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With how many Fundamental-copies sold would EMI/Parlophone be happy do you think?

wieske wrote:With how many Fundamental-copies sold would EMI/Parlophone be happy do you think?

Jawn....

This is really not interesting.

I read somewhere that EMI expected 100.000 Fundamental copies to be sold in U.K.

I think we're getting close to the figure? Haven't they sold like 90.000 copies so far?


Marco

diana wrote:

wieske wrote:With how many Fundamental-copies sold would EMI/Parlophone be happy do you think?

Jawn....

This is really not interesting.

For some people it's interesting, for others it's not...

MarcoS wrote:I read somewhere that EMI expected 100.000 Fundamental copies to be sold in U.K.

I think we're getting close to the figure? Haven't they sold like 90.000 copies so far?


Marco

Sold around 40,000 copies now in the UK.

joncool5 wrote: Sod around 40,000 now in the UK.

Speak for yourself Jon!!

chris said on a radio interview ca. 150,000 copies would satisfy EMI.

MarcoS wrote:I read somewhere that EMI expected 100.000 Fundamental copies to be sold in U.K.

I think we're getting close to the figure? Haven't they sold like 90.000 copies so far?


Marco

Yep, joncool is right. 36 000 copies after two weeks: 26 000 on the first week, 10 000 on the second. So in order to reach that 90 000 they desperately need another hit: if Minimal proves to be a typical fans-only second single, Fundy will have a hard time reaching 100 000.

For comparisons sake, this is what Music Week wrote in April about Depeche Mode's latest album: "Despite the fact that all three singles from the album have made the Top 20, Playing The Angel has performed very modestly by Depeche Mode standards, spending four weeks in the Top 75 (6-20-42-73) last October and remaining absent ever since, with modest cumulative sales of 80,133 to date."

Currently Fundamental is on a practically identical trajectory. Unless Minimal manages to lure in some new buyers, it will also fall out of 75 after 4 or 5 weeks.

Blockhead wrote:

joncool5 wrote: Sod around 40,000 now in the UK.

Speak for yourself Jon!!

Simple error

alig wrote:chris said on a radio interview ca. 150,000 copies would satisfy EMI.

Long way to go if it´s only UK sales.

Damn, I was sure they were around 90.000 copies....I was obviously wrong

Well, as long as they keep releasing albums, I don't care

But, for Heaven sake, I bloody HATE our three-years timeline. Can't they speed it up please?


Marco

MarcoS wrote:Damn, I was sure they were around 90.000 copies....I was obviously wrong

Well, as long as they keep releasing albums, I don't care

But, for Heaven sake, I bloody HATE our three-years timeline. Can't they speed it up please?


Marco

Well, you got Potemkin last year...

Playing The Angel dudded out majorly here in Australia... so much so that I just picked up a brand new copy a few days ago for A$5 (£2)

XTZ1969 wrote:updates for June from BPI...

June 2, 2006
ANGELS & AIRWAVES - NO NEED TO WHISPER * Silver
JACK JOHNSON - CURIOUS GEORGE: THE SOUNDTRACK * Gold
P!NK - I'M NOT DEAD * Gold
WILL YOUNG - KEEP ON * 3xPlatinum
ZERO 7 - THE GARDEN * Gold

June 9, 2006
NERINA PALLOT - FIRES * Gold
PET SHOP BOYS - FUNDAMENTAL * Silver
THE FEELING - TWELVE STOPS AND HOME * Gold
SANDI THOM - SMILE... IT CONFUSES PEOPLE * Gold

is silver 50,000?