just noticed bon jovi's new album sold LESS in its first week in the us than prince did with lotusflower ???.....despite the prince album only being available in target....does anyone else find this surprising ?....normally these boring middle aged rock bands sell by the bucketload in the us to all their boring middle aged fans ....

Thats Awesome... I found it remarkable that he went to NO.2 through target alone!
Hats off to Princey!

Middle-aged rockers?????

I beleive, they are younger than Prince!!!!!
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Desire2006 said:

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i never said they weren't....which makes it even more surprising now that prince is in his 50's....
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and remember bon jovi still get widespread radio play and hit singles....prince ain't getting neither...
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Time for a sensible answer:

BON JOVI SUCKS!

i guess prince knows what he's doing

Marrk said:

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i wouldn't disagree with that....but they do sell a lot of albums...in fact ...i would rather listen to anything rather than bon jovi.....unless it's nickelback .....how crap are they ???
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I've said before and I'll say it again.


Musicology, 3121, Planet Earth, and Lotusflow3r are commercial successes.


Sure, not like his 80's material sold, but still nothing that I would consider 'failures' commercially.


Prince's problem is lack of heavy rotation....sales-wise, he's doing pretty well.

Imago said:

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nobody is selling like they did in the 80's....the internet has made sure of that...we will probably never see albums selling ten million plus ever again like prince and madonna and springsteen did back then...now they are lucky to make a million sales so in that regard prince is holding up well ...all his recent albums are selling around half a million copies in the us and double that worldwide (if he releases them there of course)...

Prince dropped off quite quickly after a couple of weeks, wonder if BJ will do the same?

blackbob said:

And they are about to break his 21night record at the O2 too

purpledoveuk said:

How many are they up to now?

TheEnglishGent said:

They are not doing the 02 untill June of next year!!!!

Desire2006 said:

yes but they've agreed an initial 25 dates

purpledoveuk said:

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25 nights of bon jovi ????.....thats my idea of hell !!!

blackbob said:

Well that's good news and impressive.
No I don't find it surprising.

blackbob said:

Actually Prince outsold a lot of acts in the first week this year....

quite impressive

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25 nights of bon jovi ????.....thats my idea of hell !!![/quote]

blackbob said:

I think another reason for smaller sales these days is that there are more artists trying to make it and each one has a smaller window of exposure. There are more artists competing for the limelight and music listeners have a shorter attention span.

Prince made a really big name for himself in the 80s and early 90s which has helped him to the present. He's a legend. His music after the early 90s has been slightly uneven but definitely good enough to still sell a lot of albums.

Desire2006 said:

I know that, but I was meaning in sales. I know all the ones for sale the other week had been sold out when I looked. Hadn't looked recently to see how many dates they'd extended to.

i believe there are only 10 shows listed on the 02 site.
If they can break 21 nites i'd be very impressed. But i doubt they will. More power to them!

purpledoveuk said:

Perhaps - but its how many they actually end up selling that counts. Time will tell. (given the pricing though and the fact everyone's feeling the pinch, they'll do well just to sell out the 10 dates listed!)
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I don't care, I love Bon Jovi too!
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the reason prince outsold bon jovi is simple

once you have one bon jovi album, you don't need another one. you get the one with living on a prayer and like a virgin and you know what all the other songs sound like

with prince, you have to buy the cd as otherwise you have no idea wtf kinda fucking album he's made. it could be an album of gregorian chants, a pan flute jazz odyssey or a concept album about scientology. you get 3 cds for $12.95 or something, so you can use them as coasters if you don't like the music, and it'll save you a trip to ikea. the americans hate foreign shit so would get confused as fuck with all the stupid fucking names they call everything, so it's easier just to buy a few prince cd's instead of asking for an AAAARRRRRDVAAARKKK at ikea