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Adele's '21' Hits 1 Million, Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200
by Keith Caulfield, L.A. | April 13, 2011 11:00 EDT

Adele's "21" album not only returns to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (up two spots), but also becomes the first to sell more than a million copies this year.

With 88,000 sold this past week (down 6%) according to Nielsen SoundScan, "21's" total rises to 1.03 million. The year's second-biggest selling album remains Mumford & Sons' "Sigh No More," which has shifted 645,000.

Last week's No. 1, Britney Spears' "Femme Fatale," falls to No. 2 with 75,000 (down 73%). The chart's highest new entry comes from rock band Hollywood Undead, as its second studio effort, "American Tragedy," bows at No. 4 with 66,000. It's the act's highest rank and sales week yet. The group's first set, "Swan Songs," debuted and peaked at No. 22 in 2008 off a 21,000 start.

Hollywood Undead's album is one of only two new arrivals in the top 10. Asking Alexandria's new "Reckless & Relentless" also opens at No. 9 with 31,000 -- also its best week ever. The band's first full-length album, 2009's "Stand Up and Scream," spent one week on the list at No. 170 -- though it has gone on to sell 92,000 total.

Next week's chart should look a little more lively, as we expect big bows from Foo Fighters' "Wasting Light," Alison Krauss and Union Station's "Paper Airplane" and Maná's "Drama y Luz," among others.

As for the rest of this week's top 10, Radiohead's "The King of Limbs" moves up three spots to No. 3 with 67,000 (down just 2%), as sales from a belatedly-shipped deluxe edition of the album reaches consumers. Wiz Khalifa's "Rolling Papers" slips 2-5 with 59,000 (down 70%), Chris Brown's "F.A.M.E." shuffles 4-6 with 51,000 (down 44%) and the "Songs For Japan" compilation moves 5-7 with just under 51,000 (down 29%). Mumford & Sons' "Sigh No More" rises 11-8 (34,000, down 7%) and Kirk Franklin's "Hello Fear" drops one spot to No. 10 (31,000; down 33%).

Over on the Digital Songs chart, Katy Perry's "E.T." holds at No. 1 for a fifth straight week, selling 323,000 (down 1%) while the Black Eyed Peas are also stationary at No. 2 with "Just Can't Get Enough" (185,000; down 9%). Rihanna's "S&M" is another non-mover at No. 3 with 141,000 (down 11%). We'll see the impact of the just released remix of the track -- featuring Britney Spears -- on next week's chart.

The top debut on the Digital Songs tally belongs to Blake Shelton with "Honey Bee" at No. 4 (139,000). The singer co-hosted last week's Academy of Country Music Awards (April 3) with Reba McEntire and premiered the song on the show. It marks the best sales week and highest position for a solo country male artist, surpassing the previous high set when Trace Adkins' "You're Gonna Miss This" jumped to No. 8 on April 4, 2008 with 100,000.

Spears' "Till the World Ends" vaults 15-5 with 133,000 (up 48%) following the track's video premiere last week. Chris Brown's "Look at Me Now" slides down one spot to No. 6 (126,000; down 8%), Jennifer Lopez's "On the Floor" falls three rungs to No. 7 (125,000; down 9%) and Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" is up one to No. 8 (124,000; up 2%). At No. 9 we find Pitbull's "Give Me Everything," which flies up 49 spots with 112,000 (up 259%). Closing out the top 10 is Lady Gaga's "Born This Way," which falls two positions with 110,000 (down 14%).

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending April 10) totaled 5.87 million units, down 11% compared to the sum last week (5.53 million) and up 11% compared to the comparable sales week of 2010 (5.28 million). Year to date album sales stand at 83.70 million, down 4% compared to the same total at this point last year (87.23 million).

Digital track sales this past week totaled 23.18 million downloads, down 6% compared to last week (24.52 million) and up 4% stacked next to the comparable week of 2010 (22.37 million). Year to date track sales are at 362.28 million, up 8% compared to the same total at this point last year (334.75 million).

Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2010 when Justin Bieber's "My World 2.0" held at No. 1 for a third non-consecutive week, selling 92,000 (down 10%). The top debut was MGMT's "Congratulations," which arrived in the No. 2 slot with 66,000.
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Apr 13 11 4:05 PM

^^

underperforming? yes. flop? no

75k the second week is actually pretty decent considering she's done zero promo since the album dropped.




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Apr 13 11 5:34 PM

Yeah, at this point it's a flop. That was a low debut total, and now it has already fallen below Adele's 1-2 month old CD despite Britney having two top 10s. You can't even use the promotion excuse; what promotion did Adele do last week?

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MisplacedValidity wrote:
Yeah, at this point it's a flop. That was a low debut total, and now it has already fallen below Adele's 1-2 month old CD despite Britney having two top 10s. You can't even use the promotion excuse; what promotion did Adele do last week?
I agree.

Someone like Adele would actually benefit from promotion since she's relatively unknown. Britney Spears is one of the most famous women in entertainment and she's had two actual radio hits now (which reach a much larger, broader audience than some show) for her to be on pace to only do "Blackout" numbers is terrible. Her download sales aren't even that great "HIAM" isn't even among the Top 10 sellers of the year. smiley: grin



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Yeah Femme Fatale is a total bomb already. I kinda like it too, oh well.

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Apr 13 11 7:09 PM

Wow, Chris Brown's 2nd week drop wasn't as bad. He dropped 66% and moved 91,000 units.

I still don't think its over for FF, she has more singles to go. But 1 million is gonna be the extreme possible best, and that's if she can pump out more hits. 1 million for Britney is a flop, and that's only IF can hit 1 million.

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Apr 13 11 8:20 PM

mariahfan150 wrote:
MisplacedValidity wrote:
Yeah, at this point it's a flop. That was a low debut total, and now it has already fallen below Adele's 1-2 month old CD despite Britney having two top 10s. You can't even use the promotion excuse; what promotion did Adele do last week?
I agree.

Someone like Adele would actually benefit from promotion since she's relatively unknown. Britney Spears is one of the most famous women in entertainment and she's had two actual radio hits now (which reach a much larger, broader audience than some show) for her to be on pace to only do "Blackout" numbers is terrible. Her download sales aren't even that great "HIAM" isn't even among the Top 10 sellers of the year. smiley: grin


Is it even on track to do Blackout numbers? It would need to increase in sales at some point to do that.

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MisplacedValidity wrote:
mariahfan150 wrote:
MisplacedValidity wrote:
Yeah, at this point it's a flop. That was a low debut total, and now it has already fallen below Adele's 1-2 month old CD despite Britney having two top 10s. You can't even use the promotion excuse; what promotion did Adele do last week?
I agree.

Someone like Adele would actually benefit from promotion since she's relatively unknown. Britney Spears is one of the most famous women in entertainment and she's had two actual radio hits now (which reach a much larger, broader audience than some show) for her to be on pace to only do "Blackout" numbers is terrible. Her download sales aren't even that great "HIAM" isn't even among the Top 10 sellers of the year. smiley: grin


Is it even on track to do Blackout numbers? It would need to increase in sales at some point to do that.
You're right.

Blackout/Femme Fatale
1st: 290k/276k
2nd: 87k/75k

The difference between this album and "Blackout" is none of the singles were airplay hits. "Hold It Against Me" is actually her highest peaking single in airplay ever (#3) and "Till The World Ends" is already up to #19 in airplay. smiley: sick



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Apr 16 11 11:44 AM

Why doesn't the RIAA combine shipments/sales of physical singles and digital sales for certifications? The cert levels are the same, and it's no different than shipments combining CDs, vinyl, and (in the past) cassettes. I could see if the certification levels were different, but they clearly have no intention of changing them again seeing as they've been where they are for a good 5 years now.

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Why doesn't the RIAA combine shipments/sales of physical singles and digital sales for certifications?

Are you sure they dont?

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^ At one point there were still separate certs, and the Billboard Top 40 Hits book I have shows different symbols. It's possible they combined them recently, and I missed the announcement. But as of a couple years ago they were still separate.

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I believe the RIAA does NOT combine sales of physical and digital singles because on their website, under Gold & Platinum, they have a separate section for Digital Sales Awards:

In 2004, the RIAA amended its 45-year-old Gold and Platinum award program, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) launched the Digital Sales award. Developed to recognize the significant sales of the burgeoning digital music market, 45 titles were included in the initial group of certifications, encompassing tracks from each major recording company and representing nearly every genre in music.

In 2006, the RIAA added a Digital Ringtone Award, recognizing the success of Mobile Mastertones. The new award was announced in partnership with CTIA—The Wireless Association, and Billboard.

Consistently each month since its inception, a number of artists are awarded Gold and Platinum Awards recognizing the success of their digital music.

As with the existing Gold and Platinum award program, all certifications for the Digital Sales award are audited by the firm of Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman.


If you search for songs in their database you'll see that they have different "types" of awards. A song can be certified as ST (physical/standard), DI (digital), MT (Mastertone). For example TMB is certified Platinum both as DI and MT.

 

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