CALLING PLANET EARTH: The Artist Still Known as Prince is on target to sell approximately 100k of his new album, Planet Earth, and first for Columbia, which is kinda dwarfed by the 2.8 million he gave away a couple of weekends ago in the U.K. with copies of the Sunday Mail. Strangely, he hasn’t made it available on iTunes, but the single, “Guitar,” is available as a download on Verizon. That will put him into a head-to-head battle with UTV/UMe’s Now 25 in its second week and Disney’s Hannah Montana 2 soundtrack. Among the other chart newcomers, Island’s Canadian rockers Sum 41 look to be in the 35-40k range for their new album, Underclass Hero, while Billy Ray Cyrus (or Daddy Montana) could do an impressive 20k for his Buena Vista bow. Marc Anthony’s Sony Norte soundtrack for the movie El Cantante, in which he stars with wife Jennifer Lopez, appears to be headed for 20-25k, while Epic’s Yung Berg EP should sell 15k, give or take. Overall, the market was down slightly more than 2% vs. last week, down almost 9% from same week last year and now down under 15% year-to-date. You may now return to perusing Dan’s Papers while lounging in your Hamptons beach house. (7/25p)

 

from hits.

 

such low numbers for #1. i wonder what's the next big cd to come out soon... :unsure:

turns out Now 25 will stay at the top & Prince's debut is fairly low.

 

TOMORROW'S TOP 10 TODAY: UTV/UMe's Now 25 will top tomorrow's HITS Album Sales chart, with a total that looks to be in the 150-155k range, followed, in turn by New Line's resilient Hairspray soundtrack (101k), Disney's Hannah Montana 2 (90.1k), Columbia's debuting Prince (86.8k), Grand Hustle/Atlantic's T.I. (66.5k), Interscope/A&M's Fergie (53.6k), Island/IDJ Top10 newcomer Sum 41 (46k), WB's Linkin Park (42k), Universal Republic's Amy Winehouse (42k) and Hollywood's Plain White T's, making their Top 10 bow with 40k. (7/30p)

I really just don't know why Hannah Montanna and High School Musical sell more copies than some of the big artist albums around atm :lol:

I really just don't know why Hannah Montanna and High School Musical sell more copies than some of the big artist albums around atm :lol:

 

Rich bitches with too many money to spend?