Chinese Democracy single - free with Best Buy pre-order & release Nov 9th

[GetInTheJungle]

FYI
In the US - Chinese Democracy is now #52 on the "Top Song" list on iTunes.

[ShotgunBlues1978]

CD now up to #4 on rock songs, not bad for the first day

[Alan]

#4 on rock #61 overall in the uk store.

[ShotgunBlues1978]

Currently up to #34 on the general list, #3 rock song in the US

[Jizzo]

lets get it up to number 1

[GunnerOne 84]

Woooo let's go guys! I got mine today!!

[axl2]

I'm creating an account and buying it. Cool that you can buy these songs for 0.99 cents.

[w.axl.rose]

when pre-ordering mine i unchecked receive emails from best buy and now i can't get my single 

[jarmo]

Currently up to #34 on the general list, #3 rock song in the US

Wow!


When I checked the chart it said #52 but when I checked now, it says #34.

A few hours ago I didn't even see it in the Top 100.

 





/jarmo

[Jizzo]

it had better be number 1 by morning

[axl2]

I just bought it, so that should help

[jarmo]

#2 song / #1 Rock in the Finnish iTunes store
#14 song / #3 Rock in the Swedish iTunes store
#31 song / #2 Rock in the French iTunes store
#10 song / #3 Rock in the Italian iTunes store
#5 song / #1 Rock in the Norwegian iTunes store
#25 song / #2 Rock in the Danish iTunes store
#17 song / #2 Rock in the Canadian iTunes store
#34 song / #3 Rock in the Belgian iTunes store
#13 song / #4 Rock in the Greek iTunes store
#8 song / #1 Rock in the Spanish iTunes store
#7 song / #3 Rock in the Portuguese iTunes store
#10 song / #1 Rock in the Dutch iTunes store
#30 song / #3 Rock in the Irish iTunes store




/jarmo

[tdurden]

This is maybe a dumb question, but does buying albums on places like Itunes count towards billboard charts, etc???  This is how I usually buy my songs/albums but i want to do my part to making it a Billboard/chart success. Thanks in advance. 

The Billboard Hot 100 now tracks paid digital downloads from such internet services as iTunes, Napster, Musicmatch, Rhapsody, etc. With paid digital downloads added to the airplay/sales formula of the Hot 100, many songs benefited on the charts from the change. Billboard initially started tracking downloads in 2003 with the Hot Digital Tracks chart. However, these downloads did not count towards the Hot 100 and that chart (as opposed to Hot Digital Songs) counted each version of a song separately (the chart still exists today along with Hot Digital Songs). This is the first major overhaul of the Hot 100's chart formula since December 1998.

Thanks Jarmo/ 



/jarmo

[MrMojoRa]

http://www.bestbuy.com/site//olspage.jsp?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&id=pcat17071&type=page&ks=960&st=GunsNRoses_ChineseDemocracy&sc=Global&cp=1&sp=-streetdate+skuid&qp=crootcategoryid%23%23-1%23%23-1~~q47756e734e526f7365735f4368696e65736544656d6f6372616379~~nccat02001%23%230%23%236&list=y&usc=All+Categories&nrp=15&iht=n


Promo with a piece of Shackler's Revenge on the Best Buy site.

[Eazy E]

CD now up to #4 on rock songs, not bad for the first day

It's very cool that it's doing well... but I still don't understand this "it's only the first day" thing... I mean, of course people will download it more than a song that's already been out for a few weeks?  It's the same as the album charts, generally you expect an album to sell a lot in the first week and then drop off.

Anyways, I hope there are enough downloads to make it crack the Hot 100 chart next week.

[Jim Bob]

glad to see this is doing good numbers all over the place 

[ShotgunBlues1978]

CD now up to #4 on rock songs, not bad for the first day

It's very cool that it's doing well... but I still don't understand this "it's only the first day" thing... I mean, of course people will download it more than a song that's already been out for a few weeks?  It's the same as the album charts, generally you expect an album to sell a lot in the first week and then drop off.

Anyways, I hope there are enough downloads to make it crack the Hot 100 chart next week.

That's a good point but I'm not sure how iTunes calculates their buy charts.  Obviously it's updated continuously since CD kept climbing throughout the day, but I'm not sure if the chart rankings are based on weekly totals or daily sales or what.  But it looked like most of the songs on the general top 100 and rock top 10 were ones that had been out for a while

[Eazy E]

Yeah, I'm not sure how they calculate it either... but I've noticed since they started counting digital sales on Billboard that when mainstream artists release a new single it usually debuts really high on the charts and then either drops off quickly or hangs in the same area depending on how much people like the song.

[Billo]

I saw the big Itunes write up on the australian itunes but then u did to separate searches for chinese demoracy and it didnt even bring up the CD or new song..Hopefully soon they will sort it out..At least its there..

[jaknudsen]

Norwegian iTunes store link: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPreorder?id=295915631&s=143457

Chinese Democracy is up to #3