Best Buy exclusive

[LittleFly]

$11.99 on sale now?  Good or bad sign?

I don't know but shouldn't my existing pre-order drop to this amount as well?

Also, when I preordered, I had to pay for shipping.

However, I believe that the card isn't charged until it's shipped. SO, that should mean, they will just charge less when it ships .... right?

At least that's what I'm telling myself.....

[draguns]

Did anyone receive an email from Best Buy asking to take a store survey? I'm looking over my emails now and apparently
Best Buy sent an email to my account asking me to fill out a store survey as a result of picking up Chinese Democracy
at the store. I find it odd since CD hasn't been released yet.

[wight gunner]

They could of course use the midnight opening as a marketing tool "The fans waited 15 years for this day - we wouldn't make them wait a second longer than they had to......" type thing with rioting and police cars commentry on the promotional material.

[russtcb]

$11.99 on sale now?  Good or bad sign?

I don't know but shouldn't my existing pre-order drop to this amount as well?

Also, when I preordered, I had to pay for shipping.

However, I believe that the card isn't charged until it's shipped. SO, that should mean, they will just charge less when it ships .... right?

At least that's what I'm telling myself.....

I called them and they dropped my shipping charges off my order. I double checked pricing while I was on the phone and they said that you'll be charged the price of the item when it ships. So if the album is priced $9.99 or something like that on the day of release, that's why they'll charge you.

 

[pilferk]

Maybe I'm missing something here, but, while I'm sure we'd enjoy a midnight release, what's in it for Best Buy? Isn't the whole point of a midnight release to beat the other stores to the punch? In this case, there are no other stores. So it's kind of pointless, isn't it?

Sometimes.

Sometimes it's about "the hype", and getting yourself some good press.  This would likely accomplish that, and do some album promotion as well.

[nightrain_jh]

Sorry to ask again but got no answer.  Is it just the one version of the cd and vinyl or are there still alternatives.

Thanks in advance

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

Sorry to ask again but got no answer.  Is it just the one version of the cd and vinyl or are there still alternatives.

Thanks in advance

Right now, it just looks like one cover for both.

[bolton]

well,best buy thing is cool.

I except more than 600000 in first week

look at this,ac dc sold more then milion copies in first week

this is after 55% count
1 AC/DC COLUMBIA 639,664
BLACK ICE
-- 2 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: SENIOR YEAR WALT DISNEY RECORDS 176,979
SOUNDTRACK
1 3 KENNY CHESNEY BNA/SBMG NASHVILLE 81,780
LUCKY OLD SUN
2 4 T.I. GRAND HUSTLE/ATLANTIC 54,670
PAPER TRAIL
7 5 KID ROCK ATLANTIC 33,287
ROCK N ROLL JESUS
4 6 METALLICA WARNER BROS. 24,165
DEATH MAGNETIC
8 7 NE-YO DEF JAM/IDJMG 20,116
YEAR OF THE GENTLEMAN
6 8 JENNIFER HUDSON ARISTA/RMG 17,886
JENNIFER HUDSON
-- 9 MARY MARY COLUMBIA 17,874
THE SOUND
17 10 RIHANNA DEF JAM/IDJMG 15,774

[GeraldFord]

well,best buy thing is cool.

I except more than 600000 in first week

look at this,ac dc sold more then milion copies in first week

this is after 55% count
1 AC/DC COLUMBIA 639,664
BLACK ICE
-- 2 HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: SENIOR YEAR WALT DISNEY RECORDS 176,979
SOUNDTRACK
1 3 KENNY CHESNEY BNA/SBMG NASHVILLE 81,780
LUCKY OLD SUN
2 4 T.I. GRAND HUSTLE/ATLANTIC 54,670
PAPER TRAIL
7 5 KID ROCK ATLANTIC 33,287
ROCK N ROLL JESUS
4 6 METALLICA WARNER BROS. 24,165
DEATH MAGNETIC
8 7 NE-YO DEF JAM/IDJMG 20,116
YEAR OF THE GENTLEMAN
6 8 JENNIFER HUDSON ARISTA/RMG 17,886
JENNIFER HUDSON
-- 9 MARY MARY COLUMBIA 17,874
THE SOUND
17 10 RIHANNA DEF JAM/IDJMG 15,774

Didn't the Kid Rock CD come out like, 2 years ago...wow. Hope GN'R's album does as well!

[GeraldFord]

Any word on if it's a jewel case or dig pac?

[Olorin]

Chinese Democracy is currently at #28 for best selling albums at Amazon UK

34 now, but it shows there is a demand in the UK, it'll be top 10 come the week of release.

[Black Betty]

AC/DC sales are a scam. Most of those sales are guaranteed from Wal Mart, so it's Wal Mart's internals buying a certain % each week until their guarantee is reached.  Look at the Eagles sales, same thing.  If you really think The Eagles sold 8 million on their own,  you need to lay off the Kool Aid kiddo.

[irishtwilight]

AC/DC sales are a scam. Most of those sales are guaranteed from Wal Mart, so it's Wal Mart's internals buying a certain % each week until their guarantee is reached.  Look at the Eagles sales, same thing.  If you really think The Eagles sold 8 million on their own,  you need to lay off the Kool Aid kiddo.

Black Betty that's not how it works. Walmart had to buy over two millon copies to sell, but those do not count in the total sales. Only albums sold to customers. Yes, the Eagles really did sell 8 million copies on their own.

[russtcb]

AC/DC sales are a scam. Most of those sales are guaranteed from Wal Mart, so it's Wal Mart's internals buying a certain % each week until their guarantee is reached.  Look at the Eagles sales, same thing.  If you really think The Eagles sold 8 million on their own,  you need to lay off the Kool Aid kiddo.

Black Betty that's not how it works. Walmart had to buy over two millon copies to sell, but those do not count in the total sales. Only albums sold to customers. Yes, the Eagles really did sell 8 million copies on their own.

I think what BB is getting at is that Wal-Mart has people buying the albums off the shelves to falsify the numbers sold to customers.

I couldn't begin to tell you if that's what's happening, I just think that's what she's getting at.

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

AC/DC sales are a scam. Most of those sales are guaranteed from Wal Mart, so it's Wal Mart's internals buying a certain % each week until their guarantee is reached.  Look at the Eagles sales, same thing.  If you really think The Eagles sold 8 million on their own,  you need to lay off the Kool Aid kiddo.

They have sold 4 million actually, but since it's a double disc album, it counts as 8.

But you knew that!

[bodine]

AC/DC sales are a scam. Most of those sales are guaranteed from Wal Mart, so it's Wal Mart's internals buying a certain % each week until their guarantee is reached.  Look at the Eagles sales, same thing.  If you really think The Eagles sold 8 million on their own,  you need to lay off the Kool Aid kiddo.

You're talking about status/charting.  I think the way it worked was the total number that ships to the retailer (Best Bury/Wal-Mart) counts toward record statue i.e gold, platinum, etc. whereas the billboard rankings are based on the number actually sold to customers.  I don't know about the Eagles (and maybe I have had the Kool-aid   ), but I don't think Wal-Mart would buy that many copies if they couldn't sell them (they didn't take over the world by being stupid), so how did it do in the charts?

[bolton]

on www.hitsdailydouble.com we have official confirmatiom too
but there we have too,a number of copies which sold gnr last album "greatest hits",and we can find that GH was sold in more than 4m copies.
As we know gnr sold only 169000 copies in a first week,but later album made 4 time platinum.
For example acdc album sold 800000 copies in first week,but i'm sure after 4 years they won't sold more than 3 m copies.

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[Allman]

AC/DC sales are a scam. Most of those sales are guaranteed from Wal Mart, so it's Wal Mart's internals buying a certain % each week until their guarantee is reached.  Look at the Eagles sales, same thing.  If you really think The Eagles sold 8 million on their own,  you need to lay off the Kool Aid kiddo.

You're talking about status/charting.  I think the way it worked was the total number that ships to the retailer (Best Bury/Wal-Mart) counts toward record statue i.e gold, platinum, etc. whereas the billboard rankings are based on the number actually sold to customers.  I don't know about the Eagles (and maybe I have had the Kool-aid   ), but I don't think Wal-Mart would buy that many copies if they couldn't sell them (they didn't take over the world by being stupid), so how did it do in the charts?

Billboard only reports actuall sales and no those 800.000 are not a scam and the Eagles didnot sell 8 million copies, they are certified 3 times platinum.

[bodine]

AC/DC sales are a scam. Most of those sales are guaranteed from Wal Mart, so it's Wal Mart's internals buying a certain % each week until their guarantee is reached.  Look at the Eagles sales, same thing.  If you really think The Eagles sold 8 million on their own,  you need to lay off the Kool Aid kiddo.

You're talking about status/charting.  I think the way it worked was the total number that ships to the retailer (Best Bury/Wal-Mart) counts toward record statue i.e gold, platinum, etc. whereas the billboard rankings are based on the number actually sold to customers.  I don't know about the Eagles (and maybe I have had the Kool-aid   ), but I don't think Wal-Mart would buy that many copies if they couldn't sell them (they didn't take over the world by being stupid), so how did it do in the charts?

Billboard only reports actuall sales and no those 800.000 are not a scam and the Eagles didnot sell 8 million copies, they are certified 3 times platinum.

Dude it was certified triple platinum by the end of last year after 5 weeks:

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS209441+12-Dec-2007+BW20071212

The number sold by now is much closer to that 8 million (like 5.9 million to date according to wikipedia).

[Allman]

No it ain't:

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/search/google/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003855688

The album has sold 3.1 million, since it's a double album most news outlets report the double amount (which is common).