Jealous Haters Since 1998!
Home | News | Reviews | Day In Rock | Photos | RockNewsWire | Singled Out | Tour Dates/Tix | Feeds

Material Girl Dethroned By Diamond

05/14/2008
.
(antiMusic) Neil Diamond's new album "Home Before Dark" debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart after selling 145,840 copies last week. Produced by Rick Rubin, the album is Neil's first chart topper in his 48-year career. Some speculate that an appearance on American Idol pushed him over the top, but a former Idol also debuted a new album last week and sold less than half of what his previous album had sold.

Toby Keith's new double "best of" collection sold 103,000 copies last week to claim the No. 2 spot. Last week's, No. 1 from Madonna dropped to No. 3 with a little more than 94,000 people opting for some "Hard Candy".

Then there is Clay Aiken and his second album of new material. Aiken's "On My Way Here" made a respectable No. 4 debut just barely beat out by Madonna. However, the 94,071 units sold is significantly less than his last album, the covers collection "A Thousand Different Ways," which sold over 205,000 copies in its first week of release and landed at No. 2.

In fact, that release sold less than his holiday release "Merry Christmas With Love," which moved 270,100 copies the first week and set a Billboard record. And his debut, "Measure Of A Man," opened at the top of the charts with sales of over 613,000 units. While he still has a insanely devoted fanbase of "Claymates," it just appears there are less of them these days. Either that or less casual fans opting to buy the CD. Perhaps making TV appearances where he didn't perform to showcase the songs on new album might not have helped reach out to those potential buyers either.

Other top 10 debuts this week include new releases from Gavin DeGraw, Josh Groban and Dierks Bentley. DeGraw's self-titled album sold 66,111 copies last week to enter the charts at No. 7. Groban's CD/DVD "Awake Live" came in at No. 8 with 58,000 in sales and Bentley's new hits collection sold 43,000 for a no. 9 debut.

AddThis Feed Button

Preview and Purchase Neil Diamond CDs

Neil Diamond Tour Dates/Tickets

Neil Diamond MP3 Downloads

tell a friend about this article

know of a news item we should cover?

antiMUSIC News featured on RockNews.info and Yahoo News

.

Rant or Rave? Your turn, post your comments and thoughts on this news item. But hey keep it clean, we wouldn't want to have to wash your mouth out with Old Spice.


Username
Password
What do you think ?:

register | forgot your password?


Posted by  PK on 2008/05/15 08:55:07
Considering Clay gets very little radio play, was not on AI prior to releasing his CD, and only promoted it the week of release since he was still starring in Spamalot on Broadway, I think he did great. I bought his CD and love it! I highly recommend it...people will be surprised. It has a little of everything...pop rock, jazz, funk, slow tempo, mid tempo, fast.





...end


.
News Reports
.
Day in Rock:
Bayside Singer Hospitalized- More Pink Floyd Rarities?- Lost Stone Temple Pilots Clip- Bret Michaels Solo CD Features Def Leppard, Loretta Lynn and Jimmy Buffet- more

Day in Pop Violent Madonna Stalker Escapes- Suge Knight Arrested- Gorillaz, James Murphy, and Andre 3000 Team Up- House Canceled- Taylor Swift Premiere Next Week- more

B Sides: Howard Stern Van Halen Special Online- Ozzy Discusses Iommi's Cancer Battle on Radio Station Launch- Q&A With Slash- Lars Explains Metallica Experimenting- more

 Subscribe To Day in Rock

.
 
Reviews
.

Tony K's Favorite Album's of 2011

Road Trip: Feel the Magic - Alamos, Mexico's Festival Ortiz Tirado

Elvis Found Alive

Rock Reads: Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside/Outside of AC/DC

Scorpions - Comeblack

Room Service: Chicago, Ohio, Missouri and Quebec

MorleyView: Ana Kefr

A Marriage Between Music and Movies Part III: Cameron Crowe's Top 10 Greatest Hits

RIP: Etta James - The Dreamer

The Doors - Mr. Mojo Risin': The Story of L.A. Woman

Soki2u - Dancing through the Needle's Eye

Cameron Crowe's Greatest Hits Part II (25-11)

Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning: The Complete Chess Masters 1951-1960

Passport: Forty Winks- Giorgio Tuma- I Build Collapsible Mountains- Spring Offensive


.
.
.

Search for Tickets

Or Browse For Tickets

.
.
Today's Rock News
.

Bayside Singer Hospitalized- More Pink Floyd Rarities Coming?- Mars Volta Preview- New Ratt This Summer- Dance Gavin Dance Guest Singers- Tommy Bolin and Friends- more

Lost Stone Temple Pilots Clip Now Online

Bret Michaels Solo CD Features Def Leppard, Loretta Lynn and Jimmy Buffet

E Street Band Recruit Clarence Clemons' Nephew

Ozzy Osbourne May Receive Hometown Honor

Six Feet Under Lose Member

Career Spanning Grateful Dead DVD Box Set Coming

Ringo Starr's 13th All Starr Band Tour Dates

Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy To Tribute Hubert Sumlin

Jack White and Tom Jones Tribute Howlin' Wolf

Black Sabbath Day Backed By Culture Chief

Sammy Hagar To Rum America

Dave Grohl Sings Adele's Praises

Miracles, Crickets and Other Famed Backing Bands To Rock The Hall

Prong New Album Details

Evile To Tribute David Gold This Weekend

Van Halen Release TV Commercial

Clutch Releasing Double Vinyl Edition Of Blast Tyrant

Viral Hardcore Kids Video Battle

Tombs Expand Tour Plans

Dio Inspired American Idol's James Durbin

Maps & Atlases Set New Album Release

Iwrestledabearonce Get Warped

We Are Augustines To Rock Letterman

The Temper Trap Coming To America

Merrell Fankhauser Releases Best Of The Tiki Lounge DVDs

Remembering Sweet's Brian Connolly

Singled Out: Lillian Axe's Caged In

Subscribe to Day in Rock Report by Email

.
.
Today's Pop News
.

Violent Madonna Stalker Escapes- Gorillaz, James Murphy, and Andre 3000 Team Up- House Canceled- Taylor Swift Premiere Next Week- more

Suge Knight Arrested

Special Limited Edition Katy Perry Coming

Halle Berry Death Threats

Jersey City Cops Going on Snooki Patrol

Scotty McCreery Up For Academy of Country Music Award

Nate Dogg's Rapper Friends Didn't Have His Back?

Another Chad Ochocinco Name Change Coming

Remix Beyonce and Win

Glee Tree Hugger Video Surfaces

Erasure Fill Us With Fire

Caveman Set For North American Tour

Michael Lohan Applied for Job at Burger King

Home Improvement Star Charged With DUI and Drug Possession

American Idol Dad Wasn't In Rehab

Labrinth Teams With Busta Rhymes For US Debut

$30 Million for Matt Lauer?

More News

.
 
anti Worthy Links
.
The Screen DoorsuperLOUDA Journal of Musical ThingsLloyd Zeffler blogDemolish MagNightwatcher's House of RockCJ ChilversDeja VoodooThe 1st Fivethecopycat.bizDay in Rock @twitter

.
  .
.

Click Here to Buy T-Shirts!
Click Here to Buy T-Shirts!



 

Tell a Friend about this page - Contact Us - Privacy - antiMusic Email - Job Postings - Advertising - Why we are antiMusic

Copyright© 1998 - 2012 Iconoclast Entertainment Group All rights reserved. antiMusic works on a free link policy for reprinting of our original articles, click here for details. Please click here for legal restrictions and terms of use applicable to this site. Use of this site signifies your agreement to the terms of use.