#1 in Australia with 18,370 copies sold


Highest first week sales for 2016 in Australia (so far)

1 29290 25 - Adele (6th week) - 4-Jan
2 26430 Hardwired to Self Destruct - Metallica 28-Nov
3 23680 Blackstar - David Bowie 18-Jan
4 20490 Lemonade - Beyonce 2-May
5 18370 Blue & Lonesome - The Rolling Stones 12-Dec
6 18360 Blonde - Frank Ocean 29-Aug
7 17700 Skin - Flume 6-June
8 16710 This Could be Heartbreaker - Amity Affliction 22-Aug
9 16540 Views - Drake 9-May
10 16350 Drinking... Walking... Restrung - Hilltop Hoods 29-Feb

Over 100,000 copies sold in Germany too during the first week, certified GOLD.

[www.mediabiz.de]

U.S.?

Late today

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georgelicks
Late today

Thanks GL!!
I think # 4

The list so far...

Incl. sales figures (more or less...)

Please add to make complete.

NUMBER 1:
UK................ 106.000
Germany........... 100.000 +
Sweden
The Netherlands... 50.000 +
Belgium
Norway
Australia......... 18.370 (Is this normal for such a big country?)
Argentina

Number 2:
France............ 52.000

Number 3:
Japan

Number 4:
Italia
Ireland



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Official #4 on the Billboard 200 with 123,000 copies sold.

[www.billboard.com]

"The Rolling Stones rock at No. 4 with its new blues covers album, Blue & Lonesome, which debuts with 123,000 units (120,000 in traditional album sales). The set -- which is the band’s first album of all-new recordings since 2005’s A Bigger Bang -- marks the group’s record-extending 37th top 10 effort. (No act has earned more top 10 albums in the history of the chart.) It’s the band’s first new top 10 since A Bigger Bang debuted and peaked at No. 3 with 129,000 copies sold in its first week. (It was also the last album of new tunes written by the group.)"

The list so far...

Incl. sales figures (more or less...)

Please add to make complete.

NUMBER 1:
UK.................................. 106.000
Germany........................ 100.000 +
Sweden
The Netherlands............. 50.000 +
Belgium
Norway
Australia......................... 18.370 (is this right for such a big country)
Argentina

Number 2:
France............................. 52.000

Number 3:
Japan

Number 4:
USA.................................123.000
Italia
Ireland



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RipThisBone
Australia......... 18.370 (Is this normal for such a big country)

Yep, that's the sales level on Australia nowadays, a Gold album is 35k sold, Platinum 70k. B&L ranks #5 on this years's best sales for a single week and it will go Gold there sometime during the next 2 weeks.

You can add 22,427 copies sold in Japan during the first week.

More then half million worldwide sales during the first week?



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The list so far...

Incl. sales figures... special thanks to georgelicks!

Please add to make complete.

NUMBER 1:
UK.................................. 106.000
Germany........................ 100.000 +
Sweden
The Netherlands............. 50.000 +
Belgium
Norway
Australia......................... 18.370
Argentina

Number 2:
France............................. 52.000

Number 3:
Japan................................22.427

Number 4:
USA.................................123.000
Italia
Ireland

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georgelicks
Official #4 on the Billboard 200 with 123,000 copies sold.

[www.billboard.com]

"The Rolling Stones rock at No. 4 with its new blues covers album, Blue & Lonesome, which debuts with 123,000 units (120,000 in traditional album sales). The set -- which is the band’s first album of all-new recordings since 2005’s A Bigger Bang -- marks the group’s record-extending 37th top 10 effort. (No act has earned more top 10 albums in the history of the chart.) It’s the band’s first new top 10 since A Bigger Bang debuted and peaked at No. 3 with 129,000 copies sold in its first week. (It was also the last album of new tunes written by the group.)"

123 K today compared to 129 K in 2005 is much better.
Georgelick might be able to give a conversion factor.

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mtaylor

Official #4 on the Billboard 200 with 123,000 copies sold.

[www.billboard.com]

"The Rolling Stones rock at No. 4 with its new blues covers album, Blue & Lonesome, which debuts with 123,000 units (120,000 in traditional album sales). The set -- which is the band’s first album of all-new recordings since 2005’s A Bigger Bang -- marks the group’s record-extending 37th top 10 effort. (No act has earned more top 10 albums in the history of the chart.) It’s the band’s first new top 10 since A Bigger Bang debuted and peaked at No. 3 with 129,000 copies sold in its first week. (It was also the last album of new tunes written by the group.)"

123 K today compared to 129 K in 2005 is much better.
Georgelick might be able to give a conversion factor.

Yes that's right.

The Rolling Stones Earn Record-Extending 37th Top 10 Album on Billboard 200 Chart

The Rolling Stones notch their record-extending 37th top 10 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as the band’s new set, Blue & Lonesome, debuts at No. 4.

The blues covers effort starts with 123,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Dec. 8, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 120,000 were traditional album sales.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Dec. 24-dated chart (where Blue & Lonesome bows at No. 4) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Dec. 13.

Blue & Lonesome -- which is the band’s first album of all-new recordings since 2005’s A Bigger Bang -- marks the group’s 37th top 10 effort. No act has earned more top 10 albums in the history of the chart. In second place on the all-time tally is Barbra Streisand, with 34.

Blue & Lonesome is the band’s first new top 10 since A Bigger Bang debuted and peaked at No. 3 with 129,000 copies sold in its first week. (It was also the last album of new tunes written by the group.)

Blue & Lonesome’s first-week launch of 123,000 is particularly robust for a few reasons. First, it’s a covers set, which sometimes draw less fanfare than albums of wholly new material. Plus, it comes over a decade after A Bigger Bang, so it proves there is still an audience for new music by the Stones. Further, as album sales in the U.S. fell 61 percent between 2005 and 2015, it makes the Stones’ start even more solid -- Blue & Lonesome’s sales bow is just 6,000 copies fewer than the launch of A Bigger Bang over 10 years ago.

Of course, it’s not as if the Stones have been off the radar for the past decade on vacation. The band has reissued a number of albums in expansive deluxe sets (including Exile on Main St., Some Girls and Sticky Fingers), toured the world a few times, and released live albums and greatest hits compilations.

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mtaylor
123 K today compared to 129 K in 2005 is much better.
Georgelick might be able to give a conversion factor.

123k sold on 2016 = 315-320k sold on 2005

Hi Georgelicks, any info for Canada yet? (I know I asked the same question a few days ago).

Tomorrow

UK Midweeks Update (Friday/Sunday)

1 Michael Ball and Alfie Boe - Together [39.3k]
2 The Rolling Stones - Blue & Lonesome [31.7k]
3 Elvis Presley - The Wonder Of You [25.1k]
4 Little Mix - Glory Days [25.0k]
5 Olly Murs - 24 HRS [22.0k]

The album will sell 50-60k on this second week.

A tight race..

amazing unexpected success, isn't it?



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DGA35
Hi Georgelicks, any info for Canada yet? (I know I asked the same question a few days ago).

#2 in Canada with 19,000 copies sold (The Weeknd is #1 with 27k)

[www.fyimusicnews.ca]

Will the Stones be #1 on the World chart?

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James Kirk
Will the Stones be #1 on the World chart?

Of course, they have 500,000 copies sold from only 8 countries, no album has sold close to that worldwide.

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georgelicks

Will the Stones be #1 on the World chart?

Of course, they have 500,000 copies sold from only 8 countries, no album has sold close to that worldwide.

When will be this official?



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1962


Will the Stones be #1 on the World chart?

Of course, they have 500,000 copies sold from only 8 countries, no album has sold close to that worldwide.

When will be this official?

There's not an official chart worldwide, Mediatraffic does a good job tracking up sales but is not complete (no China, Russia, many South American countries, etc) and not official.
I'll try to get a close number from Universal but it will take a while.

Thanks in advance.

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georgelicks



Will the Stones be #1 on the World chart?

Of course, they have 500,000 copies sold from only 8 countries, no album has sold close to that worldwide.

When will be this official?

There's not an official chart worldwide, Mediatraffic does a good job tracking up sales but is not complete (no China, Russia, many South American countries, etc) and not official.
I'll try to get a close number from Universal but it will take a while.

Thanks GL!!
After this success we deserve another 'We Love You' from the boys!!

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KRiffhard




Will the Stones be #1 on the World chart?

Of course, they have 500,000 copies sold from only 8 countries, no album has sold close to that worldwide.

When will be this official?

There's not an official chart worldwide, Mediatraffic does a good job tracking up sales but is not complete (no China, Russia, many South American countries, etc) and not official.
I'll try to get a close number from Universal but it will take a while.



Thanks GL!!
After this success we deserve another 'We Love You' from the boys!!

No, The Rolling Stones deserve a loud "We Want The Stones" from us in the stadiums of Europe next year!



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The list so far...

Incl. sales figures... special thanks to georgelicks!

Please add to make complete.

NUMBER 1:

******WORLD WIDE number 1 for sure*****!!!

UK.................................. 106.000
Germany........................ 100.000 +
Sweden
The Netherlands............. 50.000 +
Belgium
Norway
Australia......................... 18.370
Argentina

Number 2:
France............................. 52.000
Canada............................. 19.000

Number 3:
Japan................................22.427

Number 4:
USA.................................123.000
Italia
Ireland

Still surprised with the low sales figures gettig to no. 1 in big countries like Australia and Candada

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RipThisBone
The list so far...

Incl. sales figures... special thanks to georgelicks!

Please add to make complete.

NUMBER 1:

******WORLD WIDE number 1 for sure*****!!!

UK.................................. 106.000
Germany........................ 100.000 +
Sweden
The Netherlands............. 50.000 +
Belgium
Norway
Australia......................... 18.370
Argentina

Number 2:
France............................. 52.000
Canada............................. 19.000

Number 3:
Japan................................22.427

Number 4:
USA.................................123.000
Italia
Ireland

Still surprised with the low sales figures gettig to no. 1 in big countries like Australia and Candada

Australia and Canada are big geographically but not big population wise. Australia has around 24 million and Canada has around 35 million. It would be great when you update the charts to perhaps also list what gold/platinum numbers are for the countries. In Canada, gold is 50k and platinum is 100k.