While the Stones are touring the States, here are their album sales for the week ending June 2:


The Billboard 200 (including Catalog titles)
#190 ROLLING STONES GRRR! GREATEST HITS 2,350 (+12%) 2,089 203,181 total

Chart Run: *19*-64-50-42-50-50-73-89-88-104-137-188-176-0-167 (14 wks)
Re #01: 25/05/2013 185-180-0-190 (3 wks)
Total # of weeks: 17-13c


Top Current Albums (not including Catalog titles, only 2 years old albums)
#154 ROLLING STONES GRRR! GREATEST HITS 2,350 (+12%) 2,089 203,181 total

Chart Run: *19*-59-45-38-46-47-63-84-84-91-121-156-150-165-139-155-158-175-0-0-200-0-191-200-167-154-149-167-154 (26 wks)


Top Pop Catalog
#152 ROLLING STONES HOT ROCKS 1964-1971 1,278 (+30%) 980 501,748 (total since 2002)

Top Music Videos
#1 ROLLING STONES CROSSFIRE HURRICANE 3,742 (-43%) 6,508 10,414 total
#31 ROLLING STONES LADIES & GENTLEMEN 220 (+39%) 158 124,519 total
#50 ROLLING STONES SOME GIRLS LIVE FROM TX 1978 164 (+12%) 147 55,907 total

LP VINYL ALBUMS
#11 ROLLING STONES LET IT BLEED 479 (+410%) 94 5,921 total
#20 ROLLING STONES BEGGAR'S BANQUET 338 (+651%) 45 9,056 total
#27 ROLLING STONES HOT ROCKS 1964-71 291 - 1,098 total

Bad sales considering they r on the road,probably for the last time...

"No dope smoking no beer sold after 12 o'clock"

Their ABKCO stuff continues to sell, even on vinyl. They'll keep the set lists as is and will drop D&G and OMS on the next tour.

It looks as though their future as a chart-topping act is in music video--expect more DVD releases than CDs going forward.

Interesting, thank you for posting.

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stonehearted
Their ABKCO stuff continues to sell, even on vinyl. They'll keep the set lists as is and will drop D&G and OMS on the next tour.

It looks as though their future as a chart-topping act is in music video--expect more DVD releases than CDs going forward.

Those abkco titles are rereleases on clear vinyl...that's the only reason you're seeing that. They were released May 28...BB, LIB, and Hot Rocks. I believe they'll be releasing additional titles on clear vinyl as well.

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ROPENI
Bad sales considering they r on the road,probably for the last time...

Actually, I think it's pretty strong, given that it's another rehashing of the hits, a hefty three cd price, and they just did the same thing ten years ago. I find it a bit astonishing.

"Grrr!" has sold very well worldwide, given the factors Thrylan mentioned.

“Grrr!” stayed for 12 weeks on World Top 40 (“Mediatraffic”) , having sold 1,189,000 copies. I don’t know what happens since 13th week, as i’ m not… Georgelicks. I mean, my only source was “Mediatraffic”. But for sure 1,2 milllion copies is already a very strong number, by the current sales standards. Just consider one fact: 1,2 millions was an adequate number of sales to obtain a position between #32 and #34 of the 2012 “Year End Chart”, that is the catalogue of the best selling albums of 2012 ("Mediatraffic").

Grrr has sold over 1.35m copies worldwide so far, not bad for a 3cd set.

Thanks "Georgelicks". So by the measures of 2012, "Grrr" (which, as we know, came out at the end of the 2012) would be one of the 25 year's best selling albums! And we are talking abouta a 3 cd set, that had been "taunted" by many fans ("usulless compilation", "who the hell need it", etc)...

I think the particular level of "Grrr!" global sales does mean something more than "not bad". And for sure not even Ropeni would say "bad", but you never know...