Nov. 26 Album Charts: Britney on top of Jacko and others

[Nick Biped]

I'm not sure whether a weekly topic on the latest Billboard album charts would be permitted here, or even if anyone would actually reply to one, but since lots of big albums are being released now, I thought I'd give it a shot. From rollingstone.com:

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In a crowded field of high-profile releases, Britney Spears' In the Zone sold 609,000 copies in its first week, according to SoundScan, to easily debut Number One. For Spears, that's four straight Number One albums, the first time a female artist has done so since SoundScan began charting record sales.
Though Spears' sales nearly doubled that of the Number Two album (G-Unit's Beg for Mercy, which sold 327,000), the week wasn't without other strong debuts. Blink-182's Blink-182 and the Beatles' Let It Be . . . Naked also earned Top Ten debuts, at Number Three and Five with sales of 313,000 and 280,000, respectively.

That was just the tip of the new arrival iceberg. Other solid first-week tallies were posted by Michael Jackson's Number Ones (121,000 copies sold at Number Thirteen), the Dave Matthews Band's Central Park Concert (111,000, Number Fourteen) and Korn's Take a Look in the Mirror (96,000, Number Nineteen), though all three record fall markedly below the commercial peaks set by those artists.

And the Number Twenty-one through Number Twenty-five slots were all new releases: the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Greatest Hits (92,500), 112's Hot and Wet (92,400), Linkin Park's Live in Texas (90,000), Leann Rimes' Greatest Hits (82,000) and Reba McEntire's Room to Breathe (73,000).

Older albums also began to pick up some holiday steam, as overall sales in the Top 200 were up to 7.9 million from 6.7 million last week, and the top sixteen sellers posted six-figure sales. With a big holiday shopping weekend ahead, sales should continue to spike, with Missy Elliott's This Is Not a Test the strongest bet to unseat Zone on next week's chart.

This week's Top Ten: Britney Spears' In the Zone; G-Unit's Beg for Mercy; Blink-182's Blink-182; Jay-Z's The Black Album; the Beatles' Let It Be . . . Naked; Josh Groban's Closer; 2Pac's Resurrection; Now That's What I Call Music! 14; Toby Keith's Shock N Y'all; and OutKast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.

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Anyone here buy any of these albums lately? Enjoying them? Hating them? I'm surprised at how well Britney Spears is still doing on the charts, actually. Sure, her sales might not be as big as they once were, but for someone that began as a pure bubblegum pop star and whom I'd thought would have as big a career as Tiffany did (read: not really one at all), having a solid debut for her fourth album seems pretty impressive. It looks like she'll be going down the Madonna route, reinventing herself every so often. Not that I'd ever buy one of her albums.

I'm not sure whether or not the latest Michael Jackson scandal helped his album sales or not. I mean, he's back in the public eye, but there's a difference between bad publicity and bad publicity. Granted, if it wasn't for the scandal, I wouldn't've even known he released a new album. But still...

[Corrado]

"I'm surprised at how well Britney Spears is still doing on the charts, actually. Sure, her sales might not be as big as they once were, but for someone that began as a pure bubblegum pop star and whom I'd thought would have as big a career as Tiffany did (read: not really one at all), having a solid debut for her fourth album seems pretty impressive."

It's still a little bit disappointing (well not to me, I hate Titney.)

It seems most of the songs on her album are "shag me" songs. At least with Christina, she has songs that have positive meanings.

[EightOh]

Britney on top of Jacko and others

That's an utterly disturbing mental image.

[Tapout]

I'm not sure whether or not the latest Michael Jackson scandal helped his album sales or not. I mean, he's back in the public eye, but there's a difference between bad publicity and bad publicity. Granted, if it wasn't for the scandal, I wouldn't've even known he released a new album. But still...

You know what they say, there's no such thing as bad publicity.

The charts? Meh. The last CDs I bought were Zombie and Pantera greatest hits albums, which may have cracked the top 20. They usually do pretty well. It still boggles my mind how these rapper scumbags manage to sell so many albums though.

[Sigma]

Only CD in the top 10 that doesnt suck IMO is The Beatles - Let it Be... Naked.

[Caffeine King]

The charts? Meh. The last CDs I bought were Zombie and Pantera greatest hits albums, which may have cracked the top 20. They usually do pretty well. It still boggles my mind how these rapper scumbags manage to sell so many albums though.

...I'm not going to say anything.

Anyways...on Britney...(in my opinion...) she's a slut and her music is fake (literally) she just "sings" into a microphone and they computerize it in the studios and put beats into it and the people at MTV eat it up.

[TheSaint]

...I'm not going to say anything.

Then I will say it. Pantera? Come on man. J/K


It still baffles me why people get so outraged whenever someone they don't like succeeds. Britney is popular Get over it!

It seems most of the songs on her album are "**** me" songs. At least with Christina, she has songs that have positive meanings.

That seems to be a pretty positive meaning to me.

Anyways...on Britney...(in my opinion...) she's a slut

What? No love for all the sluts out there?

[Nick Biped]

That's an utterly disturbing mental image.

It was entirely unintentional, I assure you.



Anyways, none of the albums released last week interest me, though I've heard good things about The Beatles' album and Outkast's album. I think I might pick up No Doubt's greatest hits album this week, if even that.

Oh, and as for Britney, I won't begrudge her fame, even if I'm still a bit baffled by it. Christina Aguilera is more deserving of it, in my opinion. At least she has a decent voice.

[electricsheep]

It still baffles me why people get so outraged whenever someone they don't like succeeds. Britney is popular Get over it!

Haha, you know exactly why people are outraged over someone else's success.

[TheSaint]

Haha, you know exactly why people are outraged over someone else's success.

[James]

This is just a bashing thread. Not a fan myself, but let's not offend followers with some of the more outlandish statements. This isn't constructive, it's insulting and is showing no signs of getting any better. Closed.