The sales right now is quite soft. Many album sales numbers have been substantially higher due to the blowout sale at Amazon. By some accounts, ZBB's album got about 30k in sales due to the $3.99 mp3 sale price at Amazon. Last week, Amazon sold about 550k mp3 albums for 99 cents each! And many were sold at $2.99 (Luke Bryan, Lee Brice, etc.).
The track sales have been very soft also. Even with the 25 cent sale at Amazon for some of the top tracks, the highest selling track this past week was only 205k. This number, the #1 track single sales number, has been steadily decreasing. It was in the 300k-350k when Gotye was #1. This number spiked to 500k at one point. It's been dropping to 400k, 350k, 300k, ..., and has been under 300k for the past several weeks. And now it's 205k. Without the 25 cents sale, the #1 track sale would be UNDER 200k.
Having said all that, Carrie's solid steady sales (without heavy discounts) have been impressive IMHO.
Here is the Top 10 albums and tracks for this week. Wow that the #1 track only sold 200k, the lowest amount in many weeks.
ALBUMS
1. ZAC BAND BROWN – UNCAGED 234,289
2. FRANK OCEAN – CHANNEL ORANGE 131,215
3. JUSTIN BIEBER – BELIEVE 45,216 69,537 604,296
4. CHRIS BROWN – FORTUNE 44,968 134,642 179,903
5. MAROON 5 – OVEREXPOSED 44,371 67,520 334,529
6. LINKIN PARK LIVING THINGS 36,845 63,529 324,114
7. ONE DIRECTION – UP ALL NIGHT 36,203 35,750 970,822
8. ADELE – 21 35,384 40,979 9,568,425
9. KATY PERRY – TEENAGE DREAM 33,952 80,221 2,388,187
10. KENNY CHESNEY – WELCOME TO THE FISHBOWL 31,577 42,616 329,215
TRACKS
1. CARLY RAE JEPSEN – CALL ME MAYBE 200,851 241,621 4,495,024
2. KATY PERRY – WIDE AWAKE 190,801 196,621 1,361,531
3. FLO RIDA – WHISTLE 178,301 156,313 782,838
4. P!NK – BLOW ME (ONE LAST KISS) 156,269 43,964 200,233
5. ELLIE GOULDING – LIGHTS 133,566 144,204 1,708,059
6. DAVID GUETTA FEAT. SIA – TITANIUM 115,854 126,914 1,177,240
7. CHER LLOYD – WANT U BACK 114,267 88,021 424,874
8. GOTYE FEAT. KIMBRA – SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW 113,656 130,094 5,517,698
9. OWL CITY & CARLY RAE JEPSEN – GOOD TIME 104,188 126,878 370,822
10. FUN. – SOME NIGHTS 102,983 76,389 785,137