ONTD

2:49 pm - 11/14/2012

Xtina, 1D, Weeknd, Lana Del Rey & Twilight Sales Forecasts



It's beginning to feel a lot like the holidays, and not just because we're already plowed on eggnog.

Syco/Columbia's One Direction is expected to sell a teenage riot of 525-575k on their way to #1 this week, and while nothing else in the current crop of debuts will put up numbers like that, they're all likely to end up under the tree, in the stocking or appended to a mesh bag of Chanukah gelt.

The Weeknd from XO/Republic is on track to move 95-105k; the Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn 2 ST from Chop Shop/Atlantic should bite off 85-90k; and the latest from RCA diva and The Voice star Christina Aguilera is set to rack up 75-80k.

Returning rockers Soundgarden will scare up 70-75k with their Seven Four/Republic comeback disc, while Interscope's Lana Del Rey is set for 65-70k with her EP. Dos, the second album in Green Day's trilogy (Warner Bros.), will break off 65-70k.

What else? Reprise's Deftones will crank up 60-65k; Syco/Columbia vocalist Susan Boyle is expected to do 35-40k; a set from the late Whitney Houston (RCA) should move similar numbers; The Rolling Stones' greatest-hits-plus set GRRR! (UMe) will likely roll out 27-30k; Aaron Lewis (Blaster/Warner Bros. Nashville) is looking like 18-21k; and Madison Gate's Pentatonix will clear 10-15k.

Speaking of things going in stockings, 26 CIA operatives will spend the next two weeks reading steamy e-mails from craggy, middle-aged generals. They will spend the subsequent two weeks curled up in a fetal position, whimpering softly.

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vampireweekend 14th-Nov-2012 09:46 pm (UTC)
BUT YASSS LANA

gr8 sells for an ep my queen
headswillroll88 14th-Nov-2012 09:47 pm (UTC)
hew will buy the weeknd's stuff like that tho?
kanyesus 14th-Nov-2012 09:48 pm (UTC)
WERK 1D YAS
belkisa 14th-Nov-2012 09:49 pm (UTC)
yay 1D. that's not bad lol! didn't Justin Bieber's latest album debut "only" around ~300?
kanyesus 14th-Nov-2012 09:55 pm (UTC)
its actually really good considering the state of the music industry. might be the second-highest first week sales of the year after taylor swift.
belkisa 14th-Nov-2012 10:01 pm (UTC)
yeah, I forgot about Taylor. I googled Bieber's latest album and it says the first week sales were 374.000 and it was the biggest debut sales week at the time. so now with Taylor they are definitely the second biggest and they didn't even do much promo.
jbftw 14th-Nov-2012 09:59 pm (UTC)
it's amazing. they're already halfway there to a platinum album and its only the first week
belkisa 14th-Nov-2012 10:00 pm (UTC)
ok I looked it up. his album debuted at #1 with 374.000. so they are really good in comparison. I remember most people on here said his album flopped considering how much promo he did and 1D didn't make so much promo so far. so if the numbers are true then that's pretty amazing.
thrillisgone_89 14th-Nov-2012 10:15 pm (UTC)
the sales are AMAZING

so happy for them rn
retromaury 14th-Nov-2012 09:49 pm (UTC)
Dayyyyyum Xtina
drkshdw 14th-Nov-2012 09:50 pm (UTC)
I wish Xtine went even further into "experimental" territory with Bionic. If she's not going to promote it, why bother even making a pop album. She could've done something really interesting and segued into "indie pop/r&b"
cluelessraf 14th-Nov-2012 09:52 pm (UTC)
this this this!!
drkshdw 14th-Nov-2012 09:58 pm (UTC)
I mean with Lotus LIKE she was attempting with Bionic, but you get it.
vampireweekend 14th-Nov-2012 09:56 pm (UTC)
her voice is not suited for pop/electronic/techno or whatever. i wish she'd realize this!! her strongest music has been r&b stuff.
urizanegao 14th-Nov-2012 11:27 pm (UTC)
UGH this so much. :'( I would much rather have had an album that was what she wanted Bionic to be, or just a leak of all the unused tracks from Bionic, than Lotus, TBH. :(
wt_hell_fred 14th-Nov-2012 09:50 pm (UTC)
LOL poor Christina. That's so embarrassing but her album is terrible. Heres to hoping her next will be good..
sassandthecity 14th-Nov-2012 09:51 pm (UTC)
I love Christina and think Lotus should be doing better but her whole outfit from that Voice performance looked like some Halloween costume from Torrid.
kydeon 14th-Nov-2012 09:53 pm (UTC)
Well...she did kind of channel her own halloween costume with the pink wig and crown...
comalies 14th-Nov-2012 09:53 pm (UTC)
lmao at Xtina. The only song I really love on Lotus is Blank Page. There are a few of the dance tracks I like and Just a Fool as well but there's something missing that keeps them from being memorable. Then there are the songs I kind of like but she does some weird shit with her voice and ruins it (Red Hot Kind of Love). The less said about Circles and Shut Up the better.
cluelessraf 14th-Nov-2012 09:55 pm (UTC)
Red Hot Kinda Love is by far my fav song off that album!
ptr28 14th-Nov-2012 09:54 pm (UTC)
this makes me sad because Lotus is so good
music_lover56 14th-Nov-2012 10:00 pm (UTC)
same :( It's her and RCA's fault though *sighs*
ptr28 14th-Nov-2012 10:07 pm (UTC)
ia :/

it wouldn't hurt for them to put more effort into doing promo considering what happened to Bionic
xena_mademegay 14th-Nov-2012 09:58 pm (UTC)
expected it.
if christina didn't have The Voice, it would have probably been even lower and around Nelly Furtado's Spirit Indestructible first week sales
mattthew 14th-Nov-2012 09:59 pm (UTC)
lol i'm dying that floptus is going to sell less in it's first week than floponic. poor floptina. that's a shame because floptus>>>> imo

belkisa 14th-Nov-2012 10:04 pm (UTC)
and lol Christina
crazyfirecrotch those numbers, that performance.....14th-Nov-2012 10:04 pm (UTC)
adoptazehbrah 14th-Nov-2012 10:05 pm (UTC)
Didn't expect the numbers for 1D to be that high, but yesssss. Get it, boys.
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