"Backspacer": Week-By-Week Sales

BF25394 · February 2010

WK#DATE POS WKSALE TOTSALE PCT
1 10/10/09 1 189,292 189,292 ---
2 10/17/09 10 58,374 247,666 -69
3 10/24/09 16 31,747 279,413 -46
4 10/31/09 21 20,998 300,411 -34
5 11/07/09 31 15,167 315,578 -28
6 11/14/09 43 12,179 327,757 -20
7 11/21/09 54 11,546 339,303 -5
8 11/28/09 69 10,057 349,360 -13
9 12/05/09 91 9,405 358,765 -6
10 12/12/09 45 24,831 383,596 +164*
11 12/19/09 134 9,368 392,964 -62
12 12/26/09 134 11,097 404,061 +18**
13 01/02/10 123 14,884 418,945 +34**
14 01/09/10 77 24,808 443,753 +67**
15 01/16/10 69 11,221 454,974 -55***
16 01/23/10 80 6,673 461,647 -40
17 01/30/10 82 6,153 467,800 -8
18 02/06/10 96 5,502 473,302 -11
19 02/13/10 98 5,965 479,267 +8
20 02/20/10 118 5,382 484,649 -10
21 02/27/10 128 6,050 490,699 +12
22 03/03/10 125 5,104 495,803 -16
23 03/13/10 140 4,274 500,077 -16
24 03/20/10 168 3,928 504,005 -8
25 03/27/10 88 6,529 510,534 +66****
26 04/03/10 89 5,741 516,275 -12
27 04/10/10 89 6,299 522,574 +10
28 04/17/10 142 4,605 527,179 -27
29 04/24/10 155 3,449 530,628 -25
30 05/01/10 139

WK#: Number of weeks in release
DATE: Chart date
POS: Position on The Billboard 200
WKSALE: Sales, current week only
TOTSALE: Total sales, through current week
PCT: Percentage increase or decrease over prior week

* On sale at Target
** Christmas shopping season
*** First week after Christmas
**** Includes one day of sales post-"SNL"

BF25394 · February 2010

I thought folks might find the info above interesting. I will try to update it each week.

Does anyone know how to make the columns even? It's a little hard to read like this.

Kevinman · February 2010

Almost 1/2 million already. Cool. Great info. Pretty intersting.

Wilds · February 2010

BF25394 wrote:

I thought folks might find the info above interesting. I will try to update it each week.

Does anyone know how to make the columns even? It's a little hard to read like this.

Great stuff. Thanks for the awesome post!

Gibson · February 2010

Much appreciated. Nice to see a relevant topic once in a while too

pants · February 2010

Great post. It would be interesting to see how high these numbers would've been had the album been released when more people bought albums instead of purchasing on a song-by-song basis or pirating. Where's Doc Brown when you need him...

Kevinman · February 2010

pants wrote:

Great post. It would be interesting to see how high these numbers would've been had the album been released when more people bought albums instead of purchasing on a song-by-song basis or pirating. Where's Doc Brown when you need him...

Very true.

PJ_Lukin · February 2010

WK# DATE POS WKSALE TOTSALE PCT
1 10/10/09 1 189,292 189,292 ---
2 10/17/09 10 58,374 247,666 -69
3 10/24/09 16 31,747 279,413 -46

Like this?

HollisBrown · February 2010

Last week I won a vinyl copy on ebay for $12.51. Add that to the numbers.

Black73 · February 2010

Most underrated album in their library.

TMudrick · February 2010

Great post I was waiting for one like this for a while...Its amazing how the industry is these days... Vitalogy sells 7 million in one week... A great Backspacer album cant make 500 thousand in 21 weeks. Crazy 2010.

PJ_Lukin · February 2010

TM248419 wrote:

Great post I was waiting for one like this for a while...Its amazing how the industry is these days... Vitalogy sells 7 million in one week... A great Backspacer album cant make 500 thousand in 21 weeks. Crazy 2010.

From 2007 to 2009, he said, there were 33 million fewer CD buyers in the U.S. and 24 million fewer music buyers in total, a 21% decrease. As the number of music buyers declined, the average amount spent by each buyer rose 2%. That implies a 19% drop in total music spending over those two years, according to Billboard’s calculations. Digital spending, on the other hand, rose 52% to $50 a year per digital buyer.

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3id9638d8420146d3cfc11020384edf8f3

Alpine Bound · February 2010

It will be quite some time before this album goes platinum.... if ever

igotid88 · February 2010

TM248419 wrote:

Great post I was waiting for one like this for a while...Its amazing how the industry is these days... Vitalogy sells 7 million in one week... A great Backspacer album cant make 500 thousand in 21 weeks. Crazy 2010.

877,000. But close.

igotid88 · February 2010

HollisBrown wrote:

Last week I won a vinyl copy on ebay for $12.51. Add that to the numbers.

I don't think you can count it twice.

igotid88 · February 2010

i like numbers

Kloddz · February 2010

PJ_Lukin wrote:

33 million fewer CD buyers in the U.S. and 24 million fewer music buyers in total

How can the total be smaller than the U.S. only number? I realize you quoted it correctly, it just doesn't make much sense to me... :?

PJ_Lukin · February 2010

Kloddz wrote:

PJ_Lukin wrote:

33 million fewer CD buyers in the U.S. and 24 million fewer music buyers in total

How can the total be smaller than the U.S. only number? I realize you quoted it correctly, it just doesn't make much sense to me... :?

If there was an increase in Digital music buyers combined with a huge decrease in CD buyers, it will offset the total number of buyers.

Kloddz · February 2010

PJ_Lukin wrote:

Kloddz wrote:

PJ_Lukin wrote:

33 million fewer CD buyers in the U.S. and 24 million fewer music buyers in total

How can the total be smaller than the U.S. only number? I realize you quoted it correctly, it just doesn't make much sense to me... :?

If there was an increase in Digital music buyers combined with a huge decrease in CD buyers, it will offset the total number of buyers.

OK, now I get it, the difference is in the "CD" vs. "music"...

Thanks for enlightening me!

Indifference71 · February 2010

BF25394 wrote:

WK#
DATE POS WKSALE TOTSALE PCT
1 10/10/09 1 189,292 189,292 ---
2 10/17/09 10 58,374 247,666 -69
3 10/24/09 16 31,747 279,413 -46
4 10/31/09 21 20,998 300,411 -34
5 11/07/09 31 15,167 315,578 -28
6 11/14/09 43 12,179 327,757 -20
7 11/21/09 54 11,546 339,303 -5
8 11/28/09 69 10,057 349,360 -13
9 12/05/09 91 9,405 358,765 -6
10 12/12/09 45 24,831 383,596 +164*
11 12/19/09 134 9,368 392,964 -62
12 12/26/09 134 11,097 404,061 +18**
13 01/02/10 123 14,884 418,945 +34**
14 01/09/10 77 24,808 443,753 +67**
15 01/16/10 69 11,221 454,974 -55***
16 01/23/10 80 6,673 461,647 -40
17 01/30/10 82 6,153 467,800 -8
18 02/06/10 96 5,502 473,302 -11
19 02/13/10 98 5,965 479,267 +8
20 02/20/10 118 5,382 484,649 -10
21 02/27/10 128 6,050 490,699 +12

WK#: Number of weeks in release
DATE: Chart date
POS: Position on The Billboard 200
WKSALE: Sales, current week only
TOTSALE: Total sales, through current week
PCT: Percentage increase or decrease over prior week

* On sale at Target
** Christmas shopping season
*** First week after Christmas

Whered you find these numbers at? I'm always interested in how many copies albums are selling on a weekly basis, but cant seem to find that info anywhere. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough...

cippociappo · February 2010

Is this US sales only?

Because if it is, it would be interesting to see how much it sold around the world... like a total count :oops:
I don't even know if there is a way to do that.... an easy way, that is

eyedclaar · February 2010

cippociappo wrote:

Is this US sales only?

Because if it is, it would be interesting to see how much it sold around the world... like a total count :oops:
I don't even know if there is a way to do that.... an easy way, that is

Last I saw, BS was pushing one million worldwide. Can't remember where...

William Wallace · February 2010

It is US sales only.

You can find a lot of numbers at http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=5

T-Bone 82 · February 2010

cippociappo wrote:

Is this US sales only?

Because if it is, it would be interesting to see how much it sold around the world... like a total count :oops:
I don't even know if there is a way to do that.... an easy way, that is

Yeah, this is US only. Last I heard, worldwide count was up over 800,000 but that was a couple months ago.

Bushleaguer28 · February 2010

Bet these go up again after SNL

darthvedder81 · February 2010

Bushleaguer28 wrote:

Bet these go up again after SNL

I would hope so. That's typically why bands play on SNL.

BF25394 · February 2010

Bear in mind that, even if "Backspacer" sees a 100% increase (which would be big) after Pearl Jam's appearance on "SNL," that would still only mean about 8-10,000 units sold for that week.

igotid88 · February 2010

BF25394 wrote:

Bear in mind that, even if "Backspacer" sees a 100% increase (which would be big) after Pearl Jam's appearance on "SNL," that would still only mean about 8-10,000 units sold for that week.

we just gotta hope it's a good show that day. maybe they'll air the target commercials again.

T-Bone 82 · February 2010

Any update for week 22? I know it was #125. What were the sales?

Given to... · February 2010

Great post.

This includes all that were pre-ordered I assume?

BF25394 · February 2010

Updated for Week 22.

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