KUEFC09U2 said:
How many did ATYCLB sell in its second week??
Here are U2's U.S. chart positions for ATYLCB for the first 19 weeks on the charts (each line represents 10 weeks):
3-5-12-22-23-24-20-18-22-16
19-19-25-33-37-35-11-15-25
Sales for those weeks (rounded to nearest thousand):
428,000 + 176,000 + 119,000 + 125,000 + 100,000 + 113,000
+ 154,000 + 259,000 + 108,000 + 66,000 + 59,000 + 57,000
+ 47,000 + 44,000 + 41,000 + 49,000 + 85,000 + 74,000 + 55,000
As you can see, ATYCLB had a 59% drop in sales for week 2. If HTDAAB follows a similar pattern, a 60% decrease from 839,000 copies (per Hits) would be a little over 335,000 copies, which is what the early data suggests will happen.
The good news is that ATYCLB was able to sell over 100,000 copies for 9 consecutive weeks until after the holiday season was over. The week before Christmas, the album sold an amazing 259,000 copies - its second highest weekly sum. Barring an unforeseen event, I would imagine the same pattern will hold true for HTDAAB. The difference is that we'll have 3 less weeks of sales prior to Christmas - of course, that is negated by the larger sales for HTDAAB. By the time the holidays were over, ATYCLB sold 1.58M copies to actual consumers in the U.S. With 840,000 copies sold in the debut week, HTDAAB is more than half way there - in just one week!