>>Yes ABB is a really good album yet it has only sold 1.5m copies worldwide. Does anyone know why the sales in the UK & USA are so dismal? Easy answer: the fanbase in both, UK & US, is very old. The fan base in Italy, Germany, Argentina or Netherlands is full of young Stones fans, the album is #3 in Argentina and Italy after 6 weeks, while the current position in UK is #121 an
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Wings sold about 50 million records worldwide, not more than that.
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>>(a) How many copies had sold B2B after it's 6th week? B2B first six weeks: Week 01: #3 - 160,000 Week 02: #11 - 84,000 Week 03: #15 - 70,000 Week 04: #16 - 66,000 Week 05: #18 - 59,000 Week 06: #24 - 45,000 Total: 484,000 189,000 copies difference with ABB and 39 spots. >>(b) What is in general the level of the Internet sal
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I think that the album is on free fall, that's why the new edition with DVD will be coming on Nov. 22. All the re-releases are 5-6 months after the original date, I NEVER saw a re-release so soon. Sadly, I don't see too much chart life for ABB in Billboard, if the album is falling 10-15 places each week, it will be out of the Top 200 in 8-10 weeks. They need STRONG airplay on the roc
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I corrected the position to #63. >I see ABB is at #60 in Canada. Do you have a breakdown of the weekly sales for Canada? Nope, I only have first two weeks sales (16,000; 8,000)
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You're a wizard, it's #62 this week.
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The Billboard 200 Issue Date: Oct. 29 63. Rolling Stones, A Bigger Bang: 17,553 (295,200) So far: 17/09/2005 - street violations (608 / 608) 24/09/2005 - Week 01 - No. 3 (128,705 / 129,313) 01/10/2005 - Week 02 - No. 12 (62,856 / 192,169) 08/10/2005 - Week 03 - No. 25 (35,861 / 228,030) 15/10/2005 - Week 04 - No. 41 (26,564 / 254,594) 22/10/2005 - Week 05 - No. 49 (23,053 / 277,647)
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Why're you writing loads of lies on a Stones forum? Go to the Macca forum and speak all of you want there, I doubt that someone will believe the 70-80% of your post.
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Where is Bill on the cover? He's between Mick and Keith on the original photo!
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>>Anyway, in Europe, the Stones will not be able to charge over 100,- for a stadium ticket. If they do, I predict many half filled stadiums, espec. with ABB selling so poor. ABB is still #5 in Europe after 5 weeks, a @#$%& hit album there.
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>>georgelicks: "RIAA certified shipments to stores, not sales." Mmmmm... Yes, the same happened with B2B. But are the "shipments" a certain criteria? If RIAA tells "this album is platinum", does that mean the record, sooner or later, will top for sure the 1 million sales in USA? Actually, it means nothing. I've seen Platinum albums that never rea
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>soundscan - they scan unsold cds? No, they scan SOLD CD's on stores/internet.
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I can understand a GOLD certification, but Platinum it's too much for the current total of ABB. I just made a list with the certifications of the Top 50 albums on Billboard this week and the actual sales: 6. Kanye West, Late Registration (2x Platinum - total sales: 1,640,570) 9. The Black Eyed Peas, Monkey Business (Platinum - total sales: 1,696,688) 10. Faith Hill, Fireflies (Platinum
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RIAA certified shipments to stores, not sales.
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>>GeorgeLicks, how can they do that? Easy, Virgin request the certification to RIAA and the can request what they want putting $$. The album has sold 277,000 copies so far and the platinum award is for 1.000,000 copies shipped to stores. >>I think they extrapolate the numbers to include all the store that DON'T have Soundscan. Not every store that sells records in the U
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Virgin is trying to push the album with fake certifications, ABB has sold 276,000 copies to date, 724k away from a REAL platinum award. B2B was certified Platinum in the week 5 too, but the album sales were a lot better than now. B2B dropped from the Billboard 200 after 27 weeks with 905,000 copies sold, but the album has sold 1.165,000 copies so far.
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Sadly, the Stones (a/k/a M. Cohl) are the only act not reporting gross numbers to Billboard. They send the final report at the end of the year/tour including god knows what.
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UK sales for ABB: 79,000 German sales: +100,000
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>>I mean, can you write the WORLDWIDE sales of every Stones album? And the exact US-UK sales, perhaps? I am asking it as a favour... I can't sadly, I only can write aprox. numbers. The US sales are more easy to get but only post 1991 figures, the Stones moved almost 21,400,000 copies during the Soundscan era, they're #39 on the US artist sales rank during the post 1991 sales.
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Total sales so far: 1.581,700 after 5 weeks of sales. I expect a heavy slide next week but the album will break the 2 million mark before of christmas. >>Franz Ferdinard at #41 (55,000). To be honest, the so poor sales of Franz Ferdinard surprise me, unless this is not a “normal”, “full” univeral first week for them. That number only includes Japan and few other countries sales. O
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>>Georgelicks, i think we can't compare a "huge" compilation with a studio album. Two different categories. Of course, but as you see only 1/9 are interested in new Stones stuff, even Live Licks has sold more copies this week. >>Anyway, if i remember correctly, every studio album of the Stones sells in UK more than 100,000 (gold). Not more. OK, we'll have
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>>Georgelicks, if B2B sold 93,000 during 12 weeks of sales, i don't think that 80,000 copies of ABB, during 5 weeks, is a tragic number... Agreed, it's not so bad. Anyway, just compare the figures with Forty Licks: 2002 (648,000) 12 wks 2003 (180,000) 52 wks The album surpassed the 900k in UK, their best selling album ever there.
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>>Georgelicks, how many copies B2B had sold in the UK? It sold 93,000 according to 1997 year end sales, during 12 weeks of sales. The album spent another 7 weeks bubbling on the top 76-200 in 1998 and 3 more weeks on 1999. I guess that has sold 120-130k. I can give you the Top 200 run: UK Date: 11/10/1997 - Run: *6*-12-27-38-62-69-90-106-113-112-87-80- (12 wsf) 03/01/1998: 92-13
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I don't see a "potiential" single for the UK market, Rain Fall Down will chart for 2 weeks maximum.
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According to Music Week, the #94 album sold 2,940 copies this week. So, here the totals for ABB in UK: Week 01 - No. 2 (43,466) Week 02 - No. 13 (19,058) Week 03 - No. 32 (9,500 aprox.) Week 04 - No. 61 (4,600 aprox.) Week 05 - No. 92 (2,500 aprox.) Total: 79,200 (aprox.)
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ABB is out of the official UK Top 75 chart after 4 weeks on chart, the shortest stay for any UK #2 album in the history so far. The album is bubbling under at #92 this week. UK chart run so far: 2-13-32-61-(92) Live Licks spend its 4th week on the Top 75 at the last position, surpassing ABB for 17 spots!
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>>George licks, will a special edition be added to the sales of the current cd or tracked differently as a seperate unit? It will be added to the regular CD, that's why 50 Cent jumped back to #2 four weeks ago. I doubt that a new edition will affect the sales, the christmas season is very competitive and you need to sell close to 100k to be in the Top 40.
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>>> in holland its still number 1 It's #12, down from #3.
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>>>Question: Any idea (sigh, like it even matters) why Dailey Double had a reasonably higher position (#37) & weekly total (1500 more copies tallied)? Are they not both based on soundscan, same Tuesday-to-monday time frame? As you see, their counts are pretty similar. You'll see the 1,500 missing copies on next week chart. >>>Do the same folks who bought 40 Lic
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>>>Hi Georgelicks, Do you know if the Stones are releasing their concert attendance/grosses to Billboard to include in their Boxscores? No, he didn't release nothing, just like the Licks tour. >>>No big deal . ABB will sell for years and years and years...one fine Stones disc to own...a classic! Who really cares about top 40 anyway? The last studio album that
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