AC/DC and High School Musical 3 Will Battle it Out for 1-2

 

October 29, 2008

 

AC/DC’s Wal-Mart exclusive Black Ice and the third installment of Disney’s lucrative High School Musical franchise will vie for the top spot on next week’s HITS Album sales chart, though it’s still too soon to actually tell in what order.

 

The week’s top debut will be P!nk’s Funhouse album on LaFace/ZLG, which offers love/hate valentines about ex-husband, motocross rider Carey Hart, including her first-ever #1 single, “So What.” With projected sales of 160-170k, the resurgent diva appears headed for a #3 bow, just ahead of Grammy-winning G.O.O.D. Music/Columbia soul crooner John Legend’s Evolver, which projects to between 140-150k.

 

Show Dog Nashville country star Toby Keith’s That Don’t Make Me a Bad Guy looks to be in the 90-100k range, with Lyric Street’s Rascall Flatts greatest hits album just behind with a total of 80-90k.

 

Other chart newcomers include Lost Highway’s Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, Columbia’s Celine Dion hits compilation and Interscope’s Snow Patrol, all trending between 40-50k.

 

Stream Line/Kon Live/Interscope disco queen Lady GaGa and Suretone/Geffen’s goth-emo progenitors The Cure are both looking at between 20-25k in first-week sales.

 

The market was up 8% vs. last week, down 15% vs. same week last year. still down 12% year to date, and not even close to doing as well as Sarah Palin’s stylist.

 

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Dissapointing for both Pink and GaGa :(

It'll be Pink's highest charting album though and bigger sales than I'm Not Dead. Here are her album debuts thanks to Pulse:

 

I'm Not Dead Pink 126,143 #6 4/22/06

Try This Pink 147,500 #9 11/29/03

M!ssundaztood Pink 220,175 #8 12/08/01

Edited October 29, 200816 yr by Ethereal

If it wasn't for AC/DC she would be on over 200k and it would be decent although not spectacular.

damn :( wish the numbers were bit higher for both P!nk and GaGa :(

I hope Gaga can do better then that :(

 

Best album of the year :(

Pink really should be the #1 especially over blooming HSM :puke2:

Lady GaGa deserves much better, I hope it's a consistant seller over time. :( Any idea roughly what position she's likely to land at?

Lady GaGa deserves much better, I hope it's a consistant seller over time. :( Any idea roughly what position she's likely to land at?

 

Well she is #1 on itunes so she might end up scraping the top ten on the album charts....

Thats pretty good for P!nk. Didn't expect huge sales :P

 

Awful for the GaGa though :( Deserves so much more. I've recently fell in love with her <3

Pretty amazing sales for GaGa tbh. The song has only just started taking off at Radio in the US. She's still basically unheard of. Well done to her like.

 

Be interesting to see how she does in the long run. Assuming 'Just Dance' is a hit-proper then methinks 'Poker Face' will do the business as far as selling the album is concerned.