The Greatest Hits chart positions thread

[Irish rose]

Axl would probobly object?

Does anyone else think, that when CD is being promoted, ads etc, the new members of the band will not be prominent?

I have a feeling that it will be marketed using the name and axls image alone. Just a thought.

[BritChick]

oh well the bum bandit is no 1 and GH is no. 2.

its still bloody impressive that it even got to no 2 considering it has had no advertising or publicity.

 

[DazRose85]

oh well the bum bandit is no 1 and GH is no. 2.

its still bloody impressive that it even got to no 2 considering it has had no advertising or publicity.

 

That's not entirely true... there was a TV ad shown quite a bit, plus a few magazine articles and the Kerrang TV week.

[Yesterday]

Not sure if this is correct thread.....I live in the US and received my GH cd on Saturday from musicspace.com. Digipak with free poster. (original 5 members) Wasn't gonna buy it, but thought if it sells well enough maybe it will get CD out sooner rather than later.  Anyway, GH seems to be selling pretty well in the rest of the world, curious how it will do in the US.  Kinda scared this may be the nail in the coffin of Gn'R though.  I have seen the commercial on MTV and ESPNews this weekined though.  But as with the majority of us, track listing is ok.  Would have taken off Since I dont have you and put Estranged on, added Don't Damn Me and made Sympathy a bonus track.  Anyway take care and have a great day....

[bolton]

25000 copies in first day,that's great.
why?
as we know every rnr fan older than 18 have three gnr albums(afd,gnr lies and uyi 1,2),and they won't to buy gnr greatest hits,but they'll buy chinese democracy.
I'm a gnr fan,but i won't buy gh,because i have every gnr album,and i make my greatesthits!
and comparing gnr and nirvana is stupid,because gnr is truly big rnr band

[grog mug]

I still think GN'R will come close to topping the charts in the U.S.s as well.  Just imagine what Chinese Democracy could do!

[grog mug]

Great can't wait to buy it tomorrow...a new GN'R product but I guess thats what we get after the majority of the songs on the last tour were OLD material.

[BritChick]

That's not entirely true... there was a TV ad shown quite a bit, plus a few magazine articles and the Kerrang TV week.

Ok ok - your right I saw the add on the friday evening before it came out but it was the only time I saw it on terrestrial tv, then my bloke was like oh yeah its in Kerrang but I mean in comparison to the usual hype that album releases receive and I especially mean when it was released on the same day as GM who had been on chat shows to promote.

And I also mean knowing about it as a normal person as opposed to an obsessive fan ie 2 of my friends had no idea it was out but as soon as i told them they rushed out to buy it.  What I am saying unless youre a huge GnR fan you could easily have missed its release date as it was not hyped and advertised in the normal way.

[BritChick]

GNR still have a huge following in Ireland .. pity people have to suffer the poor track selection however  

It had everything I would expect to be on a GREATEST HITS album duh  

[Spirit]

GH debuts on the official top 40 as #1... with virtually NO promotion as far as I've seen!

[matt88]

Great news...this album is doing a lot better than i expected

[Butch Français]

I saw a TV commercial for GH here in Norway for the first time yesterday, it was awesome!
it was for both GH and WTTV, or as they said in the commercial: "Greatest Hits on CD and DVD."

[lastroots]

GUNS N' ROSES Greatest Hits entered the German album charts at #5, just behind HIM's Greatest Hits compilation And Love Said No (#4).

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/charts/0,1518,album,00.html


/lastroots

[kockstar99]

who is HIM?

[lastroots]

http://www.heartagram.com/

[erose]

first i think him really rocks!!!  in norway him debuted at 30 something while gn'r debuted at 1...

guess germany is a bit more important tho, after all it's the third biggest music market in the world...

[John Daniels]

HIM is doing a tour in States soon..

a little thought....The Darkness has sold about 160 000 albums in States with the help of marketing and

promoting (and I guess they have also toured in States?). HIM has already sold 100 000

Razorblade Romance albums in States with out any promoting or touring.

[John Daniels]

who is HIM?

His Infernal Majesty

[Izzy]

Relevance to GNR?

[jarmo]

Relevance to GNR?

They're Finnish, isn't that enough?  


They're one of the new rock bands that kids listen to. If GN'R debuts one position behind them, then it's a pretty good sign that there's a bunch of people who still listen to GN'R even though they're not "hip" like HIM....



/jarmo