Taylor Swift ekes out another week at the top of the chart (by a mere 120K – that’s only like twice what the top album will sell in January – she is only selling 310K in her third week! The top album can sell one fifth to one sixth of that after Christmas – get a move on Swifty! She sold a little less than Coldplay did in their first week to be the biggest selling debut album of the year until she came along!).
Taylor is amazing. That is all. Viva la Good Sales!
Most other weeks of the year, the Foo Fighters would have the best selling album of the week, but not this week. They’ll settle for Top debut. Pink Floyd gets 167K in sales twenty years after their last album was released – I bow down to them. Garth Brooks experiments with his own digital vendor and the results are murky.
Pentatonix just soars this week as they spend another week at the top of the Holiday Albums Chart. They rise from 22nd to 8th. Blake Shelton would like to pipe up and state that their success has nothing to do with fellow NBC Show, The Sing Off, but I think they would like to share a little of the credit. No doubt they have worked their butts off for their success, but The Sing Off did get them that extra little attention that gives the initial gust of wind beneath your wings.
One Direction (despite being formed on X-Factor UK, Blake would like to note that they would have organically formed on their own and been as big a success even if it were not for that show) is set to have the biggest album of this week. One Day predictions have pundits pegging their sales at 400-450K. That’s down a bit from “Midnight Memories” which opened with 546K in sales, but considering this is their fourth number one album all since 2012, it’s hard not to be impressed (well, Blake isn’t).
Finally, Time is entering the Spotify fray. They produce an interesting chart of numbers which I always like to see. And they link to a Spotify article with charts!!!!
My opinion? People say that Spotify devalues music and I disagree. The fact is, the public has devalued music. So many people are willing to risk infecting their devices with scary viruses because they aren’t willing to pay anything for music at all. Spotify has found a way to get some people to actually pay for content. There is obviously a limit to how much they can charge for the service before they start losing subscribers to the free highway. Spotify does need to make sure that they are sharing the profits, but streaming is here to stay. And now I’m going to post one of my favorite on-line revenue posts with circle graphs.
This is the weekly sales thread. Please post numbers as you find them. Thanks!
