clh_hilary
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November 28, 2012
If we're reading the tea leaves correctly, Alicia Keys' newRCA set, Girl on Fire, should land at #1 next week, shifting somewhere between 150k and 175k units.If, on the other hand, these aren't tea leaves at all but the unspeakable remains of Trakin's lunch from last Tuesday, we could be looking at a post-Black Friday surge that lands Rod Stewart's Merry Christmas, Baby (Verve) at the top of the tree.
As you may have guessed, the impact of Black Friday and Cyber Monday on sales is still being reckoned with; this lends a giddy, cinnamon-scented air of unpredictability to the whole enterprise. Or maybe we're feeilng this way because we started drinking eggnog at about 9:30am. Didn't you? Bottoms up, buddy!
Other key debuts of the week are electro-popsters Timeflies, whose self-released One Night EP (now spreading its wings at #2 on the iTunes chart, trailing only Keys) should buzz up 25-30k, and Columbia's Season 4 Glee set, which is expected to move 18-22k.
HITS Daily Double: News
So...ALL R&B stars underperformed this year. Chris Brown, Usher & Alicia Keys all won't be able to pass 200k copies even though they got hits. That is, of course, not counting Rihanna, whose lead single "Diamonds" is sitting at #1 on the new R&b chart a la Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", for an eighth week.
I wonder what will happen to Beyonce next year? "4" opened with 303k copies without a hit, but Keys opened with 401k copies without a hit.
Anyhow, when Rihanna was projecting way above 200k copies last week, HDD was saying there's a possibility for her to get a #1. And Swift ends up at ~180k at #2. So this probably means everybody else is significantly selling fewer copies than 150k copies this coming week...
If we're reading the tea leaves correctly, Alicia Keys' newRCA set, Girl on Fire, should land at #1 next week, shifting somewhere between 150k and 175k units.If, on the other hand, these aren't tea leaves at all but the unspeakable remains of Trakin's lunch from last Tuesday, we could be looking at a post-Black Friday surge that lands Rod Stewart's Merry Christmas, Baby (Verve) at the top of the tree.
As you may have guessed, the impact of Black Friday and Cyber Monday on sales is still being reckoned with; this lends a giddy, cinnamon-scented air of unpredictability to the whole enterprise. Or maybe we're feeilng this way because we started drinking eggnog at about 9:30am. Didn't you? Bottoms up, buddy!
Other key debuts of the week are electro-popsters Timeflies, whose self-released One Night EP (now spreading its wings at #2 on the iTunes chart, trailing only Keys) should buzz up 25-30k, and Columbia's Season 4 Glee set, which is expected to move 18-22k.
HITS Daily Double: News
So...ALL R&B stars underperformed this year. Chris Brown, Usher & Alicia Keys all won't be able to pass 200k copies even though they got hits. That is, of course, not counting Rihanna, whose lead single "Diamonds" is sitting at #1 on the new R&b chart a la Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", for an eighth week.
I wonder what will happen to Beyonce next year? "4" opened with 303k copies without a hit, but Keys opened with 401k copies without a hit.
Anyhow, when Rihanna was projecting way above 200k copies last week, HDD was saying there's a possibility for her to get a #1. And Swift ends up at ~180k at #2. So this probably means everybody else is significantly selling fewer copies than 150k copies this coming week...
