Cher :: The “Dancing Queen” Era

[Washingtonian25]

Re: Cher :: The “Dancing Queen” Era

So, it's definitely under 20k :/ I'm guessing 8-10k pure sales. If that's the case, then her non-bundle sales were somewhere around the numbers I have predicted 45-50k.

[alfiebot]

Debut positions on various Billboard albums charts:

Billboard 200

03 (NEW) Dancing Queen

Top Album Sales

01 (NEW) Dancing Queen

Digital Albums

03 (NEW) Dancing Queen

Top Current Albums

01 (NEW) Dancing Queen

Internet Albums

01 (NEW) Dancing Queen

Tastemaker Albums

09 (NEW) Dancing Queen

[alfiebot]

Swiss Albums

06 (NEW) 01 Dancing Queen

Another Top 10 entry!

[Tansike]

Re: Cher :: The “Dancing Queen” Era

^ Her highest peak since "The Greatest Hits" (#2 in 1999). It's been a very busy week over here, so she did very good

[StephenN17]

Canada:

Cher’s Dancing Queen (Warner), her album of Abba covers, debuts at No. 2 with 16,000 total consumption units, picking up the highest album sales for the week. It is her highest charting album in the Nielsen SoundScan era, surpassing the No. 4 peak of her 2013 release Closer To The Truth.

Australia:

02 Dancing Queen 5,660 units (1,910 downloads, 240 streaming equivalent sales)

Wow, amazing sales in Canada! Good sales in Australia too.

[alfiebot]

US - 153,000
UK - 22,677
Canada - 16,000
Australia - 5,660
Brazil - 1000

So that's about 200,000 sold during the 1st week in just these 5 countries.

[alfiebot]

Germany Midweek Albums chart

16 (5) Dancing Queen

[StephenN17]

Debut positions on various Billboard albums charts:

Top Album Sales

01 (NEW) Dancing Queen

Top Current Albums

01 (NEW) Dancing Queen

Internet Albums

01 (NEW) Dancing Queen

#1 on 3 charts, great!

[jjavier1978]

US - 153,000
UK - 22,677
Canada - 16,000
Australia - 5,660
Brazil - 1000

So that's about 200,000 sold during the 1st week in just these 5 countries.

Germany #5
New Zealand #2
Ireland #10
+Others countries
220,000 in my opinion

[StephenN17]

When do all the other charts come out? There's still Austria, Portugal, Mexico and Brazil.

Edit: Just in, Austria

#4 (NEW) Dancing Queen

[alfiebot]

Re: Cher :: The “Dancing Queen” Era

^Great debut in Austria!

[alfiebot]

Unfortunately it didn't chart in Denmark (yet), there are 13 new entries by one of their singers who passed away recently, but i was still hoping it will reach the top 40... I wonder why it didn't debut in Norway though?

[alfiebot]

Cher debuts at No. 2 on the Artist 100, as her new set Dancing Queen soars in at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 153,000 units. The set of ABBA covers starts with the biggest sales week for a pop album by a woman in 2018.

https://www.billboard.com/charts/artist-100

[StephenN17]

Re: Cher :: The “Dancing Queen” Era

Hungary Albums Chart
#5 (NEW) Dancing Queen

[StephenN17]

Re: Cher :: The “Dancing Queen” Era

US Album Sales
CHER|DANCING QUEEN ( 1) 150010 1146 666 10486 137711 09362490444

[nympho]

US Album Sales
CHER|DANCING QUEEN ( 1) 150010 1146 666 10486 137711 09362490444

So 137,711 out of 150,010 were "non traditional" sales.
In non-traditional are included digital sales, internet sales and the ticket bundle copies.

80-100k from ticket bundle is my guess.

[StephenN17]

Re: Cher :: The “Dancing Queen” Era

And where's the other 13k from?

[nympho]

And where's the other 13k from?

1,146 Chain Stores
666 Independent Record Stores
10,486 Mass Markets
137,711 Non Traditional sales (Digital sales, Internet Sales, Ticket Bundles…)

[theMathematician]

That means only 13k copies sold in physical format in retail? That is a surprise for someone like Cher who tends to cater to an older target audience...

[nympho]

That means only 13k copies sold in physical format in retail? That is a surprise for someone like Cher who tends to cater to an older target audience...

Well, you can chose CD or digital copy of the album with the ticket bundle:

Every ticket purchased online for Cher includes your choice of a CD or digital copy of the new album, Dancing Queen, released on 9/28/2018. You'll receive instructions via email on how to redeem your album after ticket purchase. US & Canadian residents only. One album per online ticket. Not valid for fan-to-fan resale.

So we should assume many of those getting the CD with their tickets would have bought it in a store regularly without the ticket bundle. How many is pure guessing.