not bad sales for sugarcane in first week

[billyboy2674]

33,000 copies.


http://www.mediatraffic.de/albums.htm

[Jackson Monk]

33,000 copies.
http://www.mediatraffic.de/albums.htm

That doesn't seem like very much to me...esp in the USA

[billyboy2674]

Considering general lagging sales and the fact that the album isn't very commercial I don't consider it bad at all.
It's a promising start at least.Hopefully It will surpass Momofuku and I thought that album was more commercial than this one.

[Jackson Monk]

No. I agree it's not bad. I'm just surprised that you can reach billboard number 13 in the US with those figures.

I confess that I have stopped paying much attention to charts over the years.

[Ypsilanti]

I'm just surprised that you can reach billboard number 13 in the US with those figures

Or be #6 on Amazon. I would have thought Amazon sells 33,000 albums every second.

[billyboy2674]

Record sales have been lagging very much in the last 15 years or so.
There have been good sellers in this period but in general,from the 90's on
things have taken a turn for the worse.
Computer technologies and general bad decisions by the record companies themselves are the main culprits.
I'm just glad Costello can put together fine albums like this one and have a loyal following.