"Just Breathe" DID IT

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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,652
    wnh1977 wrote:
    Feiraco wrote:
    Well, trying to get back on topic here....

    If the Billboard charts are the reference if Just Breathe is ''doing it", the single has been climbing steadily.

    Has Guaranteed 'done it'? It received an award and I think it's generally liked, but what did the charts say? Maybe if Just Breathe accompanied a great movie, it would have been different.

    My original post for this thread was regarding "Just Breathe" not being able to create a big sales spike for Backspacer. Since I made the original post back in mid-November, "Just Breathe", as you mentioned, has been doing ok on the charts. But to this point, Backspacer sales have not seen any sort of spike or surge since "Just Breathe" hit the airwaves. The only week the album went up the charts was clearly due to a two-day after Thanksgiving sale when Backspacer was $6.50.

    Many have argued that "Just Breathe" will ultimately become a major crossover hit, possibly pushing Backspacer to platinum status, a level that no Pearl Jam album has reached since Yield. I just don't think the single or the album is going to get a whole lot bigger. Believe me, "Guaranteed" and "Just Breathe" have done it for me, which is what really matters... but they didn't spur on platinum albums.

    When you posted this thread. Just Breathe was just starting to appear on rock stations playlists. Not many songs have big impacts like that. And as it was said before in this thread. The song needs to crossover to have any impact on sales. And they also need to perform the song on tv. Like Letterman, an awards show or get heavy rotation on MTV/VH1. Other than Austin City Limits on PBS. That was it.
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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,652
    nice to see Backspacer go to #9 on Itunes. Last time I saw it. It was in the 80's.
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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,652
    AllAccess has Just Breath on Hot AC chart. It's at #49. With .690 mill audience. I think The Fixer got to 49 there also. But with .200 mill.
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  • William Wallace
    William Wallace Posts: 553
    igotid88 wrote:
    nice to see Backspacer go to #9 on Itunes.

    And it's #8 on Itunes Canada.
  • Wilds
    Wilds Posts: 4,329
    Thanks for the updates.... keep em' coming!
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    igotid88 wrote:
    nice to see Backspacer go to #9 on Itunes. Last time I saw it. It was in the 80's.
    I think its just starting to get play on pop stations.
  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,940
    "Just Breathe" slips from #14 to #15 on Billboard's Rock Songs chart this week, but continues to gain in airplay. As usual, radio playlists are essentially frozen, and there is very little movement on the Rock Songs chart. It is an accomplishment for "Just Breathe" to have continued to gain airplay even during this time of frozen playlists and year-end and decade-end retrospectives.
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  • Wilds
    Wilds Posts: 4,329
    bump for any New Year info. Thanks all for the contributions so far. Love this thread.
  • 104 years and counting
    104 years and counting Posts: 554
    I heard Just Breathe playing at the grocery store, and at a restaurant... in the same day.
  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,598
    Sweetness wrote:
    I heard Just Breathe playing at the grocery store, and at a restaurant... in the same day.


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  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,940
    "Just Breathe" holds at #15 on Billboard's Rock Songs chart for the week ending January 16, 2010, but continues to gain airplay.

    The Rock Songs chart demonstrates just how pathetically calcified and sclerotic rock radio is. "Just Breathe" and Slipknot's "Snuff" are the "newest" songs in the top 15, and both have already been on the chart for 12 weeks. The songs above those two have been on the chart for 18, 21, 20, 22, 17, 15, 13, 21, 29, 26, 28, 31 and 24 weeks (the last one is "The Fixer"). There are two other songs in the top 20 that have been on the chart for 31 weeks!

    Some of this is attributable to the holidays, when stations generally freeze their playlists, but that doesn't account for all of it. In the top 25, there are only two songs that have been on the chart less than 11 weeks, and none has been on for less than 5 weeks (the "newbie" is "Your Decision" by Alice In Chains).

    The bottom line is that your local commercial rock radio station, as it tells you how cool and cutting-edge it is, is deathly afraid of playing anything new. They give their listeners no credit, assuming that they will reach for the tuner as soon as something unfamiliar is played. It's a sad state of affairs.
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  • T-Bone 82
    T-Bone 82 Posts: 421
    It really is a sad state of affairs. Many of the songs on that chart are total garbage. How many times can you play Shinedown and Linkin Park? It makes me want to swerve my car off the side of the road.

    I am glad, however, that PJ continues to get airplay with both the Fixer and Just Breathe. I think they're both great songs. And satellite radio is a good alternative to all the garbage out there, though I'm kind of tired of paying for it. I don't listen to it often enough to make it worth the money.
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  • tcaporale
    tcaporale Posts: 1,577
    This is why I just listen to my iPod in the car.
  • fife
    fife Posts: 3,327
    I was in a friends car 3 days ago and we were going to have dinner and before i enter teh store i heard just breathe and when i left the store 3 hours later i hear it again on the same radio station. they play the song a lot in Toronto.
  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,940
    By the way, I should note that the songs that have been on Rock Songs for 31 weeks are even older than they appear. The Rock Songs chart was only started 31 weeks ago. Before that, Billboard had separate Modern Rock Tracks and Mainstream Rock Tracks charts. So "Use Somebody," for example is actually much older than 31 weeks.
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  • Ledbetterdays
    Ledbetterdays Round Rock, Texas Posts: 556
    Just Breathe is doing well at radio. It is #4 on Triple A stations (Adult Alternative Albums), #12 on Alternative, #44 Active Rock, #24 Mainstream Rock. It continues to gain spins on most of these formats as of Jan 7th. It should at least encourage them to put out a 3rd single.
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  • tcaporale
    tcaporale Posts: 1,577
    Ledbetterdays wrote:
    Just Breathe is doing well at radio. It is #4 on Triple A stations (Adult Alternative Albums), #12 on Alternative, #44 Active Rock, #24 Mainstream Rock. It continues to gain spins on most of these formats as of Jan 7th. It should at least encourage them to put out a 3rd single.
    ...which should be "Amongst the Waves". ;)
  • thefin190
    thefin190 Posts: 918
    tcaporale wrote:
    Ledbetterdays wrote:
    Just Breathe is doing well at radio. It is #4 on Triple A stations (Adult Alternative Albums), #12 on Alternative, #44 Active Rock, #24 Mainstream Rock. It continues to gain spins on most of these formats as of Jan 7th. It should at least encourage them to put out a 3rd single.
    ...which should be "Amongst the Waves". ;)
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  • igotid88
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    98 on Itunes singles chart. Maybe had to do with that twitter promotion.
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  • primussucks
    primussucks Posts: 2,365
    I guess it has officially "crossed over" now.
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