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faldor
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Re: Chinese Democracy now $1.99

faldor wrote:

Here's a comparison between the Best Buy top sellers list and the Billboard 200 chart, for the heck of it.

Eminem - Recovery #1 Best Buy, #27 Billboard
Taylor Swift - Speak Now #2 BB, #33 Billboard
Britney Spears - Femme Fatale #3 BB, #1 Billboard
Katy Perry - Teenage Dream #4 BB, #17 Billboard
Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy #5 BB, #199 Billboard

Now obviously CD sticks out as the only one that's not in the top 33.  But, it was a Best Buy exclusive.  And out of the top five at Best Buy only ONE is in the Billboard top 16.

Point being, just because Lady Gaga is lower than GNR, it doesn't mean the list is made up.  The list seems random enough to me for GNR to be right where it is.

Re: Chinese Democracy now $1.99

Sky Dog wrote:

Best Buy isn't making up their numbers. The only chart that matters for compact disc album sales is Billboard. End of discussion.

faldor
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Re: Chinese Democracy now $1.99

faldor wrote:

Obviously, but even that doesn't matter as much as it used to with the decline in sales. #3 3 years ago was good enough to move 250K units. Now I'm sure it's significantly less. So in comparison to their peers it's still a good barometer, but selling records isn't the main source of income. And I'm sure that isn't news to anyone

BLS-Pride
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BLS-Pride wrote:

So Chinese is off the charts but The Greatest hits has entered in at 181

faldor
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Re: Chinese Democracy now $1.99

faldor wrote:
BLS-Pride wrote:

So Chinese is off the charts but The Greatest hits has entered in at 181

Actually, Greatest Hits has moved down a little.  It was #170 last week.

huntermc
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Re: Chinese Democracy now $1.99

huntermc wrote:

What Best Buy should have done was bundle a copy of Chinese Democracy with every copy of Rock Band 3 sold last fall, and gave a download code to play the album in the game. They would have burned through them all in a couple of weeks.

RussTCB
 Rep: 633 

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RussTCB wrote:

removed

-D-
 Rep: 231 

Re: Chinese Democracy now $1.99

-D- wrote:
russtcb wrote:

What Axl should've done is promoted the album at all when it was released.

Fixed it

-D-
 Rep: 231 

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-D- wrote:

Bought the new Foo Fighters album today at my Best Buy, Counted and the CD total went from 124 down to 118. I bought another copy for the hell of it. anybody want it? lol

RussTCB
 Rep: 633 

Re: Chinese Democracy now $1.99

RussTCB wrote:

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