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Pamela
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HDD: AIKEN TO BE #1 AGAIN
« on: October 27, 2003, 01:06:53 PM »
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WEEK IN PREVIEW: AIKEN TO BE #1 AGAIN
October 27, 2003
Put a guy on TV for a few months, release his record five months after the show finishes, then unleash a barrage of publicity when his record comes out and you’ll get a record that sticks at the top of the charts for a couple of weeks.
RCA’s Clay Aiken, in case you’ve been living under a rock or surrounded by smoke and fire as Los Angeles burns to the ground, had the #1 album last week, and he’s going to have the #1 album this week. Sales will drop by more than 50% after last week’s boffo 600k+ bow, but it will have more than enough legs to stay at the top by any Measure.
Clay’s not the only man in the RCA/J world: Rod Stewart’s Great American Songbook Vol. 2 (J Records) is trending up after his Oprah appearance and looks to do numbers in the 170-190k range. A TV appearance selling records? Who’da thunk it.
Just behind Rod will be The Eagles Very Best of (WSM). Thanks to a big direct response campaign (read: TV sales), the double-disc set looks to cross the 150k mark. Hmm, TV ads selling records? Who’da thunk it. All this television stuff has us thinking, as you’ve been telling us for years, that we’re in the wrong business.
Tomorrow will see the new one from RCA’s The Strokes hitting the streets. While likely to put up respectable numbers, Aiken will probably have a third week at #1. But look out for next week (11/4), which will bring Sarah McLachlan (Arista), Jah Rule (Murder Inc./IDJ), P.O.D. (Atlantic), Toby Keith (DreamWorks), Now 14 (Columbia) and a live Coldplay set (Capitol).
For those Clay Aiken fanclub members out there with questions about the sales chart, please keep emailing our sales gurus. They’re very lonely.
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Edit - That last line cracks me up! Think they are getting some email from Clay fans? Yeah, me too. - Pamela