New in the Charts Thread
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why the freak is miley cyrus on top or up there. i mean,who buys this crap seriously : /
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blue jay hey:
**why the freak is miley cyrus on top or up there.**i mean,who buys this crap seriously : /
"Cause what she "does" passes for talent! ops:
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SusyLuvsPaul:
Why wasn't "New" released at a time when it did not face such competition? Of course the Fall releases are the most eagerly awaited, it appears--but couldn't they have put it out another auspicious time as well, when all those "legendary" chick singers weren't putting out theirs? (But they couldn't be nearly as legendary as Macca, not to us)
In hindsight, he probably should have reversed the release dates for "Wings Over America" and "NEW." However, I don't recall what other releases there were at the time, so maybe it would not have made any difference.
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blue jay hey:
why the freak is miley cyrus on top or up there. i mean,who buys this crap seriously : /
Same people who don't buy albums or CD's anymore, Same people who bought them all along. Kids, especially teenage girls. Does anyone really think Paul can outsell Miley Cyrus or Katy Perry in 2013? Realistically, it ain't gonna happen. If everyone who bought records, and I'm talking Vinyl here, in the 60's and 70's, read baby-boomers, bought NEW, it would be a million seller. But the older people don't buy records anymore, and practically nothing sells like that anymore. Oh, and The Beatles BBC Vol 2 is going to outsell NEW 10 to 1, I guarantee it.
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blue jay hey:
why the freak is miley cyrus on top or up there. i mean,who buys this crap seriously : /
Mostly teenage girls I would imagine! (and boys too)
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beatlesfanrandy:
blue jay hey:
why the freak is miley cyrus on top or up there. i mean,who buys this crap seriously : /
Same people who don't buy albums or CD's anymore, Same people who bought them all along. Kids, especially teenage girls. Does anyone really think Paul can outsell Miley Cyrus or Katy Perry in 2013? Realistically, it ain't gonna happen. If everyone who bought records, and I'm talking Vinyl here, in the 60's and 70's, read baby-boomers, bought NEW, it would be a million seller. But the older people don't buy records anymore, and practically nothing sells like that anymore. Oh, and The Beatles BBC Vol 2 is going to outsell NEW 10 to 1, I guarantee it.
You're right about BBC Vol.2, but I guess I (and the older boardies) am the exception to the rule, because I buy CDs (records, as you so quaintly put it) I usually download only the hit singles of artists other than Paul. I even have some Katy Perry, Robin Thicke & Cee Lo Green!
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NEW drops to 14 (from 3) in the UK. Pearl Jam drops all the way to 20 (from 2) but yeah good old Cher holds on to 10 (from 4). So what do we make of this ?
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oh I know Cher simply has legs !
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favoritething:
The "Queenie Eye" video must have had some effect on the iTunes chart. The album had dropped to the 40s, but then began to hold steady, and now has inched back up to #38.
And it's holding at #4 on Amazon -- behind Katy Perry and Pearl Jam, along with the Arcade Fire album that's out tomorrow. I do think the Queenie Eye video is helping -- not sure what else could, since there's been no more U.S. TV, and on radio, New seems to have peaked and Queenie Eye is going nowhere.
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Bruce M.:
favoritething:
The "Queenie Eye" video must have had some effect on the iTunes chart. The album had dropped to the 40s, but then began to hold steady, and now has inched back up to #38.
And it's holding at #4 on Amazon -- behind Katy Perry and Pearl Jam, along with the Arcade Fire album that's out tomorrow. I do think the Queenie Eye video is helping -- not sure what else could, since there's been no more U.S. TV, and on radio, New seems to have peaked and Queenie Eye is going nowhere.
Yes, I fear that the fickle eye of media attention will soon shift to the Beatles BBC set.
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Billboard 200 - New debuts at No.3 for week ending Nov. 2nd, 2013. Not bad!
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Are you sure that you've read that correctly? It debuted last week at No. 3.
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Sadly, it appears 'New' will be Paul's worst-selling album of his career.
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JoeySmith:
Sadly, it appears 'New' will be Paul's worst-selling album of his career.
You may be correct but IMO it is not due to the quality of the CD or lack of promotion.
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yankeefan7:
JoeySmith:
Sadly, it appears 'New' will be Paul's worst-selling album of his career.
You may be correct but IMO it is not due to the quality of the CD or lack of promotion.
Bear in mind that few albums are selling in the quantities that used to be common a decade or more ago. It's a new world, but "New" charted higher than many of Paul's albums. several of which never cracked the top 10 in the U.S. So in context, it's done okay. Partial results on HitsDailyDouble.com suggest it may drop out of the top 10 this week, alas, though it's back up to #3 on Amazon.
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audi:
Are you sure that you've read that correctly? It debuted last week at No. 3.
Yes it is correct. First week on the Billboard 200 for the week ending Nov. 2nd. Debuts at No.3. It did not chart last week. Maybe that was in the U.K.
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JoeySmith:
Sadly, it appears 'New' will be Paul's worst-selling album of his career.
Is there a list somewhere of all Paul's album sales? Press To Play is one of the worst-selling albums so far right?
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yankeefan7:
JoeySmith:
Sadly**, it appears 'New' will be Paul's worst-selling album of his career.**
You may be correct but IMO it is not due to the quality of the CD or lack of promotion.
Well that would be sad. It's, perhaps, the most critically acclaimed album of his career that I am aware of...or certainly one of them He crafted some great songs for "New". And it certainly has been promoted adequately; so I would guess we can attribute it to just a general lack of people buying complete albums now. Most reviews indicate which songs to download, so that's what happens. Unless your one of the current hot new artists.
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Paul sold more records than anyone in the sixties and seventies. Wings sold more than 55 million only in seventies. It´s a record!, because he won also in the sixties. In seventies, for instance, Band on the run sold more than 1.5 million (Uk only) and 6 million (US only) but his sales are out to date. Mull of Kintyre sold more than 7 million worldwide and it´s one of the best selling singles of all time and best selling in UK (2.05 million there, also another record). In the Eighties Paul stopped touring and released albums that critics hated, it was very bad for him. The critics returned to make good reviews with Flaming Pie and since then he is getting great reviews. But the eighties was very bad for him. Back in the US, Wingspan and Memory Almost Full sold very well and wich one of them entered in the list of the best sellers worldwide of the year. I can´t understand this, because MAF sold more than 1 million US alone, more than 150 thousand in UK and sold very well around the world (more than 3 million). NEW is more commercial than MAF. I don´t really understand, but it doesn´t matter. Since 2010 with Up and Coming he´s dominating the tour charts and breaking records. It shows that he still is the most popular artist of all time. Another thing, I know many fans of him (friends of mine) who doesn´t buy records of him in years. People just don´t buy cds anymore.
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Hi! Although album sales are generally not what they used to be, this is a really impressive result, I think: http://www.mediatraffic.de/albums-week44-2013.htm Paul is #3 in the global album charts! And I'm pretty sure that this album will have legs in many parts of the world.