Forget the i tunes bullshit #1 in Japan, it's the country where digital counts only as 15 % of total sales.

DAY 1 in Japan, given by ORICON :

#8 AOA

#10 PE

Nikkie said:

AOA is still #2 on iTunes worldwide, PE is at #7: http://kworb.net/aww/ [Edited 10/1/14 2:18am]

that chart is only updated once/day. Those are yesterday's numbers.

The UK Midweeks are out: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radi...datealbums

At the moment AOA is at #7 and Plec at #9.

They can move up and down the chart, but it is probably safe to say that both albums will be in the top ten in the albums chart.

FunkyBrotha said:

Uk midweeks,AoA was looking good for number 4 on Tuesday but sales are sliding due to zero UK promotion and it's currently sitting at number 7 with 6200 sales! Pretty pathetic! Plectrum is faring worse at number 9 and risks falling out of top ten! Ridiculous sales considering the massive tour hype he had earlier.this year

Has there been no (recent) promotion in the UK at all? I haven't seen any and I doubt there are any TV adverts, but I don't read (print) newspapers nor listen to the radio. A low top ten showing for AOA isn't very good. I expect it won't be in the charts at all in four weeks time.

http://www.allaccess.com/...t_day.html

JudasSmile said:

FunkyBrotha said:

Uk midweeks,AoA was looking good for number 4 on Tuesday but sales are sliding due to zero UK promotion and it's currently sitting at number 7 with 6200 sales! Pretty pathetic! Plectrum is faring worse at number 9 and risks falling out of top ten! Ridiculous sales considering the massive tour hype he had earlier.this year

Has there been no (recent) promotion in the UK at all? I haven't seen any and I doubt there are any TV adverts, but I don't read (print) newspapers nor listen to the radio. A low top ten showing for AOA isn't very good. I expect it won't be in the charts at all in four weeks time.

In the age of singles not albums that is not unusual.

As of today AOA is #1 on iTunes european chart, PE is at #4

http://kworb.net/eua/

Today AOA is #1 in the worldwide iTunes album charts while PE falls to #14

http://kworb.net/aww/

[Edited 10/3/14 14:02pm]

alandail said:

Today AOA is #1 in the worldwide iTunes album charts while PE falls to #14

http://kworb.net/aww/

[Edited 10/3/14 14:02pm]

That sounds quite impressive - one wonders how many album sales that equates to worldwide on iTunes?

Number 8 and 11 in the official uk album charts

[Edited 10/5/14 10:56am]

You beat me to it.

A top ten place for AOA was never in doubt (for me). His last retail (not a 'freebie') album in the UK was 3121 which reached #9. So, one up from that, but not great, all told.

JudasSmile said:

bigd74 said:

JudasSmile said:

You beat me to it.

A top ten place for AOA was never in doubt (for me). His last retail (not a 'freebie') album in the UK was 3121 which reached #9. So, one up from that, but not great, all told.

Yep considering virtually no coverage apart from album of the day on 6music it did pretty well. Shame there wasn't a single and video it could've done so much better

Yes, if you put it that way, then that is a pretty good showing. Reaching #1 on the iTunes worldwide albums chart is incredible for someone of his age with little promotion.

Will be interesting to see if the albums have any legs after the initial week one push.

NouveauDance said:

tatocorcu said:

FunkyBrotha said:

Guys we are talking UK 6,000 sales in a country of 66 million people it's pathetic what the record industry has become. It will disappear next week! Considering about 100,000 people have attended his UK shows this year I.doubt most of.them don't even know about the albums

i take it thats only sales in shops...online sales must be higher than that....3121 sold 39,000 in its first week in the uk...cant believe album sales have collapsed soo much since then ?...

Ok so those are the physical sales in the UK but what about the digital and itunes sales as well?

It's projected at around 40k in the U.S. but those are phsyical sales as well, what about digital?

FunkyBrotha said:

The UK chart counts digital sales as well! The sales of art official age are nowhere near 3121 or even musicology it's a complete flop! In fact I think rave peaked at number 18 and still sold more! I could have sold more albums busking in the bloody street!

its charted higher than 3121 so i dont know how you can say its a flop...its not just prince's album sales that have collapsed..its the whole industry...people are obviously getting their music from streaming websites and free torrent sites now..

seriously why isnt WB encouraging him to do TV?

i don't believe the digital sales were included in the uk charts, 6,000 sales including digital... no way, i don't believe that...

As we previously reported, album sales are at a reco...n the U.S. Last week, album sales totaled 3.97 million for the week, marking the first time the tally has dropped below 4 million, unprecedented in the SoundScan era (which kicked off with tracking sales data in 1991).

Billboard -- who has a partnership with SoundScan -- is the first to report album and sales news, the good, the bad and the ugly. Today it was reported that sales are slightly up from that grim news last week, 5% only (to 4.2 million), due to Ariana Grande's fresh "My Everything." But still, that makes it trending low, which Ed Christman said is only to be expected.

"The weekly average number of album sales fell from 4.75 million units in the first quarter to 4.55 million units in the second quarter. In the first 8 weeks of the third quarter, the average has fallen further to 4.2 million. This decline is actually in line with historical trends."

Sales for the year are down 15% compared to totals from the same point last year so far.

Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/imm...d0lEbPz.99

it will drop like a stone next week! anyway, who cares?!?! If you like it...buy it...and if u don't..then dont!