"Gigaton" and its tracks on the charts

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  • vedpunk
    vedpunk Posts: 960
    Quick Escape is and will always be the best choice for a radio single.  Who ever said is a close second but is a little long.  These are facts people, deal with it.
  • JimFletcherPearlJam
    JimFletcherPearlJam Posts: 381
    No, the two best choices for singles were Superblood Wolfmoon and Dance of the Clairvoyants, which is why Pearl Jam chose them as the first two singles to be released from Gigaton. Their performance on various charts seems to validate those choices as well. Let's face it, the band knows what they're doing. 
  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,646
    JimFletcherPearlJam said:
    No, the two best choices for singles were Superblood Wolfmoon and Dance of the Clairvoyants, which is why Pearl Jam chose them as the first two singles to be released from Gigaton. Their performance on various charts seems to validate those choices as well. Let's face it, the band knows what they're doing. 
    In terms of choosing singles in the past they didn't always go with "obvious" choice. Not that the songs they chose were bad. They were all great. But in terms of radio. Not releasing Better Man, Corduroy, not releasing Hail, Hail as the initial single(also only having an expensive import version available), Insignificance. Once they got out of the label they started to do better with The Fixer, Just Breathe, MYM, Sirens, and of course the previous 3 or 4 if you want to count Quick Escape. I hope they release it in October 
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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,646
    edited July 2020
    Do you think if MLB promotion had gone on as planned back in March, it would have gotten sales over 100k?
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  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,940
    igotid88 said:
    Do you think if MLB promotion had gone on as planned back in March, it would have gotten sales over 100k?
    I don't think it would have made any meaningful difference.
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  • The Juggler
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    BF25394 said:
    The Juggler said:
    SM187650 said:
    Take the long way is the best song on the album. Fact. Lol. 
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  • BF25394
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    Well then, your sister is pure sunshine, at least based on that radiant photo.
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,598
    BF25394 said:
    Well then, your sister is pure sunshine, at least based on that radiant photo.
    She's an economics professor at a Malaysian university. 
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  • BF25394
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    Her smile belies economics' status as the "dismal science."
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  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,940
    For the record, the Taylor Swift album came in with first-week sales of 615,000 and total equivalent units of 846,000.  That is the top week of 2020 by a wide margin.  No one else has topped 500,000 equivalent units in a week in 2020.
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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,646
    BF25394 said:
    For the record, the Taylor Swift album came in with first-week sales of 615,000 and total equivalent units of 846,000.  That is the top week of 2020 by a wide margin.  No one else has topped 500,000 equivalent units in a week in 2020.
    So what happened with the 1 million? Did they over predict?

    Sad that Gigaton won't get near those numbers even after 20 years. Hopefully that's not the case
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  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,940
    I never saw a 1 million projection.  Where did you see that?  The initial projection I saw via HitsDailyDouble was 650,000 total units, later increased to 750,000.  So this surpassed the initial projections I was aware of.

    This is a case study in the value of marketing (or lack thereof).  This album was released on a moment's notice with no advance promotion.  It is not available in any retail store.  There were no marketing tie-ins.  And the album almost duplicated the first-week numbers for Swift's last album, 2019's Lover, which was heavily promoted with multiple advance singles and a Target tie-in.  The first-week numbers for Lover were 867,000 total units, 679,000 of which were pure sales, compared to Folklore's 846,000/615,000.  She'll actually make more money off the Folklore totals because every single one of those 615,000 album purchases was made on her website.
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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,646
    BF25394 said:
    I never saw a 1 million projection.  Where did you see that?  The initial projection I saw via HitsDailyDouble was 650,000 total units, later increased to 750,000.  So this surpassed the initial projections I was aware of.

    This is a case study in the value of marketing (or lack thereof).  This album was released on a moment's notice with no advance promotion.  It is not available in any retail store.  There were no marketing tie-ins.  And the album almost duplicated the first-week numbers for Swift's last album, 2019's Lover, which was heavily promoted with multiple advance singles and a Target tie-in.  The first-week numbers for Lover were 867,000 total units, 679,000 of which were pure sales, compared to Folklore's 846,000/615,000.  She'll actually make more money off the Folklore totals because every single one of those 615,000 album purchases was made on her website.
    Wasn't there a report that she sold 1 million the first 24 hours?
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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,646
    Any word if Gigaton passed 100k overall?
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  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,940
    I haven't been able to find an up-to-date number for Gigaton.
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  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,940
    igotid88 said:
    BF25394 said:
    I never saw a 1 million projection.  Where did you see that?  The initial projection I saw via HitsDailyDouble was 650,000 total units, later increased to 750,000.  So this surpassed the initial projections I was aware of.

    This is a case study in the value of marketing (or lack thereof).  This album was released on a moment's notice with no advance promotion.  It is not available in any retail store.  There were no marketing tie-ins.  And the album almost duplicated the first-week numbers for Swift's last album, 2019's Lover, which was heavily promoted with multiple advance singles and a Target tie-in.  The first-week numbers for Lover were 867,000 total units, 679,000 of which were pure sales, compared to Folklore's 846,000/615,000.  She'll actually make more money off the Folklore totals because every single one of those 615,000 album purchases was made on her website.
    Wasn't there a report that she sold 1 million the first 24 hours?
    Maybe this was worldwide sales? I just saw that global sales are now north of 2 million.
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  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,480
    I missed out on ordering Folklore before the 31 july deadline to get to pick one of like 8 covers

    Has destroyed my summer.
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,598
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    I missed out on ordering Folklore before the 31 july deadline to get to pick one of like 8 covers

    Has destroyed my summer.
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  • BF25394
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    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    I missed out on ordering Folklore before the 31 july deadline to get to pick one of like 8 covers

    Has destroyed my summer.
    I wouldn't worry about it.  It's a great album whichever cover you end up with.
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  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,940
    Original post updated for week ending August 8, 2020.  "Retrograde" finally lives up to its name by moving backward after five weeks at No. 9 on the Triple-A chart (and also slipping from No. 47 to No. 50 in Rock Airplay).  "Superblood Wolfmoon," on the other hand, moves back up one notch to No. 26 on Canada Rock in its 24th week on the chart.
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