Hey Georgelicks!!
Is "Rough Justice" getting more airplay this week?
A friend of mine in NJ tells me he hears it , like, every hour....
thanks

@georgelicks I still don't understand where this 150.000 sold units figure came from? As far as I followed the ongoing count it looks more like 80.000....which is disastrous compared to the ticket sales.


If I was a Stone I wouldn't care about making a new album anymore. Why all the fuss for this lack of public support? I wouldn't even bother to go on tour again just to satisfy all the curious onlookers in a stadium impatiently waiting for the Satisfaction opening riff.
Ok, one might say Europe sales are better than in the USA, but even a No.2 album or a 1-week peak position is not enough honour for titans of the music business as the Stones are.

Gazza Wrote:

> I find it amazing that any Stones fan who will go
> to these lengths and sacrifices to see the band
> wont buy their new album.


It's amazing and sad...I checked a local mom and pop record store a few days before ABB came out just to see if the owner might sell me a copy before the official release date...the owner is a middle aged long time Stones fan....he was wearing a Stones t-shirt and cap when I asked him about the new album...he gave me a puzzled look and said he had no idea the Stones were even releasing a new album...at first, I thought he was joking...unfortunately, he wasn't

orange cow Wrote:
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> the only people that want to hear new songs
> are on this and other fan boards
> i'd say 95% of the people going to the shows want
> old warhorses and
> to see a massive live and legendary concert
> event.
> They don't want to hear BOMH they want Wild Horses
>
> I think it's cool they are making albums still
>


Its still a humiliating indictment that 95% plus of the band's concert audience in the US (people who for the most part paid $180 - 450 for a ticket) couldnt care less about anything the band have done in a quarter of a century and cant divert about $12 of their cash to buy a CD. For them, the Stones may as well have disbanded in 1981.

yet they still manage to sell cds better in Europe, where it seems theyre still seen as a current act

LAST UPDATE: 09/13/2005 09:10:16
NOW IN: 64.97%


LW TW artist / album label power index
1 1 KANYE WEST ROC-A-FELLA/IDJMG 183,694
LATE REGISTRATION
39 2 50 CENT SHADY/AFTERMATH/INT 107,275
THE MASSACRE
-- 3 THE ROLLING STONES VIRGIN 85,677
A BIGGER BANG
4 4 MARIAH CAREY ISLAND/IDJMG 56,222
THE EMANCIPATION OF MIMI
5 5 THE BLACK EYED PEAS A&M/INTERSCOPE 53,670
MONKEY BUSINESS

According to the Daily Double site, w/ 65% sales in, ABB is up to a comfortable (I hope) # 3, just over 85,000 sales - a good lead over Mariah's 56,000 at # 4. This - I wonder - may be thanks to upcoming NYC shows & the big Chicago crowd at a great show - YES, keep buying this motherf***er! And Stones keep playing it live! As in, BOMH & 3-5 more!

LAST UPDATE: 09/13/2005 12:57:53
NOW IN: 78.72%


LW TW artist / album label power index
1 1 KANYE WEST ROC-A-FELLA/IDJMG 230,262
LATE REGISTRATION
39 2 50 CENT SHADY/AFTERMATH/INT 142,229
THE MASSACRE
-- 3 THE ROLLING STONES VIRGIN 97,338
A BIGGER BANG
5 4 THE BLACK EYED PEAS A&M/INTERSCOPE 70,797
MONKEY BUSINESS
4 5 MARIAH CAREY ISLAND/IDJMG 70,314
THE EMANCIPATION OF MIMI

So #3 it is...

FINAL....they remain #3 :-(


1 1 KANYE WEST ROC-A-FELLA/IDJMG 286,655 -68%
LATE REGISTRATION
39 2 50 CENT SHADY/AFTERMATH/INT 153,246 +534%
THE MASSACRE
-- 3 THE ROLLING STONES VIRGIN 124,281 --
A BIGGER BANG
5 4 THE BLACK EYED PEAS A&M/INTERSCOPE 80,825 -2%
MONKEY BUSINESS
4 5 MARIAH CAREY ISLAND/IDJMG 79,770 -6%
THE EMANCIPATION OF MIMI
2 6 TONY YAYO G UNIT/INTERSCOPE 69,504 -68%
THOUGHTS OF A PREDICATE FELON
6 7 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC! 19 CAPITOL 66,851 -14%
VARIOUS

That's (# 3) what B2B did. Let's see if it has legs.

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