{"id":21637,"date":"2013-12-10T04:17:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T08:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=21637"},"modified":"2013-12-11T17:08:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T21:08:36","slug":"internet-leads-itunes-lea-micheles-louder-hits-top-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/12\/10\/internet-leads-itunes-lea-micheles-louder-hits-top-10\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Because the Internet&#8221; Leads iTunes, Lea Michele&#8217;s &#8220;Louder&#8221; Hits Top 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><b>Update:<\/b>  Childish Gambino&#8217;s &#8220;Because the Internet&#8221; might be outpacing R. Kelly&#8217;s &#8220;Black Panties&#8221; on iTunes, but the latter could emerge as the week&#8217;s stronger overall performer.<\/p>\n<p>The first wave of sales projections is <a href=\"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/12\/11\/r-kelly-childish-gambino-album-sales-pacing-nearly-100k\/\">now available<\/a>.<\/em><br \/>\n=================<\/p>\n<p>Friendly to the album throughout its promotional cycle, iTunes presently recognizes Childish Gambino&#8217;s &#8220;Because the Internet&#8221; as its top-selling album.<\/p>\n<p>A regular on the overall iTunes Album Sales chart during its pre-order phase, the release, one of the week&#8217;s two high-profile ones, is currently number one.  R. Kelly&#8217;s &#8220;Black Panties,&#8221; the other big newcomer, is number two.<\/p>\n<p>An irrefutably hot album for digital music buyers, &#8220;Because the Internet&#8221; has also generated commercial enthusiasm for its individual tracks.  At press time, four&#8211;&#8220;Crawl&#8221; (40), &#8220;3005&#8221; (45), &#8220;Worldstar&#8221; (54) and &#8220;Sweatpants&#8221; (55)&#8211;are in the iTunes top 100 for single sales.<\/p>\n<p>As the holiday season continues, interest in seasonal albums remains high.  Kelly Clarkson&#8217;s &#8220;Wrapped in Red&#8221; and Pentatonix&#8217;s &#8220;PTXMas&#8221; claim third and fourth, respectively, on the iTunes sales chart.  Michael Buble&#8217;s &#8220;Christmas,&#8221; meanwhile, follows the &#8220;Frozen&#8221; soundtrack for a sixth-place ranking.<\/p>\n<p>One Direction&#8217;s &#8220;Midnight Memories,&#8221; Eminem&#8217;s &#8220;MMLP2&#8221; and Lorde&#8217;s &#8220;Pure Heroine&#8221; follow.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the top ten, meanwhile, is Lea Michele&#8217;s &#8220;Louder,&#8221; which officially became available for pre-orders Tuesday.  Lead single &#8220;Cannonball,&#8221; which was released to iTunes simultaneously, has ascended into the Top 50 on iTunes&#8217; Single Sales chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[183,1047,206],"tags":[1386,1387,1380,1385,58,1317,68,711,552,640,1379,1342,562,1142,1217],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Because the Internet&quot; Leads iTunes, Lea Michele&#039;s &quot;Louder&quot; Hits Top 10<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Update: Childish Gambino&#039;s &quot;Because the Internet&quot; might be outpacing R. 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