2005 Year End Charts

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ChargedVT said:
Edge3, that's interesting
I saw two different sources quoting 855k and 860k for Bomb for 2004. I would guess just over 350k for 2005 so yeah just over 1.2 million...
I remember Music Week quoting sales for HTDAAB a few times throughout 2005, and I reckon they were posted up in this forum somewhere.
I have these two... wk29 - 7407, wk30 - 19563
Do you have any of these, Edge3?
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19,563 for wk30 is correct & 7,400 was my estimate for wk29 so 7,407 seems spot on.

The 855k figure comes from a source which i now know, for sure, to be not exactly correct : they obviously just rounded the figures up or down incorrectly/correctly. The 860k figure was my estimate mainly based on the fact that i didn't have the exact figure for Xmas week 2004 (wk5) & partly based on this 855k figure.

Now, Musicweek actually published an EOY figure of 850,764 in their EOY album sales round up of 2004, but i couldn't be sure that that was for right up to the last minute of 2004 because of this missing wk5 figure.

So now we have the exact wk5 figure we can be sure that my estimate of 860k was 9,236 too high.
 
With 350K alone in UK, the bomb must be very close to the 4m in Europe! Remember, the last (3m) certificiation was in December 2004, so all 2005 Europe sales counts for the next certification.
 
edge3 said:
US Soundscan EOY - Best Selling album artists :

# 29 U2 with 1.750M (828k for Bomb + 922k for Back Catalogue)

Last year U2 sold 2.914M (2.156M for Bomb + 758k for Back Catalogue)
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a lot of back catalogue sales in the US, when will the RIAA update their bestsellers list? / when was it last updated?
 
edge3 said:
US Soundscan EOY - Best Selling album artists :

# 29 U2 with 1.750M (828k for Bomb + 922k for Back Catalogue)

Last year U2 sold 2.914M (2.156M for Bomb + 758k for Back Catalogue)
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With an extensive tour in the US during 2005 you might have expected the back catalogue to have a greater sales increase than 21-22 % ?

Mike
 
ybird3k said:


a lot of back catalogue sales in the US, when will the RIAA update their bestsellers list? / when was it last updated?
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the website www.ukmig.org has some interesting analysis on sounscan sales etc, including U2s performance- although I recall someone reporting U2 had overall sales of almost 4m last year in the US so the figures might be a bit out

Mike
 
in regards to the UK charts, the forum UKMix has the top 200 albums for the year with sales...
As was already reported HTDAAB is at #53 with 348,200
But Best of 1980-1990 is at #177 with 100,000 sold.
 
Pretty good numbers last year and this year but the album was realeased at just the wrong time so that it can't be among top sellers in 2004 and it can't be among top sellers in 2005. I guess it is done to build buzz before Chrismas though, probably smart for the bottom line.
 
I just saw the year-end chart for Australia. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb was #26 for the year 2005. That same newsgroup posting (in aus.music) also gave the chart runs of the singles:

U2 - ALL BECAUSE OF YOU
Charted: 20/11/2005 - 25/12/2005 (6 weeks)
Peak: #23 (for 1 week)
Positions: 23 32 40 48 42 48
(still charting)

U2 - CITY OF BLINDING LIGHTS
Charted: 26/6/2005 - 3/7/2005 (2 weeks)
Peak: #31 (for 1 week)
Positions: 31 47

U2 - SOMETIMES YOU CAN'T MAKE IT ON YOUR OWN
Charted: 27/2/2005 - 10/4/2005 (7 weeks)
Peak: #19 (for 1 week)
Positions: 19 21 31 36 42 43 46

U2 - VERTIGO
Charted: 21/11/2004 - 23/1/2005 (10 weeks)
Peak: #5 (for 1 week)
Positions: 5 16 17 21 21 25 26 29 32 36

:)
 
Maybe a little late, but I just saw these two posts:

ChargedVT said:
End of year results for Austria...

HTDAAB #15 album (wild estimate 30k)
Live in Chicago #4 DVD
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However, Zoovation reported:

Zoovation said:
Year End Charts Austria: HTDAAB #36
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So which one is the correct chart result?
 
I am still waiting to see end of year charts for these countries...

Canada, Denmark, Italy, NZ, Ireland, Sweden but none of the sites are updated yet....
Last year Bomb was #1 for the year in Ireland and #2 in Sweden
 
good to see aboy so high in Australia....Charged do u think that this resoult (i didn't think aboy stayed for a lot of weeks in top 50...) is connected with the announce of the tour in australia?
 
Tallarico, I think that the tour announcement and sales would have affected the ABOY position. They also made HTDAAB come back to #68. that, and the fact that ABOY is a pretty radio friendly tune and is getting a good response here.
Just wait til the tour hits here, i am expecting at least 3 albums back in the top 50.
 
This weeks Musicweek has all the official UK EOY charts & it makes for some interesting reading :

On the best selling artist albums list we already know Bomb ended up # 54 with 348,200 & Best Of 80-90 # 177 with 100,000 - but in the Top 100 best selling singles 'Sometimes...' actually comes in at # 76 (not # 81) &, again, this is without all downloads up to April 23rd 2005. Also :

Top 50 best selling single artists (figures are rounded down to the nearest thousand) :

# 34. U2 with 190,000 (67k for Sometimes + 52k for City + 30k for ABOY + 25k for physical sales only of Vertigo ? + 10k for other ? + 6k for ABOY on import ?)

Last year U2 didn't quite make the list but only because downloads weren't included. If downloads were included then U2 would have been about # 40 with about 150k (101k physical sales for Vertigo + 40k downloads for Vertigo + 10k for other ?)


Top 50 best selling album artists (figures are, again, rounded down to the nearest thousand) :

# 29. U2 with 720,000 (348,200 for Bomb + 100,000 for Best Of 1980-90 + 272,000 for rest of Back Catalogue)

Last year U2 were 10th on the albums list with 1,090,000 (850K for Bomb + 70k for Best Of 1980-90 + 170k for rest of back Catalogue).


Top 40 Best selling catalogue albums :

# 16. U2 Best Of 1980-1990 with 100k (last year it was # 33 with 70k)


Top 40 best selling music DVD's :

# 7. U2 Vertigo 2005 - Live From Chicago (last year the # 7 music DVD sold 78,430 & this year overall DVD sales rose by 6.6% so, i expect it sold 75-85k. That Westlife DVD ended up at # 3 with just over 90k :mad: )

# 18. U2 R&H (the top 16 music DVD's each sold over 50k so R&H would have most probably sold close to 50k)


2005 Top 75 airplay chart :

# 32 U2 with Sometimes
# 56 U2 with City
 
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edge3 said:
This weeks Musicweek has all the official UK EOY charts & it makes for some interesting reading :

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Top 50 best selling album artists (figures are, again, rounded down to the nearest thousand) :

# 29. U2 with 720,000 (348,200 for Bomb + 100,000 for Best Of 1980-90 + 272,000 for rest of Back Catalogue)


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So it looks as if the UK accounted for more than 12% of all U2s back catalogue sales last year - impressive.

Mike
 
... & 3M seems to be about right when you consider the back catalogue sold 1.292M in UK & US - which is roughly 45% of U2's total album sales market.

Also, interesting that U2 ended up 29th on both the UK & US overall EOY artist album selling list, yet their back catalogue only increased by 18% in US compared with 35% in UK... i guess this, again, just shows how much smaller, on a per capita basis, album sales are in US compared with UK.
 
edge3 said:
... & 3M seems to be about right when you consider the back catalogue sold 1.292M in UK & US - which is roughly 45% of U2's total album sales market.

Also, interesting that U2 ended up 29th on both the UK & US overall EOY artist album selling list, yet their back catalogue only increased by 18% in US compared with 35% in UK... i guess this, again, just shows how much smaller, on a per capita basis, album sales are in US compared with UK.
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Actually my figures are wrong there - so what i meant to say was :

... & 3M seems to be about right when you consider the back catalogue sold 1.3M in UK & US - which is roughly 40% of U2's total album sales market.

Also, interesting that U2 ended up 29th on both the UK & US overall EOY artist album selling list, yet their back catalogue only increased by 21-22% in US compared with 55% in UK... i guess this, again, just shows how much smaller, on a per capita basis, album sales are in US compared with UK.
 
More correct UK EOY single sales info :

overall position - title - artist - sales

76 - SOMETIMES YOU CAN'T MAKE IT ON YOUR OWN - U2 - 70,700
113 - CITY OF BLINDING LIGHTS - U2 - 52,700
205 - ALL BECAUSE OF YOU - U2 - 30,700

So these 3 sold a total of 154,100 out of an overall single sales total of 190,000 - which excludes all downloads up to April 23rd. And i'm still certain that Vertigo only didn't make the top 250 because of this stupid downloads rule. So, as it is, Vertigo has to make do with sales of less than 24,100 - i think it must have done 20k though. So 20k for Vertigo would make another 16k or so from the rest of their back catalogue.
 
Bit surprised Bomb hasn't made Ireland EOY albums top 20... guess it must have made top 25/30 though.
 
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Sweden End Of Year Charts...

HTDAAB: #50 (last year #2)

Its platinum (60k) but i believe sales are actually around 100k

No singles in top 100 for year.

For the DVD end of year chart....

#2 Live From Chicago
#13 Go Home
 
To add to this list:

2005 music DVDs, Netherlands:

1. Vertigo Tour, u2
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.
.
10. Go Home, Slane, u2

That's amazing. Only 5 weeks this DVD has been available...
Does anybody knows the amount of DVDs they sold in Netherlands?
 
ChargedVT said:



As a matter of fact, I do... I just found this page as I was writing a reply.... (estimated 158,000)
http://fanofmusic.free.fr/Site-Charts-Top200album2005France.htm

Another page on this site says the album has thus far sold 429,200 copies
http://fanofmusic.free.fr/Site-Charts-ParcoursAlbum-U.htm
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Great !

That's French Chart Expert MJDangerous' site again & i see he's also just posted here to say Bomb has in fact now sold around 450k in France, which makes sense seeing that it also sold 290k in 2004 (18th on EOY chart).....

So 290k (in 2004) + 158k (in 2005) = 448,000

... we've now had the first 4wks of 2006 so i guess it might well now have just crossed the 450k mark (depending on the exact to & from dates of these EOY charts).
 
edge3 said:


Great !

That's French Chart Expert MJDangerous' site again & i see he's also just posted here to say Bomb has in fact now sold around 450k in France, which makes sense seeing that it also sold 290k in 2004 (18th on EOY chart).....

So 290k (in 2004) + 158k (in 2005) = 448,000

... we've now had the first 4wks of 2006 so i guess it might well now have just crossed the 450k mark (depending on the exact to & from dates of these EOY charts).
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Yes, 429k was the old figure the page was not uploaded. I have now do it. HTDAAB is just out the top 200 at the moment so they are selling 400 copies a week, a total of 449,000 by now (3 weeks in 2006 at the moment).

It's funny to compare chart performances in france of ATYCLB and HTDAAB :

ATYCLB :
In 2000 : #19 of the year
2001 : #48

HTDAAB :
In 2004 : #18
2005 : #48

At least we can say that the success of both are very similar ! lol
 
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