After several adequately apathetic summer weeks, new blockbusters accept assuredly started to cycle out, alpha with Kanye West's Yeezus. Weekly anthology sales jumped 5 percent compared to the antecedent week, according to Billboard, but they're still appealing anemic in the aggregate, down 5 percent all-embracing for 2013. (Black Sabbath, who afresh denticulate their aboriginal anytime chart-topping album, alone 71 percent in sales this week, yet still clings to Number 5 on the archive – not bad.)
THE GOSPEL OF YEEZUS: Kanye West talks to Jesus on his new album, but he didn't allocution to programmers. He abhorred the accepted operating action of sending a individual to radio, which ability accept aching him – but abounding stations have said they plan to play songs from Yeezus anyhow. The all-embracing fizz gave Kanye 327,000 in first-week sales and a Number One debut. The big catechism is how continued Yeezus will stick about – there's no acceptable single, no radio and no video, so none of the new songs arise on iTunes' Top Songs or BigChampagne's Ultimate Chart (which measures Internet belief and generally predicts approaching sales), at atomic so far.
The New Immortals: Kanye West
COLE WORLD: Rapper J. Cole pushed up Born Sinner so he could attempt head-to-head with Yeezus during the aforementioned absolution week. He landed at Number Two, earning the best sales anniversary of his career with 297,000 copies sold. Could he accept awash even added in addition week? My assumption is the majority of hip-hop admirers aloof abundant banknote to buy just one big anthology this week, and that was Yeezus. Still, Cole and Mac Miller's Watching Movies With the Sound Off (102,000 sales, Number Three) may able-bodied get the alleviation cost of abounding Spotify-Rhapsody-Rdio-etc. chargeless streams. The endure of this week's all-new Top Four albums: R&B brilliant Kelly Rowland's Talk a Good Game (68,000, Number Four).
PHONE HOME: Jay-Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail comes out three canicule aboriginal on July 4th for one actor users of Galaxy adaptable phones, acknowledgment to a heavily publicized accord with Samsung. But none of those copies will calculation on the Billboard charts, which accept a longstanding aphorism that admirers have to in fact acquirement albums for money. It's anyone's assumption whether the accord will cannibalize approved sales, and if so, how much. Can Jay-Z add abundant sales above the Samsung Actor to hit Number One? We'll acquisition out soon.
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