This from melodicrock.com, it's really sad when some of these bands aren't moving very many copies. I think the most pathetic figures are for the Scorpions... Read the footnote next to the numbers...
SOUNDSCAN US SALES NUMBERS:
There have been several major melodic rock titles released in the USA over the past few weeks and months. I though now would be a good time to get an update on their sales progress.
The following numbers are the Nielson SoundScan US sales details, the official company that reports numbers that represent the Billboard Top 200 etc. Included are a few individual comments from my US label buddy who supplied the numbers. Take note that these are US numbers only.
Survivor - Ultimate Survivor - 1705 units. (From two weeks of sales)[Not a huge number, but to put it in perspective, Essential Toto only sold 900 combined for its first two weeks, and Ultimate Alan Parsons Project only sold 600 in its first two weeks combined. For this sort of catalogue album, where there's no real marketing push, 1705 is pretty good, and it'll keep selling forever.]
Van Halen - Best Of Both Worlds - 138,284 units (From one week of sales).
Rick Springfield - Shock Denial Anger Acceptance - 26,553 units (Total so far).
Dokken - Hell To Pay - 5625 units (From two weeks of sales).
Tesla - Into The Now - 114,778 units.
Velvet Revolver - Contraband - 707,832 units (From 7 weeks of sales).
Brides Of Destruction - Here Come The Brides - 36,781 units.
Scorpions - Unbreakable - 12,894 units [Strangely, this album is doing considerably worse than Eye II Eye did. Possibly because Mysterious from EIIE actually got some airplay.]
Heart - Jupiter's Darling - 39,167 units.
Gene Simmons - Asshole - 25,082 units.
SOUNDSCAN US SALES NUMBERS:
There have been several major melodic rock titles released in the USA over the past few weeks and months. I though now would be a good time to get an update on their sales progress.
The following numbers are the Nielson SoundScan US sales details, the official company that reports numbers that represent the Billboard Top 200 etc. Included are a few individual comments from my US label buddy who supplied the numbers. Take note that these are US numbers only.
Survivor - Ultimate Survivor - 1705 units. (From two weeks of sales)[Not a huge number, but to put it in perspective, Essential Toto only sold 900 combined for its first two weeks, and Ultimate Alan Parsons Project only sold 600 in its first two weeks combined. For this sort of catalogue album, where there's no real marketing push, 1705 is pretty good, and it'll keep selling forever.]
Van Halen - Best Of Both Worlds - 138,284 units (From one week of sales).
Rick Springfield - Shock Denial Anger Acceptance - 26,553 units (Total so far).
Dokken - Hell To Pay - 5625 units (From two weeks of sales).
Tesla - Into The Now - 114,778 units.
Velvet Revolver - Contraband - 707,832 units (From 7 weeks of sales).
Brides Of Destruction - Here Come The Brides - 36,781 units.
Scorpions - Unbreakable - 12,894 units [Strangely, this album is doing considerably worse than Eye II Eye did. Possibly because Mysterious from EIIE actually got some airplay.]
Heart - Jupiter's Darling - 39,167 units.
Gene Simmons - Asshole - 25,082 units.