MMJ Cracks the Top Ten!

[pjmmj86]

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003817736

This is awesome. The Jacket has deserved this for a very long time and I am so glad they are finally getting the attention they deserve. Congrats guys and keep on doing what you're doing.  

[megalicious]

hell yeah. way to go, boys!

[alexzbik]

that is great news, thanks for posting.

[MMJ_fanatic]

C'mon--is anyone here really surprised this has happened?  I mean Kirk F'n Hammett jamming with them at the Roo?  MSG on NYE?  Next they'll be headlining football and baseball stadiums 8-)

[Bigsky]

I'm not surprised, but....[size=22]holy shite![/size]

[bold99]

I wonder what they would've sold if not for the 2 month leak.

[bluntmaster]

is there anything left for them to accomplish?  they are ripping the media apart with their bad assness

[tdogjuwan]

I wonder what they would've sold if not for the 2 month leak.

may be 100 more copies. The leak didn't effect the numbers

[Love Dogg]

Whoo-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They'll crawl up even more after Conan!

[TGMC421]

Well done and well deserved!!!   ;D

[wheelhousetunes]

People just don't buy cd's anymore, do they? I mean, #9 on the Billboard chart and that's only 49,000 copies??? That just doesn't sound right.....

I'm an old schooler that always needs to have the originals w/ artwork.  :D

[bold99]

I wonder what they would've sold if not for the 2 month leak.

may be 100 more copies. The leak didn't effect the numbers

not so sure abou that.  I know a lot of people who got the leak and still haven't bought the album.  It definitely matters.  People who are causal fans and already have the album won't go buy it.

[marino13]

#24 this week.  Don't know how many copies sold.

[Don Dante]

Just saw this too.  24 is certainly still a respectable spot.  Anyone know where to find out how many albums have been sold total?  Real curious.

[marino13]

I noticed in the article that:
#11 sold 42,000
#30 sold 17,000

so at #24 MMJ must have sold about 20-25K?

[BH]

500K is gold right?  Should be Gold by Xmas.

[Don Dante]

Yep 500K is Gold.  Hope you're right BH, but that'll be tough.  Only sold around 75K right now, so it will have to keep selling at an average of 15K a week to reach Gold before the Xmas curtain closes.  Even with all the hype, it looks like they only sold 20-25K in week 2.  A few more weeks in the 20s will help big time, but after that it's still hard to keep momentum selling 10-20 a week.  

But as we know, all these shows are gonna remind everyone exactly how badass they are.

[VoiceofReason]

Yep 500K is Gold.  Hope you're right BH, but that'll be tough.  Only sold around 75K right now, so it will have to keep selling at an average of 15K a week to reach Gold before the Xmas curtain closes.  Even with all the hype, it looks like they only sold 20-25K in week 2.  A few more weeks in the 20s will help big time, but after that it's still hard to keep momentum selling 10-20 a week.  

But as we know, all these shows are gonna remind everyone exactly how badass they are.

they ought to change the numbers since everyone is selling less in this, the age of the interweb.

[capt. scotty]

Yep 500K is Gold.  Hope you're right BH, but that'll be tough.  Only sold around 75K right now, so it will have to keep selling at an average of 15K a week to reach Gold before the Xmas curtain closes.  Even with all the hype, it looks like they only sold 20-25K in week 2.  A few more weeks in the 20s will help big time, but after that it's still hard to keep momentum selling 10-20 a week.  

But as we know, all these shows are gonna remind everyone exactly how badass they are.

they ought to change the numbers since everyone is selling less in this, the age of the interweb.

Do they not count sales from itunes, zune, etc?!?? what about amazon? I understand how d/l has decreased sales, but lets be serious here. Does anyone think they lost more than a 1-2k in cd sales due to d/l and the leak? I could see 50 Cent losing a lot of sales due to these things, but the Jacket?

They say 10 years ago #9 wouldve been like over 150k in sales, but I think the biggest difference is the economy and nature of popular music as to why youre seeing MMJ at #9 selling 100k+ of less CD sales. 10 years ago, you had the boy bands and britney spears clones, bling bling era rap, and nu-metal all selling big time.

These days, you got MMJ debuting at #9, and in their recent respective debuts, Atmosphere at #5, Flight of the Conchords at #3, and others that youd expect to have no business being in the Top 10.

As I said also, I think dwindling economy factors in as well, and hmm, gas?

[Angry Ewok]

Evil Urges was #1 in CIM Top 200 Sales last week.
It's #2 under Coldplay for this week.