HDD – Album Sales Prediction : Oct 8-14

By On 10/16/2012 · 38 Comments · In America's Got Talent, American Idol, Charts, X Factor UK

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With 54.98% of the market reporting in, Mumford & Sons are headed for their third week atop the BB200 album chart. Something like this hasn’t happened since Adele ruled the charts (and she’s still there just outside the top 10). The top debut this week is from Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, a duo of rappers from Seattle.

Gene Simmons may be an a$$ and his turns on reality shows tend to make my skin crawl, but KISS is still putting out albums and they are destined for third on the chart. P!NK is 4th and Barbara’s collection of never before released tracks (aptly named “Release Me”) is 5th.

Little Big Town represents Country in the top 10, rapper MGK is 7th, R&B artist Miguel is 8th and prog rockers Coheed and Cambria are currently debuting in 10th.

The highest charting reality show contestant on the chart this week is Jackie Evancho from America’s Got Talent. This is Jackie’s 4th album/EP and she’s only 12. What had you accomplished by age 12? The album, in it’s second week, is 9th. Idol’s Carrie Underwood is in 17th and Carly Rae Jepsen is 28th. Right behind her is X-Factor’s Cher Lloyd at 28th. Her season-mates, One Direction, are at 20th.

Kelly Clarkson appears on Jason Aldean’s album which at 46th while Now 43 at 13th features Carly Rae Jepsen, One Direction, Cher Lloyd, XF US judge Demi Lovato and Voice judge Adam Levine. Adam Levine’s band Maroon 5 is at 19th.

CHART DATE: 10/15/2012
LAST UPDATE: 10/15/2012 11:13:36
NOW IN: 54.98%

LW TW artist / album label power index
1 1 MUMFORD & SONS BABEL 34,144
– 2 MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS HEIST 30,990
– 3 KISS MONSTER 22,329
4 4 P!NK TRUTH ABOUT LOVE 17,839
– 5 BARBRA STREISAND RELEASE ME 17,538
9 6 LITTLE BIG TOWN CAPITOL TORNADO 16,412
– 7 MGK LACE UP 14,485
3 8 MIGUEL KALEIDOSCOPE DREAM 12,117
7 9 JACKIE EVANCHO SONGS FROM THE SILVER SCREEN 11,868
– 10 COHEED & CAMBRIA AFTERMATH: ASCENSION 11,525
…
33 13 NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 43 VARIOUS ARTISTS 8,658
…
30 17 CARRIE UNDERWOOD BLOWN AWAY 7,337
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22 19 MAROON 5 OVEREXPOSED 6,741
29 20 ONE DIRECTION UP ALL NIGHT 6,310
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41 28 CARLY RAE JEPSEN KISS 5,330
8 29 CHER LLOYD STICKS & STONES 5,239
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– 46 JASON ALDEAN MY KINDA PARTY 2,805
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– 50 RICK ROSS GOD FORGIVES, I DON’T 2,615

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  • girlygirltoo

    My songwriting instructor was talking about Nicki Minaj in class last night. He said he isn’t really a fan of hers, but that her songs are all very well written, especially in terms of structure.

  • chessguy99

    It shouldn’t be all that amazing Home is doing well on AAA. Its a song written by a pair of singer/songwriters and inspired by Mumford & Sons. If that song wasn’t an Idol winner’s song, it probably would have started in AAA, then crossing to HAC and only then CHR. 

  • roarpen

    I don’t like rap either. But these guys are pretty amazing, both serious and hilarious. Check this out:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes

  • getaway1

    It is amazing from the perspective of when was the last time a song from Idol charted this high on AAA. The answer is never. It took 11 seasons to break through.

  • springboard2

    Daughtry’s trouble with radio this time around is worrisome.  I wonder
    how will RCA address this.  It’s not like Daughtry is on their second
    album, and the situation with the last two songs can be blamed on radio
    not embracing them, or their popularity just being due to being from AI.
     This is an incredibly successful act that can’t get radio stations to
    play their songs.

    It’s all about the songs, they were not a good fit for current radio.
    The band’s pop rock sound is dated, and I don’t think that the songs were as good as previous ones.
    Daughtry needs to evolve and find a sound that fits the current taste.

  • thirdtime

    I consider myself a Daughtry fan, but honestly their sound is getting old with me.  All of their songs sound the same.  I loved them in the beginning, now I’ve grown so tired of them I really don’t know if I will buy their next album.  It’s time for them to change things up and make it fresh and new again, if that’s at all possible.

  • fuzzywuzzy

    I have no idea, but from her live performances, I doubt that she needs to use it. My point was that professional vocal recordings on CDs are always going to be on key because technology will be used to “fix” pitch problems for those artists who need it. Therefore, you won’t be able to tell from CDs whether an artist sings well live.

    windmills wrote:
    “fuzzywuzzy’s point as I understood it was Swifty is
    usually not out of tune on her records because her producers can
    autotune her voice to fix her recordings. But, as anybody who’s suffered
    through a Swifty live performance knows, live performances from her are
    very often a different story – not that that’s stopped her tours from
    being super successful.”

    Exactly. One cannot use professionally recorded CDs as a measure of an artist’s ability to sing well live.

  • girlygirltoo

    Did his label pull Chris Rene’s new single?

  • elliegrll

    The first song that Daughtry released for Hot AC was not good.  It was the weakest song that they’ve ever released, but radio still supported it, at least making it race up to the top 20 or 15, and then RCA made a second push, and had the song charting in the top 10 for at least two weeks.  So, radio still loved them.

    The second song was much better, but radio pretty much ignored it.  That was weird, since that song wasn’t too far away from some of the songs that Train is releasing.

  • elliegrll

    She does have good songs, but I worry that she’s going to get caught up in worrying about people who say that her songs are becoming too pop.  I will admit that the current single is good, but it’s more rhythmic pop than most of her other songs.  It’s more like something that the Black Eyed Peas would release.

  • springboard2

    The
    first song that Daughtry released for Hot AC was not good.  It was the
    weakest song that they’ve ever released, but radio still supported it,
    at least making it race up to the top 20 or 15, and then RCA made a
    second push, and had the song charting in the top 10 for at least two
    weeks.  So, radio still loved them.

    The second song was much better, but radio pretty much ignored it.
     That was weird, since that song wasn’t too far away from some of the
    songs that Train is releasing.

    This is not how I see it. Compared to their previous track record on HAC, where they seemed to have a place booked for life for a while, Crawling back To You had a poor run. Two weeks in the top 10 is a far cry from 4 months for other songs, and it was the first crack in the love from radio stations.

    As for any other song, I don’t find that they have anything in common with Train’s releases. Train has moved to a reggae/exotic sound whereas Daughtry stayed with the traditional rock sound (from soft to not so soft with Outta My Head).
    And Start of Something Good is unfortunately named.

    To me there is nothing weird to what is happening to this era. Like any another act, the band needed to renew itself to stay fresh and to fit with the time and it didn’t.

  • justmefornow

    lol. I’m not usually a rap fan either, but that’s probably my new favorite video.
    Love these guys.

  • irockhard

    Yes Daughtry’s style is stale now, it’s gotten old. They must change direction for their next album otherwise it will be their last. But that’s not the only thing, their new songs really aren’t as good as their older songs.

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