All That Remains Overcome 1st Week Sales Projection

The first week of sales for All That Remains Overcome looks pretty good. They deserve it as much as they tour and the minimal amount of time they take off. We’ll probably get the official Billboard or Soundscan reports early next week.  Blabbermouth Reports:

“Overcome”, the new album from Massachusetts metallers ALL THAT REMAINS, is on track to sell around 25,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Hits Daily Double, the companion web site of music industry tip sheet HITS. The CD is being streamed in its entirety as part of AOL’s “Free Full CD Listening Parties.”

That’s pretty good considering that The Fall Of Ideals sold about 13,000 in it’s first week. Any musicians that tells you that they don’t care about cd sales is a liar. Phil Labonte said recently on his Myspace blog after Overcome was leaked “I don’t think I’ve ever made a dime off a record sale. And I can’t stop it anyway so why worry about it?”. But that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t care about record sales. In the October issue of Decibel Magazine Phil had this to say:

“In a way, I feel sorry for labels,” Labonte Concludes. “In the past, they could get some idea of how well an album was going to sell based on past performance and recent concert turnout. Now it’s just get that f*cker out before it leaks and hope to hell somebody buys it. Sales are less about acquiring a commodity and more about fans showing support. I’m grateful as hell for every CD we sell. By the same token, I have no problem with people downloading our stuff. I play shows for a living.”