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posted by
davidt
on Tuesday February 24 2009, @04:00PM
Update: 02/25 15:59 GMT:
An anonymous person sends the Soundscan sales report/scan. YOR enters at #11 with 31,341 actual sales. Sean writes: Morrissey's latest studio album, Years of Refusal, has entered the US charts at number 11.
According to official sales numbers, it shifted 29,658 copies in the first week of release.
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My contribution (Score:0)
Great news! (Score:1)
(User #16225 Info)
Wonderful (Score:1)
(User #18985 Info)
Quite good actually (Score:3, Insightful)
(User #5849 Info)
on which chart? (Score:1)
(User #10277 Info)
Who gives a rat's ass? (Score:1)
(User #20842 Info)
To Be Honest (Score:1)
(User #20290 Info)
My New Favorite Number! (Score:3, Interesting)
a) It's a terrific, back-to-basics little pop album; Morrissey sound great; the songs are great, the band sounds great, and the production was just terrific. This album sounds especially good when you blast this mutha loud.
b) Generally very positive reviews. I would even go so far as to say Morrissey may have even changed some critics' perceptions of him while all along we knew for all these years, he hasn't changed a hair on his head.
c) The availabiliy of this album was the best I could remember. I ordered the Deluxe through Amazon only because my favorite retail stores for music are no longer around (and got $$ off), but I saw this album advertised everywhere; I saw circulars in the Sunday paper featuring the album selling at places like Best Buy where one doesn't normally think of purchasing music.
I cannot go on for I am having a mozmic vision; there is figure hovering over me; a furry little critter in a white, Elvis jumpsuit studded with rhinestones. He calls himself Old Phil. The pudgy little prognosticator has come to announce that there will be an early Spring in honor of YOR. The crocuses will bloom in the blue color of Moz's hot-looking Fred Perry shirt; the bunnies will hop-hop-hop a little higher, and the robins will tweet like happy little Mexican trumpets. By Easter, Moz will find a chocolate egg left on his pillow.
These are good times.
(User #11277 Info)
unreal -!! (Score:0)
though the next week was at 46
I expect the same here
but that's still incredible
with no single and all
(User #13161 Info)
Well if more stores had it! (Score:2, Interesting)
thetexasbloke
Wow, have things changed... (Score:3, Insightful)
But, 29,000 records sold? I mean I know it's only #11, not #1. But, it was not too long ago that anything in the top 10 was certified gold in its first week. I was actually watching a pop-music show on TV recently, and the host presented some "lock-jawed pop-tart" with a gold record for 500,000 downloads! I almost cringed.
I know things change. There are more convenient, less expensive ways to get music than by going to the record store and buying a CD. But, although I congratulate Moz on a strong first week in the US, it makes me kind of sad that just shy of 30,000 sales constitutes a good week.
Oh, well. Best to Morrissey and the lads! See you on tour. LOVE the new album, which I BOUGHT at a record store. I am proud to be counted among the 29,000!
as he said (Score:1)
good score for our Man in the USA, the tour might
up it up, a top 5 would be great
thank you for buying, the Moz Posse
(User #220 Info)
Does it Matter? (Score:2, Informative)
His commercial standing seems to have nosedived again. Consider this:
2004 - YATQ 4 SINGLES
2005 - LIVE AT EARL'S COURT 1 SINGLE
2006 - ROTT 4 SINGLES
2008 - GREATEST HITS 2 SINGLES
2009 - YOR 1 SINGLE
Compared to U2:
2004 - ALBUM AND 4 SINGLES
2005 - NOTHING
2006 - NOTHING
2007 - NOTHING
2008 - NOTHING
2009 - ALBUM 1 SINGLE (so far)
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Had he waited five years and chosen the best tracks from ROTT and YOR he might have been looking at a USA/UK number one double. Silly man.
(User #12542 Info)
Re:Does it Matter? (Score:2, Interesting)
Maladjusted reached number 8, and disappeared within four weeks. Seven years later, he returns with an album that gets to number two and was his longest chart run since Viva Hate (20 to 18).
You're right that long absences risk alienating people, but not in Morrissey's case - wasn't it more a question of people not realising what they were missing until it disappeared?
You make a fair point about the economy.
(User #12542 Info)
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At least he beat Lily Allen in the US (Score:3, Funny)
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Album sales album by album (Score:5, Informative)
Viva Hate: 234,804
Bona Drag: 360,977
Kill Uncle: 221,293
Your Arsenal: 366,047
Vauxhall & I: 293,017
Southpaw Grammar: 67,451
World Of Morrissey: 69,357
Maladjusted: 88,554
Best of Morrissey: 179,746
You Are The Quarry: 230,169
Ringleader of The Tormentors: 97,502
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US is a better market for Moz (Score:0)
England is the pits these days....there is no creativity in music, everything is the same celebrity driven shit.....TV is dismal....media spreading doom & gloom....there is NO England as we know it. It's gone, finished, vanished. And you're right: you will be hard pushed to hear an english accent on the streets of London!
i support the dude... (Score:0)
Nickelback is #4 (Score:1)
I have only been able to buy two formats of YOR since my record store has been sold out for 2 weeks. That makes me feel good to know they're selling it though.
(User #19878 Info)
Kidz Bop 15 almost sold as many in its 3rd week... (Score:2, Insightful)
Did the leak hurt sales, or is Morrissey, God forbid, too old to sell well?
I bought the regular YOR issue and will buy the Deluxe also.
Is it possible that the people who really know of Morrissey, i.e. the old Smiths fans and the die hard Solo fans, bought the disc, but everyone else who knows or knew of him just don't buy much music anymore.
I know as I grow older, I really only buy music of groups/people that I truly like and have appreciated and liked for a long time. It is rare these days for me to be "experimental" and just buy music on a whim, where I would have and did 20 years ago. Now I don't have the time to search out new music unless I somehow come across a tune through a movie or television show or overhear someone playing something.
So, even though Morrissey may be well known (or is he?, other than LA and NY and other metro areas does he even get any air play or has he ever gotten much airplay?) is it possible that people don't buy him because they aren't interested any more.
And speaking of LA, has the fare weather friend of KROQ promoted YOR like they used to promote The Smiths and Morrissey back in the 80's and and the 90's or are they also not interested any more?
Perhaps the target audience just doesn't buy new music...they are content with what they already have...and/or with their houses in foreclosure and the Hummers being repo'd, buying a new CD isn't really on their "to do" list.
Even Sprinsteen has dropped to 13 and he played the "SuperBowl". There was a big stink about not being able to but Springsteen concert tickets, but did those same people buy his release.
Do older fans go to the concerts to hear the old familiar songs and don't really care about the new releases?
(User #10290 Info)
Re:Kidz Bop 15 almost sold as many in its 3rd week (Score:3, Insightful)
There were not too many chances to find specific albums in far-off places. You had to go to the big cities, and you couldn't necessarily expect to find an album on stock for a long period. There were also less copies in one store, so there was a sense of urgency.
So if you heard that a new exciting record was out, the chances were high you couldn't yet physically "copy" it and either had to borrow it from someone who trusted you with his/her copy, or buy it yourself. You couldn't simply sit and wait to find it on Ebay or on Amazon. Forget downloading entirely.
So yes, shopping for records was more of a quest than it is nowadays. There's no real urgency: I know I'll be able to find YOR within 5 years in one form or another.
There's no anticipation either: before its official release I could find 6 songs off YOR on the internet. And when the whole album was leaked, everyone could find everything, if they wanted.
On the other hand: if records were more eagerly bought, I bought less albums than I do now. I have easier access to new stuff, but I can decide to buy or not, and wait.
I have more time to find new stuff, and hear new stuff. But I also have more time to buy new stuff, or old stuff since it's simply in higher quantities and longer available (stores, internet...).
There's more music available, there's no urgency anymore, so I don't feel any need to purchase things directly.
I've ordered YOR via Amazon, but it's shipping with other stuff that took a few more weeks so I've still not received the CD. I downloaded the tracks I hadn't heard yet, and I have a good idea of what it's worth (good album, better than ROTT).
The only thing that really changed is concerts: I used to get tickets even on the concert date itself, today that's hardly possible with international artists. For the upcoming Moz shows, I got tickets with an advance of 7 months!
I could be dead, cremated and forgotten even before he opens his mouth.
A reason to live.
(User #12729 Info)
Parent
Oh dear (Score:1)
Well done Morrissey! And the band.
(User #20404 Info)
Canada #37 (Score:0)
Weak week in sales (Score:0)
Both country's are shite! (Score:1)
most just downloads/buy from shop the singles they like and dont have an interest in looking at the rest of the album, so they wont buy it, people these days only buy albums by people if they genuinly like/love them, or they wont think twice about buying it.
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Re:wah wah no stores had it [/winer] (Score:0)
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