$12 at Best Buy. I'll be picking it up. :)

Only problem is that each sale counts twice -- once for each disc.

nin's double disc didn't sell well, the foo fighter's double-cd last year didn't sell well, but the red hot chili peppers could be the exception. it's definitely a tough marketing decision to release 2 cds, but i htink amazon is also selling it for 12 bucks which is a great deal.

LMAO.

You're so right! You asked a question which had already been answered, claimed that you didn't have time to read the thread (while asking the question and waiting for someone to spoonfeed you actually took longer), and got mad when someone called you on your lazy attitude.

Now you're throwing down the "ASSHOLE!" gauntlet like some twelve foot tall internet warrior. And all I can do is laugh at you.

Thanks. I needed that.

listen, i could have looked through the thread but i was in a hurry. im sorry. but i asked a question and there was actually one fan who was nice enough to answer it. however, after i received the answer you jumped on my case when you could have just let the whole thing go. that's why you're an asshole.

All I did was ask you a question. You're the one who started shitting bullets.

It all makes sense now.

Burned.

chris, im sorry. i was wrong for calling you an asshole. i just thought the question hadn't been answered yet and i was mistaken.

The other thing that'll hurt is that the albums sucks

yeah, but high record sales don't indicate a good taste in music. i think we've learned this already with britney spears, n sync, etc. etc.

Who still listens to this band? I jumped ship after that god-awful Coneheads song, and from what I can tell, everything they have written since then sounds exactly the same.

Tool will only sell about 170,000 there 2nd weelk. 170,000 usually does not give you #1 anytime.

Red hot Chilli Peppers might sell 800,000 but really that is only 400,000. So TOOLS first week sales willl be higher then the chillipeppers first week sales imo. They will have to sell 1.2 million opening week to be at 600,000.

I wont be surprised if they sell 250,000 copies which would be 500,000 copies first week.

you obviously need to listen to by the way because it's pretty diverse. and "soul to squeeze" from the coneheads soundtrack is one of the greatest songs ever.

You should all go and buy 3-4 more copies each.
10k will top lateralus that way for sure :P

Approx, 1,770,000 were sold. According to the percentages and figures given.

Is that true? I had no idea. So all a super popular band has to do is release a 2-disc album to go platinum that much faster, huh? crazy...

No, I do not beleive so. It is only individual album sales that count not number of discs sold.

i picked up pearl jam - mainly because it was sitting directly next to tool, they were both 9.99 and a friend gave me a gift cert to best buy the day before. i would call the pearl jam album "good", but since 10,000 days leaked i havent been able to stop listening to it. ill let my girlfriend buy the rhcp cd.

we just got tix for RCHP here in august- with: The Mars Volta! That was a pleasant surprise to hear that they are opening for them. and for ANYONE who claimed that 66.66 for tool was expensive- our tickets were 59$ before the 10$ service and 6$ convienience charges.

lmao

is this including online retailers?

Some guy at my work was buying like 4 of them. I asked him if he was a fan of the band and he said that he had never heard tool. He just saw the packaging and how cheap it was and decided to buy them.

He kept going on about how it was 3d and shit.

I'm 95% sure it's certification where double albums get special treatment. 500,000 sales and it will be treated as platinum. I think Billboard, Soundscand, and Hits Daily Double will all recognize one sale of XM Days the same as one sale of Stadium Arcadium. This come up on some board about Motley Crue's Greatest Hits going platinum because it was a relatively cheap 2-disc set.

edit:
After looking on Wikipedia, I up it to 99%. Soundscan is a barcode tally, RIAA is an audit independent of Soundscan.

LOL, thats all they do is advertising, its called "Giving tickets to radio stations to have call-ins to win tickets every time the single is played."

Radio stations usually buy their tickets.

Really surprised how Tool looks like will outsell Pearl Jam by 2 to 1. Pearl Jam got all the press(plus Letterman) and Tool got zero, most mainstream press didnt even put it as a notable album of the week! I was thinking Tool would outsell PJ but by whisker...

((((( 4.35% at 18697 ))))))
at that rate would be: 429,816 copies???

Assuming I did my match correct....
On what date was that 4.35% accounted for?

Again

You can't just figure it that way.

What it means is that of all the record stores in the U.S., 4.35 % of those have been calculated. Some of the remaining percentage could have been stores that sold a lot more or a lot less PER STORE than those that have reported, so you really can only give a rough estimate until I'd say about 90% of the total have reported in.

At least that's how I see it.

Tool hasn't released a music video for Vicarious yet. Not that I think it's a huge deal or that it will generate much more publicity, but once it is released, it might help keep album sales up a little bit longer than we might expect.

That goes WITHOUT SAYING.....
which is why I said "AT THIS RATE".
Thanks for adding nothing dumbass... :-) J/K

Anyways, does anyone know the DATE of this sample????

See the reason for my post was to get the timeframe of the sample so I can hopefully extrapolate a date at which we'd have an official number...

ill bet anyone that rhcp outsell tool this upcoming week.

Well not to take sides here but actually the answer was posted a minute later so it did take less time that way. :()

Well I would hope they would since TooL'S album will have been out longer. DUH!!

well, some people are not convinced.

They've been playing the shit out of the tool 10k comercial here on the tv. so u cant really say that they havent advertised it. however its true that the video is not even out yet and that will grab some more attention.
speaking of which its pissing me off how its not out yet! its been a week since the release, play the damn video already!

And the single has already been out for what, three weeks?

it's a carefully managed strategy of when to release the video to give a sales and publicity boost - i would expect it to be out up to a month after the album (June 2? - or 6/6/6 as some have claimed)

June 6th.

I'm thinking about asking for this day off from work...

It's probably safe to say that the die-hards have already got their 1, 2 or 3 copies. tool is an acquired taste, however, I think this album will draw more fans than lateralus or aenima had due to it's emotional depth. by all accounts, the new pearl jam appears to be their best effort in over 10 years, thou i did like yield. the kids today are into bands that are "OC" inspired, like my chemical romance, hawthorne heights, and even more youth are getting lost to hip-hop and rap... like my daughter for example. i try to culture her in REAL music, REAL art, but you know.. she has to look cool to her friends so the sophmoric bling bling music is what draws her attention. surely not anything that would make you feel EMOTION, or that has anything of value to say. my son on the other hand... he has a good ear, though i think he likes to find humor, but aenema is a song he really likes, along with vicarious, once i explained what it was about. for having such a good attitude, i put the entire tool catalog on his iPod (minus tracks like faaip, and viginti).

It is publicity itself when they do charts shows, and when they come down to #1 they have to say "this has not happened before, but we do not have any video for this one!". Then they will go on about the oddity of Tool in general, and mention how they still kill the competition even without a video....and that will get more people interested.

Tool knows that the fans need to get this album in the first week. After that they need to start advertising a bit, but first week sales are quaranteed.