Sales of ex-Sugababe Mutya Buena's debut album have rocketed since she entered the Big Brother house 6 days ago. Regarded as a commercial flop after its 2007 release, sales of Real Girl are up by 107%.

 

45 year-old rapper Coolio has also experienced a significant boost with his 1995 single Gangsta's Paradise tipped to re-enter the top 40 on Sunday.

 

 

Even one hit wonder and sister of Michael, La Toya Jackson has seen an increase with downloads of her single Sexual Feeling up by 8%.

 

Elsewhere, members of Ben Adams' former band A1 must be smarting as their A List album is no longer available. But most embarrasingly, albums by Michelle Heaton's former band Liberty X are still available - but sales appear to be unchanged

 

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is it close to re charting?

 

i bet it is selling more than the sugababes, oh dear

i thinks its more of the Woolworths factor to be honest as that was one of the only albums left in stock and it was covering 75% of the stand and it was priced at 99p.

 

I doubt the sales are big enough to get it into the top 200 as 107% increase of hardly any copies is still hardly any copies.

Exactly :lol: It won't even be close to the Top 200 I wouldn't have thought.

I don't think it will be beating the Sugas album to be honest with you!

Edited January 8, 200916 yr by shindymindy

Great news although TBH prior to CBB Mutya's album was probably selling 5 copies a week so for sales to be up so much probably means its only selling about 20 now! :kink: :heehee: Also Woolies were selling the album off for 50p in their closing down sale which would have helped this increase :heehee:

Good for her.

only prob is, my woolies were bundling CDs in batches of 5 for £5 and just ringing through "CD sales" on the receipt so not sure a lot of the sales would've counted. Also on the last day tills were off and no receipts so again no sales data i suspect. And lets face it, with the no of copies left everywhere no-one was buying it until this week when it was super cheap! So far i'm not loving it i have to say... :(

only prob is, my woolies were bundling CDs in batches of 5 for £5 and just ringing through "CD sales" on the receipt so not sure a lot of the sales would've counted. Also on the last day tills were off and no receipts so again no sales data i suspect. And lets face it, with the no of copies left everywhere no-one was buying it until this week when it was super cheap! So far i'm not loving it i have to say... :(

 

Oh really?! :unsure: Thankfully every Woolies I have been into has been scanning the CDs through the till even when they were reduced by 90%...

btw, Mutya will not be troubling the top200 anytime soon- she's charting on the Budget album chart! (like GA's tangled up and Snow Patrol's Eyes Open is now!) up to 4 this week if memory serves so selling ok but prob record company thought this was the most realistic way to claw back some money on the project... <_<

where do we get to look at the budget chart??

btw, Mutya will not be troubling the top200 anytime soon- she's charting on the Budget album chart! (like GA's tangled up and Snow Patrol's Eyes Open is now!) up to 4 this week if memory serves so selling ok but prob record company thought this was the most realistic way to claw back some money on the project... <_<

 

Isn't the budget chart just something stores to make to get rid of the albums they don't want anymore.

LOL poor Mutya, sales are up 107% but she's still selling nout.

Well Woolworths is closed now so sure she'll be tumbling this week! Though my local WHS has a suspiciously similar rack of sale CDs this week that it didn't have b4... Still loads of Mutya but they're asking for £5 :lol:

Isn't the budget chart just something stores to make to get rid of the albums they don't want anymore.

Not exactly. It is for albums below a certain dealer price (price record company sell to the retailer for) which therefore are ineligible to chart on the main album chart. Full of "very best of" cash ins which you see in supermarkets, and some old studio albums which record companies drop the price of to shift a few more, usually in the wake of a new album (e.g. GA's tangled up, which is now Budget following the huge success of OOC, and is 3 in the budget chart this week- wasn't even top75 anymore before it was made budget 6 weeks ago).

 

Mutya has dropped from 4 completely out of the Budget top50 if anyone even cares btw. With no woolworths "halfpenny CD sale" no-one will touch it now (even though its £5 in fair numbers in WHS)