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Why? it only take a tour or little bit of promotion for an album to shoot back up the charts, i mean look at the killers, a couple of adverts and they shot back into the top 15.
 
KUEFC09U2 said:
Why? it only take a tour or little bit of promotion for an album to shoot back up the charts, i mean look at the killers, a couple of adverts and they shot back into the top 15.
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The album will only continue to sink lower, the tour isn't for over a month, that's four more weeks it'll be well out of the top 100 by then. There's no sign of a third single yet so it's just gonna keep falling.

Plus Killers are popular right now, Human is still doing well, that album has been in the charts since it was released
 
Oh well i guess your right then, the album is dead here in the UK, has anyone got the chart runs for HTDAAB and ATYCLB in the UK? thanks
 
KUEFC09U2 said:
Oh well i guess your right then, the album is dead here in the UK, has anyone got the chart runs for HTDAAB and ATYCLB in the UK? thanks
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I'd love if I'm wrong though, but unless the band push single three and get on tv now, I don't see what could reverse the decline

Bomb: 1-1-1-3-4-14-12-10-11-17-18-14-10-12-26-26-27-34-40-46-52-58-
60-72-66-73-66-50-33-17-24-25-34-39-49-57-66-73-80-110-131-140
ATYCLB:
1-4-10-20-25-26-28-29-29-23-17-12-12-7-7-8-10-3-6-8-12-14-23-
30-39-41-49-54-65-60-53-47-47-58-65-56-47-37-30-23-22-15-16-23-
34-42-53-64-83-76-74-60-50-57-69-83-71-54-61-60-64-56-60-76-95-
98-126-113-97-64-74-77-96-150-121-132-125-117-138-137-127-109-138-165-150-174

monai2 said:
no line is today n.92 in the mids chart,+5 from yesterday
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Not that unusual, usually goes up after sunday/monday. Would love if it hit top 75 again but I'd settle for top 90
 
Norway
NLOTH 16 (18)

Denmark
NLOTH 12 (15)

Germany
NLOTH 28

Austria
NLOTH 37 (41)

Italy
NLOTH 15 (10)

France
NLOTH 22 (23)

Poland
NLOTH 17 (19)

Czech Republic
NLOTH 11 (7)

Belgium Flanders
NLOTH 24 (24)

Belgium Wallonia
NLOTH 15 (16)

Switzerland
NLOTH 21 (20)

Spain
NLOTH 19 (18)

Hungary
NLOTH 15 (20)

Portugal
NLOTH 18 (17)

New Zealand
NLOTH 35 (36)

Brazil
NLOTH 29 (27)

Argentina
NLOTH 13 (7)

That's all for now...may look up some more later. Magnificent is charting in all these countries and more, by the way, with few exceptions. Slow riser on many charts. Airplay charts are being kinder to Magnificent than sales chart, but like I said, that seems to be reversing.
 
beLIEve said:
Poland
NLOTH 17 (19)
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up from 21, not 19


Poland:

Week 15

NLOTH:
1-1-1-1-2-3-3-5-5-6-8-10-16-21 - 17 :up:

...and just to compare...
HTDAAB:
1-1-3-5-6-4-8-11-8-12-18-15-16-12-15-18-17-21-23-23-30-42-22-//-...(out of top50 for 9 weeks)

-----------------------
after VertigoTour'05 Chorzow Show:

HTDAAB: 32-17-21-31-25-41-//...out of top50
JoshuaT: 46-24-30-32-32-35-//...out of top50
Achtung: //-30-//...out of top50
BO80-90: //-44-//...out of top50
BO90-00: //-27-//...out of top50
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Crazy Tonight is getting more and more airplay BTW
 
fedeu2 said:
Ouch! That hurt.
Seriously, the album is plummeting in UK, and to a lesser extent, in the US.
However, as believe already said, its performance is quite good in other territories, i.e. the rest of Europe, Asia and Latin America.
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Exactly, why is the UK seen as such an important market?
 
roy said:
Exactly, why is the UK seen as such an important market?
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Because it's a big (and also quite influential) market.
The US used to account for 1/3 - 1/2 of U2's album sales, with the UK contributing another 1/6. So combined they used to contribute for at least half of U2's album sales.
Now it's around 40%.
 
That is quite bad in the UK. Won't they be playing to more than 310,000 people at the UK shows on the tour?
 
kpod said:
That is quite bad in the UK. Won't they be playing to more than 310,000 people at the UK shows on the tour?
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selling more tickets than albums, surely a few years ago this would have been unthinkable. we can only assume that most of the people attending the shows have downloaded the album for free
 
Irishteen said:
I mean people don't want to hear the album at all, and some people who download do buy the album as well
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I think the number of people willing to pay U2 ticket prices, but unwilling to even listen to the new album for free, especially when they are going to be hearing much of the album in concert, is rather small.

No Line is the top selling album of the year worldwide by a considerable margin at this point, just as the Joshua Tree was at this point in 1987. I think although total album sales will be below ticket sales for the first time ever, there are a large number of people, probably much greater than the album sales, who have obtained the album for free. Most people at the show will have heard the album. Plus there will probably be millions more who have heard the album and are not at the show, just as it has been with previous tours. U2's biggest selling albums usually sold doubled worldwide what the tour sold in tickets. The reason that won't be the case this time is because technology has allowed large numbers of people to obtain the music for free.
 
Maoilbheannacht said:
I think the number of people willing to pay U2 ticket prices, but unwilling to even listen to the new album for free, especially when they are going to be hearing much of the album in concert, is rather small.

No Line is the top selling album of the year worldwide by a considerable margin at this point, just as the Joshua Tree was at this point in 1987. I think although total album sales will be below ticket sales for the first time ever, there are a large number of people, probably much greater than the album sales, who have obtained the album for free. Most people at the show will have heard the album. Plus there will probably be millions more who have heard the album and are not at the show, just as it has been with previous tours. U2's biggest selling albums usually sold doubled worldwide what the tour sold in tickets. The reason that won't be the case this time is because technology has allowed large numbers of people to obtain the music for free.
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Except in the Uk the album has been a relative flop, since chart positions ARE NOT AFFECTED by illegal downloading the album should be doing better. Maybe people downloaded it and hated it? Maybe people want to see U2 for their past hits? How many people listen to the newest Rolling Stones album before seeing them in concert?

And the album can't be compared to Joshua Tree at all, the album has had no real competition worldwide at all so far, it's not even half the hit the Joshua Tree was
 
Every album is affected by illegal downloads. All the chart positions are affected by illegal downloads too because the entire industry is taking a HUGE hit. For example, in the US, if a number one album sells 400k in it's first week, when it would have easily sold twice that much if it was released a few years ago, the other chart positions are in the same predicament. The number 2 album would have sold more a few years ago as well. Look at the other artists on the charts and you can see that the lack of sales is affecting all of them, not just U2. Green Day sold around 200k in their first week in the US with their new album, far lower than their last album. Beyonce has sold less than 2 million worldwide (in 2009) of her current album, which again is far less then what she would have sold a few years ago. It takes fewer sales to crack the charts because everyone is selling less. Long gone are the days of 20 million sales worldwide, and now long gone are the days of 10 million sales worldwide. A huge selling album worldwide right now would sell about 5 million at the most.
 
Maoilbheannacht said:
I think the number of people willing to pay U2 ticket prices, but unwilling to even listen to the new album for free, especially when they are going to be hearing much of the album in concert, is rather small.
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Wrong. I'm taking 2 friends, neither of them have bought or downloaded the album. Same with 2 other friends who were interested but couldn't make the dates. Only one of them has been listening to the album on one of those online stations where it was streaming for free. One can hear 'as much U2 as I want when I visit you'. The third has borrowed one of my copies and may decide to buy or not ti buiy his own copy once he'se heard it. All want to go and see U2 just because it's something you should have done at least once in your life. Nothing to do with the new album.
 
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