Billboard just released their year end charts, so I thought I'd post how LP performed this year: Living Things: Billboard 200: #40 Digital Albums: #25 Alternative Albums: #9 Hard Rock Albums: #2 Canadian Albums: #44 Rock Albums: #9 Linkin Park: Top Artists: #46 Hot 100 Artists: #87 Billboard 200 Artists: #38 Social 50 Artists: #18 Top Rock Artists: #6 Rock Songs Artists: #3 Alt. Song Artists: #9 Hard Rock Albums Artists: #2 Burn It Down: Hot 100 Songs: #100 Rock Songs: #3 Alt. Songs: #10 Feel free to tell me if I've left something out
Lost In The Echo, Lies Greed Misery, I'll Be Gone, Castle of Glass, In My Remains and Powerless are charted too.
What did the album end up selling, anyway? I was surprised by the lack of singles. Real ones, not stupid interactive videos/videogame commercial/movie soundtrack ones.
Yeah i think the band kinda dropped the ball on releasing actual consistent singles. Like seriously, what is the "current single?" Everything's been all over the map in different countries and whatnot. Or maybe the band is one step ahead of me and learning that charts don't matter as much they used to?
Exactly. LITE was postponed like 37 times and then they just posted it one day, without any announcement or actual promotion, nobody even noticed Powerless was released for like 4 days, and CoG single is coming out 5 months after the video...
Could be, But I'd rather say they don't really care about it, since no one who cares wouldn't let an album go without a real single for 8 months.
Worldwide, or US? If just for 'Merika that's not too shabby, iirc it took ATS a year and a half or so before it hit gold, yeah?
I think they don't care about singles. They can't sell many of them anyway. They just promote one single prior to the album release so that everyone knows there's a new record coming soon. That's all.
...no? Until just recently Linkin Park were a massive "singles band", most of them went platinum and even as soon as ATS most of the ones they released went gold.
In America -one of LP's largest markets- , there is no singles market. There are only albums in our brick and mortar stores and it has been that way for more than a decade. Singles are for radio play to promote the album. No singles means no exposure. No exposure means no album sales, so the theory goes. The singles themselves aren't being sold to anyone except the radio DJs. So basically LP wouldn't be making decisions based on single sales. Besides, when you put something out, you don't let people forget about it after a month. That's what the subsequent singles and tour is for.