BILLBOARD 200

 

(billboard chart date 13th September 2014)

 

LW TW ARTIST - TITLE - TW SALES

 

** 01 Ariana Grande - My Everything - 169,222 (NEW)

** 02 Brad Paisley - Moonshine - 53,312 (NEW)

** 03 Kem - Promise to Love: Album IV - 52,086 (NEW)

02 04 Guardians of the Galaxy - Awesome Mix Vol. 1 - 48,000 (374,000)

07 05 Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour - 30,000 (523,000)

01 06 Wiz Khalifa - Blacc Hollywood - 30,067 (120,520)

06 07 Frozen Soundtrack - 27,000 (3,357,000)

04 08 Now 51 - 25,000 (204,000)

08 09 5 Seconds Of Summer - 5 Seconds Of Summer - 22,000 (422,000)

** 10 Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen - 22,000 (693,000)

 

** 11 Thousand Foot Krutch - OXYGEN:INHALE - 19,203 (NEW)

10 12 Ed Sheeran - x - 17,000 (432,000)

** 13 The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers - 16,246 (NEW)

44 14 Beyonce - Beyonce - 15,518 (2,055,353)

11 15 Luke Bryan - Crash My Party - 15,000 (2,101,000)

14 16 Iggy Azalea - The New Classic - 14,472 (323,149)

** 17 G-Unit - The Beauty Of Independence EP - 14,472 (NEW)

03 18 Chase Rice - Ignite The Night - 14,000 (58,000)

** 19 Opeth - Pale Communion - 13,460 (NEW)

** 20 Steffany Gretzinger - The Undoing - 13,225 (NEW)

 

** 21 Shovels & Rope - Swimmin Time - 12,619 (NEW)

05 22 Nashville Outlaws: A Tribute To Motley Crue - 12,000 (42,000)

** 23 Chayanne - En Todo Estare - 10,748 (NEW)

20 24 Now 50

18 25 Brantley Gilbert - Just As I Am - 10,000 (547,000)

17 26 OneRepublic - Native

16 27 Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Hypnotic Eye

13 28 Eric Clapton - The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale

26 29 Florida Georgia Line - Here's To The Good Times - 9,000 (2,014,000)

** 30 Royal Blood - Royal Blood (NEW)

 

15 31 Godsmack - 1000HP - 8,850

27 33 Coldplay - Ghost Stories - 9,000 (695,000)

22 32 Kidz Bop Kidz - Kidz Bop 26

19 34 Miranda Lambert - Platinum - 9,000 (438,000)

30 35 Lorde - Pure Heroine - 8,000 (1,421,000)

75 36 Cole Swindell - Cole Swindell - 8,000 (235,000)

12 37 Smokey Robinson - Smokey & Friends - 13,553

28 38 Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence - 8,000 (352,000)

25 39 Trey Songz - Trigga - 7,416 (230,054)

71 40 Ariana Grande - Yours Truly 7,000 (494,000)

 

33 41 Arctic Monkeys - AM

126 42 The 1975 - The 1975

29 44 Eric Church - The Outsiders - 7,000 (702,000)

42 46 Sia - 1000 Forms of Fear - 7,000 (106,000)

09 49 Ace Frehley - Space Invader - 6,025

37 50 Blake Shelton - Based On A True Story - 6,000 (1,348,000)

49 51 Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2 - 5,892 (2,189,993)

31 52 Weird Al Yankovic - Mandatory Fun

** 54 Ed Sheeran - Don't EP (NEW)

32 57 Linkin Park - The Hunting Party - 5,280 (226,566)

66 58 Imagine Dragons - Night Visions (2,306,000.)

 

41 61 Katy Perry - PRISM - 5,000 (1,477,000)

47 62 Michael Jackson - Xscape - 4,945 (417,273)

45 63 John Legend - Love In The Future - 4,769 (611,161)

52 64 Pharrell - G I R L - 4,748 (511,667)

68 74 Bastille - Bad Blood

67 75 Drake - Nothing Was The Same (1,620,000)

57 76 Rise Against - The Black Market - 4,050

101 81 Jason Derulo - Talk Dirty

72 82 Big Smo - Kuntry Livin' - 4,000 (80,000)

24 83 Troye Sivan - TRXYE EP

65 85 One Direction - Midnight Memories (1,401,000)

55 86 Sam Hunt - X2C - 4,000 (17,000)

76 90 FKA twigs - LP1

133 93 Avenged Sevenfold - Hail To The King - 3,425

70 95 Theory of a Deadman - Savages - 3,350

** 96 Famous Last Words - Council of the Dead - 3,350 (NEW)

 

64 101 Seether - Isolate And Medicate - 3,200

104 106 Adele - 21 - 3,000 (10,987,000)

69 109 Shawn Mendes - Shawn Mendes EP

93 110 Lana Del Rey - Born To Die (1,125,000)

100 113 Bruno Mars - Unorthodox Jukebox (2,307,000)

114 114 Eric Clapton - Icon: Eric Clapton

122 117 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

108 121 Foreigner - Juke Box Heroes

123 125 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin

35 133 Accept - Blind Rage - 2,525

136 141 Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon

*** 142 Lenny Cooper - The Grind - 2,400 (NEW)

162 144 Ed Sheeran - x

111 146 Judas Priest - Redeemer of Souls - 2,400

 

128 155 5 Seconds Of Summer - She Looks So Perfect EP

134 158 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III

190 161 Def Leppard - Pyromania

168 164 Five Finger Death Punch - The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell Vol. 1 - 2,175

186 167 Five Finger Death Punch - The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell Vol. 2 - 2,175

*** 168 Basement Jaxx - Junto - 2,000 (NEW)

38 171 Buckcherry - F--- EP - 2,170

174 172 Marsha Ambrosius - Friends & Lovers

RE 182 Miley Cyrus - Bangerz (1,059,000)

138 185 The Pretty Reckless - Going To Hell - 2,000

193 191 Milky Chance - Stolen Dance EP

176 195 Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience (2 Of 2) (1,030,000)

 

 

07 05 Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour - 30,000 (523,000)

half a million in 11 weeks - not bad in this climate.

 

 

They can stop comparing Ariana's success to being the modern day Britney Spears now.

 

Girl is a flop in comparison to Britney. Not to mention she only sold 55,000 more copies than "Britney Jean" in its first week. Let's call it for what it is, Ariana is a talented pop star with success... But, let's stop comparing these new kids to icons, off the bat.

Edited September 4, 201410 yr by Tyler~

They can stop comparing Ariana's success to being the modern day Britney Spears now.

 

Girl is a flop in comparison to Britney. Not to mention she only sold 55,000 more copies than "Britney Jean" in its first week. Let's call it for what it is, Ariana is a talented pop star with success... But, let's stop comparing these new kids to icons, off the bat.

 

Quite right. Will people still be talking about Ariana in 15 years time? Doubtful...

Ariana still has a growing fan base. I think it took until Rated R for Rihanna to get a 200k seller. However there's no point in comparing the her with Britney as like Tyler said one is new and the other is an icon.

I can see why the Britney/Ariana comparisons come about but really they're quite awful. This era is more like a mini One of The Boys by Katy Perry, hardly a Baby One More Time.

It's hard to imagine a modern day Britney. It would require a MASSIVE debut hit at the level of Call Me Maybe along with an instant popular recognition the likes of which only a handful of artists have achieved in the last decade. I think only Katy Perry, Adele, Gaga and Rihanna have achieved that, and only Perry did it as quickly as Britney.

 

Ariana is the latest big thing but she's going to need really GOOD songs to allow her to crossover from the tween market. Problem is absolutely good enough. The Way wasn't, nor is Break Free. But she's just at the start of her career so we shall see.

Edited September 5, 201410 yr by Consie

Vocally she's miles better than Britney ever was or ever will be but I can't see her being as big as Britney even though her fan base is growing but only time will tell. Would love for her to have Katy Perry's success fingers crossed.

She also has pretty much zero in the way of star quality as well, despite being pretty and having a nice voice (despite the terrible enunciation).

Vocally she's miles better than Britney ever was or ever will be but I can't see her being as big as Britney even though her fan base is growing but only time will tell. Would love for her to have Katy Perry's success fingers crossed.

 

Vocally a lot of of artists are better than Britney. But few have come close to reaching the momentum she has. Ariana definitely isn't more talented when it comes to performing or captivating an audience. And that is what makes a pop icon. She had every age group in the world talking about not only her performances, music and videos. They were obsessed with her. And FEW are able to make that crossover that Britney basically copyrighted. Before her there was no road to transition between child star and adult icon. Or even adult 'semi-success' for that matter.

 

So Arianna is talented. But, she is not breaking a single mold or doing ANYTHING that anyone will remember in ten years.

Edited September 5, 201410 yr by Tyler~

It will take time for Ariana to build up a fan base since it's only a year since her last album was released which probably explains why her first week sales aren't as high as predicted and only 30k higher than her last album (the extra few coming off due to the success of Problem and Break Free). Not to mention sales climate. Tbh, Ariana can only be compared to Britney if she had near the same success as Britney did at first.

Edited September 5, 201410 yr by Neil. S

Vocally a lot of of artists are better than Britney. But few have come close to reaching the momentum she has. Ariana definitely isn't more talented when it comes to performing or captivating an audience. And that is what makes a pop icon. She had every age group in the world talking about not only her performances, music and videos. They were obsessed with her. And FEW are able to make that crossover that Britney basically copyrighted. Before her there was no road to transition between child star and adult icon. Or even adult 'semi-success' for that matter.

 

So Arianna is talented. But, she is not breaking a single mold or doing ANYTHING that anyone will remember in ten years.

 

Completely agree, no one has been able to captivate people like Britney did, but like I said time will tell. So to say she wont be remembered in ten years is a little harsh as none of us know of what her future plans are, she may blow up with her 3rd album, she may slowly fade away. Comparing 14 years ago to now is a slightly unfair to do as teenage fans have changed & so has their music tastes. Back then Britneys music was the stuff that everyone listened to and loved, me personally I think that teenagers go for a lot more mature music now'a days. Hopefully Ariana can stick around for a few more years which I'm pretty sure of as she has some die hard fans.

That's why i said she isn't doing anything that will be remembered. I never said she wouldn't.

 

I was just generally tired of publishers like Billboard comparing her to an act she does not YET, deserved to be compared to. That is all.

I do agree that Ariana's current efforts aren't anything that'll be remembered. 'Problem' is pretty big but nothing iconic.

 

How long she'll last is hard to say. She's very popular and it's hard to imagine her fanbase just disappearing but at the same time it's just hard to imagine her ever being a huge loved figure among the general public. The lack of star power and enunciation problems are her biggest weaknesses imo. Her voice may be great but it's just so hard to take her performances seriously when she blends every word into one long "fluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurgh".

I COULD NOT AGREE MORE ABOUT HER ENUNCIATION!

 

 

"Ayevendohhahihteyaiwannaluhyaiwantyohuuuuuuuh"

Comparing 14 years ago to now is a slightly unfair to do as teenage fans have changed & so has their music tastes. Back then Britneys music was the stuff that everyone listened to and loved, me personally I think that teenagers go for a lot more mature music now'a days.

 

I think that's fair. I was a teenager in 1999 and there were significantly fewer options. Few people bought CD singles, and internet was too slow for it to be any real use in exploring new music. To a large degree, whatever MTV and radio played became popular. Interestingly enough, I was probably most exposed to new music on The Box channel since they only played requests.

 

Also worth noting is that Britney burst on the scene with a new writer/producer named Max Martin who helped her introduce a new sound that basically defined pop music for the next few years. ...Baby One More Time was Martin's first Hot 100 no. 1 and he's currently sitting atop with his 18th (Shake it Off).

 

All that said, Britney never would have had any staying power without exceptional talent and media savvy. She is also very adept at partnerships and collaborations. She and Christina Aguilera both made out with Madonna on stage but which one turned that coverage into a hugely popular collaboration song? And between Max Martin, The Neptunes, Darkchild, Guy Sigsworth, etc... she has worked with all the great pop writers and producers of the 21st century.

I never wanted a "like post" option so much on BuzzJack before now ^

Thanks, Umi :D

Please post more Consie! :wub:

Thanks! Honestly I'm not a loon but I saw Britney during the Onyx Hotel tour 10 years ago and she sang every single song live and was brilliant. People don't realize how talented a vocalist she actually is... nor how hard she works. She doesn't need to sing each night in Vegas but she does. The only pop star who works as hard as Britney is Gaga, who tours relentlessly.