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« Reply #25 on: June 10, 2012, 12:47:36 AM »

Okay....I'll be the guy who asks this: What's the deal with Adele? My God, that record's been out forever! Who the hell is still buying it? Yeah, I get it. Retro-blue-eyed-soul and all that...(yawn)...but still...


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« Reply #26 on: June 10, 2012, 12:56:54 AM »

I'm going around to all of the old forums I haven't been on in years to plug this thing LOL
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« Reply #27 on: June 10, 2012, 01:59:28 AM »

A nugget of info.....TWGMTR was at 13 in the midweek UK chart on 6th June. It could easily move either way before the final week's chart is published in 9 hours or so....but it is a fair indication that it will at least debut in the top 20.

Nice to see Paul Simon's Graceland have a re-entry at 10 in the midweek UK chart.

As far as UK chart performance goes TWGMTR could well be the best charting album (of new material) for the Beach Boys since Love You or conceivably Holland.

SMiLE Sessions spent one week at 25 in the UK. For comparison BWPS debuted at 7 and spent four weeks in the UK charts...and spawned two hit singles.
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« Reply #28 on: June 10, 2012, 02:04:54 AM »

SMiLE Sessions spent one week at 25 in the UK. For comparison BWPS debuted at 7 and spent four weeks in the UK charts...and spawned two hit singles.

UK has really good taste.
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« Reply #29 on: June 10, 2012, 02:17:13 AM »

One big mistake is delaying the vinyl. All the major record collectors of sixties music would have bought one or two this week myself included. A couple of thousand that potentially would have sold this week on record may not have meant anything 20 years ago but today it can make a HUGE difference.
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« Reply #30 on: June 10, 2012, 03:03:17 AM »

Small but relevant nugget of info - The Beach Boys have never had a #1 studio album.

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probably our beloved septuagenarians (metaphorically speaking) may have their first chart-topping LP/CD soon?

Long may they run.

I propose that for their next effort, they team up with the sweet Russian babooshkas that were so successful in the Euro Song Contest recently:



Sales will soar, I tells ya.
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« Reply #31 on: June 10, 2012, 06:11:14 AM »

One big mistake is delaying the vinyl. All the major record collectors of sixties music would have bought one or two this week myself included. A couple of thousand that potentially would have sold this week on record may not have meant anything 20 years ago but today it can make a HUGE difference.

I doubt they had much of a choice. There are few decent LP mastering houses around these days, and sadly one consequence is that vinyl editions of new releases tend to be delayed a couple of months compared to the CD.

The cynical among us might surmise that they want us to buy it twice, on CD and then on LP. But there is the very real issue of supply, demand and timescales with vinyl mastering.
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« Reply #32 on: June 10, 2012, 06:47:53 AM »

I heard it's #16 in Germany. Knowing my country, I'd call that a success
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« Reply #33 on: June 10, 2012, 06:56:19 AM »

i'm sure they plan on having a butt-load of cd's to sell today. get all the sales reported that they can before midnight today. and at only $5 a cd they should sale a lot of them.
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« Reply #34 on: June 10, 2012, 06:58:52 AM »

i'm sure they plan on having a butt-load of cd's to sell today. get all the sales reported that they can before midnight today. and at only $5 a cd they should sale a lot of them.

They would have to sell them at Bonaroo though, is that possible/feasible?
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« Reply #35 on: June 10, 2012, 07:01:12 AM »

oops...forgot about that. maybe not then.....just a hope/wish on my part for a chance at #1  Smiley
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« Reply #36 on: June 10, 2012, 08:30:03 AM »

One big mistake is delaying the vinyl. All the major record collectors of sixties music would have bought one or two this week myself included. A couple of thousand that potentially would have sold this week on record may not have meant anything 20 years ago but today it can make a HUGE difference.

Yeah, I agree that would have helped a lot. 
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« Reply #37 on: June 10, 2012, 05:06:47 PM »

They should have packaged the album with the tour like Madonna recently did. Helped give her big first week sales (and a huge plummet the week after). Basically, you send a copy to everyone's house for every ticket order for this concert tour. They'd probably have netted first week sales of 200K or so in the United States and could have simply tacked on an extra three bucks a ticket to make up for it.
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« Reply #38 on: June 10, 2012, 05:44:19 PM »

Wait so if i just go buy another copy right now (at 8:43 PM on Sunday night) it would still count right? how do they determine that?
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« Reply #39 on: June 10, 2012, 06:04:47 PM »

First week is traditionally 9 days.....Tuesday through the next Thursday. So yes, it should still count toward the first week total. Unless Billboard has modified things to make it the following Tuesday, the first week shouldn't end until Thursday the 14th. Regardless, if you buy now, it will add to the Soundscan total.

Basically, they have an advantage over Adele since her sales from Tuesday the 5th through Thursday the 7th were counted for last week's total, I believe.
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« Reply #40 on: June 11, 2012, 12:17:18 AM »

One big mistake is delaying the vinyl. All the major record collectors of sixties music would have bought one or two this week myself included. A couple of thousand that potentially would have sold this week on record may not have meant anything 20 years ago but today it can make a HUGE difference.
Right on! And on today's charts, it's all about the first week, unless your name is Adele. Not trying to be pessimistic here (sorry, Mr. Love), but I expect a huge dropoff in second week sales. IIRC, TLOS had a first week debut of 25, and spent a grand total of 3 weeks in the Billboard 200. I hope TWGMTR has a longer chart run.
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« Reply #41 on: June 11, 2012, 12:19:05 AM »

I propose that for their next effort, they team up with the sweet Russian babooshkas that were so successful in the Euro Song Contest recently:



Sales will soar, I tells ya.

When I watched that show with a bunch of friends who know I'm a Beach Boys fan, I said: "Imagine! They are older than the Beach Boys! Cheesy"


There are few decent LP mastering houses around these days, and sadly one consequence is that vinyl editions of new releases tend to be delayed a couple of months compared to the CD.

The cynical among us might surmise that they want us to buy it twice, on CD and then on LP. But there is the very real issue of supply, demand and timescales with vinyl mastering.

I am cynical, and regret to say: It worked! I probably would have bought the vinyl only had it been released the same day.
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« Reply #42 on: June 11, 2012, 12:33:44 AM »

Oh, and I think TWGMTR charts that high because mainly old folks want to hear that album who don't know how to illegally download for free or copy CDs, so they have to buy the physical CD! Wink 2
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« Reply #43 on: June 11, 2012, 02:09:00 AM »

Oh, and I think TWGMTR charts that high because mainly old folks want to hear that album who don't know how to illegally download for free or copy CDs, so they have to buy the physical CD! Wink 2

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« Reply #44 on: June 11, 2012, 11:40:21 AM »

Here's Hits Daily Double's "Building Sales" chart.  Updated during the day today and tommorow, 54% in right now (whatever that means) and Beach Boys are in #3.

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi

It's kinda like election night.  

BTW, can't tell too much so far, for instance Neil Young is in 16th place, which is sure to change.  The Beach Boys have two 'big' things in their pocket, QVC sales of about 18,000 or so that haven't been added yet, and apparently they've sold thousands and thousands of albums at a few tour dates.  So it'll be interesting to see if they can sliiiiiide into second, or possibly even first. 
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« Reply #45 on: June 11, 2012, 12:29:50 PM »

quite confusing, eh, with that 19,000 figure seeming so low; I bought that many myself. A weel at #1 on Amazon yields how many, I wonder.  Well, will the BB be happy to be #3 I wonder?Do we need that #1 to make history?
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« Reply #46 on: June 11, 2012, 12:41:15 PM »

We can't know anything for sure until all the numbers are in, they may have only taken the numbers from... say... Itunes so far, where they were way behind, but haven't counted Amazon where they were way ahead.  Fun to watch develop, though. 
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« Reply #47 on: June 11, 2012, 12:47:42 PM »

quite confusing, eh, with that 19,000 figure seeming so low; I bought that many myself. A weel at #1 on Amazon yields how many, I wonder.  Well, will the BB be happy to be #3 I wonder?Do we need that #1 to make history?

Mike has seemed slightly obsessed with getting a number one for this album.  So while everyone else will be quite pleased with # 3, I think Mike would be just slightly dissapointed by it.
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« Reply #48 on: June 11, 2012, 06:20:27 PM »

quite confusing, eh, with that 19,000 figure seeming so low; I bought that many myself. A weel at #1 on Amazon yields how many, I wonder.  Well, will the BB be happy to be #3 I wonder?Do we need that #1 to make history?

Mike has seemed slightly obsessed with getting a number one for this album.  So while everyone else will be quite pleased with # 3, I think Mike would be just slightly dissapointed by it.

I think he only started pushing the "let's make this number 1" thing once he realized this album had a real good chance of actually accomplishing that.  This has to be sort of a surprise to him, that's it's doing so well, wouldn't you think?
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« Reply #49 on: June 12, 2012, 09:41:55 AM »

They will be, Mike was specifically saying to buy them, so they'd count, so he could beat Adele!  It was awesome! 

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