USA
SoundScan Information and commentary courtesy of JRKing. Thank you.
Cumulatives USA SoundScan sales for The Essential and Number Ones courtesy of Hanboo and hope. Thanks guys!
Sales For The Week Ending October 30th, 2005. Billboard Issue Date: November 12th, 2005.
*Note: This tally does not include sales for The Ultimate Collection (4 CD/1 DVD), single sales, certain music DVD titles (eg. The One, Dangerous: The Short Films, etc.), material recorded with The Jacksons, and Motown era solo and Jackson 5 albums. Weekly sales information for those titles is not available at this time.
Rank, Title, Sales This Week, Sales Last Week, +/- percentage
Michael Jackson - 14,908 units (Sales Estimate)
Notes: Some gains this week, with the biggest percentage gain going to the two HIStory editions. A found-out figure for the Live In Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour DVD - through the week ending October 16th (Billboard Issue Date October 29th, 2005) chart week - it had scanned around 37,170 units to date. Therefore, it's current cumulative sales should be around 40,000 units based on the roughly 2,000 units the DVD shifts each week. Of course, let's not forget 62k copies of the Live In Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour DVD are already sold through The Ultimate Collection (4 CD/1 DVD) boxed set.
Since SoundScan figures aren't available for Live In Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour, we can only estimate how much it sold based on the chart ranking of the Number Ones DVD on the Billboard Comprehensive Music Videos Chart.
1. Number Ones: 3,346 (+4%) (Cumulative sales: 992,632 units. Thanks hope)
2. The Essential (2 CD): 2,647 (Sales Estimate) (Note: The Essential has scanned 5,295 units over the past two weeks, therefore, this week's 2,647 sales estimate is based on dividing that 5,295 figure by two.) (Cumulative sales: 81,445 units)
3. Number Ones (DVD/Video): 2,696 (+8%) (Move up 19-16 on the Billboard Comprehensive Music Videos Chart, 84 weeks on the chart)
4. Thriller: 1,896 (+11.5%)
5. Live In Bucharest - The Dangerous Tour (Video): (Sales Estimate: 1,800 units) (Moves down 24-29 on the Billboard Comprehensive Music Videos Chart, 14 weeks on the chart)
6. Greatest Hits: HIStory Volume 1: 848 (+20%)
7. Off The Wall: 463 (-7.5%)
8. Greatest Hits: HIStory (Video): 434 (+15%)
9. HIStory on Film- Volume 2: 242 (-13%)
10. Bad: 196 (+3.5%)
11. Dangerous: 115 (-32.5%)
12. HIStory (2 CD): 105 (+46%)
13. Invincible: 103 (-20%)
14. Blood On The Dance Floor: 17 (-26%)
BONUS!
"Thriller" - Hot Digital Songs
Week #03 (12/10/05): #36 (Re-Entry) (Sales: 9,496 units) (Last Week's Sales: 4,151 units) (+129%) (Cumulative sales: 150,086 units)
"Thriller" - Hot Ringtones
Week #03 (05/10/05): #17
Week #04 (12/10/05): #8
(Thanks enrico)
Madonna - 6,420 units
Notes: The Immaculate Collection drops back a little bit, but most ofthe albums/EPs saw increases. Like other acts with new albums, the mnost recent album (in thiscase, American Life) should benefit most from the new album. Also, maybe the documentary raised a litle interest (as the title track's performance from the last tour was pretty darn great).
1. The Immaculate Collection: 2,554 (-14%)
2. GHV2: 487 (+11%)
3. Ray Of Light: 329 (+4%)
4. American Life: 324 (+16%)
5. Like A Virgin: 267 (-6%)
6. Something To Remember: 223 (-3%)
7. Music: 224 (+8%)
8. The Immaculate Collection (Video): 202 (-3%)
9. Remixed & Revisited: 190 (+7%)
10. True Blue: 187 (-12%)
11. Madonna: 176 (-7%)
12. Like A Prayer: 152 (-21%)
13. Erotica: 134 (+25%)
14. Ciao, Italia: Live From Italy (Video): 128 (-9%)
15. Drowned World Tour 2001 (Video): 114 (+4%)
16. The Video Collection 93:99 (Video): 110 (+15%)
17. You Can Dance: 99 (+29%)
18. Bedtime Stories: 85 (+18%)
19. Girlie Show: Live Down Under (Video): 71 (+8%)
20. I'm Breathless: 59 (+9%)
21. Evita: 54 (+20%)
22. Me Against The Music (Single): 43 (+10%)
23. Love Profusion (Single): 43 (+5%)
24. Hollywood (Single): 40 (-)
25. What It Feels Like For a Girl (Single): 29 (+38%)
26. American Life (Single): 27 (+8%)
27. Nothing Fails (Single): 24 (-35%)
28. Vogue (Single): 23 (+109%)
29. Die Another Day (Single): 22 (-31%)
Cher - 3,447 units
(excluding live Farewell Tour CD and the Gold CD)
Notes: Notes: Nothing of much note here, except that Very Best Of keeps chugging along OK.
1. The Very Best Of Cher (2 CD): 1,325 (-9%)
2. The Very Best of Cher (Video): 630 (+7%)
3. The Best Of Cher - Millennium Collection (first edition): 326 (-19%)
4. The Very Best Of Cher (Deluxe): 245 (-17%)
5. The Farewell Tour (Video): 202 (-10%)
6. If I Could Turn Back Time - Cher’s GH: 196 (-6%)
7. Live in Concert (Video, 1999): 158 (+11%)
8. The Best Of Cher - Millennium Collection (2004 edition): 97 (-20%)
9. Heart of Stone: 94 (-26%)
10. Half Breed: 92 (+3%)
11. Believe: 82 (-14%)
Whitney Houston - 2,327 units
Notes: One Wish returns to the top of the Whitney chart, where it should stay through the weeks leading up to the Christmas holiday.
1. One Wish: 847 (+66%)
2. The Greatest Hits (2 CD): 655 (-3%)
3. The Bodyguard: 217 (+8%)
4. The Greatest Hits: (Video): 191 (-11%)
5. The Preacher's Wife: 122 (-10%)
6. Whitney Houston: 116 (+4%)
7. Whitney: 56 (-33%)
8. Just Whitney: 50 (-22%)
9. My Love is Your Love (Album): 47 (-23%)
10. The Star Spangled Banner (Single): 21 (-16%)
11. It’s Not Right But It’s Okay (Single): 5 (-38%)
Janet Jackson - 2,080 units
Notes: Still with her top-selling album scanning less than 500 units in a week. Her debut album (not listed here) saw sales increase from 1 to 5 copies - a whopping 400% gain.
1. Design Of A Decade 1986/1996 (album): 481 (-1%)
2. janet.: 307 (-1%)
3. Damita Jo: 279 (-5%)
4. From janet. To Damita Jo (Video): 234 (-5%)
5. All For You (album): 175 (-7%)
6. The Velvet Rope: 183 (-1%)
7. Rhythm Nation: 168 (-3%)
8. Control: 137 (+11%)
9. Live in Hawaii (DVD/video): 57 (-15%)
10. All For You (CD/DVD): 32 (+10%)
11. Design of a Decade 1986/1996 (Video): 27 (+35%)
Mariah Carey - 7,297 units (44,997 units including The Emancipation Of Mimi)
(excluding Live at MSG DVD and digital single sales)
Notes: The Mimi album scanned another 37,700 units- it should pass Butterfly's SS total with next week's numbers, to give her her 4th highest SoundScan tally. The re-release his 11/15, and that should give it a big percentage gain (and more than likely return the album to the top 10).
Among the older titles, Greatest Hits increased some, as did the perennial top-selling holiday effort, Merry Christmas. The dual-disc version appeared in some stores last week- I'd think the new sales would be lumped with sales of the existing album.
1. The Emancipation Of Mimi: 37,663 (-24%) (Cumulative sales: 3,650,187) (#17 on the Billboard 200)
2. Greatest Hits (2 CD): 3,210 (+7%)
3. Merry Christmas: 1,234 (+81%)
4. #1's: 913 (-5%)
5. Remixes (2 CD): 400 (-19%)
6. Butterfly: 306 (-1%)
7. Charmbracelet: 249 (-)
8. #1's (Video): 237 (-17%)
9. Glitter: 212 (-5%)
10. Music Box: 111 (-32%)
11. Rainbow: 111 (+18%)
12. Daydream: 93 (-24%)
13. Around the World (Video): 88 (-19%)
14. Mariah Carey: 81 (-18%)
15. Through the Rain (Single): 31 (-33%)
16. MTV Unplugged: 11 (-42%)
17. Emotions: 10 (+11%)