Posted January 28, 201015 yr HEY LADY! Capitol Nashville’s Lady Antebellum a Lock for #1 with Possible 400k Bow January 27, 2010 With the Grammy telecast this Sunday, Capitol Nashville’s Lady Antebellum, up for a pair of awards after garnering a Best New Artist nomination last year, will bow at #1 on next week’s HITS Album sales chart with Need You Now. Right now that total looks to be between 375-400k, which, in a word, is HUGE for the country trio featuring Hillary Scott, Dave Haywood and Charles Kelley, whose debut album cracked the mainstream sales chart, the first to do so since Dixie Chicks in 2007. The Hope for Haiti Now album continues to sell through and should remain #2, with a second-week total heading toward 150k. Capitol/EMI has the week’s other top newcomer in former three-time Grammy nominee Corinne Bailey Rae’s sophomore effort, The Sea, the U.K. singer-songwriter’s first album since the sudden death of her husband two years ago, on target for a debut between 50-55k. Arista/RMG’s Barry Manilow returns with The Greatest Love Songs of All Time, in the 40-45k range, just in time for that special someone on Valentine’s Day. Manhattan/EMI’s PBS perennial Celtic Woman looks to be between 30-35k, while the 1,876,456th edition of Razor & Tie’s cottage industry Kidz Bop Kids should do 25-30k. Sire’s Never Shout Never, the nom de band for midwestern 18-year-old singer/songwriter Christofer Drew, will see its major label debut, What Is Love?, crack the 15-20k sales mark after a series of independently released EPs that gained traction on MySpace. http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/newsPa...gi?news07919m01
January 29, 201015 yr * Lady Antebellum, Need You Now (Capitol Nashville/EMI) 400-425k Hope for Haiti Now (Hope for Haiti) 140-150k Michael Jackson’s This Is It (Epic) 65-70k Susan Boyle (Columbia) 65-70k Lady Gaga, The Fame (Interscope) 60-65k 2010 Grammy Nominees (Capitol/EMI) 50-55k * Barry Manilow (Arista/RMG) 45-50k * Corinne Bailey Rae (Capitol/EMI) 45-50k * Celtic Woman (Manhattan/EMI) 35-40k Lady Antebellum, self-titled (Capitol Nashville/EMI) 35-40 Alicia Keys (J/RMG) 35-40k Black Eyed Peas (Interscope) 30-35k * Kidz Bop Kids (Razor & Tie) 27-30k Taylor Swift (Big Machine) 27-30k Lady Gaga, The Fame Monster (Interscope) 27-30k * Denotes debut (1/29a)
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