(Billboard) – Jazz pianist Herbie Hancock scores his biggest sales week since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991, selling nearly 43,000 units with his new album “Possibilities.”
It debuts impressively at No. 1 on Top Contemporary Jazz and at No. 22 on The Billboard 200. Hancock produced the album with Alan Mintz, and each of the CD’s tracks features a guest star — including Christina Aguilera, Paul Simon, John Mayer and Trey Anastasio.
The set, his first No. 1 on Contemporary Jazz, was greatly helped in the marketplace by its availability at Starbucks. About 66% of the album’s sales came from nontraditional sources — which include Starbucks, Internet retailers and sales from concert venues … Hancock also guested on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” Aug. 30.