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just read this on billboard's site. WOTS sold 14,000 units and will enter the chart at # 40........

"The soundtrack to Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" enters at No. 14 with 35,000, a sales and chart best for the adventure movie series. Lil Boosie, Webbie & Foxx's "Survival of the Fittest" (Trill/Asylum), the trio's first album collaboration, starts at No. 17 with 31,000. Other debuts this week include the Bravery's "The Sun and the Moon" (Island) at No. 24 with 22,000 and the Beach Boys compilation "Warmth of the Sun"(Capitol/EMI), at No. 40 with 14,000."

Is that good???

#1 would be better...

Don't we wish..But wow 14,000 that's very impressive. I'm just glad it's a hit. Now i can sleep at night   :)

Hopefully it will be one of those things that has "legs", meaning it sticks around and sells for awhile.  "Sounds Of Summer" only made it to No. 16 in the States, but sold consistently for a couple of years, eventually going double platinum. 

It's cool that Carl's "Feel Flows" and Denny's "Forever" are on the charts!

Yeah WOTS AND SOS, will be selling well during the course of the summer i imagine.

You got that right. I just ordered SoS. :D

The #40 chart placement seems pretty impressive. 14,000 sold sounds okay. I mean, in the context of what you normally see on the charts in terms of placement and sales, and in the context of what releases of the Beach Boys' have sold in the past, I think this chart placement and sales figure is pretty good.

I still think "Sounds of Summer", like "Greatest Hits Vol. 1", will consistently sell more copies than anything else.

Did "Sounds of Summer" chart at #16? I thought it peaked at #26, but maybe I was just remembering the "6" part of it and not the first digit.

It's still quite exciting to see tracks from "Surf's Up" and other later period stuff charting and selling. Hopefully somebody will decide the time is right for some archival releases now. I'm hoping the next project we see isn't a summer 2008 release of another compilation of previously released stuff that didn't make it onto SOS or WOTS.

I was eagerly awaiting the new Billboard charts on Thursday; thanks for the sneak preview of the stats!  Just interested, where did that excerpt come from?  Usually even Billboard doesn't talk very much about actual units sold.  Is that direct from Soundscan?

Anyway, I am very, very pleased with the #40 debut.  While I don't think that it will sell as consistently as SOS, I'm just happy that it's selling.  14,000 is a lot for latter-period stuff, and I would guess that at least 4,000 of those buyers hadn't heard all those songs yet.  Look for some new Smiley Smilers coming soon!

eric,

it was on the main page of billboard for may 30th, under news (upper left hand corner) then under the "more news" link.


and just for more fyi...SOS is #12 with a "bullet" on this weeks pop chart, up from 20. and it has been on billboard charts for 201 weeks.

Also from the "Chart Beat" column on billboard.com:

IF EVERYBODY HAD AN OCEAN: The Beach Boys are back - can summer be far behind? The compilation album, "The Warmth of the Sun" (Capitol), enters The Billboard 200 at No. 40. That makes it the second highest-ranking Beach Boys album of the last 30 years. In June 2003, "The Very Best of the Beach Boys: Sounds of Summer" peaked at No. 16.

Thanks to this new CD, the Beach Boys' album chart span is stretched to 44 years, six month and two weeks, dating back to the debut of "Surfin' Safari" the week of Nov. 24, 1962.

Hey, that's the day I was born!  Coincidence?  I think not!

:)

Which pop charts exactly?

The catalog  chart. According to Wikipedia, "Top Pop Catalog Albums is a weekly albums chart produced by Billboard magazine which ranks the best selling catalog titles, regardless of genre. Billboard defines a catalog title as one that is more than two years old and that has fallen below position 100 on the Billboard 200. Albums meeting this criteria are removed from the Billboard 200 and begin a new chart run on Top Pop Catalog Albums.

Top Pop Catalog Albums also contains reissues of older albums. An album need not have spent any weeks on the Billboard 200 to be eligible for Top Pop Catalog Albums (this occasionally occurs if an act has a breakthrough release which prompts a significant increase in sales of prior albums that were not big sellers upon their initial release).

The only exception to the "two years old" rule pertains to holiday releases (for example, Christmas albums). A "holiday" release is eligible for the Billboard 200 only during its initial year of release. After its first year, a holiday-related album appears on Top Pop Catalog Albums. Many consistent-sellers make return trips to Top Pop Catalog Albums each November through January (it is not rare to see the top 20 or 30 positions occupied by holiday albums during December).

A unique feature of the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart is the replacement of the "weeks on chart" column (a standard in Billboard's other charts) with a "total weeks" column, which is a cumulative total of weeks an album spent on both the Billboard 200 and the Top Pop Catalog Albums chart. The "total weeks" longevity record (by a large margin) is held by Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, which has a cumulative total of more than 1,540 chart weeks (more than 28 years).

Top Pop Catalog Albums contains fifty positions."

So now you know.  8)

Thank you very much! :)