"See You Tonight" Sells 50K first week, Opens as Billboard #1 Country Album

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhua6hKTa9B1De-LxQIs8pwo1wZC7WsB1dSP_8pKSSDWCCWNZA_YJfX_65x9K87Mu3t-_iB1uYmRHCiwUX4MBP5w7dFL2uPuL-7e3YHvVsG2ptIAYKdefdrFyeLiGDkV0EoTFsgA2hv-s4O/s1600/hdd-final-20121022.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhua6hKTa9B1De-LxQIs8pwo1wZC7WsB1dSP_8pKSSDWCCWNZA_YJfX_65x9K87Mu3t-_iB1uYmRHCiwUX4MBP5w7dFL2uPuL-7e3YHvVsG2ptIAYKdefdrFyeLiGDkV0EoTFsgA2hv-s4O/s400/hdd-final-20121022.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />As usual <a href="http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi" target="_blank">HitsDailyDouble</a> was spot on their predictions, and also as usual Scotty McCreery's sales came right in at the top of their range. "See You Tonight" should open its first week on the top of the BillBoard Country album chart with sales of 50,000, ending up #6 or #7 on the overall BillBoard 200. That sales number beats his own first week sales of "Christmas With Scotty McCreery" by about 9,000 and starts him off well if he wants to hit gold. It is interesting to watch how sales of "See You Tonight" will compare against the Christmas album. Last year Scotty made a number of TV appearances in November and December that helped propel that album to achieve its gold status, and that would definitely help again this year to keep the sale of "See You Tonight" strong. Here is my graph of CWSM sales from last year from <a href="http://aistats.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-golden-good-time-for-latest-american.html" target="_blank">my post of Nov 28, 2012</a>:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaWKCmewKT_Ws5io7K4pUBQgq3dB4agEEw23kMIOOusQGOPmkyXOvge2JYONa_O2XWQRBzViFDsE7EatTBPy300X4_18JskRNB9Fko8ebPxDOTsRKtcwKdkxYIr8joqQ3QZiKXn5PoDce3/s1600/cwsm-6weeks.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaWKCmewKT_Ws5io7K4pUBQgq3dB4agEEw23kMIOOusQGOPmkyXOvge2JYONa_O2XWQRBzViFDsE7EatTBPy300X4_18JskRNB9Fko8ebPxDOTsRKtcwKdkxYIr8joqQ3QZiKXn5PoDce3/s400/cwsm-6weeks.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Scotty's Christmas album had a big sixth week (Black Friday) sales of 50K, and that is the week it was certified gold. So if he can again sell a total of about 200K in six weeks (i.e. about 150K over the next 5 weeks through Black Friday weekend) that might be all it takes for the retailers to ship a bunch more albums and put him golden again. Last year after the initial second week drop his sales were very steady and then started to increase moving through November. Scotty needs some more holiday promotion! And it will definitely help that country radio is actually starting to play his single more on the the air.  </div>

"See You Tonight" Sells 50K first week, Opens as Billboard #1 Country Album

As usual HitsDailyDouble was spot on their predictions, and also as usual Scotty McCreery's sales came right in at the top of their ran...

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