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Should we be worried about U2 not being able to stay at the top of the charts as long as past albums and not selling a huge volume of albums in the first few weeks?
Should we be worried about U2 not being able to stay at the top of the charts as long as past albums and not selling a huge volume of albums in the first few weeks?
ooops...My bad on the title. I have been reading some critics on how the NLOTH has sold only half of what the last album did.
Yes you should be worried. We should all be worried. It is our duty to support this band in their time of crisis, i.e. poor album sales. I think the bigger question is what are you, we doing to help out this band that has given us all such a great life?
Well i can proudly say i am doing my part. This past week i have went to Best Buy, Wal Mart, Target, etc. and purchased around 5000 copies of NLOTH. In fact i have purchased every copy of NLOTH in this city! You might think to yourself, what is Mrs. Garrison doing with 5000 copies of NLOTH? Yeah good question...im handing them out to strangers on the street along with little pocket bibles (New Testament) and loaves of bread.
You might ask yourself how i can afford all of this? Well, first off, i am a very wealthy man/woman. I am very blessed. Second, even if i start to run low on funds i have faith in the Father that silver and gold will rain down from the sky like loose electricity. Plus i could always sell one of my McMansions in the hills (that used to be mountains), lay off the heroin for a month, and hook the corner like the good old days. Okay it was just last month that i was working the corner, but i did it for fun and not for money, so that really doesn't count. And ive replaced some of the heroin with hard liquor, i just love the way it looks in that brown paper bag.
Nothing heals the soul like the word of God, bread of the lamb, and NLOTH. Next week im heading to Kansas City to pass out a new Jesus DVD, raw fish, and 10,000 copies of NLOTH. Then 15,000 in St. Louis....in fact I'll be hitting a city near you really soon. It's my pilgrimage to keep NLOTH atop the charts and spread the word of our Lord and Savior & Bono.
J33-3
Should we be worried about U2 not being able to stay at the top of the charts as long as past albums and not selling a huge volume of albums in the first few weeks?
Yes you should be worried. We should all be worried. It is our duty to support this band in their time of crisis, i.e. poor album sales. I think the bigger question is what are you, we doing to help out this band that has given us all such a great life?
Well i can proudly say i am doing my part. This past week i have went to Best Buy, Wal Mart, Target, etc. and purchased around 5000 copies of NLOTH. In fact i have purchased every copy of NLOTH in this city! You might think to yourself, what is Mrs. Garrison doing with 5000 copies of NLOTH? Yeah good question...im handing them out to strangers on the street along with little pocket bibles (New Testament) and loaves of bread.
You might ask yourself how i can afford all of this? Well, first off, i am a very wealthy man/woman. I am very blessed. Second, even if i start to run low on funds i have faith in the Father that silver and gold will rain down from the sky like loose electricity. Plus i could always sell one of my McMansions in the hills (that used to be mountains), lay off the heroin for a month, and hook the corner like the good old days. Okay it was just last month that i was working the corner, but i did it for fun and not for money, so that really doesn't count. And ive replaced some of the heroin with hard liquor, i just love the way it looks in that brown paper bag.
Nothing heals the soul like the word of God, bread of the lamb, and NLOTH. Next week im heading to Kansas City to pass out a new Jesus DVD, raw fish, and 10,000 copies of NLOTH. Then 15,000 in St. Louis....in fact I'll be hitting a city near you really soon. It's my pilgrimage to keep NLOTH atop the charts and spread the word of our Lord and Savior & Bono.
J33-3
In terms of US sales, well, it's not the typical buying season.. We are in the midst of a recession... Who knows if more internet copies were sold. But they peaked at number 1 and that's good. But once you reach 1 the only other way is down.
We'll see if album sales pick up again after the next single is released and the tour starts.
Nearly 155,000 copies of the new album were sold digitally. This is the second-biggest weekly tally ever for paid downloads of an album. It trails only Coldplay's Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends, which sold 288,000 downloads in its first week in June. To give you an idea how this market has exploded, U2's last studio album, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, sold 30,000 downloads in its first week in November 2004. And that slim total set a new record at the time
Please tell me another band who after 30+ years has sold as many records as U2 has in the U.S. in their first week...and don't tell me ac/dc ...that was a freak occurence that still smells of Walmart fudged #s
Quit with the conspiracy theories. AC/DC really did sell in that number. Have you checked out the catalog sales for Back In Black? The album has been in the Top 20 like every single week for decades now. So, it sells millions every few years in the United States. There was also pent up demand because there hadn't been an AC/DC album in a while and one in at least 15 years that had been as heavily promoted. Then, it's on sale at Wal-Mart where most of the 40-50 year old listeners shop in the middle of nowhereland...trust me, AC/DC did sell that amount of units. There have always been bigger bands than U2 in the United States in terms of record sales, usually because there's a lot of people here that won't accept rock that isn't extremely loud or headache inducing.
I disagree, i think HTDAAB is far far better than NLOTH. the worst songs on bomb are at worst equal to the best songs on NLOTH. not to say that i dont like NLOTH but HTDAAB is my fave album ever.
Yes you should be worried. We should all be worried. It is our duty to support this band in their time of crisis, i.e. poor album sales. I think the bigger question is what are you, we doing to help out this band that has given us all such a great life?
Well i can proudly say i am doing my part. This past week i have went to Best Buy, Wal Mart, Target, etc. and purchased around 5000 copies of NLOTH. In fact i have purchased every copy of NLOTH in this city! You might think to yourself, what is Mrs. Garrison doing with 5000 copies of NLOTH? Yeah good question...im handing them out to strangers on the street along with little pocket bibles (New Testament) and loaves of bread.
You might ask yourself how i can afford all of this? Well, first off, i am a very wealthy man/woman. I am very blessed. Second, even if i start to run low on funds i have faith in the Father that silver and gold will rain down from the sky like loose electricity. Plus i could always sell one of my McMansions in the hills (that used to be mountains), lay off the heroin for a month, and hook the corner like the good old days. Okay it was just last month that i was working the corner, but i did it for fun and not for money, so that really doesn't count. And ive replaced some of the heroin with hard liquor, i just love the way it looks in that brown paper bag.
Nothing heals the soul like the word of God, bread of the lamb, and NLOTH. Next week im heading to Kansas City to pass out a new Jesus DVD, raw fish, and 10,000 copies of NLOTH. Then 15,000 in St. Louis....in fact I'll be hitting a city near you really soon. It's my pilgrimage to keep NLOTH atop the charts and spread the word of our Lord and Savior & Bono.
J33-3