Ranking U.S. debut boom for Duffy. Madonna already in decline?
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
The army all the female artiste British sferrano assault on the American record market has found in Duffy a new general. The album “Rockferry” the young Welsh made his debut in the ranking Billboard Top 200 to a more than flattering number 4, selling 71,000 copies in 7 days. Only two thousand copies of the position 3, as we shall see. Thanks to this performance Duffy joins the exclusive club formed by Amy Winehouse, Leona Lewis and Natasha Bedingfield, who found fame and success overseas.
The podium of the league sees weekly at the command Death Cab For Cutie with “Narrow Stairs,” which has sold 144,000 copies. At number two a collection (yet) successes of Frank Sinatra, with 99,000 copies. Bronze Medal finally Jason Mraz at 73,000.
The second half of the top-ten houses the noble lapsed have dictated that law enforcement in the past week: Leona Lewis is at number 5, Mariah Carey to 6. Madonna has embarked on a slow but inexorable descent, and this week “Hard Candy” is all square ‘Eighth position.
If Lewis for the decline is physiological, due to the already long stay at the top (we are to 6 weeks) as well as for Carey (5 weeks), the situation of Madonna is more problematic and be analyzed. For an album so much discussed and publicized, spasmodicamente expected by fans and media worldwide, the eighth to square the third week of publication appears frankly below expectations.
There is therefore paying the choice of Madge of americanizzare the most of the sounds of the disc to break the hearts of his fellow citizens? Not just have to wait to find out.