Backspacer sales numbers?

Smellyman

BF25394 wrote:

Smellyman wrote:

The Jeagler wrote:

thanks for posting this. this is what we need to to accurately judge how backspacer sold. could you post other album sales from the last year or so? how much did u2 sell?

What's with frickin Nickleback? Who is their audience? I don't know anybody who listens to them. They truly suck balls.

It's another example of the NCIS Theory. You probably don't know anyone who watches "NCIS," yet it is the most-watched scripted program on television. You can't project based on your own acquaintances, which tend to be self-reinforcing.

But I know like 10 people

igotid88

there seems to be a weeks worth of posts gone. Or am I going crazy?

William Wallace

Pearl Jam album sales in Italy 2009:

BACKSPACER PEARL JAM 52452 - Year End Charts: #59
TEN PEARL JAM 21087
YIELD PEARL JAM 4390
VITALOGY PEARL JAM 4388
VS. PEARL JAM 4105
PEARL JAM PEARL JAM 3789
NO CODE PEARL JAM 3028
BINAURAL PEARL JAM 2729
RIOT ACT PEARL JAM 2482
LIVE ON TWO LEGS PEARL JAM 2231
REARVIEWMIRROR (GREATEST HITS 1991-2003) PEARL JAM 1531
LIVE AT BENAROYA HALL- OCT22, 2003 PEARL JAM 1257
LOST DOGS PEARL JAM 758
LIVE AT THE GORGE PEARL JAM 651
LIVE FROM AUSTRALIA TOUR PEARL JAM 299
LIVE IN EUROPE PEARL JAM 265
VS/TEN PEARL JAM 243

Spiritual_Chaos

LIVE IN EUROPE PEARL JAM 265

What ?

jordan k

I have a question fe those that have an opinion on it: In today's day and age are sales truly an indication of a bands popularity?
I would argue that attendance at tours is a truer gauge what with torrent downloading and the like.

Feiraco

It surprises me in a positive way that Backspacer is #28 in the worldwide Itunes list, 4 months after its release: http://www.apple.com/itunes/charts/albums/

It peaked in the first few weeks, and then was positioned at #40 or #50 for a while. The last time I checked was some weeks ago.

pjfanman

Feiraco wrote:

It surprises me in a positive way that Backspacer is #28 in the worldwide Itunes list, 4 months after its release: http://www.apple.com/itunes/charts/albums/

It peaked in the first few weeks, and then was positioned at #40 or #50 for a while. The last time I checked was some weeks ago.

I'm totally surprised as at how well this album is doing.

BF25394

Note that the position of #82 on this week's Billboard 200 translates to sales of about 7,000.

igotid88

finally aired the commercial again during the Grammy's.

BF25394

I was trying to locate information about the going rate for a 30-second spot on the Grammys, but couldn't find it. Does anyone know?

igotid88

BF25394 wrote:

I was trying to locate information about the going rate for a 30-second spot on the Grammys, but couldn't find it. Does anyone know?

I don't know. But Target sponsored the Grammy's. During that last half-hour about 23 million people watched.

BF25394

igotid88 wrote:

BF25394 wrote:

I was trying to locate information about the going rate for a 30-second spot on the Grammys, but couldn't find it. Does anyone know?

I don't know. But Target sponsored the Grammy's. During that last half-hour about 23 million people watched.

That makes more sense. I was thinking that a 30-second spot on the Grammys would go for $300,000 or so, and that there was no way Target would get its investment back. But if Target paid a flat amount to sponsor the whole show, including a certain number of 30-second spots, it makes more sense as an investment of advertising dollars.

BF25394

For week of 1/19-1/25, "Backspacer" sold 5,502 units in U.S. Total sales through 1/25 of 473,302.

BF25394

Sade's "Soldier Of Love" sold more copies-- 502,000-- in its first week than "Backspacer" has in 21 weeks. Wow. Sade has to be the most under-the-radar big-selling rock act on the planet. They have released eight albums, including six studio albums, and every one has hit the top ten in the U.S. At a time when everyone's sales are in decline, they saw a huge increase in first-week sales over their last album (370,000), which was released before the download boom. Every one of their five previous studio albums is at least triple-platinum.

As you know from my posts, I pay pretty close attention to this kind of stuff for professional and personal reasons. Yet I had no idea about any of what was in that first paragraph until I read it today. Sade-- the Stealth Superstars.

Bird889

BF25394 wrote:

Sade's "Soldier Of Love" sold more copies-- 502,000-- in its first week than "Backspacer" has in 21 weeks. Wow. Sade has to be the most under-the-radar big-selling rock act on the planet. They have released eight albums, including six studio albums, and every one has hit the top ten in the U.S. At a time when everyone's sales are in decline, they saw a huge increase in first-week sales over their last album (370,000), which was released before the download boom. Every one of their five previous studio albums is at least triple-platinum.

As you know from my posts, I pay pretty close attention to this kind of stuff for professional and personal reasons. Yet I had no idea about any of what was in that first paragraph until I read it today. Sade-- the Stealth Superstars.

umm, Sade is not really a big selling rock act, rather a light "smooth" jazz female vocalist.

inlet13

I think Sade is a person, not a group. The reason I think Sade does so well is that older people dig easy listening and that's what she does. Also, older peeps have money and they don't understand downloading singles.

Therefore, they buy the entire CD. Rather than just one or two tunes from it. That's my take anyhow.

So, how did PJ do this week?

MisterEtake2

inlet13 wrote:

I think Sade is a person, not a group. The reason I think Sade does so well is that older people dig easy listening and that's what she does. Also, older peeps have money and they don't understand downloading singles.

Therefore, they buy the entire CD. Rather than just one or two tunes from it. That's my take anyhow.

So, how did PJ do this week?

Maybe someone is confusing Sade with Slade.

BF25394

inlet13 wrote:

I think Sade is a person, not a group. The reason I think Sade does so well is that older people dig easy listening and that's what she does. Also, older peeps have money and they don't understand downloading singles.

Therefore, they buy the entire CD. Rather than just one or two tunes from it. That's my take anyhow.

So, how did PJ do this week?

Sade is a band named after its lead singer. And, yes, it's not "hard rock," but it is still rock.

I agree with your take on why Sade's album sales have not eroded like most other bands, but it's another thing to actually see a big sales increase in this environment. There are plenty of tech-savvy people in their 30s and 40s who like Sade and who know how to download from iTunes.

fox_mulderX

am i the only one who thinks backspacer isn't selling well?
it's a better album than their self titled with two solid singles.... self titled produced world wide suicide... the rest were pretty bad for the radio.
any ideas why it isn't selling as well as the others? is it because they re-released ten back in the spring? could that have dulled the sales a bit?

Better Dan

fox_mulderX wrote:

am i the only one who thinks backspacer isn't selling well?
it's a better album than their self titled with two solid singles.... self titled produced world wide suicide... the rest were pretty bad for the radio.
any ideas why it isn't selling as well as the others? is it because they re-released ten back in the spring? could that have dulled the sales a bit?

I think because Target is the only major retailer it's available at (and who buys cds at Target?) and the lack of promotion. Also, I think a lot of PJ's target audience tends to download songs rather than purchase CDs.