The amazing success of Eminem’s “Recovery” (chasing Lady Antebellum for the title of biggest-selling album of 2010 after only six weeks out) proves that when all is said and done, it all comes down to quality. Well, mostly. Eminem stepped up his rhyme game, matured topically (slightly), and tempered that with his most commercial sounding production to date. The result has been two #1 singles (so far) and the leaving of little doubt as to who’s worthy of the “Best […]
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Chart Stalker! 8/4/10: Shock! Horror! Eminem is Unseated!
Guess what, folks? For the first time in a month and a half, someone named Eminem does NOT have the week’s #1 album. Hard rock favorites Avenged Sevenfold nab the top spot on the Billboard charts with their new album “Nightmare”. 163,000 folks headed to record stores or their favorite online music outlet to purchase the band’s latest effort, putting them about 3,500 copies ahead of Eminem. “Recovery” holds strong at #2 with 157,000 copies sold. With the premiere of […]
It’s a (Lucky) 13 for GaGa: VMA Nominations Announced
Combine an eye for the dramatic with commercial success and what do you get? A record-breaking thirteen nominations for Lady GaGa when this year’s MTV Video Music Award nods were announced. GaGa responded to her nominations in typical outlandish fashion by saying: “A long time ago the world told me and my little monsters we would never be heard, together we changed the rules. God put me on Earth for 3 reasons: To make loud music, gay videos, and cause […]
Chart Stalker 7/28/10: Ross Comes Close, But No Cigar
Not even Rick Ross’s big ass chain with his head on it was enough to dislodge Slim Shady from the top of Billboard’s album chart this week. The Miami rapper’s fourth album, “Teflon Don”, scans 176,000 copies, coming just under 10,000 units short of the top spot. Em’s “Recovery” is in week 5 at the top spot, with 187,000 copies sold. In just five weeks, it’s sold 1.7 million copies, thanks to Eminem’s loyal fan base and two huge hit […]
Chart Stalker 7/21/10: The Singles Bar
There’s not a heck of a lot to report on the album chart this week-we are officially in the summer doldrums, although the first serious challenger to Eminem’s four weeks and counting run at the top of the chart arrived in the form of Rick Ross. If his “Teflon Don” can squeeze out 130,000 or so copies (not a stretch considering the rapper is inexplicably popular), he has a chance of sliding Slim Shady out of the perch he’s inhabited […]
Chart Stalker! 7/14/10: Hip-Hop Saves the Day
So much for saying that rap music is a dying commercial art form. If it wasn’t for hip-hop, this week’s #1 album would have only sold 45,000 units. Rappers manage to take the top three positions on this week’s Billboard album chart, led for a third consecutive week by Eminem. “Recovery” continues to defy expectations, experiencing only a 27% drop in it’s 3rd week and selling a still impressive 229,000 copies. The last album to sell more than 200,000 copies […]
B.O.B’s “Airplanes” Video. Where’s Marshall?
It feels like B.O.B.’s “Airplanes” has been out forever, so I was somewhat surprised that a video hasn’t surfaced until last week (or maybe I’m horrendously late to the party). Unfortunately, the video made was for not for the Eminem-assisted remix version, but for the original version. I mean, not saying that Bobby Ray and Hayley Williams don’t do a good job on their own, but Em sends the song into another dimension. There’s a difference between A- and A+, […]
Chart Chat 6/30/10: Eminem’s Comeback Mission Accomplished
Eminem’s “Recovery” scores the biggest first week sales of 2010. So says this week’s Billboard chart. Slim Shady bows with over 741,000 units sold, incredibly marking an increase of over 100,000 units on the first weeks sales of his last album, 2009’s “Relapse”. If you were to compile the year’s top selling albums, “Relapse” would be at #8 after just 6 days in stores. This is interesting on any number of levels. First of all, it’s incredibly rare for an […]
Chart Chat 6/24/10: Thank Drake Now!!
Rapping/singing Canuck Drake slams into the top spot on this week’s Billboard 200 album chart with a vengeance. “Thank Me Later” scores 2010’s biggest week for a debut album, with 447,000 units sold. It’s the third overall biggest week for an album this year, following the first weeks for the latest albums by Lady Antebellum and Sade. A couple more interesting things to note: in just one week, Drake practically equals the entirety of what his introductory EP “So Far […]
New Release Report 6/21/10: Shady Monday
Is it me, or has almost every single Eminem album wound up being released early? Breaking from the tradition of having new music come out on Tuesday (I wonder why that started), “Recovery”, along with a healthy bunch of other new albums, arrives a day early. Most people who have gotten the chance to sample Em’s latest say that it’s a return to form. It’s certainly Eminem’s most contemporary sounding albums, with production from the likes of Just Blaze and […]