Much Higher First Week Estimates From HDD

Hits Daily Double has revised their ATDW first week sales estimates. Their estimate is now between 250,000 and 300,000 copies this week. This is significantly higher than their estimate of 199,000 from yesterday. That number is truely remarkable beating the likes of heavily promoted radio superstars such as Jessica Simpson and Paris Hilton who both released albums late last month. With this debut, ATDW is on track to be certified platium by Thanksgiving.

By contrast, according to our lemon-stand sales guru Mark Pearson, Clay Aiken’s just-released new album is projected to hit between 250k-300k in its first week, and there’s no serious radio play for his single.

Update 5:49 PM: HDD has re-revised their numbers to 190k-200k. I guess it's too early for anyone to firmly estimate first week sales.

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