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The Official "The Boy Who Knew Too Much ERA" Charts & Sales around the world Thread

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suzie

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That may be a dumb question, but how many did he sell of the first CD?

I keep hearing different numbers everywhere!

 

Last time I checked on some official chart it was 5.67million - so that's close to 6 million

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That is interesting silver.

If you take into account that the industry would have expected an increase then figure the decrease - then add to that - most of the buyers or listeners of music are young people who are technically savy & have access to free music - the actual loss of sales in actual hard copy albums and/or itune purchases it starts to really add up to a huge loss of sales.

 

 

like i said before, what i've heard is that the legal downloads have increased whereas the sales of physical CDs have indeed decreased. it gave a boost to digital downloads that they're now DRM-free. think the numbers they talked about were for worldwide, but of course it can be different in single countries. :dunno:

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It is quite difficult to know the truth concerning the real album sales. For example on Wikipedia they say that Fall Out Boys would have sold 4 million albums of "Folie à deux" but on World Wide Albums site (which we use as reference) the album sales are only 844000. Who to believe?

 

Could be a strategy to pretend that an album is good because lots of people have bought it? :fisch:

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IngievV

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That may be a dumb question, but how many did he sell of the first CD?

I keep hearing different numbers everywhere!

 

5,1 million...I will never forget as I lost the Mika quiz on that question during the album hearing:mf_rosetinted:

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Am I the only one who believes that Mika's sold more than 660,000 copies of TBWKTM? Like, about a million? :blink:

I think he must have sold about a million till now. Plus I've read it twice in UK newspaper.

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Am I the only one who believes that Mika's sold more than 660,000 copies of TBWKTM? Like, about a million? :blink:

I think he must have sold about a million till now. Plus I've read it twice in UK newspaper.

 

In the UK they said they had shipped a million albums. That means sent out to suppliers - not actually sold to customers.

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Kodes100

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Am I the only one who believes that Mika's sold more than 660,000 copies of TBWKTM? Like, about a million? :blink:

I think he must have sold about a million till now. Plus I've read it twice in UK newspaper.

 

I also believe that Mika's TBWKTM has sold more than 667,000.

Though not because the UK newspapers say so.

They exaggerate something fierce from my little experience.

But I am stubborn & I have been at a loss to explain these low sales of this amazing, well reviewed album & the well attended concerts.

Yet I do trust Worldwidealbums - they have been accurate until now.:roftl::roftl:

I suppose time will tell.

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I also believe that Mika's TBWKTM has sold more than 667,000.

Though not because the UK newspapers say so.

They exaggerate something fierce from my little experience.

But I am stubborn & I have been at a loss to explain these low sales of this amazing, well reviewed album & the well attended concerts.

Yet I do trust Worldwidealbums - they have been accurate until now.:roftl::roftl:

I suppose time will tell.

 

I've just been to worldwidealbums and studied the 2009 sales list a bit. When you notice the artists that have sold less copies of their albums than Mika, you realize that 667,000 in just 3 months cant be called low sales. After seeing that list I think that TBWKTM has done really well so far and I'm convinced it'll do even better this year:thumb_yello:

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I would love to know what the record label had in terms of sales targets for TBWKTM, and just how far off target the actual sales figures are.

 

I would also love to be a fly on the wall to hear label conversations about it. :teehee:

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Rain is still doing very well in many European countries: #3 in Italy, #6 in France, #5 in Belgium and #35 in Swizerland.

There seems to be a kind of a cultural or linguistic frontier: Rain does well in latin countries (perhaps in Swzerland Rain is popular amongst the french speaking people and more popular in Wallonie than in Flandery).

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In Belgium the radio channels sometimes have their own list ,

on MNM (MNM50) MIKA is now on 23. He lost 4 places. :(

->He keeps losing places . :( I vote him every day on #1 ! Ö

And on Qmusic (Top 40 Hitlist) he is on the 2nd place ! <3 :biggrin2:

Both with Rain . (:

And in the Belgium Ultratop50 charts , he is on 5th place in Flanders and 3th place in Wallonie , also with Rain . (:

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I've just been to worldwidealbums and studied the 2009 sales list a bit. When you notice the artists that have sold less copies of their albums than Mika, you realize that 667,000 in just 3 months cant be called low sales. After seeing that list I think that TBWKTM has done really well so far and I'm convinced it'll do even better this year:thumb_yello:

 

I agree with you Louiza!

 

In Belgium the radio channels sometimes have their own list ,

on MNM (MNM50) MIKA is now on 23. He lost 4 places. :(

->He keeps losing places . :( I vote him every day on #1 ! Ö

And on Qmusic (Top 40 Hitlist) he is on the 2nd place ! <3 :biggrin2:

Both with Rain . (:

And in the Belgium Ultratop50 charts , he is on 5th place in Flanders and 3th place in Wallonie , also with Rain . (:

 

NikkyQuiRit could you post the link in the "Vote For Mika" thread at the top of this section please?

We could help with the voting.

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Kodes100

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On the Apple Itunes Top Pop Album Charts Today TBWKTM:

# 9 in Belgium

 

Life In Cartoon Motion: Yes LICM keeps reappearing in the charts for some countries. Kudos Mika!

# 6 in Portugal

# 8 Luxembourg

 

The Single Rain in the Apple Itunes Top Pop Charts:

# 5 in France

# 8 in Belgium

# 6 in Italy

# 5 in Spain

 

Kudos Mika!!

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Showtunes17

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I'm looking at the midweeks for the album and Paulo nutini is going to be peak at No.1 again :shocked: after he only performed on Jools Holland's NYE show...

 

See what promo can do for you! And Paulo isn't having that much success with his singles either!

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On another note, Paolo started a fan club in November and he's holding a private gig for members soon. :fisch:

 

God can you imagine a gig full of MFCers. Full of them? How would it be decided who would be at the front?

Queueing for a week beforehand?

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