Week 50

POP-ROMANCER · Nov 5, 2005

The Netherlands:

How to dismantle an atomic bomb #82 (#72)

Hopefully it will come back to top 50/60 with the release of Vertigo tour DVD. All that you can't leave behind stayed for 76 weeks in the album top 100 but bomb's singles did better here.

edge3 · Nov 6, 2005

ABOY still top 20 in Ireland :

ABOY # 18 (# 14)

edge3 · Nov 6, 2005

ABOY in UK :

Sales # 74 (# 49)
Airplay # 28 (# 22)

Tallarico · Nov 6, 2005

i want HTDAAB in top 200 again in uk and a re- enter in top 200 in Us...please!!!! :sad:

ps.IMO bomb can re enter in top 200 usa only if u2 had some nominations for Grammy awards....

Soldatti · Nov 6, 2005

Early UK numbers this week:

49 - 74 - ALL BECAUSE OF YOU - U2 - ISLAND - CIDX906 - 4
186 - 175 - VERTIGO - U2 - ISLAND - CIDX878 - 43

187 - 178 - THE BEST OF 1980-1990 - U2 - ISLAND - CIDU211 - 301

Sadly, no Bomb in the Top 200.

ybird3k · Nov 7, 2005

how come best of 80-90 is doing so well?, and bomb quite bad

edge3 · Nov 7, 2005

Shame Bomb's dropped back out of the top 200...i really thought it might be back on a roll - maybe next week ?

Anyway it's probably just outside, so still sold another 1,000 copies.

Why does Best Of 80-90 do so well ? 'Cos its a classic compilation :wink:

monai2 · Nov 8, 2005

in the first week aboy dvd is n.4 on the italian top 10 of music dvd charts

VALE69 · Nov 9, 2005

France: HTDAAB 166 (150)

monai2 · Nov 9, 2005

italy:aboy down to n.5(2)...for the album please wait this afternoon

edge3 · Nov 9, 2005

VALE69 said:
France: HTDAAB 166 (150)

So total sales in France should now be 412,000

VALE69 · Nov 9, 2005

Italy: HTDAAB 89 (92).

Chart Run:
1-1-4-5-5-6-3-3-4-8-
6-10-9-8-8-9-15-14-21-17-
16-17-17-26-33-33-44-42-41-39-
41-33-29-17-10-10-18-22-14-22-
21-37-41-47-61-97-63-92-89-

Single chart:
ABOY 2 (5)
COBL 45 (45)

monai2 · Nov 9, 2005

greece: bomb 23(20)
italy aboyn 9 in the music dvd top20

Zoovation · Nov 9, 2005

All Because Of You will enter the German Single Charts at #37.

ybird3k · Nov 9, 2005

#37 thats poor.

how many copies has bomb sold in germany to date?

Zoovation · Nov 9, 2005

ybird3k said:
#37 thats poor.

how many copies has bomb sold in germany to date?

I think that #37 is ok, we are talking about Germany where U2 singles never do very well. Vertigo was only #9 in its first week.

edge3 · Nov 9, 2005

Yeah, i think # 37 is OK for Germany but why is it released so late there ? Just means it probably now won't make it on mediatraffic world top 40.

Also, what about France ? I haven't seen it on the French top 100 yet...has it even been released there ?

ybird3k · Nov 9, 2005

i dont see why they cant have a global release date for singles, instead of releasing in a diffrent country each week

edge3 · Nov 9, 2005

Well, i think they could at least have the same release date for whole of Europe...not sure about US though (different market & all that).

Btw - regarding German sales of Bomb : i reckon 380-450K (probably 400K)

ybird3k · Nov 9, 2005

so 400k from both france and germany, doesnt seem too great when UK sales are nearly 1.2M, and france has same population as UK and Germany has lot more. i guess its their music markets arent as strong.

i was surprised robbie williams sold so many in his first week in germany

KUEFC09U2 · Nov 9, 2005

ybird3k said:
how come best of 80-90 is doing so well?, and bomb quite bad

how can you say bomb is doing bad when its already outsold ATYCLB

ybird3k · Nov 9, 2005

KUEFC09U2 said:
how can you say bomb is doing bad when its already outsold ATYCLB

i'm not saying it hasnt done well, just that out of the 200 already and ATYCLB was there for a LOT longer.

and with the bomb singles doing better (apart from maybe the longterm appeal of beautiful day) and also the vertigo tour being much bigger than elevation, i just thought that HTDAAB would have sold quite a lot more than ATYCLB.

Zoovation · Nov 9, 2005

28th October was the realease date in Germany.

edge3 · Nov 10, 2005

ybird3k said:
so 400k from both france and germany, doesnt seem too great when UK sales are nearly 1.2M, and france has same population as UK and Germany has lot more. i guess its their music markets arent as strong.

i was surprised robbie williams sold so many in his first week in germany

Yeah, the UK currently has the highest per capita rate of CD album sales IN THE WORLD....roughly 3x bigger than France & Germanys. So 412K in France is equal if not slightly better than the UK total (of 1,193,000)...this is reflected in it's slightly better chart run there.

The German chart run hasn't been quite as good as either UK or France but, remember, it sold 130K in it's 1st week there (90K 1st week in France) & there are around 22M more people in Germany. It was also certified 3xGold (= to 300K or, i think, 1xPlat) in Germany months ago (back in Dec/Jan, i think).

To be honest though, i'm not exactly sure about the German figure : maybe it's now 450-500K ?...

edge3 · Nov 10, 2005

edge3 said:
Yeah, the UK currently has the highest per capita rate of CD album sales IN THE WORLD....roughly 3x bigger than France & Germanys. So 412K in France is equal if not slightly better than the UK total (of 1,193,000)...this is reflected in it's slightly better chart run there.

...on 2nd thoughts, this is bugging me so i'll try & be a bit more precise : i'd say on a per capita basis the UK CD album market is 3x bigger than France's & 2x bigger than Germany's. So i should have said : '...roughly 2-3x bigger than France & Germanys'

Btw - France's population & per capita album sales rate is v.similar to Italy's. So the 550K or so that Bomb has now sold in Italy is roughly equal to 1,650,000 (or 5xPlat+) now sold in the UK

fitz · Nov 10, 2005

The Bomb is still certified with 3xGold in Germany (=300k). This certification was in January 2005. I've hoped that the Bomb got the double platinum status (= 400k) with their tour in Germany, but this was not the case

edge3 · Nov 10, 2005

fitz said:
The Bomb is still certified with 3xGold in Germany (=300k). This certification was in January 2005. I've hoped that the Bomb got the double platinum status (= 400k) with their tour in Germany, but this was not the case

Thanks Fitz...so you think about 380K ?

...i must say though, i'm a bit surprised if it is 'only' 380K...maybe the record company just haven't bothered to get it re-certified ? This still happens in the UK, even with new albums : the best recent example being Green Day's 'American Idiot' which is still 3xPlat but should be at least 4xPlat (it's sold close to 1.5M)

fitz · Nov 10, 2005

It should be very close to 400K, maybe you're right and the record company "forgot" it to re-certify.

POP-ROMANCER · Nov 10, 2005

Netherlands:

Top40:

All because of you #20 (#15)

STING2 · Nov 10, 2005

edge3 said:
Yeah, the UK currently has the highest per capita rate of CD album sales IN THE WORLD....roughly 3x bigger than France & Germanys. So 412K in France is equal if not slightly better than the UK total (of 1,193,000)...this is reflected in it's slightly better chart run there.

The German chart run hasn't been quite as good as either UK or France but, remember, it sold 130K in it's 1st week there (90K 1st week in France) & there are around 22M more people in Germany. It was also certified 3xGold (= to 300K or, i think, 1xPlat) in Germany months ago (back in Dec/Jan, i think).

To be honest though, i'm not exactly sure about the German figure : maybe it's now 450-500K ?...

Actually I think Ireland might be the highest per capita rate of album sales for the BOMB since it is 9 times platinum there.

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