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4 minutes ago, Beerjeezus said:

I suppose they didn’t do a club tour to make sure Hella Mega sells.

I get that there were probably non compete distance restrictions too in their contract but they’re skipping whole states on the stadium tour that would have been outside the restriction zones they could have played.

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4 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said:

I get that there were probably non compete distance restrictions too in their contract but they’re skipping whole states on the stadium tour that would have been outside the restriction zones they could have played.

And I think they should have because seeing the band play (preferably the new songs) would be the best hype 

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3 minutes ago, Aidana Shyngysbayeva said:

they Should play the new songs like they did with trilogy and 21st century

They did that with those album? When the 21st Century  Breakdown Tour  came to south america only 4 songs from the album were played in my country.

The trilogy songs were reduced to a similar number by the time 99 Revolutions Tour was ending.  Let alone RevRad.

Sadly, Green Day is now just Dookie and American Idiot

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Just now, Als5678ors2 said:

They did that with those album? When the 21st Century  Breakdown Tour  came to south america only 4 songs from the album were played in my country.

The trilogy songs were reduced to a similar number by the time 99 Revolutions Tour was ending.  Let alone RevRad.

Sadly, Green Day is now just Dookie and American Idiot

Before the start of 21st century tour they played the full album a few times, they also played almost every trilogy song before the beginning of that tour

5 minutes ago, Als5678ors2 said:

They did that with those album? When the 21st Century  Breakdown Tour  came to south america only 4 songs from the album were played in my country.

The trilogy songs were reduced to a similar number by the time 99 Revolutions Tour was ending.  Let alone RevRad.

Sadly, Green Day is now just Dookie and American Idiot

ITs messed up that they played only 4 songs off 21st. In my opinion the guys are so used to playing the old stuff that they are now scared to try new act, and are not motivated enough to practice other songs

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1 minute ago, Aidana Shyngysbayeva said:

Before the start of 21st century tour they played the full album a few times, they also played almost every trilogy song before the beginning of that tour

I know, I'm sorry. I thought you meant on tour. 

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I do find the numbers to be low, especially since similar genre albums have done so much better recently with smaller fan bases. However, not every good album sells. Lana's NFR was critically acclaimed and didn't sell well. You need to be a T Swift or artist of the month to sell a lot of records nowadays. I kind of assumed GD could at least have good first week sales due to their large fan base, but they didn't. And rock generally doesn't do well in streaming.

My main concern for Green Day is their direction. I liked the album. It was catchy and fun. But eventually we have to ask why they are still making music. Just to tour? Can't be for the sales. They seem like they are just pumping out songs like crazy but why? I'd like to hear another album that is very thought out and pushes them musically. FOAM sounded different but it wasn't challenging. It's standard GD. And they won't even play the new songs, which screams "legacy band" to me. I think they should focus on critical acclaim bc they will never get the sales anymore. I want to see some Album of the Year nods from them in the future.

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4 minutes ago, DookieLukie said:

I do find the numbers to be low, especially since similar genre albums have done so much better recently with smaller fan bases. However, not every good album sells. Lana's NFR was critically acclaimed and didn't sell well. You need to be a T Swift or artist of the month to sell a lot of records nowadays. I kind of assumed GD could at least have good first week sales due to their large fan base, but they didn't. And rock generally doesn't do well in streaming.

My main concern for Green Day is their direction. I liked the album. It was catchy and fun. But eventually we have to ask why they are still making music. Just to tour? Can't be for the sales. They seem like they are just pumping out songs like crazy but why? I'd like to hear another album that is very thought out and pushes them musically. FOAM sounded different but it wasn't challenging. It's standard GD. And they won't even play the new songs, which screams "legacy band" to me. I think they should focus on critical acclaim bc they will never get the sales anymore. I want to see some Album of the Year nods from them in the future.

It seems to me they aren't aiming for critical acclaim anymore or don't really have the ambition to do creatively challenging records (since 21CB). It's like at this point they're a legacy band that still does new music they find fun. FOAM is a continuation of Longshot, a project Billie did on his own and then toured bars with. I think both are great but when you compare them with Breakdown, you can tell they had very different goals with these records.

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I looked to see how each song is doing individually on Youtube, and it largely made sense (singles had more views, ones at the end had the fewest [people losing interest part way though the album and skipping the end]), but there was one outlier.  In order of views (rounding)-

FOA- 776,000
Oh Yeah- 308,000
Sugar Youth- 191,000
FRA- 187,000
MMOTR- 182,000
IWATT- 134,000
SYITH- 119,000
JOAH- 107,000
TTMAC- 100,000
Graffitia- 94,000

So despite not being a single, not having a video, and being in the second half of the album, Sugar Youth still has the third most views.  I felt it would make sense for it to be the first single (most GD sounding song on the album) even before I looked at this.  Wonder if it would have made a difference.

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I think (as others have previously mentioned) more copies sold the first week because of collectors (like myself) buying multiple copies and other long-term fans who'll just buy anything that has GD's name on it ! I bought three different colour version vinyls and a CD  :blush:

 

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Releasig FRA (the weakest track) as an almost single and then Oh Yeah as the second single when it's also one of the weaker moments certainly doesn't help

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5 minutes ago, Montclare said:

I looked to see how each song is doing individually on Youtube, and it largely made sense (singles had more views, ones at the end had the fewest [people losing interest part way though the album and skipping the end]), but there was one outlier.  In order of views (rounding)-

FOA- 776,000
Oh Yeah- 308,000
Sugar Youth- 191,000
FRA- 187,000
MMOTR- 182,000
IWATT- 134,000
SYITH- 119,000
JOAH- 107,000
TTMAC- 100,000
Graffitia- 94,000

So despite not being a single, not having a video, and being in the second half of the album, Sugar Youth still has the third most views.  I felt it would make sense for it to be the first single (most GD sounding song on the album) even before I looked at this.  Wonder if it would have made a difference.

FOA (6,4 million) and Meet Me on the Roof (1,8 million) had much more views, from where are your numbers? 

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2 minutes ago, Flashback said:

FOA (6,4 million) and Meet Me on the Roof (1,8 million) had much more views, from where are your numbers? 

That's for the music videos; my numbers above are the songs themselves.

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28 minutes ago, Montclare said:

I looked to see how each song is doing individually on Youtube, and it largely made sense (singles had more views, ones at the end had the fewest [people losing interest part way though the album and skipping the end]), but there was one outlier.  In order of views (rounding)-

FOA- 776,000
Oh Yeah- 308,000
Sugar Youth- 191,000
FRA- 187,000
MMOTR- 182,000
IWATT- 134,000
SYITH- 119,000
JOAH- 107,000
TTMAC- 100,000
Graffitia- 94,000

So despite not being a single, not having a video, and being in the second half of the album, Sugar Youth still has the third most views.  I felt it would make sense for it to be the first single (most GD sounding song on the album) even before I looked at this.  Wonder if it would have made a difference.

I just saw on my YouTube and Graffitia have 301k views until now by "Official Audio'" version.

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6 minutes ago, legendary said:

 

I just saw on my YouTube and Graffitia have 301k views until now by "Official Audio'" version.

Weird.  Green Day's channel (where I was getting these numbers) has it at 94,000.

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5 minutes ago, Montclare said:

Weird.  Green Day's channel (where I was getting these numbers) has it at 94,000.

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It's because YouTube has two ways to listen.

The version of your screenshot came from YouTube Music audio version, but you can listen It in a video uploaded on Green Day channel named like "Graffitia (Official Audio)" that properly is a almost static video that contains the song for YouTube normal users.

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8 minutes ago, legendary said:

It's because YouTube has two ways to listen.

The version of your screenshot came from YouTube Music audio version, but you can listen It in a video uploaded on Green Day channel named like "Graffitia (Official Audio)" that properly is a almost static video that contains the song for YouTube normal users.

Ah, gotcha, thanks.  Looking at those numbers (official audio), Sugar Youth is actually the lowest on the album.  I stand by my it should have been the first single opinion though. :lol:

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Spotify streams for each song as of 2/25/2020 1:30pm Central Standard Time (USA)

FOA: 14,670,816
FRA: 7,544,799
OY: 6,532,052
MMOTR: 3,050,951
IWATT: 1,608,041
SYITH: 1,521,149
SY: 1,513,112
JOAH: 1,400,446
TMAC: 1,358,278
Graf: 1,374,155

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I also get the vibe Billie just wants to make standard songs and tour. I wish he pushed himself as a songwriter again. Guess his "ADHD" is just too bad.

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7 hours ago, DadBod said:

Spotify streams for each song as of 2/25/2020 1:30pm Central Standard Time (USA)

FOA: 14,670,816
FRA: 7,544,799
OY: 6,532,052
MMOTR: 3,050,951
IWATT: 1,608,041
SYITH: 1,521,149
SY: 1,513,112
JOAH: 1,400,446
TMAC: 1,358,278
Graf: 1,374,155

How did you get those? I can't figure out how to see the streaming numbers for anything that's not in the top 10.

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33 minutes ago, gaslight13 said:

How did you get those? I can't figure out how to see the streaming numbers for anything that's not in the top 10.

You have to use the desktop app and click on the album so that it is the only list showing, and off to the right there is a “popularity” bar. Just hover over it and the numbers pop up. 

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Great to see that the album dropped only from #2 to #20 in Austria, although it got nearly no support from the biggest radio stations

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