Week 35

[edge3]

Originally posted by STING2

Remember shippments from RIAA and IFPI tell the real story. American Idiot still has not yet reached the 3 million mark in Europe although I'm sure its almost there. Because of that fact, there is no way the album could be at the 12 million mark at the moment. I don't think anyone should pay attention to Hit List.

Except American Idiot is certified 3xP in US but it's actually sold 3.8M. Plus :

450K in Japan
over 300K in australia & New Zealand
over 500K in Canada
& huge in ROW

& it's also spent 43 wks out of 43 high on the Hit List chart (Bomb has only spent 29 out of 35)...but still 12M does seem too much...i mean can American Idiot really have sold 5.4M in ROW? :

3.8M in US
2.8M in Europe
? 5.4M in ROW ?
? Total = 12M ?

[fedeu2]

No way it has sold 5,4 M in ROW.
Green day is NOT a very popular band outside the US.
Besides, if we all agree here that ROW sales account for one third of worldwide sales, 5,4 M is way too high an estimate.
My guess is American Idiot has sold some 10 M copies worldwide. Not far ahead of Bomb which is at 9 M.
Now, the question remains, will Bomb be able to shift 10 M by year´s end? If I´m not mistaken that was the figure for ATYCLB.

Either a hit single (a la Vertigo) or an unusual response to Vertigo´s third leg (in regard album sales) are needed.
I can definitely see bomb selling an additional 0,5 M in the next 22 weeks but 1 M? I dunno.

Originally posted by edge3


Except American Idiot is certified 3xP in US but it's actually sold 3.8M. Plus :

450K in Japan
over 300K in australia & New Zealand
over 500K in Canada
& huge in ROW

& it's also spent 43 wks out of 43 high on the Hit List chart (Bomb has only spent 29 out of 35)...but still 12M does seem too much...i mean can American Idiot really have sold 5.4M in ROW? :

3.8M in US
2.8M in Europe
? 5.4M in ROW ?
? Total = 12M ?

[ybird3k]

ATYCLB sold 10M in its first year?, thats a bit high isnt it, seeing as its only sold 12M in total.

[fedeu2]

I´m quite positive it hit the 10 M mark at the end of 2001.
Then, it went to sale an additional 1 M in the US riding the wave of the grammy success and the superbowl appearance. I guess the other million came from sales outside the US.
It doesn´t seem to be a strong catalog album seller though. Certainly nothing near the first best of. I guess this is the reason which explains the 2 million sales gap in favor of the latter.

Originally posted by ybird3k
ATYCLB sold 10M in its first year?, thats a bit high isnt it, seeing as its only sold 12M in total.

[STING2]

Originally posted by ybird3k
ATYCLB sold 10M in its first year?, thats a bit high isnt it, seeing as its only sold 12M in total.

Not at all high, albums sell most of their copies in the first year, especially these days when file sharing and CD burning have really cut into the sell of catalog albums.

Billboard Magazine reported in December 2001 that ATYCLB had reached 10 million copies at that point in time.

[Zoovation]

France #24 (15)

[edge3]

Well, i just got a reply from Hit List. This is what they said (make of it what you will) :

"world top 50 albums is compiled from the sales in USA, Canada, Latin America(Brazil, Argentina, Mexico), Europe(All countries), Asia (China, Japan, hong-kong, south korea, indonesia), South Africa, Australia And New Zealand.
The sales that are given on our site may differ from the real sales not more than a thousand copies."

[POP-ROMANCER]

Netherlands:

Bomb: #4 (#5)
COBL (top40): #7 (#6)

[VALE69]

Great news from Italy after the three concerts of the last week: seven discs in the top 100!

HTDAAB 17 (21)
THE JOSHUA TREE 58 (88)
BEST OF 1990/2000 69 (91)
BEST OF 1980/1990 70 (67)
RATTLE & HUM 77 (-)
ACHTUNG BABY 89 (-)
WAR 93 (-)

[edge3]

Yep, incredible results from Italy & Holland...fantastic!!

[edge3]

Germany :

Bomb : # 57 (# 53)
City : # 78 (# 73)

...hopefully the Munich gig will push Bomb back into top 40.

[Zoovation]

Incredible results from Holland and also Italy. Italy is the 2nd Ireland.

[edge3]

Surely Holland is 2nd to Ireland though : Bomb # 4 this week / # 5 last week - that's actually the same as Ireland 3/4 wks ago. And remember, Holland has a separate chart for Back Catalogue albums...which U2 are also completely dominating right now.

[Soldatti]

Soundscan/Billboard 200
Issue Date: August 6, 2005

Position/Artist/Album/This Week/%Chg/Last Week/Total
187 U2 HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOM 5,634 -11 6,333 2,818,311

The album is out of the Comprehensive Top 200 chart this week.

US Summary to date:
from 15/11/2004 to 21/11/2004 - ISSUE DATE: 04/12/2004 - Week 00 - B200: -- / Sales: 3,206
from 22/11/2004 to 28/11/2004 - ISSUE DATE: 11/12/2004 - Week 01 - B200: 1 / Sales: 839,724
from 29/11/2004 to 05/12/2004 - ISSUE DATE: 18/12/2004 - Week 02 - B200: 2 / Sales: 288,466
from 06/12/2004 to 12/12/2004 - ISSUE DATE: 25/12/2004 - Week 03 - B200: 2 / Sales: 280,332
from 13/12/2004 to 19/12/2004 - ISSUE DATE: 01/01/2005 - Week 04 - B200: 5 / Sales: 299,645
from 20/12/2004 to 26/12/2004 - ISSUE DATE: 08/01/2005 - Week 05 - B200: 3 / Sales: 350,013
from 27/12/2004 to 02/01/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 15/01/2005 - Week 06 - B200: 14 / Sales: 94,815
from 03/01/2005 to 09/01/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 22/01/2005 - Week 07 - B200: 12 / Sales: 59,233
from 10/01/2005 to 16/01/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 29/01/2005 - Week 08 - B200: 13 / Sales: 48,557
from 17/01/2005 to 23/01/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 05/02/2005 - Week 09 - B200: 22 / Sales: 35,907
from 24/01/2005 to 30/01/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 12/02/2005 - Week 10 - B200: 28 / Sales: 34,370
from 31/01/2005 to 06/02/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 19/02/2005 - Week 11 - B200: 31 / Sales: 35,052
from 07/02/2005 to 13/02/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 26/02/2005 - Week 12 - B200: 34 / Sales: 39,648
from 14/02/2005 to 20/02/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 05/03/2005 - Week 13 - B200: 20 / Sales: 56,692
from 21/02/2005 to 27/02/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 12/03/2005 - Week 14 - B200: 41 / Sales: 26,532
from 28/02/2005 to 06/03/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 19/03/2005 - Week 15 - B200: 48 / Sales: 23,367
from 07/03/2005 to 13/03/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 26/03/2005 - Week 16 - B200: 54 / Sales: 18,882
from 14/03/2005 to 20/03/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 02/04/2005 - Week 17 - B200: 39 / Sales: 23,644
from 21/03/2005 to 27/03/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 09/04/2005 - Week 18 - B200: 34 / Sales: 34,227
from 28/03/2005 to 03/04/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 16/04/2005 - Week 19 - B200: 44 / Sales: 20,919
from 04/04/2005 to 10/04/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 23/04/2005 - Week 20 - B200: 39 / Sales: 19,386
from 11/04/2005 to 17/04/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 30/04/2005 - Week 21 - B200: 39 / Sales: 19,935
from 18/04/2005 to 24/04/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 07/05/2005 - Week 22 - B200: 44 / Sales: 18,856
from 25/04/2005 to 01/05/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 14/05/2005 - Week 23 - B200: 57 / Sales: 17,013
from 02/05/2005 to 08/05/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 21/05/2005 - Week 24 - B200: 66 / Sales: 17,601
from 09/05/2005 to 15/05/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 28/05/2005 - Week 25 - B200: 71 / Sales: 14,303
from 16/05/2005 to 22/05/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 04/06/2005 - Week 26 - B200: 73 / Sales: 14,861
from 23/05/2005 to 29/05/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 11/06/2005 - Week 27 - B200: 79 / Sales: 14,627
from 30/05/2005 to 05/06/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 18/06/2005 - Week 28 - B200: 91 / Sales: 13,025
from 06/06/2005 to 12/06/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 25/06/2005 - Week 29 - B200: 109 / Sales: 10,119
from 13/06/2005 to 19/06/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 02/07/2005 - Week 30 - B200: 106 / Sales: 11,870
from 20/06/2005 to 26/06/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 09/07/2005 - Week 31 - B200: 138 / Sales: 7,558
from 27/06/2005 to 03/07/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 16/07/2005 - Week 32 - B200: 155 / Sales: 7,092
from 04/07/2005 to 10/07/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 23/07/2005 - Week 33 - B200: 148 / Sales: 7,016
from 11/07/2005 to 17/07/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 30/07/2005 - Week 34 - B200: 166 / Sales: 6,333
from 18/07/2005 to 24/07/2005 - ISSUE DATE: 06/08/2005 - Week 35 - B200: 187 / Sales: 5,634

Total: 2,818,311

[ybird3k]

another 10% drop
will be out of the BB 200 next week.

is the 3rd leg of the tour likely to increase sales the way it has in europe?

[edge3]

shockingly bad result

thx for the figures though soldatti

[STING2]

Thanks for the statistics SOLDATTI!

The BOMB is on a downward spiral in the USA and this is probably its last week on the Billboard 200 unless:

1. A NEW single is released in the USA and is able to get significant airplay on the radio to boost sales of the album so it can return to the chart.

2. The third leg of the Vertigo tour, with all the media that will surround it in each city it goes to, is enough to bring album sales to the level where it can chart again. The problem with this is that the tour can only play a few cities per week. The question is whether the sales effect from playing 3 or 4 cities will be enough to make a difference on the chart on a weekly basis. In the United States in the past, the tour has mainly stabilized sales rather than increase them.

3. The annual awards season starts at the end of August and will go through February the following year. High profile awards shows that can boost sales are the MTV Awards, Billboard music awards, American Music Awards, and the Grammy awards show.


The best thing that could happen would be for a new single like Miracle Drug to really take off at radio. Unfortunately I think this is unlikely considering that the 3 singles released after Vertigo have all failed to get significant airplay on the radio. Still a song like Miracle Drug is so powerful that it may be able to break through even the most rigid radio formats.

The tour could bring the album back into the Billboard chart, but as said before, this is unlikely.

The most likely way the album will rechart at this point is for the bands music to do well at the upcoming awards shows this year and next. Getting nominated for 8 Grammy awards and winning most of them would vault the album all the way back up into the top 20 of the chart!

[fitz]

Great news from Switzerland:

Bomb: #12 (#39)
Best of 80: #30 (#68)
Best of 90: #32 (#71)

[edge3]

Originally posted by fitz
Great news from Switzerland:

Bomb: #12 (#39)
Best of 80: #30 (#68)
Best of 90: #32 (#71)

V.good

[edge3]

Here's U2's Back Catalogue in this weeks UK top 200/250 chart :

Albums :
BO 80-90 : # 87 (# 66)
BO 90-00 : # 98 (# 74)
JT : # 101 (# 72)
ATYCLB : # 195 (# 150)

Singles :
Vertigo : # 107 (# 93)
Sometimes : # 163 (# 159)