U218- week 9

[ybird3k]

if im right her previous albums have fallen fast on mediatraffic. i cant see her being #1 next week.

 

[Yahweh]

It would have been #1 if it wasnt for that Japan artist on there who I never heard of lol

 

[beLIEve]

Perhaps the mediatraffic chart has a slightly different time frame for measurement of sales than the sight from Geocities, but U218 is #1 in the world for last week...see the chart description and Top 5 positions below. While checking out some of the other links on that sight, I did come across the Top Selling Artists of all Time in the U.S. through 2001, and there was U2 listed with 45 million albums sold per RIAA. That at least is in line with several other "official" totals I've seen before, so it does lend some credibility to the weekly world sales chart IMO.

With U2 historically getting about 1/3 of their total album sales from the U.S., this is also in line with the roughly 150 million albums sold worldwide that was quoted frequently after ATYCLB reached 12 million. Add in the B/O 1990-2000 sales estimates, HTDAAB at some 9M+, and U218 seemingly headed towards maybe 4M, and the more recent figures thrown around putting U2 at about 170M albums sold worldwide may just be about right. Anwyay, back to the chart...


World Top 50 Albums: chart is based on albums sales of the world. * Records with the greatest sales gain this week have numbers on gold backgrounds for current position. 15.01.2007 - 21.01.2007

THIS WEEK LAST WEEK WEEKS ON CHART ALBUM ARTIST [SALES OF THE WEEK] PEAK POSITION

1 2 9 U218 Singles U2 [129 300] [plat 2] 1

2 4 28 Loose Nelly Furtado [124 000] [plat 3] 1

3 1 9 Love Beatles [117 200] [plat 3] 1

4 3 19 FuturesexLovesounds J Timberlake [114 200] [plat 4] 1

5 new <<HOT SHOT DEBUT>> Made In Twenty Boa [108 200] 5

 

[BigMacPhisto]

Nelly Furtado is going to prove tough competition, that album has had like a billion singles around the globe, most of them ascending to the top of one singles chart or another.......same for Justin Timberlake........those are two red hot albums with immaculate Timbaland production....."Say It Right"..."All Good Things"..."My Love"........the hits just keep on coming. Then again, it's admirable that an album of old U2 tracks, a new cover, and a rather lackluster new track has managed to do this well against some of the greatest pop records of the last decade.

 

[edge3]

Perhaps the mediatraffic chart has a slightly different time frame for measurement of sales than the sight from Geocities, but U218 is #1 in the world for last week...see the chart description and Top 5 positions below.

World Top 50 Albums: chart is based on albums sales of the world. * Records with the greatest sales gain this week have numbers on gold backgrounds for current position. 15.01.2007 - 21.01.2007

THIS WEEK LAST WEEK WEEKS ON CHART ALBUM ARTIST [SALES OF THE WEEK] PEAK POSITION

1 2 9 U218 Singles U2 [129 300] [plat 2] 1

2 4 28 Loose Nelly Furtado [124 000] [plat 3] 1

3 1 9 Love Beatles [117 200] [plat 3] 1

4 3 19 FuturesexLovesounds J Timberlake [114 200] [plat 4] 1

5 new <<HOT SHOT DEBUT>> Made In Twenty Boa [108 200] 5

Yes must be a slightly different time frame to MediaTraffics - only way to explain the 74k difference for Boa...or one of them has the wrong figure!

 

[Vox02]

#13 in Spain with 80,000 copies sold (PLATINUM).
2-5-9-11-10-8-11-8-13

Saints #7 after 12 weeks (5 weeks at #1).
1-1-1-1-1-3-3-4-5-4-
4-7

WITS #5 (#19)
19-5

U218 VIDEOS, #? (#19), out of top 20 after 9 weeks.
2-6-11-13-10-14-11-19-?

And, Live From Chicago
#11 (#8), after 41 weeks on chart (TRIPLE PLATINUM) (75,000 units)

Go Home
#19 (#16) after 79 weeks (PLATINUM) (10,000 units)

Vox

 

[U2Man]

WHAT?!?!?!?!

is nelly furtado still selling so many copies each week of loose?

that chick is hot

 

[bathiu]

Poland:

week 0 -> # 21
week 1 -> # 4
week 2 -> # 6
week 3 -> # 6 - PLATINUM (20,000)
week 4 -> # 6
week 5 -> # 7
week 6 -> # 4
week 7 -> # 3
week 8 -> # 4
week 9 - > # 6


...and if someone's interested:

NELLY FURTADO - LOOSE -> #2
MADONNA - THE CONFESSIONS TOUR -> new at #13
ABBA - NUMBER ONES -> new at # 22
DAVID GILMOUR - ON AN ISLAND -> # 43
THE BEATLES - LOVE -> # 47 hahaha
GEORGE MICHAEL - TWENTY FIVE -> # 50

(never saw this Oasis best of album in the Top 50)

 

[vaz02]

hhahaha poor old oasis