mikeuk
War Child
Seems to be selling well on ITunes in UK and USA - not checked other countries
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prbiker15
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AEON
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Wow - almost like the 1964 Beatles (almost)
SleepyDeadMan
War Child
Is anybody familiar with how well their back catalog sold relative to when NLOTH was released (or other post 2000 releases for that matter)? If this is unusual relative to those, then this may be a good sign!
allbecauseofu2
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I must have missed it completely. Whats live from paris?
ChargedVT
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8 albums in top 20 in Italy... holy crap. Some countries have their whole catalogue in top 100... even Pop!
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powerhour24
ONE love, blood, life
A recording from the Joshua Tree tour, it was packaged in the deluxe reissue in 2007 but also sold individually digitally.
allbecauseofu2
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oh ok. didn't know they released it separate.
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hasin73
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Great !!!! 
womanfish
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So no sign of The Joshua Tree in the top 50 in the US with 70% tallied. I really thought it might make it. We shall see. Still more to count.
Hits Daily Double have this short article on the SOI release and some numbers on the amount of times the ad has appeared on tv and the total estimate of sale for the back catalogue since last Tuesday:
Whether you consider the U2-Apple initiative as a stunt or a brilliant cross-marketing initiative, you’ve gotta admit that it has dramatically increased the band’s visibility at a crucial moment while also making the masses acutely aware of the appearance of the iPhone 6. Here are some interesting stats:
Through last night’s edition of Monday Night Football, the commercial that employs the hook from "The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)" has aired nationally 121 times since it debuted on the CBS prime-time game last Thursday. This according to ad-tracking site ispot.tv.
According to Apple SVP of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue, "Just six days after its release on iTunes, a record-breaking 33 million people have already experienced" Songs of Innocence. In other words, the album has been accessed on iTunes, iCloud, iTunes Radio or Beats Music 33 million times since it magically appeared last Tuesday.
Apple said it received more than 4 million combined orders of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in the first 24 hours on Sept. 12, surpassing the previous high of 2 million-plus iPhone 5 orders set in 2012. "We believe the iPhone 6/6 Plus pre-order numbers indicate demand for the redesigned iPhone is slightly better than high expectations," Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster wrote in a note to clients.
Somewhat less significantly, the U2 catalog—sale priced at $5.99 for standard releases and $7.99 for hits collections since last Tuesday—has been selling briskly, with total sales up to today believed to be north of 30k. That may not be "massive," as Rolling Stone put it recently, but it ain’t chopped liver—especially considering that U2 catalog titles during the previous week sold in the double digits, with only three in the low triple digits. The biggest post-Tuesday sellers are 2006’s 18-song U218 Singles and 1987’s beloved The Joshua Tree, which are running neck and neck, with the 1991 landmark Achtung Baby a solid #3. All of the above remain in the iTunes Top 50 as of Monday afternoon, as does 1983’s War and, more surprisingly, the $11.99 deluxe version of U218 Singles, which contains 10 additional tracks, nine of them live.
Whether you consider the U2-Apple initiative as a stunt or a brilliant cross-marketing initiative, you’ve gotta admit that it has dramatically increased the band’s visibility at a crucial moment while also making the masses acutely aware of the appearance of the iPhone 6. Here are some interesting stats:
Through last night’s edition of Monday Night Football, the commercial that employs the hook from "The Miracle (of Joey Ramone)" has aired nationally 121 times since it debuted on the CBS prime-time game last Thursday. This according to ad-tracking site ispot.tv.
According to Apple SVP of Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue, "Just six days after its release on iTunes, a record-breaking 33 million people have already experienced" Songs of Innocence. In other words, the album has been accessed on iTunes, iCloud, iTunes Radio or Beats Music 33 million times since it magically appeared last Tuesday.
Apple said it received more than 4 million combined orders of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in the first 24 hours on Sept. 12, surpassing the previous high of 2 million-plus iPhone 5 orders set in 2012. "We believe the iPhone 6/6 Plus pre-order numbers indicate demand for the redesigned iPhone is slightly better than high expectations," Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster wrote in a note to clients.
Somewhat less significantly, the U2 catalog—sale priced at $5.99 for standard releases and $7.99 for hits collections since last Tuesday—has been selling briskly, with total sales up to today believed to be north of 30k. That may not be "massive," as Rolling Stone put it recently, but it ain’t chopped liver—especially considering that U2 catalog titles during the previous week sold in the double digits, with only three in the low triple digits. The biggest post-Tuesday sellers are 2006’s 18-song U218 Singles and 1987’s beloved The Joshua Tree, which are running neck and neck, with the 1991 landmark Achtung Baby a solid #3. All of the above remain in the iTunes Top 50 as of Monday afternoon, as does 1983’s War and, more surprisingly, the $11.99 deluxe version of U218 Singles, which contains 10 additional tracks, nine of them live.
womanfish
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U218 and JT charting at 42 and 43 respectively this week. Selling 6100 a piece
CosmoKramer
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US chart Womanfish?
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womanfish
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Yeah. Sorry. I forgot in my excitement. Should mirror billboards numbers out tomorrow. I best there are 4 or 5 more in the top 200
Pretty cool
powerhour24
ONE love, blood, life
Both JT & AB are Diamond certified, do they do individual platinum certifications beyond that?
doctorwho
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Only JT has been diamond certified in the U.S. AB is listed at 8M.
While there isn't another "award" (like double diamond), re-certification will give more information about how well an album has sold in the U.S. For example, AB received that 8M certification in October 1997. It may have reached 9M by now. JT, always a great seller, may be well over 11M given its last certification was Sept. 1995.
As proof, JT drops to #92 on this week's Billboard. U218:Singles is at #147. I did not see U2 elsewhere on the chart.
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