Eminem Sales Thread

[dshady89]

Adele is number 1 this week on Billboard 200 with 114,000 sold, leaving Gaga at number 2. The official numbers for Hell: The Sequel will come next Wednesday. Let's hope they make it to number 1.

[AJS2050]

Week 51:

43 EMINEM SHADY/AFTERMATH/INT 10,848 +15%
RECOVERY

Link?

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi

Eminem - Recovery
Total: 3,893,000

[Mikey1990]

The battle for #1 on next week’s chart amounts to a passion play.

Bad Meets Evil’s Hell: The Sequel, the Shady/Interscope collaboration between Eminem and his old Detroit hip-hop pal Royce Da 5’9”, gets the slight edge for #1 on next week’s HITS Album chart with estimated sales of between 150-160k over Columbia 11-year-old America’s Got Talent prodigy Jackie Evancho’s Dream With Me, now in the 140-150k range. This is one horse race that won’t be decided until sales trends become clearer later in the week.

That’s based on one-day sales from those music retailers around the country who aren’t busy stocking up on “Anthony Weiner Faces Stiff Opposition” T-shirts.

Next highest debut will be Universal Republic’s Owl City—singer-songwriter Adam Young—with All Things Bright and Beautiful, the follow-up to the 2009 breakthrough Ocean Eyes and its #1 smash, “Fireflies.” Look for it to sell between 50-55k.

Stiletto Entertainment’s Barry Manilow album, 15 Minutes, his first studio effort in seven years and a meditation on fame, is on target for 25-30k through Fontana.

Jason Flom’s latest signing, Lava/Universal Republic’s Hollywood neoglam-rockers Black Veil Brides look to Set the World on Fire with their major label debut, with estimate of first week sales between 20-25k, the same number as Capitol/EMI’s Now Country 4.

The market was flat vs. last week, down 2% vs. same week last year and now back down to flat (“the new up”) year to date.

Expect the overall sales picture to lose a little ground over the next couple of weeks as we go up against two of last year's biggest debuts in Drake (447k) and Eminem (741k).

[AJS2050]

A #1 debut would be excellent. I hope it holds up against the opposition.

[Sam.]

way less than I predicted, hope the album eventually reaches gold

oh fo' sho homie

[JasonOne99]

way less than I predicted, hope the album eventually reaches gold

Well your predictions were too high if this was lower than you thought. Are you forgetting that this is a EP that hasn't even had a radio song released. What were your predictions anyway?

[Zeek]

First Eminem project not to reach platinum? This is a sad day.

[JasonOne99]

First Eminem project not to reach platinum? This is a sad day.

Dude it's a EP and not even a Eminem album.

[One Mic]

Don't really care about sales, as long as it reaches #1

Would mean Marshall has had #1 albums with 3 different things

Eminem
D-12
Bad Meets Evil

and before I die, it WILL reach platinum one day, without question. Might take ages for it to happen, but it will.

[Trimss]

First Eminem project not to reach platinum? This is a sad day.

It obviously gonna reach platinum one day.

But 150k isn't that much.. Disappointed.

[One Mic]

But 150k isn't that much.. Disappointed.

LOL. 95% of music artists would kill for that.

80,000 copies sold first week
(with loads of hits & hype)

[Trimss]

^ Yeah I know man it's ridiculous to say i'm disappointed but i was expecting more just because of Eminem's name lol.

[Zeek]

Lady Gaga fans are going to say "He dissed queen Gaga now look what happened".

[AJS2050]

I'm just looking forward to a great EP likely being #1 on the Billboard. 150k+ is great for Bad Meets Evil.

[Emadyville]

I'm just looking forward to a great EP likely being #1 on the Billboard. 150k+ is great for Bad Meets Evil.

That'd be pretty insane for an EP, let alone being the way things are for sales, but I see it happening