Now we all know by now how much I love Wednesdays, so usually I avoid reading all the official and unoffical soundscan forecasts that start circulating Monday of every week.
However this week, being one of the most crucial in the industry, essentially the last chance for labels to deliver albums for the year and have them hit big for the holidays, but before radio turns to Xmas programing, I decided to take a peek…
And its GOOD! It’s all GOOD! If even for a minute we’re back baby! All top 10 albums estimated to sell over 100k with A-Keys leading the pack with what is looking to be 750k first week sales.
Also in the Top 10 will be Zeppelin’s re-release of Mothership and the Eagles selling ANOTHER 200k.
Billie Joe Armstrong claims Britney Spears is “a manufactured child” who has been “thrown to the lions” by the world’s media.continue reading…
seems like everyone’s weighing in and trying to excuse this broad’s behaviours…But not for nothing Billie Joe, you’ve been the center of Rock/Pop limelight more than once and have managed to raise a child (quite well I may add) and hold together a family (his wife is essentially his high school sweetheart)…
Looking like Brit’s poised for the number 1 position on the top 200 charts this week…she’s currently on point to debut with 350k albums.
Laugh it up Brit, turns out this is all on a technicality. This week’s true #1 title rightfully belongs to The Eagles who are estimated to be selling 700k by tomorrow. Their exclusive sales deal with Wal-Mart prevents them from charting.
NEW YORK (Billboard) - The Eagles have almost completed their first studio album since 1979’s “The Long Run,” and plan to tour extensively next year, guitarist Joe Walsh says.
“We’re just finishing vocals and mixing it. We’re all finally signing off on it,” Walsh told Billboard.com
All of the band members — Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Timothy B. Schmit and Walsh — wrote songs for the album, which he said “go in some really, really new, different directions. It’s hard to compare to anything that I hear out there now.”
For his songs, however, Walsh “went rock ‘n’ roll … I didn’t want us to be too ballad-y here. We need some stuff we can play live, so I made sure there was that element in the record.”
