"Soundstage Sessions" Billboard Chart Debut Predictions - Page 2

Jondalar · #16 04-03-2009, 08:12 PM

The DVD is charting better than the album. Trouble in Shangri La was number for like 3 weeks on Amazon and it only hit number 5. Soundstage Sessions isn't even in the top 20. It's going to be about 100 or lower I think.

Her chance of going gold is the DVD. She only needs to sale 50,000 dvds to do that. Live in Boston DVD did better than Say You Will cd too.

Unfortunately for Stevie many places are only carrying one copy of her DVD. Plus, the promotion is particulary bad for this.

I think the DVD deserves to go Gold. She did a really good job with this.

RockALittle250 · #17 04-03-2009, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Jondalar

The DVD is charting better than the album. Trouble in Shangri La was number for like 3 weeks on Amazon and it only hit number 5. Soundstage Sessions isn't even in the top 20. It's going to be about 100 or lower I think.

Her chance of going gold is the DVD. She only needs to sale 50,000 dvds to do that. Live in Boston DVD did better than Say You Will cd too.

Unfortunately for Stevie many places are only carrying one copy of her DVD. Plus, the promotion is particulary bad for this.

I think the DVD deserves to go Gold. She did a really good job with this.

How do you know this?

Jondalar · #18 04-03-2009, 08:19 PM

Go to Amazon.com and see how it is doing? Not very well, and amazon is really good indicator.

RockALittle250 · #19 04-03-2009, 08:20 PM

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Go to Amazon.com and see how it is doing? Not very well, and amazon is really good indicator.

No, it's not...i don't know where you're getting that idea from...there's a dozen different places to buy an album.

LukeA · #20 04-03-2009, 08:22 PM

It'll come in between 40-50- it doesn't take much to get there most weeks.

Jondalar · #21 04-03-2009, 08:26 PM

it's a huge indicator, I've paid attention to it for years, the live album will probably sell around 15,000 the first week AT MOST and maybe 100,000 overall at most. I hope she does that well with it. (A lot of people are sick of her compilations and her aging voice and aren't buying it. However, they still want to see her in concert.) I think Stevie already knows this. Fleetwood Mac's Live in Boston DVD went platinum, Say You Will the album only went gold.

LukeA · #22 04-03-2009, 08:29 PM

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Fleetwood Mac's Live in Boston DVD went platinum, Say You Will the album only went gold.

In case you're unaware, a CD has to scan 500K copies to be certified Gold by the RIAA, while a DVD only has to scan 100K to be certified Platinum.

Jondalar · #23 04-03-2009, 08:32 PM

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In case you're unaware, a CD has to scan 500K copies to be certified Gold by the RIAA, while a DVD only has to scan 100K to be certified Platinum.

I'm very aware of that. DVDs are also more expensive. Less people buy music DVDs. That's what's really troubling. Her DVD is outselling the CD.

However, A DVD only has to sell 50K to go gold. That is her hope: the DVD. The CD seems like an afterthought to me.

strandinthewind · #24 04-03-2009, 08:32 PM

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. . . Plus, the promotion is particulary bad for this . . . .

I respectfully disagree. She has done loads of press and they are spending money on ads in major markets. I personally think she should have done Letterman and The View as those are WAY more major than the Fallon show.

For the life of me I will never understand the bookings they do. I get there are scheduling considerations, but they should have thought ahead two months ago and gotten the bookings.

But, people said SYW was poorly marketed when all the evidence was to the contrary (AOL sessions, media, press, etc.)

LukeA · #25 04-03-2009, 08:40 PM

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I respectfully disagree. She has done loads of press and they are spending money on ads in major markets. I personally think she should have done Letterman and The View as those are WAY more major than the Fallon show.

For the life of me I will never understand the bookings they do. I get there are scheduling considerations, but they should have thought ahead two months ago and gotten the bookings.

But, people said SYW was poorly marketed when all the evidence was to the contrary (AOL sessions, media, press, etc.)

Completely agree. This package has been promoted extraordinarily well, as was SYW.

Some fans are simply impossible to please- like the geniuses who, say, claim a concert wasn't promoted adequately and, when pressed for suggestions, come up with a marketing plan that roughly costs 10X the gross potential of said concert.

RockALittle250 · #26 04-03-2009, 08:41 PM

BTW, i'm calling #20-25. She would have to sell between 20-24K copies, and i think she's capable. That would mean her selling 10K less than she did of CV (which sold 34K and was #21 in its debut). She could end up charting in the same position even selling a significantly less amount of albums because of the current state of overall album sales.

Jondalar · #27 04-03-2009, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by strandinthewind

I respectfully disagree. She has done loads of press and they are spending money on ads in major markets. I personally think she should have done Letterman and The View as those are WAY more major than the Fallon show.

For the life of me I will never understand the bookings they do. I get there are scheduling considerations, but they should have thought ahead two months ago and gotten the bookings.

But, people said SYW was poorly marketed when all the evidence was to the contrary (AOL sessions, media, press, etc.)

She's not singing on any of the interviews and the interviews are really short.

The problem with SYW is that MTV is not going to play a Fleetwood Mac video, and they refused to go country like the Eagles and everyone else who wants to sale records.

RockALittle250 · #28 04-03-2009, 08:42 PM

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Completely agree. This package has been promoted extraordinarily well, as was SYW.

Some fans are simply impossible to please- like the geniuses who, say, claim a concert wasn't promoted adequately and, when pressed for suggestions, come up with a marketing plan that roughly costs 10X the gross potential of said concert.

Exactly...we definitely have our resident complainers on here, and no matter what Stevie does, it just doesn't cut it.

LukeA · #29 04-03-2009, 08:46 PM

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and they refused to go country like the Eagles and everyone else who wants to sale records.

Yes, Fleetwood Mac totally blew it by not selling out and "go country"- they would have saled twice as many copies!

MacMan · #30 04-03-2009, 08:47 PM

Has anyone seen the TV commercials advertising this? And I read there was a infomercial... But they could have just meant a commercial.

View Poll Results: Where will "Soundstage Sessions" chart on the Billboard 200 in its debut week?
Number One, Numero Uno, Pole Position!!	2	2.78%
Top 5	2	2.78%
Top 10	4	5.56%
Top 20	13	18.06%
Top 40	24	33.33%
Somewhere in the Top 200, but below 40.	27	37.50%
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