Posted June 6, 200718 yr Starbucks Sales Help Push New Album to #1, with 180k in First-Week Sales June 6, 2007 A new paradigm has arrived for the record industry, and it all took place in the local coffee shop. Thanks to its presence in more than 9,000 Starbucks in the U.S. alone and a worldwide marketing campaign and set-up by Hear Music and Concord Music Group, Paul McCartney’s Memory Almost Full looks like it will debut at #1 on next week’s chart, with a total of 180k in first-week sales. Considering Macca’s last album, 2005’s Chaos and Creation in the Backyard, on his long time home, Capitol/EMI, sold around 95k its first week, the total on the new disc will be nearly double and, according to insiders, is mostly attributable to baristas hawking it with mocha cappuccinos across this great land of ours. With the album debuting yesterday by being played all day long on Starbucks PA systems, the coffee giant has commanded the largest marketshare ever on any title. Kudos also to Concord’s Gene Rumsey and newly named head of sales Mike Gillespie for making sure the album maintained its traditional retail base, insisting Starbucks’ presence would not hurt business. A couple of red-hot R&B artists riding radio hits will also challenge for the lead, but according to one-day sales reports from grateful retailers around the country, both will fall just short. Def Jam/IDJ’s Rihanna, thanks to her hit duet, “Umbrellas,” with Jay-Z, will see her third album, Good Girl Gone Bad, debut near the top, where it will be challenged by Jive/ZLG soul star T-Pain’s Epiphany, for the next two slots after Paul, both at around 160-170k. Have the guy "buy u a drank" at the nearest Starbucks in celebration. El Cartel/Interscope reggaeton superstar Daddy Yankee follows, with his total of 110-115k for El Cartel: The Big Boss buttressed by major sales in his native Puerto Rico. WB’s Music City mafia country kingpins Big & Rich are also looking at six figures, with a total of around 100k, give or take. Interscope’s Marilyn Manson is looking to scare up sales of between 90-100k for his new album, Eat Me, Drink Me. Police’s greatest hits on A&M/UMe is looking at 40-45k, maybe even more, thanks to Starbucks, while Suretone’s ex-Soundgarden, ex-Audioslave vocalist Chris Cornell is on target for 40k. The market was down less than a percent vs last week, down 10.6% vs. same week last year and now down 16.4% year-to-date.
June 6, 200718 yr Macca Rules!!! Not bad for someone spending their 45th year as a recording artist, who had his first US #1 album with some band called the Beatles in 1964.
June 9, 200718 yr Latest Update: HitsDailyDouble.com YOUR WEEKEND TOP 10: As we head into the weekend, Paul McCartney holds a slight edge over T-Pain and Rihanna for the #1 slot on next week’s chart. Macca’s Hear Music/Concord Music Group album, Memory Almost Full, is on target to sell between 170-175k as one of six newcomers to the Top 10. That puts it in a three-way race with two more debuts in Jive/ZLG ringtone king T-Pain and Def Jam/IDJ’s lissome Rihanna, both skewing towards 165-170k, for the top. It’s a race that won’t be decided until weekend results are digested. Last week’s chart-topper, Jive/ZLG’s R. Kelly, will fall to #4 with 135-140k, while A&M/Octone’s Maroon 5, #1 two weeks ago, rounds out the Top 5 with 120-125k. El Cartel/Interscope reggaeton ruler Daddy Yankee bows at #6 with between 105-110k, maybe more, pending sales in his native Puerto Rico, followed by WB’s Linkin Park (100-105k). Two more debuts, WB’s Big and Rich (100-105k) and Interscope’s Marilyn Manson (90-95k) are up next, with Universal Republic’s still-strong Amy Winehouse (60-65k) rounding out the Top 10. For the first time in a while, we could have eight different albums topping the six-figure mark.
June 10, 200718 yr I guess that's the reason why they suddenly put "Umbrella" off i-tunes, they shoula done it one week before to boost the album sales and get the top spot!
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