Nothing very interesting from this week’s Top 10 Albums:
1. The Fray – The Fray – 179,000 (debut)
2. Bruce Springsteen – Working on a Dream – 102,000 (-55%)
3. Dierks Bentley – Feel That Fire – 71,000 (debut)
4. Taylor Swift – Fearless – 64,000 – (+16%)
5. Beyonce – I Am … Sasha Fierce – 51,000 (flat)
6. Nickelback – Dark Horse – 47,000 (+8%)
7. Kidz Bop 15 – 58,000 (debut)
8. Jamie Foxx – Intuition – 37,000 (+2%)
9. Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak – 33,000 (-15%)
10. Keyshia Cole – A Different Me – 34,000 (+8%)
• The collected “Kidz” albums — including all of their assorted permutations — have moved 9.3 million units in the U.S.
• Grammys gave a boost to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ Raising Sand, which won album of the year, and re-enters at No. 68, on a 286% gain to 9,000.
wow, when do they stop tracking physical album sales?
i mean, it’s cool to see that some stuff moves off the shelves, but as the numbers keep going down further, at what point is it irrelevant?
it sort of is to me now, as a music fan.
more of just a curiosity than anything else at all.
Taylor Swift brought in over 40 milion bucks in 2008. In this economy ya gotta go for whatever you can get–even if it’s Grandma’s money for 11 year old girls to spend on Taylor Not o Swift albums.