Van Halen can't beat Adele

[CG]

Well, it seems as though that #1 spot on the charts is going to elude
Van Halen once again.

The projected sales for ADKOT are 187,000; this is well short of
Adele's record, which is projected to sell 242,000.

In any case, selling 187,000 units in your first week is very good in
2012. In 1998, Van Halen 3 sold 191,000 its first week, but this was
before albums could easily be downloaded online for free. Today,
pretty much any song off of ADKOT can be heard on Youtube.

However, Van Halen is beating Paul McCartney and Whitney Houston,
whose projected first-week sales come to 75,000 and 60,000
respectively.

http://www.noise11.com/news/adele-reigns-atop-us-chart-van-halen-and-paul-mccartney-enter-top-10-20120215

[IGB]

Post by CG
Well, it seems as though that #1 spot on the charts is going to elude
Van Halen once again.
The projected sales for ADKOT are 187,000; this is well short of
Adele's record, which is projected to sell 242,000.
In any case, selling 187,000 units in your first week is very good in
2012. In 1998, Van Halen 3 sold 191,000 its first week, but this was
before albums could easily be downloaded online for free. Today,
pretty much any song off of ADKOT can be heard on Youtube.
However, Van Halen is beating Paul McCartney and Whitney Houston,
whose projected first-week sales come to 75,000 and 60,000
respectively.
http://www.noise11.com/news/adele-reigns-atop-us-chart-van-halen-and-paul-mccartney-enter-top-10-20120215

Actually they could have beaten Adele if it had been released one week
earlier. All about timing. Like I mentioned earlier. Kid Rock got
number 1 with just a bit over 70,000 sold. Some do it with 60,000.
Tough luck... but who cares. It sold great and the album is great.

[CG]

Post by IGB
Actually they could have beaten Adele if it had been released one week
earlier. All about timing. Like I mentioned earlier. Kid Rock got
number 1 with just a bit over 70,000 sold. Some do it with 60,000.
Tough luck... but who cares. It sold great and the album is great.

I actually had no idea who Adele was until the Grammys. I must be
getting old, because these days I don't know who anybody is.

How many did she sell last week? Was it less than 190k?

[IGB]

Post by CG

Post by IGB
Actually they could have beaten Adele if it had been released one week
earlier. All about timing. Like I mentioned earlier. Kid Rock got
number 1 with just a bit over 70,000 sold. Some do it with 60,000.
Tough luck... but who cares. It sold great and the album is great.

I actually had no idea who Adele was until the Grammys. I must be
getting old, because these days I don't know who anybody is.
How many did she sell last week? Was it less than 190k?

Yup

Billboard 200
2/12/12
Adele #1 at 237,000
Van Halen #2 at 187,000
Various Artists #3 at 142,000

2/5/12
Adele #1 at 122,000
Lana Del Rey #2 at 77,000
Leonard Cohen #3 at 41,000

1/29/12
Adele #1 at 116,000
Tim McGraw #2 at 68,000
Lamb of God #3 at 52,000

1/22/12
Adele #1 at 94,000
Kidz Bop 21 #2 at 59,000
Black Keys #3 at 29,000

1/15/12
Adele #1 at 104,000
David Crowder Band #2 at 50,000
Black Keys #3 at 36,000



Taylor Swift has the all-time lowest selling number 1 at 52,000 copies

http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2011/01/12/taylor-swift-tops-billboard-200-with-lowest-ever-no-1-sales/

Taylor Swift tops Billboard 200 with chart’s lowest-ever No. 1 sales

January 12, 2011 by Tennessean Music Team
Good news, bad news. Nashville country-pop superstar Taylor Swift's
Speak Now album holds onto the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart,
but that accomplishment also has a less sunny footnote: Selling 52,000
copies, Swift's album reset the low mark for a chart-topping album
sales number.

That figure is the lowest for a No. 1 on the Billboard 200 since
Nielsen SoundScan began keeping track in 1991, Billboard notes.


http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/week-ending-feb-12-2012-albums-adele-ties-124552378.html

Van Halen's A Different Kind Of Truth debuts at #2. This is Van
Halen's first studio album with original lead singer David Lee Roth
since 1984, which logged five weeks at #2 in 1984 (it got stuck behind
Michael Jackson's Thriller and later the Footloose soundtrack.) Oddly,
the band has yet to land a #1 studio album with Roth on board.

Roth left the band in 1985. With new lead singer Sammy Hagar, the band
reached #1 with four consecutive studio albums: 5150, OU812, For
Unlawful Carnal Knowledge and Balance. (Roth was featured on two cuts
on Best Of Volume 1, which was hit #1 in 1996.)

http://www.billboard.com/news#/news/adele-s-21-hits-20th-week-at-no-1-van-halen-1006195752.story

Van Halen's set is the band's 14th consecutive top 10 album --
stretching back to 1979's "Van Halen II," which topped out at No. 6.
The only release in the veteran act's catalog that missed the top 10
was its self-titled 1978 debut, which peaked at No. 19. The group's
last studio record, 1998's "Van Halen 3" (with Gary Cherone on lead
vocals), debuted and peaked at No. 4 with 191,000 in its first week.

Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending Feb. 12) totaled
6.83 million units, up 17% compared to the sum last week (5.81
million) and up 6% compared to the comparable sales week of 2011 (6.43
million). Year to date album sales stand at 33.99 million, up 4%
compared to the same total at this point last year (32.77 million).

Digital track sales this past week totaled 28.93 million downloads, up
10% compared to last week (26.39 million) and up 8% stacked next to
the comparable week of 2011 (26.78 million). Year to date track sales
are at 170.50 million, up 7% compared to the same total at this point
last year (159.72 million).

Next week's Billboard 200 competes with the same week in 2011 when:
Justin Bieber's "Never Say Never: the Remixes" (EP) debuted at No. 1
with 165,000 while Mumford & Sons' "Sigh No More" held firm for a
second week at No. 2 with 133,000 (up 169%). The previous week's
leader, the "Now 37" compilation, fell to No. 3 with 95,000 (down
37%).