When early projections revealed that Eminem’s “Recovery” was tracking for about 600,000 debut sales, his fans were ecstatic. Even though the reviews were significantly better, for “Recovery” to match first-week sales of last year’s comeback album “Relapse,” which was a critical disappointment and seemingly hurt some of his momentum, congratulations were definitely in order.
But thanks to positive word of mouth and the breakout success of Rihanna collaboration “Love the Way You Lie,” the album ended up greatly eclipsing expectations. According to final sales data from Billboard, “Recovery” net sales of 741,000.
Easily the best debut sales week of the year, the figure also smashed that of Drake’s heavily-hyped debut “Thank Me Later.” That album drops to about 156,000 for its second week.
Already projected as a huge disappointment, Miley Cyrus’ “Can’t Be Tamed” came in lower than expected, garnering only about 102,000 sales. While still considered a fairly solid record, the album was nonetheless criticized as trading the youthful personality of Miley’s previous recordings in favor of a more generic, polished sound.
Other debuts this week: Ozzy Osbourne’s “Scream” comes in at around 81,000, The Roots’ “How I Got Over” starts at a solid 51,000, Keith Sweat’s “Ridin’ Solo” lands at 27,000 and Jaron & The Long Road To Love’s “Getting Dressed in the Dark” opens to just under 24,000.
As it should! I couldn’t get to Itunes fast enough when I heard a friends last Wed! It’s got to be the best Rap album in years! So heavy, deep, honest and smart! He’s killing it on every track! Luv it!
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I must confess that during the last two weeks of this kind of particularly unhinged election bike, despite the brief mental refreshment I experienced for the Restoring Sanity Rally upon Saturday, I have once for a second time begun to suss out suitable caves in the Northwest Territories of Canada to i always can retire and be free from the intellectual and meaning potato sack sprint towards the bottom that is each of our national political conversation.
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