Wlrrr Is Golden

[lcpja]

People have been curious to know how well Matt's new record is being received.

 

IT JUST WENT GOLD!!!!

 

Taken from official website:

Matthew and Jennifer Good, Rich Priske, Christian Thor Valdsen, Pat Steward, Joel Livesey (on behalf of his father), members of Bernie Breen Management and Universal Music, accept the 6th gold record of Matthew's career backstage at a recent show in Toronto.

There is also a picture of Matt, Jen, Rich, Christian, Pat, Joel Livesely on the website as well...CHECK IT OUT

 

Congrats Matthew!!!

[rosie]

Good for them, they deserve it.

[burnman]

Question for you:

 

1) Did AOB reach gold - I'm guessing 'yes' if Matt's done it 6 times now?

 

2) If so, why was it deemed a commercial failure by Universal - or was it?

 

2) How many albums do you need to sell to obtain Gold in Canada?

 

Not trying to start something here, just trying to put things in perspective. Well done Matt et al.

 

Cheers,

 

Burn..

[Mogan]

If more people listened to music instead of noise, it would've gone platinum by now ;)

 

/curse modern musicians for the crap they try to sell

[Maverick]

Yah... how the fuck can Britney Spears and Avril Lavigne go platinum for all their albums.... and MG has never gone Platinum once...... wtf is going on with todays commercialized, mainstream, no-talent, b.s. music?

 

Argh, this angers me.. no more can be said without possibility of heart attack at 18.

[rosie]

Didn't Underdogs and BM go platinum?

[Moonlight_Graham]

Question for you:

 

1) Did AOB reach gold - I'm guessing 'yes' if Matt's done it 6 times now?

 

2) If so, why was it deemed a commercial failure by Universal - or was it?

I think AOB was considered a commercial failure because his last 2 records were such hits. I'm not suprised there was a substancial drop-off in sales with AOB. Underdogs had Apparitions, Everything is Automatic etc., and BM had Load Me Up & Hello Time Bomb. AOB didn't really have a huge single.

[ood_mutler]

Pretty sure gold is 50,000 copies and platinum 100,000.

 

BM sold about 200,000

UNDERDOGS 100,000-150,000

AOB 80,000

AVALANCHE 60,000

 

That's roughly....

[Maverick]

Wow, Avalanche did pretty poorly then.... and it was prolly one of the best, yah? It's just because noone has respect for real music I guess.

[Tim]

People have been curious to know how well Matt's new record is being received.

 

IT JUST WENT GOLD!!!!

 

Taken from official website:

Matthew and Jennifer Good, Rich Priske, Christian Thor Valdsen, Pat Steward, Joel Livesey (on behalf of his father), members of Bernie Breen Management and Universal Music, accept the 6th gold record of Matthew's career backstage at a recent show in Toronto.

There is also a picture of Matt, Jen, Rich, Christian, Pat, Joel Livesely on the website as well...CHECK IT OUT

 

Congrats Matthew!!!

Wow. Congrats to Mr. Good. That's wonderful news.

[Sparq]

"Real Music" is relative...

 

Anyway...50k is still...less than I expected.

[Crusader]

Feel free to congratulate him on the news post ;) http://www.nearfantastica.com/read/92.html

[lcpja]

Did AOB reach gold - I'm guessing 'yes' if Matt's done it 6 times now?

 

I believe that AOB didn't reach gold until after the release of Avalanche

[ood_mutler]

Certiifications: http://www.cria.ca/

 

Avalanche - GOLD - http://www.cria.ca/cert/gold0503.htm

AOB - GOLD - http://www.cria.ca/cert/gold0303.htm

LOTGA - GOLD - http://www.cria.ca/cert/gold0103.htm

 

That's all MG/B info they have. Only goes back to Jan 2001.

 

Cheers, Cheers.

[Maverick]

I can't believe LOTGA went gold.... noone likes that album except for diehards.. who goes out and goes... I want to buy my first MG album.... do u have LOTGA?!?!?

[ood_mutler]

Which one is Jen in the photo?

It's good how each member of the band gets there own plaque.

[Maverick]

Yah... is Jenn the noticably drunk one with the beer bottle? or the dark haired one that scares me.... lol. (I swear if MG sees this one too... I'm done..... but he knows I'm just joking... right MG?... well I don't care.... u don't know who I am..... p.s. your wife's hot).

[Crusader]

I'm sure you've just won them over.

 

http://www.nearfantastica.com/gallery/thum...ls.php?album=10

[Maverick]

Hey, I don't deserve to be mocked! You don't see me doing this to other ppl do you....

 

 

p.s. two of the two of these statements is false.

[ood_mutler]

It's a bottle of water, not a bottle of beer.

[Maverick]

b.s.! It's beer I tell you.... beer!

[Daedalus]

How fast did this reach gold compared to other records such as BM or underdogs. WLRRR has been out for how long? about 3 months, i cant remmeber. I dont generally keep track of record sales totals.

[Crusader]

Didn't Underdogs or BM go gold in a matter of days?

[THE MAN]

WLRRR went gold much slower than avalanche, which went gold quite quickly, but then kind of stopped. Its a shame that his work doesnt sell as well as it deserves. And as for LOTGA going gold, it is a REALLY good album, not to mention the highest selling canadian indy CD in history if i recall correctly

[NationofCool]

Well Beautiful Midnight went gold in its first week of sales. I remember that because it was #1 in Canada in its release week.. and I remember thinking "oh my gosh.. there is no way OLP is gonna take them out of #1 when 'happiness is not a fish that you can catch' gets released" (the week after)

 

Underdogs went platinum.. there WAS a plaque of the underdogs album among a few others on display at the edge102 studio.

 

Beautiful Midnight debuted/peaked at #1

 

Audio of Being debuted/peaked #4 (behind #3, M. Jackson #2 Enrique and #1.. BSB.. should have released it a week before.. because NOW 6 was the #1 the week before)

 

Avalanche debuted and peaked at #2 (behind Norah Jones)

 

WLRRR debuted /peaked at #4 also (behind #3Avril #2 C. Dion #1 Beastie Boys)

 

i know LOTGA obviously didnt make the chart... but i couldnt find anywhere how underdogs did in terms of debut on soundscan and how well it peaked..