Why dont you think its looks good? They are on its way to get a top 10 album with a live reales witch means that they will chart better then many of their regular album realeses. Ending on a high note dident made top 40 and How can i sleep with your voice dident even chart at all. I wasent expecting them to chart this high. Those 4,700 copies sold is just after 2 days on sale. Who knows, it might even outsell the cast in Steel album when the chart is published on friday.
You're right here. I had posted the above before the mid-weeks were disclosed and I am really surprised in a positive way. If they end up selling 5-7k copies it's a nice and better than expected result in a weak market environment.
But we cannot compare real sales numbers bicause the music industri has moved on to digital now. FOTM, Ending on a high note and 25 where realesed in a very different climate. But we do have chart positions and thats what really counts.
Those sales figures are low although digital downlads (1:1 ratio) and streams (150:1 ratio) are actually included in the above sales figures. At the end of the day, the figures show that a-ha has increasingly lost their fanbase, which will be the same for many/most other established artists.
So it it just me or will this be the first A-ha album since the 80s, to chart lower in Germany then the UK? The amazon charts dosent look good at al at this point but i might have missed something
Let's wait for the results. On the one hand, I tend the same impression as you. But on the other hand, as written above in German, the German album charts are based on revenues and not on units shifted. The decision to release that many different formats including a high-priced fan box and 3LP set might have a positive impact on the chart position.
und auch a break in the clouds ist wunderschön geworden.
Das ist jetzt schon das 3. oder 4. Mal so, das kann doch echt nicht wahr sein ... 
