Monker wrote:jestor92 wrote:They weren’t moving Hysteria numbers, but Slang still debuted at #14 and went gold. Euphoria peaked at 11, and X at 11. Journey went #3 same year as Slang, Arrival at 56. Outside of Revelations and the re-recorded GH peaking at 5 Journey hasn’t sniffed Leppards success.
I'm sorry, but Hysteria is one of the most successful rock albums EVER...with 20million copies sold. Two albums later they drop to only selling Gold? That is a HUGE drop. Not only that but Hysteria had four top 10 singles. Then, after Euphoria, none of their singles are memorable. The only one I remember on the radio has been the cover of "Rock On". Even with the album success, they are no where near recovered from Clark's death and Slang.
My argument is NOT that Journey is better off...they're not. But, just because DL can release a #10 album does NOT mean they did not suffer their own loss of popularity that they never really recovered from.
How many artists sell 20 million albums throughout their career, let alone on one album? Of course there’s going to be a drop in sales. How many of their peers from the late 80’s were even reaching Gold in 1996? The peers from the 1980’s that outsold Slang with new music Bryan Adams, Journey, and John Mellencamp in 1996. One of the artists had a reunion album after not playing for 9 years and barely cracked a million sales.
As for singles on the radio, they’ve released 3 albums since Yeah in 2006. The only singles from classic rock bands I remember hearing on the radio after 2006 was Bon Jovi’s crap and Tattoo by Van Halen.