Thursday, November 04, 2010

Ke$ha debuts at #1 on the Hot 100

The big chart news this week is of course is the amazing 1 million first week sales of Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" but the Hot 100 also has some exciting chart action as Ke$ha's "We R Who We R", the lead single from her upcoming EP "Cannibal", enters the Hot 100 chart straight at #1 after selling 280k downloads this week which was good enough to beat previous top notcher Far East Movement's "Like A G6" which sold only 178K. Will Smith's 9 year old daughter Willow enters the Hot Digital Songs chart at #4 with her very catchy song "Whip My Hair" selling 137K which help propel the song to #11 from #78 on this week's Hot 100. Full Hot 100 list and more chart comments/analysis tomorrow. In the meanwhile here are the Top 10 on this week's Billboard Hot Digital Songs Chart courtesy of Yahoo! Chart Watch:

1. We R Who We R - Ke$ha (280K)
2. Like a G6 - Far East Movement feat The Cataracs and Dev (178K)
3. Only Girl (In The World) - Rihanna (142K)
4. Whip My Hair - Willow (137K)
5. Just A Dream - Nelly (133K)
6. Bottoms Up - Trey Songz feat Nicki Minaj (122K)
7. Just The Way You Are - Bruno Mars (118K)
8. Sparks Fly - Taylor Swift (113K)
9. Raise Your Glass - Pink (104K)
10. Monster - Kanye West feat Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Bon Iver and Nicki Minaj(97K)

On the Billboard 200 chart, I predicted that Taylor Swift massive first week sales will likely offset what could have been a probably bigger percentage drop on overall sales as compared to last year, I was right but I thought the drop would only be around 5% but as Billboard.biz reports the drop was 8%. 6.3 million albums were sold last year while this week it was 5.8 million, imagine if Taylor Swift didn't sell that much! In fact, Speak Now sold more the #2 to #62 album combine, that's really quite sad. It should be noted than other than Michael Buble's EP there were no other major artist who released their albums, maybe to avoid the Taylor Swift sales juggernaut. Anyway, let's see how Taylor Swift will sell over the next couple of weeks, I hope she will sell well especially with the holiday season coming so as to provide an exciting chart battle on who will top 2010. Eminem's "Recovery" is the current best selling album year to date with 2.9 million copies sold but with this very impressive first week sales for Swift she would really pose a challenge to Eminem. Here is the Top 30 albums on this week's Billboard 200 as posted on Pulse Music Board:

1 SWIFT*TAYLOR SPEAK NOW 1,046,718 0 1,046,740
2 SUGARLAND INCREDIBLE MACHINE 88,575 -56 202,711 291,408
3 KINGS OF LEON COME AROUND SUNDOWN 67,281 -63 184,099 252,164
4 LIL WAYNE I AM NOT A HUMAN BEING 42,910 -33 64,513 366,086
5 EMINEM RECOVERY 37,576 -12 42,581 2,898,620
6 JOHN*ELTON & LEON RUSSEL UNION 36,739 -54 79,626 116,950
7 GLEE CAST ROCKY HORROR GLEE 31,026 -35 47,561 78,610
8 STEWART*ROD FLY ME TO THE MOON: THE GREAT 30,412 -62 79,408 109,944
9 RUCKER*DARIUS CHARLESTON, SC 1966 27,192 -26 36,857 164,803
10 BUBLE*MICHAEL HOLLYWOOD THE DELUXE EP 25,771 999 31 26,185
11 BAND PERRY*THE BAND PERRY 23,370 -7 25,194 101,099
12 CHESNEY*KENNY HEMINGWAY'S WHISKEY 23,309 -11 26,126 338,090
13 BROWN*ZAC BAND YOU GET WHAT YOU GIVE 22,097 -15 25,873 348,499
14 BIG TIME RUSH BTR 21,931 -11 24,734 113,648
15 SONGZ*TREY PASSION PAIN & PLEASURE 21,823 -3 22,518 451,416
16 SHAKIRA SALE EL SOL 20,399 -56 46,018 66,442
17 SOUNDTRACK HANNAH MONTANA FOREVER 19,383 -28 26,772 46,201
18 PERRY*KATY TEENAGE DREAM 18,946 1 18,689 527,858
19 MUMFORD & SONS SIGH NO MORE 18,325 -9 20,242 334,858
20 BIEBER*JUSTIN MY WORLD 2.0 17,988 1 17,897 1,923,007
21 SELENA GOMEZ & THE SCENE YEAR WITHOUT RAIN 17,887 -15 21,095 197,497
22 KEITH*TOBY BULLETS IN THE GUN 17,683 -12 20,067 138,510
23 THIRD DAY MOVE 17,432 -53 37,277 21,683
24 LINKIN PARK THOUSAND SUNS 17,295 -17 20,809 455,760
25 LADY ANTEBELLUM NEED YOU NOW 16,983 23 13,813 2,716,217
26 VARIOUS NOW 35 16,885 3 16,440 342,044
27 BUBLE*MICHAEL CRAZY LOVE 16,143 302 4,014 1,844,095
28 WOW HITS WOW HITS 2011 14,662 -8 15,880 22,708
29 MARS*BRUNO DOO - WOPS & HOOLIGAN 14,185 -17 17,041 113,517
30 MAROON 5 HANDS ALL OVER 13,910 4 13,422 254,156


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