Bomb v Stadium arcadium

[STING2]

Originally posted by MJDangerous

Really ?! In France it is sold at nearly 19€, while a lot of "new" single albums are sold at only 12€.

We have to know as well that in those 1.1 million are counted sales of the collector edition of the album which is selling pretty well, and which cost 60€.

19 Euro is only 50% more than 12 Euro. Essentially, your buying one of the albums at the regular price and getting the second album at half the price. For it not to be a deal, it would have to cost 24 Euro. U2 had a special edition for the BOMB which sold really well as well.

[MJDangerous]

Originally posted by STING2


19 Euro is only 50% more than 12 Euro. Essentially, your buying one of the albums at the regular price and getting the second album at half the price. For it not to be a deal, it would have to cost 24 Euro. U2 had a special edition for the BOMB which sold really well as well.

Double albums cost hardly 2 times more than a single album, a difference of 50% is usual.

BTW, Stadium Arcadium has entered #1 in Australia and is already 2xPlatinum.

[MJDangerous]

You can now follow chart/sales performances of SA in my site HERE.

Already 16k sold in Finland !

[edge3]

Originally posted by MJDangerous


BTW, Stadium Arcadium has entered #1 in Australia and is already 2xPlatinum.

& you're sure that's not 'cos it's counted as 2 units like USA/Canada ? Will be interesting to know exactly what it did sell. At 2xP already i would have thought about 70k if counted as 1 unit, which would be amazing ! Bomb did 48k 1st week in Australia (X&Y 40k) & was 3xP in it's 4th week (it was never certified 1/2xPlat).

[MJDangerous]

Originally posted by edge3


& you're sure that's not 'cos it's counted as 2 units like USA/Canada ? Will be interesting to know exactly what it did sell. At 2xP already i would have thought about 70k if counted as 1 unit, which would be amazing ! Bomb did 48k 1st week in Australia (X&Y 40k) & was 3xP in it's 4th week (it was never certified 1/2xPlat).

In Australia double albums are certified as a single album, not like USA/Canada.
This mean that the album sold surely 50-70k in it's first week which is amazing.

[STING2]

Originally posted by MJDangerous

Double albums cost hardly 2 times more than a single album, a difference of 50% is usual.

BTW, Stadium Arcadium has entered #1 in Australia and is already 2xPlatinum.

That only goes to show that their slightly extra cost does little to slow sales and is actually a sales bonus as your paying less per song than you would for a single album.

[MJDangerous]

Originally posted by STING2


That only goes to show that their slightly extra cost does little to slow sales and is actually a sales bonus as your paying less per song than you would for a single album.

I'm not contradicting this : I have precise that it is a double album not to explain that it is harder to sold well with a double album which is not true but to point out the fact the in the business issue it's a very good result for them and their major.

If 7 singles are released this will not be so strange, because the promotion of a double album is very interesting for the major. It's not for nothing if the most expensive promotion campaign is a promotion of a double album : They promote 1 album and they sold 1.5/2 albums (depend with the price).

[blueyedpoet]

Chili Peppers still have number one album this week selling well over 100,000 copies...good job lads

[zepher25]

Stadium Arcadium is number one in australia with double platnum (140K) whilst unfortunatly HTDAAB has fallen off the top 50, however it went far beyond double platnum. also in australia HTDAAB was not as successful as ATYCLB

[Zoovation]

Originally posted by zepher25
Stadium Arcadium is number one in australia with double platnum (140K) whilst unfortunatly HTDAAB has fallen off the top 50, however it went far beyond double platnum. also in australia HTDAAB was not as successful as ATYCLB

U2 will come back to Australia this year...

[JCOSTER]

I really like this album, I like all the songs on the first cd with the exception of track 3. I dont know why I just don't like it.

[zepher25]

Originally posted by Zoovation


U2 will come back to Australia this year...

yeah when the tour was about to come and before and just after the postponment, Bomb, 1990-2000, 1980-1990, DVD's and tons of other U2 stuf reentered the charts

[edge3]

Stadium Arcadium sold 52,800 1st week in Australia (the highest of the year so far) so did just beat the 48,000 that Bomb did in it's 1st week.

[blueyedpoet]

how'd it do this week?

[edge3]

Originally posted by blueyedpoet
how'd it do this week?

down to # 2 with 402k at MediaTraffic.

Bomb vrs Stadium Arcadium first 3 wks at MediaTraffic + 1st week Japan sales :

Bomb :
wk 1 (Japan only) : 84k
wk 2 : 1.854m
wk 3 : 862k
wk 4 : 840k
Total = 3,640,000

Stadium Arcadium :
wk 1 (Japan only) : 139k
wk 2 : 1.108m
wk 3 : 539k
wk 4 : 402k
Total = 2,188,000

[blueyedpoet]

Originally posted by edge3


down to # 2 with 402k at MediaTraffic.

Bomb vrs Stadium Arcadium first 3 wks at MediaTraffic + 1st week Japan sales :

Bomb :
wk 1 (Japan only) : 84k
wk 2 : 1.854m
wk 3 : 862k
wk 4 : 840k
Total = 3,640,000

Stadium Arcadium :
wk 1 (Japan only) : 139k
wk 2 : 1.108m
wk 3 : 539k
wk 4 : 402k
Total = 2,188,000

Since SA is a little more expensive than Bomb, could 2.2 million albums sold be more profitable than Bomb's 3.6?

[mikeuk]

Originally posted by blueyedpoet


Since SA is a little more expensive than Bomb, could 2.2 million albums sold be more profitable than Bomb's 3.6?

In the UK I paid £8 for SA (on-line ordering) wheras i paid around £14 for Bomb (most expensive version with booklet)

Mike

[edge3]

Originally posted by mikeuk


In the UK I paid £8 for SA (on-line ordering) wheras i paid around £14 for Bomb (most expensive version with booklet)

Mike

The most expensive limited edition version of SA is, i think, about £50 but, at that price, i assume there must either be much more in it &/or it's much more limited. Other than the limited edition versions i'd say right now in the UK, the average price for SA is about £13, whilst the average price for a single chart CD is about £10. Worldwide i guess the average price difference is also = to about £3. So :

3.640m copies of Bomb sold at an average of £10 = £36.4

2.188m copies of SA sold at an average of £13 = £28.4m

So that's still more profit for the Bomb though the gap is reduced. But then surely there's also the extra packaging etc, & therefore cost, involved in producing a 2 hour long double CD.

[vaz02]

disk or no 2 disk. If they were tight fisted they would of downloaded , simple.
If someone really wants to buy a album they wont be put of buy the price at all so its irrelevant I think , 2 disk or no 2 disk.
good job chilli's !

[mikeuk]

I would dispute an average of £13 for SA- most CDs in the Uk are now sold at supermarkets or on-line , and thr prices there are lower than £13 e.g. me paying £8 on-line.

Mike

Originally posted by edge3


The most expensive limited edition version of SA is, i think, about £50 but, at that price, i assume there must either be much more in it &/or it's much more limited. Other than the limited edition versions i'd say right now in the UK, the average price for SA is about £13, whilst the average price for a single chart CD is about £10. Worldwide i guess the average price difference is also = to about £3. So :

3.640m copies of Bomb sold at an average of £10 = £36.4

2.188m copies of SA sold at an average of £13 = £28.4m

So that's still more profit for the Bomb though the gap is reduced. But then surely there's also the extra packaging etc, & therefore cost, involved in producing a 2 hour long double CD.