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[nano]

nano, on Nov 20 2008, 10:59 AM, said:

Finland #20


47/2008   #20
46/2008 #22
45/2008 #21

ooops..wrong topic!     

^"My Love" Album

[Davey84]

ooooooh Anuuuuu!!!! and i was happy that TC was at least charting in ONE county!

[Kyle_Jared]

Check it out.....remember this was for 2008, "Taking Chances" was released in 07.  Not too bad!!!

Poor Madonna's not even on the list

Billboard's Year End Results
1 AS I AM ALICIA KEYS 3,628,381
2 NOEL JOSH GROBAN 3,333,285
3 THA CARTER III LIL' WAYNE 2,671,291
4 Long Road Out Of Eden EAGLES 2,051,352
5 TAYLOR SWIFT TAYLOR SWIFT 2,042,003
6 ROCK N ROLL JESUS KID ROCK 1,978,083
7 VIVA LA VIDA OR DEATH AND ALL HIS FRIENDS COLDPLAY 1,905,661
8 NOW 26 VARIOUS ARTISTS 1,677,932
9 THE ULTIMATE HITS GARTH BROOKS 1,614,214
10 CARNIVAL RIDE CARRIE UNDERWOOD 1,613,962
11 Hannah Montana 2 (Soundtrack)/Meet Miley Cyrus MILEY CYRUS 1,554,904
12 Growing Pains Mary J. Blige 1,548,496
13 EXCLUSIVE CHRIS BROWN 1,541,046
14 Sleep Through The Static Jack Johnson 1,437,645
15 BLACK ICE AC/DC 1,319,914
16 DEATH MAGNETIC METALLICA 1,315,129
17 JONAS BROTHERS JONAS BROTHERS 1,286,142
18 COCO COLBIE CAILLAT 1,257,318
19 SPIRIT LEONA LEWIS 1,249,522
20 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 SOUNDTRACK 1,226,254
21 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD RIHANNA 1,197,910
22 E=MC2 MARIAH CAREY 1,178,770
23 PAPER TRAIL T.I. 1,178,455
24 MAMMA MIA! SOUNDTRACK 1,127,367
25 A LITTLE BIT LONGER JONAS BROTHERS 1,097,354
26 CAMP ROCK SOUNDTRACK 1,083,351
27 HERE I STAND USHER 1,070,769
28 STILL FEELS GOOD RASCAL FLATTS 1,064,839
29 ENJOY THE RIDE SUGARLAND 1,057,826
30 LOVE ON THE INSIDE SUGARLAND 1,031,717
31 MOTHERSHIP LED ZEPPELIN 1,018,375
32 BREAKOUT MILEY CYRUS 1,015,477
33 DAUGHTRY DAUGHTRY 1,013,979
34 TAKING CHANCES CELINE DION 982,684
35 JUST LIKE YOU KEYSHIA COLE 958,760
36 JORDIN SPARKS JORDIN SPARKS 956,098
37 NOW 28 VARIOUS ARTISTS 926,966
38 Alvin And The Chipmunks SOUNDTRACK 894,030
39 JUNO SOUNDTRACK 892,494
40 RAISING SAND ROBERT PLANT/ALISON KRAUSS 868,985
41 NOW 27 VARIOUS ARTISTS 833,510
42 INDESTRUCTIBLE DISTURBED 796,215
43 BACK TO BLACK AMY WINEHOUSE 794,369
44 DREAMING OUT LOUD ONEREPUBLIC 794,294
45 LITTLE VOICE SARA BAREILLES 772,652
46 THE DUTCHESS FERGIE 760,478
47 MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT LINKIN PARK 755,690
48 ALL THE RIGHT REASONS NICKELBACK 733,123
49 JUST WHO I AM: POETS & PIRATES KENNY CHESNEY 717,323
50 TRILLA RICK ROSS 684,609

[idroveallnight]

Alicia Keys' album was released the same day as 'Taking Chances' and yet she's #1.  What's wrong with the world?  

[dj4celine]

idroveallnight, on Nov 26 2008, 11:09 PM, said:

Alicia Keys' album was released the same day as 'Taking Chances' and yet she's #1.  What's wrong with the world?  

Several hit singles, phenomenal promotion, more 'cool' than Celine and last but not the least, the album is actually very good

[amelie]

dj4celine, on Nov 26 2008, 12:44 PM, said:

idroveallnight, on Nov 26 2008, 11:09 PM, said:

Alicia Keys' album was released the same day as 'Taking Chances' and yet she's #1.  What's wrong with the world?  

Several hit singles, phenomenal promotion, more 'cool' than Celine and last but not the least, the album is actually very good

not near as good as Celine's imo

[smw]

Thank God Alicia Keys is number one.  Quality singer.  Quality album.

[dj4celine]

amelie, on Nov 27 2008, 12:15 AM, said:

dj4celine, on Nov 26 2008, 12:44 PM, said:

idroveallnight, on Nov 26 2008, 11:09 PM, said:

Alicia Keys' album was released the same day as 'Taking Chances' and yet she's #1.  What's wrong with the world?  

Several hit singles, phenomenal promotion, more 'cool' than Celine and last but not the least, the album is actually very good

not near as good as Celine's imo

Alex, Celine's album maybe good but it never got the radio airplay, tv play and the hype that "As I Am" got.

[Kyle_Jared]

Alicia Keys has moderate talent nothing special in my opinion.....I'd never buy one of her CD's.......

AS I AM was so successful for two key reasons:

Alicia Keys  is fairly new in her recording career (this is only her third CD.....look where Celine was on her third English CD "The colour of my love"---she was just starting to really take off in America/Europe and eventually The Colour of My Love sold 16 million copies with two HUGE singles)

Secondly, Clive Davis.  Enough said.

[Your_Su_Phu]

celine's career pattern doesn't apply for everybody. mariah was more successful in the beginning of her career.   alicia is still at the height of her popularity.   clive definitely helped to boost and launch her career, but that can be said for pretty much any artist out there.  that is how the music industry works, it's not just talent but politics and promotion, luck.  she's proven to have a strong and loyal fanbase with consistently successful releases.

and actually alicia debuted in 2001 so she's not that new. she's almost closing in on a decade.  not everyone releases 2 albums a year.

edit: OMG HAHA mariah's way out of the top ten of the year end chart.  I remember reading some other sources which put her much higher..but then again those were in progress anyway.

so I guess this list doesn't include the sales of celine's album from 2007 right? just 2008?  does anyone know the precise total figure for taking chances in the US as of now?

Edited by Your_Su_Phu, 26 November 2008 - 05:56 PM.

[Xpresso]

Well, that's not bad at all!! #34 of the year after almost 20 years in the business.  
Mariah didn't sell that much more for having some hit singles!
Is there such a list for worldwide sales (year-end)?

[celinesounds]

Alicia Keys i hate her voice how can she sell so much

less than 1 000 000 for Celine is to bad

it was a big mistake release an album and going on tour without the promo like the 90's

[Black Kitten]

Kyle_Jared, on Nov 27 2008, 05:30 AM, said:

Alicia Keys has moderate talent nothing special in my opinion.....I'd never buy one of her CD's.......

AS I AM was so successful for two key reasons:

Alicia Keys  is fairly new in her recording career (this is only her third CD.....look where Celine was on her third English CD "The colour of my love"---she was just starting to really take off in America/Europe and eventually The Colour of My Love sold 16 million copies with two HUGE singles)

Secondly, Clive Davis.  Enough said.

why a "moderate" talent? she writes her songs, she plays piano, she can sing live, she's a producer and arranger. the only talent God didn't give her is probably dancing LOL. as celine said awhile back, Alicia Keys is a complete artist. how i wish i have at least half of this woman's talent.

going back to Taking Chances' sales, does this mean we should add her total sales last year (2007) to her sales this year (982,684) to come up with her sales all in all in the US? i'm kinda confused... if she sold 982,684 this year alone, then her sales during the last weeks of 2007 weren't included here?

Edited by dhena, 26 November 2008 - 06:35 PM.

[Your_Su_Phu]

celinesounds, on Nov 26 2008, 06:00 PM, said:

Alicia Keys i hate her voice how can she sell so much

less than 1 000 000 for Celine is to bad

it was a big mistake release an album and going on tour without the promo like the 90's

taking chances is platinum.  as sad as I am with celine's decline from the mainstream, we should be proud of her sales considering how insanely low currently "hot" acts like rihanna's album sales are.  celine is doing fine and she will always have her core base who will buy any album she puts out

and @ dhena that was what I was wondering in my last post.  I thought this 980k figure was close to the overall figure I saw awhile back..but im pretty sure this list only includes 2008 sales right? so if that is how it is shouldn't her total taking chances sales in the US (07 and 08) be over 1 million already?

Edited by Your_Su_Phu, 26 November 2008 - 06:34 PM.

[Black Kitten]

yeah... and she debuted with 214,000 (not sure though), so if you're gonna add this to her 982,684 sales this year, then she sold almost 1.2M copies in America, AND of course we should add her sales during the last few weeks of 2007 (she sold above 100k in i guess 3 more weeks after her debut). so is it safe to say she sold at least 1.5M in the US? LOL ok i'm paranoid

[Your_Su_Phu]

wait a minute......I think we might be mixed up here.  cos I read something like billboard's year end chart doesn't actually include the entire year?  like december?  so the 2008 year end does include the december 07 sales?

???
but taking chances was released in november..

here's something I found on the web..

Quote

Interestingly, albums at the peak of their popularity at the time of the November/December chart-year cutoff many times end up ranked lower than one would expect on a year-end tally, yet are ranked on the following year's chart as well, as their cumulative points are split between the two chart years.

?!?!??!?!?!? lol

Edited by Your_Su_Phu, 26 November 2008 - 07:17 PM.

[Black Kitten]

that's weird. if that's the case, they should not release a year-end ranking of the top selling albums of the year this early. Britney Spears could easily enter that chart when her album comes out. so her sales would be included in next year's year-end countdown? hmmm...

[VinnyT.]

dhena, on Nov 27 2008, 01:10 AM, said:

going back to Taking Chances' sales, does this mean we should add her total sales last year (2007) to her sales this year (982,684) to come up with her sales all in all in the US? i'm kinda confused... if she sold 982,684 this year alone, then her sales during the last weeks of 2007 weren't included here?

"982,684" this is how much TC sold when it was still in top 200 (till last may) maybe now it it is 1 M

[pascaladolphejean]

Is everyone familiar with another site called worldwidealbums.net?  On this site, cd sales information is presented based on the year a cd appeared, but you can also see sales to date. Taking Chances, for example, is grouped with albums released in 2007, but it ranks 18th, from the day it was released to the present, with approximately 3,150,000 in sales worldwide. This gives a better picture of how an album has performed over time.  Billboard year-end charts are fun to look at, but the 12-month framework hides the complete picture.  

For compare and contrast fans, it's interesting to see how Mariah's E=MC2 performed well in the US this year, but not particularly well worldwide (<2 million copies). On the other hand, Madonna's album is now ranked third worldwide for the year (>3 million), but it didn't do well in the US, at lease not relatively speaking.

Any comments?

[VinnyT.]

UK The Top 100 Albums of 2008:

93 E=MC² - Mariah Carey * 111,500
94 All the Way.. A Decade of Song - Celine Dion 110,500
96 My Love - The Essential Collection - Celine Dion 109,000

I think last update was about 15 days ago

[Bellamy]

ATW  

[Black Kitten]

LOL at All the Way

My Love will eventually outsell E=MC2 in no time

[Kyle_Jared]

Mariah only went gold in the UK with E=MC2.  Surprising. but sweetness for Celine

Isnt' about time "All the way" was re-certified in the UK?

[Shaun]

What did Taking Chances sell in the UK? Over 300,000 without a hit single? Ho ho ho. LOL

Anyway, in a sense "All The Way" was re-released in the UK this year with special packaging and only priced at £5 so not surprising its sold so well to be honest.

[Love,]

Kyle_Jared, on Nov 26 2008, 01:30 PM, said:

Alicia Keys has moderate talent nothing special in my opinion.....I'd never buy one of her CD's.......

AS I AM was so successful for two key reasons:

Alicia Keys  is fairly new in her recording career (this is only her third CD.....look where Celine was on her third English CD "The colour of my love"---she was just starting to really take off in America/Europe and eventually The Colour of My Love sold 16 million copies with two HUGE singles)

Secondly, Clive Davis.  Enough said.

I beg to differ...
I believe that Alicia Keys is pure talent.

Edited by Love,, 27 November 2008 - 07:21 AM.

[Prince Whiskers]

Shaun, on Nov 27 2008, 08:26 PM, said:

What did Taking Chances sell in the UK? Over 300,000 without a hit single? Ho ho ho. LOL

365k to be exact.

LOL @ Hard Candy's fate in the US. M can now lay claim to having 2 of the worst-selling #1 albums over there.

[Xpresso]

manuel morriso, on Nov 27 2008, 03:58 PM, said:

Shaun, on Nov 27 2008, 08:26 PM, said:

What did Taking Chances sell in the UK? Over 300,000 without a hit single? Ho ho ho. LOL

365k to be exact.

LOL @ Hard Candy's fate in the US. M can now lay claim to having 2 of the worst-selling #1 albums over there.

No wonder why Madonna is moving back to the US to shake up the US market.... Or at least try... Crisis, crisis!  

Well done Celine. My Love was just released and is almost tied with Mariah!!  

[Prince Whiskers]

Xpresso, on Nov 27 2008, 11:07 PM, said:

Well done Celine. My Love was just released and is almost tied with Mariah!!  

And it's been 2 weeks since that list came out.

[amelie]

dj4celine, on Nov 26 2008, 04:19 PM, said:

amelie, on Nov 27 2008, 12:15 AM, said:

dj4celine, on Nov 26 2008, 12:44 PM, said:

idroveallnight, on Nov 26 2008, 11:09 PM, said:

Alicia Keys' album was released the same day as 'Taking Chances' and yet she's #1.  What's wrong with the world?  

Several hit singles, phenomenal promotion, more 'cool' than Celine and last but not the least, the album is actually very good

not near as good as Celine's imo

Alex, Celine's album maybe good but it never got the radio airplay, tv play and the hype that "As I Am" got.

just  comparing their substance

[celinedream]

Love,, on Nov 27 2008, 07:08 AM, said:

I believe that Alicia Keys is pure talent.

I agree.

Edited by celinedream, 27 November 2008 - 10:48 AM.