"Dark Matter" and its tracks on the charts

igotid88

Next test is to stay in the top 50 next week

BF25394

That will be tough. Gigaton dropped to No. 7 in sales in its second week but to No. 66 on the Billboard 200. You need to recruit a few hundred more people to your non-stop streaming project.

igotid88

BF25394 said:

That will be tough. Gigaton dropped to No. 7 in sales in its second week but to No. 66 on the Billboard 200. You need to recruit a few hundred more people to your non-stop streaming project.

I tried on the fb groups but I just get laughed at

The Juggler

igotid88 said:

If Pearl Jam started in the 60s and this came out in 1994. I could see this album selling 300k the first week 

They could have started at the same time and released this album in 94 and still sold a ton of copies. I think it's that good. It's just a completely different time for rock music now. 

The good news, in my opinion, is there are a lot of single worthy songs here that might give them album some staying power that their previous 3-5 albums didn't provide them. 

igotid88

The Juggler said:

igotid88 said:

If Pearl Jam started in the 60s and this came out in 1994. I could see this album selling 300k the first week 

They could have started at the same time and released this album in 94 and still sold a ton of copies. I think it's that good. It's just a completely different time for rock music now. 

The good news, in my opinion, is there are a lot of single worthy songs here that might give them album some staying power that their previous 3-5 albums didn't provide them. 

I just meant as a band 30+ years in. 

kramerica4

Dark Matter (album)

#2 in Australia
#2 in Germany
#2 in Ireland
#2 in UK (9,835 sales)
#3 in Italy
#3 in New Zealand

The Juggler

igotid88 said:

The Juggler said:

igotid88 said:

If Pearl Jam started in the 60s and this came out in 1994. I could see this album selling 300k the first week 

They could have started at the same time and released this album in 94 and still sold a ton of copies. I think it's that good. It's just a completely different time for rock music now. 

The good news, in my opinion, is there are a lot of single worthy songs here that might give them album some staying power that their previous 3-5 albums didn't provide them. 

I just meant as a band 30+ years in. 

I agree with you. Yeah

kramerica4

kramerica4 said:

Dark Matter (album)

#2 in Australia
#2 in Germany
#2 in Ireland
#2 in UK (9,835 sales)
#3 in Italy
#3 in New Zealand

Image Taylor did not release her album on the same day - Dark Matter would be number 1 in many places...

BF25394

The early estimates (which do not reflect the numbers from Luminate that Billboard will report on Sunday) show Dark Matter with 60,248 total units, of which 52,102 represent pure sales (CD, vinyl and full-album digital downloads). These totals typically slightly undershoot the Luminate numbers, so I would expect the final pure sales number to be around 53-55,000 and the total unit number to be about 61-63,000. These numbers would be almost exactly in line with the first-week performance of Gigaton (57,000 "pure" sales, of which 14,000 were vinyl/63,000 total units).

I still don't have any information as to whether direct-to-consumer pre-orders via the Ten Club are reported to Luminate. I have reason to believe they are not, but I don't know for sure, and I could be wrong.

This should place Dark Matter, as expected, at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and No. 2 on the Top Album Sales chart. The albums at Nos. 2 through 4 in the projections are all mere thousands ahead of Pearl Jam in total units at 69,000 (Future & Metro Boomin), 66,000 (Beyonce) and 63,000 (Morgan Wallen), so it's possible that the final numbers could put Pearl Jam above one or more of these acts. Pearl Jam has a little bit more of a cushion over the projected No. 6 (54,000, also Future & Metro Boomin). By the way, of Future & Metro Boomin's 69,000 projected total at No. 2, only 244 are actual album sales. The chart formula is so broken.

Spiritual_Chaos

kramerica4 said:

kramerica4 said:

Dark Matter (album)

#2 in Australia
#2 in Germany
#2 in Ireland
#2 in UK (9,835 sales)
#3 in Italy
#3 in New Zealand

Image Taylor did not release her album on the same day - Dark Matter would be number 1 in many places...

Imagine Taylor Swift, Robbie Williams and Metallica realising their album on the same day - Dark Matter would be number 4 in many places…

kramerica4

Curious about the real numbers when they are released.
Hope they give information about the sales of the different formats (CD, Deluxe CD, Vinyl).

kramerica4

Dark Matter (album)

#2 in Australia
#2 in Germany
#2 in Netherlands
#2 in Ireland
#2 in Scotland
#2 in UK (9,835 sales)
#3 in Italy
#3 in New Zealand

BF25394

kramerica4 said:

Curious about the real numbers when they are released.
Hope they give information about the sales of the different formats (CD, Deluxe CD, Vinyl).

I should be able to get the number of vinyl and CD sales numbers, but there won't be any differentiation for the Deluxe CD.

BF25394

Final numbers:

Total units: 59,000
Total sales: 52,000
Vinyl sales: 24,000

There were 9.33 million on-demand streams of the 11 songs on the album, which translates, along with free streams, to the 7,000 streaming-equivalent units that account for the difference between 52,000 and 59,000.

The album debuts at No. 5 on the Billboard 200.

(Taylor Swift had 2.61 total units, of which 1.91 million were pure sales, of which 859,000 were vinyl.)

igotid88

BF25394 said:

Final numbers:

Total units: 59,000
Total sales: 52,000
Vinyl sales: 24,000

There were 9.33 million on-demand streams of the 11 songs on the album, which translates, along with free streams, to the 7,000 streaming-equivalent units that account for the difference between 52,000 and 59,000.

The album debuts at No. 5 on the Billboard 200.

(Taylor Swift had 2.61 total units, of which 1.91 million were pure sales, of which 859,000 were vinyl.)

And here we thought it might go up from the 61k. It ended up being less. Hopefully we can stay in the top 50 this week

BF25394

igotid88 said:

BF25394 said:

Final numbers:

Total units: 59,000
Total sales: 52,000
Vinyl sales: 24,000

There were 9.33 million on-demand streams of the 11 songs on the album, which translates, along with free streams, to the 7,000 streaming-equivalent units that account for the difference between 52,000 and 59,000.

The album debuts at No. 5 on the Billboard 200.

(Taylor Swift had 2.61 total units, of which 1.91 million were pure sales, of which 859,000 were vinyl.)

And here we thought it might go up from the 61k. It ended up being less. Hopefully we can stay in the top 50 this week

Yeah, I can't remember an HDD estimate coming in too high, which was why I assumed it would be slight underprojection. (Admittedly, I very rarely look at the HDD projections, so I'm working from a small sample size.)

By the way, it just occurred to me that Taylor Swift's streams were worth 100 times Pearl Jam's streams: 700,000 units for her to 7,000 for them. She "only" outsold them by a ratio of about 36.7-to-1. (Someone had projected in the Taylor Swift thread that she would outsell them 20-to-1, and I almost posted that it would probably be twice that. Of course, it's easy for me to say that now. )

JimFletcherPearlJam

Hey, number five is cool with me -- the streak continues! 🥑 

Doogie

All studio albums in the top five on the Billboard 200. Great achievement!

BF25394

And all have reached either No. 1 or No. 2 in sales except for Riot Act, which reached No. 5.

igotid88

Imagine if they got rid of cd/vinyl. They wouldn't even make the top 200