How many copies do you think Chinese Democracy will sell?

[mikegiuliana]

Sao Paulo (spelling?) has 21million people, Guns and Roses are Demi-gods in Brazil. I think with the right promotion they can place.

which guns n roses is?? or is it axl only?? Not meant with sarcasm either..

Well Axl alone attracted 200,000 people to RIR3?

I know I watched it... I wonder if people there would still go see gnr if axl wasn't there?

[badapple81]

I think we all know the answer to that    It's obvious.

Axl and his group of musicians are 'Guns N' Roses'. Sorry but you have to accept that or stop constantly reminding us of it because it's not going to change anytime soon.

[Thorazine Shuffle]

In this day in age of downloading, no band will ever come close to those figures.? People just don't buy albums like they used to.

I agree...album sales will be irrelevant soon...its a digital world we live in.? ok, not irrelelvant, but not a true indicator of success.

Many digital sales are now rolled up and counted aren't they?? ?If you download the album from iTunes I BELIEVE that this data gets to the RIAA.

You are correct. ?there are download stats, but downloads do not lump into the "album sales" stats. ?In fact, when someone legally downloads an album, the band actually get more money as opposed to when someone buys an album off the shelves. ?Also, when someone downloads a bands ringtone, the band receives money for that as well.

[mikegiuliana]

I think we all know the answer to that? ? It's obvious.

Axl and his group of musicians are 'Guns N' Roses'. Sorry but you have to accept that or stop constantly reminding us of it because it's not going to change anytime soon.

gnr is whatever you want it to be... I am a gnr fan and an axl rose fan... You can't just throw any bunch of guys together and because they are with axl just say yeah it's gnr accept it...  Gnr was a dynamic duo (face wise axe singer wise) That's my personal feelings... I feel this way on other bands as well..

Hell vh has huge success without dlr so who knows how gnr would have done with axl..??

The gnr name alone could sell out tons of venues with many changes..

[grabaraxl]

those numbers are from USA alone.

[mikegiuliana]

1 million from this forum alone

[Origen]

Your really living in a fantasy world if you think it  will be the highest selling album of "ALL TIME", never going to happen.

[Sandinista]

It'll place #1 by the end of March I predict.

[shaun]

CD might break the record for shifting more units in its first day or week of release.
I cannot see CD selling as many copies as AFD as i know many people who liked AFD and lost interest in GnR when the UYI albums came out.

[Mr.Intensity]

I say anywhere from 6-10 million worldwide over the next 2 years..

[Sandinista]

I've noticed a lot of people around here have questionable concepts of quantity.

[jmapelian]

CD might break the record for shifting more units in its first day or week of release.
I cannot see CD selling as many copies as AFD as i know many people who liked AFD and lost interest in GnR when the UYI albums came out.

And even more lost interest when Slash, Duff, Izzy, Matt, etc. left the band.......

And even more after that lost interest after the 2002 Tour was cancelled.......

And even more lost interest after the VMA performance on MTV........

If you look at their album sales for all their albums, you'll see a trend that sales decrease by roughly half with each release all the way to GH; so if that trend holds true to form, it may sell about 1.5 mil copies.......it may break the TOP 1000 of all time

[Skinflick]

I only joined this forum about 3 months ago.....I never saw this discussed.....I hope....."Jesus Christ Skinflick!!"..anyway Is this a possibility or not?....Obviously it is going to sell plenty of copies just on the GNR name alone....the material is where the album will have a lasting appeal or not.....Forget about it outselling AFD...that ain't never gonna happen.(great english).....My opinion....if this album turns out to be even close as to what most of us expect, I believe it seriously has a realistic shot......and I am talking about in the first three to four years.....ok now, lets argue...err debate.
 
 

[Sizzle]

Well, Greatest Hits sold 3 million copies in the US, and that was basically AFD + a few UYI songs thrown together. I think Chinese Democracy will sell as well as AFD over time.

[Skinflick]

ok...either this HAS been posted before or....nobody gives a hot fuck.....tell me if you want this deleted folks....I am not fond of being completely useless...

[Spirit]

ok...either this HAS been posted before or....nobody gives a hot fuck.....tell me if you want this deleted folks....I am not fond of being completely useless...

I believe it has been discussed before... Either way, I think it will sell anywhere between 5 and 10 million. Promotion combined with curiosity will have a great impact on this album.

[robinfinckfan]

uyi did what? 30 million worlwide

cd won't come close to that.  i'd say roughly 10 million

[TAP]

I think CD will sell 1-2 million in the US, not because it will be worse than UYI, but because it's 2006 and not 1991 (or whenever UYI came out.) The market for hard rock is way different these days.

[Skinflick]

uyi did what? 30 million worlwide

cd won't come close to that.? i'd say roughly 10 million

Thing is, that is a 15 year old number....so you're saying in 15 years CD won't come close to that?

[robinfinckfan]

uyi did what? 30 million worlwide

cd won't come close to that.? i'd say roughly 10 million

Thing is, that is a 15 year old number....so you're saying in 15 years CD won't come close to that?

ok in the 94 rockline interview it was quoted at 27 million, so i still don't think so

in 15 yrs? ummm... i hope it would but, i don't think so