Album Sales predictions-What do you think?

[vaijuju]

They sold over 3000 for the week.
So this album has legs.It will get to Gold at some point.
I'm guessing they are at 390,000 around now.
Aerosmith is behind them at 173.
Aerosmith, Best of Aerosmith: The Millennium Collection (3,000, +42%, 473,000) (#173 BB200)

(props to 75 kl from vhlinks)

[DONNIEP]

I guess the only thing I don't get is why the record company isn't pushing the record? You would think it would be in their best interest to sell as many copies as possible - whether they're plastic or digital. Right? I mean, in the beginning when the deal was announced it looked like there was going to be serious promotion. And then, nothing. I know, they had the Times Square billboard - but how many people saw that on live TV and recognized it for what it was? A handful, and most of them are right here. Hell, you couldn't hardly even see the thing unless you were looking for it and then you had to know what it was for it to make any sense. Then they plastered the building in LA with the album cover, which was cool but it didn't get all that much traction. And as for the two private gigs - well, they generated some buzz but obviously that didn't translate into sales.

Look, I get that VH doesn't care to promote the record, for whatever reason(s) they have. But you'd think that the record company would be pimping this thing from coast to coast and trying to cash in as much as possible.

[sadaist]

But what albums are really even promoted any more? Walk through Best Buy or Walmart and maybe....maybe see a small stand promoting 1 album. But more than not it's a stand of new releases or hot music. Not like the GOOD old days of Sam Goody, Wherehouse Records, Tower Records, etc when you would walk in and they would have monstrous displays for the new album. I really don't frequent any music sites or magazines so I don't know what type of banners or ads they might have run for this.

[minkahed]

To Be honest, I wanted this disc to be really successful and go Platinum just to shut ol Spammy up and to prove to him, once and for all, that Dave is what we all really wanted to begin with.

Even to Michael Anthony. He's always shrubbed Dave off as this plastic puppet in original Van Halen, it just makes me wanna slap the shit out of him.

The fact that Chickenshit went "Gold" suprisingly fast and the new record with Roth hasn't, just makes matters really bizarre.

It pisses me off that he immediately dismissed "Tattoo" when it was first released and it seems that the public, at large, agrees with him.

The album is really good and it deserves to be heard.

At least Mike admitted, "They made a really great album".

[jhale667]

It will eventually go platinum if they keep up themselves in the media as they have been. Dave should probably do more interviews, ala CNN and whatnot, but I notice more casual fan co-workers have come up to me, knowing I'm a rabid fan and said "So, I saw Eddie Van Halen on _________. They've got a new album out?" My boss bought it on my recommendation for her husband's birthday a few weekends back, when I rolled into the office on that Monday I asked "How'd you guys like it?" she says "Oh, IT's great. But he played it non-stop ALL WEEKEND."

[Romeo Delight]

It will eventually go platinum if they keep up themselves in the media as they have been. Dave should probably do more interviews, ala CNN and whatnot, but I notice more casual fan co-workers have come up to me, knowing I'm a rabid fan and said "So, I saw Eddie Van Halen on _________. They've got a new album out?" My boss bought it on my recommendation for her husband's birthday a few weekends back, when I rolled into the office on that Monday I asked "How'd you guys like it?" she says "Oh, IT's great. But he played it non-stop ALL WEEKEND."

If you look at the demographic...an appearance on CNN is actually the best marketing you could come up with. I don't know how many hard-core VH fans I know who heard Tatoo ...didn't like it...and I told them to just buy it and listen.

Every last one of them says, "You were right!!...I haven't played anything else since."

[jhale667]

Oh yeah, Ed and Wolf - on CNN on Father's Day? Brilliant marketing. But keep the ball rolling, as they say...

[DLR'sCock]

At this point, I'd say it's sold about what it's going to. I mean, not unless Stay Frosty hits BIG, which...well...it may or may not, but at this stage, I think it's at the ceiling. Kinda curious why they went with Stay Frosty as opposed to Blood and Fire, Blood and Fire seems to me a lot more, eh, 'radio friendly' for lack of a better term.

I have not heard Stay Frosty on the radio at all and I have called WDHA in NJ a few times to request that or Blood and Fire or As Is, but to no avail.

The DJ Terrie Carr on WDHA told me she hated the new VH album when I called the other day. I of course told her my opinion of it, and she said she couldn't understand that people like the album. I guess others have called as well.

[Romeo Delight]

I read somewhere on the internet recently that the album was just certifed Gold. Should have saved the link.

I am thinking they are referring to the fact it is Gold in Canada. It was a US source though

[damngoodtimes]

Oh yeah, Ed and Wolf - on CNN on Father's Day? Brilliant marketing. But keep the ball rolling, as they say...

I suppose so, but why was it that the majority of the press done by Ed and Wolf was just recently...just in time to get OFF the road....

only in VH land does that make sense...

[vaijuju]

I read somewhere on the internet recently that the album was just certifed Gold. Should have saved the link.

I am thinking they are referring to the fact it is Gold in Canada. It was a US source though

Yes for Canada,GOLD ALBUM(S)
40,000 Units VAN HALEN A DIFFERENT KIND OF TRUTH UNIVERSAL MUSIC INTERSCOPE Apr 27, 2012

sales in EU are around 400 000 (Gold 500 000)!

[DLR'sCock]

I have not heard Stay Frosty on the radio at all and I have called WDHA in NJ a few times to request that or Blood and Fire or As Is, but to no avail.

The DJ Terrie Carr on WDHA told me she hated the new VH album when I called the other day. I of course told her my opinion of it, and she said she couldn't understand that people like the album. I guess others have called as well.

Ok, I heard Stay Frosty on WDHA once two weeks ago.

[vh rides again]

I know it's stupid that this album isn't getting played, it kicks major ass in my opinion.
This fall I'm playing in a 1 club golf tourney and it's sponsers are the local radio station.
I've never had much to say to the DJ's but this year I'm going to say plenty.

I'm going to tell them to try and fit in 1 song off the long awaited vh album somewhere between all the shit red hot chili peppers and the gawd awful nickel back.
Fuckin sucks ass.


Roth And Roll

[DLR'sCock]

Eddie Trunk just played You and Your Blues on his show on Q1043 Friday Night Rocks and talking up great things about the new album. He also said he heard the reason for the tour cancellations was due to economics.

[ELVIS]

Economics ??

Eddie Trunk sucks Hagar's dick daily...