With 54.98% of reports now in, rapper NAS is easily out in 1st (selling more than twice as much as second place). With Urban artists tending to do better on the second day, nobody can threaten to take away his lead. “Life is Good” is his tenth studio album. Looks like life is indeed good for him.
Nipping at his heels are those ankle biters, Kidz Bop. The Kidz Bop series feature a bunch of no-name kids covering a bunch of popular songs. Doesn’t sound like a long-term recipe for success to me, but then I watch Idol which is nothing but covers. Anyway, they frequently cover songs by Idols, this time (round 22) they have Kelly’s “Stronger” as the lead-off track followed by Carly’s “Call Me Maybe”. Maroon 5’s “Payphone” and 1Ds “What Makes You Beautiful” are also on there. Somebody even gets named because there is some 8 year old youtube sensation singing “Set Fire to the Rain”. I’m sure he has the real life experience to sell that. What is with little boys tackling that song? They are also covering “Somebody that I Used to Know”, so lots of bitter post-break-up kids out there this time around. So you can go and take that little piece of * with you….
The Zac Brown Band was 1st last week and is currently 3rd. The soundtrack for the latest Batman movie is debuting in 4th, Justin Beiber is leveling out his sales at 5th, Adele is 6th, X-Factor’s One Direction is 7th and Kenny Chesney is 8th, Chris Brown (Blah!) is 9th and Luke Bryan continues to sell well at 10th.
The first Idol that shows up on the chart is, as usual, Carrie Underwood (16th). She just keeps moving those units and with another single marching up the charts, she should continue to do well. Next up is Phil Phillips with rock steady sales of his Walmart album. Every week, he’s in around the 20s and this week he is currently at 19th. Finally, we have Kelly who’s solo album is at 31 while also appearing on Now 42 at 15th and Jason Aldean’s album at 27th. 1D is also on the Now 42 album.
Finally, the judges from the Voice. Maroon 5 (featuring judge Adam) is at 12th and Blake is on Now Country 5 at 24th.
CHART DATE: 07/23/2012
LAST UPDATE: 07/23/2012 11:04:35
NOW IN: 54.98%
LW TW artist / album label power index
— 1 NAS LIFE IS GOOD 85,462
— 2 KIDZ BOP KIDS KIDZ BOP 22 38,858
1 3 ZAC BROWN BAND UNCAGED 30,674
— 4 DARK KNIGHT RISES SOUNDTRACK – HANS ZIMMER 23,293
3 5 JUSTIN BIEBER BELIEVE 19,730
9 6 ADELE 21 17,399
8 7 ONE DIRECTION UP ALL NIGHT 16,180
10 8 KENNY CHESNEY WELCOME TO THE FISHBOWL 14,691
5 9 CHRIS BROWN FORTUNE 13,633
11 10 LUKE BRYAN TAILGATES & TANLINES 11,538
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4 12 MAROON 5 OVEREXPOSED 10,246
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22 15 NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 42 VARIOUS ARTISTS 8,566
20 16 CARRIE UNDERWOOD BLOWN AWAY 7,913
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21 19 PHILLIP PHILLIPS AMERICAN IDOL EP 6,510
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42 24 NOW COUNTRY 5 VARIOUS ARTISTS 5,471
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36 27 JASON ALDEAN MY KINDA PARTY 4,656
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47 31 KELLY CLARKSON STRONGER 3,524
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— 50 MATISYAHU SPARK SEEKER 1,318
