Ke$ha's "We R Who We R" is set to become just the 17th song to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 when the chart is officially released tomorrow (Nov. 4).
The track is the preview single from Ke$ha's forthcoming "Cannibal" album, set to be released on its own on Nov. 22 in addition to being packaged with her debut album, "Animal," in a deluxe edition titled "Animal Cannibal."
"We R Who We R" shifts 280,000 downloads in its initial week at retail to easily rank at No. 1 on Digital Songs, knocking Far*East Movement's "Like a G6" (178,000, down 13%) to No. 2 on both that chart and the Hot 100. "Like a G6" topped the latter list for the past two weeks and had led Digital Songs for three non-consecutive frames.
Ke$ha's track is also making an swift impact at radio, debuting at No. 49 on Radio Songs (up 81%) and jumping 36-23 on Pop Songs (up 124%).
"We R Who We R" is the second title this year to start its chart life at No. 1, following Eminem's "Not Afraid" in May. Prior to Eminem's debut, Britney Spears had been the last artist to enter at No. 1, with "3" in October 2009.
Ke$ha is no stranger to the top of the Hot 100. Earlier this year she became the 11th solo female to collect at least four Billboard Hot 100 top 10s from a debut album. First single "TiK ToK" topped the chart for nine weeks starting with the Hot 100 dated Jan. 2, 2010, followed by "Blah Blah Blah" (No. 7), "Your Love Is My Drug" (No. 4) and "Take It Off" (No. 8). In addition to those titles, Ke$ha had a top 10 appearance on 3OH!3's "My First Kiss" (No. 9) in May.
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Cheryl Cole has reiterated that Girls Aloud have not permanently split up.
The X Factor judge claimed that the girl group would be around to celebrate their tenth anniversary in 2012.
"We'd have to mark our 10th year," Cole told X magazine. "It's pretty amazing to be in the industry for that long, and not a lot of people are that lucky. We have to mark that."
Since being formed on Popstars: The Rivals in 2002, the group have released five studio albums and gone on to score 20 Top 10 hits.
Cole admitted that the group needed their break because they were "morphing into one" after spending so much time together.
"Sometimes you just need space to grow," she said. "I get what you mean, just looking at us all. Because we're still together a lot socially it doesn't seem so weird to us, but you only ever see us as individuals.
"We've got a three-album deal, so we're just waiting. We're not breaking up."
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Cheryl Cole is on course to lead a top three of brand new albums this Sunday with her second solo set Messy Little Raindrops heading towards number one.
The Polydor release has opened up a gap of around 11,000 sales over Mercury’s newly-issued Bon Jovi Greatest Hits album, while Rumer’s debut Atlantic offering Seasons Of My Soul is the third biggest seller so far this week, according to OCC sales.
Another four newly-issued albums could also fill Top 10 slots this coming weekend, including Jamiroquai whose first Mercury album Rock Dust Light Star is ranked fifth. Like Bon Jovi, Jamiroquai performed on The X Factor’s results show last Sunday.
Rod Stewart’s new J/RCA album Fly Me To The Moon – The American Songbook 5 is currently in sixth position, while Neil Diamond’s new Columbia album Dreams is eighth and Ne-Yo’s Def Jam/Mercury album Libra Scale is 10th.
The sheer number of high new entries will result in a big clearout of last Sunday’s Top 10, although Columbia’s Kings Of Leon should retain a place in the top five. Their album Come Around Sundown, which secured a second week at one last Sunday, is presently the week’s fourth top seller.
Outside the Top 10 positions also expect Top 40 entries on Sunday from Conehead’s Peter Andre, Paul McCartney & Wings with Concord/UMTV’s Band On The Run re-issue, 4th & Broadway/Island’s Devlin, Pet Shop Boys with a new Parlophone best of, a Rhino Elaine Paige album, Polydor’s Bryan Adams and Suede with a Ministry of Sound retrospective.
While Cheryl Cole looks very likely to top the new albums chart, she will almost certainly lose her singles crown after just a week. Promise This is in third place at this point in the week with Def Jam/Mercury’s Rihanna, another X Factor performer last Sunday, expected to climb from two to one with Only Girl (In The World). In between Rihanna and Cole currently is Happiness, a new entry from Alexis Jordan.
Shakespears Sister’s 1992 chart-topper Stay last week returned to the chart at 62 after the song was covered by X Factor contestant Cher Lloyd and could well be back in the Top 10 on Sunday. It is now in eighth place on midweek sales.
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Nadine Coyle was hoping to get to Number One with her debut solo single Insatiable, she might want to radically readjust her expectations. Her new single has stalled at a rather disappointing Number 35 in today’s mid-week chart. Of course things could pick up, and 3212 copies is the sales figure for only one day - here’s plenty of time for Nadine fans to get out there and get to song to Number One.
The news that Cheryl Cole’s second solo album Messy Little Raindrops has flown straight to the top of the album mid-week chart probably won’t cheer poor Nadine up any either. Oh dear.
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Those Taylor Swift sales predictions just won’t let up. HitsDoubleDaily have now updated their estimates for Tay-Tay’s third album ‘Speak Now’, with the record now guaranteed to sell over 1 million copies. Just exactly how many copies over the 1 milli mark remains to be seen, but right now the sky seems to be the limit for Taylor. Not only that, but Speak Now is also set to break the mark for percentage of sales in one week:
Swift is also set to break the mark for percentage of total sales in a single week, with 17-18%, topping NSYNC’s record of 15.3% back in March 2000, when No Strings Attached sold 2.4 million. That means one out of every five CDs or download sales this week will be the Taylor Swift album.
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by Celebuzz on Nov. 1, 2010 02:59 PM / Leave a Comment
Rihanna and Katy Perry Are Recording a Duet
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Rihanna might not have been able to make it to her BFF Katy Perry's recent nuptials in India, but rest assured—the two will soon be making beautiful music together.
In between her many travels, "Only Girl (in the World)" singer Rihanna called in to Ryan Seacrest's radio show on Monday morning to again express her regrets that she couldn't make it to Perry's big day—and to announce that the pair will be heading into the studio to collaborate soon.
Ri-Ri spilled,
"She actually sent me a song a while ago and she wanted me to be a part of it. And I was like, 'Hell yeah, of course, that's my girl,' and the song is amazing. So we'll be recording that together pretty soon."
If it's half as good as Rihanna's other recent collaboration—her incendiary duet with Eminem on "Love the Way You Lie"—she and Perry might as well stock up on Grammy polish now.
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