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McParadigm wrote:

Lament wrote:

stupidmop wrote:I hate the descriptor 'aging'. Everything is aging.

Except for high school girls. I get older, they stay the same age...

I assume "aging" is just gentle slang for "old enough to feel as pervy checking out college girls as you used to feel when you checked out high school girls....which you pretty much never do anymore."

Everything you need to know about PJ and ageing is encapsulated below

I didn't expect it to chart so high on UK iTunes, in fact, apart from France and Japan, it seems to have topped the chart or come in second in most countries. I'm assuming this will be short lived but still nice to see.

Mike Stinks

dimejinky99 wrote:

McParadigm wrote:

Lament wrote:

stupidmop wrote:I hate the descriptor 'aging'. Everything is aging.

Except for high school girls. I get older, they stay the same age...

I assume "aging" is just gentle slang for "old enough to feel as pervy checking out college girls as you used to feel when you checked out high school girls....which you pretty much never do anymore."

Everything you need to know about PJ and ageing is encapsulated below

Why haven't we had a Halloween show with Ed dressed as Batman (or girl ) yet?

stupidmop wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

McParadigm wrote:

Lament wrote:

stupidmop wrote:I hate the descriptor 'aging'. Everything is aging.

Except for high school girls. I get older, they stay the same age...

I assume "aging" is just gentle slang for "old enough to feel as pervy checking out college girls as you used to feel when you checked out high school girls....which you pretty much never do anymore."

Everything you need to know about PJ and ageing is encapsulated below

Why haven't we had a Halloween show with Ed dressed as Batman (or girl ) yet?

Same reason PJ have never played a show on eds birthday and also why they've never played Strangest tribe, live.

Too near Christmas.

Rusted Sign wrote:I didn't expect it to chart so high on UK iTunes, in fact, apart from France and Japan, it seems to have topped the chart or come in second in most countries. I'm assuming this will be short lived but still nice to see.

It'll actually look pretty bad if they don't reach #1 in America. The big records from the last few weeks are not popping big enough to really be much of a threat, and none of what's coming out alongside them is riding the same combination of singles success and media attention.

It'd be possible for Miley to surprise with a less-than-expected dip in sales, or for someone like Paul McCartney to have an unpredicted warhorse peak, but I'd say Sirens and the album both stand to lose more from a #2 or 3 debut than they do to gain from the #1 most are assuming LB will get.

Here are the current predictions, based on early reports:

Pearl Jam (Republic) 160-180k
Paul McCartney (Hear Music) 70-80k
Avett Brothers (American/Republic) 60-65k
Scotty McCreery (19/Interscope) 40-45k
Head and the Heart (Sub Pop) 35-40k
Willie Nelson (Legacy) 27-30k
Gavin DeGraw (RCA) 25-28k
Trivium (Roadrunner) 14-17k
Mary J. Blige (Verve/Interscope) 12-14k

http://www.universalmusic.es/es_ES/noti ... a-la-venta

According to this as far as itunes is concerned it's #1 in 54 countries and #2 in 10 for what is worth.

dimejinky99 wrote:

stupidmop wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

McParadigm wrote:

Lament wrote:

stupidmop wrote:I hate the descriptor 'aging'. Everything is aging.

Except for high school girls. I get older, they stay the same age...

I assume "aging" is just gentle slang for "old enough to feel as pervy checking out college girls as you used to feel when you checked out high school girls....which you pretty much never do anymore."

Everything you need to know about PJ and ageing is encapsulated below

Why haven't we had a Halloween show with Ed dressed as Batman (or girl ) yet?

Same reason PJ have never played a show on eds birthday and also why they've never played Strangest tribe, live.

Too near Christmas.

They've played on Halloween before I think? One of the spectrum shows. Or does ed only dress as batgirl on Christmas?

Wasn't it stones birthday at Wrigley? He didn't get a cake in the face. For shaaaammmee.

I hate the Avett Brothers so much.

they just haven't written their 'infallible' yet

McParadigm wrote:Here are the current predictions, based on early reports:

Pearl Jam (Republic) 160-180k
Paul McCartney (Hear Music) 70-80k
Avett Brothers (American/Republic) 60-65k
Scotty McCreery (19/Interscope) 40-45k
Head and the Heart (Sub Pop) 35-40k
Willie Nelson (Legacy) 27-30k
Gavin DeGraw (RCA) 25-28k
Trivium (Roadrunner) 14-17k
Mary J. Blige (Verve/Interscope) 12-14k

It looks like that's about where it was expected. I look at other rock acts to compare - NIN and Kings of Leon did a little over 100K. QOTSA did like 90k, Green Day did like 140k first week last year, Arcade Fire will probably do better than all of them, but probably not by a whole lot. Rock music has a very specific ceiling, unless there is some huge crossover hit, there is virtually no chance of going 1 million. But from a mainstream perspective, I sort of like where it is right now, there's no Nickelback/Creed domination anymore thank god, I feel like the rock acts that succeeding in this environment are ones who really deserve it.

stupidmop wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

stupidmop wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

McParadigm wrote:

Lament wrote:

stupidmop wrote:I hate the descriptor 'aging'. Everything is aging.

Except for high school girls. I get older, they stay the same age...

I assume "aging" is just gentle slang for "old enough to feel as pervy checking out college girls as you used to feel when you checked out high school girls....which you pretty much never do anymore."

Everything you need to know about PJ and ageing is encapsulated below

Why haven't we had a Halloween show with Ed dressed as Batman (or girl ) yet?

Same reason PJ have never played a show on eds birthday and also why they've never played Strangest tribe, live.

Too near Christmas.

They've played on Halloween before I think? One of the spectrum shows. Or does ed only dress as batgirl on Christmas?

Wasn't it stones birthday at Wrigley? He didn't get a cake in the face. For shaaaammmee.

Once again. They have never played a show on eds birthday. No cake in the face and no batgirl.
Despite our best wishes and wants.

Tuolumne wrote:It looks like that's about where it was expected. I look at other rock acts to compare - NIN and Kings of Leon did a little over 100K. QOTSA did like 90k, Arcade Fire will probably do better than all of them, but probably not by alot. Rock music has a very specific ceiling, unless there is some huge crossover hit, there is virtually no chance of going 1 million.

It's 2013. Only ten albums sold a million copies or more last year, and it doesn't look to be any better this year. It's not just a rock music thing (although rock has increasingly become the niche market that country music wrote itself into being in the 1980's). Album sales today are starting to look more and more like they did in the early-to-mid 1960's, and frankly, if PJ lands a 170,000 debut they'll either need Sirens to start showing substantially more fire or they'll need an equally strong showing on their third single if they want to go gold.

dimejinky99 wrote:

stupidmop wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

stupidmop wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:

McParadigm wrote:

Lament wrote:

stupidmop wrote:I hate the descriptor 'aging'. Everything is aging.

Except for high school girls. I get older, they stay the same age...

I assume "aging" is just gentle slang for "old enough to feel as pervy checking out college girls as you used to feel when you checked out high school girls....which you pretty much never do anymore."

Everything you need to know about PJ and ageing is encapsulated below

Why haven't we had a Halloween show with Ed dressed as Batman (or girl ) yet?

Same reason PJ have never played a show on eds birthday and also why they've never played Strangest tribe, live.

Too near Christmas.

They've played on Halloween before I think? One of the spectrum shows. Or does ed only dress as batgirl on Christmas?

Wasn't it stones birthday at Wrigley? He didn't get a cake in the face. For shaaaammmee.

Once again. They have never played a show on eds birthday. No cake in the face and no batgirl.
Despite our best wishes and wants.

Yes, but...oh, nevermind.

McParadigm wrote:

Tuolumne wrote:It looks like that's about where it was expected. I look at other rock acts to compare - NIN and Kings of Leon did a little over 100K. QOTSA did like 90k, Arcade Fire will probably do better than all of them, but probably not by alot. Rock music has a very specific ceiling, unless there is some huge crossover hit, there is virtually no chance of going 1 million.

It's 2013. Only ten albums sold a million copies or more last year, and it doesn't look to be any better this year. It's not just a rock music thing (although rock has increasingly become the niche market that country music wrote itself into being in the 1980's). Album sales today are starting to look more and more like they did in the early-to-mid 1960's, and frankly, if PJ lands a 170,000 debut they'll either need Sirens to start showing substantially more fire or they'll need an equally strong showing on their third single if they want to go gold.

yeah that estimate seems high to me.

10 rock records or 10 anything records?

You're a pearl jam 'fan'?

It's a vocation. Or gtfo

stip wrote:10 rock records or 10 anything records?

Ten anything records.

I was thinking this album has slightly less of a marketing push than BS did, but I have nothing to back that up besides no Target-like deal.