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10,700 and counting--

Nice.

That wouldn't be a bad final total for a 6th week. Anything above 15,000 at this point is a monstrous total. I'm starting to think double Platinum is a good possibility.

We need AIRPLAY!

Saint John wrote:That wouldn't be a bad final total for a 6th week. Anything above 15,000 at this point is a monstrous total. I'm starting to think double Platinum is a good possibility.

Remember, 'Revelation' only needs 16,574 sales per week, from this week through the end of the US tour, to reach platinum.

The interesting figures for me will be next week onward, after Journey gets a week of concerts under its belt. I speculate that a number of the purchases will come 1-2 weeks after someone has seen the concert, just based on the lag between seeing the concert and buying the CD. Also, some of the sales will be registered in the week after someone has seen the concert, because of the reporting gap (sees the concert on Sunday, buys the CD on Wednesday -- it's counted in the following week's sales).

August sales (into early September) will be interesting because there are some big, big venues, all lined-up in a row. The Cleveland and Cincinnati shows in early September will be sold out (19,200 and 20,500 seats, respectively), absolutely no doubt. Journey could even add a Columbus show at the Columbus Crew (pro soccer) stadium and sell that out too at this point. The Chicago show is a 28,000-seat mega-amphitheatre. And -- here's where Journey's website needs to be corrected -- in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Journey is playing the Hersheypark Stadium, not the Pavilion. The Stadium is a mega-amphitheatre, holding 30,000. (Prediction: sold out.) The Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Indianapolis holds 24,000. (Prediction: sold out -- sure bet.)

The point is: there's a lot of seats that will be filled at these venues, and a lot of CDs sold in the days and weeks following those concerts ......

[quote="separate_wayz
August sales (into early September) will be interesting because there are some big, big venues, all lined-up in a row. The Cleveland and Cincinnati shows in early September will be sold out (19,200 and 20,500 seats, respectively), absolutely no doubt. Journey could even add a Columbus show at the Columbus Crew (pro soccer) stadium and sell that out too at this point. The Chicago show is a 28,000-seat mega-amphitheatre. And -- here's where Journey's website needs to be corrected -- in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Journey is playing the Hersheypark Stadium, not the Pavilion. The Stadium is a mega-amphitheatre, holding 30,000. (Prediction: sold out.) The Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Indianapolis holds 24,000. (Prediction: sold out -- sure bet.)

The point is: there's a lot of seats that will be filled at these venues, and a lot of CDs sold in the days and weeks following those concerts ......[/quote]

its good to hear that they're doing it in STADIUM.

no panic buying, yet... but, this is alarming!!!

7/16 Irvine, CA SOLD OUT !!!
7/22 Council Bluffs, IA SOLD OUT !!!
7/23 Oklahoma City, OK SOLD OUT !!!
7/26 Houston, TX SOLD OUT !!!
8/03 Atlanta, GA SOLD OUT !!!
8/17 Uncasville, CT SOLD OUT !!!
8/28 Hershey, PA ????
9/27 Mountain View, CA i heard its also SOLD OUT (not official yet)

Tito wrote:We need AIRPLAY!

That band had to be gay

stevew2 wrote:

Tito wrote:We need AIRPLAY!

That band had to be gay

This is an outstanding comment. Turning "Airplay" into "Air Supply" is really witty. Great work, amigo.

Saint John wrote:

stevew2 wrote:

Tito wrote:We need AIRPLAY!

That band had to be gay

This is an outstanding comment. Turning "Airplay" into "Air Supply" is really witty. Great work, amigo.

Scary thing is I don't think it was done intentionally!

RedWingFan wrote:

Saint John wrote:

stevew2 wrote:

Tito wrote:We need AIRPLAY!

That band had to be gay

This is an outstanding comment. Turning "Airplay" into "Air Supply" is really witty. Great work, amigo.

Scary thing is I don't think it was done intentionally!

No, it wasn't. I think sw2 has an entire dimension different from ours that resides only in his mind. And there was a gay band called "Airplay" in it.

Rhiannon wrote:

RedWingFan wrote:

Saint John wrote:

stevew2 wrote:

Tito wrote:We need AIRPLAY!

That band had to be gay

This is an outstanding comment. Turning "Airplay" into "Air Supply" is really witty. Great work, amigo.

Scary thing is I don't think it was done intentionally!

No, it wasn't. I think sw2 has an entire dimension different from ours that resides only in his mind. And there was a gay band called "Airplay" in it.

It is scary,It wasnt intentional, what is happening to me? help me Friga

stevew2 wrote:

Rhiannon wrote:

RedWingFan wrote:

Saint John wrote:

stevew2 wrote:

Tito wrote:We need AIRPLAY!

That band had to be gay

This is an outstanding comment. Turning "Airplay" into "Air Supply" is really witty. Great work, amigo.

Scary thing is I don't think it was done intentionally!

No, it wasn't. I think sw2 has an entire dimension different from ours that resides only in his mind. And there was a gay band called "Airplay" in it.

It is scary,It wasnt intentional, what is happening to me? help me Friga

Do you think Friga has ever gone to any of Michael Jackson's sleepovers?

+1 more copy as of yesterday. Can't stand Walmart but finally happened to be near one.

Tito wrote:We need AIRPLAY!

I hear AATY all the time on our adult contemp. station. And with the US tour just getting started think of how many more copies they will sell from the "casual" fan who happens to go to the show and loves it!!!

janus65 wrote:[quote="separate_wayz
August sales (into early September) will be interesting because there are some big, big venues, all lined-up in a row. The Cleveland and Cincinnati shows in early September will be sold out (19,200 and 20,500 seats, respectively), absolutely no doubt. Journey could even add a Columbus show at the Columbus Crew (pro soccer) stadium and sell that out too at this point. The Chicago show is a 28,000-seat mega-amphitheatre. And -- here's where Journey's website needs to be corrected -- in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Journey is playing the Hersheypark Stadium, not the Pavilion. The Stadium is a mega-amphitheatre, holding 30,000. (Prediction: sold out.) The Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Indianapolis holds 24,000. (Prediction: sold out -- sure bet.)

The point is: there's a lot of seats that will be filled at these venues, and a lot of CDs sold in the days and weeks following those concerts ......

its good to hear that they're doing it in STADIUM.

no panic buying, yet... but, this is alarming!!!

7/16 Irvine, CA SOLD OUT !!!
7/22 Council Bluffs, IA SOLD OUT !!!
7/23 Oklahoma City, OK SOLD OUT !!!
7/26 Houston, TX SOLD OUT !!!
8/03 Atlanta, GA SOLD OUT !!!
8/17 Uncasville, CT SOLD OUT !!!
8/28 Hershey, PA ????
9/27 Mountain View, CA i heard its also SOLD OUT (not official yet)

I am thinking about going to Hershey. They got a long way to go to sell out that cavernous place though. Great seats available:

Journey with Heart and Cheap Trick
Hersheypark Stadium, Hershey, PA
Thu, Aug 28, 2008 07:00 PM
Your Ticket(s)
Section
Row
Seats
Description
C
21
28 - 29
Price Level 2
FIELD LEVEL-NOT COVERED
RESERVED SEATING
* RAIN OR SHINE EVENT! * Type2 FULL PRICE Ticket PriceUS $85.00 x 2 Convenience ChargeUS $13.65 x 2

stevew2 wrote:

Tito wrote:We need AIRPLAY!

That band had to be gay

Dude...seriously...

Allied Forces wrote:
I am thinking about going to Hershey. They got a long way to go to sell out that cavernous place though. Great seats available:

Journey with Heart and Cheap Trick
Hersheypark Stadium, Hershey, PA
Thu, Aug 28, 2008 07:00 PM
Your Ticket(s)
Section
Row
Seats
Description
C
21
28 - 29
Price Level 2
FIELD LEVEL-NOT COVERED
RESERVED SEATING
* RAIN OR SHINE EVENT! * Type2 FULL PRICE Ticket PriceUS $85.00 x 2 Convenience ChargeUS $13.65 x 2

are they opening all these seats? last time with def leppard, initially 28-32, 5-1 stands and
H-L floors were not available. though they changed the sitting a week later. they probably opened new seats as the ticket sales picks up. i hope they gonna do it like that in case theyre not opening all areas...

I got a phone call the other day from one of my Filipina/American friends and she was pissed cause she went all the way to Wally-World on her lunch break for the album and they were sold out. I told her that if she gives me a nice massage, I'd give her one of mine, since I bought up a few at once when I was there. She didn't say she would, but I got to tell you, she's really thinking about it though.

Anyways what sucks is they didn't make enough copies of this album in time. You say they need to sell 16K per week, I doubt that Wally-World's going to be making them regularily. They may do a run here and there but I don't see that place being punctual or regular with the manufacturing of these and that may cost Journey something pretty nice. I'd be getting on the horn if I was Journey and telling those fuckers to start cranking out the goods or else.

I'm really starting to think that this thing is going to go double Platinum.

janus65 wrote:

Allied Forces wrote:
I am thinking about going to Hershey. They got a long way to go to sell out that cavernous place though. Great seats available:

Journey with Heart and Cheap Trick
Hersheypark Stadium, Hershey, PA
Thu, Aug 28, 2008 07:00 PM
Your Ticket(s)
Section
Row
Seats
Description
C
21
28 - 29
Price Level 2
FIELD LEVEL-NOT COVERED
RESERVED SEATING
* RAIN OR SHINE EVENT! * Type2 FULL PRICE Ticket PriceUS $85.00 x 2 Convenience ChargeUS $13.65 x 2

are they opening all these seats? last time with def leppard, initially 28-32, 5-1 stands and
H-L floors were not available. though they changed the sitting a week later. they probably opened new seats as the ticket sales picks up. i hope they gonna do it like that in case theyre not opening all areas...

I'm really not sure. If I find out any more information I'll let you know.

The original print of the record was supposed to be a million. They distributed them evenly and now have to adjust is all. Some stores are selling better than others. I was at two supercenters on one day and just wandered back to look and one location had about 10 copies remaining and the second had like 200. Less than 5 miles apart.

Hollywood wrote:The original print of the record was supposed to be a million..

It was actually less than half that.

If a 1,000 cd's get sold at Target, Bestbuy and Amazon do they not get counted since they're imports and not sold by Walmart?

janus65 wrote:

Allied Forces wrote:
I am thinking about going to Hershey. They got a long way to go to sell out that cavernous place though. Great seats available:

Journey with Heart and Cheap Trick
Hersheypark Stadium, Hershey, PA
Thu, Aug 28, 2008 07:00 PM
Your Ticket(s)
Section
Row
Seats
Description
C
21
28 - 29
Price Level 2
FIELD LEVEL-NOT COVERED
RESERVED SEATING
* RAIN OR SHINE EVENT! * Type2 FULL PRICE Ticket PriceUS $85.00 x 2 Convenience ChargeUS $13.65 x 2

are they opening all these seats? last time with def leppard, initially 28-32, 5-1 stands and
H-L floors were not available. though they changed the sitting a week later. they probably opened new seats as the ticket sales picks up. i hope they gonna do it like that in case theyre not opening all areas...

Thats the one and only one im going to. i m going to wait the night before, or buy ticktets that day

some points
unless somethings has changed
wal mart is not printing cds, they buy them from journey
any outsides sales would not count in riaa numbers because they would be import copies and counted in that countries sales
16,000 cds a week is going to be tough to do
very rarely do cds pick up sales with such a big initial push.
most journey fans alread have it, so its up to casual fans to get on the band wagon
sales should level off or drop each week.
i wouldnt expect it to reach 2x platinum for awhile.

Saint John wrote:

stevew2 wrote:

Rhiannon wrote:

RedWingFan wrote:

Saint John wrote:

stevew2 wrote:

Tito wrote:We need AIRPLAY!

That band had to be gay

This is an outstanding comment. Turning "Airplay" into "Air Supply" is really witty. Great work, amigo.

Scary thing is I don't think it was done intentionally!

No, it wasn't. I think sw2 has an entire dimension different from ours that resides only in his mind. And there was a gay band called "Airplay" in it.

It is scary,It wasnt intentional, what is happening to me? help me Friga

Do you think Friga has ever gone to any of Michael Jackson's sleepovers?

He has his own in the back of his winery

23,642! ..... and climbed up the chart 2 notches to #17 .....

one week on tour, and that's 616,372 CDs sold since 'Revelation' was released ..... cripes!!

Journey only needs to sell 15,985 albums per week for the rest of the tour to hit platinum ......

How do you get that 600k number. Last week I thought they were sitting around 392k units...

They're punkin' everyone. Plain and simple. Time for the haters to have a nice big cock sandwich on rye with extra mayo.

jrnyman28 wrote:How do you get that 600k number. Last week I thought they were sitting around 392k units...

308,186 albums sold x 2 CDs/album = 616,372 units sold (per RIAA standards)