Week 15

[Zoovation]

Belgium # 1 again. Fantastic result!!!

Chart Run: 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 6, 6, 4, 2, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1

 

[Soldatti]

Japan

Issue Date: March 7, 2005

#131 "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb"- U2 (2,241) [237,016 so far]

Run so far: *4*-9-14-22-29-25-25-30-34-42-74-96-94-92 (14 wks)
Sales so far: 84,129 + 44,394 + 24,903 + 15,549 + 11,576 + 12,600 + 0 + 18,820 + 5,802 + 4,926 + 3,947 + 2,968 + 2,575 + 2,586 + 2,241 = 237,016

 

[KUEFC09U2]

its moved up 2 places

 

[all_i_want]

do you think the album could hit no1 when the band is touring japan?

 

[ybird3k]

NO CHANCE!!!

It didnt enter at number 1, its got no chance now

how many countries has HTDAAB gone to number #1 in now?

32? 34?

 

[all_i_want]

i was afraid someone was gonna say that so, bomb, no1 in how many countries so far?

 

[Yahweh]

13 in ireland

 

[allbecauseofu2]

so how are we doing in the comparson between HTDDAB chart run and ATYCLB chart run week for week? i lost track of that on here.

 

[Zoovation]

Where can I find the charts for Finland? I only know a site for Top 40 albums but the bomb is not in the Top 40 anymore.

 

[beLIEve]

Here is an album and single chart for Finland. I also found the Top 40 album chart...no trace of HTDAAB. However, this site lists top 20 albums and top 20 singles, and on the singles chart, STCMIOYO debuts at #11 this week. Here's that link:

http://allcharts.org/music/finland/singles.htm

This 2nd chart appears to be a chart based on radio play for a major station in Finland or perhaps an average of all radio play. Regardless, it caught my eye because "A man and a woman" is in the Top 20 at #16. Here's that link:

http://194.252.88.3/rswebkva.nsf/sivut/soitetuimmat_uusi

Finally, all the chart information about Finland is consolidated at the "Charts all over the World" website, so maybe you can find more details on HTDAAB from one of these sites. I think you'll have to go to the main website and scroll down to Finland to get to these links. Thanks for looking into this! At least U2's on the radio in Finland. Last link:

http://www.lanet.lv/misc/charts/

Finland
Albums (40), singles (20), compilations (5), YleX:n / IFPI Finland; archives from week 34, 1995
50 Hits based on record sales, airplay and club play; archives from Mar 1994
Radio Suomen soitetuimmat
Anttila Megastore - Levyt Top 40
Radio Top 20, Rockhits, Suomen Diskolista, Tätä Suomi Tansii
Oikea Asema 96,7 Top 10 +1.02
Finnish Dance Chart, Prime Cuts and Urban Cuts, archives from week 31, 1999
findance.com Chart
Latlistor, X3M, Radio eXtrem
StreetBeat online Bestsellers, dance music
Finlands Svenska Television - Nordiska Videolistan
YLE Radio Keski-Suomi Top 10, archives from week 35, 2004
YleX Soitetuimmat, archives from Jan 2003
YLE Lapin Radion soitetuimmat, monthly
YLE Kymenlaakson Radio 16.01

 

[Zoovation]

Thanks! I know that links but the problem is that I don't find a link with Top 100 or something else...!

Thank you!

 

[Zoovation]

Australia #27 (#22)

That's not very good!

 

[beLIEve]

Australia is in a similar situation to the U.S., I think. ROW has SYCMIOYO as a 2nd hit single, but it didn't debut very high down under and the U.S. is just now catching on to it.

I still maintain that on a Global scale - and what can be bigger than that - HTDAAB is a great hit album for U2 with great music from U2. Album sales will fluctuate everywhere depending on where the tour is at, where the hits make the radio, and eventually, back in the U.S., too, with the grammy's, 2 legs, R&R HOF, and it really looks to me like Sometimes is going to make it to #1 on several formats here and into the Top 100. We've got to remember this album has ONLY BEEN out for 3.5 months!!!

We'll be astonished a year from know as HTDAAB rides it's 2nd grammy wave...with Album & Rock album of the year...to sales of 14M. That's my prediction, anyway, and we're already 65% there!

 

[mikeuk]

a really good site for charts all around the globe, incl Finland, is:

www.hart87freeserve.co.uk/worldcharts

Mike

 

[mikeuk]

that s/be www.hart87.freeserve.co.uk/worldcharts

 

[ybird3k]

HTDAAB #26 (#12) in the UK

disapointing,
saying that there are quite a few new entries infront of them, and a massive amount of rubbish in there!!

greenday drop from #5 to #18
J Lo enters at #8

that new radio1 chart show is rubbish aswell! so random

 

[KUEFC09U2]

dissapointing but not so much un-expected, i think with the new entrys, it was always gonna have a dramatic fall at some point, be interesting to see how long ATYCLB was in the UK top 20?

 

[ybird3k]

'Sometimes...' #27 (#18) in UK

Stereophonics at #1 with Dakota
definately deserved!

 

[KUEFC09U2]

'Sometimes...' 27 (#18) in UK

Stereophonics at #1 with Dakota
definately deserved!

agreed, but again no need to be so down about sometimes, this is actually performing quite well in the UK singles chart, vertigo was an execption, singles normally fall well out of the top 40 within 3 weeks of release, but for sometimes to still be in the top 20 is actually pretty good

 

[ybird3k]

Sometimes is now at number 27, with a fall of 9 places from number 18. No longer in the top 20.

how many weeks was vertigo in the top 40 in UK for?

 

[KUEFC09U2]

Sometimes is now at number 27, with a fall of 9 places from number 18. No longer in the top 20.

how many weeks was vertigo in the top 40 in UK for?

sorry i actually meant top 40

 

[Squire]

how much did HTDAAB sold this week in UK?

 

[allbecauseofu2]

hey what dose soundscan count for in the us? 90% of sales?

 

[Yahweh]

Probably about 98 percent.

 

[POP-ROMANCER]

Netherlands:

The Bomb #6 (#3). 2 new entries above #6, jlo at #1 and golden earring #4.

Sometimes #6 (#4).

 

[Soldatti]

how much did HTDAAB sold this week in UK?

From Musicweek.com
Substantial sales push G4 to number one
Setting a very high benchmark for X Factor winner Steve Brookstein, competition runners-up G4's self-titled debut album sold a massive 244,671 copies last week, to debut at number one, writes Alan Jones

Its release timed to coincide with the Mother's Day market, the album enjoyed the highest first week for any album since Robbie Williams' Greatest Hits opened with 320,081 last October and the highest first week for a debut album since HearSay's PopStars sold 306,631 in April 2001.

There's also a delicious irony in the fact that G4 were famously NOT given a contract with X Factor creator Simon Cowell's SyCo Music label - they eventually signed for Sony - but deprive his similarly-themed 'popera' act Il Divo of a return to number one this week with their self-titled debut, which enjoyed a spectacular 246.4% hike in sales last week to 82,964 but still ended up selling only a third as many copies as the G4 album.

Il Divo of course, has legs, with sales of 1,164,193 to date - a total G4 will find hard to match. But G4 has already beaten both Il Divo's opening week sales of 132,829 and its best of 209,208. The G4/Il Divo duopoly is good news for the merged Sony BMG company, which is home to both the Sony and SyCo labels.

G4's fast start helped propel album sales to a 2005 best of 3,633,914 - a 51% increase week-on-week, despite the inclement weather which affected much of the country throughout the week. In 2004, Mother's Day fell a fortnight later than in 2005 and drove sales to more than 3,651,000 - about half a percent higher than this year. The number one Mother's Day album last year was also a Sony release - George Michael's Patience, which sold 274,816 copies.

Meanwhile, three albums not best suited musically to enjoy the Mother's Day bonanza nevertheless had landmark weeks. Franz Ferdinand's self-titled debut album topped the million sales mark domestically on Tuesday, followed by Green Day's American Idiot on Wednesday, and U2's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb on Friday. It's a new experience for the others, but par for the course for U2, who last got there with their previous studio album, 2000's All That You Can't Leave Behind - though its tally of 1,083,169 sales will soon be overhauled by How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, which sold 18,051 copies last week to bring its cume to 1,008,196 in only 15 weeks.

Providing the Carpenters with their highest charting album since a previous 'best of' set Only Yesterday reached number one 15 years ago, the tuneful two's Gold: Greatest Hits dashes 17-4 this week, with sales up 254.9% to 53,200. First released in 2000, the album was reactivated last month with a bonus DVD, and is one of the major beneficiaries of the mother's day market. The album originally peaked at number 21 in 2000, and had been absent from the charts for more than two years before it re-entered last week. Cumulative sales of Gold are 680,352

Baritone Patrizio Buanne's introductory release The Italian debuts at number 12 on the album chart, after first week sales of 30,065. Boosted by a number of recent TV appearances - including GMTV and Today With Des & Mel - the 26 year old from Naples names Dean Martin, Paul Anka and Tom Jones among his idols, and his debut album was recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It was also apparently boosted by the inclusion of one of the crooner's tracks on a recent Mail On Sunday CD, suggesting that there may be some value in putting new artists on newspaper freebies after all.

Jennifer Lopez picked up the second number one single of her career with Get Right a fortnight ago but there's no such luck for new album Rebirth, which has to settle for a number eight debut. Rebirth sold 40,951 copies last week, easily beating the 27,579 copies Lopez's highest charting album - J. Lo - sold when it debuted in runners-up position in February 2001. Rebirth didn't have Lopez's biggest first week however - that honour goes to last album This Is Me...Then, which opened with sales of 47,099 in December 2002, despite debuting at number 13.

The Doves' Some Cities album suffered a 52.9% dip in sales on its second week in the shops - not an unusual fate for a fanbase act but the effects of this were compounded by fast rising sales of many other albums in the Mother's Day market. In fact, the Doves album tumbles 1-14 oon this week's chart despite respectable second week sales of 28,148, thus equalling the biggest ever fall from number one, established by the Wu-Tang Clan's Wu-Tang Forever in 1997. For the record, the Wu-Tang Clan album suffered a 62.8% dip that week, selling 9,686 copies, about a third as many as the Doves album sold last week.

The top five albums in the compilation chart were all targeted at the Mother's Day market, and helped it to register a 64% boost to a year's best 792,764 sales last week. EMI/Virgin's I Love Mum sold 62,752 copies to shade it from Sony BMG's World's Best Mum, which trailed 6.3% behind

The singles market had another good week, with sales rising week-on-week by 10% to 469,416, their highest level of the year. It's the seventh time in eight weeks that the singles market has improved, and 77% more singles were sold last week than when it reached its lowest point in January. On the other hand, the market was 35% below the comparative week last year, when Britney Spears' Toxic debuted at number one with sales of 102,576 in a strong top three alongside DJ Casper's Cha Cha Slide (78,666) and Peter Andre's Mysterious Girl (69,685), which helped to drive overall singles sales of 721,180.

Topping the singles chart this week, however, required just 40,378 sales for the Stereophonics' Dakota - and even that tally was helped considerably by a special offer, which allowed fans to purchase the regular and enhanced CDs and DVD for a combined total of £5. Dakota delivers the Welsh band its 19th Top 40, 10th Top 10 and first ever number one hit, and is the first single from the band's new album Language. Sex. Violence. Other?, which is out next Monday (14th) - though whether Dakota's title is a tribute to a person or a place is not clear, as it appears nowhere in the song's lyrics. Dakota is the second number one for Richard Branson's eight year old V2 label - Liberty X gave them their first with Just A Little in 2002 - and the 11th different number one in as many weeks.

Moving down a notch to number two, second week retail sales of 33,778 copies - a dip of just 18.7% - suggest Nelly & Tim McGraw's Over And Over has staying power. Radio recognises its potency, and it vaults 6-1 on the airplay chart this week, albeit with a modest audience of 51.76m.The record's airplay chart trajectory: 198-76-36-25-17-14-6-1. Radio play is also helping to drive sales of Nelly's Suit album, on which the track appears. Said album enjoyed a 56.4% lift in sales last week but still slips 14-16 as it's overtaken by MOR opponents benefitting from Mother's Day trade.

With first week sales of 27,600, Rock-A-Hula Baby scored the third best tally yet among Elvis Presley's 70th birthday reissues but still has to settle for a number three debut. The other singles in order of release, and their first week sales: Jailhouse Rock (21,262), One Night (20,463), A Fool Such As I (20,002), It's Now Or Never (21,887), Are You Lonesome Tonight (28,500), Wooden Heart (28,377), Surrender (24,439), (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame (27,441). So far, Presley has had three number ones, four number twos and two number threes in 2005.

Sunset Strippers got the lion's share of club and radio support again last week in the battle of covers of Waiting For A Star To Fall but Cabin Crew stole a march on their rival by getting into the shops a week earlier with their single - which has the abbreviated title of Star To Fall - and land a number four debut as a result. In so doing, they easily eclipse the number nine peak of the 1988 original, by husband and wife team George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam aka Boy Meets Girl. Star To Fall sold 24,878 copies last week.

Britney Spears' brand new single Do Somethin' was widely expected to be a contender for this week's singles chart title, but in the end it had to settle for a number six debut. Its her 16th Top 10 hit from 18 releases so far but its first week sales of 17,486 are the lowest of Spears' career, falling short even of her two non-Top 10 hits, Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know (number 12, 2001), and I Love Rock 'n' Roll (number 13, 2002), which opened with sales of 19,685 and 18,306 respectively.

Drawing double digit support from the Beeb's Radio One (10 plays) and Radio 2 (14), singer/songwriter KT Tunstall's Black Horse & The Cherry Tree climbs 9-7 to achieve a new airplay peak even as its slides 28-40 on the sales chart. All this exposure is helping Tunstall's debut album, Eye To The Telescope, however, and it jumps to number 36 - its highest place yet - on the album chart as a result, with sales of 11,496 in the most recent seven day period taking its overall sales to 54,485.

 

[KUEFC09U2]

WOW WOW WOW great news for us UK fans

 

[STING2]

WOW, 18,000 copies sold for the #26 position in the United Kingdom! Thats the equilavent of 90,000 copies sold in the USA! Album sales are red hot in the UK! At the current rate of sales, the album will pass the 1.2 million mark in another 10 weeks! This is the 4 times platinum mark in the UK which has a higher per capita number to reach for platinum than any other country around the world.

It took Joshua Tree 35 weeks to reach that point, it looks like "BOMB" will get there in less than 25! It appears that U2 are now more popular in the UK and Ireland than they have ever been in their history there!

 

[Vox02]

Any catalog album on UK charts? Back in 2001, many older albums of U2 reentry! Not only JT, R&H, AB or Best Of 80-90, but War, UF, Zooropa or Pop too.

Vox

 

[STING2]

On the topic of catalog performances, there is a U2 album that made a comeback in France in the summer of 1993 that would blow away any catalog album.

In the first few weeks of ZOOROPA's release in July 1993, it was the #1 album in France. But another album in U2's catalog from 10 years earlier nearly knocked it from that summit. WAR recharted in France and made it all the way to #4 while ZOOROPA was at #1! Amazing!