If you’re a pop music fan and you’ve been on the internet this week, you’ve probably read some of the chatter surrounding the lackluster debut of Lady Gaga’s third full-length, ARTPOP. Mother Monster debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 this week with 258,000 in sales. As Billboard points out in this week’s chart numbers, [...] Read more

Photo by Guy Aroch First-week sales of 140,000 were enough to give Arcade Fire a No. 1 album, as Reflektor takes the penthouse on the Billboard 200 album chart. If you’re a regular chart-watcher, that sales number might look vaguely familiar. That’s because a number in the low six figures with a "1" in front of [...] Read more

Photo (c) Timothy Greenfield-Sanders "Lou Reed's Album Sales Rise 607% Following Death," trumpeted a midweek Billboard headline that got picked up across the media. You had to get to the third paragraph, though, before you were given the sales total: roughly 3,000 Reed albums sold last week. The late Reed’s discs sold only about 1,000 copies the week [...] Read more