As we all know, there are approximately 83,467 Billboard charts. This is a summary of just some of those charts and how the Idols/AGTers did on them this week. Please feel free to post rankings from your favourite BB chart or any other numbers you care to share. This is the daily numbers thread.
Billboard has a nice rundown of 2011 Album sales (Billboard)
Overall Album Sales: 330.6 (up 1.4% from 326.2 in 2010)
Total Music Sales: 1.6B units (up 6.9% from 1.51B in 2010)
Albums Released: 76,875 (up 2.2% from 75,159 in 2010)
Albums Selling 1M in 2011: 13 (same as 2010)
Tracks Selling 1M in 2011: 112 (up 40% from 80 in 2010)
Digital Albums: 103.1M (up 19.5% from 86.3M in 2010)
CD: 223.5M (down 5.7% from 236.9M in 2010) – compared to 18-20% rate in the last 4 years
Vinyl Albums: 4M (up 43% from 2.8M in 2010)
Digital Track Sales: 1.27B (up 8.5% from 1.17B in 2010)
TEA (10 tracks=1 album): 457.7B (up 3.2% form 443.4M in 2010)
Catalog Albums: 151.2M (up 9% from 138.9M in 2010)
Current Albums: 179.4M (down 4.2% from 187.3 in 2010)
up 1.9%, to 105.7 million units from 103.7 million units in 2010, while R&B, country and Latin all suffered declines, with the latter down 4.3% to 11.8 million units from the prior year’s total of 12.4 million units; while country was down 1.8% to 42.9 million units from 2010’s total of 43.7 million units. Christian/gospel was down 2% to 23.7 million units from 24.3 million units in 2010; and R&B was down 4.2% to 55.4 million units from 57.9 million units.
But within R&B, the rap category was vibrant, growing 3.3% to 28.3 million units from 27.3 million units. Meanwhile, jazz grew 26.1% to 11.1 million units from 8.8 million units, thanks to Michael Buble’s “Christmas” album (which is counted as a jazz album), which has scanned 2.4 million units in 2011.
Also, the electronic/dance category’s popularity showed in its sales, which popped by 15% to 10 million units, from 8.7 million units in 2010.
UMG vs Sony
Market Share: UMG 30.7%, Sony 28.4%
Track Sales: UMG 33%, Sony 26.2%
Album Sales: UMG 29.85%, Sony 29.3%
Lauren Alaina:
Wildflower: BB200 124 (90); Country Album 18 (17)
Georgie Peaches: Country Songs 38 (44)
David Archuleta:
Glad Christmas Tidings, Mormon Tabernacle Choir/Orchestra At Temple Square Feat. David Archuleta With Michael York: Christian Album 28 (17); Classical Cross-Over Album 8 (8); Holiday 36 (RE)
Kelly Clarkson:
Stronger: BB200 17 (39); Digital Album 17 (RE)
iTunes Sessions: BB200 85;
Don’t You Wanna Stay: AC 9 (RE); Digital Country Songs 44 (RE)
Mr. Know It All: Hot 100 20 (32); Hot 100 Airplay 14 (16); Digital Tracks 31 (34); Adult Top 40 1 (1); Hot 100 Single Sales 11 (12); Adult Contemporary 13 (19)
Javier Colon:
Come Through for You: R&B Album 55 (41)
David Cook:
Fade Into Me: Adult Top 40 38 (38)
Daughtry:
Break the Spell: BB200 31 (21)
Crawling Back To You: Adult Top 40 8 (9); Hot 100 Airplay 65 (72); Adult Contemporary 26 (RE)
James Durbin:
Memories of a Beautiful Disaster: BB200 181 (129);
Jacki Evancho (AGT):
Heavenly Christmas: Classical Cross-Over Album 6 (2); Holiday 21 (7)
O Holy Night: Holiday 24 (22);
Dream With Me: BB 200 148 (65); Classical Cross-Over Album 3 (4);
Dia Framptom:
Red: Top Heatseekers Album 8 (6)
Jennifer Hudson:
I Remember Me: R&B Album 73 (68)
I Got This: Adult R&B 18 (23); R&B Hip Hop 80 (93)
Casey James:
Let’s Don’t Call it a Night: Country Songs 34 (34)
Mandisa:
What If We Were Real: Christian Albums 19 (6)
Waiting for Tomorrow: Christian AC 12 (RE); Christian Songs 6 (21)
Scotty McCreery:
Clear as Day: BB200 21 (11); Country Albums 3 (2)
I Love You This Big: Digital Country Songs 33 (33)
The Trouble With Girls: Hot 100 58 (55); Country Songs 24 (24); Digital Country Song 10 (9)
Landau Eugene Murphy:
That’s Life: BB200 93 (76); Internet Album 20 (22); Jazz Album 3 (3)
Carrie Underwood:
Remind Me: Country Digital Songs 19 (25)
Xenia:
Sing You Home: Heat Seekers Album 11 (5)
