Chart longevity

BF25394

Would have posted earlier, but didn't have my info with me:

After nine weeks, "Backspacer" sits at #91 on The Billboard 200. How does this compare with prior Pearl Jam studio albums in their ninth week of release?

"Vs.": #2
"Vitalogy": #8*
"No Code": #39
"Yield": #34
"Pearl Jam": #60
"Backspacer": #91
"Binaural": #98
"Riot Act": #131
"Ten": Not charted

*Does not include two weeks on chart when available on vinyl only (debuted at #55 vinyl-only, then fell to #173 before leaping to #1 upon the CD release).

T-Bone 82

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi

Looks like it's headed for a big bump this week. I don't know where it'll finish, but #32 for now according to Hits daily double. I guess the $6.50 at Target didn't hurt.

dimitrispearljam

"Ten": Not charted... ..
BEST EVER....!!

dimitrispearljam

BF25394 wrote:

After six weeks, "Backspacer" sits at #43 on The Billboard 200. How does this compare with prior Pearl Jam studio albums in their sixth week of release?

"Vs.": #2
"Vitalogy": #5*
"Yield": #19
"No Code": #20
"Pearl Jam": #35
"Backspacer": #43
"Binaural": #62
"Riot Act": #105
"Ten": Not charted

*Does not include two weeks available on vinyl only (debuted at #55 vinyl-only, then fell to #173 before leaping to #1 upon the CD release).

Btw is all different the cd sales now..+Binaural and Riot act dint have the same promotion

Veddernarian

T-Bone 82 wrote:

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi

Looks like it's headed for a big bump this week. I don't know where it'll finish, but #32 for now according to Hits daily double. I guess the $6.50 at Target didn't hurt.

I was just going to post what you posted. I was checking to see how the Vultures were doing and I couldn't find them. And there was Pearl Jam and I checked the date on the chart to make sure this wasn't an old cookie and it wasn't. 11K with 37% counted. Of course, the reporting isn't a constant flow over time and that 11K could be the total, just all reported quickly, but if it was steady, they would end up with just under 30k sold. Not bad, I guess, during these times.

igotid88

Veddernarian wrote:

T-Bone 82 wrote:

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi

Looks like it's headed for a big bump this week. I don't know where it'll finish, but #32 for now according to Hits daily double. I guess the $6.50 at Target didn't hurt.

I was just going to post what you posted. I was checking to see how the Vultures were doing and I couldn't find them. And there was Pearl Jam and I checked the date on the chart to make sure this wasn't an old cookie and it wasn't. 11K with 37% counted. Of course, the reporting isn't a constant flow over time and that 11K could be the total, just all reported quickly, but if it was steady, they would end up with just under 30k sold. Not bad, I guess, during these times.

usually with 30 something percent reporting. Backspacer would usually be about 3 or 4 thousand. And end up with 10- 15K at 100%. So this 11k could be 25-30k.

igotid88

there should be another bump by x-mas.

Veddernarian

igotid88 wrote:

usually with 30 something percent reporting. Backspacer would usually be about 3 or 4 thousand. And end up with 10- 15K at 100%. So this 11k could be 25-30k.

Now 54% (Was 37%) and the number of units are unchanged so they dropped from 32 to 49. Definitely an uneven stream. That 11K could be the total from Target in an early part of the tally.

BF25394

Even if 11,000 is the final total, that would be a bump up from last week's total.

elderman

Hey for the first time probably since Ten a Pearl Jam album is going to go back up the charts!

BF25394

Actually, nearly every Pearl Jam studio album has moved up and down the chart. "Vs." bounced around between #2 and #3 for a couple of months after spending its first 5 weeks at #1. "Vitalogy" moved up from #3 to #2 in the fourth week the CD was available. "No Code" bounced around from #82 to #77 to #83 to #76 to #70 to #82 a few months into its chart run. "Yield" similarly moved from #97 to #96 to #104 to #97 after five or six months. And "Riot Act" had a couple of brief, slight upticks during its 13-week chart run.

In fact, the only Pearl Jam studio album that moved down the chart every week was "Binaural," which moved steadily downward from its #2 debut until falling out of the top 200. "Pearl Jam" almost duplicated the "feat," but managed to hold steady at #35 in its sixth and seventh weeks on the chart.

elderman

I stand corrected, lets go..."go back up the charts with a huge jump, #91 up to #43".
You got some chart info there, once upon a time I used to keep listings like that.

inlet13

I'm not saying that the decrease in price helped sales, because I'm sure it did... but, don't you think Just Breathe may be another potential reason for the bump?

LikeAnOcean

I still hear The Fixer daily on three different stations here in Chicago, four months after its release, which is a hell of a lot better than World Wide Suicide did.. not to mention Just Breathe is in Rotation as well, along with a few others. I think this album is blossuming.

By the time Life Wasted made it to the radio, WWS had already disappeared, and Life Wasted only lasted a few weeks, if that.

BF25394

elderman wrote:

I stand corrected, lets go..."go back up the charts with a huge jump, #91 up to #43".
You got some chart info there, once upon a time I used to keep listings like that.

Well, if you want to get really technical, Pearl Jam's biggest move back up the charts occurred during the chart run of "Vitalogy," and it will almost certainly never be surpassed by the band. "Vitalogy" was released on vinyl two weeks before it was released on CD. The band was so popular then that the record debuted at #55 on the strength of vinyl sales alone. In the second week of vinyl-only sales, the record dropped to #173. Then, in its third week on the chart after the CD had been released, "Vitalogy" rocketed from #173 to #1.

Of course, that was an unusual situation.

BF25394

Would have posted earlier, but didn't have my info with me:

After ten weeks, "Backspacer" sits at #45 on The Billboard 200. How does this compare with prior Pearl Jam studio albums in their tenth week of release?

"Vs.": #2
"Vitalogy": #8*
"Yield": #43
"Backspacer": #45
"No Code": #48
"Pearl Jam": #73
"Binaural": #105
"Riot Act": #155
"Ten": Not charted

*Does not include two weeks on chart when available on vinyl only (debuted at #55 vinyl-only, then fell to #173 before leaping to #1 upon the CD release).

wnh1977

BF25394 wrote:

Would have posted earlier, but didn't have my info with me:

After ten weeks, "Backspacer" sits at #45 on The Billboard 200.

I think Backspacer will be in for a huge fall next week when back to regular price. I believe the 2 days being priced at $6.50 is the main reason it saw this one-week surge. I'm predicting a fall back to around #90 next week. Hope I'm wrong.

Veddernarian

When did Ten finally appear on the chart? And what did it top out at?

BF25394

Veddernarian wrote:

When did Ten finally appear on the chart? And what did it top out at?

"Ten" debuted at #155 on the album chart for the week ending January 4, 1992. It spent four weeks at #2 beginning in August 1992. It remained on the chart until October 1996, spending a total of 250 weeks on the chart.

elderman

You are just amazing with the chart info, keep it coming.