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Re: Chinese Democracy Total Sales
I was chatting to Sic this morning and he showed me an interesting graph of some sales stats for CD that he had been keeping. He was cool for me to post it here as well as his comments:
I've been tracking the chart success of CD ever since the release, comparing the Billboard (US/Best Buy) numbers with the global ones, retrieved from the United World Chart (www.mediatraffic.de). CD has now fallen below the Top 40 of global sales, which means I'm likely unable to follow its future course on a weekly basis. Hence, I figured I'd pass it on to you guys, to provide some perspective on how this thing's turned out. I can't completely vouch that every number is in the exact right place, but I reckon it's close enough. I also took the time to compare the sales to the Geffen/BestBuy deal, minding the 1,3 million copies sold beforehand. Turned out that as I write this, BB is still stuck with 2/3 of their stock. The overall sales are rather good from the labels point of view, as the non-US results pretty much equal the BB buyout. 1,3 Million on both sides, 2,6m in total.
Geffen/Interscope has therefore been raking up profit since Nov 23rd, as the BB presale pretty much nullified Ax's studio bill. Now, they're basically sitting on their asses, watching the non-US sales bringing home the bacon. There's no need to invest in GNR any further at the moment, because they're out for maximum overhead. US in particular is a very dead market as far as their interests are concerned - I mean, the sales are BB's headache until November at least. Why should the label spend money in benefitting them?
Right now, markets outside US are what matters. If Ax decides to hit the road in the summer, that oughta help. If he can tour consistently throughout the summer/fall and drop a new album in November (without BB), he should be able to roll on into the US and get some clout.
But CD ran its course years ago and a merciful release turned out to be the only option.
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Re: Chinese Democracy Total Sales
You can actually see what happend with sales when people find out that the songs in the album were the one that leaked (Dec 17) and when people said fuck off its a good album (Dec 31) and when people said youre right... (Jan 21)
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Re: Chinese Democracy Total Sales
for me the interesting part is up turn in december...thats prolly when the general public realized that the album was out, thats when the Axl online appearances occurred...that was the opportune moment for the better music video and an appearance by axl on MTV or VH1
You can actually see what happend with sales when people find out that the songs in the album were the one that leaked (Dec 17) and when people said fuck off its a good album (Dec 31) and when people said youre right... (Jan 21)
there is always gonna be a decline in sales after the initial rush...joe and jill blow didnt even know or care about leaks...the only ones who cared about leaks were teh few thousand diehards in the online community
thatnks for posting Aussie and say thanks to sic. for us 
Re: Chinese Democracy Total Sales
medıatraffıcs reported sales are 1.848.000
WEEK 49 72.000
WEEK 50 640.000
WEEK 51 250.000
WEEK 52 194.000
WEEK 53 215.000
WEEK 1 221.000
WEEK 2 89.000
WEEK 3 56.000
WEEK 4 44.000
WEEK 5 36.000
WEEK 6 31.000
but they can't count all the sales worlwide..these are the only reported sales..
us sales are 550 k
USA
WEEK 1 261.000
WEEK 2 57.000
WEEK 3 48.000
WEEK 4 55.000
WEEK 5 60.607
WEEK 6 21.000
WEEK 7 11.440
WEEK 8 9.215
WEEK 9 7.200
WEEK 10 6.773
WEEK 11 5.659
WEEK 12 5.987
ın europe more than 1 million copies sold and european platınıum award given..
us sales 1.3 m (bestbuy)
european sales 1 m
rest of the world sales can not be 300k
canadıan sales almost 150 k
japan sales 120k al least
when you add Austrılıan,Mexıco,all South Amerıca (Brazıl, Argentına) Russıa ann rest of the world sales....ı thınk more than 3 million copies sold worldwide..
Re: Chinese Democracy Total Sales
17-23 november 2008 101.600
24-30 november 2008 677.600
01-12 december 2008 275.500
08-14 december 2008 214.500
15-21 december 2008 221.100
22-28 december 2008 208.200
29-04 january 2009 89.200
04-11 january 2009 59.700
12-18 january 2009 42.700
19-25 january 2009 23.900
one month ago, musıcharts.net reported 1.914.000 sales ... and accordıng to unıversal official report more than 2.6 million copies sold at the end of january.. now sales almost 3 million worldwide...
Re: Chinese Democracy Total Sales
I just can't seem to be bothered. I got the album and I'm hoping for more. If it's nosediving or not..I just can't bother with it. I would have wished for a hit single and stuff but the chances for it were slimmer than most people seem to think.
Re: Chinese Democracy Total Sales
for me the interesting part is up turn in december...thats prolly when the general public realized that the album was out, thats when the Axl online appearances occurred...that was the opportune moment for the better music video and an appearance by axl on MTV or VH1
Another wrote:You can actually see what happend with sales when people find out that the songs in the album were the one that leaked (Dec 17) and when people said fuck off its a good album (Dec 31) and when people said youre right... (Jan 21)
there is always gonna be a decline in sales after the initial rush...joe and jill blow didnt even know or care about leaks...the only ones who cared about leaks were teh few thousand diehards in the online community
thatnks for posting Aussie and say thanks to sic. for us
im just joking:D
