Week 17

[Zoovation]

Belgium #8 (#4)

Sometimes #38 (#36)

 

[mikeuk]

Ireland

Bomb 18 (17)

Mike

 

[BigMacPhisto]

Still in the top 20 in Ireland, eh? They always have such a devoted following there.........I wonder why.....

 

[Soldatti]

Japan

Issue Date: March 21, 2005

#150 "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb"- U2 (1,562) [240,333 so far]

Run so far: *4*-9-14-22-29-25-25-30-34-42-74-96-94-92-131-148-150 (17 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 + 1,755 + 1,562 = 240,333

 

[POP-ROMANCER]

Netherlands:

Bomb: #8 (#4)
Sometimes... #17 (#15)

 

[KUEFC09U2]

album seems to be holding pretty strong almost everywhere

 

[cmb737]

US is lacking. Strong here in Albuquerque. Will they make another appearance in the top 50?

 

[BigMacPhisto]

Japan is lacking as well, but that's just part of their culture..................a movie can be number one there in its first week and then be twentieth the next..........they just get bored with things quickly.

 

[Dima]

Japan is lacking as well, but that's just part of their culture..................a movie can be number one there in its first week and then be twentieth the next..........they just get bored with things quickly.

Japan isn't lacking: HTDAAB is U2's most successful album ever in Japan

Only US chart run is under-par...in the rest of the world HTDAAB is doing very well (in Germany and UK for example is performing much better than ATYCLB)

 

[Axver]

Japan is lacking as well, but that's just part of their culture..................a movie can be number one there in its first week and then be twentieth the next..........they just get bored with things quickly.

I find it fascinating how U2 struggle (by our standards) to sell albums in Japan, but they can go there and sell out stadium gigs. Are the Japanese more inclined to attend live music than buy albums ...?

 

[BizzaD]

AUSTRALIA

sometimes down from 36 to 42!! (shocking)

HTDAAB down from 31 to 33

 

[bono_man2002]

HTDAAB will come back up when a tours announced, and when they are touring (Australia, and IF they tour)

But Sometimes Down that low already?....whats the world coming to??

 

[KUEFC09U2]

i think aus might be similar to the UK with regarg to singles, they will fall quicly, its what has always happend

 

[doctorwho]

Yes, but keep in mind that "Sometimes..." inexplicably never charted high in Australia. So it's position at #42 isn't that bad, considering it only reached #19.

 

[KUEFC09U2]

and still number 27 here in the UK the album is doing superb here, and i belive ATYCLB was in the 60's this same week?

 

[mikeuk]

and still number 27 here in the UK the album is doing superb here, and i belive ATYCLB was in the 60's this same week?

agreed, and with 5 new entries ahead of Bomb this week.

Sometimes 39 (35)

Mike

 

[Dima]

and still number 27 here in the UK the album is doing superb here, and i belive ATYCLB was in the 60's this same week?

probably even worse than #60 and ATYCLB also dropped very quickly.
In the first 4 weeks i remember that its chart run was a disappointing 1-5-10-20

 

[KUEFC09U2]

well its a totally different story with bomb, and nice to see sometimes still in the top 40 again very very rare for a single to remain at the top for very long, specially a U2 single

 

[fitz]

Any sales figures for the bomb in UK? We miss the figures for the last two weeks

 

[Zoovation]

Norway #19 (#15) ;4 new entries

New Zealand out off the Top 40

 

[Zoovation]

France #41 (#38); 8 new entries in front of them.

It's good, isn't it?

 

[Dima]

Italy: #15 (#9)

unfortunately HTDAAB dropped off the top 10 one week before ATYCLB did...i hope it won't follow the same path of ATYCLB that from week 18th started dropping and then it's never come back into the top 10

 

[fitz]

@Dima
Do you know how many albums were sold in Italy and if HTDAAB received any certifications? Have you any sales figures for the older U2-Albums in Italy?

Thanks a lot!

 

[Dima]

i'm sorry but i haven't got any figures, and honestly i don't know where to look for 'em: i know only what from time to time appears on national newspapers....for example i know that ATYCLB had sold more than 400k by the end of 2000 so i suppose that now as more than 4 years have passed the total figure could be 500k or even more.
Also from what i know in Italy sales in the first week of release can be really strong (like 150-200k+) and also during christmas week 100k-150k+ copies for the #1 album are not uncommon but the rest of the year sales are normally very poor and i think that in the weakest weeks of the year (like the post-christmas weeks till easter) an album(if it isn't in its 1st or 2nd week) can be at #1 selling as little as 15k copies.

As for average sales the biggest local artists (Vasco Rossi, Lucio Dalla, Eros Ramazzotti, Adriano Celentano, Zucchero and a few more) can sell up to 1-1.5 million copies but these are expecption and don't make the rule as normally 100k+ copies is considered a big success and even 50k copies is a very good result especially for a new artist as normally charts here are VERY conservative (people don't spend their money in new music and prefer rely on more known acts: U2 are among them )...as for internatonal acts U2 is the biggest here in terms of average sales per album but there could be artists that with a single album sell more than U2 (for example Anastacia's last album sold more than 1 million copies...probably more than every single album from U2 excluding maybe Joshua Tree)

 

[Yahweh]

Canada #19

 

[Zoovation]

Fantastic result in Canada!

Germany #16 (#14)

 

[STING2]

At the 17 week mark in the USA, ATYCLB had sold:

2,030,000


At the 17 week mark in the USA, BOMB has now sold:

2,557,936


ATYCLB did not reach the current sales level of BOMB in the USA until week 31!


Worldwide, BOMB has sold 7,140,000 copies to consumers and 8,500,000 copies to retailers.

 

[Squire]

Portugal

Portugal: HTDAAB falls to 14#.

Chart: 1-1-1-1-3-4-5-9-13-13-13-13-14-12-12-9-14

Vertigo Run: 1-1-2-5-9-13-16-20-19-12-14-10-14-18-18-out-out

SYCMIOYO Run: 3-1-1-1

Sales: Aprox. 70.000

 

[Vox02]

SPAIN

Chart:
1-5-5-5-5-6-6-9-9-9-
10-9-12-15-21-27-29

Sales: 200,000 (2x Platinum)

Vertigo Run:
1-1-1-4-1-2-3-3-4-1-
2-4-3-3-8-6-12-14-16

Sometimes Run:
1-2-4-4-5


Vox

 

[fedeu2]

Sting2, are you extrapolating the mediatraffic figures? Otherwise, the 7,140,1000 figure would become over 7,500,000!!!!!

At the 17 week mark in the USA, ATYCLB had sold:

2,030,000


At the 17 week mark in the USA, BOMB has now sold:

2,557,936


ATYCLB did not reach the current sales level of BOMB in the USA until week 31!


Worldwide, BOMB has sold 7,140,000 copies to consumers and 8,500,000 copies to retailers.