hollies65 Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 I see that 'Sunset Strip' has climbed back up to #121. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 Where can we see these listings?Marv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raspyrock Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 I figured it dipped due to lack of stock -- so maybe now more has been stocked & fortunes rise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollies65 Posted August 2, 2007 Author Share Posted August 2, 2007 Marvin ..go to Amazon.com and search Raspberries live on Sunset Strip...when that pops up click 'See more about this product' when you do that it will show it's sales rank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollies65 Posted August 2, 2007 Author Share Posted August 2, 2007 Of course it's still #1 in the power pop catagory...ahead of the popular Gilmore Girls Sountrack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Marshall Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 Huh? It's been 'out' a few days and it's already fluctuating on the charts? Must be a daily thing. Don't lps only need to sell a large handful to make the top 10 these days. Like doesn't the majority just download specific tuneage/tracks...leaving us old farts to buy the HARD copies?Or do downloads get factored in? I have no idea how it works anymore. How do the record companies make their payola bs work in this day and age? Buying full page ads, supplying money, drugs, trips and sexual favours not enough to MAKE a hit anymore? There's now some degree of truth involved? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollies65 Posted August 2, 2007 Author Share Posted August 2, 2007 this is just the Amazon charts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danmichel Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 Sunset Strip got as high as #69 on Amazon Tuesday night...Hopefully the good buzz on this album will drag it back up this chart and others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trindy Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Hmm. #69...no comment! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raspbernie Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Actually it topped off at #61 when the sets sold out, but admittedly, that number's not as much fun.BernieFYI, since Amazon has no more to sell, that number will keep going down until they receive another shipment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 When does the Billboard chart come out so we can see how it's doing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Billboard is updated every Monday. Check www.billboard.com. I believe it would have to sell many more units to track on Billboard.Marv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Carmen Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 .....and we'd have to be a country act, a rap act or Hannah Montana. ec Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollies65 Posted August 3, 2007 Author Share Posted August 3, 2007 I believe..if the record was stocked properly...it would chart. It still may. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Well we can always hope - couldn't it chart in the cd/dvd section if not the Top 100? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollies65 Posted August 3, 2007 Author Share Posted August 3, 2007 I don't believe it's gonna hit the top 100...I'm looking for a top 200 showing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 How many units would that be? Does anyone know exactly how many they pressed (if that's what they still call it? LOL) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HT from Mo Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 That's just what I was thinking MJ.Eric or Bernie???HT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 You called me MJ!!! Not Marv! I'm so thrilled LMAO. Great minds think alike ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvin Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Marv...I mean MJ, I'm guessing it would take a minimum of 20,000 units to hit Billboard.Marv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJ Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Well let's see.... I bought two, and if you bought two, and so on and so on..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HT from Mo Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 You called me MJ!!! Not Marv! I'm so thrilled LMAO. Great minds think alike ..... Finally! This great mind finally paid attention this time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollies65 Posted August 3, 2007 Author Share Posted August 3, 2007 Well...They may have sold out...BUT...after dropping to #161 it's now back up to #138!?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Krider Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Here's an article with some sales data that might give an idea of what kind of sales it takes to hit the Top 200 these days (this is pre-release of Raspberries album on July 31). This is from July 25, 2007 at http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1565510/20070725/t_i_.jhtml .Note that Rooney's new album sold just 15,200 albums in its first week to debut in Billboard's Top 200 at #42, Suzanne Vega sold just 5,700 copies to debut at #129 and Nile's new album sold just 4,600 copies to debut at #162.I've inserted the word "sold" above, but the article that follows will say "scanned" since Soundscan reports fuel Billboard's chart data these days.-------------------------Jul 25 2007 1:15 PM EDTNow 25 Removes T.I. From Power, Claiming Billboard CrownColbie Caillat, Yellowcard, Rooney among newcomers to chart's top 50.By Chris HarrisAfter two weeks, rapper T.I. has been knocked out of the top spot on the Billboard albums chart — but not by a single, big-name artist. Actually, it took the combined might of 20 hitmakers to get the job done, and now, thanks to sales of more than 222,500 in just one week, there's a new LP sitting in the #1 slot. With track contributions from heavyweights like Fall Out Boy, Avril Lavigne, Gwen Stefani, Fergie, Justin Timberlake, Ne-Yo, Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Daughtry and others, the 25th installment in the Now That's What I Call Music! compilation franchise managed to outsell T.I.'s T.I. vs. T.I.P. by more than 125,000 scans, dropping the rapper's latest — which, during its third week in stores, generated 93,500 in sales — to #3. According to the latest SoundScan tallies, interest in the disc waned by 47 percent. Now 25 even trounced Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus — the latest release from the star of the Disney Channel original series — which finished at #2 with 113,000 copies sold. So, really, Now 25 faced little competition on its way to the finish line — although, one album picked up a significant amount of ground coming down the home stretch. After entering last week's chart at #20, sales of the soundtrack to the film "Hairspray" — which features the vocal talents of the movie's stars: John Travolta, Zac Efron, Queen Latifah, Nikki Blonsky, Michelle Pfeiffer and others — swelled by 95 percent, and the release itself surged ahead 16 chart positions to finish at #4. Following at #6 is Fergie's The Dutchess, which scanned close to 50,000 units, while Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight holds steady at #7, with 46,900 sold. Coming in at #8 on next week's chart is Amy Winehouse's Back to Black, which netted another 45,400 in sales during its 19th week of release, and returning to the top 10 at #9 is Nickelback's All the Right Reasons, with a reported 42,500 scans. Rounding things out at #10 is Bon Jovi's latest, Lost Highway, with sales coming in at just under 42,000. Now 25 was among 16 new releases to open on next week's chart, and one of only two discs to penetrate the top 10: American acoustic-folk singer/songwriter Colbie Caillat's Coco bows at #5, having sold 50,900 copies during week one. The third-highest-charting debut belongs to Yellowcard and their new one, Paper Walls, which sold 40,400 copies during its first week on record store shelves and landed at #13. Meanwhile, Rooney's Calling the World sold more than 15,200 units to claim the chart's #42 spot, followed at #44 by the Rocket Summer's Do You Feel with 15,000 copies scanned. Rapper Tech N9ne's Tech N9ne Collabos: Misery Loves Kompany opens at #49, with sales reported at 13,500, and finishing at #65 with 10,500 copies snatched up is the latest studio offering from the Chemical Brothers, We Are the Night. Christian punks MxPx's Secret Weapon surfaces at #76, after selling 9,500, and 10 spots down, debuting at #86, is Legally Blonde: The Original Broadway Cast Recording, with sales coming in at little more than 8,300. Editors' An End Has a Start bows at #117, thanks to sales of more than 6,200, while Suzanne Vega's newest, Beauty & Crime, finished at #129, with 5,700 sold. (hed) p.e.'s Insomnia generated close to 5,500 scans during its first week in stores, which lands the LP at #138 on next week's chart. Meanwhile, Behemoth's The Apostasy opens at #149 with 5,000 scans, followed at #150 by One Cell in the Sea, the debut album from A Fine Frenzy, also known as 22-year-old singer/songwriter Alison Sudol, which sold just under 5,000 units. Finally, with 4,600 copies grabbed up, is the latest from Nile, Ithyphallic, which claims the chart's #162 spot.--------------------------Thought these sales figures might give us an idea of what to shoot for in the album's first week of release.My optimistic side looks at the first month sales of Eric's "Boats Against The Current" 30 years ago as reported in The Cleveland Press of Sept. 11, 1977 as 343,519 nationally --- http://www.ericcarmen.com/press/770911.htm --- and thinks selling a few thousand copies is certainly within the band's reach even after so long off the charts.You never know. One thing for sure, Raspberries are selling a quality product with "Live On Sunset Strip." Now the audience has to discover it (all the glowing reviews will help, and the 1.3 million teenagers who bought "Go All The Way" (or the 300,000 who bought the "Fresh" album, and the more than 500,000 who bought the Arista "Eric Carmen" LP) are now adults who might just want to see what the guys are up to now.And the 30th Anniversary of "Boats Against The Current" might bring some of Eric's solo fans over to Raspberries (that album sold 343,519 copies its first month of release --- http://www.ericcarmen.com/press/770911.htm ).Now, we just have to make those "old" fans aware of "Live On Sunset Strip."Don Krider http://www.epinions.com/content_393207123588 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Krider Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 And the 30th Anniversary of "Boats Against The Current" might bring some of Eric's solo fans over to Raspberries (that album sold 343,519 copies its first month of release --- http://www.ericcarmen.com/press/770911.htm ).Don Krider http://www.epinions.com/content_393207123588 Sorry about posting my "Boats" sales data twice. It's been a long day.Don Krider Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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