Top 20 Sellers for October 8, 2009
*MP3: Paramore - “Careful”
*MP3: Jay-Z - “Empire State of Mind”
*MP3: AFI - “Medicate”
*MP3: Owl City - “Fireflies”
01) STREISAND*BARBR|LOVE IS THE AN - 180,416
02) PARAMORE|BRAND NEW EYES - 175,112
03) CAREY*MARIAH|MEMOIRS OF AN IMP - 167,912
04) BREAKING BENJAM|DEAR AGONY - 134,489
05) ALICE IN CHAINS|BLACK GIVES WA - 126,146
06) JAY-Z|BLUEPRINT 3 - 88,609
07) MADONNA|CELEBRATION - 72,159
08) LAMBERT*MIRANDA|REVOLUTION - 65.875
09) SELENA GOMEZ & |KISS AND TEL - 65,803
10) PEARL JAM|BACKSPACER - 58,374
11) CYRUS*MILEY|TIME OF OUR LIVES - 54,430
12) AFI|CRASH LOVE - 51,586
13) HOUSTON*WHITNEY|I LOOK TO YOU - 51,498
14) CONNICK JR.*HAR|YOUR SONGS - 45,242
15) METALOCALYPSE: |DETHALBUM II - 44,833
16) AVETT BROTHERS|I AND LOVE AND - 39,792
17) THREE DAYS GRAC|LIFE STARTS NO - 36,339
18) LYNYRD SKYNYRD|GOD & GUNS - 34,182
19) JACKSON*MICHAEL|NUMBER ONES - 32,273
20) SWIFT*TAYLOR|FEARLESS - 31,956
Paramore is this week’s top story with a #2 debut of 175,112 units sold. Jay-Z’s “Blueprint 3” is just shy of a million copies at 996,322. AFI also snuck into the top 20 with a #12 debut of “Crash Love” with 51,586 units sold. Monsters of Folk clocked in at #51 with 13,102 records sold this week, 47,506 release-to-date.
Local highlight continues to be Owl City who week-after-week has climbed the charts to #37 with 16,818 sold this week and 48,723 in the last month — it is safe to say the they will be the #1 Minnesota sellers of the year.
*Source: Nielsen Soundscan
*Fancy chart not particularly relevant.
(Ian Anderson)
