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Sunday, December 25, 2011

Holiday Hits: Michael Buble & Adele Weeks Topic for selling 400,000-Plus

 

As noted earlier (December 21) Michael Bublé "Christmas" album should contain at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums for a fifth consecutive week - the seven-day period ending at the close of business on the day of Christmas, Dec. 25.
Industry sources project the album will sell about 400,000 to 450,000 copies by the end of the week, which should easily go up the title in second place among the 2011 best-seller.
Like this, it is the third largest of the year the album, with 1.96 million copies sold according to Nielsen SoundScan, behind Adele's "21" (5.3 million) and Lady Gaga " Born This Way "(2.03 million).
The table below SoundScan Building - a precursor of the final ranking Billboard 200 - reflecting the first four days (Monday to Thursday) of the SoundScan tracking week (ending Sunday), as reported by six major retailers, Bublé " Christmas "is at no. 1.
Just behind him is, not surprisingly, Adele "21." Sources say that the album may have its best sales week yet, moving somewhere between 375 000 to 400 000. Its highest part of sales was at its debut week so in February, when he started with 352,000 at No. 1.
"21" is already the best selling album of the year since 2004, when Usher "Confessions" sold 8 million.
 
Below Adele count on building at No. 3 is the new Young Jeezy "MC: 103 HUSTLERZ Ambition", which can arc from 200,000 to 250,000.
Justin Bieber "Under the Mistletoe" is in fourth place on the list of the building, followed by Lady Antebellum "Own The Night" (No. 5), Drake "Take Care" (No. 6), Nickelback "Here and Now" ( no. 7), Scotty McCreery "clear as day" (No. 8), Common has just published "The Dreamer, the believer" (No. 9) and the "Now 40" album (No. 10).
Nielsen SoundScan Building ChartRank LWTitle Artist BB 200January 1st Michael Buble "Christmas"February 2 Adele "21"3 NEW Young Jeezy "MC: 103 HUSTLERZ Ambition"March 4 Justin Bieber "Under the Mistletoe"May 5 Lady Antebellum "Own The Night"June 7 Drake "Take Care"July 6 Nickelback "Here and Now"September 8 McCreery Scotty "as clear as day"9 NEW joint "The Dreamer, the believer"November 10 Miscellaneous "Now 40"Table construction reflects the first four days (Monday to Thursday) of the SoundScan tracking week (ending Sunday) as reported by six primary dealers: iTunes, Trans World Entertainment, Best Buy, Starbucks, Target and Anderson Merchandisers . Billboard estimates they represent about 85% of all album sales in the United States.

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