Here is another source for world sales, and it seems more comprehensive than Mediatraffic. As we know, this last source covers 25 countries and Bigger Bang debuted #1 there with 396k during the first week, not including Japan sales from the previous week of release.

The other source, "Hit List", covers more than 40 countries, with more "realistic" stats but not always 100% true numbers: 80-85% are REAL numbers (the same numbers of Mediatraffic) and 15-20% are projections from other countries, without official numbers (Arabia, Slovenia, China...)

[www.geocities.com]


For this source, ABB debuted at #34 with sales from Aug. 31 to Sep. 4, according to their count it sold 72,300 copies during that time, 42k in Japan. I know that the album was released the Friday before to the release date so 30k additional copies during this three days (Sep. 2-3-4) are possible from others countries as Holland or Ireland.
The updates are on Monday's and we'll get another FIRST WEEK number, far more comprehensive than the other.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2005-09-20 03:14 by georgelicks.

here in china
A Bigger Bang is on cd but its a pirated copy for 10yuan thats about 2$USA

FIRST WEEK NUMBER: 608,700 COPIES

[www.geocities.com]

So far we got:
72,300 (previous week of release) + 608,700: 681,000 copies worldwide.

And I bought one of them...just trying to help out.

Thanks Georgelicks. Do you know the corresponding worldwide sales of B2B and Voodoo Lounge in their first week? (I think the level of the whole sales was clearly higher 10-15 years ago- no so much piracy and downloading then...)

Sadly no, I just have first week sales for Forty Licks and Live Licks:

Forty Licks: 840,000
Live Licks: 89,000