Here’s your weekly wrap-up on the interesting happenings on the Billboard charts. Top 200 Albums: Adele bounces back to the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 with 21. It’s spent three of it’s first four weeks at the top spot and has easily cruised over 750,000 albums sold. The British songstress adds another 98K to her total this week. Hardcore band Rise Against scores the biggest first week of their career, arriving at #2 with their latest effort, Endgame. It […]
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New Release Report 3/15/11: What the Hell?
See, this is what I don’t get. Last week, we had major new releases from the likes of Lupe Fiasco, R.E.M. and Avril Lavigne. Next week, we have major new releases from Chris Brown, The Strokes and Jennifer Hudson. No one saw fit to move one or two of those releases into this release cycle? How does that make sense? Do you get the feeling that the people who decide these things might be a little clueless (or hellbent on […]
Chart Stalker!: Billboard Year-End Version
Welcome to the first of two year end editions of Chart Stalker! Why two, you ask? Simple answer-Billboard’s year-end issue comes out before the end of the actual calendar year (to allow for publication time and ad purchasing). Generally speaking, it covers the year from December 1st of the previous year to November 30th of the current year, or thereabouts. Additionally, Billboard calculates it’s rankings by using a formula based on chart position, so where an artist ends up on […]