Posted May 1, 200817 yr First Day Sales Put Madonna On Track For 7th No. 1 April 30, 2008, 6:40 PM ET Madonna is on track to net her seventh No. 1 album on next week's Billboard 200 with "Hard Candy," based on first-day sales measured by the Nielsen SoundScan Building Chart released Wednesday afternoon (April 30). Unweighted sales for the Warner Bros. album from the Building Chart's panel of reporters through the close of business Tuesday, April 29, stood at 100,000. Sources close to the Madonna project indicate that with much of "Hard Candy's" first-day figure driven by iTunes sales, its full sales week could end up closer to the range of 225,000-250,000. Billboard estimates the merchants who report to Nielsen SoundScan's Building Chart -- Trans World Entertainment, Best Buy, Circuit City, iTunes, Starbucks,Borders, Target, Anderson Merchandisers, and Handleman Co. -- comprise about 80% of all U.S. Album sales. http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003796943 Edited May 1, 200817 yr by britster
May 1, 200817 yr Author With 'Hits Daily Double' predicting 275-300k, and 'Billboard' predicting 225-250k, it will be interesting to see what the final figure is.
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