How can we trust the authenticity of album sales?

Zilchster SG

This qn has been raised by someone many weeks ago...and somehow one report has come to mind...

It was reported that Tension's album has broke through the 100,000 copies mark...does it mean Taiwan or the whole of Asia? But from what I-weekly reported, only 5 albums passed the 100,000 thousand mark...for the first half of 2001, including harlem, rene, elva, gigi and sammi's.

Anyway another report recently got my interest in this topic aroused...read some report that Zhang Yu's newest album Ti Shen passed the 100,000 mark in just 4 days...this is like impossible...example...on the top 20 albums chart of TCR (A taiwanese record store), his album ranked a miserable 5, with sales percentage of 5.41%, fish has 6.21% and yanzi 26.45%...mayayd has 12.19% and only mayday just passed the 250,000 mark...

Okie...with the 5.41% of the market...zhang's album debuted at 5 at rose records...assuming he got the same percentage of the market...and with other record companies...how could his album hit the 100,000 mark...yanzi would then have sales of 500,000 units right?

So wat is the meaning of all this? To hype the album or to prevent the singer from losing face?

An interesting though...Jolin's album did not seem to sell well this time round...highest percentage record was a paltry 11%

jeifen SG

How bout Elva? How many copies did Ming Tian sell? Izzit abt 200,000 copies or more?

howie SG

Actually if listen to carefully to the news rite, they were toking abt the stocks they released, the chu huo liang, not the sales really. What will happen is, i think they can forget abt releasing any more stock for zhang yu liaoz….bcos…dun tink can pass 100000. Actually, at this pt of time, do believe tension has more than 100000 copies. Perhaps is they forsee they will pass the 100000 mark, but cant really wait till then, so they have the celebration first.

howie SG

Zilchster SG

Yah...tension's new version of the album has a song with david tao inside...haiz...marketing gimmicks...and it's us fans who at the end of the day suffer...when they have many versions...

I like the policy of one version. but i think they might have just hit the 100 000 mark...

Jolin's album did not sell too well...fierce competition...i think at most 60,000 to 70,000...

Elva's...i think she is around 200,000 but i think she sold less than harlem.

Zilchster SG

best part is that they hope zhang yu can sell up to 500,000…pls…yanzi has not reached that mark yet.

howie SG

Actually, since the competition is so fierce, i suppose with every wk over 25% market share for yanzi, i think this album would have a very good album sales and i think may have really break thru the 200000 pt in juz 3 wks. Yanzi bEST_~hedhe, me her fan lah. Landy’s sales is quite gd, i think at least 8 times better than her last album. Yucks, i dun like zhang yu’s new song. Dun sell too well, pls.

Zilchster SG

I wun say Landy's sales like extremely well...but still respectable lar Smile It seems that the sales is getting better? But I dunno if i should get the album...been seeing conflicting views on it...

Jolin's sales also not too good too...

Zhang Yu...i dun tink will sell too well...500,000...pls if yanzi cannot do it...dun say u lar