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Lil Wayne Turns Back The Clock With Platinum Week

If you thought we'd never see another 10). Not bad for a guy whose previous ing Pat Monaco credits prerelease First -day sales put the British band's million -selling week in sales, top week had been 238,000 when "Tha leaks as helping " III" set atop Nielsen SoundScan's June 18 AJune 10 with "19," an album that is here to prove you wrong. Carter II" entered the Bill- achieve this fat sales Building chart, with unweighted sales Schad previously only been sold a nick 1 million board 200 at No. 2 in 2005. week. But look closely at of 316,000 from nine top accounts digitally in the United States. Opening just above verTh With a resulting nine -fold sal copies, his "Tha Carter III" becomes While the million - the quote from which through close of Tuesday. That is the vain, she graduates from Top the first title to register a platinum week club includes such Count 's third-largest Wednesday sum since the .Heatseekers as she bows at No. on the . Learn more week at Nielsen SoundScan since 50 veteran acts as the Bea- Gk0 Hollywood Insider and Building chart's launch in September, about her at billboard.com /adele. Cent's "The Massacre" banged that tles, and MAYFIE the Maven Report made surpassed only by first -day sales for C 01 RULE gong in March 2005. , fel- that leap. 's "Graduation" (437,000) low Billboard analyst Monaco's actual com- and last week's start for Lil Wayne's climb, respectively, to Nos. 1 and Keith Caulfield notes ment: " 'Tha Carter III' "Tha Carter III" (423,000). 2 on the . It's I lithe first time Capitol has held the that these fat weeks often was one of these records For "Tha Carter III," that initial sum top two since Sept. 2, 1967, when belong to artists who that, because it was so accounted for 42% of the album's full - Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie began their careers on a fairly fast track. highly anticipated, with the leaks and week total. If "Viva" follows an identi- Joe" and ' All You Need Is Love" led the list. As diverse a list of artists as , everything, it caused more people to cal pattern, that would translate to Britney Spears and Norah Jones broke go out at eight in the morning to buy somewhere in the neighborhood of the million -week barrier with their sec- the CD." 669,000, but a source close to the ond charting titles, and did it Call me crazy, but in that context, I album estimates that it will start in the with his second major -label release. 'N think Monaco cites those leaks as proof range of 700,000- 750,000 units. Sync had charted only twice, one of of anticipation for the album, rather Coldplaÿ s last set, "X&Y," began with those times being a Christmas album, than a market driver for its success. As 737,000, bowing at No. 1 in 2005. before the group's "No Strings Attached" impressive as Lil Wayne's total is, the made Nielsen SoundScan history with figure would likely have been even HOME RUNS: Each of the top five al- its 2.4 million -unit launch in 2000. larger had piracy not been in the mix. bums sell at least 100,000 copies for the LIL WAYNE Less common is the path taken by What his platinum week proves is week, the first time that's happened Lil Wayne, who didn't hit a seven -fig- that if an artist fields the right album since, well, er, last issue. But until this Although "Tha Carter III" is the rap- ure week until nine years after his first at the right time, it can still overcome steak, that had not happened since the per's fifth No. 1 on Top R &B /Hip -Hop Billboard 200 entry. The only relevant the various market factors that affect a 2007 Christmas week chart. STILL HAVING FUN , this marks his first time on comparison in the SoundScan era be- music business in flux. For the second time in two weeks, the big throne. longs to , whose "Confessions" the No. 1 on Top Classical Albums is nly ones rising to the top for chart's he first time since 1986. Cyndi The new Lil Wayne set becomes the opened at 1.1 million almost 10 years ON DECK: The fun doesn't stop yet, a digital -only release. With nearly 1,000 .auper scores her first Billboard 15th to register a week of 1 million or after his chart life began. as is set to succeed Lil sold for the frame, "Chant: Music for No. 1 in 22 years by taking over Wayne its num- the Soul" by the Cistercian Monks of he top spot on Hot Dance Club more since Nielsen SoundScan began More than one blogger implied that with own handsome Play. She last ruled a Billboar tracking sales in 1991 and the 12th to Universal Motown Records Group ex- ber for "Viva La Vida or Death and All Stift Heiligenkreuz owns the chart's list with "True Colors," a Hot do so in its £rst week (see story, page ecutive VP of sales and field market- His Friends." largest sum in 10 weeks. 100 No. 1.

I VI ` `r A Weekly National Music Sales Report \fa 15. Figures are rounded. rlee h For week endino June 2008. nielsen I-I A RF Compiled fro, . national sample of retail stoiy and rack C fed Weekly Unit Sales Year -To -Date sales repon, and provided by SoundScan DIGITAL DIGITAL 13 E AT ALBUMS ALBUMS' TRACKS 2001 2008 CHANGE Year -To -Date Album »If Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" This Week 9,292,000 1,278,000 20,255,000 OVERALL UNIT SALES Sales By Store Type rises no further on the Billboard Hot -11.0% Last Week 7,566,000 1,196,000 20,108,000 Albums 212,111, 000 188,674,000 units 100, it will be the 22nd Capitol single Digital Tracks 385,786,000 501,141,000 29.9% to peak at No.2 in the rock era, and (hange 22.8% 6.9% 0.7% Perry will be in fine company among Store Singles 939,000 762,000 -18.8% '07 41 ThisWeeklñstits 15,515,000 Capitol acts that have settled for 9,587,000 966,000 Total 598,836,000 690,577,000 15.3% the runner-up spot, including the Change -3.1% 32.3% 30.6% 80 Albums w/TEA` 250,689,600 238,788,100 -4.7% Seekers, Bob Seger, Donny Osmond 'Digital album sales are also counted within album sales. and Crowded House. But if "Girl" is Includes track equivalent album sales (TEA) with 10 track downloads equivalent r to one album sale. the next No.1 single, Perry will have Weekly Album Sales (Million Units) the 1,000th No. l of the rock era, a count that began July 9,1955, with 30 60 Bill Haley & His Comets'"(We're DIGITAL TRACKS SALES o Gonna) Rock Around the Clock." Ó 25 t And the timing couldn't be better, as - 2t;< '07 385.E million + it will have taken exactly 53 years to -2(' '08 ' ` íY1.1 million get to 1,000 No. ls. 20 200,, »Fred Bronson also reports on why Sergio Mendes is no 15 longer a one -hit wonder on Top Contemporary Jazz Albums and 10 SALES BY ALBUM FORMAT chronicles the highest- ranked albums of Emmylou Harris. CD 189,956,000 759,063,000 -16.3% 5 Digital 21,532,000 28,801,000 33.8% Read Fred Bronson a every week at Cassette 168,000 48,000 -71.4% billboard.com /fred. 0 Indies Non- Mass Chain J FM A M J J A S O N D J Other 455,000 762,000 67.5% traditional Merchant

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