Oct 16, 2009

Kiss' first week album sales revealed

KISS 's first album in 11 years, Sonic Boom has been out for a week and the chart positions have been revealed!
Apparently, the are doing pretty damn well. 
First-week chart positions:


Norway: #2
Sweden: 2
Czech Republic: #3
Germany: #4
Austria: #6
Finland: #7
Switzerland: #12
Holland: #3
Italy: #14
U.K.: #24
France: #31
Spain: #32
Belgium: #57

Despite the fact that Belgium hates KISS, they still managed to sell 108,000 copies in the United States alone in the first week of being released. AND, that's actually the band's highest-charting LP ever.   It's a sign of the times that sales like this can get you ranked second on the charts.  The last KISS album they put out, Pyscho Circus in 1998, sold 110,000 copies in the first week, and barely made the 3rd spot.  Not to mention back in the early 90's the first few spots were saved for bands that could sell 300,000+ in their first weeks.
The crazy part of this is that I went to check out who was number one.  My guess was going to be Barbara Streisand, but NO, its some Canadian lounge guy named Michael Buble who has the coveted 1 spot.  Lounge music?  Really?  Babs is actually 4th, and the 3rd spot is Toby Keith.  I actually love Toby Keith.


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