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2010 live album by Various artists
Hope for Haiti Now
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Released
| January 23, 2010
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Genre
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Length
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29
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Label
| MTV
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Hope for Haiti Now
is a
live album
by various artists to benefit
Hope for Haiti Now
's campaign to alleviate the
2010 Haiti earthquake
. All benefits from the album sales go to Haiti relief organizations, including the
Red Cross
and
Wyclef Jean
's Yele Haiti foundation.
Hope for Haiti Now
features 19 live performances from the
television broadcast
Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief
as well as the studio version of "
Stranded (Haiti Mon Amour)
", an original track performed by
Jay-Z
,
Bono
,
The Edge
and
Rihanna
during the
telethon
.
[1]
The digital-only album was made available for pre-order through
iTunes
on January 22, 2010. It set a record as the biggest one-day album pre-order in iTunes history.
[2]
The album sold 171,000 copies in its first weekend, and, in merely two days, became the first digital-only album to top the
Billboard
200
album chart.
[3]
The album has since also become available on
Amazon
and
Rhapsody
.
Track listing
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Chart performance
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Hope for Haiti Now
debuted on the
Billboard
200
at number 1, selling 171,000 copies in only two days as
Nielsen SoundScan
's sales tracking week at the time ended at the close of business each Sunday, thus becoming the first digital-exclusive set to top the tally in
Billboard
'
s history.
[3]
It also became the
second independently distributed album
to reach the number one spot on the
Billboard
200 chart that year (and 13th overall) following
Vampire Weekend
's
Contra
.
[4]
Hope for Haiti Now
sold another 143,000 downloads in its second week of release.
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The album sold 60,000 copies in its first-two days outside the U.S.
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Charts
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Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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See also
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References
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Jayson Rodriguez (January 22, 2010).
"
'Hope For Haiti Now' Performances: A Track-By-Track List"
.
MTV.com
.
Archived
from the original on December 22, 2010
. Retrieved
January 24,
2010
.
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"
'Hope For Haiti' telethon draws, and raises, millions"
.
The Hollywood Reporter
. January 23, 2010.
Archived
from the original on March 5, 2010
. Retrieved
January 24,
2010
.
- ^
a
b
Caulfield, Keith.
"'Hope For Haiti' Album Debuts At No. 1 on Billboard 200"
Archived
2013-03-21 at the
Wayback Machine
.
billboard.com
. January 27, 2010.
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"Arcade Fire And Taylor Swift Sweep In With New No. 1s"
. Billboard.biz. Archived from
the original
on 2010-08-16
. Retrieved
2012-03-24
.
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Caulfield, Keith (April 3, 2010).
"Digital Dude"
.
Billboard
. p. 41
. Retrieved
September 28,
2023
.
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MTV, ed. (January 27, 2010).
"
'Hope for Haiti Now' Hits $66 Million Mark"
. CSR Wire
. Retrieved
September 28,
2023
.
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"Austriancharts.at ? {{{artist}}} ? Hope For Haiti Now"
(in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
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"Ultratop.be ? {{{artist}}} ? Hope For Haiti Now"
(in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
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"Ultratop.be ? {{{artist}}} ? Hope For Haiti Now"
(in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
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"Various Artists Chart History (Canadian Albums)"
.
Billboard
. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
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"Danishcharts.dk ? {{{artist}}} ? Hope For Haiti Now"
. Hung Medien. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
- ^
"
"Tops : "Urgence Haiti" prend la tete des ventes"
"
. Chartsinfrance.
Archived
from the original on July 11, 2015
. Retrieved
February 9,
2010
.
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"Charts.nz ? {{{artist}}} ? Hope For Haiti Now"
. Hung Medien. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
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"Hope for Haiti Now - Tops UK Chart"
. Billboard.
Archived
from the original on October 1, 2014
. Retrieved
February 2,
2010
.
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"Various Artists Chart History (
Billboard
200)"
.
Billboard
. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
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"Top Canadian Albums ? Year-End 2010"
.
Billboard
.
Archived
from the original on July 18, 2014
. Retrieved
November 25,
2020
.
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"Top Billboard 200 Albums ? Year-End 2010"
.
Billboard
.
Archived
from the original on January 1, 2015
. Retrieved
November 25,
2020
.
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