JC CD sales: End of week prediction: 60,000

[foxmonkey]

From hitsdailydouble.com. Seen on the JJB, posted by Bluegolds.



Edited to add: If just occurred to me that people might think that the title and the end bit "have a nice day" were added by me. This is just the way I snagged it.


ONE-DAY SALES:
NORAH RULES, BUT THERE ARE OTHER RECORDS, PEOPLE!

Who’s Keeping Up With Jones? So Far, No One, but Here Come Young Gunz, J.C. Chasez, Trillville & Lil Scrappy

February 25, 2004

Looks like it’ll be three in a row for Norah.
Yes, the mellow piano-playing superstar vocalist will remain at #1 for a third week, according to early reports from national accounts. Her smash sophomore album, Feels Like Home (Blue Note) has already sold about 1.4 million in two weeks. Expect that number to be higher by next week.

Now that we’ve stated the obvious, on to some new stuff: Hitting the streets yesterday and headed for next week’s chart was Roc-A-Fella/IDJ’s Young Gunz, whose Tough Love is expected to move a first-week total of about 125k, which should be good for a Top 5 debut.

Also streeting yesterday was NSYNC member J.C. Chasez’s solo debut, Schizophrenic (Jive). According to early reports, the album should sell 60k or so by week’s end.

And then there’s Hotlanta’s Trillville and Lil Scrappy, whose Reprise albums feature all the same tracks—just in a different order depending on whether the title says “Trillville” or “Lil Scrappy.” Both are featured equally, but the two different titles have two different UPC codes, so they’re two different albums, dammit! As our retail analysts explain it, the dual rollout is an effort on the label’s part to give retailers in different regions the ability to market the albums according to local taste, or some such rarefied mercantile theory.

Anyway, Trillville and Lil Scrappy are looking like they’ll have a first week of a little over 50k combined.

As for the music market as a whole, data from the sales cycle ended Sunday indicates that sales were down 27.2% (4.7 million units) compared to the previous week, which of course makes sense, given that the previous week was the explosive Grammys-Norah Jones-Valentine’s Day sales extravaganza.

However, overall sales were still up 8.2% (950k units) compared to the same week last year, continuing the streak of improved sales compared to year-earlier periods for every week in 2004 so far.

And in what is perhaps an even more positive sign as we approach the two-month mark, cumulative sales for the year so far are up 12.4% (10.9 million units) over ’03.

Have a nice day.

Comments

[saturn92103.livejournal.com]

60,000?

Oh. Um. Okay.

[coolwhipdiva.livejournal.com]

Well, I didn't 4expect huge sales from it, but how is that likely to do compared to other records? Is that number likely to place him in the top 10? I have no idea what is comparable these days.

[emmuzka.livejournal.com]

60,000 is quite good when compared to the crappy MTV coverage he's got. What he needs now is a good radio song and those people who by CDs only based on the singles. "One night Stand" would be great but I doubt MTV would show it in these suddenly conservative days.

[lemniskate.livejournal.com]

from this week's top sellers, it looks like it should put him between #10 and #15.

[digital-diva.livejournal.com]

Um. Wow. I hope those predictions are wrong. *le sigh*

[brighton-girl.livejournal.com]

I don't think this is correct...I am sure it will be more.

[worldwouldend.livejournal.com]

I know people say first week sales matter and all, but it doesn't bother me, because JC's album strikes me as the kind that will spread by word of mouth. Because, really. Have you listened to it? ;)

What he really needs is a good second single. Not ADIDAS, as much love as I have for it.

[copracat]

It's a great CD. A lot of people my age (mid 30s) don't know N Sync from a bar of soap. I couldn't have picked them out or recognised one of their songs two years ago. Friends of my age give me grief when I play them.

JC's album will appeal to people my age because it's wall to wall fabulous homage to our decadent 80s youth. But they need time to find out it's there. They will, because word of mouth is the most powerful marketing tool of all, it's the one we trust.

JC will be making great music for the next 30 years. Why? You guys know him - he might be a pretty kitty but he's not a pussy. He wants to make music, he's going to keep making music.

I wonder if we're duped into to measuring JC's success by the kind of success that 'N Sync had? Or the kind of success that makes the 'opening weekend' phenomenon the motivation for a lot of movie marketing these days? Sell enough tickets before anyone realises it's a lemon, the anti-word of mouth campaign. JC's a stayer.

The success is already there because it's a great CD. It will always be a great CD and cash won't change that. It's a wonderful, sparkling, funny, invigorating CD that makes me want to shimmy shimmy shake. I'm insanely happy that I'll have my own real copy in less than two weeks (or sooner! Fly little Amazon transport contractor! Fly!) and a copy to send to my doubting Thomas of a good friend who will love it like her own child.

Don't lose the squee. It's too fabulous a CD to let anything spoil the enjoyment of it.