According to Billboard, Eminem‘s new album is the “first release to sell in excess of 300,000 for multiple weeks since Susan Boyle‘s I Dreamed a Dream racked up five 300,000-plus weeks last December.” Remember her? Where’d she go? Where’s her follow-up?
1. Eminem – “Recovery” – 313,000 (down 58%; 1.1 million cume)
2. Drake – “Thank Me Later” – 105,000 (down 33%)
3. “Twilight Saga: Eclipse” soundtrack – 65,000 (up 69%)
4. the-Dream – “Love King” – 58,000 (debut)
5. “Now 34” – 45,000 (down 18%)
6. Justin Bieber – “My World 2.0” – 41,000 (down 4%).
7. 3OH!3 – “Streets of Gold” – 41,000 (debut)
8. Jack Johnson – “To The Sea” – 35,000 (down 21%)
9. Miley Cyrus – “Can’t Be Tamed” – 32,000 (down 68%)
10. Lady Antebellum – “Need You Now” – 30,000 (down 7%)
Further down:
18. Scissor Sisters – “Night Work” – 18,000 (debut)
20. “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” score – 17,000 (debut)
32. Christina Aguilera – “Bionic” – 12,000 (182,000 cume)
48. Wolf Parade – “Expo 86” – 8,000 (debut; MP3; MP3)
101. Alejandro Escovedo – “Street Songs of Love” – 5,000 (debut)
• Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending July 4) totaled 5.54 million units
• Digital track sales this past week totaled 21.5 million downloads
Additional sales data via MTV.
Where’d Susan Boyle go?…Well,in the time since the release of her first album,she has been performing on live TV in The UK,USA,France,The Netherlands,Germany,Spain,Denmark,Italy and Japan.She is currently recording her second album in London,due for release in November,she also has an autobiography to be released in October.
I nearly forgot to mention that Susan sings the theme songs for two Japanese Anime movies,”Eagle Talon-3″,and “Welcome To The Space Show”.
How is life on the Susan Boyle street team?
” How is life on the Susan Boyle street team ?” If I knew what the h.. that means I would try an answer you.
Made sense to me.
I guess that might have been a little inside baseball there. Apologies, SP.