So how much do we all think it'll sell? Anything close to WPSIATWIN? Or do we think it'll completely flop or what? Will the media call them a flop?

 

I predict just over 200K followed by a lot of people and the media saying they're finished because you know that is SUCH a low amount afterall :)

I'm gonna go for just over 200k. It won't hit the sales of WPSIATWIN becuase there's no way hear as much hype about as there was before, but all the reviews with the exception of the odd one, have been brilliant so far and add that to quite a bit of promo work and Radio1 plugging the album at just about any given oppotunity this week it should hopefully open with very strong sales!

 

But I agree that people will be saying they're finished, even when the sales are very good for album. Most bands can only dream of opening sales of round about 200k...

agree with you.

i dont expect big sales in uk even if the reviews are very positive/brilliant so far.

but it s definitely gonna sell more than their first worldwide.

 

its not an easy album but its a great one.sell out?no way n i m glad 4 it

 

 

agree with you.

i dont expect big sales in uk even if the reviews are very positive/brilliant so far.

but it s definitely gonna sell more than their first worldwide.

 

its not an easy album but its a great one.sell out?no way n i m glad 4 it

 

I think sales will be big, just not as big as the first album's sales. I think you could be right that it'll sell more in the long run worldwide. I think this album will be a lot better promoted singles wise, with 2 or possibly 3 more singles off this album.

w ll have to wait the release of the massive FA (second single?)n their summer gigs

w ll have to wait the release of the massive FA (second single?)n their summer gigs

 

FA seems to be comfirmed as the 2nd single now, and then I think there will be another single September time and then possibly another single November time. The Summer gigs should all hopefully boost sales as well especially since they're headlining Glastonbury this year.

Seriously, I would have gone for something like 189K, but it looks like it is going to be more than 200K.

Sales were 145k for Mon, Tue and Wed I think? Or was it just Mon and Tue? :unsure: Anyway I think it will just top over the 200k mark now, which will mean this year it's had the best first week sales so far. Not sure how well it will sell in the long run. Can't really judge WPSIATWIN for selling in the long run as after the album was released no proper singles were released, so there's not a basic idea of how FWN will sell.

Well the album has sold 167k as of Fridays update. I still think it'll pass 200k of its first week sales as hopefully it should have sold 20k today and hopefully another 20k tomorrow.

when wll we have the US album chart?

definitely a top 20 n with more than 45-50.000 copies maybe in the top 10...

when wll we have the US album chart?

definitely a top 20 n with more than 45-50.000 copies maybe in the top 10...

 

Not too sure about the Billboard chart.

 

I'm not entirely sure when it was released in the US. I think it might have been Thursday. :unsure: Not too sure though. Anyway the Hot100 is normally around on the site Wednesday/Thursday time so I imagine it'll be near the end of the week for the US album chart.

 

 

227922 Arctic Monkeys

 

amazing

It's been released last Tuesday in the US

It's top10 on Amazon.com and #3 on I-tunes behind Maroon5 and the "Idol gives back" album, so it should be top10 in the Album Chart easily IMO!

Edited April 30, 200718 yr by Poprocks87

GREAT sales for the album. Did better than I expected it too!!! Is up to about #10 in the Year To Date Chart already!

 

Here's hoping there's another strong week of sales next week and it retains it's #1 position! :D

 

Here's the full music week report incase anyone has missed it: I've highlighted the bits of importance towards the Arctic Monkeys as well.

 

After falling below the 2m level three weeks ago, for the first time in more than five years, album sales recovered a little the following week but stayed below 2m, writes Alan Jones.

 

They moved back above the psychologically important mark again last week, climbing 15% week-on-week to 2,266,764, thanks largely to the Arctic Monkeys, whose second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare sold 227,922 copies to debut at number one. That's more than the rest of the Top 10 combined, and over seven times as many as Mark Ronson's Version, which holds second place with sales of 31,402.

 

Arctic Monkeys album's sales included 9,788 downloads but the tracks from the album were also available individually for download, and thus eligible for the singles chart.

 

Although they made an en masse invasion of the Top 75 on midweek sales flashes, the impact of the majority of the tracks - and those from the Arctic Monkeys' debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - diminished as the week wore on, with the result that, in the final chart, while first single Brianstorm dipped 2-7 on physical and download sales of 13,155, only two download tracks made the Top 75 - Fluorescent Adolescent leading the way at number 60 on sales of 1,961, while 505 scraped in at number 74 on sales of 1,329.

 

Press speculation suggested that the group would register the highest ever tally of simultaneous Top 100 hits but they ended up with only five - the three named above plus Teddy Picker (number 93, 1,096 sales) and Temptation Greets You Like Your Naughty Friend, the non-album b-side of Brianstorm (down 77-96, 1,093 sales).

 

They had a further 12 songs in the bottom half of the Top 200 for an overall tally of 17 entries, compared to the Beatles' record tally of 23 in the Top 100 achieved in 1976, when Yesterday was released as a single for the first time, and the remainder of their singles catalogue was reactivated.

 

Arctic Monkeys made a sensational debut on the album chart in February 2006, when Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, stormed to number one on first week sales of 363,735 - the highest ever for a debut album, and the fifth highest first week tally in history, behind Oasis's Be Here Now, Coldplay's X&Y, Dido's Life For Rent and Robbie Williams' Intensive Care. Number one for four weeks, it has sold 1,159,000 copies to date.

 

With Beyonce and Shakira's Beautiful Liar continuing at number one on the singles chart on sales of 35,000, the deluxe edition of Beyonce's B'day album - which adds Beautiful Liar, six more audio tracks and 12 videos to the original release - debuts at number eight on sales of 17,500. The original B'day debuted and peaked at number three last September and has sold 377,000 copies.

 

Even adding together sales of the two B'days, the album is far behind Beyonce's 2003 debut solo set dangerously In Love, which has sold 1,082,000 copies.

 

Ella Fitzgerald would have been 90 last Wednesday (April 25) and to mark the occasion, UCJ released Forever Ella, which debuts at number 20 on sales of 9,000 to become Fitzgerald's 12th chart album in a chart career spanning nearly 49 years. A different 1995 Forever Ella peaked at number 19.

 

Much of Fitzgerald's early work is out of copyright, which explains why more than 250 different albums of her work have been released in the last decade. The biggest seller is 2003's Gold, with sales to date of 210,000.

 

Support for first single If I Was Your Man from 1Xtra, Choice FM, Galaxy Radio and MTV Base spurred R&B veteran Joe's sixth album Ain't Nothing Like Me to a number 25 debut on sales of 7,000. It's his highest charting album, beating the peaks of Everything (number 53, 1994), All That I Am (number 26, 1997), My Name Is Joe (number 46, 2000), Better Days (number 87, 2001) and And Then (number 73, 2003). My Name Is Joe is his biggest seller (104,000 copies), while And Then sold 74,000 despite its low peak.

 

Topping the compilation chart for the fourth week in a row on sales of 38,500, Now! 66 has sold a total of 485,000 in 27 days. That's 39.8% ahead of same stage sales of 347,000 for its 2006 equivalent, Now! 63, but 11.41% behind its 2005 equivalent, Now! 60.'s 547,500.

 

With debut hit Grace Kelly and parent album Life In Cartoon Motion each selling upwards of 400,000 copies this year, there's more good news for Mika as his latest single, Love Today, benefits from its physical release by powering into the Top 10. The track has moved 179-48-38-32-18-6 thus far, and sold 15,000 copies last week to lift its overall sales to 33,250.

 

Grace Kelly dips 22-25 on its 16th week in the Top 40, and has sold 415,000 copies to date, while Life In Cartoon Motion climbs 7-6 on sales of 21,750 (total to date: 403,250).

 

After falling short of the Top 15 with their last three singles, Travis are back on track with Closer. The first single from their upcoming album The Boy With No Name jumps 36-10 this week on sales of 10,500.

 

Travis' highest charting single, Sing, peaked at number three in 2001, and is also the biggest seller of their 17 Top 40 hits, with 159,000 sales. Their most recent hit, Walking In The Sun, peaked at number 20 in 2004, and sold only 11,000 copies.

 

Dame Shirley Bassey scores her 28th Top 40 hit, and becomes the first solo female septuagenarian to chart, debuting at number 37 this week with The Living Tree, on sales of 3,500. Ms. Bassey turned 70 in January but is three years younger than Hylda Baker was when she and 64 year old partner Arthur Mullard charted an abominable remake of You're The One That I Want in 1978. John Lee Hooker, the oldest male soloist to make the Top 40, was 75 when Boom Boom charted in 1992.

 

The success of The Living Tree extends Bassey's span of new hits - which started with The Banana Boat Song in February 1957 to more than 50 years, the longest of any artist.

 

Seventies rockers Supertramp only scored two Top 10 singles in their career, and both have returned to the Top 10 in the 21st century in wholly different versions. Their The Logical Song (number seven in 1979) was done in banging techno style by Scooter in 2002, and was a number two hit. Follow-up Breakfast in America (number nine in 1979) is now the basis of Gym Class Heroes' hip-hop hit Cupid's Chokehold, which jumps 24-8 this week on sales of 11,500. Cupid's Chokehold reached number four on the US Hot 100.

 

Swedish dance act Sunblock rack up their third straight Top 20 hit this week, debuting at number 15 with their cover of Corona's 1995 number five hit Baby Baby. Sunblock previously reached number four with I'll Be Ready and nine with First Time last year.

 

Meanwhile, the Manic Street Preachers rack up their 31st hit single, with Your Love Alone Is Not Enough debuting at number 26 on sales of 5,000 downloads. The track is physically released today, and should end the week much higher.

 

The band's last two singles - The Love Of Richard Nixon and Empty Souls - both reached number two in 2004/5. The Manics' new album is out a week tomorrow, and their 23 date sell-out UK tour starts the following day.

 

The album is at #30 so far in the US! :D

 

Hopefully it can climb a bit! :D ^_^

CHART DATE: 04/30/2007

LAST UPDATE: 05/01/2007 14:20:39

NOW IN: FINAL

 

 

LW TW artist / album label power index % change

1 1 AVRIL LAVIGNE ARISTA/RMG 116,149 -60%

BEST DAMN THING

-- 2 JOE JIVE/ZLG 98,664 --

AIN'T NOTHIN' LIKE ME

3 3 NOW 24 EMI 53,572 -24%

VARIOUS ARTISTS

2 4 NINE INCH NAILS NOTHING/INTERSCOPE 52,164 -72%

YEAR ZERO

6 5 DAUGHTRY RCA/RMG 48,162 -9%

DAUGHTRY

8 6 AKON SRC/UNIVERSAL MOTOWN 44,872 -13%

KONVICTED

-- 7 ARCTIC MONKEYS DOMINO 44,738 --

FAVOURITE WORST NIGHTMARE

9 8 CARRIE UNDERWOOD ARISTA/RMG 43,860 -3%

SOME HEARTS

7 9 TIM MCGRAW CURB 37,237 -29%

LET IT GO

5 10 MARTINA MCBRIDE SBMG NASHVILLE 35,860 -36%

WAKING UP LAUGHING

15 11 AMY WINEHOUSE UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 34,474 +3%

BACK TO BLACK

12 12 FERGIE A&M/INTERSCOPE 32,852 -16%

THE DUTCHESS

11 13 ROBIN THICKE STAR TRAK/INTERSCOPE 32,745 -17%

THE EVOLUTION OF ROBIN THICKE

10 14 TIMBALAND INTERSCOPE 30,498 -24%

TIMBALAND PRESENTS SHOCK VALUE

13 15 BEYONCE COLUMBIA 29,328 -18%

B'DAY

31 16 JOSS STONE VIRGIN 28,629 +45%

INTRODUCING JOSS STONE

19 17 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE JIVE/ZLG 26,403 -9%

FUTURE SEX/LOVE SOUNDS

21 18 NICKELBACK ROADRUNNER 25,803 -5%

ALL THE RIGHT REASONS

16 19 ALISON KRAUSS ROUNDER 25,373 -21%

A HUNDRED MILES OR MORE

18 20 GWEN STEFANI INTERSCOPE 25,263 -14%

THE SWEET ESCAPE

-- 21 NEIL SEDAKA RAZOR & TIE 25,240 --

DEFINITIVE COLLECTION

22 22 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 25,091 +5%

TAYLOR SWIFT

26 23 RASCAL FLATTS LYRIC STREET 23,635 +11%

ME AND MY GANG

4 24 BUCKY COVINGTON LYRIC STREET 23,322 -62%

BUCKY COVINGTON

24 25 CORINNE BAILEY RAE CAPITOL 22,361 -1%

CORINNE BAILEY RAE

17 26 HILARY DUFF HOLLYWOOD 21,396 -28%

DIGNITY

33 27 HANNAH MONTANA WALT DISNEY RECORDS 20,814 +7%

SOUNDTRACK

30 28 NELLY FURTADO GEFFEN 20,561 -1%

LOOSE

27 29 HINDER UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC 19,626 -8%

EXTREME BEHAVIOR

-- 30 DONNY OSMOND DECCA 19,209 --

LOVE SONGS OF THE '70S

32 31 LLOYD THE INC/UNIVERSAL MOTOWN 18,885 -5%

STREET LOVE

23 32 YOUNG BUCK INTERSCOPE 18,777 -21%

BUCK THE WORLD

20 33 PAUL WALL ATLANTIC/ATL G 17,915 -36%

GET MONEY, STAY TRUE

38 34 NORAH JONES BLUE NOTE/BNLG 17,616 +3%

NOT TOO LATE

29 35 MUSIQ SOULCHILD ATLANTIC/ATL G 17,020 -19%

LUVANMUSIQ

25 36 FALL OUT BOY ISLAND/IDJMG 16,841 -24%

INFINITY ON HIGH

40 37 MIMS CAPITOL 15,767 -7%

MUSIC IS MY SAVIOR

34 38 MODEST MOUSE EPIC 14,589 -20%

WE WERE DEAD BEFORE THE SHIP...

35 39 LARRY THE CABLE GUY WARNER BROS. 14,001 -23%

MORNING CONSTITUTIONS

28 40 BRIGHT EYES SADDLE CREEK 13,635 -35%

CASSADAGA

36 41 SUGARLAND MERCURY NASHVILLE 13,540 -25%

ENJOY THE RIDE

39 42 CHEVELLE EPIC 13,122 -23%

VENA SERA

48 43 RICH BOY INTERSCOPE 13,122 -6%

RICH BOY

37 44 JACKSON, STRAIT, BUFFETT MCA NASHVILLE 12,857 -27%

LIVE AT TEXAS STADIUM

-- 45 BREAKING BENJAMIN HOLLYWOOD 12,763 --

PHOBIA

46 46 GARY ALLAN MCA NASHVILLE 12,526 -14%

GREATEST HITS

14 47 CLAY WALKER CURB 11,653 -67%

FALL

45 48 ELTON JOHN ISLAND/IDJMG 11,640 -23%

ROCKET MAN: NUMBER ONES

50 49 30 SECONDS TO MARS VIRGIN 11,212 -2%

A BEAUTIFUL LIE

44 50 PINK LAFACE/ZLG 10,758 -31%

I'M NOT DEAD

 

Brilliant news! :o :cheer: Didn't think it would chart that high, but I guess the bits of promo in the US over the past few weeks must have really payed off! :D

great news .i was expectin to sell 45-50.000 copies

Article about FWN's success in the US:

 

The Arctic Monkeys' new album has entered the US Billboard 200 album chart at number seven.

 

Favourite Worst Nightmare, having shifted 44,000 copies in the first week of its US release, is a big improvement on their first release.

 

Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not entered 24th and has only sold 305,000 copies in total - mostly after the band promoted themselves in the country.

 

The Arctics' record label, Domino, said the new release was "more American-friendly", while recent figures have shown a renewed Stateside interest in British music.

 

The act is also currently touring America and is one of the headliners at the Coachella festival, alongside Brits Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen.

 

Avril Lavigne's The Best Damn Thing remains top of the US album chart.

The album has sold brilliantly so far! I hope it continues to sell lots and passes the sales of its predecessor.

#1 again in the UK this week! :D I've a feeling it won't be #1 next week, but we'll just see...

 

Hopefully the sales report shall come through tonight. :D ^_^