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Post by Taylor. on Nov 17, 2008 23:46:41 GMT -5
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Post by blurple on Nov 18, 2008 0:21:56 GMT -5
Good luck to Nickelback!
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Post by SWEET DREAMS on Nov 18, 2008 0:24:07 GMT -5
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Post by blurple on Nov 18, 2008 0:25:15 GMT -5
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Post by beebee on Nov 18, 2008 10:00:14 GMT -5
# 3 in the U.K midweeks
UK midweeks
#1 Dido #2 Leona Lewis #3 Nickelback #8 Beyoncé
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Nov 18, 2008 10:11:36 GMT -5
Out today in the USA!
Target $9.98 Best Buy $9.99 Circuit City $9.99
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Post by cdlifer on Nov 18, 2008 13:09:32 GMT -5
Just bought it. Great album. :)
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Post by aTunes on Nov 18, 2008 18:04:55 GMT -5
# 3 in the U.K midweeks UK midweeks #1 Dido #2 Leona Lewis #3 Nickelback #8 Beyoncé Man did Rockstar resurrect them there. Was AtRR even in the top 20 in the UK it's first week?
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Post by aTunes on Nov 18, 2008 18:08:57 GMT -5
Just bought it. Great album. :) I just got it too. The album sticker lists GBS, ITWYLD, and This Afternoon as the song's included. So hopefully that means we will be getting TA as a single! Here's how I want the singles to go: 1. Gotta Be Somebody 2. Something In Your Mouth (Rock release) 3. If Today Was Your Last Day (CHR/HAC release) 4. Burn It to the Ground (Rock release) 5. This Afternoon (CHR/HAC/Country release) 6. Just To Get High (Rock release) 7. I'd Come For You (CHR/HAC release) 8. S.E.X. (Rock release)
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Post by aTunes on Nov 18, 2008 19:16:29 GMT -5
Dark Horse tracks on iTunes:
#14 & #117: If Today Was Your Last Day #16 Gotta Be Somebody #81: I'd Come For You #96: Never Gonna Be Alone
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Post by cdlifer on Nov 18, 2008 19:38:23 GMT -5
Dark Horse tracks on iTunes: #14 & #117: If Today Was Your Last Day #16 Gotta Be Somebody #81: I'd Come For You #96: Never Gonna Be Alone Sweet. Thanks for that update. :)
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Post by aTunes on Nov 18, 2008 21:55:02 GMT -5
^You're welcome, here's the new update:
#14 & #66: If Today Was Your Last Day #17 & #91: Gotta Be Somebody #34: I'd Come For You #45: Never Gonna Be Alone #118: This Afternoon #119: Burn It To the Ground
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Post by blurple on Nov 18, 2008 21:56:40 GMT -5
I want the album to go higher lol. I wonder if ITWYLD can outpeak GBS already?! :o It looks like people are responding more the ballads rather than the harder songs.
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Post by aTunes on Nov 18, 2008 21:58:31 GMT -5
^Of course, the main audience that buys songs on iTunes are into pop/urban songs more than anything else. So it make sense the poppy songs are doing the best.
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Post by shaq91 on Nov 18, 2008 22:05:43 GMT -5
#3 on itunes albums behind cook who is #1 and beyonce who is #2
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Post by cdlifer on Nov 18, 2008 23:44:13 GMT -5
Nickelback has good longevity. I predict they will stay up while some others will eventually go down. :)
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Post by blurple on Nov 19, 2008 23:17:39 GMT -5
#1 album on Itunes now! 2 spots jump from #3.
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Post by blurple on Nov 19, 2008 23:34:34 GMT -5
They would be on Leno tonight. Their one and only TV appearance LOL.
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Post by realityBITES on Nov 20, 2008 1:23:11 GMT -5
Great deal for this on Amazon.com MP3 download... $3.99 for the entire album
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Post by singingsparrow on Nov 20, 2008 3:18:35 GMT -5
I've just heard all of "Dark Horse" and, while I actually think the musicianship is superior on this album compared to "All The Right Reasons" (especially with the impressive guitar solo on "Just To Get High", marching drumbeat and unique distortions on "Burn It To The Ground" and frenzied fast-tempo riffs of "Next Go Round") I predict this will sell significantly less than "All The Right Reasons" for the following reason. * "All The Right Reasons" was a colossal success because they were well-aware their crossover hits "How You Remind Me" and "Someday" from previous eras had drawn a new, diversifying audience to them, and so had a keen, instinctual read of their new audience and, despite being a tight, 11-song set, it nonetheless is a perfect representation of their fanbase. You had hard-rock songs ("Side Of A Bullet", "Follow You Home") you had soft, mainstream-friendly songs ("Photograph", "If Everyone Cared") and something in-between ("Rockstar"). But I believe the much more important reason why "All The Right Reasons" was a commercial behemoth is not necessarily because it was audience-diverse; it's because it was topically-diverse. You have more masculine songs ("Animals", "Next Contestant") while you had more feminine songs as well ("Far Away", "If Everyone Cared"). You have a song that shows their sense of humor ("Rockstar") and a song that dwells into the serious issue of murder ("Side Of A Bullet"). You have songs dwelling in nostalgia/the past ("Photograph") and songs pleading to move beyond ("Savin' Me"). Add to that the dripping of Americana throughout much of the album and, in just eleven songs they couldn't have done a better job delivering to every part of their fanbase, giving voice to a breadth of general topics, and THAT is why it sold boatloads. * In contrast, "Dark Horse" feels more slanted topically. I've listened to it and while I really like it, it also isn't nearly as representative of their fanbase as a whole as "All The Right Reasons" was. Just short of half the songs obsess over sexual/carnal topics, while just short of the other half are comprised too excessively of power ballads, and then you have only two odd songs out: "This Afternoon" (which is basically the "Rockstar" of this album) and "Just To Get High", an anti-drug rocker. So in other words, virtually all the heavier, Active Rock-geared songs focus on the same theme of sex, prostitution and adult situations (aside from "Just To Get High") and all the Top 40-friendly songs are power ballads and focus too heavily on finding and being devoted to that special someone (exception being "If Today Was Your Last Day", which even that song has a second and third chorus extension nodding to that theme). So that diversity in terms of topics is not as broad here, and I think this will ultimately fall well short of the sales of "All The Right Reasons" (I'm predicting somewhere between double and triple platinum for them this era). Add to that the likelihood they'll alienate some of their more sensitive listeners through the abundance of adult themes on this album (many are already citing the lyrics in those songs as "misogynous") and that won't help either. * Still, I personally like this album. From a musical standpoint I think it's their best album yet, and from a lyrical standpoint only "All The Right Reasons" is superior (I think calling the raunchy songs "misogynous" is stretching it since heavy rock anthems have long celebrated and gloated over sex, drugs and rock and roll, so the things Kroeger sings about here shouldn't be shocking, especially since they've already done so before on "Figured You Out", "Feelin' Way Too Damn Good", "Animals" and "Rockstar"). Here's how I think the singles should go: * 1: "Gotta Be Somebody"2: "Something In Your Mouth"3: "If Today Was Your Last Day" (The only ballad on the album not dominated by the topic of love. Release this first to spread out the ballads focusing on love) 4: "Just To Get High" ("Shakin' Hands is catchier, but releasing two raunchy tracks back-to-back on the same format would be pushing it, and like with my above explanation, they need to showcase their topical diversity in their single selections as best as they can) 5: "I'd Come For You" (The more accessible ballad over "Never Gonna Be Alone", in my opinion) 6: "Shakin' Hands" (In my opinion the second catchiest heavy song on the album, where everyone I know can't get that silly hook "She's no Cinderella when she's gettin' undressed, cuz she rocks it like the naughty Wicked Witch of the West" out of their heads! ) 7: "This Afternoon" (Ditch "Never Gonna Be Alone" entirely and release this instead. Topically it's something multiple formats can sink their teeth into, and a comfortable respite from the serious topics dominating Top 40 radio today) 8: "Burn It To The Ground" (If the album manages to show longevity up to this point, can't go wrong with one final rock release) * Sincerely, Noah Eaton
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Post by aTunes on Nov 20, 2008 16:35:56 GMT -5
iTunes update:
#13: I'd Come For You #18 & #37: Gotta Be Somebody #21: Never Gonna Be Alone #23: If Today Was Your Last Day #93: Burn It To the Ground #105: This Afternoon #113: S.E.X.
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Post by fran182 on Nov 29, 2008 16:12:03 GMT -5
Peaks of the songs from Dark Horse that already charted on Hot 100: Gotta Be Somebody #10 If Today Was Your Last Day #35 I'd Come For You #44 Never Gonna Be Alone #68 Something In Your Mouth #96 Five songs already! Fucking awesome! It's a shame the album didn't get the #1...but at least they scored their best sales week ever...326k (All the Right Reasons debuted with 325k sold) is not that bad after all... Dark Horse sold 512.000 copies worldwide in its first week.
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Post by blurple on Dec 1, 2008 13:56:45 GMT -5
They still have a shot for #1 early next year when sales are way down. They just need to sell consistently well.
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Post by Jorge_Str [Som3on3] on Dec 4, 2008 18:12:18 GMT -5
that will be great, i see them in the best 3 selling albums of 2009
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Post by Jorge_Str [Som3on3] on Dec 4, 2008 18:16:29 GMT -5
first two weeks of their two latest albums
ALL THE RIGHT REASONS
1st Week -> 325,282 No.1 325,282 2nd Week -> 170,308 No.2 495,590
DARK HORSE
1st Week -> 326,712 No.2 326,712 2nd Week -> 177,767 No.7 504,479
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Post by Jorge_Str [Som3on3] on Dec 4, 2008 18:17:43 GMT -5
all Billboard 100 hits of Nickelback
Billboard Hot 100
1. How You Remind Me #1 (4 Weeks) 2. Photograph #2 3. Hero #3 * 4. Rockstar #6 5. Someday #7 6. Far Away #8 7. Gotta Be Somebody #10 8. If Everyone Cared #17 9. Savin' Me #19 10. If Today Was Your Last Day #35 11. Too Bad #42 12. I'd Come For You #44 13. Feelin' Way Too Damn Good #48 14. Figured You Out #65 15. Never Gonna Be Alone #68 16. Something in your Mouth #96 17. Animals #97
* Not included in any Nickelback album
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Dec 7, 2008 22:51:03 GMT -5
12/6 charts:
Nickelback's "Dark Horse" trots in at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 this week with 326,000. That's actually slightly more than what its last set, 2005's "All the Right Reasons," began with (325,000) when it landed at No. 1 .
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Post by blurple on Dec 11, 2008 9:04:40 GMT -5
Certified 1X Platinum. Congrats! :)
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Post by Jorge_Str [Som3on3] on Dec 11, 2008 14:10:28 GMT -5
Nickelback RIAA Certifications so far
The State (2000) Platinum Silver Side Up (2001) 6x Platinum The Long Road (2003) 3x Platinum All the Right Reasons (2005) 7x Platinum Dark Horse (2008) Platinum
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Post by blurple on Dec 15, 2008 22:53:13 GMT -5
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