Some Numbers For The Past Week

[Frank Giaramita]

Here's some sales numbers for recently released albums for the past week:

First Week:
Over It - 1,322 scanned
Gratitude- 2,842 scanned

Second Week:
Mars Volta- 45,513 scanned (169,027 total)
Norma Jean- 6,009 scanned (24,467 total)

[AshesAshes]

damn mars volta is doing well

[SmashUrGuitars]

quite miniscule sales for Over It...

[LeftWideOpen]

Gratitude's sales will pick up once they get some exposure. Great album.

[Jonze33]

Gratitude are featured in the newest Rolling Stone as one of the Artists to Watch for 2005. They got it right last year with My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy, so I'm sure Gratitude will get some big exposure.

[nfggc10]

quite miniscule sales for Over It...
eh, the cd isn't that great anyway

[MrChainsaw389]

I think all of those numbers suck except for Mars Volta. Think of how many months they worked on that shit and to only sell 1300 records on the week it's out has got to be a huge dissapointment.

[LTJ182]

NOT miniscule when you figure there were only 6000 piece out on the shelves...its not like they shipped 50K...
its close to 25%...thats HUUUUUUUUGE


think about it like this....if youre a kid who goes into the store and you walk in and see a whole endcap of taking back sunday, and you cant find Over It, because it is burried in the "O" section-what are you gonna buy???


much more to buying a record than just pure sales

[Rufio21]

is 100,000 gold? I cant believ TMV sold that many, wow

[DissentRec]

Those Gratitude sales look very disappointing. I went into a few stores looking for it and ended up walking out with Dropkick Murphys - Singles Collection Vol. 2. It was funny how DKM could have ample copies in stock while Gratitude had zero copies in stock. Gotta love the big label backing on Gratitude.

[tsrshorty]

500,000 is gold.

[LTJ182]

500K gold
million is platinum



PS-over it sold 1300 right?? indie label, no airplay, no video, just word of mouth

gratitude sold 2800, MAJOR label, airplay, and didnt we see them on TRL with pierre from simple plan? that alone should have sold them a few extra units....

[Vil de Locke]

is 100,000 gold? I cant believ TMV sold that many, wow

Gold is 500,000.. Mars Volta is doing very well..

[Rufio21]

is 100,000 gold? I cant believ TMV sold that many, wow

[djUbilla]

Gold is 500,000.. Mars Volta is doing very well..
Yeah, Gold is 500, 000.

And to that one guy that said that Gratitude was getting bad backing only because you walked into ONE store and couldn't find it; I'm pretty sure you can't judge based on that one place you tried to buy it at.

[Rufio21]

Yeah, Gold is 500, 000.

And to that one guy that said that Gratitude was getting bad backing only because you walked into ONE store and couldn't find it; I'm pretty sure you can't judge based on that one place you tried to buy it at.


I agree.. i gave gratitude a great review.. that alone should have sold like 10 more units

haha

[dave vegan]

your mom scanned 45,513 units this week. ohhhhh......

i'm lame.

[iamhollywood]

looks like homeboy jonah will be out of a record deal in the next month...

[MrChainsaw389]

Most of these kind of bands won't get stocked in many record stores. Just buy then online. Cheaper, and easier, usually.

And I was unaware the over it pressed only 6000 copies, I retract that statement.

[Sureshot182]

where can sales from cd's be found? i mean out of the top 200. i've looked quite a bit before and can't find anything.

[DissentRec]

And to that one guy that said that Gratitude was getting bad backing only because you walked into ONE store and couldn't find it; I'm pretty sure you can't judge based on that one place you tried to buy it at.

It wasn't like I walked into a store and couldn't find it, it was 7 since I was at my parents house.

Plus, I didn't know that so many were sent out. And yes, I did order it online since I couldn't find it. But my whole thinking was that with major label backing that it would be easier to find.

[FrancesdaMute]

didnt expect volta to do so well...and they havent even toured yet. shweet deal.

[Frank Giaramita]

Technically, Mars Volta is already Gold...Strummer Records have sold and shipped 500k+ copies of the disc to stores.

[Frank Giaramita]

Most of these kind of bands won't get stocked in many record stores. Just buy then online. Cheaper, and easier, usually.

And I was unaware the over it pressed only 6000 copies, I retract that statement.

-Over is on Lobster Records, distributed by Sony/Epic Red
-Gratitude is on Atlantic, distributed by WEA (Warner/Elektra/Atlantic)
-Mars Volta is on Strummer/Universal with 500k+ copies shipped
-Norma Jean is on Tooth And Nail distributed by EMI

That's really really solid distribution for all of those bands.

[kapler23]

Frank! Thanks for posting this, I always look forward to the cd sales part, by any chance do you have any clue how Forever Changed did (Floodgate Records), There honestly seems like a chance they could have outsold Over It.

Also, yeah Mars Volta is doing well, very well! But check out Norma Jean 25,000+ copies scanned now, thats ridiculous for them! God bless Norma Jean!

[7HD]

Technically, Mars Volta is already Gold...Strummer Records have sold and shipped 500k+ copies of the disc to stores.


kinda true, but they wait till they've sold 500k till they actually annouce it being gold

[bostonHxC]

did ATDI even sell that much?

[Anton Djamoos]

ATDI was superior to The Mars Volta. They should've sold more.

[hopefieldrock]

Congratulations to the boys of Over It! It's only up from here...


If you haven't heard that record yet, get over to PureVolume. Silverstrand is solid.

- Andrew



www.hopefieldrock.com

[riotmute]

actually when you ship 500k, its gold. its shipping that gets the awards. and at the drive in's last album actually went platinum, which seems weird but you gotta remember how popular they were for awhile. over it's opening numbers arent that bad..im sure they will sell a ton over the summer..but gratitude has to be bummed. 2800 copies sold, opening week, on a major? not to mention alot of big stations arent picking up the single

[LTJ182]

Frank! Thanks for posting this, I always look forward to the cd sales part, by any chance do you have any clue how Forever Changed did (Floodgate Records), There honestly seems like a chance they could have outsold Over It.

Also, yeah Mars Volta is doing well, very well! But check out Norma Jean 25,000+ copies scanned now, thats ridiculous for them! God bless Norma Jean!


Im sorry to dissapoint you but they only sold 253...over it would have been #34 on the new artist chart, but....the record wasnt registered and therefor its gonna bite the band in the ass...BIG TIME...a band who worked sooooo hard for sooo long on this record, and one person in the distro portion didnt set it up

GHETTO

[TD-McInnes]

Lobster's doing extremely well promoting Over It's cd for a small indie label. Its such a shame someone bigger didn't pick this up to release it. Sad thing is none of my local indie stores or even Best Buy had the disc.