Record Numbers
People actually still buy albums. HEAVE breaks down the weekly charts.
Much like The Dude, I just f#@king hate the Eagles, man. And so it pains me to report this, but the band crushed Britney Spears' hopes of a number one comeback album after getting help from both Wal Mart and Billboard. Allow me to explain: Up until about three days ago, the Billboard Charts company refused to include album sales for discs sold through only one retail outlet. For some reason they changed that policy this week, allowing the Eagles to steal the top spot after moving 711,000 copies of their Wal Mart only Long Road Out of Eden. It's a shocking number, since every person I've ever met in my entire life wishes God would banish the Eagles from the entire planet, not just a garden paradise.
The rule-change dropped Britney to the second spot, with a respectable showing of 290,000 in sales of Blackout. For most artists, getting close to the 300,000 mark?specially in this market?ould be something to celebrate. And while no one can accuse Britney's comeback of being anything but a surprise success so far, she is no doubt wondering if Billboard made the rule change solely to screw her over. I'm guessing that she probably ran over an executive's foot or something.
Speaking of comebacks, the Backstreet Boys sold a little more than 81,000 copies of Unbreakable, landing the newly re-formed group in the seventh spot. Carrie Underwood slipped to third, moving another 170,100 copies of Carnival Ride. Josh Turner and Avenge Sevenfold both debuted in the top ten, and the completely unbearable Rascal Flatts remained in the top ten for their sixth straight week.
Check back next week when Jay-Z's American Gangster decimates anything and everything in its way.
Posted by Ryan Peters on Nov 09, 2007 @ 12:00 am
