Bei Major – Trouble (Remix) [feat. J. Cole, Wale, Trey Songz & T-Pain]
Young Jeezy – OJ (feat. Fabolous & Jadakiss)
Lana Del Rey – Off To The Races
B.o.B. – Play The Guitar (feat. André 3000)
LW |
TW |
Artist / Album |
Label |
Power Index |
% Change |
||
1 |
1 |
MICHAEL BUBLE – Christmas |
REPRISE |
444,036 |
-6% |
||
3 |
2 |
ADELE – 21 |
XL/COLUMBIA |
274,963 |
+48% |
||
4 |
3 |
JUSTIN BIEBER – Under The Mistletoe |
ISLAND/IDJMG |
165,571 |
+5% |
||
2 |
4 |
BLACK KEYS – El Camino |
NONESUCH |
85,380 |
-58% |
||
18 |
5 |
LADY ANTEBELLUM –Own The Night |
CAPITOL |
80,737 |
+78% |
||
6 |
6 |
ANDREA BOCELLI – Concerto: Live In CP |
DECCA |
79,494 |
+1% |
||
8 |
7 |
NICKELBACK – Here And Now |
ROADRUNNER |
79,002 |
+22% |
||
7 |
8 |
DRAKE – Take Care |
YM/CM/ |
75,774 |
+5% |
||
10 |
9 |
SCOTTY MCCREERY – Clear As Day |
INTERSCOPE |
66,846 |
+23% |
||
13 |
10 |
VARIOUS ARTISTS – Now 40! |
CAPITOL/EMI |
66,043 |
+32% |
||
– |
11 |
ANTHONY HAMILTON – Back To Love |
RCA |
60,427 |
– |
||
5 |
12 |
AMY WINEHOUSE – Lioness |
UNIVERSAL |
57,092 |
-48% |
||
20 |
13 |
GLEE CAST – Glee Christmas, Vol. 2 |
COLUMBIA |
56,432 |
+28% |
||
21 |
14 |
SUSAN BOYLE – Someone To Watch Over Me |
SYCO/COLUMBIA |
52,731 |
+27% |
||
12 |
15 |
RIHANNA – Talk That Talk |
DEF JAM/IDJ |
52,412 |
+3% |
||
24 |
16 |
SHE & HIM – A Very She & Him Christmas |
MERGE |
49,726 |
+27% |
||
11 |
17 |
JACKIE EVANCHO – Heavenly Christmas |
COLUMBIA |
48,833 |
-8% |
||
29 |
18 |
JASON ALDEAN – My Kinda Party |
BROKEN BOW |
48,602 |
+42% |
||
33 |
19 |
TAYLOR SWIFT – Speak Now World Tour |
BIG MACHINE |
47,145 |
+51% |
||
14 |
20 |
ANDREA BOCELLI – My Christmas |
DECCA |
46,595 |
-5% |
||
26 |
21 |
COLDPLAY – Mylo Xyloto |
CAPITOL/EMI |
45,653 |
+25% |
||
34 |
22 |
ADELE – 19 |
XL/COLUMBIA |
44,218 |
+43% |
||
31 |
23 |
LMFAO – Sorry For Party Rocking |
INTERSCOPE |
42,246 |
+26% |
||
36 |
24 |
TONY BENNETT – Duets II |
COLUMBIA |
41,645 |
+36% |
||
27 |
25 |
DAUGHTRY – Break The Spell |
19/RCA |
38,922 |
+11% |
||
Common’s latest LP The Dreamer, The Believer was released on iTunes Friday, so this edition will be dominated with the Chi-Town emcee’s fresh tracks. The Silversun Pickups raw sounding EP is a obscure listen as to be expected.
As usual, click to download, enjoy.
Common – The Dreamer (feat. Maya Angelou)
Common – The Believer (feat. John Legend)
Fabolous – You Don’t Know Freestyle (feat. Meek Mill) [Tags]
James Blake – Love What Happened Here
Silversun Pickups – Seasick EP (3 Songs)
It’s back! Following the tremendous success of last year’s Road to the Winter Classic, HBO’s 24/7 features the Philadelphia Flyers and the New York Rangers. A 4 part series (one hour each) trailing two hockey clubs leading up to the Winter Classic. This is a peak inside the world of NHL players and the life surrounding them. Uncut, emotional, blunt and hard-hitting are just a few descriptive words that come to mind (and i’m not just talking about Torts). Enjoy.
Stay tuned for Episode 2
Even though Bublé Christmas record is still on the rise, it was nice to see the classic Charlie Brown Christmas come in at #25. The Black Keys came in strong at #2, and the phenomenal concept album from The Roots at #15 with nearly 50K.
| 1 | 1 | MICHAEL BUBLE - Christmas | REPRISE |
473,517 |
+57% |
| – | 2 | BLACK KEYS - El Camino | NONESUCH/WARNER BROS. |
203,158 |
– |
| 2 | 3 | ADELE – 21 | XL/COLUMBIA |
186,229 |
+28% |
| 3 | 4 | JUSTIN BIEBER - Under The Mistletoe | ISLAND/IDJMG |
157,486 |
+13% |
| – | 5 | AMY WINEHOUSE – Lioness | UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC |
110,440 |
– |
| 8 | 6 | ANDREA BOCELLI – Concerto: Live | DECCA |
79,030 |
+29% |
| 4 | 7 | DRAKE – Take Care | YM/CM/UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC |
71,953 |
-20% |
| 5 | 8 | NICKELBACK – Here And Now | ROADRUNNER |
64,674 |
-22% |
| – | 9 | GLEE CAST – Glee: The Music Vol 7 | COLUMBIA |
58,708 |
– |
| 15 | 10 | SCOTTY MCCREERY – Clear As Day | MERC NASH/19/INTERSCOPE |
54,343 |
+52% |
| 13 | 11 | JACKIE EVANCHO – Heavenly Christmas | COLUMBIA |
53,108 |
+42% |
| 7 | 12 | RIHANNA – Talk That Talk | DEF JAM/IDJ |
50,752 |
-21% |
| 9 | 13 | VARIOUS ARTISTS – Now! 40 | CAPITOL/EMI |
50,183 |
+3% |
| 18 | 14 | ANDREA BOCELLI – My Christmas | DECCA |
49,031 |
+45% |
| – | 15 | ROOTS – Undun | DEF JAM/IDJ |
48,211 |
– |
| 17 | 16 | MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER – Christmas Symphony | AMERICAN GRAMAPHONE |
45,687 |
+32% |
| – | 17 | KORN – Path Of Totality | ROADRUNNER |
45,468 |
– |
| 14 | 18 | LADY ANTEBELLUM – Own The Night | CAPITOL NASHVILLE/EMI |
45,333 |
+24% |
| – | 19 | CHEVELLE – Hats Off To The Bull | EPIC |
44,520 |
– |
| 11 | 20 | GLEE CAST – Glee Christmas Vol. 2 | COLUMBIA |
44,177 |
+8% |
| 16 | 21 | SUSAN BOYLE – Someone To Watch Over Me | SYCO/COLUMBIA |
41,654 |
+18% |
| – | 22 | ROBIN THICKE – Love After War | STAR TRAK/GEFFEN |
41,161 |
– |
| 6 | 23 | MARY J. BLIGE – My Life II | GEFFEN |
39,789 |
-44% |
| 20 | 24 | SHE & HIM – Very She & Him Christmas | MERGE |
39,298 |
+28% |
| – | 25 | VINCE GUARALDI TRIO – Charlie Brown Christmas | FANTASY |
37,556 |
– |
Can Take Care go platinum next week? How will Common and Young Jeezy’s new records fair?
It’s nearly impossible to stay completely up-to-date with music these days. The outlets are endless; blogs, iTunes, Soundcloud, Twitter, and you might even pick up a physical CD (RIP HMV Vancouver). Who has the time to sort through all the garbage out there? I do my best. So perhaps this section of the blog will be the go-to starting point for your weekly search.
The Monday Blues & Beats will appear weekly (on Monday if you hadn’t guessed), summarizing the previous week’s releases, or older if I feel it belongs. I always look forward to suggestions, so if my genre-spread isn’t diverse enough, holler.
The National – Rylan
The National – I Need My Girl
(Listen Only – They debuted these two new tracks on Canadian Public Radio on Dec. 7th)
Lupe Fiasco – American Terrorist III
Avicii - Levels (Skrillex Remix)
The Roots – One Time (feat. Phonte & Dice Raw)
Pusha T – Ooh (feat. Hodgy Beats, Liva Don & Tyler, The Creator)
Lupe Fiasco – The End Of The World
Over two weeks old, but the M83 instrumental meeting Lupe’s flow is hard to pass up.
The Roots - Redford (For Yia-Yia & Pappou)
Produced by Sufjan Stevens, a beautiful instrumental reminiscent of Cinematic Orchestra. Diversity at it’s finest.
Tuesday: Perhaps you look forward to getting over the Monday Blues, or maybe you’re juiced for New Release Day, for myself, the aforementioned are on my mind, not to mention last week’s record sales.
Adele’s 21 has been virtually unstoppable, seems like there’s 150,000 stocking stuffers on their way. The Young Money Toronto boy is nearing Platinum, Coldplay is showing an impressive 50k and Trey Songz’s EP comes in at #24. Tis the season full of Christmas records, pretty boy Buble’s incredibly successful original title, Bieber’s Mistletoe, Glee’s compilation, and approaching Gold status, She & Him’s indie Christmas music.
Stay tuned for next weeks numbers to see if The Black Keys can follow up the success of Brothers, or will T-Pain’s comeback album steal the show. Perhaps Robin Thicke’s Love After War will serenade it’s way to the top, and The Root’s concept album hopes not to be Undun.
LW TW ARTIST/ALBUM LABEL SALES +/-
| 2 | 1 | MICHAEL BUBLE | REPRISE | 301,303 | +38% | |
| CHRISTMAS | ||||||
| 7 | 2 | ADELE | XL/COLUMBIA | 145,215 | +5% | |
| 21 | ||||||
| 6 | 3 | JUSTIN BIEBER | ISLAND/IDJMG | 139,861 | 0% | |
| UNDER THE MISTLETOE | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | DRAKE | YM/CM/UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC | 89,469 | -48% | |
| TAKE CARE | ||||||
| 1 | 5 | NICKELBACK | ROADRUNNER | 83,222 | -63% | |
| HERE AND NOW | ||||||
| 5 | 6 | MARY J. BLIGE | GEFFEN | 71,530 | -57% | |
| MY LIFE II-THE JOURNEY CONTINUES | ||||||
| 3 | 7 | RIHANNA | DEF JAM/IDJ | 64,286 | -67% | |
| TALK THAT TALK | ||||||
| 17 | 8 | ANDREA BOCELLI | DECCA | 61,343 | +13% | |
| CONCERTO: LIVE IN CENTRAL PARK | ||||||
| 13 | 9 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | CAPITOL/EMI | 48,644 | -28% | |
| NOW! 40 | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | COLDPLAY | CAPITOL/EMI | 47,695 | -42% | |
| MYLO XYLOTO | ||||||
| 26 | 11 | GLEE CAST | COLUMBIA | 40,910 | +9% | |
| GLEE CHRISTMAS, VOL. 2 | ||||||
| 8 | 12 | DAUGHTRY | 19/RCA | 40,400 | -69% | |
| BREAK THE SPELL | ||||||
| 31 | 13 | JACKIE EVANCHO | COLUMBIA | 37,442 | +14% | |
| HEAVENLY CHRISTMAS | ||||||
| 22 | 14 | LADY ANTEBELLUM | CAPITOL NASHVILLE/EMI | 36,462 | -20% | |
| OWN THE NIGHT | ||||||
| 9 | 15 | SCOTTY MCCREERY | MERC NASH/19/INTERSCOPE | 35,644 | -60% | |
| CLEAR AS DAY | ||||||
| 29 | 16 | SUSAN BOYLE | SYCO/COLUMBIA | 35,237 | +1% | |
| SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME | ||||||
| – | 17 | MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER | AMERICAN GRAMAPHONE | 34,668 | – | |
| CHRISTMAS SYMPHONY | ||||||
| 45 | 18 | ANDREA BOCELLI | DECCA | 33,818 | +46% | |
| MY CHRISTMAS | ||||||
| 11 | 19 | TAYLOR SWIFT | BIG MACHINE | 31,204 | -60% | |
| SPEAK NOW WORLD TOUR LIVE | ||||||
| – | 20 | SHE & HIM | MERGE | 30,742 | – | |
| VERY SHE & HIM CHRISTMAS | ||||||
| 47 | 21 | CASTING CROWNS | PROVIDENT | 30,639 | +40% | |
| COME TO THE WELL | ||||||
| 19 | 22 | VARIOUS ARTISTS | CHOP SHOP/ATLANTIC | 30,580 | -41% | |
| TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN | ||||||
| 41 | 23 | SUSAN BOYLE | SYCO/COLUMBIA | 27,787 | +9% | |
| THE GIFT | ||||||
| – | 24 | TREY SONGZ | ATLANTIC | 27,229 | – | |
| INEVITABLE | ||||||
| 44 | 25 | TONY BENNETT | COLUMBIA | 26,735 | +15% | |
| DUETS II | ||||||
