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Aug 30, 2002
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NO CHART FIREWORKS THIS WEEK

Coldplay, Lil Wayne and Camp Rock Will Dominate, With G-Unit, Mayer the Top Debuts

July 2, 2008

Don’t expect too many fireworks at music retail over the Fourth of July weekend.
Coldplay’s Capitol Music Group album Viva La Vida, Lil Wayne’s Cash Money/Universal Motown release Tha Carter III and Disney’s Camp Rock soundtrack will once again dominate next week’s chart, according to one-day sales reports from around the good ole U.S. of A as it prepares to celebrate its 232nd birthday in high style.

There will be some debuts, however, headed by Interscope 50 Cent posse G-Unit, which should finish just behind the big three with a one-week total of 110k for its new album, T.O.S. (Terminate on Sight), their first in five years.

Columbia serial dater John Mayer is up next with his new CD/DVD live album, Where the Light Is, which should do around 70k. Hopefully, it will include some of his excellent between-song stand-up patter as well as photos of his Caribbean vacation with Jennifer Aniston.

Veteran Kansas City rapper Tech N9ne return with Killer, on his own Strange Music label, distributed through UMGD’s Fontana, which looks like it could do 40k.

Epic’s Chicago proto-punks Alkaline Trio are back with their major label debut, Agony and Irony, with a target of 35-40k in first-week sales.

Disney High School Musical ingénue (and Zac Efron squeeze) Vanessa Hudgens is in the 25-30k area for her new Hollywood Records solo album, Identified.

Koch rapper Jim Jones’ Back 2 Back looks headed for 20k in sales, followed by Epic’s Los Lonely Boys’ third solo album, Forgiven, at 15-20k

The market was down 8% vs. last week, down 13% vs. same week last year and now down 11% year-to-date.

Just be sure not to blow off any of your fingers handling fireworks this week, kids.
 
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http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117444575607043728-oEugjUqEtTo1hWJawejgR3LjRAw_20080320.html

One week, "American Idol" runner-up Chris Daughtry's rock band sold just 65,000 copies of its chart-topping album; another week, the "Dreamgirls" movie soundtrack sold a mere 60,000. As recently as 2005, there were many weeks when such tallies wouldn't have been enough to crack the top 30 sellers. In prior years, it wasn't uncommon for a No. 1 record to sell 500,000 or 600,000 copies a week.
I'd say 40k is an accomplishment.
 
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ESPECIALLY with ZERO video play and next to zero radio play...


G-Unit has TWO video/singles in rotation on TV and radio, opening them up to, potentially, an audience that's thousands larger and are on pace to sell just over 100k. 50 has sold millions of records...with that kind of name recognition you'd think they could at least pull a quarter mil.
 
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Uh the first website says G-Unit is on pace to sell 110k albums, while that one says 700k albums.

How can there be a 590k disparity between the two sites? One of them is wrong as hell and if it's the first site than that Tech projection is worthless.
 

MysticOracle

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pitting independent artists against major label artists is weak, its a sad thing that all people dont like quality and instead listen to lil wayne and/or 50 music. 40k in a first week independent release with no video/ no radio play that says a lot and tells me the weaker the artist the more exposure they need to get on top, plus with majors backing them, with huge amounts of radio spin pay offs and publicity stunts, i have only one question left.. can 50 take one more bullet? if he really did ever have a bullet to begin with