U2's single positions in the UK - Page 2

04072511 · 09-25-2009, 01:55 PM

In fairness, Beautiful Day sold 80k in its first week in the UK to go to Number 1 (equivalent to 400k in the US), Vertigo sold 50k (equivalent to 250k in the US) and Sometimes sold about 32k (equivalent to 160k in the US), so i dont think it would be fair to say that U2 topped the chart with soft sales.

However now that downloads have taken off the sales of Physicals have gone way down from these figures.

BoyOnTheHorizon · 09-27-2009, 09:29 PM

There is a fact that not many people may be aware of and i think it might have caused the poor single sales of the last album. The guy who brings rarer U2 material to Brazil and sold me all of the last singles since 1991 told me that they are publishing a very very low volume of this last singles. I couldn't get the Boots single and CT probably wont come either. It's very sad since the singles from Leave Behind and Bomb were so easly purchased.

P.S.: He told me that they are producing only +- 4000 units for each version. I really don't know if that's accurate but i'm sure something is going on on this matter.

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09-25-2009, 01:55 PM	#16
04072511 Acrobat Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 356 Local Time: 12:07 PM	In fairness, Beautiful Day sold 80k in its first week in the UK to go to Number 1 (equivalent to 400k in the US), Vertigo sold 50k (equivalent to 250k in the US) and Sometimes sold about 32k (equivalent to 160k in the US), so i dont think it would be fair to say that U2 topped the chart with soft sales. However now that downloads have taken off the sales of Physicals have gone way down from these figures.

09-27-2009, 09:29 PM	#17
BoyOnTheHorizon War Child Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Brazil Posts: 763 Local Time: 10:07 AM	There is a fact that not many people may be aware of and i think it might have caused the poor single sales of the last album. The guy who brings rarer U2 material to Brazil and sold me all of the last singles since 1991 told me that they are publishing a very very low volume of this last singles. I couldn't get the Boots single and CT probably wont come either. It's very sad since the singles from Leave Behind and Bomb were so easly purchased. P.S.: He told me that they are producing only +- 4000 units for each version. I really don't know if that's accurate but i'm sure something is going on on this matter.