JoeJoe Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 For the second week in a row, an album has broken the record for the slimmest sales tally by an album at #1 in the Nielsen SoundScan era. Cake's Showroom Of Compassion tops The Billboard 200 with sales of just 44,000 copies. Last week, Taylor Swift's Speak Now earned the unwelcome distinction with sales of 52,000. Here's a sign of how bad the current album market is. Each of Cake's last two albums sold more copies in their opening week than Showroom just did, even though they debuted considerably lower on the chart. Pressure Chief sold 46K when it debuted at #17 in 2004. Comfort Eagle sold 72K when it debuted at #13 in 2001. In fact, Showroom sold just 100 or so more copies in its first week than the band's 1998 album Prolonging The Magic did when it debuted at #33. (Pressure Chief and Prolonging The Magic both came out in October, when sales are brisker than they are in January, but still...) You might well ask: If an album can sell just 44K and finish #1, what does it mean? Keep in mind that albums compete in the same retail climate and economy as every other album on the market at that time. Cake's tally may be modest, but the album still sold more copies than any other album, new or old, last week. So it's still an achievement worth celebrating. For the band, that is, not for the music industry. Here are two more signs of how slow album sales are this week. Five of the albums in this week's top 10 sold fewer than 30,000 copies. That's happened only once before (last August). And just 4,849,000 albums were sold last week, the second lowest total in Nielsen SoundScan history (which dates to 1991). The low mark (to date) of 4,832,000 was set in September. http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/73781/week-ending-jan-16-2011-albums-even-lower/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Wonder Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 So glad Janet has already sold a shit load of albums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotboy06 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 A pity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 So glad Janet has already sold a shit load of albums. me too, if they had of known, they being artists in the 90's, that things would go south the way it did im thinking Janet would have put out more albums knowing time is limited and when the net hits our sales are going bust, because at this point Janet (in the 90's) could have put out another album or two and sold probably another 7 million copies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrietta. Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Well unlike the others, Slaylor is pass 3 million headed for 4 million Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock & Roll Hall of Game Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Only if Ciara would have waited Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetDAYZ Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Only if Ciara would have waited You're LATE ...Henri already gave us this Ciara joke in another thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Wonder Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 me too, if they had of known, they being artists in the 90's, that things would go south the way it did im thinking Janet would have put out more albums knowing time is limited and when the net hits our sales are going bust, because at this point Janet (in the 90's) could have put out another album or two and sold probably another 7 million copies Yep. IDK what Janet was thinking waiting so long between albums. The reason why DOAD sold so much is because Janet was at the peak of her career. If she had put out another album, it would have done 10mil+. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rock & Roll Hall of Game Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 You're LATE ...Henri already gave us this Ciara joke in another thread Oh well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetDAYZ Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 womp ....womp ...WOOOOOOMP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Only if Ciara would have waited U missed dat bus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeJoe Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 Beyonce and all the other popular artists will never reach 100million albums+ if things continue going like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotboy06 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Oh well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotboy06 Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Beyonce and all the other popular artists will never reach 100million albums+ if things continue going like this Well what do you expect from lesser girls? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Beyonce and all the other popular artists will never reach 100million albums+ if things continue going like this NEVER but they know, that's why Beyonce will pimp everything from a damn cell phone to some eye liner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bailey Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 Well what do you expect from lesser girls? you know what makes me sick is in the club if they play Beyonce these young boyz run da ass to the floor, I be like "Im not even that damn phased" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrietta. Posted January 20, 2011 Share Posted January 20, 2011 you know what makes me sick is in the club if they play Beyonce these young boyz run da ass to the floor, I be like "Im not even that damn phased" You know what, I've been to a shit load of clubs and never heard Beyonce (unless you count one playing the instrumental to "Sweet Dreams for 5 seconds). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Wonder Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Once again Beysus becomes the topic of a thread that has nothing to do with her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeJoe Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 NEVER but they know, that's why Beyonce will pimp everything from a damn cell phone to some eye liner you know what makes me sick is in the club if they play Beyonce these young boyz run da ass to the floor, I be like "Im not even that damn phased" the feminine ones huh? You know what, I've been to a shit load of clubs and never heard Beyonce (unless you count one playing the instrumental to "Sweet Dreams for 5 seconds). yeah out here either especially at the str8 clubs the DJs tried to play single ladies and people started shooing him off with their hands and leaving the dancefloor lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henrietta. Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 yeah out here either especially at the str8 clubs the DJs tried to play single ladies and people started shooing him off with their hands and leaving the dancefloor lol The only time I've walked off the dancefloor is when the DJs tries to bring crunk back by blasting the '03-'05 lil Jon tracks, but once my song "Shots" from LMFAO is on, I'm back to dancing lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeJoe Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 The only time I've walked off the dancefloor is when the DJs tries to bring crunk back by blasting the '03-'05 lil Jon tracks, but once my song "Shots" from LMFAO is on, I'm back to dancing lol. I love "Shots"! I thought that was by Lil Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 The only time I've walked off the dancefloor is when the DJs tries to bring crunk back by blasting the '03-'05 lil Jon tracks, but once my song "Shots" from LMFAO is on, I'm back to dancing lol. When shots comes on i gotta dance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetDAYZ Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Once again Beysus becomes the topic of a thread that has nothing to do with her. I understand you defend her name and all but to promote legend or attach the title to her name under ANY circumstance is just .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EphraimAdamz Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 The only time I've walked off the dancefloor is when the DJs tries to bring crunk back by blasting the '03-'05 lil Jon tracks, but once my song "Shots" from LMFAO is on, I'm back to dancing lol. i hate u cause thats what i do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetDAYZ Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 I love "Shots"! I thought that was by Lil Jon Oh God..they play that shit at this mixed club I go to and the white folks lose their minds...then again they'll lose their minds to "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" with enough liquor in their system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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