A Bigger Bang has sold 283,400 copies worldwide during the third week.
The world sales so far is 1.395,000

Aug. 31 - Sep. 4: 72,300
Sep. 5 - Sep. 11: 608,700
Sep. 12 - Sep 18: 431,200
Sep. 19 - Sep 26: 283,400

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Hi Georgelicks. What is your interpretation of these numbers - still respectable? They look good to me.

well in todays times i think things look good for abiggerbang....after 12 months or so its gonna be a good seller...round about the 3 million mark me thinks...you cant keep a good album down.

Very well! After two weeks at #1, the position #3 with 283,400 copies sold is nery good. Without any @#$%& video, without real promotion yet! (Virgin, wake up...)

Just some remarks:

Macca (#11) only 483,000 copies sold during the first two weeks? I expected something more from him, even i think he NEVER had released a truly great album since "Band On The Run". Poor Clapton's sales (#36). Oh, Simple Minds was an almost legendary band in the 80s, but they have sold only 137,600 copies after two weeks (#39).
But after all the worldwide chart is not dominated totaly by garbage, as many people say. And the rock, "modern" or not, is not "dead". Killers, Green Day and Coldplay have multiplatinum albums. Even to me Coldplay are a bit boring mixture of U2 and Smiths, i have to admit that they are not "trash".

PS Glad to see Tracy Chapman having decent sales!

BTW, in my country, Greece, there are two different album charts. The first one for the Greek artists, the second is the International Chart. ABB during the first two weeks is at #1 of the International chart (IC), selling already more, probably much more, than 10,000 copies. This amount (10,000) is the level of a gold record on IC. Not something usual! On the top 50 of the IC you can see only 7 gold albums: 50 Cent, G'n'R (best of), Green Day, "Kill Bill" (Soundtrack), Scorpions (a compilation which had sold well because of a band's concert, last summer), Britney Spears and Pink Martini. Being a record platinum on IC is something like "rare case", but who knows, the Stones can do it! For sure, if they will play Athens. I still hope...

Considering the modern state of rock 'n roll, not too shabby.

If you think how many ways exist to download the songs and that nobody is really interested in cover art (like we did with the vinyl, you remember Led Zep or Roger Dean's Yes albums etc) These are good sales anyway.