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[BenJammin]

A recruit chimed in pre-reunion tour:

http://www.rotharmy.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=45536#post45536

Anybody know what the BOBW sales are?

[DLR82VH]

If the tour was any indication......then BOBW probably didn't sell very well at all.

[BenJammin]

Originally posted by DLR82VH
If the tour was any indication......then BOBW probably didn't sell very well at all.

Yeah, I just tried to answer my own question and look it up on Billboard.com.... Do you realize they don't even have a listing for 'Rock albums' (at least I didn't see it the first time I looked). But of course they have:

R&B/HipHop
Country
Electronic
Latin
Compilation
Rap
etc.,etc., etc. but not a chart for Rock ? Am I missing something?

What has this world come to?

[Terry]

The RIAA site lists BOBW sales at both gold and platinum. Am presuming, since it's a two-disc set, that platinum in this case means there were 500,000 copies sold, and they're counting each 2-disc unit sold as two.

[DLR82VH]

That is stupid to have all those charts and not one for ROCK.......that pisses me off.


I can't believe BOBW sold that much that's insane.

[bueno bob]

Originally posted by DLR82VH
That is stupid to have all those charts and not one for ROCK.......that pisses me off.


I can't believe BOBW sold that much that's insane.

Well, whether they actually SOLD that many or not is a different issue...has it been determined whether those numbers are what shipped or what actually SOLD (i.e. scanned over the counter)? I know they count shipping figures as sales, and what doesn't sell after X amont of time gets sent back to the distributor, so figures as to what's actually SHIPPED and counted vs. what's actually SCANNED and counted are usually two different stories entirely.

[Hardrock69]

It is too bad the public cannot have access to SoundScan figures....you haveta be an industry insider in order to have an account with them and check out their sales figures...

[bueno bob]

Originally posted by Hardrock69
It is too bad the public cannot have access to SoundScan figures....you haveta be an industry insider in order to have an account with them and check out their sales figures...

That pretty much answers my question, then. It SHIPPED that many copies, but as for SELLING that many, nah.

[BenJammin]

Originally posted by Terry
The RIAA site lists BOBW sales at both gold and platinum. Am presuming, since it's a two-disc set, that platinum in this case means there were 500,000 copies sold, and they're counting each 2-disc unit sold as two.

Well, if we are giving these stats any credit, BOV1 is Multi Platinum x3
which makes a good point I guess.

...and unfortunately BOBW has outsold(outshipped) VHIII.

[DLR82VH]

I was thinking to myself why would any Roth era fan buy BOBW ?? There as far as I know isn't anything new or unheard of by CVH lineup on it.


Bov1 at least had 2 new Roth songs on it. That had to put a dent in the sales of BOBW with the new shitty Hagar songs.

[Casemeister]

As of October 27, 2004, it had sold 424,709 copies. That's a SoundScan figure from metalsludge.com. It has probably sold (sold -- not shipped) 500,000 copies by now. It will probably lead to decreased sales of the albums, though. When I was just discovering VH, I didn't buy BOV1 because it was missing YRGM and HFT. It was too brief, really, I thought. So I got VH1 and decided to see if I liked it. I did. Had BOBW been around, hey, it's possible that I would have bought it and thought "Eh... this'll do." I'm glad I bought the albums instead. Casual fans would love BOBW, although even some of them have a few favourites that aren't on it. (Mostly CVH "diamonds in the rough.")

[DLR82VH]

So thats 500,000 sold then?? Damn that means 250,000 of them are being used as coasters and frisbees.


The other 250,000 people put away and listen to bein it is the Roth cd.