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georgelicks
Forty Licks is back on the Billboard 200 at #61 with over 12,000 units, 1000 sales and over 11000 streaming points.
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georgelicks
Forty Licks is back on the Billboard 200 at #61 with over 12,000 units, 1000 sales and over 11000 streaming points.
[www.billboard.com]
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georgelicks
Forty Licks is back on the Billboard 200 at #61 with over 12,000 units, 1000 sales and over 11000 streaming points.
[www.billboard.com]
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Is that 500 hard copies sold? Or are they counting doubles as one sale?
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Is that 500 hard copies sold? Or are they counting doubles as one sale?
Hard copies sold, the double count is for certifications (RIAA) and not for sales (Billboard).
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24FPS
They could have moved about the same number by not promoting it at all. I was at one of the very few big record stores left in America, Amoeba in Hollywood. It was depressing. What is being sold is up front as vinyl. I'm always interested in new concert DVDs, of which there are very, very few being released these days. It has to be for sales depression, because we know the vaults ain't empty. The concert DVDs are so bereft now that they're under the CDs now. You actually have to sit on the ground to look through them. What the hell happened?
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VoodooLounge13
How many on here have bought 40 Licks? I'm waiting for a Black Friday price drop personally.
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GerardHennessy
Unloved by many it may be, but Forty Licks has justified its re-release, at least in chart terms, by remaining on the Billboard 200 for a second week. On the chart just issued Forty Licks is at No.81, a fall of twenty places. But the fact it is there at all is quite surprising. Frankly I thought it MIGHT pop onto the chart for a week before disappearing again. Possibly forever.
I appreciate the actual sales will be minute. Maybe 1500 copies/streams/downloads in total. I appreciate also that the charts don't seem to matter to many people nowadays. The halcyon chart days of the 60's, 70's and even 80's are long gone. Those times when the each new chart - singles AND albums - was eagerly awaited and consulted to see how well a favourite band or performer was performing, sales-wise.
One other point to consider regarding how ANY Stones compilation is performing on the US charts, is the looming presence of Hot Rocks. An album that still sells solidly week-in, week-out. Currently closing in on 420 chart weeks in aggregate, and always likely to re-appear in the lower reaches of the Billboard 200 several times each year. And, in consequence, a pretty sizeable obstacle for any other compilation album to overcome.
Perhaps what gives me the greatest pleasure about Hot Rocks is that it covers more than the usual London/Decca warhorse material. And of course it also contains those four 'new' recordings. At least they WERE new when the album was originally released in 2002. And in truth none of them was especially memorable. But at least they were written, recorded and released.
Here's hoping Forty Licks does the three-in-a-row chart hat-trick next week. In BOTH the US and UK.
Come on you Stones!
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VoodooLounge13
How many on here have bought 40 Licks? I'm waiting for a Black Friday price drop personally.
I bought it on CD way back in 2002 and don't feel the need to get it on vinyl. Me and many millions more I would imagine! But SOME music lovers like it enough to buy it. And even if it is no more than maybe 1500 good people in the US who hand over their hard-earned, plus perhaps another 1500 world-wide, it does show that The Stones remain vital, relevant and alive in recording terms to more people than just us here on IORR.
Long may it remain so.
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GerardHennessy
Unloved by many it may be, but Forty Licks has justified its re-release, at least in chart terms, by remaining on the Billboard 200 for a second week. On the chart just issued Forty Licks is at No.81, a fall of twenty places. But the fact it is there at all is quite surprising. Frankly I thought it MIGHT pop onto the chart for a week before disappearing again. Possibly forever.
One other point to consider regarding how ANY Stones compilation is performing on the US charts, is the looming presence of Hot Rocks. An album that still sells solidly week-in, week-out.
Perhaps what gives me the greatest pleasure about Hot Rocks is that it covers more than the usual London/Decca warhorse material. And of course it also contains those four 'new' recordings. At least they WERE new when the album was originally released in 2002.