SINCE YOU ASKED… SOUNDSCAN NUMBERS FOR THE WEEK
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 at 6:05pm by Vince Neilstein
Lamb of God’s Wrath dropped 67% to #12, moving a still very respectable 22,146 units. They should cross the 100,000 mark next week. God Forbid’s Earthsblood dropped 54%, just barely out of the Top 200, but still shifted 2,493 units (check last week’s debut numbers for both releases here). Cannibal Corpse moved 1,389 copies of Evisceration Plague in their 5th week on the chart, and will cross 20,000 cume next week. Score! Elsewhere, acts like Nickelback, Hollywood Undead and Kid Rock shifted way too many albums, and that’s really all you need to know.
By the way people, these Soundscan numbers do include both physical and digital albums.
-VN
Wow metal really needs to be recognized more
^^ It is. Unfortunately the general public’s definition of what metal is is horribly skewed.
Wow so what does Lamb of God’s ass taste like? I’m betting forgettable.
Yay! So the people running this site actually do read the comments people leave on here! Thanks, guys.
LOG’s sales decline was exactly what I expected. That gives them a two week cumulative total of 90,000. By contrast, Sacrament had sold 83,000 after the same period of time. Sacrament’s second week sales were about 1,600 copies less than Wrath’s but Sacrament fell to No.47 in its second week! That just goes to show how much album sales have declined in less than 3 years! The fact that LOG are selling more than they did back in 2006 is truly impressive.
God Forbid are ripping it up i see.
glad to see LOG up there. Great album. Too bad I can’t say the same for God Forbid.
Hehe, decided to go out and grab Evisceration Plague last week, glad to see their numbers are going up!
…and how much of royalties do bands tend to make? The latest Decibel article on the economy seemed to suggest close to ZIP! ZERO! NADA!
Joe A, yes they might not make money off album sales, but the label will in turn, get them bigger tours, which means riding a nice bus, more road crew, etc. if you drop in sales, not everything will be as convenient and you won’t make much on other things (merchandise, etc.). so it does mean something.
as for God Forbid, yes album sales are lower than last time, but it’s nice to know they sold 50% of the first week sales, so the drop wasn’t horrible. with the big tours coming up, they should be able to have some consistent CD/merch sales I hope.
I’ll never understand the appeal to the manufactured garbage that the general public buys in mass quantities. I like to think people are smarter than that but the numbers don’t lie, America is in large part stupid.
I’m sorry to inform you guys of this but a majority of the public does not care for music to inspire them, move them, or challenge them in anyway, shape or form. They want background noise, music they can listen to in the car or in an elevator, or to dance to at a club. That’s just reality people, it’s that simple. LOG is good for what they do, and they are obviously appealing enough to hit number 2. Just because they are somewhat more accessible than the “Hardcore brutalz” bands out there doesn’t mean they aren’t metal.
Bearbomb. Sorry it isn’t cannibal fucking corpse and they don’t move 20k copies….. I mean fuck. I’ll take a decent chorus over constant abrasive grumblings any day.
Ugh, Hollywood Undead. Euuurrrghh.
@enemyofgod72: I’m not sure why people seem to think the idea that mainstream music selling lots more than smaller, fragmented genres is a modern concept. The only real difference now is that the smaller, fragmented genres are even smaller and more fragmented than they’ve ever been.
Actually, when you think about it, even with album sales in decline, there are thousands more bands to be exposed to than ever before because of sites like Myspace and well, Metalsucks. These bands that sell 10,000 copies wouldn’t sell dick if we moved them back in time to 1985. Hell, they would’ve had to buy studio time, which they wouldn’t have been able to afford. Now anybody with a bedroom and some software can record something that sounds half-way professional and then market it through internet distribution.
It’s a pretty sad state for music when we applaud 2,000 people buying a record.
This reveals that metal is still a genre that gets the least attention. Remember the Roadrunner best-seller albums? All went to Nickelback…It’s just…OMG…
@ Bastard No. 1
LMAO, So true man !