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Owl City's "Fireflies" sold over 200,000 digital downloads this past week, and is now the top song on the Billboard 100.
by Steve Henderson on 10/30/09 - 09:35 AM
Jay-Z will be No. 1 on the charts for a second week in a row, as his new album, The Blueprint 3, has added another 200k in sales to the 476k it sold last week. Kid Cudi's debut album, Man on the Moon: The End of Day, will debut in the Top 5 with sales between the 110-120k range.
by Drew Beringer on 09/17/09 - 10:29 AM
Projected sales for Boys Like Girls: 45-50K and Saosin: 20-25K were released.

Submitted by Exploit
by Jason Tate on 09/09/09 - 12:45 PM
Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours" has broken the record for longest charting single, at 71 consecutive weeks on the Billboard Top 100.
by Steve Henderson on 09/02/09 - 07:30 AM
Breathe Carolina sold 10,728 copies of Hello Fascination this week - debuting at #43 on the Billboard Top 200.
by Jonathan Lally on 08/26/09 - 06:21 PM
Mandy K hit #10 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart this past week with 1,984 copies sold of their self-titled EP. If you haven't heard it yet, you can now snag it for $2.99 on iTunes.
by Tony Pascarella on 08/17/09 - 04:50 PM
The Word Alive sold 1,845 copies of their new EP, Empire, in the first week, putting them at #15 on the Heatseekers chart and #10 on the Alternative New Artist chart.
by Jonathan Lally on 07/30/09 - 01:19 PM
Yesterday, the New York Times posted an interesting article about Polyphonic, which invests in rising bands outside of the scope of a record label. What do you think of this idea and what bands would you like to see take advantage of opportunities like this?
by Tony Pascarella on 07/22/09 - 04:06 PM
Mandy K have hit the Billboard New Artists Chart this week, charting at #58 with 845 copies sold. The band's self-titled EP is out now and you can catch them for the rest of the summer on Warped Tour at the Leakmob Records tent.
by Tony Pascarella on 07/15/09 - 05:21 PM
Michael Jackson's albums sold over 800k copies this past week.
by Steve Henderson on 07/08/09 - 07:44 AM
Although final numbers are not yet confirmed, three of Michael Jackson's albums sold 100,000 copies each last week.
by Joe DeAndrea on 06/30/09 - 01:19 AM
Michael Jackson will once again make music history this week as his albums hit the charts after "incredible sales increases."
by Jason Tate on 06/29/09 - 10:06 AM
Brokencyde sold 6,293 copies of their shitty album last week. Details in the replies.
by Jason Tate on 06/26/09 - 10:04 AM
Jonas Brothers hit #1 on the charts with 247,000 copies sold last week.
by Jason Tate on 06/24/09 - 10:37 AM
The Black Eyed Peas have topped the Billboard charts this past week, selling 304k of their new album.
by Steve Henderson on 06/17/09 - 09:41 AM
Dave Matthews Band had a huge opening week (third biggest of the year), selling 424k copies of Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King.
by Steve Henderson on 06/10/09 - 11:17 AM
Grizzly Bear's new album Veckatimest debuted at #8 on Billboard's top 200 with 33,000 albums sold.

Submitted by Liter-O-Cola
by Jason Tate on 06/03/09 - 12:53 PM
Eminem has topped the Billboard charts this week with 608,000 copies of Relapse sold.
by Steve Henderson on 05/27/09 - 09:51 AM
Eminem's new album Relapse is expected to set a 2009 first week sales record with around 650,000 copies sold.
by Rohan Kohli on 05/24/09 - 11:28 AM
As Cities Burn sold 4,600 units in their first week and reached #109 on the charts.

Submitted by awakeohsleeper
by Jason Tate on 04/30/09 - 12:27 PM
Rick Ross has topped the Billboard charts this week, selling 158k copies of Deeper Than Rap.
by Steve Henderson on 04/29/09 - 10:27 AM
Metric landed on the Billboard charts and were #1 on the Heatseekers chart before the physical release of their new record. The band sold 6,203 copies of Fantasies this past week.
by Steve Henderson on 04/13/09 - 07:53 PM
Fireworks' All I Have To Offer Is My Own Confusion sold 760 copies in its first week.

Submitted by fran.182
by Jason Tate on 04/10/09 - 12:17 PM
The "Now 30" compilation is number one on the Billboard chart this week with 146,000 copies sold.
by Joe DeAndrea on 04/01/09 - 01:45 PM
Kelly Clarkson has topped the Billboard charts with 255k sold last week.
by Steve Henderson on 03/19/09 - 10:40 AM
U2 are the #1 album this week with 484,000 copies sold.
by Jason Tate on 03/11/09 - 12:20 PM
U.S. album sales for February were down 11.5% versus 2008 and down 27.6% versus 2007.
by Jason Tate on 03/05/09 - 10:22 AM
The Fray have sold 336,952 copies of their new album to date.
by Jason Tate on 03/04/09 - 02:04 PM
In the US just 62,000 units was enough to score a number one album last week.
by Jason Tate on 02/25/09 - 10:21 PM
Sales for the week totaled 7.32 million units, a 13.1% decrease over the same week in 2008.
by Jason Tate on 02/12/09 - 01:20 PM
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