"Chinese Democracy" Whine-N-Bitch About Record Sales + Chart Performance Thread

[another.raisin.for.peace]

C'Mon VH1, MTV2 , MTV2 in Europe even had "MTV2 Loves GN'R" and played only GN'R clips for 1,5hour, charts in local music television, MySpace, YouTube, etc
It would bring people in
I want to watch TV somewhere in the futute and see GN'R and what ? no GN'R video form Chinese Democracy C'Mon that's retarded. All bands do it , even those with almost no money to promote.
VIDEO IS NEEDED I hope they will make and show during the weekend.

Look at what you're saying. VH1 is a retirement home, MTV is a joke (their viewing figures must be the punchline), and GNR has its own online presence (such as it is). If you can type "Guns N Roses" into a search bar on youtube you can probably handle adding .com to the end and going straight to their website.

Which people are you looking to bring in? The "living under a rock for the last 10 years" demographic?

You know what would be better than a music video? A tour. It has all of the benefits of a music video and brings in revenue. I wonder which we'll get first, a video or tour dates?  

[rnbdesigners]

Kayne has no chance with GNR. Come on guys this is Guns N Roses we are talking about. One of the greatest bands of all time. Kayne will not ever sell more than GNR even without the video.

[cpaxlvacy]

KANYE CAUSES HEARTBREAK FOR CHALLENGERS   
 
West's New Album Will Approach 500k, as Guns (300k), Ludacris (225k) and The Killers (200k) All Trail

November 26, 2008

Kanye's the king of Thanksgiving week.
West's Roc-a-Fella/Def Jam album, 808s and Heartbreak, in which he tackles the Auto-Tuner and his own inner demons, will be #1 on next Tuesday's chart with a total that looks to be between 450-500k.

That'll be more than enough to beat back Axl Rose and his first Guns N' Roses album in some 15 years, Chinese Democracy, which will move around 300k, more or less, out of Best Buy outlets. And that's including the 25k or so not counted opening week at iTunes for the Sunday release.

Ludacris' Island Def Jam album, Theater of the Mind, looks good for 225k, followed by the other one of IDJ's big holiday power trio, The Killers' Day and Age, clocking in with 200k more or less.

 
I must say, is Axl's fault, and it makes me depressed, i wanted this record to make it big, but for a record that costs $13 million+ and 15 years in the making this is a commercial failure. Axl should show some respect for himself, his band and the fans, stop being a fucking pussy and show his face and promote this album. If this keeps selling like this, forget about second cd, this could be the end of this madness...


http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/newsPage.cgi?news07362m01

[Vorail]

I PRAY that Axl does something big tommarow. I mean, Thanksgiving is the perfect day...

[roboaxl]

not one bit surprised
I'm not really bothered about chart preformance. As long as it's well recieved (which it has been), I'm happy

[Randy Jesus]

Word has got out that it is just Kanye just singing - not rapping... This is the Death Kiss to this Modern Day Vanilla Ice's career...

[BlackBeautyLesPaul]

It's like apples and oranges - but Kanye has a lot of fans - But after two weeks of sales, he will be out of the top 10, GN'R will be in the top 100 for 2 years with this

[italiano]

I can't be bothered being sad about it. The world stopped listening to music ever since rap became popular. It's their problem, not mine or yours. If they deny taste they can't be talked into education.

[Chase the Ace]

Sales shouldn't matter to the fans. But what did you expect? Kayne has been promoting while Axl has sat on his ass(well he is probably doing something for it, just hasn't really got it out there.)

[GardenOfGNR]

I could see Chinese Democracy selling more copies in the long run even if it does come in at 2.

[crimsonred17]

Its still sad when Guns N Roses cant hit the charts at Number 1 on their debut spot. I mean shit, its Guns N Roses

[reddragon53545]

 keep in mind though .. most of the shoppers that will be out on Black Friday and the saturday after will be more in the GNR target age group ..and most of them with either want to buy something for themselves or could lean more toward GNR a band they know over Kanye wuss   so there could be an upswing

  I wish someone would just put and end to his chipmunk cheek no talent havin pretenous ass

[BlackBeautyLesPaul]

Yeah, it's too early to call - they are just speculating, results come out next tuesday

[costanza]

Oh man . Who could predict something like this ? I know its been said that kanye would outsell gun s n roses by some few people , but i had no idea it could turn out this way . But the only , and i mean ONLY reason for the lack of sales is the terrible terrible promoting of this album . Where the heck is the video , where is the band members , who is in the band official and where are the performance????? To me this seems like a suicide of axl's career . The album needs to be pushed , u need a single on tv  , cant axl , best buy - who the hell is in charge see that ??