Vertigo - Week 13/All Because of You - Week 3/ HTDAAB - Week 4

[Popmartijn]

Hello,

Let's keep it all orderly in one big thread, right?

This week, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb slips to #5 on the Billboard Album 200 with sales of 297,000 copies. Although this is an increase of 7% from last week's sales, it's less than what the numbers 2, 3 & 4 had.

Here's the Billboard article about it:
http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000741125

Tupac's 'Game' Haunts Album Chart At No. 1

Late rapper Tupac Shakur grabs his third posthumous Billboard 200 chart-topper as "Loyal to the Game" (Amaru/Interscope) enters the chart at No. 1. The set, which sold 330,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, becomes the late rapper's fifth No. 1 on the tally.

Since his 1996 murder, Tupac's album sales total more than 18 million units in the United States, with a career total is 24.4 million. His last posthumous album, "Better Dayz," debuted in 2002 at No. 5 with 366,000 copies; it has sold 1.6 million to date.

Despite rising fortunes for most titles as the gift-giving crunch hit full swing, last week's No. 1, Ludacris' "Red Light District" (Disturbing Tha Peace/Def Jam South), suffered a 34% sales decline to 214,000 and plummets to No. 12 on the chart.

Leading the stocking-stuffer charge is 17th installment of "NOW That's What I Call Music!" (Sony BMG/Universal/EMI/Zomba/Capitol), which makes a 5-2 jump on a 33% gain to sales of 323,000. A 15% increase to 315,000 copies keeps Eminem's "Encore" (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope) secure at No. 3 for a second week, while Shania Twain's Mercury Nashville greatest hits set moves 6-4 on a 31% spike to 311,000.

Though sales rose 7% to 297,000 units, U2's two-week stint at No. 2 with "How To Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" (Interscope) ends with slide to No. 5. Destiny's Child's "Destiny Fulfilled" (Sony Urban/Columbia) jumps 7-6 on a 25% gain to 267,000.

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I'm sure others will have more info later.

C ya!

Marty

 

[Sleep Over Jack]

So thats 1.7m sold in the US now right? That is another great weekly total.

 

[doctorwho]

All of these sales seem a bit on the low side. I remember in 2000, U2's ATYCLB sold 258,000 copies Xmas week and charted at only #18.

There are several reasons for this discrepancy. The obvious ones about file sharing and poor quality music aside, one main reason sticks out - the holiday itself. Christmas falls on a Saturday. While it was nice to see a boost this past week, I expected an even stronger push, not just for U2 but all albums.

Therefore, we might also see a pretty strong sales week this week (for the results reported on the 29th/30th) as I'm sure there'll be a lot of last minute Xmas gift buying through Dec. 24th. While stores will be closed on the 25th, those with gift cards might then purchase CD's on the 26th. So I wouldn't be surprised at all to see another 250-300K week for HTDAAB. In other words, the "awkwardness" of Christmas on a Saturday may split up the big holiday sales into 2 weeks, instead of one (like in 2000).

Correspondingly, with kids off from school the week after Christmas, we might see strong sales next week to (for the chart report on Jan. 5th/6th). Those sales might be as high as 200K again.

So it's very possible to have actual consumer sales be around 2-2.2M by the time the holiday season is over. Additionally, the fact that HTDAAB has now spent 4 weeks in the Top 10 is outstanding. This surpasses both "Pop" and ATYCLB. If HTDAAB can linger a few more weeks in the Top 10, this will bode quite well for the post-holiday sales.

 

[ChangeTheTemperature]

Canada Week 4

Shania Twain's latest album will be under a lot of Christmas trees this year.

Twain's "Greatest Hits" held the top spot for a third consecutive week with sales of 73,700, compared to 61,700 last week, according to data compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.

Meanwhile, Eminem and U2 switched places this week, with "Encore" moving into the No. 2 position with 53,400 in sales, while "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb" fell to No. 3 with 47,000 copies sold.

 

[Yahweh]

That puts the total sales in Canada at about 229,000 which is over double platnum already...this album is surpasing ATYCLB easily so far world wide. Hope it continues.

 

[doctorwho]

Here is a mini-summary of HTDAAB's rankings in various countries so far. Feel free to add other countries. Sales data provided if available.

U.S.

Top 200: 1-2-2-5

Sales: 3,206(street violations) + 839,724 + 288,446 + 280,332 + 297,000

(Total = 1,709,000 (estimate))


U.K.

Chart: 1-1-1-3

Sales: 200,866 + 127,982 + 178,539 + 163,641

(Total = 671,028)


Canada

Chart: 1-2-2-3

Sales: 94,700 + 47,200 + 40,300 + 47,000
(Total: 229,200)


Australia

Chart: 1-3-3-5

Sales: 48,000 + 24,000 + 28,000 + ??
(Total = 100,000+)


Ireland

HTDAAB

Chart: 1-1-1-1

Sales: ??

Japan

Chart: 4-9-14-22

Sales: 84,129 + 44,394 + 24,903 + 15,549
(Total = 168,975)

 

[STING2]

ATYCLB first 9 weeks:

428,000 + 176,000 + 119,000 + 125,000 + 100,000 + 113,000
+ 154,000 + 259,000 + 108,000

My prediction for "BOMB"s first 6 weeks after seeing figures for the first two weeks.

840,000 + 288,000 + 190,000 + 250,000 + 410,000 + 165,000

Actual results for "Bomb" so far:

839,724 + 288,446 + 280,332 + 297,000 +

TOTAL: 1,709,000

It will be interesting to see how the figures look for the next two weeks. I'm hoping for 600,000 combined sales for Christmas week and post-Christmas week. That would put the album at 2.3 million on January 2, 2005 in the USA. Hopefully the following two weeks will add another 200,000 so that when the first batch of tickets go on sale on Saturday, January 15 , 2,500,000 copies of the album will have been sold to consumers already. This will be over a million copies more sold to consumers than the first 8 weeks of ATYCLB run in the USA. Getting tickets if they keep the shows indoors in the USA is going to be tough.

HTDAAB is still on track to be certified triple platinum in the USA prior to the end of January, making this album U2's fastest selling album, EVER, in the United States.

 

[Soldatti]

Christmas Gift:

Soundscan Top 100
Week ending Dec. 19, 2004 - Issue Date: 01/01/2005

- 1 TUPAC LOYAL TO THE GAME 330080
5 2 VARIOUS NOW 17 323131
3 3 EMINEM ENCORE 315218
6 4 TWAIN*SHANIA GREATEST HITS 311217
2 5 U2 HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOM 299645
7 6 DESTINY'S CHILD DESTINY FULFILLED 267141
- 7 ASHANTI CONCRETE ROSE 254177
8 8 KEITH*TOBY VOL. 2-GREATEST HITS 238051
11 9 USHER CONFESSIONS 236768
9 10 JAY-Z/LINKIN PARK COLLISION COURSE 235710
12 11 CLARKSON*KELLY BREAKAWAY 228504
1 12 LUDACRIS RED LIGHT DISTRICT 213585
15 13 GREEN DAY AMERICAN IDIOT 203336
4 14 LOHAN*LINDSAY SPEAK 192141
18 15 MCGRAW*TIM LIVE LIKE YOU WERE DYING 189379
17 16 NELLY SUIT 177514
22 17 CHARLES*RAY GENIUS LOVES COMPANY 174911
16 18 STRAIT*GEORGE 50 NUMBER ONES 173952
14 19 LIL JON & THE EAST SIDE BOYZ CRUNK JUICE 171593
23 20 WILSON*GRETCHEN HERE FOR THE PARTY 166137
21 21 DUFF*HILARY HILARY DUFF 160382
19 22 STEFANI*GWEN LOVE.ANGEL.MUSIC.BABY 152192
10 23 AIKEN*CLAY MERRY CHRISTMAS WITH LOVE 147653
26 24 STEWART*ROD STARDUST...GRT AMER SNGBK V3 133677
25 25 SNOOP DOGG R&G (RHYTHM) 132229
32 26 RASCAL FLATTS FEELS LIKE TODAY 116025
29 27 MAROON 5 SONGS ABOUT JANE 114409
35 28 LAVIGNE*AVRIL UNDER MY SKIN 113840
13 29 MARIO TURNING POINT 109037
38 30 CIARA GOODIES 108825
24 31 MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION 107942
34 32 FANTASIA FREE YOURSELF 106613
43 33 BIG & RICH HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR 99041
30 34 TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA LOST CHRISTMAS EVE 97460
42 35 BOCELLI*ANDREA ANDREA 96604
36 36 RAY SOUNDTRACK 92898
31 37 GROBAN*JOSH LIVE AT THE GREEK 91458
39 38 CREED GREATEST HITS 90027
41 39 SIMPLE PLAN STILL NOT GETTING ANY 89380
33 40 SIMPSON*ASHLEE AUTOBIOGRAPHY 89077
27 41 SIMPSON*JESSICA REJOYCE: THE CHRISTMAS ALBUM 88695
40 42 SPEARS*BRITNEY GREATEST HITS:MY PREROGATIVE 84924
-- 43 XZIBIT WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION 80909
44 44 GROBAN*JOSH CLOSER 79032
47 45 SWITCHFOOT BEAUTIFUL LETDOWN 78721
28 46 T.I. URBAN LEGEND 74940
45 47 KRAUSS*ALISON & UNION STATION LONELY RUNS BOTH WAY 73788
50 48 CHESNEY*KENNY WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN 72789
51 49 JOJO JOJO 72259
58 50 DION*CELINE MIRACLE 68032
57 51 NELLY SWEAT 65399
49 52 GOOD CHARLOTTE CHRONICLES OF LIFE & DEATH 63953
48 53 VELVET REVOLVER CONTRABAND 63019
76 54 YOUNG*NEIL GREATEST HITS 62664
46 55 NIRVANA WITH THE LIGHTS OUT 60782
37 56 NAS STREET'S DISCIPLE 60657
63 57 JONES*NORAH FEELS LIKE HOME 60091
65 58 URBAN*KEITH BE HERE 60067
20 59 CAM'RON PURPLE HAZE 59564
59 60 LOS LONELY BOYS LOS LONELY BOYS 58258
68 61 GUNS N'ROSES GREATEST HITS 57460
55 62 KILLERS HOT FUSS 57444
56 63 VARIOUS NOW 16 57208
54 64 VARIOUS WOW HITS 2005 56060
73 65 MAYER*JOHN HEAVIER THINGS 54815
66 66 PAISLEY*BRAD MUD ON THE TIRES 54258
67 67 STUDDARD*RUBEN I NEED AN ANGEL 53934
62 68 CHINGY POWERBALLIN' 53662
61 69 KORN VOL. 1-GREATEST HITS 53277
60 70 KENNY G AT LAST...THE DUETS A 50707
69 71 KEYS*ALICIA DIARY OF ALICIA KEYS 50204
64 72 POLAR EXPRESS SOUNDTRACK 46945
74 73 BLACK EYED PEAS ELEPHUNK 46156
81 74 YELLOWCARD OCEAN AVENUE 45636
80 75 CABRERA*RYAN TAKE IT ALL AWAY 44106
75 76 EVANESCENCE ANYWHERE BUT HOME 42558
71 77 PEARL JAM REARVIEWMIRROR-GREATEST HITS 1 42532
53 78 JA RULE R.U.L.E 42042
70 79 BEE GEES NUMBER ONES 41788
78 80 JACKSON*ALAN WHAT I DO 40667
83 81 BUFFETT*JIMMY LICENSE TO CHILL 40359
77 82 SHREK 2 SOUNDTRACK 40113
72 83 BROOKS & DUNN GREATEST HITS COLL II 39973
95 84 MCDONALD*MICHAEL MOTOWN TWO 39874
88 85 LINKIN PARK METEORA 39277
93 86 MCCARTNEY*JESSE BEAUTIFUL SOUL 38124
89 87 JONES*NORAH COME AWAY WITH ME 37978
85 88 SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS SOUNDTRACK 37543
84 89 BOTTI*CHRIS WHEN I FALL IN LOVE 35914
96 90 PRINCESS DIARIES 2 SOUNDTRACK 35647
91 91 MELLENCAMP*JOHN WORDS & MUSIC 35104
82 92 VARIOUS BLUE COLLAR COMEDY TOUR RIDES 34787
--- 93 KEITH*TOBY SHOCK N Y'ALL 33683
98 94 SIMPSON*JESSICA IN THIS SKIN 33045
94 95 STEWART*ROD VOL.II-GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK 32594
92 96 SMITH*MICHAEL W. HEALING RAIN 31495
86 97 TRICK DADDY THUG MATRIMONY 31346
99 98 JIMMY EAT WORLD FUTURES 31324
97 99 BREAKING BENJAMIN WE ARE NOT ALONE 30834
--- 100 EVANESCENCE FALLEN 30627

 

[Dima]

thanks!

but why BB states 297k and soundscan almost 300k?

 

[Soldatti]

A little mistake (from Billboard...)

 

[Vox02]

Spain

Chart: HTDAAB: 1-5-5-5

Sales: 100,000 aprox.

Vertigo: 1-1-1-4-1-2 (#1 Do They Know Its Christmas)

Sales: ?

Vox

 

[Vox02]

Vertigo chart run in UK:

1-7-13-22-22-23


Vox

 

[anitram]

Canada:

Week 4: HTDAAB #3 (behind Shania and Eminem) with sales of 47,000 copies.

 

[Squire]

#1 here in Portugal for a fourth consecutive week.

 

[zoo tv mcg]

What's interesting about the charts at the moment is how close the top 3 -5 albums are in alot of countries. In Australia, an Australian Idol act sold 35k at number 2 which was reported on par with positions 3- 6 with U2 at number 5 (Dr Who - put U2 down for 30K for week 4). Only 20k copies separated Robbie Williams in the U.K from U2 and only 30k copies separated albums 1 thru to 5 in the U.S.

What is encouraging about the figures for U2 in the last 3 weeks is how consistent they are - 280K to 300k and there is a good chance that these figures could repeated in the next 2 weeks. Sales are holding while other albums debut at number 1 and then slide. Depending on the success of ABOY, the hype from the tour etc... the albums chart position could even improve in January as NOW and Shania Twain's greatest hits albums will start to slide quickly now that Christmas is over.

The key chart as Dr Who pointed out chart position wise and sales will be the Jan 12/13 week. This will see if the album can hold in the top 10 for a sustainable period and to see what will happen to sales. This is the week when the ever conservative DR Who and the cautiously optimistic Sting2 can debate end of 05 sales (sorry guys for the commentary)

HTDAAB has now sold 40% of the total sales of ATYCLB in the USA. It has also sold 73% of the original shipment figure of 2.3m copies meaning another 1m will be or already shipped. At the 4 week mark of ATYCLB's release, it had sold 848k and HTDAAB has sold 1.7m or roughly double. I cannot see how the album will not outsell ATYCLB everywhere - it is on track for 15m worldwide sales by Grammy time 06.

Another 300k next week and the album will be officially double platinum. Best of British in getting tickets on the 15/01 - you guys will need it.

Begrudgingly you have to hand it ot Eminem - he keeps selling. At least U2 have more than matched him for 3 weeks and I am hopeful that HTDAAB will have more legs.

Bring on radio airplay for ABOY and Sometimes in the ROW and the video for both songs should only be a couple of weeks away.

Great to see U2 at number 1 in Europe. It means U2 will have the top selling album in the world this week (again - for 3 out of 4 weeks)

 

[Teta040]

HOLY CRAP.

Statistics from here onIN ARE IRRELEVANT.

Wiat until the tour starts...and we hear SYCMIOYO and others live...there are so many great "live" songs on this album...

The tour is still more than 3 months away, the album's only been out 3 wks, and we're already looking at 2 mil. Do you realize this could be the band's second biggest seller ever, after JT, if it keeps up like this. 300,000 roughly plus still. Of course it won't keep up that way but we'll be starting froma MUCH higher plateAu when the tour starts, and it'll be steADILY SELLING UNDER THE RADAR BY THEN....

 

[doctorwho]

For the sake of completion, correctness and clarity, here is a mini-summary of How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb's rankings in various countries again, but with several updates.

U.S.

Top 200:
1-2-2-5

Weekly Sales:
3,206(street violations) + 839,724 + 288,446 + 280,332 + 299,645

Total Sales
1,711,353


U.K.

Chart
1-1-1-3

Weekly Sales:
200,866 + 127,982 + 178,539 + 163,641

Total Sales
671,028


Canada

Chart
1-2-2-3

Weekly Sales:
94,700 + 47,200 + 40,300 + 47,000

Total Sales
229,200


Australia

Chart
1-3-3-5

Weekly Sales:
48,000 + 24,000 + 28,000 + 30,000

Total Sales
130,000


Ireland

Chart
1-1-1-1

Weekly Sales:
??

Total Sales
??


Japan

Chart
4-9-14-22

Weekly Sales:
84,129 + 44,394 + 24,903 + 15,549

Total Sales
168,975


Spain

Chart
1-5-5-5

Weekly Sales:
??

Total Sales
approximately 100,000


Portugal

Chart
1-1-1-1

Weekly Sales:
??

Total Sales
??

 

[fitz]

[
HTDAAB has now sold 40% of the total sales of ATYCLB in the USA. It has also sold 73% of the original shipment figure of 2.3m copies meaning another 1m will be or already shipped.
[/B]

There is already another 1m shipped, because HTDAAB has already Triple platinum status (see the new billboard charts).

 

[Squire]

Just to update your list, HTDAAB has sold 70.000 aprox here in Portugal. it's already platinum.

 

[The_acrobat]

Man, it's really slacking in Japan. Yet, they feel the need to go to Japan on the tour, and skip South America.

 

[shutdown]

doctorwho you can add these to your breakdown:


Vertigo down from 4 to 8 on the Mainstream Rock Chart

Vertigo down from 36 to 37 on the Hot 100

Vertigo down from 9 to 12 on the Modern Rock Chart

Vertigo remains at 10 on the Adult Top 40 chart with an increase in plays.

Vertigo remains at 8 on the Dance/Club Play with an increase in plays.

All Because of You moves up from 16 to 14 on the Modern Rock Chart.

 

[Soldatti]

The album is 3x Platinum according to RIAA and Billboard

http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/bb200.jsp

 

[doctorwho]

There is already another 1m shipped, because HTDAAB has already Triple platinum status (see the new billboard charts).

That is outstanding!

I remember ATYCLB taking something like 6 months to a year before finally getting that 3x Platinum certification (which is what I really felt U2 had to do with ATYCLB - anything over that was "icing"). And here with HTDAAB, U2 has 3x Platinum within 4 weeks!!

As we've all said, it'll probably finish the holiday season with 2 to 2.2M in sales. It'll be interesting to see how fast HTDAAB reaches (if ever) that 4x Platinum certification. Still, do we even dare dream of 5x Platinum?

 

[fitz]

Let us dream of another Diamond certification

 

[Popmartijn]

Hello,

The last few years it has been increasingly difficult to get chart and sales information here in the Netherlands. Sure, the charts keep getting published, but magazines are very sparse with giving sales information. For a while they noted how much certain records sold compared to the #1 record, but nowadays that information is only given for the #2 record (as you could see last week). Anyway, here are the results of the Dutch charts. The charts are compiled by the Mega Charts (http://www.megacharts.nl).
Last week the album lost its top position to Dutch singer Anouk. Sadly, this week the album also has to lose a position to Robbie Williams with his Greatest Hits album and drops to #3. As I said in the introduction, nothing is known about any possible sales figures, nor about its relative performance.
Although U2's 9th consecutive Number 1 album isn't breaking any chart records -except for raising the bar of most consecutive #1 albums- it does improve their position on some other chart-trivia charts ( ). Last week I said that HTDAAB probably made them #2 of acts with most Number 1 albums. With a total of 41 weeks at the top position U2 probably rise to the #4 act with most weeks at Number 1. Only Queen (47 weeks), Abba (44) and the Rolling Stones (42) are above them, while they've just passed Michael Jackson (40 weeks). However, take into account that apart from the data about U2 all the other data only goes to 1999 (as that was the year the chart book I have was published). However, I think Michael Jackson didn't hit #1 with his Invincible album, so the top 5 should be correct (since the next artist in 1999 had only spent 26 weeks at #1 I assume no one has come near).
Here is the chart run for How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (29-11-2004)
1-1-2-3

As I said last week, Vertigo continues its journey to the bottom of the single charts in a slow but definitive descent. After four weeks in the Top Ten it dropped out of it last week. This week, the single spends another week in the Top Twenty though, as it only drops to #18. In any case, the single did its job, promoting the album and giving the band its 22nd Top Ten hit (out of 32 charting singles).
Chart run Vertigo (15-11-2004)
2-3-3-10-13-18

C ya!

Marty

 

[Dima]

world chart news:

still #1 in its 5th week according to mediatraffc with 820k copies sold (down 2.4%), Eminem at #2 with 647k and at #3 there's a j-pop act with 575k

world total so far:

4.462.000 copies

 

[Squire]

wow! It is selling 1 million per week

 

[Dima]

honestly i didn't expect this decline.
Just to put this in perspective consider this: major markets (USA, UK, Australia and Canada) last week had combined sales of 526k copies while this week had combines sales of 540k (2.6% increase)...this means that ROW sales last week were 314k while this week fell to 280 with almost 11% decline: i don't like this trend considering that this was the week just before Christmas..i hope to see an increase next week: i'm starting to worry for the staying power of this album on the long term

 

[doctorwho]

world chart news:

still #1 in its 5th week according to mediatraffc with 820k copies sold (down 2.4%), Eminem at #2 with 647k and at #3 there's a j-pop act with 575k

world total so far:

4.462.000 copies

I thought this website was updated on Friday... hmmm...

Anyway, do we have weekly chart data with sales for the world chart?

 

[doctorwho]

honestly i didn't expect this decline.
Just to put this in perspective consider this: major markets (USA, UK, Australia and Canada) last week had combined sales of 526k copies while this week had combines sales of 540k (2.6% increase)...this means that ROW sales last week were 314k while this week fell to 280 with almost 11% decline: i don't like this trend considering that this was the week just before Christmas..i hope to see an increase next week: i'm starting to worry for the staying power of this album on the long term

The "big" countries also celebrate a more capatilistic Christmas - as such, there would be an increase in sales due to the holiday. The ROW either doesn't celebrate the holiday or isn't anywhere nearly as commercial. So we probably saw a more normal sales drop (see Japan, for example).