Tom Petty Set for First No. 1 Album on Billboard 200
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Veteran rock act Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are aiming for their first No. 1 album, as Hypnotic Eye could debut atop the Billboard 200 chart next week.
Industry forecasters suggest the set -- which was released on July 29 through Reprise/Warner Bros. Records -- may sell around 100,000 copies in the week ending Aug. 3.
Though Petty has claimed 21 charting albums on the Billboard 200 -- with 11 of them hitting the top 10 -- he's never visited the top slot. The closest he got was a pair of No. 2 albums: 2010's Mojo debuted and peaked at No. 2, while 1979's Damn the Torpedoes spent seven weeks in the runner-up slot in early 1980. (It was stuck behind Pink Floyd's The Wall.)
After Petty, watch for Eric Clapton's tribute to JJ Cale, The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale, to debut possibly in the top five with around 50,000. After that, perhaps Shawn Mendes' four-song self-titled EP may enter with around 45,000.
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On the Charts: 5 Seconds of Summer Dethrone 'Weird Al'
Australian boy band rise above dismal sales week
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Man, these sad numbers are steady—album sales down 15 percent, track sales down 13 percent. Maybe Adele can come back and save us all?
BOY BAND'S CHART RUN WILL PROBABLY LAST MORE THAN 5 SECONDS: 5 Seconds of Summer has done everything right so far — which isn't surprising, considering the Australian boy band shares a management company, and a summer tour, with One Direction. To paraphrase Lou Pearlman, imprisoned svengali behind the Backstreet Boys and 'NSYNC, why have one boy band when you can have two? After introducing themselves with a four-song EP earlier this year, 5 Seconds' self-titled album hit Number One with 259,000 copies this week, and due to touring and videos, it seems like the band may accomplish the rare feat of sticking around on the album charts. Aside from the Frozen soundtrack (which rose from Number Five to Number Two, with 37,000 copies, although sales dropped 15 percent) and Beyonce, almost nobody does that.
REMEMBER WHEN EVEN NUMBER 10 SOLD MILLIONS? GOOD TIMES: Beyond 5 Seconds, sales numbers on the charts this week are brutal — "Weird Al" Yankovic's Mandatory Fun sold just 33,000, a drop of 68 percent, while Sam Smith's In the Lonely Hour had 31,000, a drop of 12 percent, and Kidz Bop 26 had 27,000, a loss of 42 percent. Poor Ed Sheeran's x dropped 16 percent, from Number Seven to Number 10, with just 20,000 sales — to put it in perspective, all Sheeran had to do to reach Number 10 was play one amphitheatre and sell one album to everybody in attendance.
SUMMER SLEEPER — "ALL ABOUT THAT BASS": Mercifully, Magic's bland-reggae anthem "Rude" dropped out of the Number One spot on Billboard's Digital Songs chart, selling 154,000 copies, a decrease of 21 percent. Displacing "Rude" is Jason Aldean's debut "Burnin' It Down," which sold 184,000 copies despite having no official YouTube video or registering on Aldean's Top 10 Spotify streams. Aside from the Aldean debut, only two Top 10 singles gained sales: Nico & Vinz'"Am I Wrong" (114,000, up 18 percent, from Number Eight to Number Five) and Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass" (103,000, up 61 percent, from Number 18 to Number Six).
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MAGIC! No. 1 On Hot 100, Sia Swings Into Top 10
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1. Magic! - Rude
2. Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX - Fancy
3. Sam Smith - Stay With Me
4. Nico & Vinz - Am I Wrong
5. Ariana Grande Featuring Iggy Azalea - Problem
6. Maroon 5 - Maps
8. Disclosure Featuring Sam Smith - Latch
8. John Legend - All of Me
9. Sia - Chandelier
10. Calvin Harris - Summer
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Veteran rock act Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are aiming for their first No. 1 album, as Hypnotic Eye could debut atop the Billboard 200 chart next week.
Industry forecasters suggest the set -- which was released on July 29 through Reprise/Warner Bros. Records -- may sell around 100,000 copies in the week ending Aug. 3.
Though Petty has claimed 21 charting albums on the Billboard 200 -- with 11 of them hitting the top 10 -- he's never visited the top slot. The closest he got was a pair of No. 2 albums: 2010's Mojo debuted and peaked at No. 2, while 1979's Damn the Torpedoes spent seven weeks in the runner-up slot in early 1980. (It was stuck behind Pink Floyd's The Wall.)
After Petty, watch for Eric Clapton's tribute to JJ Cale, The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale, to debut possibly in the top five with around 50,000. After that, perhaps Shawn Mendes' four-song self-titled EP may enter with around 45,000.
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On the Charts: 5 Seconds of Summer Dethrone 'Weird Al'
Australian boy band rise above dismal sales week
Man, these sad numbers are steady—album sales down 15 percent, track sales down 13 percent. Maybe Adele can come back and save us all?
BOY BAND'S CHART RUN WILL PROBABLY LAST MORE THAN 5 SECONDS: 5 Seconds of Summer has done everything right so far — which isn't surprising, considering the Australian boy band shares a management company, and a summer tour, with One Direction. To paraphrase Lou Pearlman, imprisoned svengali behind the Backstreet Boys and 'NSYNC, why have one boy band when you can have two? After introducing themselves with a four-song EP earlier this year, 5 Seconds' self-titled album hit Number One with 259,000 copies this week, and due to touring and videos, it seems like the band may accomplish the rare feat of sticking around on the album charts. Aside from the Frozen soundtrack (which rose from Number Five to Number Two, with 37,000 copies, although sales dropped 15 percent) and Beyonce, almost nobody does that.
REMEMBER WHEN EVEN NUMBER 10 SOLD MILLIONS? GOOD TIMES: Beyond 5 Seconds, sales numbers on the charts this week are brutal — "Weird Al" Yankovic's Mandatory Fun sold just 33,000, a drop of 68 percent, while Sam Smith's In the Lonely Hour had 31,000, a drop of 12 percent, and Kidz Bop 26 had 27,000, a loss of 42 percent. Poor Ed Sheeran's x dropped 16 percent, from Number Seven to Number 10, with just 20,000 sales — to put it in perspective, all Sheeran had to do to reach Number 10 was play one amphitheatre and sell one album to everybody in attendance.
SUMMER SLEEPER — "ALL ABOUT THAT BASS": Mercifully, Magic's bland-reggae anthem "Rude" dropped out of the Number One spot on Billboard's Digital Songs chart, selling 154,000 copies, a decrease of 21 percent. Displacing "Rude" is Jason Aldean's debut "Burnin' It Down," which sold 184,000 copies despite having no official YouTube video or registering on Aldean's Top 10 Spotify streams. Aside from the Aldean debut, only two Top 10 singles gained sales: Nico & Vinz'"Am I Wrong" (114,000, up 18 percent, from Number Eight to Number Five) and Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass" (103,000, up 61 percent, from Number 18 to Number Six).
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MAGIC! No. 1 On Hot 100, Sia Swings Into Top 10
1. Magic! - Rude
2. Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX - Fancy
3. Sam Smith - Stay With Me
4. Nico & Vinz - Am I Wrong
5. Ariana Grande Featuring Iggy Azalea - Problem
6. Maroon 5 - Maps
8. Disclosure Featuring Sam Smith - Latch
8. John Legend - All of Me
9. Sia - Chandelier
10. Calvin Harris - Summer
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