Mick came in at #77 on the Billboard Top 200 with 11,846 Units

Not a lot considering the amount of promo....

PECMAN

for a second I thought the sales figure was "7,711,846" I just about had a heart attack!

OLDKR

We'll soon have more threads about Jagger's "Best of" than there will be units sold ;-)

Sales are falling fast, Rarities debuted at #76 less than 2 years ago but it sold 22,000 copies the first week!

Mick's albums in U.S charts:

She's The Boss (#13, 29 weeks on Top 200, Platinum)
Primitive Cool (#41, 20 weeks on Top 200)
Wandering Spirit (#11, 16 weeks on Top 200, Gold)
Goddess In The Doorway (#39, 8 weeks on Top 200, 322.000 copies sold)
Best Of Mick Jagger (#77)

Plus
Alfie Soundtrack (#171, 2 weeks on Top 200, 72.000 copies sold)

Holy Smokes !! My next door neighbour has sold more CD's then that with his band "The Philipino Led Zeppelins" - poor Mick

Looks like Mick is going to be just a Rolling Stone from here on out...

If he had plans for more solo records, why would he put out a Very Best of now?

PECMAN

Amazing how many people will pluck down a couple hundred bucks to see him live but won't spend $15 bucks on his solo career...unbelievable...

PECMAN

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> Amazing how many people will pluck down a couple
> hundred bucks to see him live but won't spend $15
> bucks on his solo career...unbelievable...
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> PECMAN


Different sort of music. Its more disturbing that hundreds of thousands of people will pay $1,000 for a couple of Ok tickets to see a band they supposedly like and then not be interested in paying $15 to buy the release theyre touring behind.

Gazza,

Right...that's more to the point.

11K units with all that promo and unreleased tracks is SAD SAD SAD!

PECMAN

Hunger war and disaster is sad. 11,000 records sold means 11,000 happy people. Not sad. If there are 300 million people in the US then there are 299,989,000 not so happy people because they are not able to enjoy this compilation yet.

Bjornulf

does that include downloads?

OLDKR

Wow. Bryan Ferry and the New York Dolls sold 6,000 copies of their last albums the first week here and nobody knows who they are. I don't see how that would even pay for the manufacture and distribution of the CD.

Sad Sad Sad

wow thats not even enough to put food on the jaggers table,lol

He should have released 'TOO MANY COOKS" as the single instead fo that shitty song CL,it could have created more interest about the comppilation, or maybe not, anyway l got it for free.l had predicte sales of 3500 so he sold more than that.

"No dope smoking no beer sold after 12 o'clock"

but that is still awful sales cmon now

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> but that is still awful sales cmon now

For all the promotion and hype those sales are horrible..

"No dope smoking no beer sold after 12 o'clock"

Promotion? What promotion? A few newspaper interviews?

No concerts and no TV appearances is hardly tantamount to a lot of promotion

This album was probably a tax write-off. That Mick, he's crafty like that.

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> Promotion? What promotion? A few newspaper
> interviews?
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> No concerts and no TV appearances is hardly
> tantamount to a lot of promotion

Well Gazza, he did do lots of tv interviews,there are plenty of them on youtube
but l agree maybe some live performances,maybe SNL would have helped.

"No dope smoking no beer sold after 12 o'clock"

Interviews just make people aware the product is out there

Theres no substitute - promotion wise - for letting them HEAR the music, though

With zero airplay on the radio, no tour and no TV performance, the sales are normal.

Jesus H. Christmas is it such a shock that the album didn't sell well? The studio albums didn't sell that well to begin with so why would a compilation album with a few new songs sell well.

Before you poke fun at him go ahead and accomplish what Mick Jagger has and then you can criticize him. Don't forget you have to accomplish everything he has before you start poking fun at him- which includes writing at least half the songs in the Stones catalog,

Maybe all you coconut heads who like to poke fun at him can get together, smoke some weed and have some Exile On Main Street type sessions and maybe if you try hard for ten years you will be able to write one freeking song.



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> With zero airplay on the radio, no tour and no TV
> performance, the sales are normal.

For once I agree with you George.

well he couldn't very well do a performance with only one or two track on there that are currently en vogue. Who would really book mick jagger on SNL to sing just another night, lucky in love,lets work, dancing in the streets etc?

OLDKR

Very poor sales, yet very predictable.


The Best of Mick Jagger should have been titled The Worst of The Rolling Stones.

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> Maybe all you coconut heads who like to poke fun
> at him can get together, smoke some weed and have
> some Exile On Main Street type sessions

Good one, I like how you cryptically refer to Keith.

If Mick wanted to have a successful solo career he should have started it much earlier than 1985 when ALL of his best writing was already behind him. Maybe if he had recorded an ENTIRE ALBUM in 1973, at the time Too Many Cooks was recorded, he could have done something interesting that would have sold. Then he could have done something along the lines of what Rod Stewart did in the early 1970s; release solo albums and band albums at the same time. Of course, Rod saved his best stuff for his solo records, and Mick probably would have done the same, much to the detriment of his band.



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"Sales are falling fast, Rarities debuted at #76 less than 2 years ago but it sold 22,000 copies the first week!"

Bruce Springsteens new album entered No. 1, but has much less sales than his previous album. It is a general trend: selling less CDs.

I wouldn't buy his new album myself. Haven't either bought Live Licks.

The fact is Mick as a solo artist unfortunatley faces the long shadow of himself as lead singer of the Rolling Stones...and he can't get out of that...

PECMAN

Bingo Wrote:
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> FrankM Wrote:
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> > Maybe all you coconut heads who like to poke
> fun
> > at him can get together, smoke some weed and
> have
> > some Exile On Main Street type sessions
>
> Good one, I like how you cryptically refer to
> Keith.


LMAO