Usher's just-released LaFace/ZLG album Here I Stand will be #1 in a romp next week, based on one-day sales from relieved retailers around the country. The album should do between 425-450k, which will challenge Mariah Carey for the year's best first-week sales.

 

New Line Records' Sex and the City soundtrack is next up, at 30-35k, which could go higher based on the eagerly anticipated film opening this Friday.

 

Blue Note's critically acclaimed new Al Green album, Lay It Down, produced by the Roots' ?uestlove, should do between 25-30k.

 

SOURCE: Hits Daily Double (5/28p)

 

 

Edited May 28, 200817 yr by britster

 

Usher should have released his album weeks ago.