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Ok, so I went to Target the other day (btw if you don't know, it's a store that sells clothes, food, electronics, and stuff), and I saw SBM there. In the BEST SELLERS SECTION. I nearly had a happiness spasm, because Target is a store that only sells mainstream crap. I'm really happy their new album has a good amount of success. Discuss!

hellsong41 wrote:Ok, so I went to Target the other day (btw if you don't know, it's a store that sells clothes, food, electronics, and stuff), and I saw SBM there. In the BEST SELLERS SECTION. I nearly had a happiness spasm, because Target is a store that only sells mainstream crap. I'm really happy their new album has a good amount of success. Discuss!

Yeah I just got back from school and started working there again (in the electronics) and I noticed we carried it now. I was very pleased to see it there. I'm really happy for them, hope it continues to do well.

Anyone have a ballpark figure on the total sales of the album so far? Curious.

Probably a mistake.

I work at target in the electronics section and for like 2 months straight i kept checking our books to see if SBM had a release date. Finally the day came when the album was suppose to drop and it didn't even make it on the new releases section. It went straight to the best sellers. Kinda made me upset because older albums were being displayed on that section while SBM was pretty much hidden from the public.

Peterr wrote:Probably a mistake.

This.

It's really not doing that well..

There's a Best Buy here that doesn't even have the album. It had maybe 10 or 12 copies at the most on the release date. Once they were all gone they were never replaced. I just went to check today and there was nothing. To be fair, the music section is shit at this Best Buy. It was only ever in the "New Releases" at HMV. I haven't seen it as a "Best Seller" there yet.

Well, in Israel, the album got a lot of good critics, I read about 4 different arcitcles and they were all good. It sells well, at least in a music store I was at. Clearly made my day.

Meh, it did pretty poorly in the UK. Did alright in thr Rock Charts for a couple if weeks and then vanished out of the top whatever

Chart Position from Wikipedia
Australia Top 50 Digital Albums 11
Australia Top 50 Physical Albums 18
Australian Albums Chart 16
Austrian Albums Chart 23
Canadian Albums Chart 09
Dutch Albums Chart 100
France Albums Chart 25
German Albums Chart 23
Japanese Albums Chart 07
Spain Albums Chart 35
Swiss Albums Chart 21
UK Albums Chart 66
UK Rock Albums 05
U.S. Billboard 200 31
U.S. Billboard Rock Albums 05
U.S. Billboard Alternative Album 05
U.S. Billboard Digital Albums 15

I mean, I still want to see total sales, but I definitely wouldnt say the album was a flop.

MetalMilitant41 wrote:Meh, it did pretty poorly in the UK. Did alright in thr Rock Charts for a couple if weeks and then vanished out of the top whatever

On my HMV they had just some copies of it, they were in "new releases", but at the very bottom, so...

Hoocher wrote:Well, in Israel, the album got a lot of good critics, I read about 4 different arcitcles and they were all good. It sells well, at least in a music store I was at. Clearly made my day.

Really? I haven't even seen the album here in local stores in Netanya haha, and haven't seen any Israeli reviews or articles about it. You should link me up O:

66 in the UK album chart is poor. then again this album had fuck all promotion over here.

on March 29th when it was released, my Target had it in the Best Sellers when it should be in New Releases, in other words, Target doesn't care where they put it, Best Buy did the same thing (they had it in the "S's", not out front)

Bobbyjames wrote:66 in the UK album chart is poor. then again this album had fuck all promotion over here.

Yeah, it kind of had fuck all promotion in general. However, I did notice that Screaming Bloody Murder got a lot of decent radio play here. More than Underclass Hero and about the same amount as In Too Deep and Still Waiting.

Hentaiman wrote:

Hoocher wrote:Well, in Israel, the album got a lot of good critics, I read about 4 different arcitcles and they were all good. It sells well, at least in a music store I was at. Clearly made my day.

Really? I haven't even seen the album here in local stores in Netanya haha, and haven't seen any Israeli reviews or articles about it. You should link me up O:

Well, I've seen couple of articles in "Maariv La-noar" and also on the msn israeli news once. Plus, the writers said they've listened to the album and it was awesome so I bet they did not specially order it and I've also seen it in a small store in Tel Aviv, but yeah it was at the S's section nothing special.

Jeremy Kill wrote:

Bobbyjames wrote:66 in the UK album chart is poor. then again this album had fuck all promotion over here.

Yeah, it kind of had fuck all promotion in general. However, I did notice that Screaming Bloody Murder got a lot of decent radio play here. More than Underclass Hero and about the same amount as In Too Deep and Still Waiting.

Who listens to the radio?

kILLDR3n wrote:

Jeremy Kill wrote:

Bobbyjames wrote:66 in the UK album chart is poor. then again this album had fuck all promotion over here.

Yeah, it kind of had fuck all promotion in general. However, I did notice that Screaming Bloody Murder got a lot of decent radio play here. More than Underclass Hero and about the same amount as In Too Deep and Still Waiting.

Who listens to the radio?

Some people do and it's better than nothing.