Hits Double Daily: Janet's 'Unbreakable' sells 106K copies

[DiscoHeaven23 35,007]

According to Hits Double Daily's building album sales chart, Janet Jackson's new album Unbreakable has sold 105,712 in its first week, giving her the #1 album selling album of the week. These are amazing numbers for Janet, whose album has seen very little promotion. To add to that, it seems that Janet has escaped the album sales flop curse that has plagued established divas in the past two years. The "curse" has to do with a huge percentage drop from the first week sales of the prior album to the first week sales of the current album, as seen below.

Lady Gaga: Born This Way (1.11M) to ARTPOP (258K) = -76.72%

Madonna: MDNA (359K) to Rebel Heart (116K) = -67.69%

Mariah Carey: Mémoires of an Imperfect Angel (168K) to I Am Mariah. (58K) =  -65.48%

Britney Spears: Femme Fate (276K) to Britney Jean (107K) = -61.23%

Jennifer Lopez: Love? (83K) to AKA (33K) =  -60.24%

 

Janet's was a 41.5% decrease but her album spread was 7 years compared to the 2-4 years of most of the others.

Janet Jackson: Discipline (181K) to Unbreakable (106K) = -41.44%

 

Janet has sold almost 70K more albums than the #2 album this week, Tamar Braxton's Calling All Lovers, which sold 36K copies. On the album plus streaming chart, Janet comes in with 112K units, keeping her #1 on the Billboard 200, as well, with The Weeknd's Beauty Behind the Madness at #2 with 60k unites. This is Janet's 7th #1 album, making her the female with the third most #1 albums in US history behind Barbara Streisand (10) and Madonna (8).

Janet becomes just the 4th female lead artist to debut at #1 this year on the Billboard 200. She follows Meghan Trainor, Kelly Clarkson and Jill Scott. 

http://hitsdailydouble.com/building_album_chart

 

 

[Jesse Pinkman 4,660]

Eek. The industry is at an all time low. An album charting at #2 with 38k. Poor Tamar. 

[Tropico 4,145]

These are amazing numbers for a "nostalgia act".  

[Neight Shayde 7,925]

impressive!!

[pie-kun 1,765]

That's amazing! It's a fantastic album but I never expected it to hit #1 considering that it had such a small amount of promotion. I'm so proud of her 

[JbGaga 2,261]

Gaga and her cheating numbers.....

[monsterdreams 1,529]

Pretty good there 

[Riot Poof 2,236]

YAS JANET.

[migamiga 12,101]

So happy for her! Even though I know she probably doesn't care at this point. She deserves it 

[yxi 4,999]

Well deserved. The album is really good

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

Wow...the industry is REALLY suffering...when selling over 100K the first week is praised and gives you the #1 album...good for her but overall this is such a sad situation....