Raze said:

i can't either but ya neva know

adorable2 said:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....








....no.

people please stop worrying about where the song will go. its music!! it doesnt matter if its number one. what matters is if you enjoy the music.

It does have a lot going for it - it's danceable, full of guitar (obviously ), the lyrics aren't too weird, has a great video (from what we've seen so far), backed by the big boys (Verizon/Sony), all on the backdrop of a major up and coming tour (supposedly)...

So I guess if anything is going to get to #1, then this is probably the one.

But it won't happen

I'll be surprised if it cracks the Hot 100. I hope it does, though.

YES, IT WILL.

ARJUN said:

Yeah.,,just like Black Sweat!

sosgemini said:

ACTUALLY.... I went through and corrected all those sales figures at Wikipedia just a couple months back. They ARE worldwide sales figures and are about as close to accurate as we're going to get for now...

The only way this single is going to do any business on the charts whatsoever is if it ends up on iTunes and everybody downloads it 5 times.

No

thepope2the9s said:

Exactly. "Black Sweat" was a much better, much more radio-friendly and much more Princely song. It had a better video as well. I'm not trying to diss "Guitar", but I don't see it making much chart impact at all. I'll be only too happy to be wrong, though.

I can see it doing well on Radio 2 in the UK.

It's a weird song in the way it's structured; with its long instrumental break pretty near the start of the song. It reminds me a lot of Peach in that respect.

I do love the bit when he says "U know the rest".

#1 abroad ...not in the US ....

viewaskew said:

That's pretty much what today's hits consist of

Raze said:

We can't predict exactly what the BUiSNESS may do w/ you, but P. has got the grip on 'em ,FINALLY!
Ther are thousands of his tunes that were potential hitz, but some SUITE will take your ART, and then rape, rop and molest you, while YOU STARE at a CON tract.
I'm getting upset here!

Diosuni said:

I'd be upset too, if I were you.

jtfolden said:

wait...the only sales reference i see on wiki is that it went gold.

theodore said:

It won't even reach the Top 40...

babooshleeky said:

what

The last time he went number 1 in the UK, March 1994.
The most beautiful Girl..

That sticks out for me, I cant remember if 1999 made it there when the millenium came around?

sosgemini said:

Are you looking here?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...iscography

jtfolden said:

how in the world did that album sell 1 million world wide? where's the breakdown?

viewaskew said:

It's the perfect formula for a number one hit.

sosgemini said:

You realize that INCLUDES US sales, too, right? 3121 has sold well over 500k in the US alone. In fact, it did that in just the first 4 months after release.

jtfolden said:

500,000? that's gold. so are you sure that's the number SOLD or the number the RIAA has as shipped

Raze said:

No billboard listed the album as selling over 500k. I can't remember off hand what the last figure I saw was at the time I was researching those... but it was listed as 500k+ US units SOLD, according to Billboard/Soundscan, around week 17 or 18 of it's chart run and that was like 9 or 10 months ago.

jtfolden said:

well, they do also list symbols next to titles indicating platinum, gold and diamond. that's not what you're thinking of, is it?

I don't have a problem with it selling 500,000 btw I just want to make sure we're talking about the right number.