Vertigo Week 11/HTDAAB Week 2

[doctorwho]

Here is a mini-summary of all the rankings.

Feel free to add other countries - especially if you have sales data - or any other chart news.

Vertigo Week 11/HTDAAB Week 2

Vertigo - U.S. only

Top 100: 46-44-39-32-32-32-31-31-36-36

Modern Rock: 18-4-2-2-1-1-1-1-3-3-5

Mainstream Rock: 27-12-10-6-5-4-4-3-3-3-3

Adult Top 40: 35-23-19-18-18-19-17-15-15-13-12

Digital: NA-1-4-4-1-1-1-3-4-3-out of Top 10


HTDAAB

U.S.

Top 200: 1-2

Sales: 3,206(street violations) + 839,724 + 288,000

U.K.

Chart: 1-1

Sales: 200,866 + 127,982


Canada

Chart: 1-2

Sales: 94,700 + 47,200


Australia

Chart: 1-3


Ireland

Chart: 1-1

 

[Popmartijn]

Hello,

Since the Doc already gave a summary of some countries and the position HTDAAB charted, I can now tell you the results of the Dutch charts. The charts are compiled by the Mega Charts (http://www.megacharts.nl).
In its first week, U2's new album exploded on the charts (and please forgive the pun). Not only did it enter the charts at #1, it crushed the competition. It is very difficult to get sales data here in the Netherlands, but what is known is that the album had an 80% margin on the #2 best-selling album in the Netherlands (Robbie Williams with his Greatest Hits). So for every copy of Robbie's Greates Hits sold, U2 sold five copies of HTDAAB.
As for chart trivia, HTDAAB is U2's ninth consecutive #1 album in the Netherlands. Yep, every album since The Joshua Tree reached the top position. With this, they have the undisputed record of most consecutive #1 albums in the Netherlands. I have a book which lists all the #1 albums from 1969 to 1999 and the only possible contender is a Dutch artist, who had 3 consecutive #1 albums until 1999.
So, what did the second week bring to U2? Well, as in other countries they also had a drop in sales (at least relatively speaking). However, the album is still at #1 (with Robbie Williams holding on to the #2 spot). Its margin has decreased a bit to 65%, but this is still very impressive.
Here is the chart run for How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (29-11-2004)
1-1

The first single, Vertigo, also raced to the top of charts. Unfortunately, it ran out of fuel just before reaching it, entering the charts at #2. The next week it did not get to the top position, instead it dropped to #3, where it also stayed the third week. This week, its fourth week on the charts, the single drops to the #10 position, barely holding in the Top 10. I don't expect it to stabilise much, let alone rise again, but the single did its job. IIRC, this is U2's 21st Top Ten hit (out of the 32 singles that charted), so not bad at all. The only 2 U2 singles that ever reached the top position are Beautiful Day and Elevation, so #2 isn't shabby at all.
Here is the chart run for Vertigo (15-11-2004)
2-3-3-10

C ya!

Marty

 

[Soldatti]

I need the confirmation of the position but "All Because Of You" DEBUTED THIS WEEK on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks.
Vertigo debuted on Billboard's Top 40 Tracks too (at #38 or #39).
I wait for the complete update tomorrow.
NOW, I only have sales numbers for this week: 288,444 copies

Pre-release: 3,206 copies
1st week: 839,724 copies
2nd week: 288,446 copies
Sales so far: 1.131,376 copies

 

[anitram]

Soldatti, do you have SoundScan numbers for all of the top 200? If so, could you e-mail me at nanitram@hotmail.com as I'd be interested in seeing them?

 

[Soldatti]

Sadly no, only U2 numbers from a friend and some raw numbers for the rest of the chart, for example this week the #10 album sold 142,000 copies, the #20 album sold 90,000, the #40 sold 50,000, the #100 album sold 19,000 copies, the #140 album sold 12,000 copies...the #200 album sold 10,000 copies...

 

[Vox02]

In Spain:

HTDAAB #5

1-5


Vertigo #4

1-1-1-4


Vox

 

[bsp77]

Does somebody have access to the full charts for Billboard? I know ABOY charted on Modern Rock, somewhere in the 20s based on other sites that are comparable.

It will break the top 20 next week, so by then we will at least know what it was this week.

 

[BigMacPhisto]

I'm predicting "All Because Of You" will hit #1 on the Mainstream Rock charts and the top five of the Modern Rock charts. You heard it here first.

 

[Soldatti]

It's already #27 on the Modern Rock Tracks...

 

[Dima]

HTDAAB still #1 in Italy in it's second week

chart run 1-1

Vertigo still #1 in it's 4th week

chart run 1-1-1-1

note that in Italy the chart is compiled in a strange way: it combines the sales of the music-only stores from Friday to Thursday with sales of the general stores from Monday to Saturday/Sunday...so this week for example reports sales from 26/11/2004 to 02/12/2004 from music-only stores combined with sales from 22/11/2004 to 28/11/2004 from general stores

 

[OpperGoeroe]

HTDAAB is going to drop to the second place here in Holland this week

 

[zoo tv mcg]

Some-one else posted some of this info, but this in Dr Who's Official Week 2 thread (Hey Doc - we should do this every week)

As quoted by Media Traffic which covers the majority (but not all) of the major record sales in the world, sales are

Japan 84k (early release I think) + 1.854m + 862k = 2.8m world-wide sales. The album had a 54% sales drop. Some Asian release was number 1 with sales of 873k. Eminem was a distant 3rd on 611k, so U2 should return to number 1 next week.

That means of the 5.6m copies originally shipped by the record company, 50% have already been sold. WOW... Fire up those production machine boys.

US sales of 1.136m make up about 42% of total worldwide sales,

Vertigo at number 2 - worldwide with a rise from number 3. That song is incredibly strong and is really holding on.

A couple of other thoughts

As stated by Pop Martin, in terms of SHIPMENTS, HTDAAB is 2 platinum sales in Europe (2m). From other reports, it also shipped 2.3m to the US. I feel very confident that in Europe at least, the album will easily surpass ATYCLB official certification of 4m copies. I think it will be at 6m by end of 2005 with a huge stadium tour and 4 singles still to come. I am more confident on this than it surpassing ATYCLB at 4.2m in the states, but I still hold that it will be at 5m by end of Grammy time in 06 in the US.

Be great news if it could hold on to number 1 in the UK again - this would be some feat. Mike or Andy - I think JT spend 3 weeks at number 1 so this would be a great effort

Springers final thought. Growth in world record sales is going to come from two countries - India & China whose econmies are booming, western influence is rising and where 2.2 billion of the world's people live. The band should consider touring there instead of just Japan & Australia (but please still come to OZ as we missed out last time in 2001)

 

[Popmartijn]

I wait for the complete update tomorrow.
NOW, I only have sales numbers for this week: 288,444 copies

Pre-release: 3,206 copies
1st week: 839,724 copies
2nd week: 288,446 copies
Sales so far: 1.131,376 copies

It's a bit of a late reply, but I just noticed I had the Soundscan Top 10 waiting in my mailbox (of my rarely-used Hotmail address).

So here it is:

>TW LW TITLE ARTIST NAME LABEL SALES SALES LW SALES RTD
>1 COLLISION COURSE JAY-Z/LINKIN PARK WAR 368323 370519
>2 1 HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOM U2 INT 288447 839696 1131366
>3 BREAKAWAY KELLY CLARKSON RCA 250432 252372
>4 2 ENCORE EMINEM INT 248129 471208 2301282
>5 STREET'S DISCIPLE NAS COL 231769 234530
>6 3 GREATEST HITS SHANIA TWAIN MERN 195270 383745 1342502
>7 URBAN LEGEND T.I. ATLG 192785 193861
>8 6 NOW 17 VARIOUS CAP 168760 319380 1317244
>9 4 DESTINY FULFILLED DESTINY'S CHILD COL 164475 336884 1059507
>10 5 VOL. 2-GREATEST HITS TOBY KEITH DWNV 141978 331144 1130539

What's strange is that these numbers differ slightly from Soldatti's. I really have no idea how that's possible, since I assume we both got Soundscan numbers. Weird...

C ya!

Marty