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Edit: Please post the chart position for Greatest Hits in your country, town, area or online store in this thread. /jarmo



The Guns N Roses Greatest Hits Album Sold 25,000 copies In the first day in England, and is headin fro number 2 on the charts

awesome : ok:

Well, that sucks on the one hand. On the other it shows that damn many people still care a lot for GN'R.

Is there any possibility of finding out how much it sold in other countries and worldwide?


/lastroots

Let me put this in perspective for some of you.

You know that queer hush puppy George Michael? He is making a big comeback whateverwhogivesafuck. His album cam out the same week as the GNR GH album.

Yes the GH album sold 25,000 copies. You want to take a venture on how much the number 1 position album sold (and yea it was from the queer guy's)?


$60,000.

Chew on that for awhile.

to chew on what? on you having problems with george michael being gay, or what? why don`t you chew on the facht that this is a greatest hits which sold 25.000. Patience (the name of michaels cd) is not a GH cd. so what is your point?

it hasnt been released in canada or the states yet

Dude I dont have a problem with any motherfucker who is gay.

Shit fool Im a lesbian, so sit down.

GNR was at the top of the music game. It is a little wrong to have these numbers when some queer pop act has numbers that are more then double, GH album or not. As a reference, find yourself the numbers of how much Nirvana's GH sold.

more than 10 years after they have been at the top they sell 25.000 just in one country. sorry, but that is a succes. yeah, lesbians bashing gays. i like that.

Not to argue semantics but according to dictionary.com

lesbian=A woman whose sexual orientation is to women.

what is the topic of discussion?

Not to mention it isn't a "comeback CD" as you claim. In fact it is the last one he (or so he claims) is releasing with any record company. After that he will give his music to his fans for free online. And..at least he has his shit together enough to make an album and fuckin' release it! I've been waiting for his follow up album for sometime now.

I don't get comparing the two anyway.

This goes to show that Axl should release CD..people would pick it up quick.

Good detective work Kujo. I hope you didnt take too much time out of you busy day looking that up.

Wow really, that is what a lesbian is? Well, cover me in shit and call me a sunday. Pffff...

Anyway, alright great GNR sold 25,000 in the UK. I have to find out how much Nirvana sold there in the same time period.

Maybe Kujo, you can put all your many resources to good use and find that out.

Well when you right something stupid...what do you expect? ::)

why dont we talk about lesbian sex. this would make me forget CD for a while.

The release date is still March 23rd in North America, right?

Less than a week to go.  I will definitely be picking up two copies... one for my car, and one to remain in it's original plastic wrapping for the rest of eternity.

I'm weird that way, I suppose.

But 25,000 copies in one day, for a band with hasn't released material as of late (understatement of the year) is quite good, in my opinion.  

So much for boycotting the f*cker :)

good idea. i might buy one more GH.

Jesus Christ....

I didn't write anything stupid. If anything, the both of you geniuses did. You obviously newer GNR fans just didn't get the inside joke. But I'll explain so you don't both hurt yourselves.

Axl had a shirt he liked to wear at shows that read "Nobody knows I'm a lesbian"

And yes Callgula lesbians would help. They always do.

haha, newer GNR fan...
I am a fan since 1991!
and i am also lesbian. but stuck in a male body.

ya the release date in north america is still the 23rd,ill be pickin up 2 copies also

Why don't we wait till the full week is over until we talk about sales figures?? ;D

Why you be buying 2 copies there malcolm??? ???


Buying one for me dude??? ???

I think it will sell more in the United States.

No nothing stupid there.

Anyway if you are trying to make a point about Nirvana GH compared to GnR GH, just make it.

That's alot, 25,000 copies in half a week in the UK alone.  Should sell a couple of million worldwide, and don't forget albums don't sell as many as singles.

This is good for business...Axl dude, you're riding another wave of HUGE publicity! Do it now, for the children's sake!  :yes:

i dont think so, considering that USA is 10times bigger.... (sarcasm)  :hihi:

great. why would one want a GNR product to fail? and if its in 2. place and youi say it sell's bad, then you are a jerk, it still was the secund most sold album that day!

This what I am thinkin' to. This lawsuit is like the promotion of GH. Any publicity is good : ok: Hope Axl and the co. uses that in right direction.

i think axl is exerienced with bad PR is good PR.... he is mr. bad PR himself! ;)

So, in other words, the .057 percent of the GnR fans who still actually care about the band went out to purchase GH in support of their hero, Axl Rose.

Cmon, people.  We're bragging about an album selling 25,000 on its first day.  Did you hear that?  25,000.  Thats nothing.  I can't believe how some of you still carry on about GnR "taking over" the rock world again.  This band is a novelty act and a nostalgia act...and thats all Axl will ever be from here on out.  If you don't believe me, then get a copy of the '88 Ritz show....THAT was Axl Rose....THAT was GnR.  Axl is a middle-aged man and he knows his glory days are behind him...thats why he's so afraid to release anything and be dismissed as a vital artist.  He knows that if that happens, he'll become the new David Lee Roth...a joke...a former great, fallen from glory.

At this point, I don't think we'll ever see CD.  Then why keep following GnR?  Because its interesting, I guess.  I don't really have any more expectations left....I just follow GnR because its more interesting than most anything else going on in the music world today.  

why shouldnt we be glad? if they hit nr. 2!?

George Michael has sold just over 60,000 copies of his album on the first day of sales.

No matter how many extra copies you buy for coffee coasters and such, it'll take some really good PR to generate good sales.

I cant believe that Norah Jones' latest album sold 1 million copies in its first week - I'm still baffled by that...

just one q... are there 25000 records in the record shops thoughout england, or are there 250000 cd's scattered around englad in people homes... if you know what i mean?

Hmmm... people here have been saying Axl should release CD now with how well GH is selling, but all the GH album does is remind everyone how good the OLD band was, it doesn't give any credit to Axl's new band which he's been working to build up over the last few years.

With Axl suing Geffen over GH's release, I hardly think he's gonna use it as a springboard to launch CD.

I could be wrong though...

I suppose 25,000 is pretty good for first day sales, bearing in mind the advertising for it hasn't been great.

well i was surpised today when i found here in Mexico the GH cd , with a huge poster and a lot of cds in an special place , it was cool to see Guns being promoted like that in the store , i was expecting the cd to a arrive at the same time that in U.S , i dont know why we have it sooner , but thats cool.

Yeah it does suck that it is selling because none of the members wanted it. Yeah it does show how people still want Guns N' Roses around. I wonder if it will break into the charts in the US and how many will sell? If this sold 25,000 I think CD will do pretty good once it ever comes out this year.  : ok:

Correct me if Im wrong but hasn?t UK been the promisedland of that kind of gueerpop for ever. I know GNR has been in the charts in UK and very high too but
pop will always be the number 1

Is that a word? :hihi:

Do u meen the g instead of q or the whole word

Yes that would be a q - and no the UK is not  the home of queer pop.  Why did we get the album a week before the US anyway?  George has been on all the tv shows plugging his album thats why the lil fag got to number one.  No one here even knew there was a GnR album out!!!

btw, AFD is currently #60 in England.


/lastroots

Yes it is - you have been doing your homework.  I hope GH gets to no 1 (but I doubt it will as George is still the top seller on play.com)  And with all the die hand fans being like oh my god I cant buy it man Axl doesnt want me to - then it could still be Katie Melua fighting off Norah at no1.

how is 25,000 nothing???
A band with no proper releases in 5 years sells 25,000 copies in 1 day in one pretty small country.
Thats quite impressive.

we are only a lilttle country (smaller than Texas) however there are 6 million of us here (dont even get me started on the immigration problem) So there are still  5975000 who didnt purchase it on the first day - I however am not one of these :beer:

AND .. here's Universals official German GN'R site: www.gunsnroses.de.

Marcel Felkes fansite, which was located at that URL before, moved to www.gunsnrosesonline.de.


/lastroots

Oops - that'll be 60 million - not 6 million - so theres plenty more people out there to buy it!!!!!!!! ;D

I just heard on Top of the pops:

"will it be George Michael or Guns N' Roses that knock Kate Melua off the album top spot".  So it must be doing well despite everything it has going against it.  

Poor GH album it's not his fault lol Tell you what though TSI is relieved to have the basterd son of GN'R - tag taken away from it lol (babble humor)    

Guns N' Roses Greatest Hits album debuts #6 on Finland's chart.

http://www.yle.fi/top40/albumit.shtml (http://www.yle.fi/top40/albumit.shtml)

(..don't know if this topic belongs more to the news/network section)

It's a mystey to me how GNR sells old material so well after 10 years in the dark.Imagine how CD will do!!!!!!

I'm sure that "Chinese Democracy", IF it's released one day, will be a number 1 album in LOTS OF countries in the world.

I'm not all that surprised... The Illusion tour DVDs were no1 and no2 the week they were released.. The thing is though, that I've seen almost no promotion for the CD. I hope it does well. Just so that people like me can see that the audience still cares for them, and that it's not only me who misses GN'R..

 www.rte.ie/2fm/charts/albums.html (http://www.rte.ie/2fm/charts/albums.html)

god,it's good to see them at the top where they belong

 :beer:

Thats great fuckin news

It's weird to see GN'R on top of music charts today cos i'm always checkin up the chart listings from 88-94 when they were big.

The change is welcome :beer:

that is  great  :beer:

It's truly amazing how Guns n' Roses makes very good in the charts today in 2004 with all these shits happen....
I hope "chinese democracy" will be released one day. It will be a number 1 album, definitely. definitely.

Us Irish have great taste in music.

I can see that...Irish rule!! :hihi: : ok:

You know the music industry is saturated with shit when a Greatest Hits album, that doesnt even represent the band whos name is on the cover, is number 1 on the charts!!

If a lazy 'unofficial' GH can top charts world wide Chinese Democracy will rule the world......

(remembers Robin Finck is now lead guitarist)

Oh god its all over :crying:

From what we heard so far Finck has done a lot more work on the new songs than Buckethead.

So you should stop bitching...err crying.

In a day and age when shit flies straight to No.1 it's nice to see that for once the shit at No.1 has Guns N' Roses name on it, even if it does suck it means people still remember, howz it doing it Canada? Is it out there yet? Cos i know Canadians don't forget much.........wrestling fans on the board should understand what i mean : ok:

what happend to all the nay sayer saying the album would flop and it would be histories biggest flop and shit? jeez..  :hihi:


i saw it was nr. 8 in CDON.COM 's list... the norwegian one, didnt wanna start a new thread about that :p

I'll admit to being a bit of a pessimist as to it's success.  But (like most self-centerd americans) I was really referring to the American market.  Hopefully it will do as well as it did in Ireland.  But I'm reserving my pessimism.

-F

GNR still have a huge following in Ireland .. pity people have to suffer the poor track selection however  :(

I was watching watching Top Of The Pops on BBC1 last night and that MTV guy who presents it was talking about the album chart and he said "blah blah... will the Vines or Guns N' Roses be able to knock Katie Melua off the top spot?"

I nearly choked on my tea.  :o

Guns N' Roses mentioned on Top of The Pops for the first time in how many years?

See GN'R still can rule the world and it looks good for Axl as well maybe his confidence has boosted with the record sales its gotta mean something I still do think Chinese Democracy will come out just because Buckethead has left does not mean the end. Izzy left after recording the Illusion stuff and got a new guitarist Gilby its quite similar to that if you think about.

I have no clue if this has been posted but take a look at this:

http://www.universalmusicworld.com/ecard/gnr/two.htm

it still is cool though that they top the charts  :D

I heard him mention GN'R on totp's too!

Hopefully, the chances of GN'R performing in Ireland will be improved by the albums success in the charts.......Hopefully

Probably not it's success has showed people still care..........about the old GN'R...how much people care about the NEW GN'R will be shown when something like Chinese Democracy is released

Thats GREAT.. : ok:   But how many copys did it sell in Ireland in its first week?? :peace:

wonder how many it will sell in america? i think it will go to #1, also check out the sales rank on amazon, #35, that sounds pretty good and it was 38 when i checked it a couple of minutes ago, also most of the cd's ahead of it have been out for awhile.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000TLA9G/ref=amb_cob_mh_73050//104-4617620-0144720?v=glance&s=music&n=5174

Nice but I'm more worried about what GH will do in America. I'd rather be buying something NEW!

Dam right, Perhaps this will compensate for Louis Walsh and westlife and the horrendous you're a star.

Are the songs the edited single versions? I realise they are edited for content (i.e. Ain't it Fun, and Since I Don't Have You), but I'm wondering if they are the shortened radio versions?

AA.

nope

It has officially reached number 2 in the UK charts.  Which is brilliant. Just proves to all those doubters who thought it would be the biggest mistake.  

This is a release from a band that has had the world against it from day one.  This has had no promotion from the band, non of the usual tv appearences (ever in the uk) not even support from the original GN'R.  Has just been sold on the name and the music those guys created more than 10 years ago.  

Not many people could do that.  It's easy to forget how huge GN'R were.

......But i swear if i see some snotty kid wearing a Darkness t-shirt and GNR gear there will be war lol  
 :hihi:

No2 in the UK and No. 1 in Ireland. Very good so far!

no doubt the two GN'R weeks on Kerrang have helped.

It also goes to show you how much of an asset the GN'R name is to him and to the bands future sales.

Geffen should release a video containing old footage of the band. That should make the charts explode!!!!!

Axl would probobly object?

Does anyone else think, that when CD is being promoted, ads etc, the new members of the band will not be prominent?

I have a feeling that it will be marketed using the name and axls image alone. Just a thought.

oh well the bum bandit is no 1 and GH is no. 2.

its still bloody impressive that it even got to no 2 considering it has had no advertising or publicity.

 : ok:

That's not entirely true... there was a TV ad shown quite a bit, plus a few magazine articles and the Kerrang TV week.

Not sure if this is correct thread.....I live in the US and received my GH cd on Saturday from musicspace.com. Digipak with free poster. (original 5 members) Wasn't gonna buy it, but thought if it sells well enough maybe it will get CD out sooner rather than later.  Anyway, GH seems to be selling pretty well in the rest of the world, curious how it will do in the US.  Kinda scared this may be the nail in the coffin of Gn'R though.  I have seen the commercial on MTV and ESPNews this weekined though.  But as with the majority of us, track listing is ok.  Would have taken off Since I dont have you and put Estranged on, added Don't Damn Me and made Sympathy a bonus track.  Anyway take care and have a great day....

25000 copies in first day,that's great.
why?
as we know every rnr fan older than 18 have three gnr albums(afd,gnr lies and uyi 1,2),and they won't to buy gnr greatest hits,but they'll buy chinese democracy.
I'm a gnr fan,but i won't buy gh,because i have every gnr album,and i make my greatesthits!
and comparing gnr and nirvana is stupid,because gnr is truly big rnr band

I still think GN'R will come close to topping the charts in the U.S.s as well.  Just imagine what Chinese Democracy could do!

Great can't wait to buy it tomorrow...a new GN'R product but I guess thats what we get after the majority of the songs on the last tour were OLD material.

That's not entirely true... there was a TV ad shown quite a bit, plus a few magazine articles and the Kerrang TV week.


Ok ok - your right I saw the add on the friday evening before it came out but it was the only time I saw it on terrestrial tv, then my bloke was like oh yeah its in Kerrang but I mean in comparison to the usual hype that album releases receive and I especially mean when it was released on the same day as GM who had been on chat shows to promote.

And I also mean knowing about it as a normal person as opposed to an obsessive fan ie 2 of my friends had no idea it was out but as soon as i told them they rushed out to buy it.  What I am saying unless youre a huge GnR fan you could easily have missed its release date as it was not hyped and advertised in the normal way.

It had everything I would expect to be on a GREATEST HITS album duh  :smoking:

GH debuts on the official top 40 as #1... with virtually NO promotion as far as I've seen!

Great news...this album is doing a lot better than i expected

I saw a TV commercial for GH here in Norway for the first time yesterday, it was awesome!
it was for both GH and WTTV, or as they said in the commercial: "Greatest Hits on CD and DVD."

GUNS N' ROSES Greatest Hits entered the German album charts at #5, just behind HIM's Greatest Hits compilation And Love Said No (#4).

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/charts/0,1518,album,00.html


/lastroots

who is HIM?

http://www.heartagram.com/

first i think him really rocks!!!  in norway him debuted at 30 something while gn'r debuted at 1...

guess germany is a bit more important tho, after all it's the third biggest music market in the world...

HIM is doing a tour in States soon..

a little thought....The Darkness has sold about 160 000 albums in States with the help of marketing and

promoting (and I guess they have also toured in States?). HIM has already sold 100 000

Razorblade Romance albums in States with out any promoting or touring.

His Infernal Majesty

Relevance to GNR?

They're Finnish, isn't that enough?  :hihi:


They're one of the new rock bands that kids listen to. If GN'R debuts one position behind them, then it's a pretty good sign that there's a bunch of people who still listen to GN'R even though they're not "hip" like HIM....



/jarmo

and thats even after the shitty review in VG and very little or nothing in other papers...

also good to see that it beats george's patience unlike in the uk...

The Greatest Hits #3 in Switzerland

http://swisscharts.com/weekchart.asp?cat=a

In Netherlands
 #17
http://www.planet.nl/planet/show/id=82349/sc=d09793

GH is #4 in GERMANY not #5!!!
I think #4 is great for gnr !!!!

you are right! It?s # 4!!!  :peace:

What's ironic is that no GnR album has been at #1 in Norway before GH.. :o

2nd best is TSI?, which was at #2 for two weeks. The UYI's peaked at #2 and #3 for one week, Lies made it to #6, AFD only to #10 and Live Era at #17.

Statistics taken from vg.no (http://lista.vg.no/artist_info.jsp?artistId=1319&choose=hidden_value") (It's in norwegian, but fairly easy to understand - if anyone is interested. Nice graphs and everything! :hihi: )

when I checked GH was #5

edit. and still is.

this is the album chart from sales in the music store WOM only!
i got my info from the record label!

the Chart Position that was given from Lastroots Link says that these sales ranks is given from the music store WOM (World of Music), so it?s just for this store.

Ermittelt anhand der aktuellen Verkaufszahlen
von WOM - World of Music (Stand: KW 12/2004)

The Greatest Hits is in Germany # 4! Believe it  ;)

ok guys. Thanks for clearing this up!

where did you see the commercial? i love the fact that guns n' roses once again tops the charts, but it's kinda sad that the first ever guns n' roses greatest hits album to surface was thrown together like this, with no support from present or former bandmembers and no bonus material.

I saw the commerical on norwegian TV2 last night...

woah, freaky, we saw it at the same channel, and probably at the same time too! :nervous: ;D

GH at no. 2 Swedish online store




http://www3.cd-wow.se/top75.php

More good news ;D

Shows that there's still guns n fuckin roses fans out there

No. 2 at ginza.se and no. 4 at cdon.com  :peace:

Mods - can we make a thread for all chart placement announcements to go into? It seems every country and .com are being mentioned separately in their own threads.

GN'R's GH CD has entered #6 in the Compilations (Greatest Hits) Top 100 in France. We don't know yet what's its position on the global Albums Top 100.

Source: http://www.disqueenfrance.com/classements/compilations/default.asp?suite=oui&j=1&date=209 (http://www.disqueenfrance.com/classements/compilations/default.asp?suite=oui&j=1&date=209)

First of all let me start you off with a quote:

Based on the first day sales, the Greatest Hits is on track to sell over 120,000 copies in the USA in the first week.  

Source: Hits Magazine

Now as you can see the Guns N' Roses:Greatest Hits  album has been an overly succesful around several countries around the world topping the charts and getting into the top 5 in almost every European country out there. The album has sold 113,000 copies in the UK in just 1 week. Now the UK population is 60 million. The US population is 283 million. Guns N' Roses has sold 80 million records woldwide to date,40 million in the US alone. Well when I saw the uote above this paragraph I was thinking how well will this album chart in the USA?

Well I did some research and some steady mathematical research.

According to this article:

http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_...t_id=1000470598

"Norah Jones' "Feels Like Home" holds the top spot on The Billboard 200 for a sixth-straight week. U.S. sales of the Blue Note set were down about 19% to 147,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan"  

The week before U.S sales for the album weew down about 27%. That is an 8% percent "increase" in the loss of album sales for Norah Jones. Well what I did was:

-subtract 8 from 19 which equals 11%

-multiplied 147,000 by .11 and reached the product of 16,170

-I then subtracted 16,170 from 147,000 reaching to an answer of 130,830

That is the most percentage Norah Jone's album will increase meaning I have drawn out a best case scenario for her and a minimal for GN'R. If Guns N' Roses sell over 130,000 copies of the Greatest Hits album then they will clame fame to number 1 surpassing 'The Spaghetti Incident?"  from the band's heydays.

Now take a look at this quote:

"Cassidy's "Split Personality" (Full Surface/J Records) lands at No. 2 with 118,000 copies."  

GN'R already has surpassed the number #2 album Split Personalityby a minimal case scenario made by Hits Magazine based on first day sales.

"Godsmack's seven-song mini-album "The Other Side" (Universal) enters the chart at No. 5 on sales of 98,000 copies".  

^^^^^
What that means is that the Greatest Hits album will be in the Top 5 as proven by clear scientific and mathematical research done by me above re-enforcing the fact of the album at being a top 10 hit as the number 10 album Josh Groban's Closer (Reprise) rounds out the top-10 with sales of 67,000 copies will be outsold by more than double its sales.

If 113,000 copies were sold in the UK,a land mass with 60 million inhabitants, in a week then we can expect 130,000 copies from the U.S.A,a landmass with 283 inhabitants and the buyers of 40 million GN'R records.

What this will d is smack all the GN'R non-believers in the face by proving this band is very much still alive. The band itself isn't alive but the fans keep the legend of Guns N' Roses roam strongly through the musical ages.

The thing with doing projected sales is you can't really get a feel for a fan base...norah jones and the others may be picking up fans everyday because of airplay, while gn'r airplay is probably pretty low . I would like to see how it ends after a month or so, but this does tell me that their are quite a few fans, and many of the hardcore fans are not buying because they probably have most if not all of the songs. This should really give axl and the record company some confidence. I'ts amazing what a little promotion will do. I should also point out that many stores aren't even carrying gh yet. They are probably waiting to see how it sells, so I don't think their will be a real sharp dropoff next week. I went to a Wal-Mart superstore and target and they didn't even have it in stock yet.

GN'R entered #5 on HMV Japan Rock/ Pop albums charts: Top 200 Rock/ Pop HMV (http://www.hmv.co.jp/chart/chart.asp?category=1&genre=200)

The GH CD entered #3 on Fnac's online Hard Rock/ Metal charts (a big music store in France): Fnac.com (http://www.fnac.com/Shelf/default.asp?NID=28131&RNID=%2D2&SID=a5966f77%2D4fd4%2D26fd%2Dcb27%2Da2b04b50e277&Origin=FnacAff&UID=004ea0480%2D870f%2D7e79%2Dbda5%2Dba39b060af13&TTL=260320040332&SubjectId=28131)

what is the top week of selling?

#1 in Iceland

Great week for GN'R fans in the chilly north. Heavy promotion (radio, TV and newspaper ads), GN'R week on the most popular rock station, Slither being debuted, GN'R weekend at Popp-t?v? (the 'Icelandic MTV') and so forth.  :beer:

i now AUSTRIA is a small country but look at this...


http://charts.orf.at/oe3/longplay/2004/woche12/

cool to see them on top again... ;D ;)

Number 3 in Sweden:

http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/listor/hitlistan/album

There kicking ass in europe : ok:

GNR are only number 12 in Denmark.... :P

Denmark wants the new stuff.... Not some old tracks... :rant:

currently GNR are #3 in SWITZERLAND... ;D ::)

http://www.hitparade.ch/weekchart.asp?cat=a

where can i read about selling Gh in USA?i read lot of european charts,but could someone tell what's goin on in USA?

Topics merged.

We don't have any info yet for the US, but it's been out for only three days (tuesday, March 23).

Austria            1
Iceland           1
Ireland           1
Norway          1
UK                  2
Sweden          3
Switzerland    3
Argentina       4
Germany        4
Finland           4 (2nd week)
Denmark        12
Spain             14
Netherlands   17
Belgium          45 (what do they know anyway?)

I've gotta say I'm surprised. I thought it's do OK, not this well.

@#$%Muther

This piece of shit GH cd is the number one selling album in the UK????

I cant fucking belive that....

Sorry, my bad, Uk = No. 2

@#$%Muther

Thats still higher than i ever would have thought it would have gone in the UK..

The key to judging thier selling power will be how long it can remain there....

Greatest Hits is duking it out with NERD for #4 on the charts.  Usher is coming in at #1, and I guess Norah and Evanecense are #2 and #3?  It's going to play out something along those lines.

Norah Jones sells 1 mill in her first week, and Usher might sell 90k in his first week, I REALLY don't see a problem with music sales.  :o

I lived in Denmark for a few years, so I know about the saaaad state of music there. Eurovision Grand Prix anyone?

My local music store in Australia got 20 copys in which i thought was alot for the size of the store but its a good sign.....I went to the city and they had lots of copys and had then at No 3 on the chart but its not official..... :peace:
So i think its gonna be high on the charts in Australia as well..... :beer:   Its good to see New guns cds in stores and on top of the charts again.... : ok: : ok:

On its second week in the charts here in Finland the Greatest Hits gains two positions, and is fourth being the highest non-Finnish band/artist.

GN'R are no 1 here in Ireland for the second week in a row!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.rte.ie/2fm/charts/albums.html

You can find any entry you want for album charts in any country here:

http://allcharts.org/music/

Apparently  "Greatest Hits" Guns N'roses is the 4th biggest selling album in the world right now.

That's where I got the info from  : ok:

Including the Argentinian one and the Belgian. (neither of which I got credited for in the news section Jarmo  :rant: :P)

@#$%Muther

GUNS N' ROSES NUMBER 3 in the Uk second week.  : ok:

No sharp fall as predicted by some in the second week here. Wonder how long it stays in the top 10.

@#$%Muther

I bought the GNR album the day it came out, alot of people must of. Came at me as a surprise too, hadn't been on this sight in ages and all of a sudden I find the GH is out.

Anyone know when it comes out in america and why it hasn't been released there yet.

Hopefully the good sales will give some incentive in to realsing the new album.

It's been out in the US since March 23.

Gunners are no 9 first week in Australia....i thought it might be hights but im still happy.. :beer:

gh coming out has bn gd for me because all these popular girls chat to me wanting to find out abot gnr! ;Di hope it goes up the uk chart and knocks that usher prick off no.1

Hi to everyone, long time lurker here, i registered last year or something and i read everyday this forum, but i'm not a poster tough, anyway Greates Hits has sold 109,163 copies in USA and it's at # 3 right now, you can see for yourself here:

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com  
go to charts and see for yourself..

Cool doin pretty well all over the world :beer:

That's only 44.02% counted (109,163 copies). That count was made today( Monday). The final 66% will be counted tomorrow (Tuesday). So the Guns N' Roses:Greatest Hits album will have sold about 200,000-300,000 copies in its first week in the U.S. Although it will still be #3 on the Billboard charts. :beer:

Beats the hell out of live era.  That debuted at #45, right?

Just wanted to let you know GH is #1 for the 2nd week in Norway!  :D

PS Take a look at the chart (http://lista.vg.no/show_list_spes.jsp?listType=2&byweek=vis"), especially postions 21, 24, 26 and 33-36. Seems like classic albums are in fashion this week  :peace:

GNR are stil @ #3 but now with 175,000.

Great numbers... : ok:

yes,that realy great numbers

i dont know if its been said here, but last week, in norway, GH was nr. one!!! i walked into the store kinda in a shitty mood, tired and shit. saw GNR on first place and got real happy.... the people there must have thought i just got laid or something :p

Here is the final count:

LW TW artist / album label power index % change
-- 1 USHER LAFACE/ZLG 1,087,954 --
CONFESSIONS
-- 2 NOW 15 CAPITOL 350,838 --
VARIOUS
-- 3 GUNS N'ROSES GEFFEN 172,423 --
GREATEST HITS
-- 4 CARL THOMAS BAD BOY/UNIVERSAL 138,386 --
LET'S TALK ABOUT IT
1 5 NORAH JONES BLUE NOTE 108,992 -27%
FEELS LIKE HOME
-- 6 N.E.R.D. VIRGIN 108,514 --
FLY OR DIE
3 7 EVANESCENCE WIND-UP 91,889 -14%
FALLEN
4 8 JESSICA SIMPSON COLUMBIA/CRG 82,986 -17%
IN THIS SKIN
6 9 KANYE WEST ROC-A-FELLA/IDJ 77,724 -18%
COLLEGE DROPOUT
7 10 KENNY CHESNEY BNA 74,135 -13%

172000? Thats alot.

wow... usher over 1mill?!?? huh...

big difference there..  :hihi:

this is in the US?

This is for the U.S. right? I checked the billboard website and I still don't see Guns N' Roses on it. When do they update it? If this is true and there were in the 3rd sport for the GH. I think that's great and sold over 100,000 in it's first week.  :)  

Wow - that's impressive and surprising to me.  I was really surprised it did so well in Europe but still thought it wouldn't sell well here.  Shows what I know about selling music...

i was surprised to.  Lets see if it keeps selling or if it just drops off the charts

Hmm it may have even sold more if all you bastards didn't decide to boycott it.
 :rofl:

You would think that the phenomenal sales of an album with no new material would be a cluse to Axl, Slash, and the rest that they're on the wrong path...the world wants this band. Put your fucking egos aside and reclaim your throne!

usher has a brand new album with the number 1 song and a second song already in the top 20

gnr had zero new material, it was barely promoted and still sold over 172,000 copies

if that isnt a sign that c.d. will move over 500,000 first week nothing is

imagine a kick ass single, a new cd promotion etc, it will sell thru the roof

surely this has to make axl smile

gnr arent a joke fuckers they are still relevant!


i picked up aerosmiths new cd today as well as a country cd tracy lawrence, i saw gnr's greatest hits sittin there on the shelf smilin at me, and even though ive burnt way better greatest hits i was paralyzed by my loyalty to GNR and i bought the fuckin thing anyway

If it doesnt show Axl a reunion would be the best thing, I agree with D, it at least shows the name has marketing power. But with every misstep, how much of that marketing power is lost?
Also like D, I too went to pick up the new Aersomtih (which is AWESOME), and was blinded into buying GH. When you actually listen to it, the playlist flows pretty good.

I have to agree on that I wound up buying the GH the day it came out.... and as many GNR hits I burned I have to say that it does flow really nicely, and its been in my CD 3 disk player since I got it, and I change the other cds daily.......

I knew it would be top 3, awesome news.  This should be proof that Axl can still sell material very well.

u said it all dude!!! : ok: : ok:

just reunite or at least put CD out and rule the world like gnr used to do

Yea at that price point it's easy to lure in a casual listener who always liked GnR. Easy sell.

Damn, released one week earlier and they would've taken the #1 spot  :-\

it is obvious that the world loves the original band:

Axl Rose
Slash
Duff
Dizzy
Izzy
Steven


The world has spoken. It really is amazing. I remember back in the 93-97 ERA the public was bashing the band as a whole. But now it is they love the ex-members and bash Axl. Which sadness me greatly. I know it is not Axl's fault. I really wish they could get someone to intervine because Duff and Slash are to blame. Izzy and Steven are also. This band if they were to regroup would be the biggest touring band in the world. They would not be able to reach the sound of this new band, but they would be every bit as cool as the Rolling Stones.

It is obvious that they work best as a unit. Slash and Duff have not been able to achieve success outside Guns. I do not think Izzy has tried.

I love the new members. Whether are not they are Guns is to be seen with an album release. That is most everyones policy. Until then the LiveERA group still sits in their kings chairs.

That is fair.


But wow. How can even Axl ignore the outpour of the chart topping GH's. The fans call for a new album, while they call for the LiveERA band to regroup. If both were done Guns would be huge again.

Greatest Hits = origianl band - origianl music - "the name"

it has nothing to do with the new band.

and no Jarmo this is not spam it is not bashing Axkl. I  LOVE AXL. it's the truth.

I'm sure the exmembers have a lot of water under the bridge. It would be extremely hard for them to mend the wounds. I say do not dwel on the negatives, but look at the positives they had. Even if the negatives outweigh the positives.

Sometimes the hard is what makes it great.

Guns n' Roses
   Forever

-WhisKey

Today on Channel 4's Teletext service, it says The GH is head to head with Anastasia's new album for the number 1 UK spot - both outselling Ushers album.   : ok:

So much for the boycott eh? lol

For the second week in a row, GH is the #1 album in Iceland.

And as every hard rock fan on every continent calls for their kings to return, do they listen? do they care? rock is only as dead as the egos of the geniuses who refuse to get off their high horses and do something.
GNR: the name lives on, but can it ever be more than just a name again? ???

now gnr greatest hits @ in switc,last wekk was 3

LOL :hihi:

In Finland, Greatest Hits climbs one position on its third week on the charts, and is now 3rd.

http://www.yle.fi/top40/albumit.shtml

This album's going from strength to strength :)

No. 1 three weeks in a row here in Ireland!!!!!


http://www.rte.ie/2fm/charts/albums.html

great selling

"And the hits just keep on coming..."-------Axl Boston 12/02/02

Now that's really amazing... they could've had a #1 album in the U.S. with this thing.  :o

For those crying for a reunion:

?For the fans to attempt to condemn me to relationships even only professional with any of these men is a prison sentence and something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. I'd say my parole is nearly over. I'm practically a free man and if you don't like it you'll have plenty of time to get used to the idea.? - Axl Rose, 2002.

After starting at a low position, Greatest Hits is now 9th in Hungary.

Great news for Australian fans too....Second week in its up 3 spots to Number 6....thats great news.. :beer:

Anastasia won the race and is at No.1 but it still means GN'R are back upto No.2 followed by Usher at No.3 and George Michael at No.4

2....3....2 in the UK, outselling Usher and fighting for the number one spot with a new album from Anastasia. I don't think anyone could have predicted this.

I've noticed that the TV ads vanished in the UK after the first week, and still it keeps selling.

Unbelievable.

GNR fuckin rockin the UK  : ok:

@#$%Muther

Here in australia it's at number 9 still and the ads r still on t.v, the ads r quite good actually...so i can see it selling well 4 a few more weeks : ok:

Sorry Matt88 but its at no 6 in Australia in its second week.... : ok:
I havent seen 1 ad for it yet.... :(

My mistake then.....that means the newspaper i read sucks ass :hihi:

Yeh the ads usually on channel 10 around 7-9 pm

  Hey guys,
  Just wondering if anyone knows the projected sales figures for GH this week in the U.S.  I believe this week and subsequent week sales figures will be more telling of the overall success of the album.  Thanks!

In it's third week, it drops from nr. 1 to nr.3 in Norway. The same position it is holding in the Euro chart.

in holland #6 in its third week

1  norah jones - feels like home-
2  anastacia - anastacia-
3  george michael - patience-
4  usher - confessions-
5  n.e.r.d. - fly or die-
6  guns 'n roses - greatest hits-
7  boudewijn de groot - het eiland in de verte-
8  joss stone - soul sessions-
9  norah jones - come away with me-
10  nelly furtado - folklore-

In Sweden it's at #5 in its third week on the chart (http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/listor/hitlistan/album). The weird thing is that it's not on the hardrock album chart (http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/listor/hitlistan/hardrock).



/jarmo

Looks like Guns will be in the top 10 USA charts it's second week

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi

Dropping from #3 to #8 with 60% counted.

Looks like it held up well to the onslaught of new releases.

Only Usher and that Hip-Hop hits record did better in the second week.

Awesome!

 :beer:

-WhisKey

number 2 in ITALY!

ITALY!!!! From #8 to #2 in the second week!!!

www.pagineradio.com/radiomagazine/charts/italia.asp

That's amazing.  GH's packages normally fall out of sight in week 2, to stay in the top 10 is a great accomplishment.

Any idea on how many were sold in week 2?

It's up from #45 to #14 in Belgium (http://www.scarlet.be/ultratop/nl/weeklistsnl.html?hitlist=UTALBUMSVL).



/jarmo

edit (4/6/04):

CHART DATE: 04/05/2004
LAST UPDATE: 04/06/2004 13:24:07
NOW IN: FINAL
 
 
 LW TW artist / album label power index % change
1 1 USHER LAFACE/ZLG 470,251 -57%
CONFESSIONS
-- 2 JANET JACKSON VIRGIN 384,297 --
DAMITA JO
2 3 NOW 15 CAPITOL 210,363 -40%
VARIOUS
-- 4 LIL' FLIP COLUMBIA/CRG 200,931 --
U GOTTA FEEL ME
-- 5 AEROSMITH COLUMBIA/CRG 149,426 --
HONKIN' ON BOBO
-- 6 J-KWON SO SO DEF/ZLG 124,825 --
HOOD HOP
-- 7 ERIC CLAPTON REPRISE 107,353 --
ME AND MR. JOHNSON
5 8 NORAH JONES BLUE NOTE 98,297 -10%
FEELS LIKE HOME
3 9 GUNS N'ROSES GEFFEN 90,168 -48%
GREATEST HITS
7 10 EVANESCENCE WIND-UP 81,840 -11%

#9

Still #1 in Iceland, third week in a row.  :smoking:

I find it odd tht GH sold more its first weem than Aerosmith, in there first week seeing how thst were puitting out music all through the 90's and had some big "hits"......though I really ditnt want a GH album I did buy it and its fine........but amazing the draw the GNR name brings, or as I see it there is alot of people young and old school that really crave GNR.

GNR gains one position in Sweden:

1:st week: 3rd
2:nd week: 5th
3:nd week: 4th

 :beer:

no 10 in thailand
no. 3 in India
man....GNR stiill sell a bunch

i tihnk its numbero uno on the norwegian chart list for the 3week.... it hasnt moved since it got on the chart anyway!  : ok:

inbelgium first week 45,second week 14,now third week number 7.
i think that only one new song on Gh with video,something like bon jovi greatest hits with AlwayS,made a real boom,and have much much better selling.
anyway great selling for Gh

Greatest Hits takes number 1# position on the Finland's top 40 chart! it took 4 weeks to take over the top!  : ok:


edit. link: http://www.yle.fi/top40/albumit.shtml (http://www.yle.fi/top40/albumit.shtml)

GH debuted at number 9 when it first entered the charts in Australia and this week it's gone up to number 6.
I don't think that Live Era did very well in the charts here, I don't even think it broke into the top 40, so GH is doing pretty well in comparison.

It's cool to see GN'R so high in the charts, I guess allot of people do still like GN'R. :beer:

Does anyone have a rough idea of how much GH has sold worldwide?

4 Weeks in a row at number 1 here in Ireland!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.rte.ie/2fm/charts/albums.html

One million maybe?

anyone hear how the GH is doing in Japan?

2004/3/29
11 GREATEST HITS GUNS N'ROSES UNIVERSAL MUSIC/VICTOR

2004/4/5
18 GREATEST HITS GUNS N'ROSES UNIVERSAL MUSIC/VICTOR



/jarmo

Not bad.................thanks Jarmo

Wonder how soon before RIAA certifies the album?

It should not be to much longer

-5th

GN'R is in 5 in Hungary this week. (They started in 40th, then came up to 9th).

http://www.mahasz.hu/m/hu/top40.php

In the best 10 there are only 3 non-Hungarian bands. George Micheal's Patience is 2, while The Rasmus's Dead Letters in 9.

It is number 1 this week on Virgin radio UK album charts announced today!  It's not THE offical UK chart but hey still number 1.

It remains at No.2 in the UK still behind Anastacia : ok:

Hey all....The greatest hits 3 week in Australia it remains at no 6......Im impressed :beer: :beer:
But i havent seen the ad yet.... :'(

Just to ad to my earlier post of GN'R remaining at No.2 in the UK, this week both ABBA's and Atomic Kitten's Greatest Hits entered the chart at positions 4 and 5 obviously showing that people would rather have GN'R greatest hits it's very impressive considering how popular ABBA were and despite being shite how popular Atomic Kitten are now, also The Bay City Rollers 'Best Of' album only entered at No.11, imagine if the tracklisting had been good and Axl had been behind it, hell id of bought it then and so would a lot more people

Ah man the add fucking rocks : ok:

Where was the ad?

It's on channel 10 around 7-9 pm

Tell me whats in the ad!

Ive been looking havent seen anything!

I even watched Queer Eye for the Straight Guy to try see the ad!!!

Well there's live footage n shit from what i remember and the announcer says somehting like Guns N' Roses all their greatest hits on 1 cd and it shows the cd and the 3 dvd's gn'r have released the UYI 1 and 2 and welcome to the videos, sorry to hear about having to watch queereye :yes:

Sounds cool! Ill just have to watch TV all week till I see it.. what a shame  :hihi:

Nite all.. wish the long weekend was just starting again  :(

 :peace:

Yeah, the ad has been on the cable music channels as well.

It reminds me of 1993 when I saw the ads for Spaghetti Incident on tv all the time. If only that line-up was still together to get behind this release...

in Portugal is at #7. dropped one place, so if my maths are good, last week was at #6! : ok:

Yowsers!!!! GH back up to #4 in the U.S this week, started out three, went down to #9 and is back up to #4. Looks like all those new releases that bumped gn'r out of the three spot have now fallen below Gn'r.

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi

Sales of 52,016, down 40+% from last week..

Not sure if all precincts have reported though,
great chart position no matter how many sold last week..

i think,that it isn't final countdown

This is very impressive indeed......kinda like THE PAssion, taking the top spot in theathers this weekend..............damn if they dont use this to capitalize and get the new CD out! FUCK they piss me off! :rant:

That's only 49.83% of total records counted. So by the time it reaches its final count it will probably be at around a 100,000 sales figure. Also last time this hitsdailydouble news source was off by 6,000 records last week compared to the Nielsen soundscan figures,so my prediction for this week's sales is 90,000-110,000 records.

In its 4th week it's back @ nr. 1 on the official Norwegian chart.

9 9 GUNS N'ROSES GEFFEN 91,052 +1%

Held steady at #9.... up 1%

welcome to the videos #1 as well....

yeah, better news than being at #4 since it's up and holding steady. Wonder how many it has sold worldwide so far? has to be way past 500,000.

wow... i just saw at the norwegian chart now. last week, it was apparantly at nr. 3!

i didnt think this best of album would be more popular than Anastacia.... cool!  : ok:


EDIT: i feel stupid now.. sorry....  its been posted..

Australia:

Down from 4 to 3 in the HMV chart, behind Usher, Pete Murray and John Butler Trio.

In the national chart (ARIA), still at 6, hasnt been higher.

5 weeks at no.1 in Ireland, entered at no.1 and hasn't moved since!!!

http://www.rte.ie/2fm/charts/albums.html

#2 in Hungary (http://www.mahasz.hu/m/hu/top40.php)

Entered the chart at #30 and has since climbed up slowly to #2. Last week it was at #5.

Thanks to sbecike, webmaster of www.gunsnroses.hu


/jarmo

In Finland, the Greatest Hits continues at the no.1 position on its 5th week at the charts climbing its way through. The record started at no.6, being 4th and 3rd on the following weeks, and then claiming the top spot.

It's #1 on the Virgin Radio HMV Album Chart  (http://www.virginradio.co.uk/music/albumchart/index.html) in the UK.



/jarmo

Greatest Hits is at #5 now in Holland :)

http://www.megacharts.nl/full.jsp?

No. 4 on its first 2 weeks on the Greek Charts.


No. 2 now on Play.com.

Here in Slovenia, they entered the chart list below 20, last week 2 and this week #1 with 2.5 sales increase with no promotion at all

GUNS N' ROSES NUMBER 1 IN THE UK!!!!!!!!!!

4 WEEKS IN THE TOP TWO!!!!!

COME ON MOTHERFUCKERS, AVE IT, GET IN THERE!!!!!!!

LIKE...... A....... MUTHER...... FUNKER!!!!!!

@#$%Muther

YES!!! Just came here to report it! http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/top40/albums.shtml (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/top40/albums.shtml)

Also, the Welcome To The Videos DVD is number 1 on the music DVD chart! http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/top40/dvdvideo.shtml (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/top40/dvdvideo.shtml)

I'm gonna wear my GN'R t-shirt tomorrow at college :smoking:

Top Chart Positions so Far:

Austria            1
Finland            1
Iceland            1
Ireland            1
Norway             1
Slovenia           1
UK                    1
Canada             2
Hungary            2
Italy                  2
Germany            3
India                 3
Sweden             3
Switzerland       3
USA                   3
Argentina          4
Denmark           4
Greece              4
Netherlands      5
Australia           6
Portugal            6
Belgium             7
Spain                8
Thailand           10
Japan               11


@#$%Muther

I wonder why GN'R hasn't reached higher than #11 in Japan...I thought that they have the strongest fan base in Japan.

AFAIK, it's been at #4 in Denmark and at #8 in Spain.



/jarmo

Duly noted..... and modified  : ok:

@#$%Muther

GH is down one spot in Iceland, now #2.
http://www.mbl.is/mm/folk/listi.html?kind=tonlist

Eamon, GNR Overtake U.K. Charts (http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000490885)

Eamon's recent No. 16 Billboard Hot 100 hit "F**k It (I Don't Want You Back)" (Jive) went straight to the top of the new U.K. singles chart yesterday (April 18). Meanwhile, the album survey welcomed some old friends back to No. 1 as Guns N' Roses surged to the top with its "Greatest Hits" (Geffen).

--

The Guns N' Roses compilation rose to No. 1 in its fifth chart week, replacing Anastacia's self-titled third Epic album at the top. The American rock band's only previous U.K. best-seller was "Use Your Illusion II," which spent a solitary week at the top in September 1991.


--


/jarmo

#2 in Switzerland
http://swisscharts.com/

Guns are going up on the U.S. charts:

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/newsPage.cgi?news05048

The article talks about Usher, Now!, and Hoobastank before mentioning Guns:

Likely following close behind in the 60k-70k range will be Guns N? Roses (Geffen), Jessica Simpson (Columbia), Janet Jackson (Virgin), Norah Jones (Blue Note) and Evanescence (Wind-up).

So I guess that means they could jump up to #4 in the U.S., but the way I read it, it seems that the positions for the 60k-70k group could vary.  : ok:

The GH CD ranked #5 at best in France (#7 last week), but in the country of cheese and wine, they rank regular albums and compilations on two different charts, so a compilation would not appear on the regular albums charts. GH ranked #5 in that compilations chart.

Guns r down 4 spots to no 10 in Australia...

Still nr.1 in Norway

GNR's greatest hits moved up to 5 this week on the billboard 100s.  It sold 53,000 records.  Last week it was 9.

your a little early there. It ended @ nr. 4 with 69394 sold.

So far the reported numbers are as follows:
UK
1st: 113000

US
1st: 172423
2nd:  90168
3rd:  91052
4th:  69394

Canada
1st:  14800
2nd:  12000

In it's forth week it's holding the second position on the Euro chart.

Oh, and welcome to the videos is still nr.1 on the Norwegian chart, and has been for the last three weeks.

About GH?

If U ask me, I 'd say they're contributing US sales (imports). 8)

Japanese edition is (probably)
CCCD (not being an expert on the argument over this fuckin industry friendly stuff, I?m not going on about it here)
Price of 2490yen (about a triple of US EBay price!)
Same package to a import copy except a sticky badge
with liner notes, and lyrics in English and in Japanese that are hell shitty (unrefined) translations in taste wise all  the way.  :-X
Even English language haters, if any in GNR fans, would choose the imports.

Still this GH has done very well amongst Japanese domestic pop music. :smoking:

Yeah, # 8 in Spain. That is quite impressive actually. Spanish chart is usually full of spanish singers, obviously. There's hardly ever a rock band in the top 20. Metallica and maybe Linkin Park have reached the top 10, but Guns, having released nothing in ten years with the execption on Live Era in a country where the biggest selling artist comes from the spanish version of American idol, it's pretty fucking cool.

I read a review of the GH album last week. It was written on the " trendy" friday edition of the biggest selling newspaper in Spain" El P?is" I don't have it with me right now, but the critic gave the album a 4 out of 10. It did mention that if Guns had remained together and released a fucking rocker instead of the illusions albums, GNR would have been the biggest hard rock band in history of music. Also mentioned, if they had spent as much time on recording music as they did on drugs and booze,GNR would've a much bigger catalogue.

I wonder if the Greatest Hits album has affected sales of the other albums?

I'm sure some people have picked up the GH then decided "I want the rest of the tracks from Appetite"
or maybe it made some one who has the whole library on tape to go out and buy the CD's..........

Hopefully Appetite can push itself above Hootie and Alanis, I hate to see that 19 albums have sold better

It could have the opposite affect in the long run.  The average joe may just pick up the Greatest Hits and not bother getting the full CDs.

19 albums have sold better?  How many were debut CDs?

   
     
 
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26.0
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19.0
 BACK IN BLACK
 AC/DC
 ELEKTRA
 ALBUM
 
19.0
 THE BEATLES
 BEATLES, THE
 CAPITOL
 ALBUM
 
19.0
 COME ON OVER
 TWAIN, SHANIA
 MERCURY NASHVILLE
 ALBUM
 
17.0
 BOSTON
 BOSTON
 EPIC
 ALBUM
 
17.0
 THE BODYGUARD (SOUNDTRACK)
 HOUSTON, WHITNEY
 ARISTA
 ALBUM
 
16.0
 CRACKED REAR VIEW
 HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH
 ATLANTIC
 ALBUM
 
16.0
 GREATEST HITS
 JOHN, ELTON
 ISLAND/MERCURY
 ALBUM
 
16.0
 JAGGED LITTLE PILL
 MORISSETTE, ALANIS
 MAVERICK
 ALBUM
 
16.0
 THE BEATLES 1967 - 1970
 BEATLES, THE
 CAPITOL
 ALBUM
 
16.0
 NO FENCES
 BROOKS, GARTH
 CAPITOL NASHVILLE
 ALBUM
 
16.0
 HOTEL CALIFORNIA
 EAGLES
 ELEKTRA
 ALBUM
 
15.0
 DOUBLE LIVE
 BROOKS, GARTH
 CAPITOL NASHVILLE
 ALBUM
 
15.0
 THE BEATLES 1962 - 1966
 BEATLES, THE
 CAPITOL
 ALBUM
 
15.0
 SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (SOUNDTRACK)
 BEE GEES
 POLYDOR/ATLAS
 ALBUM
 
15.0
 DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
 PINK FLOYD
 CAPITOL
 ALBUM
 
15.0
 PHYSICAL GRAFFITI
 LED ZEPPELIN
 SWAN SONG
 ALBUM
 
15.0
 APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION
 GUNS 'N ROSES
 GEFFEN
 ALBUM

7.0
 USE YOUR ILLUSION I
 GUNS 'N ROSES
 GEFFEN
 ALBUM
 
7.0
 USE YOUR ILLUSION II
 GUNS 'N ROSES
 GEFFEN
 ALBUM
 

Mark my words...once GH goes gold, then the RIAA may update Gnr's catalog. AFD will probably go to 17-18-19 million. Just a guess.

you know how much GH have sold here in norway?

No, but I'm going to make an effort to find out once it starts dropping in the chart.

well,in usa and canada gnr sold about 500000 copies,and in the world about 1000000 copies.it's amazing

Number 5 this week in Denmark... :)

Number 1 In England this week.

#2 in Sweden (http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/listor/hitlistan/album), its highest position so far.



/jarmo

600000 copies sold in uk!
that's amazing!
and about 2 milion over the world!
great

Number 1 in Slovenia for the 2nd week in a row. Positions so far:

1st week #23
2nd week# 2
3rd week #1
4th week #1

6 weeks @ no. 1 in Ireland!!!!!!!

http://www.rte.ie/2fm/charts/albums.html

ok,that's coll,but in slovenia gnr sold 30-70 copies in six week

The downward spiral - GH #3 this week in Iceland. :'(

No.1 in the UK for a second week, Anastacia is still at No.2 and Prince has debuted at No.3

usually the u.k album chart has a frenetic no.1 spot so gnr are doing well to get a second week id say

Still @ #1 in Finland (http://www.yle.fi/top40/albumit.shtml).

Now @ #3 in The Netherlands (http://www.planet.nl/planet/show/id=82349/sc=d09793) (up from #5)

#8 in Germany (http://www.hit1.de/charts/longplaycharts.htm) (down from 6)



/jarmo

#5 on BillBoard (http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/bb200.jsp) (up from # 9)

Good news Aussie fans : ok:...The Ghits is back up 4 spots from 10 to 6.....Its been at no 6 in 3 weeks...6 is as high as its been so far.. :beer:

Yeah i'm so stoked to see GN'R in the top 20 albums on the wall when i walk in2 HMV or Sanity : ok:

still at #7 in Portugal. 2nd week in a row.

looks like that in the u.s gn'r is gonna fall a couple of spots but still remain in the top 10. about 50 percent of the sales are recorded in this link.

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi

Norway, week 6, down from #1 spot now it's @ 6th place
Welcome to the videos still #1.

Still 2nd place on the Euro chart.

I didn't see the TV ads as much last week, but the past two days I've seen it more often in a shorter version. They probably knew about the drop in sales last week!

They have dropped completley!!!i cant beleive that people would rather buy Usher than G N R's!!!! :rant:Does anyone else feel the same?

Apr. 28, 2004

GUNS N' ROSES' "Greatest Hits" album (Geffen Records) has proven an enormous success for Universal Music International, shipping 1.2 million units across Europe within five weeks of release.

The album brings together 14 tracks spanning the entire career of the self-styled "most dangerous band in the world," from the era-defining "Appetite For Destruction" LP to punk-covers release "The Spaghetti Incident?"

Released internationally on March 15 (March 23 in the U.S.), the album has featured at the top of the charts in Austria, Finland, Ireland, Norway and the U.K. It is now two times platinum in Ireland & the United Kingdom, platinum in Norway and Switzerland, and gold in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy and Sweden.

"Greatest Hits" has also sold 1 million copies in the USA and Canada, peaking at No. 3 on the U.S. Billboard charts, and at No. 2 in Canada, and is gold in both territories. It is also two times platinum in New Zealand and gold in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan.

source: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermo...ewsitemID=21853

Platinum for CDs in Norway is 40.000 units. That is not bad in 5 weeks !!! I believe the Illusion sets has shiftet close to 150.000 each. I'm not so sure about Lies and Appetite, but I believe Lies has sold more than 75.000. And Appetite should have sold more, but not sure about that.

Actually Lies entered the Norwegian chart before Appetite, however Appetite was on the chart for 26 weeks, Lies only had 12 weeks on the chart.

#8 on Billboard in US this week.

then gnr gh was sold in about 3 milion copies(with asia,japan and south america),that's great sucess.

in 5/6 weeks it's great yeah...You'll see it, when "Chinese Democracy" is released, It will massively dominate the Charts. I feel it, I think it's going to be enormous. really enormous. The music and the success. A masterpiece of Rock n' Roll. Can't explain that, it's a fucking good feeling...anybody has the same feeling that me?

yes man,but it not just a felling it is fact.and i'm sure very hardcore gnr fan will have mmore than one copy of new album

#3 in Sweden this week, has been certified gold (sales of 30000 copies).




/jarmo

Back up to #2 in Iceland (#3 last week). : ok:

Looks like it could be dropping off the No.1 spot in the UK it's been down in a number of shops and online lists, interesting though looking in Night & Day magazine (comes free w/ 'The Mail On Sunday') they had the album chart positions and had a picture of Axl saying Guns N' Roses are top of the album charts interesting thing though was the picture was from the 2002 VMA's, normally they show the old pictures so it was nice to have a recent one

Still no 1 in Finland. 7th week on the charts 4th in the top position.

Slipped to No.2 in the UK like i predicted Anastacia is at No.3 but now at No.1 is D12 :rant:

Dropped from 6th to 7th place on the Norwegian Chart, still #2 on the Euro chart, and #1 on the Norwegian Music DVD chart.

now  11 in usa,53386 copies was sold

Up to No. 1 in Hungary for the first time!  : ok:

http://www.mahasz.hu/m/hu/top40.php

I know this may seem like a stupid question, but exactly how many greatest hits albums have been sold up till now in the U.S.?  THanks

Guns dropped to no2 with a finnish group Semmarit taking the no1 position.

I believe it has sold 500,000 plus, I just quickly did it in my head but i believe the weeks go like this, i might be missing a week or two, but i'm quite sure its at least 500,000

week one- 180,000
week two-90,000
week three-90,000
week four-60,000
week five-60,000
week six-50,000

Here's a quote from a news article that might help you:

Greatest Hits" has also sold 1 million copies in the USA and Canada, peaking at No. 3 on the U.S. Billboard charts, and at No. 2 in Canada, and is gold in both territories.  

Although this report is about 2 weeks old.

Greatest Hits is back to #1 in the UK Charts : ok: D12 down to #4 ;D

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/top40/albums.shtml

Top 40 Albums (09/05/2004)
 
     
TW LW Title Artist Label
1 (2) Greatest Hits Guns N' Roses Geffen
2 (4) Songs About Jane Maroon 5 J
3 (3) Anastacia Anastacia Epic
4 (1) D12 World D12 Interscope
5 ( ) Then And Now Who Polydor
6 (6) Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters Polydor
7 (8) Life Story Shadows Umtv
8 (7) Final Straw Snow Patrol Fiction/Polydor
9 (5) Confessions Usher Arista
10 (10) Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand Domino Recordings
11 (12) Feels Like Home Norah Jones Blue Note
12 (16) Call Off The Search Katie Melua Dramatico
13 (14) Dead Letters Rasmus Universal
14 (11) The Best Of Leann Rimes Curb/London
15 (9) I Don't Want You Back Eamon Jive
16 ( ) Best Of - Wave Of Mutilation Pixies 4ad
17 (19) Gold - Greatest Hits Abba Polydor
18 (15) The Girl In The Other Room Diana Krall Verve
19 (17) The College Dropout Kanye West Roc-A-Fella
20 (20) The Soul Sessions Joss Stone Relentless/Virgin
21 (13) Musicology Prince Columbia/Npg
22 (24) Turn It On Ronan Keating Polydor
23 (23) Friday's Child Will Young S
24 (21) Patience George Michael Aegean
25 (27) Life For Rent Dido Cheeky
26 (40) Hurt No More Mario Winans Bad Boy
27 (28) Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Outkast Arista
28 (36) Twentysomething Jamie Cullum Ucj
29 (26) The Greatest Hits Atomic Kitten Innocent
30 (22) The Very Best Of Bay City Rollers Bell
31 (31) The Singles 1992-2003 No Doubt Interscope
32 (30) Fly Or Die Nerd Virgin
33 (32) The Diary Of Alicia Keys J
34 (37) Folklore Nelly Furtado Dreamworks
35 (33) Come Away With Me Norah Jones Parlophone
36 ( ) In The Zone Britney Spears Jive
37 (35) Elephunk Black Eyed Peas A&M
38 (18) Heroes To Zeros Beta Band Regal Recordings
39 ( ) Start Something Lostprophets Visible Noise
40 (39) A Present For Everyone Busted Universal

Each week I get more and more amazed at the selling power of Guns N' Roses.

In the UK, albums don't last long at the top of the pile, they drop fairly quickly. Artists like D12 and Anastacia would be expected to be outselling GH easily.

Does anyone else think that the GH has had more success than you ever could have thought? I still can't believe the UK album charts. I don't know how far it's exceeded your expectation in other countries but in the UK it's unbelievable.

@#$%Muther

How long do you think its going to be before they bring out a greatest hits 2 disc?  With the sales that GH has had you know they are going to do it.  I can't believe GH has done so well because GNR have had only 3 real albums it would be almost cheaper to go and buy the 3 original albums then to buy GH lol.

GNR for fucking ever.

Unless they wanna cheat the fans a GH Disc 2 is pointless the title implies it is GN'R Hits, now i know the tracklisting was not great but how many singles/hits were left out?

Is it still being advertised on tv in the UK?

I know they still run the commercial in Sweden, seen it a few times during the icehockey world championships.



/jarmo

I used to see the ad every couple of days but I haven't seen it for a couple of weeks now.

I'm pretty sure it's not shown anymore, at least not on terestrial channels.

I also live in the second biggest city in the UK and haven't once seen a billboard for it.

@#$%Muther

Norway:

week 8, up to 4th place from 7th last week.

Very impressive:
http://lista.vg.no/album_info.jsp?publicationId=8037&listId=2&choose=hidden_value

Mutherfunker's right about in the u.k.GH has exceeded my expectations,hopefully it will continue

The highest position in Greece is # 2 now... :)
http://www.ifpi.gr/chart01.htm
 
 
Also, in Czech Republic, GH climbed at # 31
http://www.ifpicr.cz/

 :beer:

in usa in 6 week gnr sold about 55000 copies

why do they don't show that GH went gold on Billboard album charts?

in Finland back to no#1!
They were 2 last week after 3 weeks no. 1
9 weeks on charts...

Add one more zero to that...

Uh no, 55,000 is right, there's no way it sold 550,000 copies last week, the total is close to that, the most it's sold in a week was 180,000. And to the guy that asked why it's not gold on billboard, I think it's because the label has to apply for certification or something and they probably haven't gotten around to it yet.

It's down from 3 to 4 on the Swedish album list, but it's number 1 at both cdon.com and ginza.se  :beer:

Ah dude. Ofcourse there's no way it sold 550,000 copies in one week. The dude's sentence was gramatically goofy and I thought he said that in 6 weeks GN'R have sold 55,000 copies of the Greatest Hits album in the U.S,but now I just figured out he meant that in week number 6 it sold 55,000 copies. But yes the Greatest Hits album has sold around 500,000-600,000 copies in the U.S.

my wrong,in six week gh sold 55000 copies.
in usa gnr sold about 700000 copies in 6 weeks

From www.bbc.co.uk
1 ( ) Hopes And Fears Keane Island
2 ( ) A Grand Don't Come For Free Streets 679/Locked On
3 (3) Anastacia Anastacia Epic
4 (1) Greatest Hits Guns N' Roses Geffen
5 (2) Songs About Jane Maroon 5 J
6 (26) Hurt No More Mario Winans Bad Boy
7 (20) The Soul Sessions Joss Stone Relentless/Virgin
8 (6) Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters Polydor
9 (7) Life Story Shadows Umtv
10 (10) Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand Domino Recordings
11 (4) D12 World D12 Interscope
12 (5) Then And Now Who Polydor
13 (9) Confessions Usher Arista
14 (8) Final Straw Snow Patrol Fiction/Polydor
15 (12) Call Off The Search Katie Melua Dramatico
16 (11) Feels Like Home Norah Jones Blue Note
17 (13) Dead Letters Rasmus Universal
18 (19) The College Dropout Kanye West Roc-A-Fella
19 (14) The Best Of Leann Rimes Curb/London
20 (27) Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Outkast Arista
21 (17) Gold - Greatest Hits Abba Polydor
22 (15) I Don't Want You Back Eamon Jive
23 (18) The Girl In The Other Room Diana Krall Verve
24 (16) Best Of - Wave Of Mutilation Pixies 4ad
25 (28) Twentysomething Jamie Cullum Ucj
26 (44) O Damien Rice Drm/14th Floor
27 (21) Musicology Prince Columbia/Npg
28 (36) In The Zone Britney Spears Jive
29 (35) Come Away With Me Norah Jones Parlophone
30 (43) Original Pirate Material Streets 679/Locked On
31 (25) Life For Rent Dido Cheeky
32 (23) Friday's Child Will Young S
33 (39) Start Something Lostprophets Visible Noise
34 (31) The Singles 1992-2003 No Doubt Interscope
35 (24) Patience George Michael Aegean
36 ( ) Greatest Hits I, Ii & Iii Queen Parlophone
37 ( ) Com Lag 2+2=5 Radiohead Parlophone
38 (33) The Diary Of Alicia Keys J
39 (22) Turn It On Ronan Keating Polydor
40 ( ) The End Of Heartache Killswitch Engage Roadrunner

Kinda shitt it's dropped but it had to happen sometime

8th week in the Australian charts its back up 1 spot to no 7.... :beer:
And its gone Platinum : ok: : ok: ;D

Makes you realise how well it's done when George Michael's album that sold very well, and was released the same week, is now at 35 in the UK.

@#$%Muther

Norway:

Greatest hits: 9th week, drops 2 places to #6

WTTV: Still #1 and has been for the past 7 weeks

EURO chart:
still #2

Is it possible to know the GH charts positions in countries like Russia, Croatia, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, Venezuela, Mexico, Indonesia, Taiwan, Malaysia, South Korea ??

I guess it sold quite well...

hello,i'm from yugoslavia(now serbia),and we are shit country,without official realises from other country

Alright Rale?

I'm originally from Serbia too. I can't believe you guys have no overseas official releases. That's shitty. That's a big GN'R country too.

As I'm writing this I've just realised that Serbia & Montenegro abreviates to S&M, how bout that  :hihi:

@#$%Muther

You have to admit all judgements aside. It has been fun seeing GN'R trample over the unexpecting world.  Proving all those non believers in music mags who can't say anything positive.

I think the record company should continue pushing it while it's still up there in the top 10. I mean with something like Big Brother starting in the uk - a couple of GH ad's in the first couple of weeks around the programme would be quite a good idea.

And as we all know GNR have the perfect summer music. When it's sunny and u have the BBQ on and cold beers with all your mates around - perfect lol

We should all buy one more at least think in terms of - One for downstairs, one for the car , maybe even one for upstairs too if your feeling a bit rich lol

Would be great to see it go back up on top just one more time even if it's just to piss everybody off lol   Maybe we could have VR and GNR in the top 10  at the same time - would be cool at least for those not taking "sides".  : ok:

From www.bbc.co.uk it's plunge down the UK charts continue's:

1 (1) Hopes And Fears Keane Island
2 ( ) You Are The Quarry Morrissey Attack
3 (2) A Grand Don't Come For Free Streets 679/Locked On
4 (6) Hurt No More Mario Winans Bad Boy
5 ( ) Meltdown Ash Infectious
6 (7) The Soul Sessions Joss Stone Relentless/Virgin
7 (3) Anastacia Anastacia Epic
8 ( ) So-Called Chaos Alanis Morissette Maverick
9 (8) Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters Polydor
10 ( ) Play To Win Gabrielle Go Beat
11 (4) Greatest Hits Guns N' Roses Geffen
12 (5) Songs About Jane Maroon 5 J
13 ( ) Up At The Lake Charlatans Universal
14 (13) Confessions Usher Arista
15 (9) Life Story Shadows Umtv
16 (10) Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand Domino Recordings
17 (18) The College Dropout Kanye West Roc-A-Fella
18 (15) Call Off The Search Katie Melua Dramatico
19 ( ) Happiness In Magazines Graham Coxon Transcopic
20 (12) Then And Now Who Polydor
21 (20) Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Outkast Arista
22 (14) Final Straw Snow Patrol Fiction/Polydor
23 (16) Feels Like Home Norah Jones Blue Note
24 (17) Dead Letters Rasmus Universal
25 (11) D12 World D12 Interscope
26 ( ) The No 1's Diana Ross And The Supremes Motown
27 ( ) Catalyst New Found Glory Geffen
28 (19) The Best Of Leann Rimes Curb/London
29 ( ) Tical 0 - The Prequel Method Man Def Jam
30 (28) In The Zone Britney Spears Jive
31 ( ) Tasty Kelis Virgin
32 (21) Gold - Greatest Hits Abba Polydor
33 (32) Friday's Child Will Young S
34 (44) The Black Album Jay-Z Roc-A-Fella
35 ( ) Split The Difference Gomez Hut
36 (23) The Girl In The Other Room Diana Krall Verve
37 (29) Come Away With Me Norah Jones Parlophone
38 (36) Greatest Hits I, Ii & Iii Queen Parlophone
39 (41) When It Falls Zero 7 Ultimate Dilemma
40 (22) I Don't Want You Back Eamon Jive

Saw the advert in full for the ad breaks on Gordon Ramseys Kitchen - a high profile programme in the UK. Good stuff, hope it gets back up there.

should be interesting to see what velvet revolvers sales will be, also i wonder how much of the vr publicity has helped the GH's. But it's good to know that its selling so well in spite of the shitty tracklisting, makes you wonder where it would be with only one new song.

Norway, week 10

GH #9 position (#6 last week)

WTTV #5 (#1 last week)



Euro chart week 9

GH #3 (#2 last week)

Does anyone know how many copys the greatest hits has sold in the USA.  I think it is at about 750,000 but could be wrong.  Anyway, if it keeps on selling 40,000 a week its going platinum.  I think it will. Any thoughts.

#1 in Belgium (http://www.scarlet.be/ultratop/nl/weeklistsnl.html?hitlist=UTALBUMSVL).




/jarmo

Well it remains at No.11 in the UK, good to see it's not dropped any further since last week;

Top 40 Albums (30/05/2004)
 
     
TW LW Title Artist Label
1 ( ) Under My Skin Avril Lavigne Arista
2 (1) Hopes And Fears Keane Island
3 (4) Hurt No More Mario Winans Bad Boy
4 (3) A Grand Don't Come For Free Streets 679/Locked On
5 ( ) Vol 3 (The Subliminal Verses) Slipknot Roadrunner
6 (6) The Soul Sessions Joss Stone Relentless/Virgin
7 (2) You Are The Quarry Morrissey Attack
8 (14) Confessions Usher Arista
9 (9) Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters Polydor
10 (7) Anastacia Anastacia Epic
11 (11) Greatest Hits Guns N' Roses Geffen
12 (12) Songs About Jane Maroon 5 J
13 (17) The College Dropout Kanye West Roc-A-Fella
14 (5) Meltdown Ash Infectious
15 (10) Play To Win Gabrielle Go Beat
16 (16) Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand Domino Recordings
17 (15) Life Story Shadows Umtv
18 (31) Tasty Kelis Virgin
19 (21) Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Outkast Arista
20 (8) So-Called Chaos Alanis Morissette Maverick
21 (18) Call Off The Search Katie Melua Dramatico
22 (47) Get Born Jet Elektra
23 (13) Up At The Lake Charlatans Universal
24 (23) Feels Like Home Norah Jones Blue Note
25 (30) In The Zone Britney Spears Jive
26 (22) Final Straw Snow Patrol Fiction/Polydor
27 ( ) Made To Love Magic Nick Drake Island
28 (20) Then And Now Who Polydor
29 (24) Dead Letters Rasmus Universal
30 (25) D12 World D12 Interscope
31 (33) Friday's Child Will Young S
32 (28) The Best Of Leann Rimes Curb/London
33 ( ) The Very Best Of Adam And The Ants Columbia
34 (34) The Black Album Jay-Z Roc-A-Fella
35 ( ) Centre Stage Elaine Paige Wsm
36 (26) The No 1's Diana Ross And The Supremes Motown
37 (32) Gold - Greatest Hits Abba Polydor
38 (41) Life For Rent Dido Cheeky
39 (37) Come Away With Me Norah Jones Parlophone
40 (29) Tical 0 - The Prequel Method Man Def Jam

remember how bad it started here ?!? at #45...

Belgium loves GnR :D:D

Norway week 11

#9 position, same as last week.

wttv #4 position, up 1 from last week.

Is there any way of knowing how many GH's has sold worldwide??  Any website or way of contacting the record company?  This week, according to Hits Daily Double, it's down to #23 on the North American album charts after having sold 38,758 copies, down 5% from last week.  

hey,now number 11 in usa with about 60000 copies,last week were 50k.
gnr still rocks

Norway week 12

#11 position

Wttv back @ #1

good news on the u.s sales this week, gn'r moves up 10 spots back up to #14, the biggest jump in the top 50, a 16 percent increase in sales from last week at 44,904.

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi

but then i go and check billboard and it has it moving up 3 to 21, wonder which one is more accurate? i'm assuming billboard, but they don't list sales numbers.

http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/bb200.jsp

Billboard's site usually makes the update on Thursdays or Fridays. What you're looking at is last week's chart. People have to remember that Billboard always takes time to put the numbers online and on magazines while hitsdailydouble is instant.

The Greatest Hits album is currently on the charts at #11 here in Canada.

As a side note, as making my cd purchases today (of 3 Contraband albums - giving my sister the chance to steal the instore poster - oh yeah!!  Stealing in the name of VR) the sales person commented that they are just about sold out of Contraband.  A lot of people had been coming in all day... buying 1, 2, or 3 copies.  Hope both bands continue to do well!!  

Also hoping we weren't caught on any security cams :)  

contraband number 11 on uk chart, and number 8 on ireland chart

GH sitting again at number 11 in the Australian charts.

Contraband number 2.

On the 13th week on the Finnish Charts Guns climbed a step to no 5.

Nice to see that people are still buying.

A bit off topic: A weird thing happened last week after the Metallica concert here: 6 Metallica albums climbed into the top40, and I don't know if there's ever been a similar case here  in Finland.

and what will happen if gnr make a tour?
metallica have been working all of these years,and many kids didn't hear for gnr

velvet revolver sold 200000 copies in first week

Norway,

GH dropps to #14


Contraband debutes @ #3

GH jumps back up to #10 in the UK (#17 lw)  :peace:

uk loves guns n roses,in uk gnr in top ten again,after 13 weeks.
velvet revolver in second week 35

Latest from Australia:

GN'R Greatest Hits - #11

VR Contraband - #18

Guns N' Roses are now at #14, Velvet Revolver #40

in 17th week in usa gnr greatesthits now 15,with about 50000 copies,velvet revolver 4 th place.
last wekk gnr was 49 with 15000 copies

that's very good

I think its fair to say that VH1's Behind the Music Helped them out some, sense both VR and GnR GH's both had sales increases last week.  

greatest hits exploded on the us chart from 51 to 21! i guess BTM sales records

In the UK this week it's moved back up from 25 to 22.....just can't keep a good band down : ok:

GH at 18 in Australia. 17 weeks in the chart. Platinum.

Contraband at 45. 6 weeks in the chart. Gold.

in us gnr at 25, with 40000 copies

At #8 in Sweden, up from #21 the previous week.



/jarmo

Last week in the UK it was number 26 and today it's gone back upto 25 just ain't gonna leave the top 40 for a long while : ok:

how many total sales so far in the us, how bout uk?

peace  :peace:

over 1.1 million in the us

Nice big fat juicy pay cheque on the way for Axl & co.

thanks for the info where did you get the numbers Jizzo, thanks

peace :peace:

well,in first six weeks gnr sold more than 500000 copies in usa,i saw that on hitsdailydouble.com,and after that in every other week gnr sold 30000-60000 copies,so gnr sold about 1 milion copies

I suppose that a lot of people who bough the Greatest Hits are young people, teenagers, who didn't know the band 10 years ago because they were too young aren't they? They heard that Guns n' Roses is a legendary Rock band and so they bough this album to have their Hits. And the album is definitely a success. One of the best selling album of the year right now.
so....you know what?...This is very good for "Chinese Democracy"!  :peace:

i agrre with you,Nes,and we have many casual gnr fans whose have afd,and uyi but they didn't buy gh,because they had every gnr album,but they would buy chinese democracy.
and every fan of old rnr will buy chinese democracy
many nin fans will buy

The Guns N' Roses: Greatest Hits album has sold an estimated 1,029,903 copies so far in the U.S.

How do you know this? RIAA hasn't even certified it Gold yet. Maybe Geffen was waiting for it to hit platinum and do them both at once. It clearly has sold more than 500,000-I don't know about 1 million. ???

Soundscan supplied these results. Soundscan shows what the customers bought from the stores.

RIAA only shows what the stores bought.

Example: Metallica's St. Anger was certifed 2X platinum a few weeks after it's release. At the same time Soundscan showed they only had sold 1 million units.

If the stores like the way these are selling I would not be suprised if GH'S is 2x's platinum when RIAA certifies it. That will put plenty of GH's on the shelves for customers to buy for the next year.

-5th

Where do you get soundscan's numbers??

Week   1 -- 172,423
Week   2 --   90,168
Week   3 --   91,052
Week   4 --   69,394
Week   5 --   58,420
Week   6 --   53,826
Week   7 --   53,814
Week   8 --   42,774
Week   9 --   40,745
Week 10 --   38,758
Week 11 --   44,904
Week 12 --   40,654
Week 13 --   40,715
Week 14 --   27,062
Week 15 --   25,759
Week 16 --   36,290
Week 17 --   37,376
Week 18 --   33,462
Week 19 --   32,307
Total =    1,029,903 Soundscan

...which is roughly 1.5 x Platinum RIAA.  After Chinese Democracy gets released and they track the Soundscan figures, Geffen will purchase a full audit from the RIAA in order to buy the gold and platinum certificates.  So, don't be surprised if you see multiple certs awarded on one day for it and the back catalogue--which is cheaper in the long run.

Adding to what 5th was saying about St. Anger...Elektra purchased gold, platinum and double-platinum certs on 07/08/03 when, as of 07/07/03, it had only sold 1,073,374 Soundscan.

Thanks for the numbers Chindem. :)

Madagas- I think the best place for free Soundscan numbers on a weekly basis is www.hitsdailydouble.com

Also www.metal-sludge.com does a check once in awhile of soundscan figures. Plus they have a past history to look at.

Other than that I think you have to subscribe and that cost $.

-5th

Thanks 5th and Chindem. I was hoping RIAA would update the catalog after GH. Chinese is a fairly uncertain event at this point in time.... ;D

Pretty good for a band that's supposed to be washed-up. :headbanger:

This week The Greatest Hits has dropped from No.25 to No.29 :( in the UK

I couldnt hve said it better : ok:

peace :peace:

lasr week,29000 of gh was sold.gnr still in top 50

Week of 08.09.04 -- 28,608 Soundscan U.S.
New total = 1,058,511 Soundscan

BTW, Soundscan figures are taken from subscribing venues, which Soundscan estimates is 80-85% of the nation's retailers.

last week gnr sold 29626 copies of greatest hits,and this was 4% better selling than week before

Geffen still hasn't applied to have this record certified gold or platinum. I wonder why? Appetite really needs to be updated as well. It kind of pisses me off. :rant: :rant: Ill bet AFD is near 18-20 million in the US by now. :rant: :rant:

maybe geffen wait right moment,and maybe this moment is very close

Just as a comparison, Nirvana's greatest hits is only platinum. Any one know how many that has soundscanned? ???

Like I said before, they will more than likely wait until after CD has been released before they buy a full audit.  They're also probably monitoring Soundscan sales for the back catalogue in order to better time a purchase.


I only see its Soundscan sales up to January of 2003 where it was around the 1,000,000 mark.  Conceivably, it could have sold up to, roughly, 1.5 million more--based on the fact it falls off/is on the bottom of charts from February onward AND sales of other chart-bottoming albums during those times (meaning, it sold under, roughly, 20K each week thereafter).

OMG!!!!!!!! There seems to be no ending to the success of GH

LW TW artist / album                                label     power index % change
37  21  GUNS N'ROSES / GREATEST HITS  GEFFEN 35,330         +19%

 

in USA (billboard) ?

Unless CD is too far into the future that they decide to do it sooner:
http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/board/index.php?topic=14696.0



Yes... it had the second highest % change behind the Killers' CD.  It's also ahead of Velvet Revolver on this week's chart.  I wonder what caused this increase?  :-\

A-Z Guns N' Roses. ;)

Greatest Hits #35 in USA

http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/bb200.jsp

Check it tomorrow.  :yes:

oks  : ok:

in 22 week,gnr sold 35330 copies of gh,and had 21 position,with 19% best selling.Great score

Source:? Billboard.com
http://199.249.170.183/bb/charts/bb200.jsp

In the September 4th issue, GNR Greatest Hits is #22 after 22 weeks on the chart - up from number 35 last week.
Greatest Hits has now passed Scottraband?which is #30 after 11 weeks on the chart (same position as last week).

World: Music Charts > Albums / Singles

August 21, 2004P L W Title / Artist
1 2 14 "Under My Skin " Avril Lavigne   
 
2 1 4 "Autobiography" Ashlee Simpson   
 
3 4 25 "Songs About Jane " Maroon 5   
 
4 3 21 "Confessions " Usher   
 
5 5 20 "Anastacia " Anastacia   
 
6 6 51 "Elephunk " Black Eyed Peas   
 
7 - 1 "Godfather...buried Alive" Shyne   
 
8 - 1 "Explorer" Noriyuki Makihara   
 
9 7 3 "Live In Hyde Park" Red Hot Chili Peppers   
 
10 - 1 "Amerikaz Nightmare" Mobb Deep   
 
11 9 16 "D12 World " D12   
 
12 11 27 "Feels Like Home " Norah Jones   
 
13 16 76 "Fallen" Evanescence   
 
14 14 22 "Greatest Hits " Guns N'roses   
 
15 8 3 "Best Blue's" Porno Graffitti   
 
16 - 1 "One Day Remains" Alter Bridge   
 
17 12 4 "The Best Of Both Worlds" Van Halen   
 
18 17 19 "The Reason " Hoobastank   
 
19 13 14 "Here For The Party" Gretchen Wilson   
 
20 10 3 "Best Red's" Porno Graffitti 
 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2 1 NOW VOL. 16 UTV 205,169 -13%
VARIOUS
1 2 ASHLEE SIMPSON GEFFEN 162,021 -37%
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
-- 3 213 TVT 99,832 --
THE HARD WAY
6 4 USHER LAFACE/ZLG 81,949 -10%
CONFESSIONS
9 5 MAROON 5 OCTONE/J RECORDS/RMG 73,309 +8%
SONGS ABOUT JANE
-- 6 RYAN CABRERA ATLANTIC/ATL G 67,869 --
TAKE IT ALL AWAY
11 7 GRETCHEN WILSON EPIC/SONY NASHVILLE 67,209 +9%
HERE FOR THE PARTY
8 8 AVRIL LAVIGNE ARISTA/RMG 65,638 -7%
UNDER MY SKIN
10 9 BIG & RICH WARNER BROS. NASHVILLE 63,496 -2%
HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR
3 10 SHYNE DEF JAM/IDJ 63,400 -62%
GODFATHER BURIED ALIVE
7 11 JIMMY BUFFETT RCA NASHVILLE 61,057 -17%
LICENSE TO CHILL
12 12 LOS LONELY BOYS EPIC 55,840 -1%
LOS LONELY BOYS
4 13 MOBB DEEP JIVE/ZLG 47,558 -59%
AMERIKAZ NIGHTMARE
5 14 ALTER BRIDGE WIND-UP 44,944 -59%
ONE DAY REMAINS
14 15 LLOYD BANKS INTERSCOPE 43,110 -8%
THE HUNGER FOR MORE
15 16 BLACK EYED PEAS A&M/INTERSCOPE 40,455 -3%
ELEPHUNK
-- 17 SALIVA ISLAND/IDJ 38,789 --
SURVIVAL OF THE SICKEST
39 18 KILLERS ISLAND/IDJ 38,460 +32%
HOT FUSS
22 19 SWITCHFOOT COLUMBIA/CRG 36,764 +5%
BEAUTIFUL LETDOWN
28 20 PRINCESS DIARIES 2 WALT DISNEY RECORDS 35,409 +7%
SOUNDTRACK
37 21 GUNS N'ROSES GEFFEN 35,330 +19%
GREATEST HITS
17 22 TAKING BACK SUNDAY VICTORY 35,254 -13%
WHERE YOU WANT TO BE
21 23 BRAD PAISLEY ARISTA NASHVILLE 34,628 -2%
MUD ON THE TIRES
23 24 MODEST MOUSE EPIC 33,875 -3%
GOOD NEWS FOR PEOPLE WHO LOVE...
25 25 VELVET REVOLVER RCA/RMG 33,830 -1%
CONTRABAND
29 26 D12 SHADY/INTERSCOPE 33,381 +2%
D12 WORLD
30 27 HOOBASTANK ISLAND/IDJ 33,318 +6%
THE REASON
18 28 TERROR SQUAD SRC/UNIVERSAL 33,241 -17%
TRUE STORY
27 29 VAN HALEN WARNER BROS. 33,103 -2%
THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
13 30 HOUSTON CAPITOL 33,072 -35%
IT'S ALREADY WRITTEN
16 31 KEVIN LYTTLE ATLANTIC/ATL G 33,006 -19%
KEVIN LYTTLE
19 32 JADAKISS INTERSCOPE 32,668 -15%
KISS OF DEATH
32 33 LINKIN PARK WARNER BROS. 32,085 +3%
METEORA
20 34 JOJO BLACKGROUND/UNIVERSAL 31,188 -13%
JOJO
33 35 YELLOWCARD CAPITOL 30,825 0%
OCEAN AVENUE
31 36 BREAKING BENJAMIN HOLLYWOOD 30,643 -2%
WE ARE NOT ALONE
36 37 ALICIA KEYS J RECORDS/RMG 30,151 +2%
THE DIARY OF ALICIA KEYS
42 38 LIL' FLIP COLUMBIA/CRG 29,947 +7%
U GOTTA FEEL ME
34 39 KENNY CHESNEY BNA 29,932 -2%
WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN
38 40 EVANESCENCE WIND-UP 28,977 -1%
FALLEN
40 41 SPIDER-MAN 2: MUSIC FROM & IN... COLUMBIA/CRG 28,941 +1%
SOUNDTRACK
24 42 KANYE WEST ROC-A-FELLA/IDJ 28,525 -17%
COLLEGE DROPOUT
-- 43 AKON SRC/UNIVERSAL 28,330 --
TROUBLE
46 44 BEASTIE BOYS CAPITOL 28,092 +3%
TO THE 5 BOROUGHS
41 45 FRANZ FERDINAND EPIC 27,575 -3%
FRANZ FERDINAND
-- 46 QUEEN HOLLYWOOD 27,380 --
GREATEST HITS: WE WILL ROCK YOU
-- 47 JESSICA SIMPSON COLUMBIA/CRG 26,999 --
IN THIS SKIN
50 48 SHINEDOWN ATLANTIC/ATL G 25,323 +2%
LEAVE A WHISPER
43 49 TERRI CLARK MERCURY NASHVILLE 24,968 -9%
GREATEST HITS
44 50 SLIPKNOT ROADRUNNER/IDJ 24,945 -9%
VOL 3: (THE SUBLIMINAL VERSES)

LOOk AT 21 AND 25 POsition,USA CHART
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No it's not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have no idea what happened, but in norway GH was out of the top40 2 weeks ago, last week it was #20.

THIS WEEK IT'S # 5 !!!

Yeah GH i think has been a great success  with it being platinum and all glad to see it on the charts it keeps the gnr name alive and proves that the name is stil bankable

http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/bb200.jsp
the "greatest hits" wins 13 places this week! it's 22 in the charts after 22 weeks? : ok:
I think the album is very likely to sell about 10 million copies worldwide in a year and will probably be the biggest Rock selling album of 2004. It has already sold about 6/7 million copies worldwide for 5 months...AND COUNTING! that's fantastic.

I have a question? If GH reaches 10 million world wide will it get a Diamond award?

I don't know. 10 million is fucking amazing in a year regarding the Guns n' Roses situation. I mean, there is no videoclips, no tour, and the band isn't the same at all right now. 10 million copies expected...just based on the past!
In my opinion, with videoclips on MTV, a tour, a new album with new material, singles on radiostations etc...a new album like "chinese democracy" could sell amazingly. Even if it is not the same band, the name "Guns n' Roses" is still there. And that's what is important. The name will help to sell records. I want "chinese democracy" to be a classic and one of the biggest selling album of all time.

I don't think so. Only if GNR reaches that figure in the US ( or I guess, in any particular country) will get the diamond award. GNR won't sell 10 million copies in a country other than the US though. Not even the UK.

in last week gnr sold 29857 copies

th9is week in usa 32647 copies of gh sold

this week 28805 copies of gh sold in usa

this week 29000

It's amazing, still selling almost 30.000 copies pr.week :o Did anyone expect that?

yes,i except that,and i said that when gh realised,as i said now new gnr album should have fuckin great selling

this week 30224.Great score

this week:
28 40 GUNS N'ROSES GEFFEN 28,431 -6%

this week
26.017 copies sold

46 40 GUNS N'ROSES GEFFEN 26,950 +4%

Do you know how much copies the GH has already sold worldwide? I would say 6/7 million copies but can you confirm?

this week 26.950 in usa

well in usa gnr sold about 1,5 milliomn tracks,on the world wide more then 5million!

Still counting??

Week 01 --  172,423
Week 02 --   90,168
Week 03 --   91,052
Week 04 --   69,394
Week 05 --   58,420
Week 06 --   53,826
Week 07 --   53,814
Week 08 --   42,774
Week 09 --   40,745
Week 10 --   38,758
Week 11 --   44,904
Week 12 --   40,654
Week 13 --   40,715
Week 14 --   27,062
Week 15 --   25,759
Week 16 --   36,290
Week 17 --   37,376
Week 18 --   33,462
Week 19 --   32,307
Week 20 --   28,608
Week 21 --   29,626
Week 22 --   35,330
Week 23 --   29,867
Week 24 --   32,647
Week 25 --   28,509
Week 26 --   28,494
Week 27 --   30,224
Week 28 --   28,431
Week 29 --   26,017
Week 30 --   26,950

Total     1,326,027

this week 24859 in usa

still rocks
44 42 GUNS N'ROSES GEFFEN 23,951

this week
42 42 GUNS N'ROSES GEFFEN 24,106 +1%

UK albums sales 2003/2004 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4045223.stm)

Greatest Hits was the 13th best selling album in the UK?this year :peace:

it's great. I'm sure "chinese democracy" will be the best selling album of the year when it is released. The "greatest hits" makes great sales figures with just a few promotion. Si imagine a new GN'R album with a tour, singles, videoclips, interviews, commercials etc... a #1 for sure... 8)

One million albums sold in Britian so it has gone 3 times platinum. Nice.

things are looking good for gnr it seems, wow :o

wow, hadn't checked in on this thread in quite a while and i gotta say i'm impressed
approx. 25,000 copies per week in the Us is what i'm reading
am I getting this right?

Pretty good for a greatest hits album. : ok:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v402/Vampire80/Position.jpg)
P.S. I couldn't find the chart position thread?

How many copies sold in the USA? Almost 2millions?

-- 45 GUNS N'ROSES GEFFEN 18,518 --  GREATEST HITS

Amazing!

yeah, still going strong.

Yeah, by now it has probably sold ~1,9 million in the US

Its actually sold over 2 million as of this week.  I guess it will be certified Double Platinum soon.

sweet sweet SWEET!!!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v402/Vampire80/fsfsafa.jpg)

2 million in the USA alone... that's unbelievable.  :o

Just goes to show what a great band GN'R were - right up there with the greats  :)

If the greatest hits sold two million, maybe a volume 2 will be in the works...Or maybe a 5 CD boxset of unrelased songs, like Bon Jovi did, excpect all the songs wont suck.

I hope 10 million copies in the USA for "Chinese Democracy" and about 20 million copies worldwide within 2 or 3 years. It's possible if everybody works for it. If Norah Jones sold over 30 million albums worldwide between 2002 and 2005 without any special "big" promotion, Guns N' Roses (or whatever you call this new band) can sell 20 million albums within 2 or 3 years.

If it sells like 2 million copies (USA) and 5 millions copies (worldwide), that would be already big... But 20 million copies worldwide within 2 or 3 years? Even U2 or bands like that can't do that... I think you are very optimistic...

Anyway, I just want Chinese democracy, I don't care if it just sells 10 copies worldwide!

It's actually 53 this week.   
53 48 58 Guns N' Roses, Greatest Hits 
Geffen | 001714 | Interscope | (16.98) 

I hate to dredge up old threads, but this was the most appropriate spot for this post.  GH Vol. 1 has surpassed 2.5 million units sold in the U.S., correct?  The sentiment I've been feeling from most everybody, is that the more it sells, the more money Axl pulls in, thereby decreasing the pressure on Axl to pull the trigger on CD. 

I don't agree with that thought.  Corrrect me if I'm wrong, but the record label has invested about 13 million dollars into CD, correct?  If GH has sold 2.5 million units in the US alone, aren't they pulling in money hand over fist?  World-wide, the units sold has to be several million...assume 3 1/2 million at an average of $13 per cd, that's $45,000,000 (45 million dollars)!  I'd imagine the label gets at least half that dough, which would give them a pretty damn good return on their investment (22.5 million $) even if it isn't Chinese Democracy.  Even if GH 2 pulls in half that money, the record compan(y/ies) will be very fat and happy with excellent return on their investment.

I don't know the specifics, but does all of that sound about right?  Please correct me if I'm wrong, but with that logic, I see no pressure on the record company or Axl for that matter to release Chinese Democracy.  The only pressure I see that's on Axl is the fact, like all of us, he is getting older, and he is a very physical performer.  If this is his only pressure, it aint much.  I can guarantee Axl doesn't give a damn about that and will be flying around the stage into his 60's if he so chooses.  I don't think Axl gives a damn about the money, it's about the art.   

Can anyone give specific #'s on this?  Thanks, :peace:

LOL, thanks for reviving this thread.... Nixon is the new Miss Cleo!  Good call on Vol. 2.

Axl4Prez, I don't know the #'s, but I'm sure that they recovered a big chunk (if not all) of Chinese Democracy's recording costs with the Greatest Hits.  Re-releasing a bunch of songs is an easy way to make a quick buck.

  Eazy E, thanks for the info., I hope heaven is treating you well and you are (N.W.)A.-Okay. :)

  Seriously, even when it comes to this Vol. 2, they seem to be pretty fucking stupid.  The biggest shopping day of the year is in 3 days, it's known as Black Friday here in the US, the day after our holiday Thanksgiving.  The mass public has no idea this Vol. 2 is coming down the pike, and to me, Dec. 20th seems like a ridiculous release date.  If the execs. running this thing were on Donald Trump's Apprentice program, "YOU'RE FIRED!" would definitely be heard.   :hihi:

  Any more specifics on the money figures guys and gals???  I know there are some people here with record company connections.  Just wondering, thanks.   :peace:

Greatest Hits is back in the top 50 in the U.S...  Guess its an easy thing to pick up in the holiday season:

-- 46 GUNS N'ROSES GEFFEN 39,662

It was at 92 on the Billboard chart last week, so that's a pretty decent jump for an album that's been out for almost 90 weeks.

That's just amazing for a greatest hits that's been out 90 weeks. : ok:

Yeah, its the next 'Dark Side of the Moon'.

It's been out for so long, when reporting on the charts, Hits Daily Double assumed it was a new release:


http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/newsPage.cgi?news05957

I thought that it would pick up around the holidays. I'm glad to see it sell this well. It's a shame that VR's album couldn't do that.

GH - a sucess.

Any album that stays on the charts for over a year and sells over 2 million copies within that year is a hit album. WIth all the album burning... it is a great sucess.

The Greatest Hits has been out for 100 weeks now, and I think it only fell out of the top 100 albums once...

It's at 86 this week:

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_display.jsp?f=The+Billboard+200&pageNumber=Top+51-100&g=Albums

I hate to pull up a thread this old but GH is # 1 on the Billboard pop catalogue.What does the pop catalogue mean.

I believe it is an album that is over two years old that has fallen out of the top 100, even though the chart itself is 200. So being #1 on that chart is still pretty solid, it most likely means it is still one of the top 200 selling albums in the country. 

Just imagine when CD comes out, it will be back in the top 100 easy.

Greatest Hits still going strong.

No. 3 this week and No. 2 for the past two weeks...

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_display.jsp?g=Albums&f=Top%20Pop%20Catalog

OMG.

All my post said was:"Not in the top 100 anymore".

It was not a negative statement, it's a fact.

The link Christos posted says it's number 3 on the pop charts.  If it's not on the Top 100 then that means that the Pop Charts" are probably not worth a huge amount.   

But I was thinking that perhaps someone who has some industry knowledge can fill us in on the details.

Easy on the delete button there guys!

...And welcome to HTGTH, Howard.

Thanks.   I can understand not wanting a negative vibe, but that's crazy.

AFD isn't in the Top 100 either.  Are we allowed to post that?

TOP POP CATALOG .....2 different charts. The album is doing quite well. : ok:

Whatever happened to that new Best of? is that still happenin or not?


 :peace:

They are not going to put out another Best Of  when the current one is still selling VERY well. Common sense. :beer:

Thanks r tard.

I KNOW they're two different charts. ?Hence the reason I mentioned that it was NOT on the Top 100. ?Sorry it was so confusing for you.

So if it's not on the Top 100, clearly it's not doing THAT well is it? ?Or are you suggesting that it IS selling well but there is some sort of conspiracy that means that Billboard don't list it on the Top 100? ?

If anyone actually knows what they're talking about, feel free to speak up. ? Otherwise just feel free to PM madagas or whatever his name was and talk about the vegetables they're serving in the institution. ?

Excepting holiday albums, once an album is two-years-old AND has fallen below the 100 position on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart, it is re-charted on the Billboard Top Pop Catalog chart.? It is more than likely out-selling current albums on the bottom half of the Top 200.?

Thanks. 

I thought this was funny...

Yeah, I was gonna post that.  So GH is #3 on the POP catalogue and 90th overall.

Good deal boys and girls.  ;)

What dose Libertad got to do with this topic? Guns is a classic band and a greatest hits cd with one of the biggest bands in the world is not as hard to sell as Libertad.

Ok, I have no idea what you're talking about, it was probably just a coincidence.

Last night I was checking out the billboard charts, I saw this and I posted it.

Nothing to do with one of your posts...

BTW, you and madagas got a neg karma for calling eachother names.

"It's not doing that well".  :hihi:

You're talking about an compilation album that came out and was promoted over three years ago. What the hell did you expect?

It's still selling more copies in a week then many albums that were released a few weeks ago.




/jarmo

"And to all those opposed? Hmm..well...."


 : ok:

I'm not knocking it.? I heard it STILL sold more than Libertad a week or two ago (I don't know the numbers), I just think the the original post could have done with more context.? That was my point.? The Madagas wades in with his needless insults (and I stand by what I said, clearly it's fact as demonstrated) and as usual, everyone over reacts.?

EDIT: I see Crazyman already posted the numbers.

and did you not see the two posts before christos?


This torquid post is just 2 post ahead of the christos one that updated on that chart and between the two posts someone explained what the pop catalogue chart was.

No one said GH was topping the general chart.
some people are just over defensive.

The reason why I thought it was funny was because Greatest Hits has been out since early 2004 and yet 3 and a half years later it's sold/selling (I don't have any info about past sales for GH, other than the pop catalogue) more than a CD released by a 'supergroup' a month or two ago.

It was just an odd comment, I'm a fan of everyone associated here. I've contributed to both bands' sales  :peace:

Your insult was as needless as his was.

That's why you both got a neg karma.

I thought I was talking to adults so I deleted this part of my post when I let you both know about the neg karma: "And please don't give me the HE STARTED FIRST bullshit...".

I really had it written but I decided to delete it. I guess I was wrong.

I don't know why you're bringing it back up to be honest.  He insulted me needlessly, I insulted him back.   There WAS no "he started it first", or not from me.   I didn't ask to have my karma back.  I really don't care to be honest.   

get over it...I apologize.....the point is the album is still selling very strong. : ok:

No worries dude, no issue.

hey!

at this rate VR will go platinum in November 2009  :D

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_display.jsp?g=Albums&f=Top+Pop+Catalog

riaa 4 million mark as of this week.

Does anyone know how GH affected the sales of the other albums (AFD and UYI)?

I am sure it took a chunk out of UYI but I think AFD still sells about 3000 or so a week. The chart only goes to 25 unless you subscribe to Billboard then you can see the top 100. I imagine AFD is in the top 100 pop catalog sales.

You reckon? gh is rather afd heavy with just a few songs from 2 uyi discs.

True, very AFD heavy - GH got 3 AFD tracks and only 7 from UYI

 ;)

it doesn't matter, afd is still a classic and sells alot more than uyi-it is a fact. I will try to find a link later but anyone with access to Soundscan or billboard numbers could help. : ok:

it matters. :D I assume that the amazing tours in 06 and 07 are in a way helping the sales.
and many covers ;)

who is the dumbass? me of course. :-[

two covers.  And SFTD which of course wasn't on UYI.....

LALD, KOHD, AIF, SFTD and SIDHY are 5 covers

Touche.  I failed as a smartass.

As reported at Yahoo Music:

"For the second week in a row, Jack Johnson's Sleep Through The Static and Michael Jackson's Thriller 25 are the top two albums in the U.S. Or are they?

They are, if you look at the Top Comprehensive Albums chart compiled by Nielsen/SoundScan. Johnson is #1 for the week with sales of 105,000 copies, trailed by Jackson with 63,000 copies. (The gap between the two is wider than it was last week, when just 14,000 copies separated them.)

But Jackson is nowhere to be found on the list of Top Current Albums that is published each week (as The Billboard 200) in Billboard magazine. The top 10 from that chart is reprinted in countless newspapers and websites around the world, including this one. The reason for the omission, as I explained last week, is that Nielsen/SoundScan and Billboard exclude catalog titles-defined as albums that are 18 months old or older-from the main chart. (Continuously running "current" hits are exempted.)

The idea is to make more room on the chart for new albums, which need every break they can get. This week, the rule resulted in 31 older albums being removed from Top Current Albums and shifted over to Top Catalog Albums. Just four of these 31 titles would have ranked in the top 100: Thriller 25, which would have ranked #2; Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' Greatest Hits, #63; Guns N' Roses' Greatest Hits, #64, and Bob Marley & the Wailers' Legend, #84."

Last week if I'm correct: 168 guns n?roses greatest hits 2,963 0 2,969 4,866,516

Will probably hit the 5 million units sold end 2012.

All's I can say is that I was one of those 4.8 million. Here's to 150,000 more. 8)

this shows that there is no way chinese democracy sold 5 million it was in the charts for a fraction of the time , i imagine it probably shipped 5 million but sold around 2.5 to 3 mill

You're wrong.

Nobody has claimed that Chinese sold 5 million in the US.. That's a worldwide figure.

i know i meant there is no way its sold 5 million worldwide, im not bothered or having a pop at anyone i couldnt care less how much its sold i love it and thats all that matters, but the GH is still in the british charts and the american charts and it aint sold that many copies, chinese demo was in and out the charts very quickly in most countries obviously due to lack of promo         

GH collections sell over time... that's why.

I was 2 of those 5 million!  ;D

Normal cd and shm-cd  :hihi:

ChinDem. Is Disc UNDERGROUND. Excelent Sales.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the 4.8 million sales for GH is for the US only.  CD sales of roughly 5 million is worldwide.  Sales in the US, last I heard were less than a million.  So the comparison should be between 4.8 million and less than a million.  Are you doubting CD sold 4+ million outside of the US?  We have to go with what we're told.

Exactly, GH has probably (just guessing here) sold around 10 million worldwide.

Greatest Hits is the #25 top selling album of the last 10 years from March 10, 2002 through the week ending March 11, 2002.  Over 5MM albums sold in the US alone:


25. Guns N' Roses, Greatest Hits, 5,161,000. This is the best-selling greatest hits album of the last 10 years, beating out Elvis Presley's Elv1s: 30 #1 Hits (4,805,000) and Michael Jackson's Number Ones (4,753,000). The album contains six top 10 hits, including the chart-topping "Sweet Child O' Mine." Released: March 2004. Top 200 rank: #144.

http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/chart-watch-extra-top-albums-last-10-years-181452729.html

Wow, that's pretty impressive. Especially beating Michael's compilation considering the boost in sales following his death.

The Greatest Hits is #3 on the charts this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  It sold over 85,000 copies!!  WOW. 

Facts:

Spectacular Tour & HOF Inducted

 8)

Amazon had the complete download of "Greatest Hits" on sale last week for only 25 cents.  Part of the same reason CD re-entered the charts last year, when it was $1.99.  Nice gift to share with friends who are new to GN'R anyway.  Everyone else probably has it already.  The tour and HOF had to have helped too!

Put this on today at the gym, damn that order is so wrong, couldn't remain into a groove all evening, standards had set myself were below par on every count.  Will do better next time, will go for HOB 01/01/01  : ok:

Which charts? It's #31 on Billboard top 200.

That was last week.  Billboard doesn't update until Wednesday.  You can see it at Hitsdailydouble.com 

billboard.com




/jarmo

Amazing how an album that is 8 years old, has been unapproved by the band/former band members and not promoted by them, is at #3 on the charts in 2012.

Seriously, let's just get it to number 1. That would be insanity.

That's great, what a jump!

I know....it makes no sense!

Good Sold In 8 Years

 :smoking:

LOL, did you guys miss the whole part about it being priced at $0.25 on Amazon MP3 and Google Play? 

Nope. That's still damn impressive for an 8 year old album that the band didn't even promote.

And it was already at #31 before the 25 cent sale.

Greatest Hits albums don't really need a lot of promotion.  Any fringe fans, or music buyers wanting to check bands out are usually going to go with the greatest hits.  Guns N' Roses is a pretty popular band with some pretty iconic songs, who just happens to be heading to the Hall of Fame next month.  Stands to reason their Greatest Hits would be a pretty good seller, which it has been ever since its release, regardless of who agreed with it being released.

Guns N' Roses Score Surprise No. 3 Hit on Billboard Album Chart

Guns N' Roses have a 25 cent digital hit on their hands. Billboard reports Guns N' Roses' "Greatest Hits" has landed at no. 3 on the new Billboard 200 album chart following a price war sale last week between two digital retailers.
The album was priced for 25-cents in both the Google Play and AmazonMP3 stores for one day last week, eventually going on to sell 85,000 copies ? 12,000 more than the week before.

http://www.antimusic.com/news/12/March/23Guns_N_Roses_Score_Surprise_No_3_Hit_on_Billboard_Album_Chart.shtml

? Guns N? Roses, Greatest Hits ? No. 135 ? The best-of album surpasses 6 million in total U.S. sales, as it sold another 4,000 copies in the week ending Dec. 28 (up 14 percent). The set's sales now stand at 6.002 million. The album was released in 2004, peaked at No. 3, and has spent 425 weeks on the list.

www.billboard.com

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/jarmo

#37 on US iTunes album chart

#2 on European iTunes album chart

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Maybe all the recent publicity because of Axl's tweets to Steve Mnuchin and Live And Let Die being played for Trump that made people buy it?




/jarmo