Furious George wrote:Assuming Sony does their job properly and gives the album some real promotion here in the states.
Columbia is and has always done the job properly with OLP.
The CD will be successful in the states if they get a big #2 single. Where Are You is doing quite successful in some big cities, but it's almost like a lot of cities radio stations don't even have the song.
I know San Jose just got it last week.
It'll definately be interesting. I don't know if it will be more successful than Gravity though.
I will predict one thing - HIPT will sell more albums in its first week in the U.S. than Gravity did in its first week. There's just such a bigger fan base now and the album is anticipated more.
I've got the playlists for many of the radio stations in the U.S. that plays OLP if anyone wants them. It's on a website. It's updated every Wednesday morning, and I'm checking them right now. Where Are You has basically been played the same amount as it was before. I haven't checked Buffalo yet, but I know it was #2 on their playlist last week. It moved up to third on a radio station in Detroit with 37 plays.
So, it's basically being played the same as it was last week on the radio stations that played it, but that doesn't include the ones that have just added it to its playlist.
I really don't know how well its gonna do. Innocent may have been a bigger single.
See, this is what I'm talking about. These playlists for the week show how many times the songs have been played between 8/13 and 8/20. But St. Louis just added the song on 8/1. So it's gonna go up. Buffalo added the song on 7/1. So it's gonna go down. So, overall it might not go high on the charts or anything, but it may end up doing a great job selling the record.