For the third time in as many weeks, a high-profile country album will win the album sales race.<\/p>\n
For the third time in as many weeks, that album’s sales count will fall dramatically below expectations.<\/p>\n
Originally pegged to sell between 250-300,000 copies, Florida Georgia Line’s “Anything Goes” is no longer a lock to even cross the 200,000 threshold in its first week.<\/p>\n
According to Hits Daily Double, the superstar country duo’s sophomore release is on pace for a weekly total in the 180-200,000 range. That forecast suggests FGL’s album will narrowly outsell Miranda Lambert’s “Platinum” but fall short of 2014 releases by Eric Church, Jason Aldean and Brantley Gilbert.<\/p>\n
This past week, Jason Aldean’s “Old Boots, New Dirt” fell similarly short of estimates. Eyed for a bow in the 350-450,000 range, it ultimately landed in the vicinity of 281,000.<\/p>\n
Two weeks ago, Blake Shelton’s “Bringing Back the Sunshine” sold just 101,000 first week copies, which marked an album-to-album decline of 50%. Lady Antebellum’s “747,” which came out that week, was good for only 74,000.<\/p>\n
— Other notable releases this week: Bob Seger’s “Ride Out” (Hits forecasts 50-60,000), You+Me’s “rose ave.” (~40-50,000), Hoodie Allen’s “People Keep Talking” (~35-45,000), U2’s “Songs of Innocence” (~25-30,000), Jessie J’s “Sweet Talker” (20-25,000), Nico & Vinz’s “Black Star Elephant” (~10-15,000).<\/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":[3001,3070,432,3050,2622,2092,1560,3071],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n