Katy Perry and Luke Bryan both sell more than a half a million copies of their digital song and album, respectively. Via Billboard
This week, for only the second time in history, an album and a digital song both simultaneously sell more than a half-million copies in a single week.
On the Billboard 200 albums chart, Luke Bryan’s “Crash My Party” debuts at No. 1 with 528,000 according to Nielsen SoundScan. While over on the Digital Songs chart, Katy Perry’s “Roar” bows at No. 1 with 557,000 downloads.
The only other time that a download song and an album have sold each 500,000 in the same frame was over the Christmas week of 2009. In the sales week that ended Dec. 27, 2009, Ke$ha’s “TiK Tok” sold 610,000 downloads, while Susan Boyle’s album “I Dreamed a Dream” sold 510,000 copies.
Katy has the top selling song this week, but Robin Thicke had more streaming and airplay “Blurred Lines” tops the Hot 100 again.
In an extremely close race, Robin Thicke tops the Billboard Hot 100 for an 11th week with “Blurred Lines” (featuring T.I. and Pharrell). The song narrowly holds off Katy Perry’s “Roar,” which blasts 85-2 following its first full week of sales. Lady Gaga’s “Applause” adds to the top 10’s shakeup, debuting at No. 6, also after its first week of sales.
Despite “Roar” arriving as the top-selling song in the U.S., Thicke’s lead in streaming and airplay is just enough for “Lines” to fend off Perry’s challenge.
Via Billboard
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Blog related country singles sales via Roughstock
Carrie Underwood, See You Again: 39k (568k)
Cassadee Pope, You Hear A Song: 22k (22k)
Kelly’s Tie It Up has sold 68k total. Sales last week were up 232% after her CMA Fest performance.
Cassadee’s Wasting All These Tears has sold 262k total.
Blog-related country album sales via Roughstock
Carrie Underwood, Blown Away: 7k (+61%) (1.516 million)
Sales for all country acts featured on last Monday’s CMA Fest special on ABC are up, and Carrie’s BA sales were boosted extra by an Itunes discount to $7.99 in association with the release of and promo for her tour DVD.
