The Greatest Hits chart positions thread

[erose]

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...

[My Michelle]

The Greatest Hits #3 in Switzerland

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

[My Michelle]

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

[GnRFans]

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

[Jan-Christoph K?hler]

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

you are right! It?s # 4!!!  

[jaknudsen]

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

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 (It's in norwegian, but fairly easy to understand - if anyone is interested. Nice graphs and everything! )

[John Daniels]

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

you are right! It?s # 4!!!  

when I checked GH was #5

edit. and still is.

[GnRFans]

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

[Jan-Christoph K?hler]

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

you are right! It?s # 4!!!  

when I checked GH was #5

edit. and still is.

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  

[John Daniels]

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

you are right! It?s # 4!!!  

when I checked GH was #5

edit. and still is.

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!

[speed_stone]

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.

[jaknudsen]

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

[Butch Français]

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!

[Sillything]

GH at no. 2 Swedish online store




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

[matt88]

More good news

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

[duga]

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

[KeVoRkIaN]

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.

[Will]

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

[IndiannaRose]

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.

[axls#2]

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.