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So after Adele's 5th June NBC special, we could see a boost for both albums, hopefully some for Mother's Day as well?

Lights gets a new peak of 35.

Album #1 on iTunes, shame it won't be able to beat its original #3 peak as the boost came a little late into the week. What track did she perform on Alan Carr?

8 weeks in the top 10 for the 1D album is mighty impressive. It's prolly onto about 550K now, and I can easily see this selling 2mil by the end of the year - they'll have a tour and a definite perf on X Factor, and God knows what else. Wonder when radio will latch on to "1 thing"?

Happy for Ellie!

I am seriously stunned that Ed Sheeran isn't getting any airplay at all (well not massive enough). Is Alex Clare getting any?

It's amazing how both fun. and Gotye have had massive #1 singles but the album sales have been middling at best.

-- 1 CARRIE UNDERWOOD BLOWN AWAY 272,670 -- -- 2 NORAH JONES LITTLE BROKEN HEARTS 106,048 -- -- 3 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 42 CAPITOL/EMI 95,400 -- 2 4 ADELE 21 77,140 -9% -- 5 B.O.B. STRANGE CLOUDS 74,105 -- 3 6 LIONEL RICHIE TUSKEGEE 65,211 -18% 1 7 JACK WHITE BLUNDERBUSS 62,847 -51% 4 8 ONE DIRECTION UP ALL NIGHT 45,496 -7% -- 9 SMASH CAST MUSIC OF SMASH 41,833 -- -- 10 MARILYN MANSON BORN VILLAIN 32,010 -- 12 11 LUKE BRYAN CAPITOL NASHVILLE/EMI 27,404 +2% TAILGATES & TANLINES 8 12 GOTYE FAIRFAX/UNIV REPUBLIC 26,650 -22% MAKING MIRRORS -- 13 AVENGERS ASSEMBLE HOLLYWOOD 26,097 -- SOUNDTRACK 5 14 LEE BRICE CURB 25,051 -45% HARD 2 LOVE 6 15 KIP MOORE MCA NASHVILLE 21,041 -43% UP ALL NIGHT 17 16 ERIC CHURCH CAPITOL NASHVILLE/EMI 19,399 -1% CHIEF 9 17 NICKI MINAJ YM/CM/UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 19,048 -41% PINK FRIDAY... ROMAN RELOADED -- 18 BEASTIE BOYS DEF JAM/IDJ 18,209 -- LICENSED TO ILL -- 19 SANTIGOLD ATLANTIC 17,025 -- MASTER OF MY MAKE BELIEVE 15 20 BONNIE RAITT REDWING 16,460 -22% SLIPSTREAM 11 21 TRAIN COLUMBIA 16,456 -40% CALIFORNIA 37 10 22 JASON MRAZ ATLANTIC 15,988 -46% LOVE IS A FOUR LETTER WORD 27 23 JASON ALDEAN BROKEN BOW 15,923 +15% MY KINDA PARTY 20 24 RASCAL FLATTS BIG MACHINE 14,972 -11% CHANGED -- 25 GEORGE HARRISON UME 14,555 -- EARLY TAKES, VOL. 1 13 26 BLACK KEYS NONESUCH 14,385 -45% EL CAMINO 32 27 RIHANNA DEF JAM/IDJ 12,694 +1% TALK THAT TALK 30 28 ADELE XL/COLUMBIA 12,412 -5% 19 22 29 THINK LIKE A MAN EPIC 12,344 -21% SOUNDTRACK 26 30 DRAKE YM/CM/UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 12,296 -14% TAKE CARE 28 31 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 41 CAPITOL/EMI 12,184 -12% VARIOUS ARTISTS 40 32 OF MONSTERS & MEN UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 11,666 +11% MY HEAD IS AN ANIMAL 16 33 ALABAMA SHAKES ATO 11,563 -43% BOYS & GIRLS 7 34 THE WANTED MERCURY 11,374 -67% THE WANTED 31 35 FUN. FUELED BY RAMEN 11,351 -13% SOME NIGHTS 25 36 FUTURE EPIC 11,335 -22% PLUTO 42 37 LADY ANTEBELLUM CAPITOL NASHVILLE/EMI 11,306 +17% OWN THE NIGHT 33 38 SHINEDOWN ATLANTIC 11,298 -8% AMARYLLIS 29 39 MONICA RCA 10,921 -21% NEW LIFE 24 40 WHITNEY HOUSTON RCA 10,745 -26% WHITNEY - THE GREATEST HITS -- 41 RUFUS WAINWRIGHT DECCA 10,564 -- OUT OF THE GAME 23 42 HUNGER GAMES: SONGS FROM DISTRIC UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 10,151 -30% SOUNDTRACK 19 43 BLAKE SHELTON WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE 10,083 -40% RED RIVER BLUE -- 44 DON OMAR MACHETE MUSIC 9,975 -- DON OMAR PRESENTS MTO2 49 45 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 9,904 +23% CEREMONIALS 44 46 BRANTLEY GILBERT BIG MACHINE 9,465 +5% HALFWAY TO HEAVEN 41 47 KELLY CLARKSON 19/RCA 9,427 -4% STRONGER -- 48 COLDPLAY CAPITOL/EMI 9,037 -- MYLO XYLOTO 39 49 SHAKE IT UP: LIVE 2 DANCE WALT DISNEY 8,899 -17% SOUNDTRACK 35 50 KATY PERRY CAPITOL/EMI 8,784 -21%

Tommy - r those worldwide sales?

Oh Adele... if only you could hit that 100mil mark!

How is ed Sheeran doing on US iTunes?

I wonder how "21"s sales will hold up as RHI continues to decline and there is no new 21 song to replace it. I really wish she'd do an AI or The Voice. Promo has been very less for the 21 era, hasn't it? I can think of the week around release time frame, the MTV Awards (SLY), Grammys performance + 60 Mins interview ...and that's it? Also how many weeks will Gotye be #1 as he's selling so well and airplay is zooming up now? I think he could beat Fun's 6 week run at #1.

1D sell 15K more (than The Wanted) in their 7th week on the chart? :(

35K for The Wanted after ALL that promo? My GOD that's pathetic! Even a Monica sold more than that with no promo.

Even if she doesn't do serious promo, they should air that Royal Albert Hall DVD 2 times (one in summer, one over Thanksgiving) and that can easily get her another half a mil easy peasy. She may end the year with 5mil (so about as much as the 5.8mil she sold in 2011).

LOL. I wish she'd just fly down to LA for a day, perform on Idol or Voice (is Voice shot in L.A) and head back? How f@cking tough is that? ;) ;)

Would be interesting if Adele and 1D can have the top 2 best sellers of the year... it's not entirely impossible for 1D. Guess Adele already has it in the bag! As for Ellie, I'd have thought she'd have sold 250K AT LEAST given that the album's been out for ages and she's been doing all kinds of guerilla promotion for it.

They'll make a lot more touring than out of album sales and bonuses. I read somewhere that following the US success, each member was given 2mil$ (or was it 2mil GBP) by Cowell.

Can RHI hit the BB Top 10?

Yay for Ellie, 1D are finally starting to pick up when sales are losing steam, and :( about Adele slowing down. Although for a 4th single with no promo and no video, touching 100mil is still amazing!

They were on Extra last night, wonder if that will help boost wknd sales?

I get what you were trying to say, but if the music isn't seen as good enough by the public, no amt of media savvyness will help!

Ellie Goulding is doing really well, finally top 40 on iTunes!

I dont' think it's the media thing at all. The fact is, TW's albums didn't do that well in the UK too unlike 1D who debuted at 2 and have gone 2xP there. MY personal opinion is that TW have had better songs (Glad you came, Gold forever) but the overall "package" goes to 1D. (At least I'm glad 1D are still selling well without any promo planned for the next 4 weeks till the tour starts).

Yay for Ellie, Yay for Adele too given that RHI isn't selling that much but airplay keeps going higher and higher. I wonder if it it'll make top 10 or peak around 12'ish. Now, all eyes on Ed Sheeran and Emeli Sande as the next 2 British acts to break the US.