USA Sales Figures for Rock Music

[johnburrows]

DLR is listed below for YTD sales of his latest disc Diamond Dave.

Rock music overall is suffering. Just goes to show you how much media and promotion has a lot to do with melting the minds of people. A record company in conjunction with TV can create an entirely new brand of music, sell it, market it, and most every sheep in America will listen and buy it.

In the US, all official sales figures are tallied by a company called Nielsen Soundscan. The figures gathered by Sounscan come from reporting stores across the USA and are deemed reliable enough for Billboard to use as their official supplier for data for their charts, including the USA Top 200 Albums.

Before you read the figures - a few words of explanation. These figures are USA only, not worldwide numbers. Many titles are also available via different labels in Europe, those sales numbers are unknown.

A few side notes are placed next to some of the titles - please also take those notes into consideration.

Artist Title USA Sales
To Date
Styx Big Bang Theory 42,855 (Still a recent release and selling)
Cyclorama 56,017
Brave New World 73,428
Dokken Hell To Pay 15,739
Long Way Home 21,141
Shadowlife 51,140
Bon Jovi Crush 1,994,800
Bounce 712,971
100 Million Fans Can't Be Wrong 104,975
This Left Feels Right 424,489
One Wild Night - Live 1985-2001 521,969
Van Halen III 513,921
For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge 2,950,337
The Best Of Both Worlds 568,170
Sammy Hagar The Essential Red Collection 91,423
David Lee Roth Diamond Dave 15,676
Iommi w/ Glenn Hughes The DEP Sessions 6,420
Iommi Fused 4,976 (Only just released)
W.A.S.P. Neon God Part I 17,014
Neon God Part 2 8,438
MSG Arachnophobiac 6,213
Heavy Hitters 567 (Just released)
Kevin Dubrow In For The Kill 981
Pretty Boy Floyd Size Really Does Matter 795
Twisted Sister Still Hungry 13,334
Bang Tango Ready To Go 1,615
Kansas Somewhere to Elsewhere 38,344
Bryan Adams Room Service 27,402
John Waite The Hard Way 5,721
L.A. Guns Rips The Covers Off 3,594
Dio Master of the Moon 25,777
Motley Crue Red White & Crue 399,741
Megadeth The System Has Failed 161,229
38 Special Drivetrain 13,341
Asia Silent Nation 5,558
Heart Jupiter's Darling 73,394
Brides Of Destruction Here Come The Brides 41,018
Gene Simmons Asshole 33,445
Fleetwood Mac Say You Will 847,338
Velvet Revolver Contraband 1,783,565
Scorpions Unbreakable 36,139
Bruce Dickinson Tyranny Of Souls 16,385
Billy Idol Devil's Playground 81,225
Various Artists VH1 Metal Mania Stripped 57,576
Hall And Oates Our Kind Of Soul 105,516
Tsar Tsar 5,109
Band Girls Money 1,099 (Just released)
Frickin A Big Egos...No Ideas 8,703 (Jessie's Girl single - 17,622!)
Anberlin Never Take Friendship Personal 44,101

[VonHalen]

Iommi Fused 4,976 (Only just released)

Thats a good one too

[bigc]

we;ve seen this before cos we laughed at kevin dubrow and his 981

[bobgnote]

That darn market distortion means rock will suck, then DIE

You can't get romantic on a subway line.
Gonna get a BIGGER BANG, for wasting your time,
But everybody WANTS SOME,
fuck YOU if you don't PAY, first.

The MARKET is distorted by all the fakers, in all culture and administration, so nothing is really what it seems by its corporate label.

YOU are not programmed to receive, and Randy is just being a decoy, in pre. So how will rock survive, in the coming funds implosion?

Well, the commercial fakers are getting more like smart monkeys, with typewriters. They get closer to rock, on TV, all the time.

Too bad after thirty seconds, most of them trip up. want ROCK, don't pay a dirtbag like Gene Simmons to bugger up Harry Potter class, but so they did! Lemmiwinks, the Gerbil King, learn to sing. PPffffft!!

[BITEYOASS]

Originally posted by bobgnote
You can't get romantic on a subway line.
Gonna get a BIGGER BANG, for wasting your time,
But everybody WANTS SOME,
fuck YOU if you don't PAY, first.

The MARKET is distorted by all the fakers, in all culture and administration, so nothing is really what it seems by its corporate label.

YOU are not programmed to receive, and Randy is just being a decoy, in pre. So how will rock survive, in the coming funds implosion?

Well, the commercial fakers are getting more like smart monkeys, with typewriters. They get closer to rock, on TV, all the time.

Too bad after thirty seconds, most of them trip up. want ROCK, don't pay a dirtbag like Gene Simmons to bugger up Harry Potter class, but so they did! Lemmiwinks, the Gerbil King, learn to sing. PPffffft!!

Exactly, and something tells me that this Nielsen Soundscan crap may wind up like payola. Cause you know them big fuckin record companies are paying them off to bump up the numbers, while all these new hard rock and metal acts get fucked! And if that's the case then why the hell does rock always sell out arenas most of these pop and hip-hop artist can't sell worth a shit? Case in point: The SARS concert in Toronto, you figure after Justin Timberlake claimed to sell millions of albums that most of the audience wanted to see him? FUCK NO!!!! He got garbage thrown at him and deserved it, while everybody else was actually in line to see Rush, AC/DC and the Rolling Stones. The bottom line is that it's all gonna blow over someday and these talentless fucks will be working at McDonalds.

[Wawazat]

Originally posted by BITEYOASS
The bottom line is that it's all gonna blow over someday and these talentless fucks will be working at McDonalds.

No way, McDonalds cares very much about Qualitystandards

[franksters]

I can't beleive bon jovi is leading...still