Journey's Greatest Hits on Billboard album chart

[Don]

Daily Double shows it at #18 with 23,000 sales this week. Freakin' sweet!

[Archetype]

Daily Double shows it at #17 with 23,000 sales this week. Freakin' sweet!

Sold more this week than Eclipse did in its first week. How long has GH been out?

[Don]

I think a lot of these Greatest Hits Sales are digital downloads. Eclipse absolutely failed in this area as they never promoted it being on Amazon or iTunes. I wasn't expecting this type of sales surge until after CBS airs the Escape 30th Anniversary show. Wonder what triggered it?

[Don]

Expect a Steve Perry sighting in the very near future.

[jrnyjetster]

Expect a Steve Perry sighting in the very near future.

You think he'll be appearing on that CBS show? When is this scheduled to air, BTW?

[Don]

Expect a Steve Perry sighting in the very near future.

You think he'll be appearing on that CBS show?

No. It will be Neal Jon and Arnel talking about Escape and DSB.
It's already been recorded. Probably to air near the end of July.

Eclipse will be out of the Top 100 by then (probably by this week as a matter of fact) so I expect the Greatest Hits to get a little bump, not like what happened this week though.
Not sure why the big jump in sales all of a sudden.

[Archetype]

Reviews from the European tour, etc maybe? I wonder if it will sell more after the CBS appearance and the U.S. tour

[Tito]

Why don't people just buy Revelation? They get the Greatest Hits, DVD, and new material.

[Saint John]

Why don't people just buy Revelation. They get the Greatest Hits, DVD, and new material?

You've got your period and question mark in the wrong spots, numb nuts.

[Don]

Why don't people just buy Revelation? They get the Greatest Hits, DVD, and new material.

Besides not having to scurry around a Ghetto-Mart, the five dollars saved could be used for something else.
Like a box of frozen Snickers bars.

[Saint John]

Why don't people just buy Revelation? They get the Greatest Hits, DVD, and new material.

Besides not having to scurry around a Ghetto-Mart, the five dollars saved could be used for something else.
Like a box of frozen Snickers bars.

Now, to complete the matter, we need a stevew2 cameo!

[RedWingFan]

Why don't people just buy Revelation. They get the Greatest Hits, DVD, and new material?

You've got your period and question mark in the wrong spots, numb nuts.

[conversationpc]

Why don't people just buy Revelation. They get the Greatest Hits, DVD, and new material?

You've got your period and question mark in the wrong spots, numb nuts.

[Don]

#2 on iTunes for OVERALL album sales. Here's the answer to the puzzle.

http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/new ... ?news08584

Greatest hits albums by Columbia’s Journey (#17), Reprise’s Frank Sinatra (#21), Island’s Bob Marley & the Wailers (#25) and Roswell/RCA/RMG’s Foo Fighters (#36) all re-enter, thanks to being sold for $6.99 at iTunes for Father’s Day.

[madsplash]

Why don't people just buy Revelation? They get the Greatest Hits, DVD, and new material.

Because people don't want to hear cover versions of the greatest hits. They want to hear the real deal.

Swing from the real thing.

[Greg]

Why don't people just buy Revelation? They get the Greatest Hits, DVD, and new material.

Because people don't want to hear cover versions of the greatest hits. They want to hear the real deal.

Swing from the real thing.

Exactly! Those re-records were horrible. If they had remixed the original tracks like Foreigner did with their last album, then I'd agree that Revelation would have been the best choice to have gotten both new music and the classics.

[portland]

Why don't people just buy Revelation? They get the Greatest Hits, DVD, and new material.

Because people don't want to hear cover versions of the greatest hits. They want to hear the real deal.

Swing from the real thing.

Exactly! Those re-records were horrible. If they had remixed the original tracks like Foreigner did with their last album, then I'd agree that Revelation would have been the best choice to have gotten both new music and the classics.

Agreed!!

[Tito]

OR is it just slightly possible, Revelation sold on it's own because of the promotion/story.

[Greg]

OR is it just slightly possible, Revelation sold on it's own because of the promotion/story.

No.

[Don]

Journey's Greatest Hits is Billboard's greatest gainer this week, moving up 83 spots.

[Tito]

I see Eclipse is #92. Hanging in there.

[Don]

I see Eclipse is #92. Hanging in there.

If it could stay right around that position, it might be able to reach 100,000 sales by the end of the summer.

[RocknRoll]

I wonder how many new fans are now buying classic Journey?? Just a thought!

[Everett]

I wonder how many new fans are now buying classic Journey?? Just a thought!

I'm in there somewhere.

[Don]

I wonder how many new fans are now buying classic Journey?? Just a thought!

Billboard says the sales spike can be directly attributed to itunes running a Fathers day promotion for the album.

[tater1977]

http://popdust.com/2011/06/23/journey-g ... day-study/

Posted by Andrew Unterberger on 06/23/2011 at 2:16 PM News
emailThanks to a recent iTunes store promotion that discounted a number of albums that the site felt would be good Fathers’ Day purchases, a number of albums surged back onto the Billboard 200 this week that had not been on the charts for some time. Frank Sinatra’s Nothing But the Best and Bob Marley’s Legend both profited, but the biggest seller of all was Journey’s Greatest Hits album from 1988, which made its first appearance in the Billboard top 20 since 1989 as a result of 23,000 units moved, a 374% increase from the previous week.

Frankly, we had no idea that dads liked Journey that much. But then again, just because people bought the album as Fathers’ Day gifts for their respective popses, that doesn’t necessarily mean that Dad actually has to like it. Maybe it was just the result of a lot of young kids without any kind of musical perspective thinking “Hm, Dad’s old, these guys are old, Dad probably likes them” and clicking “Purchase.” The charts alone were not conclusive—we needed extra evidence to prove that dads do, indeed, really like Journey.

Naturally, we figured the most scientific thing to do was to go right to the source. So we conducted an informal office poll of some of our dads (and a couple of our uncles who are dads as well) to get to the bottom of this. We asked them three questions:

1. What do you think of the band Journey?

2. What’s your favorite song by Journey?

3. Would you be happy to get their greatest hits album as a Fathers’ Day present?

The results were highly conclusive, but not in the way you might think. Responding to question #1, the subjects offered answers such as finding them “completely unremarkable,” claiming that they “defined that decade [the '80s] as one of the worst musical nightmares of my life,” and viewing them as “one more piece of evidence of the downward spiral of corporate rock from the mid-’70′s to the late ’80′s.” The most complimentary remembrances afforded Journey in Question #1 were one dad who said he was mildly interested in them “now that Glee and a capella groups cover their songs,” and another who waxed nostalgic about how “there used to be a Journey video game i’d play at the arcade.”

As for what their favorite Journey song was, the subjects were similarly uneffusive. Several could name only one song (“Don’t Stop Believing”) or none at all, while one named “Oh Sherrie,” though he allowed for the possibility that it might have actually been a Steve Perry solo song. (It was.) Only one was able to name more than one Journey song, though he still confessed to checking the Greatest Hits track list online before naming “Lights” as his favorite. (“But I’d still probably change the channel,” the subject made sure to qualify.)

Most damning of all were the Dads’ response to question #3, about whether they’d appreciate the Greatest Hits as a Fathers’ Day gift. Subjects naturally gravitated towards the sarcastic with their answers, which ranged from “Only as a preferred choice to root canal” to “Was I a bad person this year? Why would you do that to me?” to (most memorably) “I would rather eat a truckload of putrified chicken dicks.” One subject, still overcome with holiday spirit, did say that he would enjoy the gift “because by definition any present I get from my kids makes me feel good.” (The subject still allowed that he would be happier if the gift was Blind Faith’s The Lost Tapes instead.)

Well, there you have it—conclusive proof that Dads, in fact, do not actually care for Journey. Don’t believe everything Billboard and iTunes tell you, kids.

[Blueskies]

That "poll" goes to show what a superficial and soundbyte society we live in. People just looking at the surface for a minute without looking further then over exposed DSB and mistakenly think they know enough about something to speak on it.
If they took they time to look further , dig deeper and learn more they wouldn't be so ignorant in their answers. Totally uninformed responses, so that " survey" is as meaningless as their answers.






( by the way....Tantra is all about digging deeper and getting to know and understand those you love and most of all yourself )

[tater1977]

That "poll" goes to show what a superficial and soundbyte society we live in. People just looking at the surface for a minute without looking further then over exposed DSB and mistakenly think they know enough about something to speak on it.
If they took they time to look further , dig deeper and learn more they wouldn't be so ignorant in their answers. Totally uninformed responses, so that " survey" is as meaningless as their answers.

I would like to see this author of this article take another office poll and asked which fathers and uncles were afraid to admit they Listen to Journey.

& If its NOT the Dads , the kids are buying it for...who are they buying it for? Themselves? That would be even better..Younger generation getting into Journeys music .

[Blueskies]

That "poll" goes to show what a superficial and soundbyte society we live in. People just looking at the surface for a minute without looking further then over exposed DSB and mistakenly think they know enough about something to speak on it.
If they took they time to look further , dig deeper and learn more they wouldn't be so ignorant in their answers. Totally uninformed responses, so that " survey" is as meaningless as their answers.

I would like to see this author of this article take another office poll and asked which fathers and uncles were afraid to admit they Listen to Journey.

& If its NOT the Dads , the kids are buying it for...who are they buying it for? Themselves? That would be even better..Younger generation getting into Journeys music .

I think you are right. Too many people think they have learned all they need to as they get older...think they know it all.....so they remain stagnated in place, The youth are still explorers looking for answers...looking for more. Which is why we all need to remain young at heart throughout life and remain explorers like Peter Pan, imo, retaining that curiosity and wonderment we had as a child so we are willing and open minded enough to continue to learn and gain better understanding of all that is around us, in each other and within us.

The more we learn the less in fear of the unknown we live.

( sorry...I used it as a launching pad and went far further in thought then just this silly survey. )

[Don]

The Greatest Hits Falls to #30 this week with 13,000 Sales. Still not too shabby.
Don't even ask about Eclipse.