KOTB charting
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2nd week for KOTB on The United World Chart see's Paul fall one place from 5 to 6 with globall sales this week of 116.000 , the albums total global sales are now 271.000 . Whats intresting is he's outselling Goldplay's MX and Whitney Houston's Ultimate Collection , but not Adele who sells 979.000 globally this week . Nice to see him sell well over the 100.000 sales mark in week two though
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Michelley:
Bruce M.:
Getting back to the point, if HitsDailyDouble is right (see http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi for details) and Paul is at #6 this week, that's interesting. Even the main burst of publicity has subsided and the album is getting only very modest radio play, it's having decent staying power, with only a modest drop in sales from the first week. No, it isn't selling in the wild volumes that Adele's album is (which recalls the good old days of record sales), but quite respectably for an album that makes no attempt at a commercial sound. One caution: The HitsDailyDouble rankings track closely with Billboard, but they don't always match exactly. The 199 unit margin by which Paul exceeds Van Halen is very much within the margin of error, so it wouldn't be a shock if KOTB shows up at #7 on Billboard's chart.
You're right! Billboard has Paul at No. 7. Apparently he was neck and neck with that Van Halen record (they both sold around 58,000 in their second week). The Van Halen record is of course a traditional rock album and it still barely sold more than Paul's. I'm totally surprised that KOTB stayed in the top 10. But good for Paul. Now, when he comes out with a new album of original material, we won't have to listen to all the "McCartney, who hasn't had a hit record in years ..." garbage. And hopefully, the fans who didn't show up to buy Electric Arguments WILL show up to buy his new pop album. Edited to add: Paul's staying in the top 10 is even more unusual when you consider what usually happens to the old timers. Leonard Cohen's new album (his first in 8 years, and it got great reviews) debuted at No. 3, dropped to No. 23 in its second week, and is now at no. 44 in its 3rd week. That's typical; same thing happened to the new albums of Paul Simon and Elton John. But maybe KOTB got a Grammy bump and sold well because it was in Starbucks. And the iTunes thing. Was Paul the first to stream a live concert on iTunes? If so, I bet a lot of other artists start doing it. It obviously helped his sales.
Happy for Paul although also puzzled given that it only has 2 new songs on it. We'll all have to see how it does in the next few months to be certain. Still, cool to hear.
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Sir Guy Grand:
2nd week for KOTB on The United World Chart see's Paul fall one place from 5 to 6 with globall sales this week of 116.000 , the albums total global sales are now 271.000 . Whats intresting is he's outselling Goldplay's MX and Whitney Houston's Ultimate Collection , but not Adele who sells 979.000 globally this week . Nice to see him sell well over the 100.000 sales mark in week two though
Maybe I shouldn't be as surprised by this as I am, but it's fantastic news for Paul.
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edcrawf:
Michelley:
Bruce M.:
Getting back to the point, if HitsDailyDouble is right (see http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi for details) and Paul is at #6 this week, that's interesting. Even the main burst of publicity has subsided and the album is getting only very modest radio play, it's having decent staying power, with only a modest drop in sales from the first week. No, it isn't selling in the wild volumes that Adele's album is (which recalls the good old days of record sales), but quite respectably for an album that makes no attempt at a commercial sound. One caution: The HitsDailyDouble rankings track closely with Billboard, but they don't always match exactly. The 199 unit margin by which Paul exceeds Van Halen is very much within the margin of error, so it wouldn't be a shock if KOTB shows up at #7 on Billboard's chart.
You're right! Billboard has Paul at No. 7. Apparently he was neck and neck with that Van Halen record (they both sold around 58,000 in their second week). The Van Halen record is of course a traditional rock album and it still barely sold more than Paul's. I'm totally surprised that KOTB stayed in the top 10. But good for Paul. Now, when he comes out with a new album of original material, we won't have to listen to all the "McCartney, who hasn't had a hit record in years ..." garbage. And hopefully, the fans who didn't show up to buy Electric Arguments WILL show up to buy his new pop album. Edited to add: Paul's staying in the top 10 is even more unusual when you consider what usually happens to the old timers. Leonard Cohen's new album (his first in 8 years, and it got great reviews) debuted at No. 3, dropped to No. 23 in its second week, and is now at no. 44 in its 3rd week. That's typical; same thing happened to the new albums of Paul Simon and Elton John. But maybe KOTB got a Grammy bump and sold well because it was in Starbucks. And the iTunes thing. Was Paul the first to stream a live concert on iTunes? If so, I bet a lot of other artists start doing it. It obviously helped his sales.
Happy for Paul although also puzzled given that it only has 2 new songs on it. We'll all have to see how it does in the next few months to be certain. Still, cool to hear.
I'm also puzzled, by quite happy for our Paul. I don't know how much of this is a bump from his Grammy appearance, and perhaps the announcement of the shows that he's playing. Either way, whatever gets people buying his music is good by me.
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walliebaby:
edcrawf:
Michelley:
Bruce M.:
Getting back to the point, if HitsDailyDouble is right (see http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi for details) and Paul is at #6 this week, that's interesting. Even the main burst of publicity has subsided and the album is getting only very modest radio play, it's having decent staying power, with only a modest drop in sales from the first week. No, it isn't selling in the wild volumes that Adele's album is (which recalls the good old days of record sales), but quite respectably for an album that makes no attempt at a commercial sound. One caution: The HitsDailyDouble rankings track closely with Billboard, but they don't always match exactly. The 199 unit margin by which Paul exceeds Van Halen is very much within the margin of error, so it wouldn't be a shock if KOTB shows up at #7 on Billboard's chart.
You're right! Billboard has Paul at No. 7. Apparently he was neck and neck with that Van Halen record (they both sold around 58,000 in their second week). The Van Halen record is of course a traditional rock album and it still barely sold more than Paul's. I'm totally surprised that KOTB stayed in the top 10. But good for Paul. Now, when he comes out with a new album of original material, we won't have to listen to all the "McCartney, who hasn't had a hit record in years ..." garbage. And hopefully, the fans who didn't show up to buy Electric Arguments WILL show up to buy his new pop album. Edited to add: Paul's staying in the top 10 is even more unusual when you consider what usually happens to the old timers. Leonard Cohen's new album (his first in 8 years, and it got great reviews) debuted at No. 3, dropped to No. 23 in its second week, and is now at no. 44 in its 3rd week. That's typical; same thing happened to the new albums of Paul Simon and Elton John. But maybe KOTB got a Grammy bump and sold well because it was in Starbucks. And the iTunes thing. Was Paul the first to stream a live concert on iTunes? If so, I bet a lot of other artists start doing it. It obviously helped his sales.
Happy for Paul although also puzzled given that it only has 2 new songs on it. We'll all have to see how it does in the next few months to be certain. Still, cool to hear.
I'm also puzzled, by quite happy for our Paul. I don't know how much of this is a bump from his Grammy appearance, and perhaps the announcement of the shows that he's playing. Either way, whatever gets people buying his music is good by me.
No argument here. It's just odd that so may people bought Memory Almost Full (which I did and thoroughly enjoy) and KOTB, but when it came to Electric Arguments there was no one snapping that one up.
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edcrawf:
walliebaby:
I'm also puzzled, by quite happy for our Paul. I don't know how much of this is a bump from his Grammy appearance, and perhaps the announcement of the shows that he's playing. Either way, whatever gets people buying his music is good by me.
No argument here. It's just odd that so may people bought Memory Almost Full (which I did and thoroughly enjoy) and KOTB, but when it came to Electric Arguments there was no one snapping that one up.
You're right--I hadn't thought about that. I think EA is the best album of the three, although I DO love MAF. I read somewhere that Paul regretted not releasing EA under his own name, probably because of this very issue.
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walliebaby:
edcrawf:
walliebaby:
I'm also puzzled, by quite happy for our Paul. I don't know how much of this is a bump from his Grammy appearance, and perhaps the announcement of the shows that he's playing. Either way, whatever gets people buying his music is good by me.
No argument here. It's just odd that so may people bought Memory Almost Full (which I did and thoroughly enjoy) and KOTB, but when it came to Electric Arguments there was no one snapping that one up.
You're right--I hadn't thought about that. I think EA is the best album of the three, although I DO love MAF. I read somewhere that Paul regretted not releasing EA under his own name, probably because of this very issue.
I heard the same thing as well. Funny since EA is one of his more daring albums.
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edcrawf:
walliebaby:
edcrawf:
walliebaby:
I'm also puzzled, by quite happy for our Paul. I don't know how much of this is a bump from his Grammy appearance, and perhaps the announcement of the shows that he's playing. Either way, whatever gets people buying his music is good by me.
No argument here. It's just odd that so may people bought Memory Almost Full (which I did and thoroughly enjoy) and KOTB, but when it came to Electric Arguments there was no one snapping that one up.
You're right--I hadn't thought about that. I think EA is the best album of the three, although I DO love MAF. I read somewhere that Paul regretted not releasing EA under his own name, probably because of this very issue.
I heard the same thing as well. Funny since EA is one of his more daring albums.
Absolutely. What's interesting is that by not putting his name on it, it's gained some indie cred now. However, it would have sold a lot more and gotten in the hands of a lot more people if it had been a Paul McCartney album. Regardless of what it sold, it's an amazing album, and I'm glad it got such a good reception from critics and fans.
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down to #16 in Denmark after debuting at #3 last week..
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Down to #40 here in the UK. The three weeks in the charts so far have been 3 - 12 - 40
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Anyone paying attention, it's still #1 on Billboards jazz chart! I think that's freaking fantastic!
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left hand man:
Anyone paying attention, it's still #1 on Billboards jazz chart! I think that's freaking fantastic!
amazing achievment....im sure you have to sell at least 27 copies to get in the top 10 jazz albums chart.
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lazydynamite88:
left hand man:
Anyone paying attention, it's still #1 on Billboards jazz chart! I think that's freaking fantastic!
amazing achievment....im sure you have to sell at least 27 copies to get in the top 10 jazz albums chart.
LazyD I think you'll find that the Billboard jazz chart is a real mountain to climb...
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Darth_McCartney:
lazydynamite88:
left hand man:
Anyone paying attention, it's still #1 on Billboards jazz chart! I think that's freaking fantastic!
amazing achievment....im sure you have to sell at least 27 copies to get in the top 10 jazz albums chart.
LazyD I think you'll find that the Billboard jazz chart is a real mountain to climb...
i hear that ringos sentimental journey has been in the top 20 for 35 years
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Darth_McCartney:
lazydynamite88:
left hand man:
Anyone paying attention, it's still #1 on Billboards jazz chart! I think that's freaking fantastic!
amazing achievment....im sure you have to sell at least 27 copies to get in the top 10 jazz albums chart.
LazyD I think you'll find that the Billboard jazz chart is a real mountain to climb...
yeah for Jazz bands
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Macsback:
Darth_McCartney:
lazydynamite88:
left hand man:
Anyone paying attention, it's still #1 on Billboards jazz chart! I think that's freaking fantastic!
amazing achievment....im sure you have to sell at least 27 copies to get in the top 10 jazz albums chart.
LazyD I think you'll find that the Billboard jazz chart is a real mountain to climb...
yeah for Jazz bands
Hahahaaaaaaaaa jazz
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lazydynamite88:
Darth_McCartney:
lazydynamite88:
left hand man:
Anyone paying attention, it's still #1 on Billboards jazz chart! I think that's freaking fantastic!
amazing achievment....im sure you have to sell at least 27 copies to get in the top 10 jazz albums chart.
LazyD I think you'll find that the Billboard jazz chart is a real mountain to climb...
i hear that ringos sentimental journey has been in the top 20 for 35 years
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Seems to me on Paul McCartneys official website, the man reaching the top of any chart should be celebrated, especially when it's one of the majors like Billboard! Jazz artist all over the freaking world work their entire lives to reach that position!
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left hand man:
Seems to me on Paul McCartneys official website, the man reaching the top of any chart should be celebrated, especially when it's one of the majors like Billboard! Jazz artist all over the freaking world work their entire lives to reach that position!
id bet alot of them where seriously pissed off when the worlds richist pop musician with a now limited vocal ability walked into a studio and hired the worlds best jazz band/producer and released and album because he could.
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left hand man:
Seems to me on Paul McCartneys official website, the man reaching the top of any chart should be celebrated, especially when it's one of the majors like Billboard! Jazz artist all over the freaking world work their entire lives to reach that position!
yet here we have pop star reaching the top without really trying, Jazzers need to try better methinks