Skywalker said:Now with 12.89% in...
1 -> U2 97,643
2 -> Eminem 51,851
tkramer said:
These building charts are fun, but don't get too caught up. First, Hits is only about 90% right most of the time. Second, the numbers swing back and forth like crazy, so your favorite artist could be up by a lot one moment, and not so much the next.
Still, these are VERY incouraging, and I cannot see U2 selling less than 750,000 based on these #'s, maybe as much as 900,000...
doctorwho said:So it'll be interesting to see how the numbers progress - especially tomorrow!
Popmartijn said:
From what I can remember from 2 and 4 years ago, the second day is usually a weaker day for U2. Not that it makes it any less fun...
C ya!
Marty
doctorwho said:It can't be any weaker - it's already 2:30 EST and only 12% of the data is in.
I have a feeling the big numbers will come tomorrow.
ladywithspinninghead said:1 U2 INTERSCOPE 155,567
HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB
5 2 SHANIA TWAIN MERCURY NASHVILLE 86,670
GREATEST HITS
8 3 NOW THAT WHAT I CALL MUSIC! V.17 CAPITOL 83,892
VARIOUS
7 4 TOBY KEITH DREAMWORKS NASHVILLE 79,664
GREATEST HITS 2
1 5 EMINEM SHADY/INTERSCOPE 79,165
ENCORE
I'm sure much too early but Eminem fell to no.5....
This is like watching election results...but hopefully THESE results aren't rigged....
Adam22 said:It looks like U2 may of missed out on some sales due to the fact that all of these stores were selling out of the disc. It may not make a huge difference but I could of put them over a million had they sent enough cds to the stores.
womanfish said:Man, these stores that are selling out of the album should make some phone calls to Florida. I hate this state already, but it seems everywhere I go, the sales of this album look really soft here. Circuit City, Walmart and Kmart didn't even have the album in the front displays under the new releases. Best Buy had them out, but still hundreds left in the display. This state gets more lame every day.
STING2 said:Actually, with 34.62% of reports in and 214,667 copies sold, if this pace remains the same, the album will come in at around:
621,000. I hope tomorrow is a bigger day, because all the hype had me thinking closer to 1 million. But my initial estimate several weeks ago was a little over 600,000 so this would match up nicely. If the album breaks the 750,000 mark it will indeed be U2's biggest opening week ever Soundscan and pre-Soundscan era, with the possible exception of Rattle And Hum.