Is Paramore Going To Blast Past Mariah On The Charts?

In what’s shaking up to be a battle of the butterfles, the bean-counters at industry rag Hits are claiming that brand new eyes from the Hayley Williams-led Tennessee outfit Paramore is, after its first day of official availability, on pace to outsell Mariah Carey’s Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel this week by a margin of about 20,000 copies; Paramore’s projected sales are in the 180k-190k range, while Mariah’s are around 160-170k. And as if that wasn’t enough to rile up the chart-obsessed lambs, turns out that Barbra Streisand’s Love Is The Answer is projected to sell between 150,000 and 160,000 copies! Hits‘ one-day projections for this week’s biggest debuts after the jump.

Paramore, brand new eyes (180,000-190,000)
Mariah Carey, Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel (160,000-170,000)
Barbra Streisand, Love Is The Answer (150,000-160,000)
Breaking Benjamin, Dear Agony (140,000-150,000)
Alice In Chains, Black Gives Way To Blue (130,000-140,000)
Miranda Lambert, Revolution (65,000-75,000)
Madonna, Celebration (60,000-70,000)
AFI, Crash Love (60,000-70,000)

Obviously this all can change—as a point of comparison, immediately after it being rush-released to retail, Hits was projecting sales between 300,000 and 350,000 for Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3, which wound up moving 476,000 copies in its first week. And Mariah’s faithful are nothing but devoted to her, and her efforts to be the chart-toppingest singer who ever topped a chart ever. So things can evolve! Either way, Mimi and her fans can take consolation in the fact that they’re not Madonna.