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Kirsten has had a long love affair with numbers. Marry that with her love of cheese and the Numbers Threads at MJs were born.
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HDD – Album Sales Prediction : May 23-29

05/31/2011 Kirsten 131

Yesterday was the Memorial Day Stat Holiday, so HDD did not issue any sales reports. I expect they will have one today since the news is so big. Billlboard is predicting that Gaga will move 1.15 units this week which is the biggest opening since ‘NSYNC moved 1.88M units back in 2001. Those numbers have been juiced by Amazon selling the album for 99cents for two days last week, a Monday opening and a performance on Idol.

FINAL HDD NUMBERS:

1 LADY GAGA – Born This Way – 1, 110, 420
4 GLEE CAST GLEE: THE MUSIC, VOL. 6 – 78, 075
11 SCOTTY MCCREERY – AMERICAN IDOL SEASON 10 – 23, 785
39 LAUREN ALAINA AMERICAN IDOL SEASON 10 – 11, 318

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Scotty Breaks Country Radio Debut Record

05/30/2011 Kirsten 97

Billboard announced today that Scotty and Lauren have made a big initial splash on Country Radio. Scotty’s debut is the highest for a new artist on the Country charts in the SoundScan era (Billboard has used Nielsen’s BDS monitoring service since Jan 20, 1990). “I Love You This Big” shattered the previous records by debuting at 32. The previous records had been 42 and 41.

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Weekend Countdown Shows – 05/28/11

05/28/2011 Kirsten 77

Coronation Single Watch:
Scotty McCreery’s “I Love You This Big” has arrived on the Mediabase Country Top 50. The song has reached 48th with 287 monitored spins and an AI of 2.912. It had a total of 373 spins (AI 3.186) across 109 stations since being released to radio. It is the number one song on the Taking off Chart with 11 Starters spinning the song a total of 125 times. It continues at number one on iTunes.

Lauren Alaina’s “Like My Mother Does” has received 115 spins across 56 stations. It is number 5 on the Taking off chart with its 3 Starters playing it 28 times. The song is number 5 on iTunes.

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Billboard – 06/04/11

05/27/2011 Kirsten 78

A few weeks ago, there were dire predictions that Scotty and Lauren would be rejected outright by Country radio. That may still happen, but they were given at least courtesy spins yesterday. Mediabase detected 281 spins for “I Love You This Big” across 101 stations. Seven of those stations spun the song frequently enough to be called Starters (i.e. 7 or more spins yesterday). Lauren received 115 spins across 51 stations and has received her first official add (WUSY-FM – Chattanooga). It is unlikely they will keep up that rate of increase, but it was a nice start.

In other news, Billboard is predicting that Gaga will sell over a million copies of her new CD.

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Idols In Concert – Stats – 05/26/11

05/26/2011 Kirsten 63

To celebrate the Idol finale, we actually have a concert to report. A sold-out concert from Fantasia.

This is the daily numbers thread. The place where we read the tea leaves and decide whether the finalists will be the WORST/BEST Idol EVER.

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HDD – Album Sales Prediction : May 16-22

05/24/2011 Kirsten 27

Can Adele continue to dominate the charts? What ever happened to that America’s Got Talent dude? Is Il Volo a serious group and why were they scheduled to perform on the Idol results show? Did Lauren help boost sales? Are there any Idols in the Top 50?

Answers to these and other exciting questions in the daily numbers thread. Holding onto subjects better left to fray.

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A Season 10 Mixed Tape

05/23/2011 Kirsten 27

Back before iTunes took over the music business, 19R used to release a compilation album each year. These made great souvenirs for many and some people still miss them. If somebody wanted to create their own mixed tape Season 10 compilation album, what should they have on it? What is the one song from your favourites that everybody should own? What hidden gems are there that need to be discovered? What songs should be avoided at all cost? What would everybody put on their own mixed tape?

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