Rick wrote:Monker wrote:Don wrote:I think if we put together all the sales data from the US and abroad, this album has to be considered a sales flop so far. Yes, it has chart numbers in the Top 20 in the UK and US but as far as product moved, it doesn't look like a successful launch. Nothing to do with the quality of the material, just a matter of promotion and having to compete against a resurgence in you own prior works. The lack of product presence in Japan, the second largest music consumer in the world is a bit disheartening.
Things may shake out differently next week and I'll make another assessment then.
Oh, please, this album is selling like a CD that has been out for a month or so. You'll be lucky if it is in the top 40 in the US.
It has nothing to do with promotion. Nobody wants this CD...the ones who do have already got their copy...or will soon. This thing is going to plummet in sales down to the few thousand per week VERY quickly.
How can anyone buy something if they don't know about it?
prove to me that they don't
The people who are really interested in Journey follow sites like this, or Facebook, or journeymusic.com. They know. The people who bought Revelation because of DSB and Arnel being able to sound like perry are outside of this albums target audience. THAT is the problem and why this is not selling very well.
iI said that months ago when this ridiculous idea was revealed. That FACT was ignored by people like SJ who went on spouting that Eclipse was going to outsell Revelation...and people kept making crazy statements like that through the time when it SHOULD have been promoted. So, don't go using hindsight to validate the insane statements being made. It doesn't work.
This entire situation was starting to be VERY clear a couple months ago...THAT is when you should have started bitching about promotion. If promotion mattered so much, why were people predicting 100,000 or more in sales for the first week - within a week of it going on sale? Some people here have Neal's guitar up their ass, and actually seemed to enjoy it...until reality hit.