The Contraband chart position thread

[mikegiuliana]

51k is very good, thing came out in june.. I was about to post the info you did, I'm just happy to see the jump in sales, from around the average 30k, to now 51k..

Good job sky, hopefully with the grammy nods they will get more airtiem on mtv to say teh least, I hope dlt keeps getting radio time, and hopefully when vr gets afree minute they make a video

100,000 in two weeks is really cool this far down the line

[Eazy E]

42 44 VELVET REVOLVER RCA/RMG 64,431 +26%

Wow.... They're doing pretty well for themselves over the holidays!

[Booker Floyd]

42 44 VELVET REVOLVER RCA/RMG 64,431 +26%

Wow.... They're doing pretty well for themselves over the holidays!

 

Youre not kidding...Thats over 150,000 in 3 weeks.  Not bad at all.   

[tomass74]

Wow, that is pretty damn cool....

According to another site that should putthem around 1,404,000 sold so far...

[mikegiuliana]

42 44 VELVET REVOLVER RCA/RMG 64,431 +26%

Wow.... They're doing pretty well for themselves over the holidays!

That's fucking awesome, 150,k in 3 weeks with the album out since june which was averaging 30k

[Chrill]

It's doing really well. Most albums that sells under 300K under it's first week usually drops off top 50 within 20 weeks. Cool 

[tomass74]

It's doing really well. Most albums that sells under 300K under it's first week usually drops off top 50 within 20 weeks. Cool?

Yup, that's because it truly is a GREAT album. It's one of those albums that grows on you, and those my friend are the best ones....

[Ignatius]

42 44 VELVET REVOLVER RCA/RMG 64,431 +26%

Wow.... They're doing pretty well for themselves over the holidays!

True, but they are down 2 spots. It's Christmas season and everyobody is out there buying albums. It doesn't have anything to do with new video or the grammy nominations. Had the album climbed 15 spots, I would have definitely be impressed, but the album remains where it has been over the past two months. Huge % percentage, but like I said, this is not exclusive of VR.

[mikegiuliana]

Who are all teh people that buy albums because of the holidays and why do they pick an album like contraband..?

I've never once bought an album because it was a holiday, but I have after a holiday because I had money to spend.. I guess 20,000 people or so are getting contraband for christmas?

[Booker Floyd]

True, but they are down 2 spots.

False, it was up two spots.

It's Christmas season and everyobody is out there buying albums. It doesn't have anything to do with new video or the grammy nominations.

Thats kind of irrelevant.  Questioning why the albums selling is really nitpicking.  The point is, its selling.

the album remains where it has been over the past two months.

Considering the amount of releases over that time, thats pretty impressive.  And VR had one of the largest jumps that week, so...Bottom line, it sold 150,000-plus in 3 weeks - over 6 months after release.

[Ignatius]

Who are all teh people that buy albums because of the holidays and why do they pick an album like contraband..?

I've never once bought an album because it was a holiday, but I have after a holiday because I had money to spend.. I guess 20,000 people or so are getting contraband for christmas?

Ok, let me explain.

Ok, what I'm trying to say is if VR was in position 42 last week having sold around 40,000 copies, why/how if Contraband album sales increase a whopping 26% this week, not only remains in the same position, but loses two spots? ?

Could this be because people are buying a lot of albums these days? Not just VR albums, but any other albums that happen to be in the top 50?

[Ignatius]

True, but they are down 2 spots.

False, it was up two spots.

It's Christmas season and everyobody is out there buying albums. It doesn't have anything to do with new video or the grammy nominations.

Thats kind of irrelevant.? Questioning why the albums selling is really nitpicking.? The point is, its selling.

the album remains where it has been over the past two months.

Considering the amount of releases over that time, thats pretty impressive.? And VR had one of the largest jumps that week, so...Bottom line, it sold 150,000-plus in 3 weeks - over 6 months after release.

Irrelevant? Ok, the album is up two spots and yeah it's selling very well. But wouldn't you agree that a 26% increase, meaning 15,000 copies may have to do with the fact that the whole chart has experience a similar increase??

I mean, if VR had climbed 15 spots, I would've said, yeah, this is fucking impressive, but people, VR is up two freaking spots having sold 15,000 more copies this week!!

[Booker Floyd]

But wouldn't you agree that a 26% increase, meaning 15,000 copies may have to do with the fact that the whole chart has experience a similar increase??

But the whole chart isnt.  In the week that were discussing, I think only two other albums (out of 50) had a similarly high increase.

I mean, if VR had climbed 15 spots, I would've said, yeah, this is fucking impressive, but people, VR is up two freaking spots having sold 15,000 more copies this week!!

 

VR was selling an average of 33,000 a week for months.  They sold 64,000 that week.  They also sold 50,000 in the two weeks prior.  Thats more than theyve sold since the second week of July.  But if you dont think selling nearly double what theyve been averaging for months, almost 7 months in, is impressive...then what can I tell you?  Keep thinking that. 

[tomass74]

How come we couldn't get a album total this week? I bet it is still way up there because of X-mas...

[tomass74]

Here is what I found for the last 4 weeks, not sur ehwo they came up with the Estimated ones. It seems to me they would be a tad higher...

12/07-12/14 64,431 units sold #43 on billboard album charts
12/14-12/21 45000 units sold (est)
12/21-12/28 45000 units sold (est)
12/28-01/04 56,842 units sold #34 on billboard album charts

[Civil_War]

Anything new its been a month with no new statistics

[mikegiuliana]

sales are dropping..

http://vr.belowempty.com/releases/chart_positions.php

[jarmo]

Maybe that's why they're putting out the Dualdisc......


Wonder if there's gonna be an US "tour edition" later on.....




/jarmo

[Booker Floyd]

Despite the obvious post-Christmas slide, sales should pick up again (however little) when the new video starts airing. 

[mikegiuliana]

Despite the obvious post-Christmas slide, sales should pick up again (however little) when the new video starts airing.?

no doubt, grammy nod, new viddeo for dlt, back to touring in the states..

Vr is defiently working for everything, they haven't gotten good mtv airtime since slither came out..  Both of their first vids did really good as did their debut album but the media like mtv doesn't give them tehir do like they do for everyone else..  Vr could easily be over 2 milion if they got that attention..

Their videos are hardly ever on, but other's videos off the charts are still played alot..