Blake Lewis – Debuts at #135 on Nielsen SoundScan’s Top 200

Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 11:32 AM | Blake Lewis
Tags: Blake Lewis, Nielsen SoundScan

Blake Lewis’ Heartbreak On Vinyl lands at #135 on the Nielsen SoundScan Top 200 selling 4000 copies last week. 1000 of those were digital downloads.

Blake’s first album “Audio Day Dream” sold 97,500 copies in it’s debut.

Download: Heartbreak On Vinyl

10 Comments for Blake Lewis – Debuts at #135 on Nielsen SoundScan’s Top 200

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Oh, sadness.

Thornton Mulchwegger on October 14, 2009 at 1:43 pm
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Lol. Any regular guy can sell more than 4000 copies of an album if he’s good looking and promotes himself outside of Wal-Mart… that is pretty sad.

Hell, didn’t Kevin Federline sell 6,000 in his first week?

Matt on October 14, 2009 at 2:06 pm
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O_o

Kay on October 14, 2009 at 2:09 pm
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And that is with a decent promotion. I heard numerous radio ads in the four weeks leading up to the release.

chessguy99 on October 14, 2009 at 3:09 pm
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The economy is very bad. Even Daughtry isn’t selling records right now.

Lewis Lover on October 14, 2009 at 5:17 pm
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Note to all the people who bitched at me for not buying Kris’ single: I bought this album…did you?

This is only the 2nd album by an Idol contestant I’ve purchased. Melinda’s was the first one. I’ve downloaded singles by others, but these were the only albums I liked well enough to want to own. I know…I’ve got weird taste. hehehe

DonMI on October 14, 2009 at 8:05 pm
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The lead single (“Sad Song”) is definitely not the best song on the album.

*Love* the title song.

It’s a good album as a whole but I don’t really like “Sad Song” and the video is just weird in a bad way.

One thing as true when doing “Break Anotha” as now: Blake’s real problem is his live performances of singles, he cannot sell them on TV and that’s really a killer in trying to get interest/sales.

druzilla on October 14, 2009 at 10:26 pm
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Well, I bought a copy and I liked it very much, thank you.

Warmsun on October 15, 2009 at 12:11 am
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I think it’s a great album, better than ADD overall, but once again bad choice of single.

And I agree that his live performances are a problem. Sometimes he does really well but when he doesn’t, it’s really bad.

Well, me and 3,999 others will enjoy the album

daphne on October 15, 2009 at 3:44 am
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It debuted at #7 in Dance/Electronic Albums and #20 in Independent albums.
Which still isn’t terrible.
Sure #135 in Billboard 200 doesn’t even live up to the last record which was actually a lot worse than this one (this one i found very good actually), but considering the economy and the fact that a lot of people forgot him since it’s been almost 3 years, it isn’t exactly “heartbreaking.”

Plus, I do agree with the single choice. “Sad Song” was a song he forced/challenged himself to write, and those songs never live up to songs that come up naturally like the title track “Heartbreak on Vinyl” (which he apparently woke up from a dream and had the tune in his head). Last time, Clive Davis forced him into Break Anotha but this time he chose the single so I don’t understand why he did that. He sounds much better live in “Heartbreak on Vinyl” as well.

As far as the “terrible live” thing goes, some of his performances like the one at GDNY were horrifying. But other ones weren’t bad, and I mostly blame Arista for screwing with his voice. (The man was forced to sing while he was bleeding from his vocal chords!) It’s something that he won’t get back.

But the album itself is a lot more memorable as a whole. I’d be surprised if the album sales don’t go up in the next few weeks.

Daniel on October 15, 2009 at 4:40 pm