{"id":30207,"date":"2014-10-22T02:18:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T06:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=30207"},"modified":"2014-10-22T12:03:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T16:03:57","slug":"florida-georgia-lines-anything-goes-wins-album-sales-race-200k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/10\/22\/florida-georgia-lines-anything-goes-wins-album-sales-race-200k\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Georgia Line’s “Anything Goes” Sales Race with 197K (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update: <\/strong>Data from Billboard’s weekly sales report is now available, and it confirms that Florida Georgia Line’s “Anything Goes” moved 197,000 copies in its first week of release.<\/p>\n

Enough for a convincing #1 debut atop the Billboard 200, the number nonetheless falls considerably short of the 250-300,000 forecast by industry experts ahead of the album’s 10\/14 release.<\/p>\n

Per Billboard, the weekly top ten breaks down as follows:<\/p>\n

1)\u00a0 Florida Georgia Line – Anything Goes – 197K
\n2) Jason Aldean – Old Boots, New Dirt – 91K
\n3) Bob Seger – Ride – 59K
\n4) You+Me – Rose Ave. – 50K
\n5) Barbra Streisand – Partners – 40K
\n6) Sam Smith – In the Lonely Hour – 37K
\n7) Game – Blood Moon – 33K
\n8) Hoodie Allen – People Keep Talking – 30K
\n9) U2 – Songs of Innocence – 28K
\n10) Jessie J – Sweet Talker – 25K<\/p>\n

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Two weeks ago, if you were to suggest that Florida Georgia Line’s “Anything Goes” would get off to a slower sales start than Brantley Gilbert’s “Just as I Am,” music industry types would have called you crazy.<\/p>\n

You would not have been.<\/p>\n

According to Hits Daily Double’s sales report, which typically differs only slightly from the authoritative Billboard 200 data, Florida Georgia Line’s new album opened with approximately 200,496 first-week sales.<\/p>\n

Easily enough to give “Anything Goes” the weekly victory, the tally nonetheless comes in dramatically short of the 250-300,000 originally expected of the album. It also trails the 211,000 moved by the aforementioned Gilbert album earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Assuming the Billboard number does not differ wildly from what Hits report, “Anything Goes” will rank as the fourth-hottest country opener thus far this year. In addition to the sales figure for the Gilbert album, its ~200K total trails the 288,000 earned by Eric Church’s “The Outsiders” and the 278,000 net by Jason Aldean’s “Old Boots, New Dirt.”<\/p>\n

That album, which opened atop last week’s sales chart, slips to #2 this week with sales of approximately 91,870.<\/p>\n

Per Hits, Bob Seger’s “Ride Out” follows with roughly 56,932 sales, while You+Me’s “Rose Ave” claims fourth on the strength of about 49,170 sales. Barbra Streisand’s “Partners” slides into fifth with a weekly total in the 41,030 range.<\/p>\n

Also in the Hits top ten: Sam Smith’s “In the Lonely Hour” (#6, ~37,092), Hoodie Allen’s “People Keep Talking’ (#7, ~32,849), Game’s “Blood Moon: Year of the Wolf” (#8, ~30,544), Jessie J’s “Sweet Talker” (#9, ~24,511) and Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga’s “Cheek to Cheek” (#10, ~24,326).<\/p>\n

The first wave of Billboard 200 data will be published Wednesday morning.<\/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":[3001,2910,3070,432,3051,3050,1372,2622,105,1819,2943,3071],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\nFlorida Georgia Line's "Anything Goes" Sales Race with 197K (Updated)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Update: Data from Billboard's weekly sales report is now available, and it confirms that Florida Georgia Line's "Anything Goes" moved 197,000 copies in\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/10\/22\/florida-georgia-lines-anything-goes-wins-album-sales-race-200k\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Florida Georgia Line's "Anything Goes" Sales Race with 197K (Updated)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Update: Data from Billboard's weekly sales report is now available, and it confirms that Florida Georgia Line's "Anything Goes" moved 197,000 copies in\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/10\/22\/florida-georgia-lines-anything-goes-wins-album-sales-race-200k\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-10-22T06:18:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-10-22T16:03:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/FGL-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/10\/22\/florida-georgia-lines-anything-goes-wins-album-sales-race-200k\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/10\/22\/florida-georgia-lines-anything-goes-wins-album-sales-race-200k\/\",\"name\":\"Florida Georgia Line's \\\"Anything Goes\\\" Sales Race with 197K (Updated)\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-10-22T06:18:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-10-22T16:03:57+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"Update: Data from Billboard's weekly sales report is now available, and it confirms that Florida Georgia Line's \\\"Anything Goes\\\" moved 197,000 copies in\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/10\/22\/florida-georgia-lines-anything-goes-wins-album-sales-race-200k\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News & Charts, TV News & Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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