What is being dubbed as the surprise hit of fourth quarter, R. Kelly’s Love Letter, was reported as selling an impressive 150,000 copies within it’s first week in stores with little to no promotion, and no single to speak of. A source within Kelly’s camp contacted me today to inform me that the album actually moved 10k more than reported (160k is a more accurate total), and the project was apparently undershipped by the label. Best Buy and Wal-Mart locations across the country ran out of copies within days, and I’m told the label has shipped an additional 300,000 units to combat the mishap. Very impressive in this day and age, I must say. The album, which may throw some Kells fans for a loop, is a departure from his traditional sound, but his risk seems to be paying off.
I’m not really sure what you mean by “no single to speak of”. When A Woman Loves is clearly the single and it has done very well for him.
Andrew 1st week numbers are estimates not actual sales numbers, Nice catch though.
numbers are from soundscan, wchich are actual sales figures.
RoBERT iS supposed to be the number one in the country. Most stores run out of copies early in the week. Distributors need to wake up. R is the King of R&B.