Greatest Hits, Decade 1 album sales (week 1)

[Pi314CA]

None of any of the updates before 100% is an indication of anything. It remains entirely possible that she could have sold only 3 copies or 3 million copies.

I wouldn't go that far. At least HITS publishes these estimates as there is no other website that does. No matter how these estimates are arrived at, the sales numbers before the 100% final ones gives us the minimum an album has sold. So we know Carrie's GH album sold at least 63k. I'll guess 105k.

 

[Kizmet311]

How many updates does HDD do? I feel like they used to do them more frequently, but is it just one update on Monday, one on Tuesday, and then the final on Tuesday?

 

[Pi314CA]

Typically there are 2 on Monday and one (final) on Tuesday.

 

[glenn7]

My guess is 104K.

 

[amiroamor]

I predict 99,999. Shame on you for not getting that one more copy! Lol jk.

 

[jptexas]

I predit 99,999. Shame on you for not getting that one more copy! Lol jk.

Just bought one for a gift, it'll be 100K. Yes!

 

[teesharky]

Hope you guys are right. 100k would be fabulous! The stores were off the chain packed over the weekend so I hope it helped bump up the original estimate.

 

[thaifood]

Our local mall has both a Barnes & Noble & a Best Buy & neither store stocked even 1 copy of this album. Not one! Zero, zip, zilch...less than 1.

 

[Kizmet311]

I predict 99,999. Shame on you for not getting that one more copy! Lol jk.

I just ordered another one this morning! iTunes is making me mad with how they organize the album tracks for songs you have previously purchased, so I ordered the physical CD on Amazon and you get a free digital version. Plus, it was just $10.99 and my spending limit for our white elephant/dirty Santa gift at work is $10, so I am just going to give the physical CD for my gift. I wanted the digital version so I could listen to all the songs in order using my Amazon music app on my phone and for some weird reason, the mp3 version on Amazon is $13.99 while the CD with a free digital download is $10.99. Makes absolutely no sense, lol. Plus, I asked my SIL for the physical CD for Christmas, so I need to give this one away so I don't buy it for myself.

 

[JB172]

Hope you guys are right. 100k would be fabulous! The stores were off the chain packed over the weekend so I hope it helped bump up the original estimate.

Hitting 100k with a greatest hits album in this era would be quite the accomplishment.

 

[jptexas]

Hitting 100k with a greatest hits album in this era would be quite the accomplishment.

Yea, 100K today is like 500k in 1980. In Carrie's case, with 18 number ones, in 1980, this album would have killed. Maybe 1 million.

 

[maddkat]

going with 89K


had it actually been stocked in stores I'd have guessed 100K

 

[clh_hilary]

Yea, 100K today is like 500k in 1980. In Carrie's case, with 18 number ones, in 1980, this album would have killed. Maybe 1 million.

One can argue that people have purchased her previous albums already, though that didn't stop Céline Dion's from selling well back in the days.

 

[clh_hilary]

I wouldn't go that far. At least HITS publishes these estimates as there is no other website that does. No matter how these estimates are arrived at, the sales numbers before the 100% final ones gives us the minimum an album has sold. So we know Carrie's GH album sold at least 63k. I'll guess 105k.

I've said this time and time again that this assumption is simply not true.

Brandy's album dropped in sales from a previous update when it reached 100%. It is likely that the compilation has sold at least 63k copies, but HDD is so unpredictable there's no guarantee even that.

And then there also were the cases when sales adjusted after it reached 100%.

 

[clh_hilary]

Hitting 100k with a greatest hits album in this era would be quite the accomplishment.

Indeed, it'd be almost doubling what Brad Paisley opened with with a full-length studio album. Or 10 times that of a LeAnn Rimes or Nelly Furtado album.

 

[teesharky]

Our local mall has both a Barnes & Noble & a Best Buy & neither store stocked even 1 copy of this album. Not one! Zero, zip, zilch...less than 1.

Wow that sucks! Did you ask why?

 

[JB172]

I didn't even know that B&N still sold CD's.

 

[Pi314CA]

The number of instances where a sales figure of an album at 50% is higher than the HITS number at 100% is rare. I would say this occurs less than 0.01% of the time. I don't understand your constant nitpicking.

 

[teesharky]

Praying for 100k.

 

[jptexas]

One can argue that people have purchased her previous albums already, though that didn't stop Céline Dion's from selling well back in the days.

I bought all the Eagles albums but when the GH album came out, over 30 million have bought that album to this day. So, 1 million for 18 Carrie number ones during the 80s non digital days is a shoein. Well, 500K sounds more likely, but hey, that's a bunch.