Guns N Roses Chinese Democracy Sales Dive In Second Week
December 10, 2008 by Scott
Guns N Roses Chinese Democracy sales have taken quite the dive in the second week. First week sales reports estimate a sale of 261,000 copies (Including digital sales), which was much less than most anticipated.
In it’s second week of sales Chinese Democracy has only sold just under 57,000. That’s a huge drop, but let’s be honest, that’s still a lot of records these days for a rock band and a lot of rock/metal bands would love to have those kind of number after a month or two. Granted this is a band that made a huge impact in the 80’s and 90’s and was expected to be an enormous trophy fish. Sadly the biggest problem is that it hasn’t been marketed much and Axl Rose has been nowhere in site to promote it.
So here are the results from last weeks poll. I asked why YOU thought that Chinese Democracy Sales didn’t faire so well. The three top answers to this poll I think really sum it up and could go together.
Sales source: BW&BK
Are these sales world wide?. well i think that could it been a little bit of all this reasons, but mainly ’cause people knows that is just Axl using the name, i mean i like Guns N Roses from the 80’s and early 90’s and this is not the same band, maybe sound like but not the same, for example imagine how would it be if Slash could have collaborated in the album as part of the band;….. yeah who knows, but personally i would expected something good from Slash.
the 261 is worldwide, the 57K is US. I neglected to mention that.