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Xscape chart positions. (incl. singles)

MAROON 5 – Maps: 55.353 (+ 2.718)
M. JACKSON & J. TIMBERLAKE – Love Never Felt So Good: 45.728 (- 1.022)
LIL WAYNE – Believe Me f/Drake: 41.546 (+ 0.808)

Ooops! Big drop. Sory guys I wasn't home these days.
 
Dorian;4024528 said:
MAROON 5 – Maps: 55.353 (+ 2.718)
M. JACKSON & J. TIMBERLAKE – Love Never Felt So Good: 45.728 (- 1.022)
LIL WAYNE – Believe Me f/Drake: 41.546 (+ 0.808)

Ooops! Big drop. Sory guys I wasn't home these days.
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Sign that it is the time for 2nd single.
 
#12. Love Never Felt So Good - Michael Jackson & Justin Timberlake (last week 11)
MJJ / Epic - 146.000
 
WHAT THE HELL IS THE ESTATE AND SONY WAITING FOR?!?! Fans are literally screaming for a new single! Gosh! Sometimes I really wonder what they are doing... Are they ****ing blind or something?
 
Michael Jackson's posthumous success is off the charts

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...osthumous-success-is-off-the-charts/11370581/

Michael Jackson may have been invincible after all. Death set no limits on his earning powers.

The pop star has sold 13.2 million albums and 24.2 million digital tracks in the United States since his death five years ago, according to Nielsen SoundScan data released today.

The King of Pop died on June 25, 2009, on the verge of a splashy comeback designed to revitalize his career and refill coffers drained by overspending.

Since then, he's raked in more than $700 million, according to Forbes. In his lifetime, he earned $1.1 billion or roughly $2 billion when adjusted for inflation. Factor in the adjusted posthumous numbers and the figure jumps to almost $3 billion.

His current Xscape, No. 17 in its sixth week on the Billboard album chart, has sold 325,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan

RockWithYou @Coleen4MJ · June 26
Source? RT @MJacksonHD: 2.4 Million+ copies sold worldwide! #Xscape #KiNG
http://twitter.com/MJacksonHD/status/481970668444336128/photo

Source ?!? http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/25/showbiz/michael-jackson-death-anniversary/index.html

The second album -- "Xscape" -- was a global hit and more accepted by fans. The album, produced from nearly-completed Jackson tracks that current producers "contemporized," sold over 2.3 million copies in the first three weeks of its release in May. It remained in the top 10 on album charts in United States, Canada, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom a month later.
 
Does anyone have the US sales predictions for Xscaoe this week as we head into the weekend?
 
crossing fingers, that APWNN is the next single and tops the charts easily. (#1!!)
 
Billboard Charts 2014-07-05
this week - last week - weeks on chart - peak position
Hot 100
Love Never Felt So Good 36-33-8-9
Adult Contemporary
Love Never Felt So Good 8-9-8-8 peak!
Adult R&B Songs
Love Never Felt So Good 1-2-8-1 peak!
Adult Pop Songs
Love Never Felt So Good 29-25-8-23
Billboard 200
Xscape 17-9-6-2
The Essential Michael Jackson 145-150-102-53
Number Ones 158-128-181-13
Thriller 167-161-211-1
Dance Club Songs
Love Never Felt So Good 29-32-4-29
Dance/Mix Show Airplay
Love Never Felt So Good 25-NEW-1-25 DEBUT!
Digital Songs
Love Never Felt So Good 38-34-8-6
On-Demand Songs
Love Never Felt So Good 42-31-5-20
Pop Songs (Top 40 Airplay)
Love Never Felt So Good 29-30-5-29 PEAK!
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
Xscape 3-1-6-1
Hot R&B Songs
Love Never Felt So Good 7-7-8-4
Slave To The Rhythm 20-17-4-10
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
Love Never Felt So Good 9-9-8-5
Slave To The Rhythm 47-36-4-12
Radio Songs
Love Never Felt So Good 40-36-7-36
Streaming Songs
Love Never Felt So Good 48-38-7-9
 
Top 8 Albums of the Year (So Far)


Hello out there internet! Welcome to the Mid-Year edition of the 411 Music 8 Ball! That's right, believe it or not it's the middle of 2014 as of next Tuesday, as June ends and July begins. That means one thing: it's time for looking back at the first six months of the year and seeing what stood out. 2014 hasn't quite been the year that 2013 was to this point, but we've had some very good albums released. Pop music has been receding a little and more and more rock has made its way on the charts, while rap just hasn't been up to the quality of the past few years to date. This week it's time to check out the best albums from the first six months of 2014.

Caveat: Pretty simple: if the album was released in 2014, it is eligible. Obviously, it must be said that I have not heard all albums released so far this year; that would be nearly impossible. I try to listen to all major music releases but there are a few I haven't had a chance to get to such as Kelis' Food, Rick Ross' Mastermind, Schoolboy Q's Oxymoron and some others. For those curious, I have given ratings to fifty albums thus far in 2014 which puts me a little ahead of the forty-five I was at at this point last year and the forty-seven in 2012. Obviously that means I'm on pace to top the 97 I rated by the end of last year.

Just Missing The Cut
• Powerman 5000 - Builders of the Future
• Spirits and the Melchizedek Children - So Happy, It's Sad
• Warpaint - Warpaint
• Tori Amos - Unrepentant Geraldines
• Black Keys - Turn Blue
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#3: Michael Jackson - Xscape

Did anyone expect Michael Jackson's second posthumous album to be a great one? Not very likely considering the disaster that 2010's Michael turned out to be. For the record, that would be the LP that was surrounded with condemnation from people close to Jackson, with claims that three of the tracks were done by a Jackson impersonator. Typically an artist's first posthumous release is their best, which meant that few people had high hopes for Xscape upon its initial announcement. This time they got it right though. Much of that credit has to go with L.A. Reid, who got involved and found full Jackson tracks instead of bits and pieces that needed collaborating artists. There are only eight tracks on Xscape that add up about thirty-seven minutes, but it's clearly a case of quality over quantity. Jackson hasn't sounded this vital and powerful in a long, long time and it's a credit to the King of Pop as well as the production team behind the album that makes it sound so good. From the seventies feel-good tone of "Love Never Felt So Good" and the electrified synths of "A Place with No Name" to the aggressive dance mood of "Slave to the Rhythm," this is a fantastic album that, if not quite another Thriller or Off the Wall, still reveals the Michael Jackson that we loved as an artist.


Read more at http://www.411mania.com/music/columns/327194#rGrtLG5qV52CfhlP.99
 
donalb;4024566 said:
Does anyone have the US sales predictions for Xscaoe this week as we head into the weekend?
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It`s not predicted to be in the Top 15 this week



Chart News @chartnews · 27. Juni

US chart preview: @edsheeran 190-210k | @samsmithworld 67-72k | @G_Eazy 43-48k | @LanaDelRey 40-45k | Frozen 35-40k.


Chart News @chartnews · 27. Juni

US chart preview: @mirandalambert 28-31k | @linkinpark 27-30k | @mastodonmusic, @phish 25-28k | Now 50 21-24k.


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BEST SELLING ALBUMS OF 2014

1. "Frozen" OST - 4,888,000
2. "Beyoncé" Beyoncé - 1,976,000
3. "Ghost Stories" Coldplay - 1,842,000
4. "GIRL" Pharrell Williams - 1,432,000
5. "Pure Heroine" Lorde - 1,431,000
6. "Midnight Memories" One Direction - 1,416,000
7. "Prism" Katy Perry - 1,249,000
8. "The Marshall Matters LP 2" Eminem - 1,152,000
9. "Night Visions" Imagine Dragons - 1,102,000
10. "Tsugi No Ashiato" AKB 48 - 1,020,000

11. "Xscape" Michael Jackson - 989,000
12. "Racine Carrée" Stormae - 982,000
13. "Unorthodox Jukebox" Bruno Mars - 929,000
14. "True" Avicii - 841,000
15. "AM" Arctic Monkeys - 819,000
16. "High Hopes" Bruce Springsteen - 757,000
17. "Bad Blood" Bastille - 667,000
18. "Random Access Memories" Daft Punk - 627,000
19. "Bangerz" Miley Cyrus - 613,000
20. "Shakira" Shakira - 610,000

21. "Turn Blue" The Black Keys - 581,000
22. "Swing Both Ways" Robbie Williams - 580,000
23. "Farbenspiel" Helene Fischer - 512,000
24. "Artpop" Lady Gaga - 511,000
25. "Love In the Future" John Legend - 499,000
26. "The Outsiders" Eric Church - 495,000
27. "Caustic Love" Paolo Nutini - 456,000
28. "In The Lonely Hour" Sam Smith - 453,000
29. "If You Wait" London Grammar - 438,000
30. "Overdose" Exo - 411,000

31. "Halcyon Days" Ellie Goulding - 404,000
32. "Just As I Am" Brantley Gilbert - 402,000
33. "Morning Phase" Beck - 377,000
34. "The 20/20 Experience - 2 of 2" Justin Timberlake - 370,000
35. "Ultraviolence" Lana Del Rey - 356,000
36. "Native" OneRepublic - 349,000
37. "Out Among the Stars" Johnny Cash - 330,000
38. "Moon Landing" James Blunt - 327,000
39. "Symphonica" George Michael - 324,000
40. "Ballada" Naime Amuro - 322,000

Source: United World Chart
- Numbers indicate sales between 1.1.2014. and 06.26.2014.
- The numbers are solely based on presence of the albums on UWC weekly top 40.
 
That's pretty good considering the album has been out for under 2 months. Would be cool if Michael can outsell Katy Perry and Eminem.
 
I am getting anxious about the next single. I really think this could help to push the album further in terms of sales especially if it promoted properly. Come on Estate and Sony. Don't blow this
 
Snow White luvs Peter Pan said:
2.3 million copies? This week on media traffic Xscape sold 66,000 copies which are in total 989,000 copies.
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media traffic counts sales from 10 biggest markets. Michael is huge in other "smaller" markets. Like Eastern Europe, South America, Middle East, China, India, Indonesia. Some Western Europe countries like Portugal also are not included in media traffic.

2,3 MIL is probably what they shipped, like 3 MIL copies they shipped for MICHAEL album. But sales are a lot bigger than 989,000. I would say around 1,5 MIL.
 
Croatia:

Love Never Felt So Good #1 (3 weeks at #1)
chart run: #51 - #15 - #2 - #1 - #1 - #1

Xscape #16 (last week #7)
chart run: #7 - #8 - #7 - #16
 
I probably missed this but did Xscape rise at all following the vinyl release earlier this month? Particularly interested in UK.
 
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