SuBo is Taking Over the World
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/42389/week-ending-nov-29-2009-women-take-charge
AN ARTICLE ABOUT MUSIC OR SOME SHIT, IDK. I'LL COPYPASTA THE IDOL-RELEVANT PARTS.
Boyle, who was runner-up to Diversity on Britain's Got Talent, proves that it's not the end of the world to come in second. So does Adam Lambert, who finished behind Kris Allen on American Idol. The two singers were icons before those talent competitions concluded. Boyle was the plain Jane with the heaven-sent voice; Lambert, the singer who brought glam rock and a hint of danger to prime-time.
Lambert's For Your Entertainment debuts at #3 with first-week sales of 198,000. This surpasses Kris Allen's Kris Allen, which opened at #11 last week with first-week sales of 80,000. This marks the first time that the debut album by the Idol first runner-up has gotten off to a faster start than the debut album by the winner since 2003, when Clay Aiken's Measure Of A Man started with sales of 613,000, compared to a 417,000 start for Ruben Studdard's Soulful..
While Lambert's total is impressive, it falls short of the 280,000 start that greeted David Cook's David Cook in November 2008. Cook received only a fraction of the media hype that Lambert has gotten, but he has quietly sold a lot of albums. David Cook is up to 1,257,000. I expect Cook to be in the running for a Grammy for Best New Artist when the nominations for the 52nd annual Grammy Awards are announced tonight.
Another Idol alum makes big news this week. Carrie Underwood this week surpasses Kelly Clarkson as the Idol alum who has sold the most total albums. Underwood has sold 10,539,000 albums, to 10,428,000 for Clarkson. The rest of the all-time top five Idol alums are Daughtry, which has sold 5,356,000 albums; Clay Aiken (4,910,000); and Ruben Studdard (2,532,000).
3. Adam Lambert, For Your Entertainment, 198,000. This new entry's sales tally is in between the first-week tally of David Cook (280,000) and David Archuleta (183,000). Two songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "For Your Entertainment," which leaps from #75 to #35.
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Susan Boyle leads the pack as I Dreamed A Dream debuts at #1 with sales of 701,000. That's the biggest one-week sales total of 2009. It beats Eminem's Relapse, which sold 608,000 copies in its first week in May. It's also the biggest first-week sales tally in Nielsen/SoundScan history for a debut album by a female artist. It tops Ashanti, which opened with sales of 503,000 in April 2002.
Only one debut album in Nielsen/SoundScan history has sold more copies in its first week. That's Snoop Doggy Dogg's Doggystyle, which opened with sales of 803,000 in December 1993. I Dreamed A Dream posted the biggest one-week sales tally for an album by a female artist since Alicia Keys' As I Am debuted with sales of 742,000 in November 2007. It's the biggest tally for an album by a British artist since Coldplay's Viva La Viva Or Death And All His Friends started with sales of 721,000 in June 2008.
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AN ARTICLE ABOUT MUSIC OR SOME SHIT, IDK. I'LL COPYPASTA THE IDOL-RELEVANT PARTS.
Boyle, who was runner-up to Diversity on Britain's Got Talent, proves that it's not the end of the world to come in second. So does Adam Lambert, who finished behind Kris Allen on American Idol. The two singers were icons before those talent competitions concluded. Boyle was the plain Jane with the heaven-sent voice; Lambert, the singer who brought glam rock and a hint of danger to prime-time.
Lambert's For Your Entertainment debuts at #3 with first-week sales of 198,000. This surpasses Kris Allen's Kris Allen, which opened at #11 last week with first-week sales of 80,000. This marks the first time that the debut album by the Idol first runner-up has gotten off to a faster start than the debut album by the winner since 2003, when Clay Aiken's Measure Of A Man started with sales of 613,000, compared to a 417,000 start for Ruben Studdard's Soulful..
While Lambert's total is impressive, it falls short of the 280,000 start that greeted David Cook's David Cook in November 2008. Cook received only a fraction of the media hype that Lambert has gotten, but he has quietly sold a lot of albums. David Cook is up to 1,257,000. I expect Cook to be in the running for a Grammy for Best New Artist when the nominations for the 52nd annual Grammy Awards are announced tonight.
Another Idol alum makes big news this week. Carrie Underwood this week surpasses Kelly Clarkson as the Idol alum who has sold the most total albums. Underwood has sold 10,539,000 albums, to 10,428,000 for Clarkson. The rest of the all-time top five Idol alums are Daughtry, which has sold 5,356,000 albums; Clay Aiken (4,910,000); and Ruben Studdard (2,532,000).
3. Adam Lambert, For Your Entertainment, 198,000. This new entry's sales tally is in between the first-week tally of David Cook (280,000) and David Archuleta (183,000). Two songs from the album are listed on Hot Digital Songs, topped by "For Your Entertainment," which leaps from #75 to #35.
NOT STRICTLY IDOL RELATED BUT IMMA POST IT ANYWAYS:
Susan Boyle leads the pack as I Dreamed A Dream debuts at #1 with sales of 701,000. That's the biggest one-week sales total of 2009. It beats Eminem's Relapse, which sold 608,000 copies in its first week in May. It's also the biggest first-week sales tally in Nielsen/SoundScan history for a debut album by a female artist. It tops Ashanti, which opened with sales of 503,000 in April 2002.
Only one debut album in Nielsen/SoundScan history has sold more copies in its first week. That's Snoop Doggy Dogg's Doggystyle, which opened with sales of 803,000 in December 1993. I Dreamed A Dream posted the biggest one-week sales tally for an album by a female artist since Alicia Keys' As I Am debuted with sales of 742,000 in November 2007. It's the biggest tally for an album by a British artist since Coldplay's Viva La Viva Or Death And All His Friends started with sales of 721,000 in June 2008.
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