Sales figures for SACD DSOTM?

Well it's been a week since the greatest album of all time was released on SACD. I know that Billboard doesn't publish the previous week's sales figures until Thursday or Friday. I'm guessing the DSOTM will be #1 in the Pop Catalog album charts. What I'm after are the exact sales figures for DSOTM. I'm curious exactly how many people bought this album.

Has there been a press release yet?

 

#19 here:

http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/popcat.jsp

I have not seen any press releases yet.

 

#19 is a respectable showing for an album that has sold so many copies in the past, and was released in 1973!

I'm wondering how many people bought it for the SACD layer. It could be an important statistic for the success of SACD...

 

# 19 isn't bad. I noticed that Beatles 1 was #2.

 

Do you guys remember when DSOTM and Tapestry were on the charts for years and years, piled up huge numbers, then were relegated to the "calalog album" chart when that came out?

I always thought that was a bit unfair, although I can understand why they did it. Those LPs would have stayed on the charts for MUCH longer, along with other "catalog" titles, and racked up even bigger chart numbers if they catalog chart never came out.

Many albums on the catalog chart sell more copies than albums in the TOp 200.

 

Linkin Park's new album Meteora was number 1 on the Billboard 200 as of April 2nd.

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#19 is quite good. I too wonder how many folks bought the disc for the SACD layer.

 

Probably not many......I'll bet most bought it because of the new cover......But, maybe they'll notice the SACD logo and look into the technology eh?

-Wes

 

It may be mere semantics, but I'll bet that more people bought it for the 5.1 surround mix than they did because it's SACD. Think about it.

 

I don't know what people in this thread are on about, but #19 is TERRIBLE. It was #20 just the week before, and that was THE REGULAR OLD CD ISSUE! Moving up one space is hardly reason to break out the champagne, and it certainly is no great boost to the SACD format.

 

But you can't get the surround without the SACD player!

Perhaps they did blunder a bit when they advertised the 5.1 and didn't make it clear that it was SACD?

Sony and the rest must EDUCATE and PUSH SACD education on the public so they will know!

 

Actually that's the chart position for the previous version. You can tell by the catalog number. The new SACD version carries a different catalog number.

 

I doubt the sales numbers would be very good at this point, as availability on the shelves seems to be very poor. I could not find a store in Colorado that got more than 2 copies the first week of release, this includes the big box places like cicuit city.

 

I hear ya man! No one had it in my area yesterday, but BB and Borders did today. Target didn't even have it today!!!!!!

 

I agree. DSOTM would usually linger in the Top 10 of this chart!

Perhaps Billboard for some reason is *not* counting SACD sales in this chart? Was there a sales spike when AC/DC's Back in Black came out a couple of months ago?