Hits Daily Double Sales Chart

[kak125]

So with 69% of the sales in so far Fleetwood Mac's new EP is not in the top 50 so far this week. I know with it only being on iTunes it wouldnt be in the top 5 but I figured top 20 since most people buy digital copies of music these days. The rest of the chart will be updated tomorrow.
http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/sales/salescht.cgi

[dontlookdown]

that's fine by me. i'd rather them stay on the un-commercial side these days.
i see mostly garbage on that list (with the exception of phoenix and the lumineers).

[Jondalar]

Fleetwood Mac's EP is not a full length album. Wouldn't they need sale twice or three times a much to register.

[kak125]

this is what i found on billboard:
Unit sales for Albums priced below $3.49 during their first four weeks of release will not be eligible for inclusion on the Billboard album charts and will not count towards sales data presented by Nielsen SoundScan.
*The rule also applies to reissued titles.
*New Holiday/Seasonal titles must meet the minimum threshold through the final week of the calendar year.
*Unit sales for albums or EPs with 8 or less tracks will not be eligible for charting if the retail price is less than the sum of the tracks on the release, multiplied by $0.39.
*Minimum pricing for a multi-disc album (not a single disc with extra tracks), where the extra disc is audio content, will be $3.49 times the amount of discs being made available.

[HejiraNYC]

It doesn't surprise me in the least that the EP is barely making a dent on the charts. Their only means of promoting it is via e-mail and via the live shows they played during the past week. And the problem with live shows is that, given the high price of tickets, a good chunk of the audience consists of older, affluent people who don't buy new music or kids who don't buy any music, period. Plus when you factor in the fact that it's currently iTunes only, the sales volume dwindles even further. I think they should count their lucky stars if they managed even 5,000 downloads.

[seekerj]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

It doesn't surprise me in the least that the EP is barely making a dent on the charts. Their only means of promoting it is via e-mail and via the live shows they played during the past week. And the problem with live shows is that, given the high price of tickets, a good chunk of the audience consists of older, affluent people who don't buy new music or kids who don't buy any music, period. Plus when you factor in the fact that it's currently iTunes only, the sales volume dwindles even further. I think they should count their lucky stars if they managed even 5,000 downloads.

Yup! Yes, yes, yes. Won't buy it until it's on physical media and until it's not mp3s.

[kak125]

i agree with you but i would think with it being up in the charts on itunes that it would mean they sold more than 5k units but then again i guess we shall see when the final numbers are released later on today. i did see a banner for the ep on ticketmaster and was wondering why they dont have the option to buy the ep when purchasing tickets right now. i find it odd that they are trying to sell music from the older incarnations of fleetwood mac instead of the current lineup on ticketmaster.

here is the list of music you can purchase with your tickets now:
Fleetwood Mac - Show-Biz Blues : 1968 To 1970 : Vol. 2 - DD MP3
Fleetwood Mac - Madison Blues - DD MP3
Fleetwood Mac - Men Of The World - The Early Years - DD MP3

They need to be selling the ep and they should put say you will in there as well.

[elle]

Originally Posted by HejiraNYC

It doesn't surprise me in the least that the EP is barely making a dent on the charts. Their only means of promoting it is via e-mail and via the live shows they played during the past week. And the problem with live shows is that, given the high price of tickets, a good chunk of the audience consists of older, affluent people who don't buy new music or kids who don't buy any music, period. Plus when you factor in the fact that it's currently iTunes only, the sales volume dwindles even further. I think they should count their lucky stars if they managed even 5,000 downloads.

agree re no promotion, it seems almost strange that it sold as well as it, those first few days.

i've never received any emails, only my husband received one from Ticketmaster, seemed entirely random... did you or other people here receive any email promotions?

at the shows it seems that they almost promoted it more before EP came out (and nobody believed that it will really happen ) than now when it actually is out... again, they should tell people at the show to just download the songs right there from their iphones. shirts people keep buying at shows are $40+, so what's $3.96 more? with 10 000 + people at every show, if just the small fraction downloads at the show or on their way home, seems like that would be a huge difference if we are talking about mere thousands sold all together.

NOLA show only, with 50 000+ people there... within a day of that show youtube views of my Sad Angel recording quickly and inexplicably jumped way ahead of all other FM live videos i had (regardless of how crappy they are).

to me, it looks like the only real promotion they have had is itunes banner. i think without that they would probably sell next to nothing, nobody would even know EP's out, just like nobody knows it's out on amazon now.

maybe i'm just missing something.

[snicksfan85]

Originally Posted by kak125

this is what i found on billboard:
Unit sales for Albums priced below $3.49 during their first four weeks of release will not be eligible for inclusion on the Billboard album charts and will not count towards sales data presented by Nielsen SoundScan.
*The rule also applies to reissued titles.
*New Holiday/Seasonal titles must meet the minimum threshold through the final week of the calendar year.
*Unit sales for albums or EPs with 8 or less tracks will not be eligible for charting if the retail price is less than the sum of the tracks on the release, multiplied by $0.39.
*Minimum pricing for a multi-disc album (not a single disc with extra tracks), where the extra disc is audio content, will be $3.49 times the amount of discs being made available.

That's the Lady Gaga rule. Her 99 cent first week release was the culprit. Kind of like the exclusive release exclusion rule because of the Eagles.

I'm not really sure where HitsDailyDouble chart gets their sales info but it's off from the Billboard 200 and SoundScan both on its Top Albums and on its sales data. It may just be the closing date difference but there's a significant sales number discrepancy between the two for a lot of those albums.

They definitely didn't sell 11k last week, and they're coming in at #48 on the Billboard Top 200.


Also, I'd have to argue that the Billboard charts are not all crap. The Billboard Hot 100 is, and it pissed people off royally when they changed it to include web impressions. But the sales charts are straight from SoundScan which includes almost all retailers. (It also includes venue album sales if the artist's merch person is up on reporting it.) Same with the radio charts. Those are BDS monitored/station reported spins.