Billboard.com Chart Position

[STP92]

Everyone need to go buy there 2nd copy.   I still have to get the Vinyl, Ive been procrastinating on it for 2months.

Maybe Ill do it this week to boost those sales.

Haha, yeah I bought a second copy as a gift for someone.

[Peebs]

Top 40
http://tweetphoto.com/32103826
 
Between Glee & Justin Beiber.
 
 

[Silvergun Batman]

I posted this over in the "sales predictions" thread, but thought it might merit mentioning here too.
 
This week's SoundScan has the album listed at #136, falling from #84 ... total sales are 108K, with 25% of those being digital album sales.

[Drew06]

all things considered this album isn't doing much better than army of anyones album sales.

[wickedgarden23]

It isnt 2006 anymore, in the big picture this album has done much better than Army Of Anyone's album. 108k isnt terrible these days, the album still debuted at #2, had a #1 rock hit for 7 weeks...AOA's album doesnt even compare

[BrandoKommando]

I was looking at a co-worker's MP3 player yesterday.  She's in her early twenties, and loves music like I do.
When I looked at her music files, I found NO FULL-LENGTH albums.  She said to me, "I don't buy CD's anymore.
I just download the songs I like off of the web."  Meaning, no full-length albums for her.  Why buy a whole CD
when you only like a few songs off it anyway?  I see fewer and fewer people these days going out and buying
full-length CD's.  As far as digital downloads, people can hear what they're buying before they buy it.  If a digital
download full-length album is $10, and you only dig 4 of the songs ---   Don't get me started with people
burning copies of CD's for their friends.  Most of us do this too.  But as far as supporting artists like STP,
just like many of you -- I bought the CD, the digital download, and the vinyl.

The internet and CD-R's have changed the way people buy, share, and consume music -- forever.

[Peebs]

I was looking at a co-worker's MP3 player yesterday.  She's in her early twenties, and loves music like I do.
When I looked at her music files, I found NO FULL-LENGTH albums.  She said to me, "I don't buy CD's anymore.
I just download the songs I like off of the web."  Meaning, no full-length albums for her.  Why buy a whole CD
when you only like a few songs off it anyway?  I see fewer and fewer people these days going out and buying
full-length CD's.  As far as digital downloads, people can hear what they're buying before they buy it.  If a digital
download full-length album is $10, and you only dig 4 of the songs ---   Don't get me started with people
burning copies of CD's for their friends.  Most of us do this too.  But as far as supporting artists like STP,
just like many of you -- I bought the CD, the digital download, and the vinyl.

The internet and CD-R's have changed the way people buy, share, and consume music -- forever.

And THAT in a nutshell is why the Rock music industry is in the crapper.

[Pingfah]

If a rock band hasn't got their shit together to make an album I can listen to from start to end then I can't be bothered with them period. If a band is making albums with only 2 or 3 good songs on them they don't deserve my attention.

It isnt 2006 anymore, in the big picture this album has done much better than Army Of Anyone's album. 108k isnt terrible these days, the album still debuted at #2, had a #1 rock hit for 7 weeks...AOA's album doesnt even compare

Yeah, AoA has sold 88,000 to date, STP had beaten that in 3 weeks, i'd imagine it will sell 250,000 ish by the end of the tour. Not a patch on former glories, but hopefully enough to keep them going.

[DeadAndNotForSale]

I was looking at a co-worker's MP3 player yesterday.  She's in her early twenties, and loves music like I do.
When I looked at her music files, I found NO FULL-LENGTH albums.  She said to me, "I don't buy CD's anymore.
I just download the songs I like off of the web."  Meaning, no full-length albums for her.  Why buy a whole CD
when you only like a few songs off it anyway?  I see fewer and fewer people these days going out and buying
full-length CD's.  As far as digital downloads, people can hear what they're buying before they buy it.  If a digital
download full-length album is $10, and you only dig 4 of the songs ---   Don't get me started with people
burning copies of CD's for their friends.  Most of us do this too.  But as far as supporting artists like STP,
just like many of you -- I bought the CD, the digital download, and the vinyl.

The internet and CD-R's have changed the way people buy, share, and consume music -- forever.

And THAT in a nutshell is why the Rock music industry is in the crapper.

Another HUGE reason why Rock music is in the crapper is because of lack of publicity.  About 10 years ago, MTV really began to focus more on pop and rap.  I see more celebrity gossip on pop stars than any rock stars.  People like to be told what is "in" and what is "out".  If you like rock music at this point in time, you can go down two routes.  You can go down the Jonas Brothers route or you can go down the Nickleback route.  Otherwise known as the mainstream.  In the 90's mainstream rock was the awesome music, but now it's in shambles.  I largely blame MTV for abandoning it.  VH1 has too.

[Peebs]

well as my friend who works for MTV/viacom says to me when I bitch at her about it  ...They're gonna put on what's going to get viewers and in turn advertisers. So the more people want to watch those crappy reality shows....the more they will put them on...

[VeiledTrickerySTP]

well as my friend who works for MTV/viacom says to me when I bitch at her about it  ...They're gonna put on what's going to get viewers and in turn advertisers. So the more people want to watch those crappy reality shows....the more they will put them on...

The thing is, those reality shows really don't get great ratings either. MTV is a purely payola outfit nowadays (maybe it always was). Hence the Justin Beiber phenomenon.

[Freely Standing]

Has TALO charted yet?

[Five Star Edge]

Has TALO charted yet?

Look at the bottom of page 10 from this thread

[IMJ]

I was looking at a co-worker's MP3 player yesterday.  She's in her early twenties, and loves music like I do.
When I looked at her music files, I found NO FULL-LENGTH albums.  She said to me, "I don't buy CD's anymore.
I just download the songs I like off of the web."  Meaning, no full-length albums for her.  Why buy a whole CD
when you only like a few songs off it anyway?  I see fewer and fewer people these days going out and buying
full-length CD's.  As far as digital downloads, people can hear what they're buying before they buy it.  If a digital
download full-length album is $10, and you only dig 4 of the songs ---   Don't get me started with people
burning copies of CD's for their friends.  Most of us do this too.  But as far as supporting artists like STP,
just like many of you -- I bought the CD, the digital download, and the vinyl.

The internet and CD-R's have changed the way people buy, share, and consume music -- forever.

And THAT in a nutshell is why the Rock music industry is in the crapper.

Both of these posts are true.. but it's also ironic. The rock music industry is supposed to be about the live concert and not the recorded album. I mean, what's being said above is totally true, but I'm just saying that it's an interesting contradiction.

[Peebs]

I was looking at a co-worker's MP3 player yesterday.  She's in her early twenties, and loves music like I do.
When I looked at her music files, I found NO FULL-LENGTH albums.  She said to me, "I don't buy CD's anymore.
I just download the songs I like off of the web."  Meaning, no full-length albums for her.  Why buy a whole CD
when you only like a few songs off it anyway?  I see fewer and fewer people these days going out and buying
full-length CD's.  As far as digital downloads, people can hear what they're buying before they buy it.  If a digital
download full-length album is $10, and you only dig 4 of the songs ---   Don't get me started with people
burning copies of CD's for their friends.  Most of us do this too.  But as far as supporting artists like STP,
just like many of you -- I bought the CD, the digital download, and the vinyl.

The internet and CD-R's have changed the way people buy, share, and consume music -- forever.

And THAT in a nutshell is why the Rock music industry is in the crapper.

Both of these posts are true.. but it's also ironic. The rock music industry is supposed to be about the live concert and not the recorded album. I mean, what's being said above is totally true, but I'm just saying that it's an interesting contradiction.

Also the industry turned a blind eye to the powers of the internet in the 90's. It killed them instead when they should of been embracing it and channeling the possibilities.