(05-28-2012, 02:30 AM)john Wrote: I would not be surprised if Haley's album sales showed a bit of an upside surprise.
There are more than 4000 Walmart stores in the United States. If each store sold an average of three CDs that's more than 12,000 sold. Add in iTunes and I'd guess you would be closing in on the projected first week sales. There are almost 1500 ratings for LU on iTunes, which appears to be about 25% more than for Durbin's MOABD at six days post release. MOABD had been projected to sell 26,000, which was close to the actual number. Of course his CD sales may have benefited because of greater mall traffic at the end of November.
I checked the CD racks at a local Fred Meyer "superstore" on Friday and there was a spot for LU, which in fact had had a special price, but all copies had been sold. Freddies has about 125 stores in the Northwest.
Interesting -- I checked at the Fred Meyer that I frequent, yesterday. There wasn't even a spot for it. Is it only at certain stores?