Kelly Clarkson Holds on to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 – Second Single Impacts Radio 4/13
Kelly Clarkson holds on to the #1 position on the Billboard 200 for a second week, moving 90K unitsi, down 65% from last week (the #1 album can’t even sell 100K units? Yikes!).
All I Ever Wanted has sold 346,000 copies to date.
Kelly’s single, “My Life Would Suck Without You” sold 122K this week, a 13% decrease for a total of 1.4M.
à ¢Ã¢â€š ¬Ã…“I Do Not Hook Upà ¢Ã¢â€š ¬ , the second single off All I Ever Wanted, is set to impact radio on April 13th.
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19 Responses to “Kelly Clarkson Holds on to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 – Second Single Impacts Radio 4/13”
2009 has been pretty dismal indeed. IIRC offhand, I think Taylor Swift has topped the charts in 09 a good handful of times, none of which required her to be above 100K.
ETA: Corrected, she was well above 100K the first week in 09.
That is pretty sad that the #1 album can’t top 100,000. :eek_wp:
Apparently the record business is experiencing the same sales slump that just about every other business is going through, but good for Kelly for doing so well. She is the personification of keeping it real while having a successful career.
That’s what I was thinking. The whole chart is pretty sad. Probably a good measure of just how bad the economy is. I’m happy for Kelly though. She still sold more than anyone else, including U2, for the 2nd week in a row.
I might be alone, but I think that U2 CD is filled with suck.
Good for Kelly for keeping the #1 spot, even if it is with a less than stellar number.
The internet has, and continues to wreak havoc with the recording industry. As sales continue to decline, you will see more and more artists going back on tour. The benefit to all of us is more concerts, which is a good thing, after all, music is best experienced live.
That’s the only way they seem to get a decent cut of any of the cash coming in, so if I were musician, I’d be touring all the time.
SpenserJ, you crack me up. Ditto about U2.
Anyhow, good for Kelly. It’s good press and reaffirms to message that Kelly’s back. Even though I’m a bit suprised at her sales number as I thought they’d be a bit bigger. Good for her.
SashaB, count me in! And thank you for outing yourselves. I love Bono (the man), but that album is just WTF to me. Maybe I need to listen to it again. And it’s certainly better than that new one by Maryann Faithfull that all the critics are slobbering over. Her “weathered” vocals only work if you know her tragic backstory. Otherwise, they’re just bad, or as Paul Fussell would say, BAD. At least on the couple of songs I managed to get through. Can you imagine if any of the Idols had vocals like that? The critics would disembowel them.
Unless, of course, you mean real musician.
In that case, she’s a fraud.
Good for Kelly for doing so well. Lower sales or not, she’s still #1.
You are most definately NOT alone.
Yep… Bad news for new artists though if they signed a 360 deal because like with the albums, the label would get a huge cut from the tour and the merchandise. This is why record labels are so hot for the 360 deals because they can have another source of income. UGH!
Honestly, a 90K week for #1 is pretty damn good these days. There have been 12 sales weeks thus far in 2009 (starting with BB chart week 1/17/09). Of those, only four saw the #1 album sell more than 100K. All were debut weeks for highly-anticipated albums: Springsteen (224k), The Fray (179K), U2 (484K), and Kelly (255K).
The remaining 8 weeks in 2009, every single album on the chart has sold less than 100K. There have been three weeks this year where the #1 album was under 65K, and two others where it took less than 75K to top the chart.
Kelly, Carrie, and Daughtry’s multi-platinum Idol sales records will likely stand forever. Nobody is hitting those marks anymore.
Good for Kelly. I love the U2 cd. It does take a few listens to appreciate. I truly love it.
Here’s an interesting article that attempts to put today’s album sales levels in context with those of the past decade. In a Low-sales Era, What’s a Hit in Music?
The author suggests that the industry will need to recalibrate what they consider a hit to the following levels:
BLOCKBUSTER: 2 MILLION & UP (The equivalent of 5 million, or more, back in 2000). No Idol albums released in 2008 or 2009 have reached this level. If you extend the cut-off back to 2007 albums, only Carrie’s Carnival Ride qualifies.
SMASH: 1 MILLION & UP (The equivalent of 3 million in 2000). David Cook would currently fall into this bucket, as would Jordin if you include 2007 albums.
HIT: 500,000 & UP (The equivalent of a million-selling, platinum CD in 2000). This would apply to Jennifer Hudson and David Archuleta. Plus Kelly’s My December and Elliott’s debut, if 2007 releases are considered to be part of the current sales era.
So yeah. The times they are a-changin’. Kelly and even Daughtry later this year will have to have some really consistent sales over a fairly long period of time to achieve blockbuster status, even under these new definitions.
Good for Kelly!
ladymadonna, thanks for that article and info. Nice to be able to compare with some perspective.
awwww, SpenserJ, give the new U2 CD another listen or two. It’ll probably grow on you. I really enjoy it, more and more each time.
What about Beyonce, Taylor, and Kanye those 3 are hitting those marks now if a your a newer artists than that sucks for u.
Well, I was talking about Idol albums specifically. But even still – while these albums you mention are amongst the biggest sellers this chart year, only Taylor has sold well north of 2 million copies at this point. She will certainly go triple-platinum and beyond, which is a monster in this climate. But having already spawned 6 singles, it’s unlikely that this album will approach the 6-7 million marks that Kelly and Carrie did in 2004-2005 with their biggest hits.
Beyonce has just broken the 2 million mark this week, and she continues to sell consistently well week to week. But “consistently well” currently means a rate of about 25-30K a week. If she makes it, it will be a slower road to 3x platinum than Bey is used to. Ultimately it’s doubtful that ‘Sasha Fierce’ will match the 4x platinum levels that she hit in 2003 with ‘Dangerously in Love’.
And as for Kanye – he has yet to sell 1.5 million, although he’s close. Again, he would certainly be considered a “blockbuster” by today’s standards. But my point really was that the standards have changed, and even the biggest superstars (out of American Idol or otherwise) are likely to fall well short of the raw sales benchmarks set in the years before the industry changed so drastically.
You’re not alone… this album is crap compared to How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb and definitely a huge pile of garbage compared to All That You Can’t Leave Behind.. and we’re only talking the most recent U2 albums here. They may be losing their touch…I only like one song from the entire thing.