Lightning Bolt turns 8 today

igotid88

Sirens #1 at Triple A radio

Pap

igotid88 wrote:

Sirens #1 at Triple A radio

igotid88

#4 41,731 -75%

igotid88

according to allaccess.com Swallowed Whole was added to a Triple A station WWCT-FM

Sirens added to 3 more Active Rock stations. 1 more Mainstream

Veddernarian

igotid88 wrote:

according to allaccess.com Swallowed Whole was added to a Triple A station WWCT-FM

Sirens added to 3 more Active Rock stations. 1 more Mainstream

I know that nobody around here wants to hear this but the song with the biggest chance at doing well with radio airplay would be SBM. If they released SBM as the next single, it would do well. It is approx 3 min, catchy, can be added on different genre stations from pop to rock to country-rock. That's the one that would keep the plates spinning. Again, everybody around here has their likes and dislikes and I'm not talking about which is the best/worst song. This one would, however, have a good chance as a single.

ckravitz

Veddernarian wrote:

igotid88 wrote:

according to allaccess.com Swallowed Whole was added to a Triple A station WWCT-FM

Sirens added to 3 more Active Rock stations. 1 more Mainstream

I know that nobody around here wants to hear this but the song with the biggest chance at doing well with radio airplay would be SBM. If they released SBM as the next single, it would do well. It is approx 3 min, catchy, can be added on different genre stations from pop to rock to country-rock. That's the one that would keep the plates spinning. Again, everybody around here has their likes and dislikes and I'm not talking about which is the best/worst song. This one would, however, have a good chance as a single.

Yep. Easily the most "accessible" song on the album for the reasons you mentioned....ie catchy, short, cross genre, etc

igotid88

Veddernarian wrote:

igotid88 wrote:

according to allaccess.com Swallowed Whole was added to a Triple A station WWCT-FM

Sirens added to 3 more Active Rock stations. 1 more Mainstream

I know that nobody around here wants to hear this but the song with the biggest chance at doing well with radio airplay would be SBM. If they released SBM as the next single, it would do well. It is approx 3 min, catchy, can be added on different genre stations from pop to rock to country-rock. That's the one that would keep the plates spinning. Again, everybody around here has their likes and dislikes and I'm not talking about which is the best/worst song. This one would, however, have a good chance as a single.

Yea they have a few in this album that could do really well. But in the end it just depends on the radio stations.

igotid88

Sirens also added to 13 Hot AC stations. Especially WPLJ here in NY. Already played 3 times today

mcgruff10

igotid88 wrote:

Sirens #1 at Triple A radio

what is triple a radio? is this broadcast around nyc? thanks.

mike

igotid88

mcgruff10 wrote:

igotid88 wrote:

Sirens #1 at Triple A radio

what is triple a radio? is this broadcast around nyc? thanks.

mike

Adult album Alternative. It's a format. WFUV is the only AAA station in nyc

BF25394

igotid88 wrote:

#4 41,731 -75%

Those are the Hits Daily Double numbers, which don't exactly square with the Soundscan numbers (although they are usually close). The reason I bring this up is that HDD has Miley Cyrus at #2 with just 1,500 more units sold than PJ. That's close enough to where Soundscan numbers could theoretically show enough of a difference for PJ to slip in at #2.

If PJ in fact ends up at #4, that's a decent hold for a rock album. It will weather the steep sales decline because there were so few top-level new release on October 22.

igotid88

BF25394 wrote:

igotid88 wrote:

#4 41,731 -75%

Those are the Hits Daily Double numbers, which don't exactly square with the Soundscan numbers (although they are usually close). The reason I bring this up is that HDD has Miley Cyrus at #2 with just 1,500 more units sold than PJ. That's close enough to where Soundscan numbers could theoretically show enough of a difference for PJ to slip in at #2.

If PJ in fact ends up at #4, that's a decent hold for a rock album. It will weather the steep sales decline because there were so few top-level new release on October 22.

there's probably 3 new top 10 entries next week with Linkin Park and Arcade Fire being 1 and 2.

igotid88

Sirens played 3 times in the last 6 hours on KROQ, I don't know if that's ever happened with new Pearl Jam music on that station

BF25394

igotid88 wrote:

Sirens played 3 times in the last 6 hours on KROQ, I don't know if that's ever happened with new Pearl Jam music on that station

Wow, I'm still waiting to hear it for the first time on KROQ (not including one time when it was played during the Out Of Order countdown). I am one of these dinosaurs raised on radio who will get excited the first time I hear it on the radio in my car, even if I've heard the song 50 times already in other places.

BF25394

So it turns out my theory panned out. Lightning Bolt slips from #1 to #2 on sales of 46,000, a 72 percent decline. Generally, rock records take big tumbles in the second week, so this is a surprising hold, even with a light week of new releases. But for Katy Perry, Pearl Jam would have topped the chart again.

By way of comparison, Vs. and No Code held at No. 1 for a second week, Vitalogy dropped to No. 2 in its second week (not including the two weeks it was available only on vinyl), Yield dropped from No. 2 to No. 3, Pearl Jam dropped from No. 2 to No. 8, Backspacer dropped from No. 1 to No. 10, Binaural dropped from No. 2 to No. 13, and poor Riot Act plunged from No. 5 to No. 36. (Ten did not hit the charts until months after its release, so it gets left out of these comparisons.)

igotid88

Sirens Hot AC
LW TW TW LW Move Aud
75 47 Up this week PEARL JAM Sirens 168 24 144 1.688

igotid88

Sirens now on Vevo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jZBwyG7HPs

K_jam

46000 and at no2?!?! Wow!!! No one buys or cares about albums anymore, it's a shame. I mean, even 10 years ago 46k wouldn't even get you in the top ten.

igotid88

So I finally heard Sirens on the radio. WPLJ the Hot AC station. And the played the whole song.

BF25394

K_jam wrote:

46000 and at no2?!?! Wow!!! No one buys or cares about albums anymore, it's a shame. I mean, even 10 years ago 46k wouldn't even get you in the top ten.

There were 4.5 million albums sold in the U.S. last week (2.6 million physical albums and 1.9 million downloads), the lowest total since Soundscan started tracking it in 1991.

I still suspect that Ten Club direct sales are not included in the Soundscan numbers, so I think Pearl Jam has actually sold more than the 212,000 copies over two weeks that Soundscan shows.