March 10, 20241 yr Author I looked at recent sales threads to see how much WWTNS would need to sell to reach certain areas of the chart. Only gone as high as #10 - highly unlikely, but it’s just to show much is actually needed for Top 10. Reminder: Sound of the Underground sold 2,925 to be #42 last June. Last week: 10 7,222 Skrapz - Reflection 11 5,687 Bob Marley & the Wailers - Legend 12 5,687 Taylor Swift - 1989 (Taylor's Version) 14 5,484 Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS 18 4,908 ¥$, Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign - VULTURES 1 26 4,177 Jacob Collier - Djesse Vol. 4 45 2,651 Potter Payper - Thanks for Hating 50 2,538 Cocomelon Nursery Rhymes By Cocomelon 63 2,378 Big Big Train - The Likes of Us Two weeks ago: 10 5,505 Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS 11 5,264 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop 13 5,092 Eminem - Curtain Call: The Hits 25 3,706 Nadine Shah - Filthy Underneath 29 3,176 Ghetts - On Purpose, With Purpose 37 2,811 Paloma Faith - The Glorification of Sadness 42 2,647 IDLES - TANGK 57 2,411 Teddy Swims - I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1) Three weeks ago: 10 5,274 Eminem - Curtain Call: The Hits 11 5,250 Taylor Swift - Midnights 12 5,160 Elton John - Diamonds 17 4,699 PET NEEDS - Intermittent Fast Living 22 4,283 Cast - Love Is the Call 24 4,015 Yeat - 2093 26 3,911 The Last Dinner Party - Prelude to Ecstasy 30 3,510 Steve Hackett - The Circus and the Nightwhale 31 3,382 Blackberry Smoke - Be Right Here 34 3,130 Booter Bee - True Stories 36 3,002 Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus 45 2,791 Rimzee - Feed the Streets 55 2,504 Jennifer Lopez - This Is Me...Now 69 2,275 Jason Derulo - Nu King Still keeping everything crossed for a Top 30 outcome! I really feel like WWTNS deserves better sales than what SOTU achieved. Remembering that SOTU was released a few months before they reunited. I want the label to be encouraged!
March 10, 20241 yr It should easily have higher opening sales than SOTU and I think maybe 4k sales which should easily get it top 40 but if sales are lower it could be enough for top 30 just about. It's unlikely to pick up mothers day sales over the weekend and only hard-core fans buying as these releases rarely get casual sales. Edited March 10, 20241 yr by Padamic Tension
March 11, 20241 yr Author The release schedule isn't thaaat busy this week so I am really hoping it starts out in the Top 10 of the midweeks! Ariana Grande - Eternal Sunshine Bananarama - Glorious: The Ultimate Collection Bleachers – Bleachers Dion – Girl Friends Girls Aloud - What Will The Neighbours Say? (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Grace Petrie - Build Something Better Judas Priest - Invincible Shield Kim Gordon - The Collective Kylie Minogue - Body Language [Vinyl] Livingston - A Hometown Odyssey [DOWNLOAD ONLY] Loreena McKennitt - The Road Back Home Norah Jones – Visions Ricki-Lee - On My Own [DOWNLOAD ONLY] Sarah Jane Morris - The Sisterhood Tom McRae - Étrange Hiver Sound of the Underground was #9 in its Monday midweek with 2,562 sales. Not sure what is usually required to be Top 10 in the Monday midweeks recently. If WWTNS isn't Top 5 in today's midweeks I doubt we'll find out how many sales it starts out with unfortunately.
March 11, 20241 yr Arianas sales are a bit underwhelming at number 1 with just over 18k which probably means Girls Aloud are on about 3k max.
March 12, 20241 yr Top 10 is a nice start but as it's on the bottom end of the top 10 it may not perform any better than the Sound of the Underground release.
