madagas wrote:

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/yearend/ … op+Artists

looks like Gnr was the fourth best selling artist (catalog sales/afd-greatest hits) for 2008. Pretty damn good.

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/yearend/ … end+Albums

greatest hits was the third best selling catalog album of the year.

So the Trans Siberian Orchestra out sold GNR?    WOW!  Also AC/DC had 9 albums chart, pretty amazing.  I wonder if Greatest Hits outsold CD this year.  I would say yes.

Bright Eyes 2005 wrote:

Bono, really what are you trying to prove?  Who is saying or obsessed with this being a mass appealing album?  Faldor certainly doesn't give a shit.  The only people who keep harping on these points, are those who keep saying that GNR fans should go run into a hole because the album did not sell 1 million copies in a month in the United States.  Who gives a shit?

I give a shit when people I've conversed with for years who seem like smart people start sounding like Axl Rose himself. Drumming up every excuse in the book why the album has "failed".  If nobody gives a shit than why do some keep pointing to lack of promo and lack of Axl doing this and  and lack of radio play and  how bands like AC/DC are only moving units thanks to Wal-Mart. It's sonds idiotic. blah fucking blah is all it is. It sounds lieka  bunch of fans getting defensive and trying to convince temselevs it's not the album it's the world.  If nobody cares than nobody should be bicthing about how they feel the album was marketed poorly. EVERYBODY CARES it seems cause like I've said had this album been a  rip roaring #1 smash hit everyone and their dog would use sales as a measuring stick but when things didn't go the way some fantasized suddenly the public are morons, the promo campaigne sucks and sales don't matter. It's irritating to hear smart people flip a  switch like this. I promise you if U2's album sells the way CD  does it'll be considerd a failure. hell Pop sold  6 million copies and it's still considerd a failure even by those who say sales don't matter. Tell me you understand what I'm saying here. Love the album enjoy it for yourself but the excuses as to why the album hasn't sold off the charts are weak at this point. the album free falled off the charts. That's says something. Alot of things in fact so aknowldege them all.

madagas wrote:

hammered on a Monday...I'll give you bonus points for that.

Thanks Madagas. It is the holiday season afterall. I'm slowly becoming an alcoholic. out drinking 9 of the last 12 days In all fairness though I did go to Dallas for holidays for 6 of those days.

Axlin08 wrote:

I don't know why everyone is so concerned about the opinions of casual fans. The best albums, are only accepted by diehard fans anyways, not casuals.

Appetite for Destruction
Joshua Tree
Achtung Baby
Exhile on Main street
The Bends
Sgt. Pepper's
Ten
Nevermind
Metallica

and the list goes on and on and on to prove your theory wrong.