{"id":24929,"date":"2014-05-06T03:36:53","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T07:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=24929"},"modified":"2014-05-06T16:36:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T20:36:31","slug":"hunter-hayes-storyline-tops-album-sales-chart-lily-allen-follows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/05\/06\/hunter-hayes-storyline-tops-album-sales-chart-lily-allen-follows\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Hayes&#8217; &#8220;Storyline&#8221; Tops Album Sales Chart, Lily Allen Follows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Update:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/05\/06\/hunter-hayes-album-sales-pacing-soft-70-80k\/\">The first &#8220;Storyline&#8221; sales estimates are available<\/a>, and they are nowhere near as impressive as the iTunes surge suggested.<br \/>\n=======<\/p>\n<p>The latest release from Hunter Hayes is definitely not &#8220;Invisible&#8221; to music buyers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Storyline,&#8221; the follow-up to Hayes&#8217; platinum-selling debut album, surged to number one on the iTunes Album Sales chart in the immediate wake of its release Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A legitimate threat to the &#8220;Frozen&#8221; soundtrack&#8217;s reign atop the Billboard 200 album chart, &#8220;Storyline&#8221; is outselling new releases from acts like Lily Allen, Sarah McLachlan and Atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>As of press time, Allen&#8217;s &#8220;Sheezus&#8221; was playing runner-up to the Hayes release on iTunes.  NOW 50 was in third position, while Coldplay&#8217;s &#8220;Ghost Stories&#8221; pre-order and Sarah McLachlan&#8217;s &#8220;Shine On&#8221; followed in fourth and fifth, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Other albums in the iTunes top ten included &#8220;The Music of Nashville, Original Soundtrack Season 2, Volume 2&#8221; (#6), Atmosphere&#8217;s &#8220;Southsiders&#8221; (#7), Tech N9ne Collabos&#8217; &#8220;Strangeulation&#8221; (#8), the &#8220;Frozen&#8221; soundtrack (#9) and Lykke Li&#8217;s &#8220;I Never Learn&#8221; (#10).<\/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":[2257,1873,1317,420,2255,2259,239,2261,2258,2256,2230,2260],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hunter Hayes&#039; 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