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'Glee' Warblers Album Flies High on Billboard 200
by Keith Caulfield, L.A. | April 27, 2011 11:00 EDT

"Glee Presents the Warblers," the latest entry from the the Fox TV series' line of soundtrack albums, flies in at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, debuting with 86,000 according to Nielsen SoundScan.

"Warblers" -- a showcase for recent Billboard magazine cover man Darren Criss and his "Glee" co-star Chris Colfer -- is the tenth "Glee" album to chart. And all ten of them have debuted in the the top 10. However, "Warblers'" posts the smallest debut sales week of any "Glee" release, save for the "The Rocky Horror Glee Show (EP)" which bowed with 48,000.

With that in mind, one's sales expectations should have been appropriately tempered for "Warblers." It's a unique album in that it operates essentially as a stand-alone Criss/Colfer effort and is the first to focus on so few cast members. (Weirdly, the backing vocalists heard on the album on "Glee" as the Warblers -- the Tufts University Beelzebubs -- are uncredited in the set's liner notes.)

Last week's No. 1, Foo Fighters' "Wasting Light," slips to No. 3 with 72,000 (down 69%). Replacing them at the top is Adele, who returns to No. 1 (up one slot) with "21" selling 153,000 (up 65%) -- its fifth non-consecutive week atop the tally. It garners a boost thanks to Easter-infused shopping and an "American Idol" contestant's rendition of "Rolling In the Deep" last week. The album is one of 12 sets in the top 50 than see an increase of at least 50% this week.

Speaking of massive gains, the soundtrack to Disney Channel's "Lemonade Mouth" jumps 18-4 with 69,000 (up 222%) in its second week on the chart. Credit not just Easter shopping but also repeated airings of the high-rated TV movie and an $11.99 sale tag at Target.

Britney Spears' "Femme Fatale" climbs a rung to No. 5 with 45,000 (up 6%) -- its first gain since its release. The album was sale priced in the iTunes Store on April 24 for $6.99 and marked down to $9.99 at Target -- and featured in its circular advertisement -- over the weekend. "Femme" was one of many titles hyped by the big retailers over the Easter holiday.

Target additionally helps push gains for Justin Bieber's "Never Say Never: the Remixes" (22-10 with 36,000; up 85%) and Chris Brown's "F.A.M.E." (a non-mover at No. 9, though with a sales increase of 4% - 37,000). Also in the top 10 is Mumford & Sons' "Sigh No More," which was promoted for $9.99 at Best Buy, and rises 10-7 with 39,000 (up 12%).

Alison Krauss + Union Station's "Paper Airplane" glides down three rungs to No. 6 (42,000; down 49%) and Paul Simon's "So Beautiful Or So What" falls four slots to No. 8 (37,000; down 46%).

Over on the Digital Songs chart, Adele almost captures dual No. 1s on both our Billboard 200 and Digital Songs charts, as her "Rolling In the Deep" download zooms 5-2 on the latter tally with 298,000 (up 99%). Showcased on "Idol" last week, this marks the its best sales frame yet. Its cumulative sales stand at 1.72 million.

Standing in Adele's way is the steady-as-she-goes Katy Perry, who returns to No. 1 (up one slot) with "E.T." (344,000; up 21%). She bumps Rihanna's "S&M" out of the penthouse down to No. 5 (159,000; down 46%). The latter's slide was expected, as its gain last week was fueled by the then-new "Rih-mix" featuring Britney Spears.

The Black Eyed Peas' "Just Can't Get Enough" holds at No. 3 (207,000; up 20%), Bruno Mars' "The Lazy Song" flies 9-4 (188,000; up 52%) and Lady Gaga's "Judas" falls 4-6 (156,000; down 4%). Gaga's decline is notable in that "Judas" debuted a week ago from a partial week's worth of sales -- as it arrived to digital retailers on Friday, April 15 (the tracking week ends on Sunday). Thus, one would have expected a full seven days' worth of impact to have pushed it up the list this week with a gain.

Jennifer Lopez's "On the Floor" stands still at No. 7 (158,000; up 19%) as does Chris Brown's "Look at Me Now" at No. 8 (153,000; up 18%). Ke$ha's "Blow" surges 14-9 with 151,000 (up 59%) while Jeremih's "Down On Me" drops 6-10 with 148,000 (despite its 12% gain). "Blow" was performed on last Friday's (April 22) episode of Nickelodeon's "Victorious," where Ke$ha guest-starred.

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending April 24) totaled 6.48 million units, up 2% compared to the sum last week (6.32 million) and up 17% compared to the comparable sales week of 2010 (5.55 million). Year to date album sales stand at 96.49 million, down 2% compared to the same total at this point last year (98.24 million).

Digital track sales this past week totaled 26.69 million downloads, up 11% compared to last week (24.06 million) and up 22% stacked next to the comparable week of 2010 (21.73 million). Year to date track sales are at 413.04 million, up 9% compared to the same total at this point last year (378.57 million).

Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2010 when: B.o.B's "The Adventures of Bobby Ray" opened at No. 1 with 84,000 while Bullet For My Valentine's "Fever" started at No. 3 with 71,000. The previous week's No. 1, "Glee's" "The Power of Madonna" soundtrack, fell to No. 10 with 29,000 (down 70%).
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Apr 27 11 4:45 PM

01 Adele 153,000 1,275,400
11 Katy Perry 34,400 1,404,900
16 Rihanna 28,100 1,209,100

I love how Adele's success on the album and singles chart are almost a match.

Katy Perry has the #1 single in the country, her album was supposedly on sale this week, she performed on American Idol and should have a ton of momentum with 4 consecutive #1's, yet her album still couldn't return to the Top 10. I have to smiley: roll@ Adele's January release outselling the established Rihanna's November release with 3#1 singles. She'll outsell Katy Perry in 1-2 weeks as well.



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^That's because people can distinguish between a real artist with talent and fakes like Bob and Katy Perry.
smiley: tongue This isn't a Bore-ah Jones situation either. Adele is actually a mainstream artist (as evidenced by the success of her single).



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^ I think Adele still falls closer in line to Norah Jones than Rihanna. "RITD" still isn't even top 10 at Top 40 is it? I say that to say she'll never be an artist with automatic hits. She's more of a 'classic' artist and will probably always sell albums more than singles. Norah Jones had a pseudo-hit with "Don't Know Why," too, but that was about it.

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MisplacedValidity wrote:
^ I think Adele still falls closer in line to Norah Jones than Rihanna. "RITD" still isn't even top 10 at Top 40 is it? I say that to say she'll never be an artist with automatic hits. She's more of a 'classic' artist and will probably always sell albums more than singles. Norah Jones had a pseudo-hit with "Don't Know Why," too, but that was about it.

That's irrelevant. iTunes dictates what's a hit these days, not radio. Many songs sell well for weeks before Top 40 catches on, does that mean they are not hits? Are On the Floor, Tonight (I'm %+@%@@% You), etc, not hits?

The point is that Adele has a single that is selling well along with her album (like a typical commercial artist), Norah Jones didn't. Norah was more of a Susan Boyle type artist that only soccer moms care about. Adele has obviously crossed over.

 

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BeyondIdolization wrote:
MisplacedValidity wrote:
^ I think Adele still falls closer in line to Norah Jones than Rihanna. "RITD" still isn't even top 10 at Top 40 is it? I say that to say she'll never be an artist with automatic hits. She's more of a 'classic' artist and will probably always sell albums more than singles. Norah Jones had a pseudo-hit with "Don't Know Why," too, but that was about it.

That's irrelevant. iTunes dictates what's a hit these days, not radio. Many songs sell well for weeks before Top 40 catches on, does that mean they are not hits? Are On the Floor, Tonight (I'm %+@%@@% You), etc, not hits?

The point is that Adele has a single that is selling well along with her album (like a typical commercial artist), Norah Jones didn't. Norah was more of a Susan Boyle type artist that only soccer moms care about. Adele has obviously crossed over.
Exactly. Adele is far more relevant to younger people than Norah was.

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BeyondIdolization wrote:
MisplacedValidity wrote:
^ I think Adele still falls closer in line to Norah Jones than Rihanna. "RITD" still isn't even top 10 at Top 40 is it? I say that to say she'll never be an artist with automatic hits. She's more of a 'classic' artist and will probably always sell albums more than singles. Norah Jones had a pseudo-hit with "Don't Know Why," too, but that was about it.

That's irrelevant. iTunes dictates what's a hit these days, not radio. Many songs sell well for weeks before Top 40 catches on, does that mean they are not hits? Are On the Floor, Tonight (I'm %+@%@@% You), etc, not hits?

The point is that Adele has a single that is selling well along with her album (like a typical commercial artist), Norah Jones didn't. Norah was more of a Susan Boyle type artist that only soccer moms care about. Adele has obviously crossed over.

Digital Songs wasn't around when Norah peaked, so you can't really compare in that sense.

And my point is more than I don't see how anyone can make that claim about Adele...yet. She is just now having her first top 10 hit. While I think she can have more, she hasn't to this point. Hypothetically if she never has another hit, will you still think she has crossed over?

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MisplacedValidity wrote:
^ I think Adele still falls closer in line to Norah Jones than Rihanna. "RITD" still isn't even top 10 at Top 40 is it? I say that to say she'll never be an artist with automatic hits. She's more of a 'classic' artist and will probably always sell albums more than singles. Norah Jones had a pseudo-hit with "Don't Know Why," too, but that was about it.
It's #13 at pop radio today with a HUGE bullet. I wouldn't be surprised if gets all the way to #1. "Don't Know Why" peaked at #32 (on a Top 40 chart) not a hit, whatsoever.

Anyways, nothing is going to change my mind about Rihanna and Katy Perry's constant poor album charting (I won't even talk about sales). Out of every artist who's had 3 or 4#1 singles from one album, they are the only two that have had albums that have spent single digit amount of weeks as a Top 10 selling album during their run. smiley: sick  Even Fergie's "The Dutchess" spent 10 consecutive weeks in the Top 10, finished as a Top 10 selling album of a year (#8 in 2007) can't say the same for any of their albums.



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Come on, do you really equate Adele with Norah Jones? Please. I think that a more realistic comparison is Alicia Keys. They both had huge singles and huge album sales, and Adele will most likely win some Grammys. If anything, Adele is the new Alicia Keys - a multiformat artist.

 

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BeyondIdolization wrote:
Come on, do you really equate Adele with Norah Jones? Please. I think that a more realistic comparison is Alicia Keys. They both had huge singles and huge album sales, and Adele will most likely win some Grammys. If anything, Adele is the new Alicia Keys - a multiformat artist.

I get the comparison, but that's so insulting to Adele smiley: laugh

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BeyondIdolization wrote:
Come on, do you really equate Adele with Norah Jones? Please. I think that a more realistic comparison is Alicia Keys. They both had huge singles and huge album sales, and Adele will most likely win some Grammys. If anything, Adele is the new Alicia Keys - a multiformat artist.
Adele's sales are nowhere near Alicia's - album sales or singles. Adele only has one true hit. How does she merit being compared to Alicia? And Alicia's formats are all major; Adele's only major format is Top 40 (and again, so far that's only one single).

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BeyondIdolization wrote:
Come on, do you really equate Adele with Norah Jones? Please. I think that a more realistic comparison is Alicia Keys. They both had huge singles and huge album sales, and Adele will most likely win some Grammys. If anything, Adele is the new Alicia Keys - a multiformat artist.

They don't play Adele on Urban though... do they?! LOL


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BeyondIdolization wrote:
Come on, do you really equate Adele with Norah Jones? Please. I think that a more realistic comparison is Alicia Keys. They both had huge singles and huge album sales, and Adele will most likely win some Grammys. If anything, Adele is the new Alicia Keys - a multiformat artist.

They don't play Adele on Urban though... do they?! LOL
They wouldn't play Adele on Urban radio. "Rolling In The Deep" is #1 at Hot AC and Top 20 at both AC and Alternative radio, meaning she IS a multi-format artist. 



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mariahfan150 wrote:
RnB Junkie wrote:
BeyondIdolization wrote:
Come on, do you really equate Adele with Norah Jones? Please. I think that a more realistic comparison is Alicia Keys. They both had huge singles and huge album sales, and Adele will most likely win some Grammys. If anything, Adele is the new Alicia Keys - a multiformat artist.

They don't play Adele on Urban though... do they?! LOL
They wouldn't play Adele on Urban radio. "Rolling In The Deep" is #1 at Hot AC and Top 20 at both AC and Alternative radio, meaning she IS a multi-format artist. 

Sure, but how does that merit an Alicia Keys comparison? smiley: grin

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mariahfan150 wrote:
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BeyondIdolization wrote:
Come on, do you really equate Adele with Norah Jones? Please. I think that a more realistic comparison is Alicia Keys. They both had huge singles and huge album sales, and Adele will most likely win some Grammys. If anything, Adele is the new Alicia Keys - a multiformat artist.

They don't play Adele on Urban though... do they?! LOL
They wouldn't play Adele on Urban radio. "Rolling In The Deep" is #1 at Hot AC and Top 20 at both AC and Alternative radio, meaning she IS a multi-format artist. 

Sure, but how does that merit an Alicia Keys comparison? smiley: grin

Adele appeals to both the youth (she is inches from a massive pop radio hit, has segments on MTV news etc.) and also the adult demographic. That's more like Alicia Keys than it is Norah Jones that was his whole point.

In related news, "Rolling In The Deep" is Top 10 building overall airplay.  smiley: eek



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MisplacedValidity wrote:
BeyondIdolization wrote:
Come on, do you really equate Adele with Norah Jones? Please. I think that a more realistic comparison is Alicia Keys. They both had huge singles and huge album sales, and Adele will most likely win some Grammys. If anything, Adele is the new Alicia Keys - a multiformat artist.
Adele's sales are nowhere near Alicia's - album sales or singles. Adele only has one true hit. How does she merit being compared to Alicia? And Alicia's formats are all major; Adele's only major format is Top 40 (and again, so far that's only one single).


Isn't Adele's album the top-seller of the year so far? If this were 2001 she would probably be at 3 million sold at this point. So yeah, her sales will end up pretty much the same as Alicia's debut, taking into account the 50% album sales decline since then.

 

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^ 763 million albums were scanned in 2001, we're on track for 320 million this year. smiley: sick

In 2001:
06) [4.1] Songs In A Minor/Alicia Keys

1.7 million this year is equivalent to 4.1 million in 2001.



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MisplacedValidity wrote:
mariahfan150 wrote:
RnB Junkie wrote:
BeyondIdolization wrote:
Come on, do you really equate Adele with Norah Jones? Please. I think that a more realistic comparison is Alicia Keys. They both had huge singles and huge album sales, and Adele will most likely win some Grammys. If anything, Adele is the new Alicia Keys - a multiformat artist.

They don't play Adele on Urban though... do they?! LOL
They wouldn't play Adele on Urban radio. "Rolling In The Deep" is #1 at Hot AC and Top 20 at both AC and Alternative radio, meaning she IS a multi-format artist. 

Sure, but how does that merit an Alicia Keys comparison? smiley: grin

Adele also lacks Rhy airplay so that's 2 major formats she's excluded from. I also don't see Adele producing multiple top 40 hits like Alicia.

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^ 763 million albums were scanned in 2001, we're on track for 320 million this year. smiley: sick

In 2001:
06) [4.1] Songs In A Minor/Alicia Keys

1.7 million this year is equivalent to 4.1 million in 2001.


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