Jay-Z & American Idol Runner Up Beat The Beatles & U2 On US Charts!
Whoa, across the Atlantic and the same holds true! Over the weekend, we were stunned to find out that Westlife beat The Beatles & U2 on the UK album charts (for all of their debut weeks). Seems like neither megagroup could topple Daughtry (I guess he removed his first name, Chris, for some sort of appeal, not mine) or the 700+ debuting Jay-Z 'comeback album'.
Not only that but the latest edition of Now also faired higher than the big boys this week!
Here's how the top 5 round up (sales in parantheses):
#1 Jay-Z: 708k
#2 Daughtry: 301k
#3 NOW 23: 298k
#4 The Beatles: 280k
#5 Snoop Dogg: 274k
U2's U218 didn't even crack the top 10! They'll have to settle for #12. Although that could be because they have way too many greatest hits releases as it is. Only The Cure has more (seriously, 5 best-ofs with the same 12 songs over and over? Come on!)
Thoughts on all of this? Predictable? I don't know why it shocks me, but it does.
MP3: U2 - Acrobat (one of my favorite U2 tracks)
Labels: american idol, charts, jay-z, the beatles, u2
posted by m | 9:27 AM
2 Comments:
u2 has an 80s best of, a 90s best of and now a singles collection. (that's 3, total). hardly overdoing it for a band that's been around for 30 years. the beatles were around for 10 years and have probably 10+ greatest hits. anyway, yeah.
Actually the Beatles hardly have any hits packages. "#1s" is the only one I can think of.
The Who on the other hand should be called The Whores. They have more hits albums than they have albums.
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