Well, Songwriter did not seem to have charted at all in the Billboard 200. Despite lots of web ads...all in front of it are albums like ´The best of Barry White´. They should slow down a little on the compilations.
With regard to SBOSW, I was surprised to read the other day, I think it was The Wall Street Journal, that the album had sold about 250 000 copies. Is it right to say then that it sold less than YTO & even Surprise ? It is true that CD selling figures are decreasing in a crazy manner, but I quit have a sense that Simon has a niche or a core, and he is now sticking to it more or less. Finito.
Phil Nov-03-2011, 02:39 GMT USA - United Staates America
nothing sells. all album sales are way down - even in digital form. check out the billboard weekly sales. Last weeks #4 sold 40k. Didn´t SBOSW open near 60k?
The business has changed so much. Not so many golds and just a few platinum. Adele and Kanye aside!
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HÃ¥kan Nov-03-2011, 10:31 GMT USA - United Staates America
When Hearts & Bones flopped in 1983-84 I think I read that sales were 500.000 (maybe US figures only).
How high did SBOSW climb on the U.S. chart? I think it went quite high on that low sales figure, much higher than H&B anyway.
I think H&B sold half a million (mentionned here previously), but at that time, it was considered a flop in Simon´s carreer. Now, it would be a great achievement for him to make SBOSW gold.
