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Greatest Hits Volume 2 debuts at #93 on the BB 200 albums chart. Greatest hits 1 is just hanging on by a thread at #184.

93 JOURNEY JOURNEY'S GREATEST HITS VOL. 2 4,993 999 29 5,029
184 JOURNEY GREATEST HITS 3,033 10 2,766 7,952,277

Captured continues to sell pretty well also
Top Pop Catalog Albums:
23 61 67 77 JOURNEY CAPTURED (LIVE) 2197 8 2040 69444

If GH2 can just hang on the chart for a few months, at 3k a week, I'm sure Sony will be more than happy.
Besides Christmas Albums, December is also the biggest sales month of the year for Greatest Hits compilations. Probably why Sony got it out the door by November.

Don wrote:If GH2 can just hang on the chart for a few months, at 3k a week, I'm sure Sony will be more than happy.
Besides Christmas Albums, December is also the biggest sales month of the year for Greatest Hits compilations. Probably why Sony got it out the door by November.

GB, that pic in your sig, is there a video of that somewhere?

Rick wrote:

Don wrote:If GH2 can just hang on the chart for a few months, at 3k a week, I'm sure Sony will be more than happy.
Besides Christmas Albums, December is also the biggest sales month of the year for Greatest Hits compilations. Probably why Sony got it out the door by November.

GB, that pic in your sig, is there a video of that somewhere?

I didn't look for one but there may be on the radio station's site. I believe it's a Chicago station.

Don wrote:

Rick wrote:

Don wrote:If GH2 can just hang on the chart for a few months, at 3k a week, I'm sure Sony will be more than happy.
Besides Christmas Albums, December is also the biggest sales month of the year for Greatest Hits compilations. Probably why Sony got it out the door by November.

GB, that pic in your sig, is there a video of that somewhere?

I didn't look for one but there may be on the radio station's site. I believe it's a Chicago station.

Thanks.

Greatest Hits 1978-1996 at #30 still hanging in there on Top Music DVD list.

I am going to be ordering the Greatest Hits Volumes 1 & 2 on vinyl. Can't wait to hear When You Love A Woman and When I Think Of You in analog!

Don wrote:

Rick wrote:

Don wrote:If GH2 can just hang on the chart for a few months, at 3k a week, I'm sure Sony will be more than happy.
Besides Christmas Albums, December is also the biggest sales month of the year for Greatest Hits compilations. Probably why Sony got it out the door by November.

GB, that pic in your sig, is there a video of that somewhere?

I didn't look for one but there may be on the radio station's site. I believe it's a Chicago station.

I think part of this aired on VH1 Classic, perhaps just as a video. ??

NoMoreTails wrote:

Don wrote:

Rick wrote:

Don wrote:If GH2 can just hang on the chart for a few months, at 3k a week, I'm sure Sony will be more than happy.
Besides Christmas Albums, December is also the biggest sales month of the year for Greatest Hits compilations. Probably why Sony got it out the door by November.

GB, that pic in your sig, is there a video of that somewhere?

I didn't look for one but there may be on the radio station's site. I believe it's a Chicago station.

I think part of this aired on VH1 Classic, perhaps just as a video. ??

It was VH1 Classic for the Main Event Tour with REO and Styx. The song they did was Liberty. I would love to find this!

Kor'n wrote:Greatest Hits 1978-1996 at #30 still hanging in there on Top Music DVD list.

Yeah that has to be near 5X MP status. I know its sold well over 500,000 copies.

Don wrote:If GH2 can just hang on the chart for a few months, at 3k a week, I'm sure Sony will be more than happy.
Besides Christmas Albums, December is also the biggest sales month of the year for Greatest Hits compilations. Probably why Sony got it out the door by November.

Still surprising to me that there was really no advertisement or commercial for Greatest Hits 2. I remember when Essential Journey was released, they had a pretty cool commerical featuring songclips. There is just no promotion at all with Journey anymore.

jrny84 wrote:

Don wrote:If GH2 can just hang on the chart for a few months, at 3k a week, I'm sure Sony will be more than happy.
Besides Christmas Albums, December is also the biggest sales month of the year for Greatest Hits compilations. Probably why Sony got it out the door by November.

Still surprising to me that there was really no advertisement or commercial for Greatest Hits 2. I remember when Essential Journey was released, they had a pretty cool commerical featuring songclips. There is just no promotion at all with Journey anymore.

Tough question. Do TV commercials for records, as they existed whenever, still have an impact today? What do they cost, and what's the ROI? What really is the TV market today? With the proliferation of digital cable, HD, and satellite reception, there are hundreds of 'channels'. Will anyone really invest in some overall promotion? And, how so?

I think it's still more 'word of mouth'. And that doesn't mean what it used to. Today, it means internet links & forum chatter. It means, people posting to YT, Facebook'ing, & Twittering. In other words, paying for mainstream commercial advertising isn't really necessary much any more with social media being today's way of comm.

And especially in the sense of GH1 doing so well over the years, that GH2 will get known too.

Sony/Perry/Journey are very smart by doing this album for the 2011 Cmas season. It will be bought as an easy gift for those that already have GH1, or as a package/supplement gift when buying GH1. It's no-brainer marketing...especially with Perry doing all the remastering, not to mention, all the re-praising of Schon & Cain...and vice versa.


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