LyricalDrug
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How much of a bump up the charts will "How to Dismantle..." get from all those Grammys, especially 'Album of the Year'?
Post your guesses...
Post your guesses...
Headache in a Suitcase said:
i'm gonna go with #12 on next week's charts.
bcrt2000 said:I think theres a couple of problems though... 2000 was seen as a big comeback year for U2... this year, from the comments I've read outside of this forum, while 50% praise U2 as the best rock band, 10% don't exactly praise them, but say theres no one better, and 40% think they are old (and therefore can't make music) and the Grammys are irrelevant.
A lot of the people have already made a judgement on this album, and have bought it already if they were going to buy it... for "All that you can't leave behind", I think a lot of people in the public didn't notice the album until the Grammys.
Headache in a Suitcase said:
i'm gonna go with #12 on next week's charts.
waynetravis said:
Its #12 on itunes at the moment. Not sure what is was before the Grammy wins.
Earnie Shavers said:It will get a boost, but you have to remember that U2 aren't exactly an unknown band, these Grammys didn't suddenly take their name into millions of previously uncharted households, and HTDAAB is, what, 15 months old? The artists that get the biggest boost are the ones that are either relatively new/'young' and are getting a genuine "I might check this Band X out" reaction, or albums that are only a few months old at the time of the Grammys who get a big "I've been meaning to get that". No-one is going "This U2 band, they might be alright, might check them out" and a huge % of HTDAAB's potential sales have already been exhausted by the time it's been out and all the other attention they've received in the meantime, which has been slowly one by one checking off all the "I've been meaning to get that" candidates.
Compare U2 to Norah Jones. That was a debut album, relatively new at the time of the Grammys, most of the viewing public hadn't heard of her/heard the album. She was in the perfect position to capitalise from that Grammy haul and boom up the charts. U2 are kinda the opposite in a sense.
Headache in a Suitcase said:all that you can't leave behind jumped into the top 25 after it won a bunch of grammys, and it didn't even win album of the year.
i would expect how to dismantle an atomic bomb to make a similar jump, if only for a week.
i'm gonna go with #12 on next week's charts.