BILLBOARD 200

 

(billboard chart date 5th April 2014)

 

LW TW ARTIST - TITLE - TW SALES

 

01 01 Frozen Soundtrack - 201,966 (1,633,246)

** 02 YG - My Krazy Life - 60,913 (NEW)

** 03 Foster The People - Supermodel - 53,773 (NEW)

** 04 Skrillex - Recess - 46,510 (NEW)

** 05 The Pretty Reckless - Going to Hell - 35,294 (NEW)

05 06 Pharrell Williams - G I R L - 34,000 (192,000)

03 07 Rick Ross - Mastermind - 27,000

** 08 Enrique Iglesias - Sex and Love - 23,665 (NEW)

08 09 Lorde - Pure Heroine - 24,000

** 10 Taking Back Sunday - Happiness Is - 22,418 (NEW)

 

12 11 Now 49

11 12 Beyonce - Beyonce

** 13 The Rend Collective - The Art Of Celebration - 18,443 (NEW)

10 14 Eric Church - The Outsiders - 18,000 (476,000)

02 15 Luke Bryan - Spring Break 6 … Like We Ain't Ever EP - 18,000 (92,000)

** 16 Demon Hunter - Extremist - 17,928 (NEW)

** 17 Kevin Gates - By Any Means - 15,237 (NEW)

13 18 Beck - Morning Phase

04 19 Aloe Blacc - Lift Your Spirit - 15,000 (60,000)

16 20 Katy Perry - PRISM - 15,000 (1,275,000)

 

29 21 Divergent Soundtrack

21 22 John Legend - Love In The Future

** 23 Tycho - Awake - 14,135 (NEW)

19 24 Florida Georgia Line - Here’s To The Good Times - 14,000 (1,718,000)

18 25 Luke Bryan - Crash My Party - 14,000 (1,724,000)

** 26 War On Drugs - Lost In The Dream - 13,623 (NEW)

20 27 Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2 - 13,000 (2,017,000)

** 28 2014 ACM Awards ZinePak - 12,632 (NEW)

15 29 ScHoolboy Q - Oxymoron - 12,224 (198,000)

17 Imagine Dragons - Night Vision

 

** 31 Kylie Minogue - Kiss Me Once (NEW)

24 32 Cole Swindell - Cole Swindell - 11,000 (118,000)

22 33 Bruno Mars - Unorthodox Jukebox

09 34 Sara Evans - Slow Me Down - 11,000 (38,000)

25 35 Miley Cyrus - Bangerz - 11,000 (966,000)

07 36 Young Money - Rise Of An Empire - 10,569 (42,059)

23 37 Romeo Santos - Formula: Vol. 2

27 38 Bastille - Bad Blood

** 39 Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata - 9,300 (9,500) (NEW)

30 40 Arctic Monkeys - AM

 

33 41 Jhene Aiko - Sail Out - 8,800 (181,000)

26 43 Dierks Bentley - Riser - 8,000 (100,000)

** 45 La Dispute - Rooms Of The House (NEW)

49 47 Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience, (2 Of 2)

37 48 Drake - Nothing Was The Same - 7,700 (1,516,000)

** 50 Wisin - El Regreso del Sobreviviente (NEW)

 

42 52 One Direction - Midnight Memories

51 53 Ellie Goulding - Halcyon

41 54 OneRepublic - Native

RE 56 St. Paul & The Broken Bones - Half The City

46 58 Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d. city - 6,100 (1,220,000)

** 57 Smith & Myers - (Acoustic Sessions Part 2) EP (NEW)

32 59 Lea Michele - Louder (70,000)

** 60 George Michael - Symphonica (NEW)

 

60 61 Avicii - True

53 63 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - The Heist - 5,500 (1,378,000)

66 66 Jason Aldean - Night Train - 5,000 (1,616,000)

74 67 P!nk - The Truth About Love

** 68 Muppets Most Wanted Soundtrack (NEW)

63 70 Passenger - All The Little Lights

 

57 73 Blake Shelton - Based On A True Story - 5,000 (1,182,000)

34 75 Eli Young Band - 10,000 Towns - 5,000 (50,000)

59 76 Lana Del Rey - Born To Die - 5,000 (1,001,000)

62 80 Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans

72 84 Adele - 21

56 85 St. Vincent - St. Vincent

68 96 HAIM - Days Are Gone

109 98 Paramore - Paramore

 

81 103 Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park - 4,000 (384,000)

75 104 Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

44 105 American Authors - Oh What A Life

** 108 I Am The Avalanche - Wolverines (NEW)

43 109 Ashanti - Braveheart

161 110 Demi Lovato - Demi (361,000)

 

121 112 Zac Brown Band - Uncaged - 3,000 (1,049,000)

RE 116 Eminem - Eminem Show - 3,226

117 117 Mumford & Sons - Babel

95 120 The Beatles - 1

 

85 123 The 1975 - The 1975

RE 127 Cher - Closer To The Truth

RE 135 Drake - Take Care

RE 136 Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience

86 146 The Neighbourhood - I Love You

156 148 Lady GaGa - ARTPOP - 3,000 (680,000)

 

** 156 Jo Dee Messina - Me - 2,600 (NEW)

190 158 Foreigner - Juke Box Heroes

145 166 Taylor Swift - Red - 2,500 (4,017,000)

149 175 Jay Z - Magna Carta... Holy Grail

130 175 Scotty McCreery - See You Tonight - 2,300 (217,000)

155 177 Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines

 

98 183 Kid Cudi - Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon

120 184 Ariana Grande - Yours Truly

177 186 Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon

179 191 Led Zeppelin - Mothership

158 193 Little Mix - Salute

184 195 Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More

 

 

Umi's Chart highlights:

• The last album as old as "Frozen" to sell more than 200k in one week was Adele's "21", which sold 730k in the wake of the 2012 Grammys.
• Skrillex logs his best week ever as his first full-length album, "Recess," debuts at No. 4 with 47,000. It's his first top 10 album, surpassing the No. 14 peak of the EP "Bangarang" in January 2012.
• The Pretty Reckless also scores its biggest week yet, as its second album, "Going to Hell," bows at No. 5 with 35,000. The group, fronted by singer/actress Taylor Momsen, had previously gone as high as No. 65 with 2011's "Light Me Up," selling 9,000 in its first week.
• Enrique Iglesias nabs only his third top 10 album with "Sex and Love" as it enters at No. 8 with 24,000. It follows his previous top 10s "Euphoria" (No. 10 in 2010) and "Escape" (No. 2 in 2001).
• Overall album sales during this past chart week (ending March 23) totaled 4.7 million units, up 3 percent compared with the sum last week (4.6 million) and down 22 percent compared with the comparable sales week of 2013 (6.1 million).
• Year-to-date album sales stand at 57.1 million, down 15 percent compared with the same total at this pointlast year (67.5 million).

I would be happy with that were I Kylie.

 

And yay for Lana finally passing a million :D

I would be happy with that were I Kylie.

 

And yay for Lana finally passing a million :D

At least she can say she beat George :lol:

 

 

I'll settle with that for Kylie, had no idea what to expect really but she's not really a name in the US so gotta take what you can get.

Honestly I think they just gave up on Kylie in America anyway. Has she had even one performance over there? They actually tried with Aphrodite but everything about the KMO era (in the UK and elsewhere) has been very "meh she won't do well anyway so we'll just try keep the old fans happy".

Honestly I think they just gave up on Kylie in America anyway. Has she had even one performance over there? They actually tried with Aphrodite but everything about the KMO era (in the UK and elsewhere) has been very "meh she won't do well anyway so we'll just try keep the old fans happy".

That, but to be honest I don't think Rocnation wanted to do what Parlo did for K during the Aphrodite era. That was a mess...she did get cool promo spots but GOMW wasn't the right single to open an album in the US. By that yardstick, "Into the blue", as mellow as it may sound sounds more suited for US audiences than Aphrodite which was a bit kitsch for mainstream US radio appeal.

 

As for KMO, I heard she's planning on spending summer in the US promoting so let's see what comes out of that. But again, they need to go with the right song. If a 45yo does Sexercise in ageist sexist America, it won't go down well. That'll be as bad as previous experiments such as RBW and "All I see".

 

In the UK, I don't know if Rocnation gave up or wanted to cater to her small fanbase. They've spent tons of money creating the album and video to say "lets just chuck it to the usual 30-50K gay fans". They're probably thinking of some other 'strategy' like a slow build up and a slow burn across 3-4 singles. You never know....time will tell. If the 2nd single is Sexercise, then it's a goner. Even her new found home of R2 will abandon her!

That, but to be honest I don't think Rocnation wanted to do what Parlo did for K during the Aphrodite era. That was a mess...she did get cool promo spots but GOMW wasn't the right single to open an album in the US. By that yardstick, "Into the blue", as mellow as it may sound sounds more suited for US audiences than Aphrodite which was a bit kitsch for mainstream US radio appeal.

 

As for KMO, I heard she's planning on spending summer in the US promoting so let's see what comes out of that. But again, they need to go with the right song. If a 45yo does Sexercise in ageist sexist America, it won't go down well. That'll be as bad as previous experiments such as RBW and "All I see".

 

In the UK, I don't know if Rocnation gave up or wanted to cater to her small fanbase. They've spent tons of money creating the album and video to say "lets just chuck it to the usual 30-50K gay fans". They're probably thinking of some other 'strategy' like a slow build up and a slow burn across 3-4 singles. You never know....time will tell. If the 2nd single is Sexercise, then it's a goner. Even her new found home of R2 will abandon her!

I think the best thing Kylie can do in the US is just really try and push 'Into The Blue' to adult contemporary radio, try and establish a similar relationship to the one she has with Radio 2 in the UK. The time for her and Pop radio has definitely passed, so trying to lift album sales a bit is the way to go in my opinion. And certainly adult radio should be more willing to play her than Pop have been since 2002...

 

Only problem with the "slow burn" thing in the UK is that, well, it's just not how radio does things over here. If you don't get a good start they're not gonna give you a chance to pick up the momentum, so I really do think if "slow build up" is their strategy, it won't go very well.

 

And on a very barely related note, it's amusing to note that Enrique has only had three top 10 albums, and two of them came at a time when he's going into decline!