Read The Green Day Billboard Cover Story from July 2012 23 announcement, Green Day could not spread the word about the releases of РІР‚СљDos!РІР‚Сњ and РІР‚СљTre!,РІР‚Сњ and their initial album sales reflect that lack of promotion. 1 on the Rock Songs chart, as well as multiple music videos and televised performances prior to the Sept. Although РІР‚СљUno!РІР‚Сњ was promoted with a single, РІР‚СљOh Love,РІР‚Сњ that hit No. The groupРІР‚в„ўs remaining 2012 tour dates, including a spot at the Voodoo Music Experience fest, were scrapped, and its 21-date North American trek was postponed. 23 - two days before РІР‚СљUno!РІР‚в„ўsРІР‚Сњ release - that he would be seeking treatment for substance abuse, the rollout of РІР‚СљUno!,РІР‚Сњ РІР‚СљDos!РІР‚Сњ and РІР‚СљTre!РІР‚Сњ understandably stepped aside for personal necessity. When frontman Billie Joe Armstrong announced on Sept. Of course, those numbers can be chalked up to forces beyond the control of any marketing team. Yet when compared to the 215,000 copies that РІР‚Сљ21st Century BreakdownРІР‚Сњ sold in its first frame in 2009 - which came in an abbreviated three-day sales week, no less - the initial figures for the bandРІР‚в„ўs ambitious three-part epic have to be viewed as underwhelming. РІР‚СљUno!,РІР‚Сњ the first part of the trilogy released in September, bowed with 139,000 copies sold in its debut week, and has since moved a total of 256,000 units, according to SoundScan. 13 spot on this weekРІР‚в„ўs Billboard 200 chart. But that disappointing sales debut just occurred twice for the pop-punk mainstays: first with РІР‚СљDos!,РІР‚Сњ the second part of the groupРІР‚в„ўs three-album follow-up to 2009РІР‚в„ўs РІР‚Сљ21st Century Breakdown,РІР‚Сњ which started with 69,000 copies sold in its first week in November according to Nielsen SoundScan, and now with РІР‚СљTre!,РІР‚Сњ which debuted with 58,000 sold and a No.

It would have been unimaginable as recently as a few months ago for Green Day to release a full-length featuring a dozen new songs and sell less than 100,000 copies of the album in its first week.

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