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Charts, Schmarts

1/3/07, 6:36 pm EST

And now for your very favorite blog item of the week . . . CHART ROUND-UP! As per usual, things have fallen off a bit in the week after the retail bonanza that was the Xmas/Hannukah/Kwanzaa push. Nonetheless, albums were, in fact, sold. Some interesting tidbits:

  • The Dreamgirls soundtrack landed at Number Three on the charts, selling 104,366 units this week. Not amazing. BUT if you look closely at the charts (as we’re sure you all do), you’ll notice that a “Collector’s Edition” version of the very same album is listed separately, residing comfortably at Number Sixty. Add the sales of both albums together and you come up with 130,204 units sold — a number that exceeds Omarian’s Number One album, 21, by more than ten thousand units. Tricky tricky. See, that’s why they pay us the big bucks!
  • Our pals at Coolfer point out that the Top Ten is dominated by hip hop artists (Akon, Nas, Young Jeezy), which just goes to show that even if George Bush doesn’t care about black people, he’s in the minority.
  • Cute quasi-Christian surfer dudes Switchfoot make a decent debut at Number Eighteen (slow week, people!). A formidable 16% of sales were digital, which we guess means their fans know how to use computers. Shocking.

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melvin | 1/3/2007, 7:42 pm EST

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travis.watkins002 @ YIM | 1/3/2007, 11:01 pm EST

F**K hip hop! so pointless…

pedro alves | 1/4/2007, 4:42 am EST

Beyonce sorry…sucks big time..the only sort of good song she made was the last single its more pop..the rest please Ring the ALarm thats an insult to mankind…Beauty isnt everyhting…

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F**K travis.watkins002. you are so pointless..

semi wood | 1/4/2007, 3:28 pm EST

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Spinning Sun | 1/4/2007, 6:03 pm EST

wow. i’ve been reading some of the posts made today and it seems a solid majority of posters think rolling stone is trash. my personal idea is the people who truly care about music are offended by the downfall of the once iconic magezine and are voicing our wishes for change. The subscribers of the magezine are too interested in reading the sub-par jounalism and hopelessly uncool articles. Please rollingstone, take note of the always plentiful number of complaints about the magezine and make an attempt to return it to its former glory. although all of us complainers realize that will probably never happen and thus are even more ruthless to a symbol of the decline of popular culture.

Who cares? | 1/4/2007, 11:44 pm EST

Why do charts matter so much? The best music usually doesn’t fall on the top half of the charts (at least not for long), so who cares?

The answer of course are poeple who only care bout being popular, liking what’s popular etc. Unfortunately, Rolling Stone falls into this crowd hardcore. Fuck you guys for spitting in the face of REAL musicians, onetht just wantto make THEIR music.

This is precisely the topic tht forced me to cancel my subscripion…that and elizabeth goodman

Saul | 1/4/2007, 11:53 pm EST

Beyonce is no better than any other singer. She doesn’t deserve all the hype. Ring the Alarm was horrible, all she does is yell the whole song, and she gets nominated for best female R&B vocal performance. For that song. She sucks.

marcus | 1/4/2007, 11:54 pm EST

hip hop is the lowest form of music. and im generous in calling it “music”

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