| [Al Fresco] Friday, June 27, 2008 8:58:02 AM | |
|
| Wow! Hit no. 3 in Finland. |
|
| [spapad] Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:08:32 PM | |
|
One of the places they chart the highest is Greece. Anyone seen that yet? AOR charted #1.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Turbo Lover from Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:56:43 PM)| |  | Turbo Lover wrote: | | #13 in Japan |
|
|
| [Turbo Lover] Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:56:43 PM | |
|
|
| [Scott Gavin] Thursday, June 26, 2008 7:17:34 PM | |
|
Some updated global chart entry positions;
US #11 [ as I'm sure you know by now]
Canada #9
Finland #3
Spain #26
New Zealand #31 [apologies I bought mine off Amazon US]
Germany #5
Be interesting to find out Japan's position, as they usually chart well there.
Great to finally hear Priest on the radio down here, if only in advertising form for the concert, the ad must be on 6 0r 7 times an hour. Great adrenalin rush each time I hear it, only snippets of the song Nostrodamus in the background sometimes, but still makes you feel proud to be a longtime fan. |
|
| [JayDee Jepsen] Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:39:23 AM | |
|
| JP's biggest problem is they don't get a lot of radio airplay particularly true of their recent cds- AOR and now Nostradamus. This is mostly why, in my opinion, JP cd sales go way down. As for "video" the RIAA has different selling requirements. Example 50k video units sold = gold, 100k units = platinum. My guess is AOR maybe sold 1M worldwide and Nostradamus will probably be about the same. JP for some reason has never received the credit (sales,airplay, RR hall of fame etc) they deserve. |
|
| [Scott Gavin] Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:34:23 AM | |
|
| Cds don't sell the way they used to. I'm sure Angel ... sold less than 200,000 in the US, it was only in the hot 100 for 2 weeks. High chart placings are often due to pre orders, and fans of metal [like me] often preorder, if you check Amazon you would have seen Nostrodamus was already in the top 100 general music sales weeks ago based on orders alone. It will probably debut in the lower half of the top ten , then drop off after a couple of weeks [ even though we wish it would go five times platinum]!. I have always found it curious though that Painkiller isn't platinum, only because if you go back in the Billboard 10yrs,20yrs ago section , it used to show Painkiller as being gold when it was still in the top 40 and when it had only been out a few weeks. I would have thought that slowly racking up sales over the years would have eventually given it platinum sales status [ and as it seems so popular now, even among casual Priest fans]. I'm sure Nielsen Soundscan has all this data, but I never seem to be able to get at it. Priest press releases when Worth Fighting For came out, said AOR had sold over 500,000 copies worldwide and counting. |
|
| [spapad] Monday, June 23, 2008 6:17:44 PM | |
|
i don't know, the list seems kind of strange "Rising in the East" the video has gone gold as of 02/13/06. I'm sure if the video went gold the record would have long since. Unless there is that much Piracy in the world today.
Edited at: Monday, June 23, 2008 6:18:36 PM |
|
| [Justin Kenny] Monday, June 23, 2008 6:13:27 PM | |
|
The reason you couldn't find "Angel of Retribution" on that listing is because it hasn't sold enough copies yet to be certified GOLD. Having seen the overview you posted, I was quite surprised to see that it took some 4 years before "Defenders Of The Faith" was certified platinum!! Here's hoping it won't take that long for "A.O.R" to see Gold status...
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by spapad from Monday, June 23, 2008 6:02:09 PM)| | | spapad wrote: | |
|
The weird Part is Angel of Retribution is not on the list. Either that or I'm blind. |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| [spapad] Monday, June 23, 2008 6:02:09 PM | |
|
|
The weird Part is Angel of Retribution is not on the list. Either that or I'm blind. |
|
|
| |
|
|
| [Scott Gavin] Monday, June 23, 2008 4:50:48 PM | |
|
| News starting to roll in of where Nostrodamus is debuting internationally. Australian Charts No.#16 , British Charts No.#30 [ Angel Of Retribution was #39!]. Chart pundits are predicting a US Top Ten debut with sales of over 50,000 in its first week, which would make it their highest placing US album ever [ I'd like to take some credit for this as I ordered my 2 copies off Amazon ... still waiting!]. Would love to know other chart placings if people know, also does anyone know how many copies Angel Of Retribution eventually sold? Rock On. |
|
