#record sales

[wiiildflowerrr]

5 Seconds Of Summer’s Debut Album Is A Bestseller Again, A Decade Later

Forbes Business: Hollywood & Entertainment (7 February, 2025)

5 Seconds of Summer attend KISS 108's iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2019 on December 15, 2019 in Boston, Massachusetts.

5 Seconds of Summer has been entertaining audiences for a decade now, a fact that may be difficult to swallow for many millennial fans. The pop-punk band released its debut album, a self-titled affair, in the summer of 2014, and since then, the group has been racking up hits and bestselling projects.

The band celebrated the tenth anniversary of 5 Seconds of Summer by releasing several different vinyl reissues of the record, including one that was bright red and another as a picture disc. Fans snapped them up, and all that love, which has continued for quite some time, helps the title return to the Billboard charts.

The self-titled project appears on two of Billboard’s albums-focused rankings this time around. It returns to one and debuts on another list that it's never managed to reach before.

5 Seconds of Summer opens inside the top 10 on the Vinyl Albums chart. The set is new at No. 5 on Billboard’s list of the top-selling releases on wax in America.

The band has sent five different releases to the Vinyl Albums chart, with all but one of them entering the highest tier for at least one turn. 5 Seconds of Summer is the lowest-ranking of the group’s four top 10, landing behind Sounds Good, Feels Good, which peaked at No. 3, and both Calm and 5SOS5, which missed out on running the show by just one space.

The same full-length also rebounds onto the Top Album Sales ranking, which isn’t focused on one style or one format, but instead, which paints a picture of the bestselling musical releases throughout the nation. On that roster, 5 Seconds of Summer returns at No. 13, almost managing one more turn inside the highest tier.

The self-titled debut project is one of 5 Seconds of Summer’s five No. 1s on the Top Album Sales chart. The group has collected an additional pair of top 10s, as well as one other release that didn't quite manage to appear inside the loftiest space, as the live recording, The Feeling of Falling Upwards, stalled at No. 35 in 2023.

Data from Luminate states that in the past tracking week, 5 Seconds of Summer sold just under 5,750 copies throughout the U.S. Those are pure purchases, not equivalent units, and the title likely performed significantly better when streams are taken into account as well. That figure is up more than 213% from the period before, when it managed a little over 1,800 purchases.'

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[artjipson]

Exploring the Tragedy of Unheard Records

In the digital streaming age where we all have instant access to an unparalleled variety of music — at least for now, it may seem paradoxical to consider the existence of unheard records. With thousands of records released every year and thousands of songs uploaded to streaming services every week, the sheer amount of available music is overwhelming. The vastness of the musical releases, coupled…

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[supersecretmetalocalypseblog]

OH and while I'm thinking about it, what about post-aotd Charles being stressed out about like "oh, the band doesnt need me anymore" and DK getting to be like "no but we WANT you" and he gets to be like "ah they do care" crying and throwing up and screaming and dying ok that's all I'm probably not gonna post anymore tonight

I feel like charles is just on the brink of having a crisis, it's just been on the back burner ever since he found out about the prophecy

[nostalgicfun]

Sorry for the long post but this has got to be THE estate sale. I fear I simply must attend.

[lyekisses]

the posts about pw buying that spongebob kaws painting for 2 million dollars are funny except he didnt buy it for 2 million dollars. the nyt article that features pete standing next to "grr" was published in december 2016. the painting was sold at auction for 2.1 million in november 2019. three years AFTER the original photo was taken. he SOLD it for 2 million dollars. or somebody did <3

[door]

2025 score so far

all of my treasures fit in my suitcase +5

nibling stopped being mad at me (for being 2 years old reasons) and hugged me goodbye +25

air travel -5

plane streaming was soooo slow and glitchy -2

watched Perfect Days (2023) anyway +5

getting my dad a wheelchair at layover made the experience 1000x less irritating than usual +5

and got us offered pre-boarding for our last flight +1

which my dad was sooooooo smug about -1

aunt closed her trunk door on my dad's head (this was very funny at midnight) +2

got dropped off first after the airport +2

reunited with terrible daughters +10

ted was mad at me until 10 am (when she got hungry) -5

robyn excited about treasures +3

milk in the fridge still good +1

burned forearm reaching across the kettle as it boiled -20

robyn had special ointment which helped +10

aggy's leash got sent home with punkin (70 miles away) -5

total: +31

[jimin-updates]

MUSE was the 9th-highest selling album of the year 🌟

And the fourth-highest selling album by a male artist:

Congratulations, Jimin! 🥳

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Studebaker Land Speed Coupe, 1953. To be offered at auction, the SCTA’s “World’s Fastest Coupe” of 1966 and the first car of its type to hit 200 mph in 1958. Powered by a supercharged 359 ci Chrysler Firepower Hemi V8 with Enderle Fuel Injection and a 4-Speed Muncie Manual Gearbox.

auction listing

[wiiildflowerrr]

@5SOS: Hey its ash, today @Michael5SOS messaged us to let us know TEETH is platinum. This track feels incredible live & is a highlight song from CALM. thanks for listening to us - @Ashton5SOS

29 January 2021

[meeedeee]

When is a library not a library? When it’s online, apparently

"If you buy a physical book, you are allowed to sell or lend it because of a legal principle known as the “first sale doctrine,” which gives the owner of a (physical) object the right to dispose of that object in whatever way they wish, regardless of copyright. The Archive argued that the same principle should protect the sale or lending of a legally purchased digital copy, pointing out that all the copies of books it lent out had previously been acquired lawfully by libraries.'...

The Internet Archive’s lawyers also pointed to a Supreme Court decision, from the nineteen eighties, ruling that using a Sony Betamax video-cassette recorder to make a copy of a TV show was fair use. The Archive argued that its digital copies of print books similarly “improved the efficiency of delivering content to one entitled to receive the content” in a way that didn’t “unreasonably encroach on the commercial entitlements of the rights holder.” "

[lamarie-artsy]

I posted the finished piece this belongs to over on my sideblog the other day, but here's a quick example of how I colour in Rebelle. (Yes, I noticed I skipped the back fin, I remembered to colour it after I turned recording off)

[ohlawdthebirds]

Honda Odyssey sales are gonna be through the ROOF after this.

[oldshowbiz]

1969.

Not even the Funk Brothers could salvage Soupy Sales and his pathetic attempt to become a Motown recording star.