Soundscan Surprises, Week Ending 9/8

Back-catalog sales numbers of note from Nielsen SoundScan.

The definition of “back catalog” is: “at least 18 months old, have fallen below №100 on the Billboard 200 and do not have an active single on our radio.”

Lynyrd Skynyrd: totally still touring???? I’m not gonna overthink it. HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF DONNA TAGGART? Please let Wikipedia enlighten you:

Donna Taggart first came to prominence in 2011 when her acclaimed debut album ‘Celtic Lady Vol. 1’ was picked up by highly respected BBC Radio Ulster presenter Gerry Anderson.[1]Donna has shot to fame in 2016 over the 13 million facebook views of her video rendition ofJealous of the Angels which was written by Jenn Bostic in 2010. Jenn Bostic won five awards at the 2012 Independent Country Music Association and it reached number one on the UK ITunes Music charts.

Here is a confusingly pixelated video; watch and enjoy the Celtic nü-country sound. Ireland!!

The Doors are hilariously hard to Google so I don’t know what’s up. I went to their website and the latest news was this:

Win a Skype guitar lesson with Robby Krieger

Posted onAugust 24, 2016

The Doors have partnered with Alfred Publishing and Ultimate Guitar to bring you a chance to win a guitar lesson over Skype with Robby Krieger! Entering is easy; all you have to do is click HERE to enter to win. Good luck!

Norah Jones has sold 11,126,269 copies of Come Away With Me to date—that’s slightly less than The Beatles’ 1 (12,750,747 copies), and slightly more than Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory (10,407,203 copies). Makes some kind of sense. Wanna feel old? Throw out your back. Matchbox Twenty’s Yourself or Someone Like You was released twenty years ago. By the way, for those wondering: the band’s name is currently officially spelled out officially, but it was often typeset as Matchbox 20 in their early years. Forget Santana, someone please interrogate Rob Thomas about that! Peal Jam’s Ten (not 10) is twenty-five years old.

2. LYNYRD SKYNYRD ALL TIME GREATEST HITS 7,141 copies

9. DOORS DOORS 4,656 copies

90. MATCHBOX TWENTY YOURSELF OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU 1,355 copies

71. PEARL JAM YIELD 1,457 copies

97. PEARL JAM NO CODE 1,315 copies

116. JONES*NORAH COME AWAY WITH ME 1,208 copies

190. PEARL JAM TEN 981 copies

195. DONNA TAGGART CELTIC LADY, VOL. 2 968 copies

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