.37 million), OutKast's Speakerboxx/The Love Below (2.36 million), Now 17 (2.2 million), Shania Twain's Greatest Hits (2.2 million), Jessica Simpson's In This Skin (2.2 million), Alicia Keys' Diary of Alicia Keys (2.1 million) and U2's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2.1 million).
Sony BMG had a total of nine of the Top 20, while UMG had seven, with WMG and EMI nabbing two apiece.
USHER'S THE EIGHT MILLION MAN
Confessions Is 2004's Best-Selling Album, Followed by Norah Jones, Eminem, Chesney, Gretchen Wilson
January 3, 2005
Oh "Yeah!"
Thanks to that and other hit singles like "Burn" and "My Boo," his duet with Alicia Keys, Usher's Confessions was 2004's best-selling album, moving almost 7.9 million units since its chart-topping release last March.
That was over twice as many as its nearest competitor, Norah Jones' Feels Like Home, which garnered 3.8 million in sales last year to earn the #2 spot.
Eminem's Encore was #3 with 3.3 million, followed by Kenny Chesney's When the Sun Goes Down (3.04 million), Gretchen Wilson's Here for the Party (2.9 million), Tim McGraw's Live Like You Were Dying (2.7 million), Evanescence's Fallen (2.68 million), Maroon 5's Songs About Jane (2.65 million), Ashlee Simpson's Autobiography (2.5 million) and Now 16 (2.5 million).
Chesney, Wilson and McGraw gave country superstars three of the Top 10, while rock also grabbed three (Evanescence, Maroon 5 and Ashlee Simpson), with R&B (Usher), hip-hop (Eminem) and blues/jazz (Jones) nabbing one apiece and miscellaneous (Now 16) the other.
Of the Top 10, Sony BMG had five (Usher, Chesney, Wilson, Evanscence and Maroon 5), UMG three (Eminem, Ashlee Simpson and UME's Now 16), and WMG (McGraw) and EMI (Jones) one apiece.
Josh Groban's Closer was #11 (2.5 million), while the rest of the Top 20 included Kanye West's College Dropout (2.4 million), Avril Lavigne's Under My Skin (2.38 million), Nelly's Suit (2.37 million), OutKast's Speakerboxx/The Love Below (2.36 million), Now 17 (2.2 million), Shania Twain's Greatest Hits (2.2 million), Jessica Simpson's In This Skin (2.2 million), Alicia Keys' Diary of Alicia Keys (2.1 million) and U2's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (2.1 million).
Sony BMG had a total of nine of the Top 20, while UMG had seven, with WMG and EMI nabbing two apiece.
fitz
Acrobat
Down again, 67,88% in:
U2 # 18 with 61,606
(#1 Green Day with 164,860; #2 Eminem with 155,744)
U2 # 18 with 61,606
(#1 Green Day with 164,860; #2 Eminem with 155,744)
Dima
Acrobat
#16 U2 HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB 66,417 with 69.24% in...i still hope to see U2 in the top 10 even if it seems really difficult
Tower Record Sales
Hits shows the top selling albums from the major retailers. Tower Records always has U2 at or near the top, and that's the case again this week.
The bad news...they are the only retailer finished reporting, and Hits STILL HAS HTDAAB in 16th place. If they make it into the top 10, it would be a heck of a comeback. Still, Hits "commentary" is usually close to THEIR chart results.
http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/s_top_ten.cgi?tower
If the link doesn't work, go to the Hits album chart, click on the "top ten" link to the left, and then click on the retailer shown. As of about 5 minutes ago, Tower Records was the only one finished reporting for this week. When the chart is finished, all retailer rankings will be finished, too.
Hits shows the top selling albums from the major retailers. Tower Records always has U2 at or near the top, and that's the case again this week.
The bad news...they are the only retailer finished reporting, and Hits STILL HAS HTDAAB in 16th place. If they make it into the top 10, it would be a heck of a comeback. Still, Hits "commentary" is usually close to THEIR chart results.
http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/s_top_ten.cgi?tower
If the link doesn't work, go to the Hits album chart, click on the "top ten" link to the left, and then click on the retailer shown. As of about 5 minutes ago, Tower Records was the only one finished reporting for this week. When the chart is finished, all retailer rankings will be finished, too.
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