With Monday being MLK and inauguration day, HDD did not release any album sales estimates. We should get the entire report today here.

Billboard predicts that A$AP Rocky will have the top album of the week with the 23rd edition of Kids Bopz nipping at his heels. Okay, those ankle biters aren’t even close. A$AP will hip-hop to 140K in sales while the kids are bopping to 65K.

HDD has actors pretending to be singers (“Les Miz”) at third with 40-45K and then a trio of artists selling 35-40K: Bruno Mars, “Pitch Perfect” soundtrack and a pop songwriter pretending to be a country singer (Taylor Swift). BB predicts a different order of “Pitch Perfect”, Bruno, Swifter and “Les Miz”.

Billboard rounds out the top 10 with Phil at 7th (HDD 20-23K), Lumineers at 8th (HDD 27-30K), Mumford & Sons 9th (HDD 21-24K) and One Direction (HDD 18-21K).

1 NEW A$AP Rocky “Long.Live.A$AP”: BB 140K, HDD 140-150K
2 NEW Kidz Bop Kids “Kidz Bop 23″: BB 65K, HDD 65-70K
3 5 Soundtrack “Pitch Perfect”: HDD 35-40K
4 6 Bruno Mars “Unorthodox Jukebox”: HDD 35-40K
5 4 Taylor Swift “Red”: HDD 35-40K
6 3 Soundtrack “Les Miserables”: HDD 40-45K
7 14 Phillip Phillips “The World From the Side of the Moon”: HDD 20-23K
8 8 The Lumineers “The Lumineers”: HDD 27-30K
9 11 Mumford & Sons “Babel”: HDD 21-24K
10 10 One Direction “Take Me Home”: 18-21K

Billboard

 
  • LongKissGoodnight

    Home sales pattern is definitely unusual.
    If we build a graphic for typical smash’s sales it would look like a mountain (possibly with a spike at the beginning if artist has a large fanbase or premiered the song on TV to the large audience). But it always goes up, normally ahead of radio increases, peaks before radio peak and starts falling down, with occasional additional spikes due to high profile performances and awards shows.

    Home, on the other hand spend a relatively small amount of weeks around the top of i-tunes, especially for a song about to reach 4 million downloads. But it has not left the top 15 since the Olympics despite the madness of last quoter when every week it was ether the new single from established singer or a bunch of covers from The Voice marching to the top. And later, when airplay elevated it from 11-15 positions into the top 10 it had reliably stayed in 7-9 diapason, with only a few occasional spikes due to increased promo around album drop, or i-tunes discounts. Basically, pardon the pun, making the lower half of i-tunes top 10 it’s home.

    So instead of a mountain Home’s sales graphic would look more like a very looong high-level plateau, with occasional massive spikes dew to TV exposure. And it’s radio peak actually predates the drastic decline in sales, which is unusual for a smash single (because you can only bye a song once, but continue to enjoy hearing it on the radio).

    Honestly at this point I would not be surprised if Home manages to stick it out in top 10 for three more weeks, all the way until Grammies comes and finally bump it out.

  • LongKissGoodnight

    Thank you Lexie O’Neill!
    Link below, if anyone wants to check out Scotty’s sales all combined in one place.
    http://idolforums.com/index.php?showtopic=674585&st=0

    I’ll try to collect Phil’s numbers tomorrow, if I have enough time.

  • ADRIANAARG1980

    “Gone, Gone, Gone” going for radio adds 2/11. http://kwn.me/2n45

  • girlygirltoo

    That says HAC. Are they not sending it to AAA first?

  • Anny_nanny

    What numbers do you want to collect?

    Scotty McCreery
    CLEAR AS DAY
    10/12/2011 week 1 __ 196,739 debuted #1
    10/19/2011 week 2 __ 88,153 total to date 284,892#1 country #4 all gendre
    10/26/2011 week 3 __ 56,664 total to date 341,556 to date #1 country #3 all gendre
    11/02/2011 week 4 __ 42,269 total to date 383,825 #2 country #7 all gendres
    11/09/2011 week 5 __40,594 total to date 424,419 #2 country #12 all gendres
    11/16/2011 week 6 __42,078 total to date 466,497 #2 country # 14 all gendres
    11/23/2011 week 7 __ 33,129 total to date 500,276kCAD IS GOLD!#1 country #15 all gendre
    11/30/2011 week 8 __ 87,755 total to date 587,381#1 country #9 all gendres
    12/07/2011 week 9 __42,472 total to date 629,853 #2 country #11 all gendres
    12/14/2011 week 10 __51,645 total to date 681,498 #1 country #13 all gendres
    12/21/2011 week 11 __66,524 total to date 748,022 #2 country #19 all gendres
    12/28/2011 week 12 __ 85,238 total to date 833,260 #2 country #11 billboard
    01/04/2012 week 13 __ 22,249 total to date 855,509 #3 #21 all gendrePLATINUM!!!
    01/11/2012 week 14 __ 13,840 total to date 869,349k #5 country #23 all gendre
    01/18/2012 week 15 __ 9,908 total to date 879,257k #6 country #34 all gendre
    01/25/2012 week 16 __ 10,620 total to date 889,877 #6 country #29 all gendre
    02/01/2012 week 17 __11,410 total to date 901,287k # 6 country #30 all gendre
    02/08/2012 week 18 __12,320 total to date 913,607k #5 country #35 all gendre
    02/15/2012 week 19__12,106 total to date 925,713#9 country #47 all gendre
    02/22/2012 week 20 __ 12,980k total to date 938,693k #9 country #45 all gendre

    Phillip Phillips
    The World From the Other Side of the Moon
    26.11.12 – 1 – 169,000 – 169,000 – 4 (# Billboard 200)
    03.12.12 – 2 – 74,000 – 243,000 – 5
    10.12.12 – 3 – 65,000 – 308,000 – 9
    17.12.12 – 4 – 68,000 – 376,000 – 7
    24.12.12 – 5 – 98,000 – 474,000 – 7
    31.12.12 – 6 – 58,000 – 532,000 – 11 (Gold)
    07.01.13 – 7 – 63,000 – 595,000 – 4
    14.01.13 – 8 – 24,000 – 619,000 – 14
    21.01.13 – 9 – 26,000(?) – 645,000(?) – 8(?)

  • jpfan2

    Thanks for the chart numbers.  Looks like P2 and Scotty are pretty much in the same ballpark for chart position and album sales for the first 9 weeks. Of course things will diverge in terms of sales from now on because Scotty had those big Xmas weeks ahead of him.