blueyedpoet
Refugee
This tour has featured six songs from Boy. Is there any chance of finding out if Boy sells have increased during the tour?
Will the 60 minutes special help sales at all?
Will the 60 minutes special help sales at all?
blueyedpoet said:This tour has featured six songs from Boy. Is there any chance of finding out if Boy sells have increased during the tour?
Will the 60 minutes special help sales at all?
blueyedpoet said:what the hell is up with October selling less than pop on amazon though?
blueyedpoet said:that's actually what i meant to ask...why is october selling more than pop on amazon?
blueyedpoet said:that's actually what i meant to ask...why is october selling more than pop on amazon?
ybird3k said:a further question would be, why is October selling at all?
STING2 said:Here is an update of how U2's catalog is doing at Amazon.com.
HTDAAB #57
Best Of 1980-1990 #117
Best Of 1990-2000 #206
Joshua Tree #213
Achtung Baby #386
ATYCLB #530
WAR #635
BOY #729
Unforgettable Fire #896
October #989
Rattle And Hum #1,318
Under A Blood Red Sky 1,364
Zooropa #2,210
POP #2,787
Wide Awake In America #4,567
Several of U2's lower ranked albums have made a big jump over the past few days, especially the POP album, at Amazon.com. 10 albums are now in the top 1,000. 12 in the top 1,400. 14 in the top 3,000.
jmccuanu2 said:Along this theme of catalog sales, I am just wondering about a couple of things that some of the album sales experts on these boards perhaps could answer.
First, is there any type of website that shows what the total number of copies of an album have sold since the album's release, at any given moment? I am talking only about here in the U.S., and an example of what I am looking for is this: Achtung Baby has sold 8 million copies in the U.S., but I am wondering just how close it is to reaching the 9 million mark, and was curious if there is a website that provides this info, like down to the exact number (or really, really close). I found the Soundscan website, but it didn't have anything like it at all.
Second, when an album is released, do they (the RIAA and/or Soundscan) continue to monitor sales of it no matter how long ago it was released? I mean, like sales of BOY even though it came out 26 years ago? If so, I find it amazing that neither BOY nor October have crossed 2 million in sales, what with all the U2 fans out there! I know things have slowed down with catalog sales, but still!
And third, I am assuming that Soundscan counts all the sales of albums purchased off the web, such as from Amazon and the like. Is this a correct assumption, or are those sales just not tallied up? If not, it could be that artists' sales totals are quite inaccurate, what with everybody buying copies over the net.
Any help would be most appreciated, and maybe I can get a decent night's sleep!
jmccuanu2 said:Hey, thanks for the info STING2. Very informative! I do have one followup regarding the answer to my second question. You stated that the record company asks that the RIAA certifies the album at certain sales levels. So I assume it isn't an automatic thing? In other words, AB might have already crossed the 9 million mark, but if Island Records hasn't asked the RIAA for an audit, we wouldn't know that until the audit of U2's catalog has been done. Am I on the right track with that thinking?
By the by, when I say "an automatic thing," I am meaning that Soundscan doesn't notify the RIAA if an album reaches a certain plateau, it is still the record label's responsibility to ask RIAA to do the audit. I guess it boils down to a question of who tells who what to do and when. Thanks in advance for any more info on the subject.