[IndiannaRose]

QUESTION: WHAT ARE THE CHART STATISTICS OF THE GUNS N' ROSES GREATEST HITS ALBUM?

ANSWER: INTERNATIONALLY THE ALBUM HAS GONE TO THE #1 SPOT IN 10 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES AND HAS SOLD 8 MILLION COPIES WORLDWIDE.



Debut and peak positions on album charts by country:

#4 / 4 - Argentina
#9 / 6 - Australia
#1 / 1 - Austria
#45 / 1 - Belgium
#2 / 2 - Canada
#12 / 4 - Denmark
#6 / 1 - Finland (#1 for four weeks)
#4 / 4 - Germany
#4 / 4 - Greece
#30 / 1 - Hungary
#1 / 1 - Iceland
#1 / 1 - Ireland (#1 for six weeks)
#8 / 2 - Italy
#1 / 1 - New Zealand (#1 for four weeks)
#1 / 1 - Norway (#1 for three weeks)
#25 / 1 - Slovenia
#14 / 8 - Spain
#3 / 2 - Sweden
#3 / 2 - Switzerland
#17 / 3 - The Netherlands
#2 / 1 - UK (#1 for two weeks)
#3 / 3 - USA

Quick Facts:

• Went to #1 in its fifth week on the UK Album Chart on April 18th, 2004.
  
• The band's first UK #1 album since 1991's Use Your Illusion II.
  
• Has sold 4.26 million copies in the USA alone according to Soundscan.
  
• The Greatest Hits album is Guns N' Roses' best-selling album in the U.K. (surpassing both Appetite For Destruction and Use Your Illusion I & II)
  
• The Greatest Hits album became New Zealand's 2nd best-selling album of 2004.
  
• Has become Ireland's 3rd best-selling album of 2004.
  
• Has become Finland's 3rd best-selling album of 2004.

United States Market figures:

Week 1 -- 172,423
Week 2 -- 90,168
Week 3 -- 91,052
Week 4 -- 69,394
Week 5 -- 58,420
Week 6 -- 53,826
Week 7 -- 53,814
Week 8 -- 42,774
Week 9 -- 40,745
Week 10 -- 38,758
Week 11 -- 44,904
Week 12 -- 40,654
Week 13 -- 40,715
Week 14 -- 27,062
Week 15 -- 25,759
Week 16 -- 36,290
Week 17 -- 37,376
Week 18 -- 33,462
Week 19 -- 32,307
Week 20 -- 28,608
Week 21 -- 29,626
Week 22 -- 35,330
Week 23 -- 29,857
Week 24 -- 32,647
Week 25 -- 28,805
Week 26 -- 29,000
Week 27 -- 30,224
Week 28 -- 28,431
Week 29 -- 26,017
Week 30 -- 26,950
Week 31 -- 24,859
Week 32 -- 23,951
Week 33 -- 24,106
Week 34 -- N/A (25,000 estimate)
Week 35 -- N/A (25,000 estimate)
Week 36 -- N/A (25,000 estimate)
Week 37 -- N/A (25,000 estimate)
Week 38 -- N/A (33,000 estimate)
Week 39 -- N/A (33,000 estimate)
Week 40 -- 46,431
Week 41 -- 26,604
Week 42 -- 24,500
Week 43 -- 23,200
Week 44 -- 25,800
Week 45 -- 23,500
Week 46 -- 27,800
Week 47 -- 25,100
Week 48 -- 23,600
Week 49 -- 25,400
Week 50 -- 22,100
Week 51 -- 20,800
Week 52 -- 19,600
Week 53 -- 22,800
Week 54 -- 18,300
Week 55 -- 16,800
Week 56 -- 18,100
Week 57 -- 17,900
Week 58 -- 18,000
Week 59 -- 18,100
Week 60 -- 16,300
Week 61 -- 15,000
Week 62 -- 14,700
Week 63 -- 15,400
Week 64 -- 14,400
Week 65 -- 18,400
Week 66 -- 15,400
Week 67 -- 16,200
Week 68 -- 15,300
Week 69 -- 15,300
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Week 132 -- 11,968

Grand Total in US(as of 09/21/08):
4,260,000

Certifications (for US,Canada, and Argentina):
UK-3x Platinum (880,000 units/920,000 raw units)
US-4x Platinum
Canada-2x Platinum (200,000 units)
Argentina-Gold (20,000 units)
New Zealand-3x Platinum (45,000 units)
Australia-Platinum (70,000 units)

Record: (US)
*3*-9-9-5-8-13-20-18-24-21-16-20-27-36-51-21-26-36-40-39-35-22-31-36-35-29-29-41-47-44-43-39-43-60-69-63-69-72-61-60-41-42-40-40-42-44-46-49-53-46-51-58-52-52-49-48-53-62-62-72-78-74-87-68-66-72-63-64-68-75-77-74-67-56-69-58

World Stats:
The album has become one of Universal Vivendi's best-selling releases of 2004.

Guns N' Roses's newest album, "Guns N' Roses: Greatest Hits", which was released on March 15th worldwide, and March 23rd in North America reportedly sold 2-3 million copies worldwide in its first six weeks.

As of August 24th, 2004, the album had sold 5-7 million copies worldwide, and music trackers expect it to sell close to 10 million copies worldwide by March of 2005.

The album has managed to stay on Billboard's Top 40 and in the top 15 on the 'World' album chart since its release.

Links: http://www.cria.ca/gold.htm , http://hitsdailydouble.com, http://Riaa.com, http://heretodaygonetohell.com, http://www.bpi.co.uk/ , http://www.rianz.org.nz/ , http://www.aria.com.au/

This post has been edited by IndiannaRose: 14 November 2008 - 07:53 PM

[username]

Guns N' Roses's "Greatest Hits" album has become the 13th best selling album in the UK for the year of 2004.

Top 20 albums - 12 months to end of September 2004

1. Life for Rent, Dido
2. Friday's Child, Will Young
3. Elephunk, Black Eyed Peas
4. Call off the Search, Katie Melua
5. Number Ones, Michael Jackson
6. In time - The Best Of - 1988-2003, REM
7. Feels Like Home, Norah Jones
8. Hopes and Fears, Keane
9. A Present for Everyone, Busted
10. Greatest Hits, Red Hot Chili Peppers
11. Permission to Land, Darkness
12. Scissor Sisters, Scissor Sisters
13. Greatest Hits, Guns n’ Roses
14. Confessions, Usher
15. Twentysomething, Jamie Cullum
16. Anastacia, Anastacia
17. Songs about Jane, Maroon 5
18. Three, Sugababes
19. A Grand Don't Come for Free, Streets
20. Turnaround, Westlife

Source: http://www.thesun.co.uk

[IndiannaRose]

According to a chart compiled by Media Traffic, "Guns N' Roses: Greatest Hits" was the 10th best-selling album in the world in 2004. The Top 10 is as follows:

1. Usher - Confessions
Arista - 12.450.000 copies (preliminary estimate)

2. Norah Jones - Feels Like Home
Blue Note - 10.022.000 copies

3. Evanescence - Fallen
Wind-Up - 7.602.000 copies

4. Avril Lavigne - Under My Skin
Arista - 7.270.000 (preliminary estimate)

5. Black Eyed Peas - Elephunk
A&M / Interscope - 7.218.000 copies

6. Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
Octone / J Records - 6.920.000 copies (preliminary estimate)

7. Eminem - Encore
Shady / Interscope - 6.320.000 copies (preliminary estimate)

8. U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
Island - 5.810.000 copies (preliminary estimate)

9. Dido - Life For Rent
Arista - 5.309.000 copies

10. Guns N'Roses - Greatest Hits
Geffen - 5.179.000 copies

View all Top 40

Link: http://www.unitedworldchart.de/

This post has been edited by IndiannaRose: 01 January 2005 - 07:06 PM

[IndiannaRose]

Since the time Billboard introduced the catalog chart, albums have been moved to the catalog chart if the album has been on the chart more than 2 years.

This is the list of albums since 1999 that have remained on the Billboard 200 longer than 104 weeks (Guns N' Roses is at 132 weeks through this week):

151 COME ON OVER SHANIA TWAIN
148 COME AWAY WITH ME NORAH JONES
134 WIDE OPEN SPACES DIXIE CHICKS
133 BACKSTREET BOYS BACKSTREET BOYS
132* GREATEST HITS GUNS N' ROSES
118 YOURSELF OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU MATCHBOX 20
112 MY OWN PRISON CREED
111 GOLDEN ROAD KEITH URBAN
110 5 LENNY KRAVITZ
109 'N SYNC 'N SYNC
108 SURFACING SARAH MCLACHLAN
108 SONGS ABOUT JANE MAROON 5
105 ELEPHUNK BLACK EYED PEAS
105 THE BEAUTIFUL LETDOWN SWITCHFOOT

Right now, "Guns N' Roses: Greatest Hits" has been the 5th album with most longevity on the Billboard Top 200 chart since the end of the 20th Century. It will pass #4 very quickly. We'll see how it goes from there.

This post has been edited by IndiannaRose: 07 October 2006 - 06:14 PM