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Here's some food for thought - be interested in Dr Who's & Sting2 projections on this. These are sales, not shipment numbers fyi
US Sales- current - 1.4m will be near 2m by new years eve. Now given there are 2 tours (Spring and Fall) and 4 singles to keep sales ticking over. I think worst case the album will sell approx 40k per week (Dr Who - what average chart position would this represent). Multiply 40k x 52 weeks = approx 2m in 2005 which is a very conservative number. Result 4x platinum plus the 06 Grammys etc.. to come. To sell 3m copies in 05 and get to 5x platinum, it will have to sell approx 60k per week (again what average chart position is this - can we use some guidance from ATYCLB). We also have seasonal variations such as Christmas to take into account. I am pretty confident that by the 06 Grammy's the record will be 5x platinum
U.K sales will be 1.5m -2m at the current rate and Europe sales in total will be approx 6m. Add the ROW (say another 3m) and the album will be 13-14m by the end of 05 and clearly ahead of ATYCLB.
US Sales- current - 1.4m will be near 2m by new years eve. Now given there are 2 tours (Spring and Fall) and 4 singles to keep sales ticking over. I think worst case the album will sell approx 40k per week (Dr Who - what average chart position would this represent). Multiply 40k x 52 weeks = approx 2m in 2005 which is a very conservative number. Result 4x platinum plus the 06 Grammys etc.. to come. To sell 3m copies in 05 and get to 5x platinum, it will have to sell approx 60k per week (again what average chart position is this - can we use some guidance from ATYCLB). We also have seasonal variations such as Christmas to take into account. I am pretty confident that by the 06 Grammy's the record will be 5x platinum
U.K sales will be 1.5m -2m at the current rate and Europe sales in total will be approx 6m. Add the ROW (say another 3m) and the album will be 13-14m by the end of 05 and clearly ahead of ATYCLB.