Please indulge me for a few minutes…

I like Wednesday mornings in the music industry.  Even with a long, tedious day ahead of me, I look forward to getting into work with a cup of coffee, opening my email and spending a few minutes with the fresh soundscan chart.  Sometimes it makes me happy, like when Kanye broke through this industry’s downward spiral and went old school selling almost a million copies in his first week.  Sometimes it makes me want to jump out a window, like when I realize that I could have put out a recording of the bus that stops in front of my apartment every 15 minutes, asked all my family and friends to buy a copy or 3, and could have landed myself in the top 200…

Regardless, this Wednesday was one of those exciting Wednesdays-there was obviously MUCH buzz about the number 1 position-Britney Spears, despite horrific press and NO promotion, was going to lock it down with 350,000 copies.

To make it even MORE interesting, this technically wasn’t even going to be the real #- The Eagles were on point to sell 700k copies of their long awaited new disc, but because of their innovative Wal-Mart only deal, were no elidgible to chart.

So, now I’m completely confused.  Because when I open my soundscan, there are The Eagles, sneakily stealing the #1 position from “The Legendary Miss Britney Spears”, scaning over their estimated 700k.  She still takes #2, selling not even 300k…

But I thought The Eagles couldn’t chart? What’s going on?

I call a bunch of friends, mainly those of mine that work in music sales and turns out they’re all stumped too and all have calls into soundscan…

Hoping to get an answer for myself-and all of you shortly.