Let's Discuss the SoundScan Mid-Year Music Industry Report Top Ten

1. Queen : "Bohemian Rhapsody"
2. Wet Wet Wet : "Goodnight Girl"
3. Shakespear's Sister : "Stay"
4. The Temptations : "My Girl"
5. Simply Red : "Stars"
6. The KLF : "Justified And Ancient (Stand By The Jams)"
7. Madness : "It Must Be Love"
8. Genesis : "I Can't Dance"
9. Julia Fordham : "(Love Moves In) Mysterious Ways"
10. Crowded House : "Weather With You (Radio Edit)"
11. Right Said Fred : "Deeply Dippy"
12. Mr. Big : "To Be With You"
13. Everything But The Girl : "Love Is Strange"
14. Roxette : "Church Of Your Heart"
15. Brian May : "Driven By You"
16. The Wonder Stuff : "Welcome To The Cheap Seats"
17. The Jesus & Mary Chain : "Far Gone And Out"
18. James : "Born Of Frustration"
19. The Cure : "High"

Disc 2

1. Shanice : "I Love Your Smile (Driza Bone Remix)"
2. The Pasadenas : "I'm Doing Fine Now"
3. Kylie Minogue : "Give Me Just A Little More Time"
4. East Side West : "Ride Like The Wind"
5. 2 Unlimited : "Twilight Zone"
6. The KLF featuring The Children Of The Revolution : "America: What Time Is Love?"
7. Clivilles & Cole : "A Deeper Love"
8. Opus III : "It's A Fine Day"
9. Erasure : "Breath Of Life"
10. MC Hammer : "Addams Groove"
11. Salt-N-Pepa : "Expression"
12. Ce Ce Peniston : "We Got A Love Thang"
13. Paula Abdul : "Vibeology"
14. Alison Limerick : "Make It On My Own"
15. Tina Turner : "Way Of The World"
16. Curtis Stigers : "I Wonder Why"
17. Diana Ross : "When You Tell Me That You Love Me"

GET WITH THE 21st CENTURY, YANKS, LOLZ !>!?!?!?!?!

iTunes does report to SoundScan but I'm not sure if those are included in the traditional chart or kept separate

1 Whatever People say I am.. - Arctic Monkeys 984,000
2 In between Dreams - Jack Johnson 610,000
3 Corinne Bailey Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae 530,000
4 Back to Bedlam - James Blunt 440,500
5 Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers 426,000
6 Breakaway - Kelly Clarkson 386,000
7 Keep On - Will Young 383,983
8 Shayne Ward - Shayne Ward 382,500
9 Employment - Kaiser Chiefs 378,000
10 Eye to the Telescope - KT Tunstall 376,000

Ain't that the fuckin' truth.

11 Inside In/Inside Out - The Kooks 370,000
20 Sanctuary - Simon Webbe 272,000
34 From Under the Cork Tree - Fall Out Boy 200,000
46 Tired of Hanging Around - The Zutons 146,000
48 A Fever you can't Sweat Out - Panic at the Disco 140,000

41 The Best of - Jonny Mathis 179,000
42 12 Songs - Neil Diamond 175,000
49 From Daniel with Love - Daniel O'Donnell 136,000

I dunno though, I just had to google High School Musical Soundtrack to find out wtf it is and it's some Disney Channel thing. hello tween marketing.

Disney has struck platinum with High School Musical, a made-for-cable movie that was mega-popular on the Disney Channel before spawning a mega-popular soundtrack.

hey at least the T.I. record is a hit.

xpost: high school musical is huuuuuuge. it's one of those things that "music fans" have no idea about but are what's actually propping the industry up at this point. (nb: i've never heard it, and a friend of mine who had to watch the movie for work told me it was pretty boring.)

I can't see any of the releases in the current top 10 reaching the 6-7 mil mark that Mariah and 50 Cent hit last year, it'll be interesting to see what this list looks like in 6 months.

The music industry received mixed news Friday: Declines in sales leveled off thanks to an increase in digital downloads, but consumers bought fewer new releases this year.

Sales of music albums in the U.S. declined by 4.2% in the first half of the year, to 270.6 million units, compared with the same period a year earlier, according to data released by Nielsen SoundScan.

The drop, however, was mostly offset by a 77% increase in digital sales of music tracks. The 280.9 million digital singles sold in the first six months of this year — the equivalent of 28 million albums — brings the effective number of albums sold to 298.7 million units, a 0.2% increase over last year.

Has anyone seen HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, Kenny Ortega's musical follow-up to Newsies?

-- Abbott (igotabeefpastr...), July 8th, 2006. (later)

!!!! It all makes sense -- HSM is Ortega's revenge for Newsies from BEYOND THE GRAVE. (Except he's not dead, I assume.)

these days, though, i think it's interesting to look at what's going on at the Long Tail end of the histogram, versus the top ten end of things

although it is perhaps faddish to do so

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_long_tail

2. Alex in Baltimore, sales of albums through iTunes, etc. ARE counted, but sales of individual tracks go to the singles chart.

3. so. one way to read this is that CDs are now purchased primarily by children and/or people who can't afford high speed internet?
How silly. You're going to suggest that Andrea Bocelli fans "can't afford high speed internet"? Nope. Lots of people - i.e. LOTS, i.e. the majority of Americans - still buy physical CDs, to play in the car, around the house, etc. For most people, the iPod revolution is in conjunction with, not instead of, CDs. I don't currently have high-speed (I have in the past), but would still buy discs even if I did, for the liner notes, and for the sheer physicality of it all. Not to mention that I don't want my music collection to only be on my hard drive: virus! Whoopsie! All gone! (Yes I know it can be backed up blah blah blah.)

MISTAH Inskeep -- the language I read, which cited Billboard, is thus:

"10,000 Days" has been confirmed platinum in the US, representing sales of over one million copies of the new album

Which likely confirms your read on it as much as anything, given the wording. The only shipping platinum plateaus that mean anything are the KISS solo records in the late seventies, all of which were returned, with curses. ;-)

I just hope people just see these as snapshots and nothing more.

"Tried and true" is a concept that works in the very short term in the music industry, as far as looking at what sells and trying to profit of reports, but that time frame is becoming shorter and shorter every time, as media in general becomes faster paced and becoming fickler and fickler. I'm not too confident the big labels realize this yet.

the Ace Frehley one isn't bad!!!

wrong! i saw them on the today morning show! are you saying they are good?

still, though . . . i have never spotted a NOW comp in an adult's CD collection.

Perhaps you have the wrong friends.

i'm also counting my coworkers, who have astoundingly poor taste

1. Mariah Carey - Don’t Forget About Us
2. Pussycat Dolls - Stickwitu
3. Nelly - Grillz
4. Chris Brown - Run It!
5. Black Eyed Peas - My Humps
6. Rihanna - If Its Lovin’ That You Want
7. Bow Wow - Fresh Azimiz
8. Dem Franchize Boyz - Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It
9. Three 6 Mafia - Stay Fly
10. T-Pain - I’m Sprung
11. Ray J. - One Wish
12. Kelly Clarkson - Because Of You
13. Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
14. Nickelback - Photograph
15. All American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret
16. Fall Out Boy - Dance Dance
17. Relient K - Who I Am Hates Who I’ve Been
18. Gorillaz - Dare
19. Trace Adkins - Honky Tonk Bodonkadonk
20. Cascada - Everytime We Touch