Week 11

[rollingbob]

Album sales in the UK right now are incredibly low. Last week they were the 2nd lowest for 8 years & overall they're about 25% down on the record high years of 2004/05 (though only about 6% down on 2008).

 

[rollingbob]

200,863 127,982 178,539 163,641 183,975 approx. 35,000


first 3 weeks were #1

It went :

1-1-1-3-4-14
200,863 + 127,982 + 178,539 + 163,641 + 150,944 + 28,795 (14th best selling artist album of 2004 with 850,764 copies sold)

& assuming the run it's had so far & same 1st week total, if No Line was released at the same time as Bomb in 2008 it too would've been the 14th best seller with about 527k sold, as follows :

1-1-6-9-17-24
158k + 114k (#2 album) + ~85k + 103k + ~53k + 13.5k

& i'd say the worldwide figure would almost certainly have been ~4.5m against the 5.6m of Bomb.

 

[Irishteen]

Magnificent dropped from 11 to 28 on airplay in the UK this week looks like it's pretty much finished as a single and Magnificent is out of the singles chart completely


U2 18 is at 51 this week

 

[rollingbob]

Staring at the Sun, the 2nd single off Pop, on top 50 airplay went : 38-20-18-12-8-8-11-20-29-36

& it lifted Pop back into the top 10 for one last week, at #7, & kept it in the top 20, at #18, at this point.

However due to an even lower market in '97 Pop actually took 22 wks to get to the 300k mark against the, what will be, 13 wks for No Line - good but the question is can No Line beat the 370k Pop ended up with that year?

 

[rollingbob]

I meant to say 12 weeks to the 300k mark (it should get there this week as it's on about 297k now).

 

[andyuk]

I know there is alot of negativaty about regarding the sales figures here for NLOTH but can anyone please post the top 5 selling albums for 2009 for the UK and the World as i would be interested.

 

[Irishteen]

Album sold between 4,228 and 9,535 this week in the UK
Green Day managed to sell 80,000



Best Selling Albums in 2009 in the UK

1 Kings of Leon Only By The Night
2 Lady Gaga The Fame
3 Lily Allen It's Not Me It's You
4 The Prodigy Invaders Must Die
5 Beyonce I Am Sasha Fierce
6 Take That The Circus
7 U2 No Line On The Horizon


Worldwide sales are posted in the week 10 thread but haven't been updated yet with this weeks sales

 

[Irishteen]

One with Mary J Blige is now outselling Magnificent in the UK

 

[KUEFC09U2]

But really thats not even funny,

plus lets not forget that version of one was lapped up by the teeny brigade, and was an actual hit,

 

[Irishteen]

But really thats not even funny,

plus lets not forget that version of one was lapped up by the teeny brigade, and was an actual hit,

Magnificent came out two weeks ago, the fact that One with Mary J Blige is now charting higher on itunes than Magnificent ever did, just shows how bad the promotion was

 

[andyuk]

what number is one with mary j then?

Also the reason why it has gone high this week was because it was played at the end of Britains got Talent on Saturday night

 

[Irishteen]

what number is one with mary j then?

Also the reason why it has gone high this week was because it was played at the end of Britains got Talent on Saturday night

It's fallen to 127 now, and that just shows how effective even a little promotion is. One play on Britain's Got Talent could get the song that high, imagine if U2 did something with Magnificent

 

[macawaca]

HITS now updating and No Line is number 45 with 4,414 units sold with 55% now in.

 

[macawaca]

Just for reference Green Day at number 1 with 91,797 units with 56% in.

 

[Maoilbheannacht]

Just for reference Green Day at number 1 with 91,797 units with 56% in.

Low opening sales for an album that is supposed to be either the #1 or #2 seller of 2009.

No Line On The Horizon did 484,000 in its first week. The new Green Day album will probably do about 220,000, although it was not released until Friday. Still, even with the 2nd week, a full 7 days of sales, will likely only add another 200,000 at best for a 10 day total of 420,000. Still behind U2's 6 day total for NLOTH of 484,000 in the USA.

 

[cjboog]

Low opening sales for an album that is supposed to be either the #1 or #2 seller of 2009.

No Line On The Horizon did 484,000 in its first week. The new Green Day album will probably do about 220,000, although it was not released until Friday. Still, even with the 2nd week, a full 7 days of sales, will likely only add another 200,000 at best for a 10 day total of 420,000. Still behind U2's 6 day total for NLOTH of 484,000 in the USA.

Well that's what happens when your leadoff single is not such a smash success. Know Your Enemy is currently charting at #41 on Billboard, lower than Boots. It is #14 in iTunes downloads right now but it appears it's not going to have nearly the power that some of the singles off American Idiot had a couple years ago.

 

[rollingbob]

#26 in today's mids with 7 new entries above it (6 in the top 17), & Eminem sold a below par for him 63.9k 1st day, so just below No Line's 64,698.

 

[rollingbob]

Also up 3 to #7 in Italy this week. I believe the initial ship here was 2xP/140k with sales now just over 100k - big in this market at this time of the year. Run so far is :
1-1-1-2-3-4-5-7-11-10-7

In comparison Bomb's sales here at this point were reportedly around the 350k mark with a run of :
1-1-4-5-5-5-3-3-4-8-6

 

[macawaca]

HITS Final now in: No Line at number 45 with 10,131 units sold, down 34% on last week.

 

[macawaca]

Green Day is number 1 on Hits with 221,345 units sold.

 

[Irishteen]

HITS Final now in: No Line at number 45 with 10,131 units sold, down 34% on last week.

Terrible drop

Green Day only managed 220,000 though

 

[phommel]

Netherlands:

from 13 --> 15

Magnificient from 18 --> 6

 

[Native_Son]

why are we all blaming the promotion for magnifcents lack of success. i know people on this forum will be biased, but havent we stopped and thought - maybe the song wasnt good enough.

 

[Irishteen]

why are we all blaming the promotion for magnifcents lack of success. i know people on this forum will be biased, but havent we stopped and thought - maybe the song wasnt good enough.

Yeah a lot of people hated the song, and in the end that's why it didn't do amazing, most people didn't like it. People would rather listen to Black Eyed Peas new songs...*waits for a rant about how we have better music taste, blah blah blah blah blah*

 

[dopper]

Terrible drop

Green Day only managed 220,000 though

Green Day's album came out on Friday in the U.S. so 220,000 for three days isn't bad. You could argue that they would have sold 300k+ had the album come out on Tuesday.

 

[Irishteen]

Green Day's album came out on Friday in the U.S. so 220,000 for three days isn't bad. You could argue that they would have sold 300k+ had the album come out on Tuesday.

222,000 for three days isn't that great though for a band as big as Green Day though

 

[GibsonExplorer]

why are we all blaming the promotion for magnifcents lack of success. i know people on this forum will be biased, but havent we stopped and thought - maybe the song wasnt good enough.

i was going to say the exact same thing, but held my tongue, for once.

 

[believer75]

i was going to say the exact same thing, but held my tongue, for once.

I think the song is good enough, it's just not what people want to hear especially when they can listen to recycled pop tunes

 

[Maoilbheannacht]

Well that's what happens when your leadoff single is not such a smash success. Know Your Enemy is currently charting at #41 on Billboard, lower than Boots. It is #14 in iTunes downloads right now but it appears it's not going to have nearly the power that some of the singles off American Idiot had a couple years ago.

Your talking about the standard HOT 100 which combines both airplay and single sales. To really know how much a song has been played on the radio, you need to consult the HOT 100 AIRPLAY only chart. On that chart, "Know Your Enemy" in its 4th week is at #49. By contrast, "Get On Your Boots" never charted on the HOT 100 AIRPLAY only chart.

So, "Know Your Enemy" is doing much better than any of U2's singles from NLOTH, none of which have even charted for one week on the HOT 100 AIRPLAY only chart.

Get On Your Boots did chart on the HOT 100 standard chart at #38 for 1 week, fell to #97 its 2nd week, and then fell off the chart by the 3rd week. The only reason Get On Your Boots even made it on to the HOT 100 standard chart was because of single sales, not airplay.


But regardless of how well first singles do, the first week sales of any album especially for veteran artist is also a result of several other factors. So far, it appears No Line On The Horizon is easily beating what was speculated to be one of its toughest competiters this year.

 

[Maoilbheannacht]

Green Day's album came out on Friday in the U.S. so 220,000 for three days isn't bad. You could argue that they would have sold 300k+ had the album come out on Tuesday.

Even if you combine next weeks sales with the 3 days for the first week, NLOTH first 6 days will still beat out Green Day's first 10 days for its new album, most likely.

Green Day's new album is supposed to outsell NLOTH this year especially in the United States. Its not off to a great start considering the expectations.

Plus, lets not forget that some people consider 484,000 for NLOTH in the first week to be a sales failure. That logic would make Green Day's first week sales, seem like a sales disaster.