how much did 808s and heartbreak sell first week

Jackie Evancho‘s O Holy Night falls three rungs to No. 3 with 263,000 (down 21%), while Swift’s Speak Now feels the heat from her NBC Thanksgiving TV special, rising five spots to No.

1 album, Susan Boyle‘s The Gift, slips to No. It’s notable that those albums all had larger overall first-week sales figures - each began with well over 700,000 - making West’s digital debut more impressive because of its ratio of digital-to-physical copies. It’s behind only the debuts of Coldplay‘s Viva La Vida (288,000 in 2008), Taylor Swift‘s Speak Now (278,000 this year) and Eminem‘s Recovery (255,000 this year). While SoundScan does not disclose retailers’ specific numbers - so we don’t know how much of that 224,000 is owed to Amazon MP3 or any other service - that number ranks as the fourth-biggest digital week for any set. West’s “Fantasy” starts with 224,000 downloads - 45% of the album’s overall first week. Amazon offered “Fantasy” for the entire week at just $3.99, while iTunes did not promote the album on the front of its store until Saturday (27) - five days after its Monday release. Many chart-watchers were keeping tabs of West’s presence in both the Amazon MP3 and iTunes stores last week. 1 with 482,000 while Nickelback‘s Dark Horse galloped in a No. 6, 2008, when Beyonce‘s I Am … Sasha Fierce started at No. Anti-Defamation League Releases New Report on Impact of Kanye 'Ye' West's Antisemitic StatementsĪlso, this week marks the first time in two years that the Billboard 200 has seen two albums bow with more than 300,000 units.

How much did 808s and heartbreak sell first week