Update: One Direction’s “Midnight Memories” opens with 547K (up from their previous album at 540K) from HipHopDX
From Billboard (they have 546K for “Midnight Memories”):
6 Kelly Clarkson”Wrapped In Red” 131K (up 195%) – the Ducks beat her
Digital:
3 A Great Big World feat. Christina “Say Something” – 197K +63%
7 One Direction “Story of My Life” 118K
Billboard also reports: “With “Midnight Memories'” start, One Direction also becomes only the third pop group to log multiple half-million sales weeks in the Nielsen SoundScan era. Since the company began tracking sales in 1991, only two other pop groups have notched more than one sales week of 500,000: ‘NSync and Backstreet Boys.”
BB200 Top 10
1. One Direction – Midnight Memories – 546K
2. Eminiem – Marshall Mathers LP2 – 199K +65%
3. Garth Brooks – Blame it All on My Roots (Walmart Excl) – 164K
4. Robertson Family – Duck the Halls – 137K +127%
5. Katy Perry – Prism – 136K +252%
6. Kelly Clarkson – Wrapped in Red – 131K +195%
7. Lady Gaga – ARTPOP – 116K +154%
8. Luke Bryan – Crash My Party – 109K +318%
9. Miley Cyrus – Bangerz – 79K – +228%
10. Now 48 – 77K – +22%
Danielle Bradbery’s Self-titled album debuts at #5 on the Country Chart, selling 41K.
Country numbers from Roughstock. Dan
Danielle Bradbery, Danielle Bradbery: 41k (41k)
Carrie Underwood, Blown Away: 24k (1.597 million)
Scotty McCreery, See You Tonight: 22k (128k)
Cassadee Pope, Frame By Frame: 7k (104k)
Blake Shelton, Based On A True Story: 41k (1.032 million)
Blake Shelton, Cheers It’s Christmas: 17k (472k)
Keith Urban, Fuse: 13k (222k)
Hits has One Direction easily topping the Black Friday week album sales with 530K in sales. Kelly clips the Ducks wings by taking flight over the weekend and soaring past the “weakend” predictions (90-100K predictions, 133K estimates). Danielle Bradbery, winner of the previous season of the Voice, opens with 39K. That’s comparable to former winner Cassadee Pope opening with 43K (their lead singles had about the same AI for their debut weeks, but Cassadee did have a few more television gigs). Daughtry stays in the top 25 for his second week and Susan Boyle remains a steady-eddie in the top 20 range. Carrie, Scottie, Pentatonix and 1D (previous album) surge back into the top 50. Good week for our reality singing show contestants.
This is the weekly sales thread. Please post numbers as you find them. Thanks!
