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Do you think Backspacer will go platinum?

youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
edited October 2009 in The Porch
Before you say "duh" or "obviously", I was looking up past album sales on the internet and this seems to be the trend: (this is as of 2009)

Ten-13x platinum
VS- 7x platinum
Vitalogy-5x platinum
No Code- 1x platinum
Yield- 1x platinum
Binaural- Gold (718,000 sold)
Riot Act- Gold (508,000 sold)
Avocado- Gold (706,000 sold)
Backspacer- (189,000 sold in 1st week)

Unfortunately it seems to be a downward trend. But with all the commercial advertising and Target being a big box retailer, will Backspacer buck the trend and be the first album since Yield to go platinum?

(The source for all this info is Wikipidia. In case I am wrong, blame them.)
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  • igotid88igotid88 Posts: 28,189
    Platinum status is based on shipments not actual albums sold. Some here have said that they shipped 1 million copies to Target. So if that's the case. Then it'll go platinum.
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  • BrezBrez Posts: 570
    No. I do not.


    ...I'd love to be wrong though.
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  • The JugglerThe Juggler Posts: 49,569
    cropduster82 wrote:
    Before you say "duh" or "obviously", I was looking up past album sales on the internet and this seems to be the trend: (this is as of 2009)

    Ten-13x platinum
    VS- 7x platinum
    Vitalogy-5x platinum
    No Code- 1x platinum
    Yield- 1x platinum
    Binaural- Gold (718,000 sold)
    Riot Act- Gold (508,000 sold)
    Avocado- Gold (706,000 sold)
    Backspacer- (189,000 sold in 1st week)

    Unfortunately it seems to be a downward trend. But with all the commercial advertising and Target being a big box retailer, will Backspacer buck the trend and be the first album since Yield to go platinum?

    (The source for all this info is Wikipidia. In case I am wrong, blame them.)


    no....where is all this advertising anyway? i saw the commercial about 3 times. last one i saw was about 2 weeks ago.

    they should have done some tv appearances.
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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    not even close. Kings of Leon's new album barely went platinum and they are huge.
  • igotid88igotid88 Posts: 28,189
    Opening Band For The Sun wrote:
    not even close. Kings of Leon's new album barely went platinum and they are huge.


    Yea I was gonna say something about that. If this was 5 years ago. That album would already be 4 or 5x platinum.
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  • igotid88igotid88 Posts: 28,189
    The Jeagler wrote:
    cropduster82 wrote:
    Before you say "duh" or "obviously", I was looking up past album sales on the internet and this seems to be the trend: (this is as of 2009)

    Ten-13x platinum
    VS- 7x platinum
    Vitalogy-5x platinum
    No Code- 1x platinum
    Yield- 1x platinum
    Binaural- Gold (718,000 sold)
    Riot Act- Gold (508,000 sold)
    Avocado- Gold (706,000 sold)
    Backspacer- (189,000 sold in 1st week)

    Unfortunately it seems to be a downward trend. But with all the commercial advertising and Target being a big box retailer, will Backspacer buck the trend and be the first album since Yield to go platinum?

    (The source for all this info is Wikipidia. In case I am wrong, blame them.)


    no....where is all this advertising anyway? i saw the commercial about 3 times. last one i saw was about 2 weeks ago.

    they should have done some tv appearances.


    I barely saw it. And when I did it was during late night. I was thinking they should do another one. But with snippets of songs from the album.
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  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    The Fixer does not make for platinum sales :(
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