| man-bear-pig said: Thanks for updating guiduc, I forgot all about it. Great sales for Adele as always, and surprisingly stable sales for Lana Del Ray. Also, it's weird how these Japanese acts appear which huge sales and then disappear of the charts the following week... Oh, and Madonnas new album is out in a few weeks. Any predictions about 1st week sales? |
Japanese albums are generally extremely front-loaded in sales. It's just how Japanese consumers buy. For example, Utada Hikaru's 2001 album "Distance" sold 3,002,000 copies in its first week, which is 67% of its total lifetime sales. It happens that way a lot.
Anyway, here's what I've read about Madonna's album:
"Madonna's tally was inflated by a promotion involving her upcoming world tour. U.S. fans who bought a concert ticket were given a code which could be redeemed for either a physical or digital copy of MDNA. This same policy boosted the debut of Bon Jovi's Lost Highway, which opened at #1 in July 2007, and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' Mojo, which bowed at #2 in June 2010." (Source: Yahoo!)
So I guess it's not surprising that her album fell so quickly.
