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05-01-2007, 07:23 AM
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This week in Japan #1(+1) 121,076 copies this week woot go Avril doing very well in Japan Total:344,734 copies after 2 weeks.
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05-01-2007, 08:40 AM
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i havent made it up
silver gold and platinum are awards for units bought by retailers , rather than customers. In the UK its silver 50,000 . gold 1000,000 platinum 3000.000 in the USA its platinum 1 million world wide used tobe 2 miilion for platinum now because there are more music markets and more countrys counted platinum world wide is 3 million. RCA have allready said Avril sold 1.5 million world wide ( its been posted ) i dont know weather that is units baught by retailers or customers. but she will probably be platinum for sales to customers ( or 3 million ) world wide within 4 weeks . ( which is quite good ) The way record companies work is to pay an artiste for an album called an " advance " they lend the money they dont give it Avril gets $ 1 million --$1.5 million . then Avril has to pay half the promotion the record company pay the other half ( music videos , posters , travel , hotels , photoshoots etc everything including paying the journalist to fly out to preview the record and stay in fancy hotels so they write good reviews ) Avrils first music video cost $ 1 million to male Girlfriend was made by the same people 5 years later and for an established pop star not a new one it must of cost $1.5 to make. Avril has to pay of the advance and the cost of promotion before she makes any money from this record and the record company have to make back the money they have spent , this is called braking even. Avril is having massive promotion the biggest she has ever had , to break even TBDT will need to go platinum. record companys work in quarters they give 2 singles and 2 videos to an artiste to promote if the album does not break even at the end of the quarter they pull the plug on the album. ( i think Avril will go platinum and break even easily ) but not in all countrys so maybe they will not get a 3 single in those places. anyway thats what i tryed to say sorry if it sounds like a lecture , most people know how it works some dont this site is good for detailed charts check it out http://www.lanet.lv/misc/charts/ or this http://www.mediatraffic.de/ |
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05-01-2007, 08:46 AM
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 WITH THE BIGGEST WEEKLY SALES BY AN ALBUM THIS YEAR SO FAR, AVRIL LAVIGNE'S 'BEST DAMN THING' STARTS EASILY AT NO.1 world chart Canadian pop singer Avril Lavigne said simultaneous No. 1 entries on the Billboard album and singles charts <q>felt really good.</q> But she added that she wasn't <q>freaking out</q> about it. <q>I don't really think about things; I just do them,</q> said Lavigne, whose hit <q>Girlfriend</q> was atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart while her third album, <q>The Best Damn Thing,</q> topped the Billboard 200 with 286,000 in first-week sales. <q>I'm just excited to have the record out and for everyone to hear it now. It's actually No. 1 in 15 countries, so it's a really exciting time for me. It's crazy.</q> Lavigne said she won't mount a full tour to promote the album until 2008. She will play some live dates during the summer and in the fall she'll film a starring role in <q>a dark kind of drama</q> whose title has not yet been revealed. |
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