The (+44) General Discussion Topic

[Nosferatu]

On 2/3/2020 at 4:08 AM, Russel Coight said:

Also has anyone googled +44 lately? This is what shows up as the top result. If one of you did this own up to it cause it made me laugh.

Took me like 2 minutes to figure out why this was funny haha. I was reading through it expecting some of the words being different only to realise about the photo ?

[Russel Coight]

5 hours ago, Nosferatu said:

Took me like 2 minutes to figure out why this was funny haha. I was reading through it expecting some of the words being different only to realise about the photo ?

It’s still there too. So funny.

[Tombomb]

That ^ is funny, but

"Weatherman" is not. Damn, that is one depressing song. Not a bad song, but wow! Hits me right in the ole ticker! ? (looking for a tear emojji. That's the closest I could find.)

Joking around here, but was this written because of Tom?? Joke, or maybe not. ?

[Tombomb]

Wow! So several of those songs ^ were actually written about Tom, eh?! Yeah, I was in tears yesterday afternoon listening to Weatherman again. Guess I had/have some grieving to do. Sigh!

But I did finish the album last night and just love it! And Mark sang me to sleep with Little Death. As much as I love Tom's aesthetic, I could so easily fall for Mark right now. I'm finally understanding the appeal. ? 

 

[Tombomb]

Hey folks! I couldn't find it anywhere. Was there ever a +44 vs. Boxcar Racer poll?? I'd be interested to hear folks' thoughts on this.  

[Bucko]

Mark's voice in 145 sounds quality, I absolutely love the acoustic version. 

 

[Tombomb]

It's a small forum, so likely most will have read this already, but if you missed it-

I got a +44 answer today! (from Mark Hoppus himself on his new personal Discord Server)

Idk if it was a stupid question or not, but he answered it!!

Asked the meaning of "scraped" from "scraped and sober"

He replied: "scraped empty"

[Tombomb]

Soo, I finally heard the No It Isn't version with Carol and no offense, but I don't feel it's a loss she wasn't on the record in that song. Not really too different.

 

But man do I love the song! Found this today too! Lol Wonder what Mark said about Skye?? Lol j/k I don't want to know. Heheh Maaan! Such a baby here though! Was this also his beard phase? I mean, kinda looks like some mustache stubble in this vid, no??

 

[bradsonemanband]

Met +44 at an in-store meet and greet in Salt Lake City on June 25, 2007 before their show. They signed the back of a FS&S sticker for me.

[Scott.]

Fucking adore this song. Marks verses are great

[dustybubble]

On 2/2/2020 at 11:08 PM, Russel Coight said:

Also has anyone googled +44 lately? This is what shows up as the top result. If one of you did this own up to it cause it made me laugh.

It took me a moment to realize what you were trying to point out, then I saw it and cracked up.

[NerdWallet]

+44

[BlueLemming]

On 10/2/2021 at 2:43 AM, Scott. said:

Fucking adore this song. Marks verses are great

always loved the drums. pretty simple yet makes the whole song

[NerdWallet]

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[Patient #48273]

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[logangage]

By far my favorite +44 song is 155. When comparing +44 with Boxcar Racer, I'm probably gonna choose Boxcar. It's a very hard choice. 

[_Kyle_]

I was rolling through spotify and got to listening to some (+44) and the song WYHSB is actually rather popular with 88m streams. So overall, the album has about 180mil plays attributed to it on Spotify alone, which is pretty robust all-in-all. 

So I wondered if the album might eventually cross the 500k threshold and crunched some available streaming numbers. With only Spotify taking into account, I still don't think it comes close (going by wikipedia's reported 274k amount from 2011) and that's not even taking into account how steaming is divvied up between regions as I assume this is global.  

BCR is less popular on Spotify, but isn't far behind. I assumed that sold 500k back in the day (how did WDNTW sell that much but not BCR?) but there is not source stating it did. If @boxelder has any decent information on how close these albums are to going gold, I'd love to read about it. 

[boxelder]

1 hour ago, _Kyle_ said:

I was rolling through spotify and got to listening to some (+44) and the song WYHSB is actually rather popular with 88m streams. So overall, the album has about 180mil plays attributed to it on Spotify alone, which is pretty robust all-in-all. 

So I wondered if the album might eventually cross the 500k threshold and crunched some available streaming numbers. With only Spotify taking into account, I still don't think it comes close (going by wikipedia's reported 274k amount from 2011) and that's not even taking into account how steaming is divvied up between regions as I assume this is global.  

BCR is less popular on Spotify, but isn't far behind. I assumed that sold 500k back in the day (how did WDNTW sell that much but not BCR?) but there is not source stating it did. If @boxelder has any decent information on how close these albums are to going gold, I'd love to read about it. 

aw man i wish i knew more about it. i know WDNTW actually had a huge hit in the adventure which could’ve helped sales. i don’t really have an idea as to how this stuff works but i glean that record labels don’t care about those statistics as much as they once did, so it’s sort of a “thing” to get the RIAA to recognize it (i could be wrong though). why do it for decades old catalog albums? i noticed that WYHSB has tons of plays too and was shocked haha. must have been a sort of sleeper hit over the years. i really would love to see an updated sales tally for blink though — some of the statistics are way off base and outdated. with songs like ATST creeping over a billion plays, i feel like the latest reported data (like you said, from like 2011 even) needs a refresh

[_Kyle_]

1 hour ago, boxelder said:

aw man i wish i knew more about it. i know WDNTW actually had a huge hit in the adventure which could’ve helped sales. i don’t really have an idea as to how this stuff works but i glean that record labels don’t care about those statistics as much as they once did, so it’s sort of a “thing” to get the RIAA to recognize it (i could be wrong though). why do it for decades old catalog albums? i noticed that WYHSB has tons of plays too and was shocked haha. must have been a sort of sleeper hit over the years. i really would love to see an updated sales tally for blink though — some of the statistics are way off base and outdated. with songs like ATST creeping over a billion plays, i feel like the latest reported data (like you said, from like 2011 even) needs a refresh

I imagine somebody has to file paperwork for it, whether it is primarily the artist/management/label I don't really know. Next year will be WYHSB's 20th anniversary, so maybe by then? A conservative estimate would be it has sold around 400,000k in america by now, but who knows. 

browsing the RIAA website, apparently Dookie has gone double diamond. 20 million! fuck

also old albums like She Wants Revenge (remember them?) just got a gold album last year. so they do keep up with some of this, but no clue if you need to be proactive in receiving one. 

[boxelder]

2 hours ago, _Kyle_ said:

I imagine somebody has to file paperwork for it, whether it is primarily the artist/management/label I don't really know. Next year will be WYHSB's 20th anniversary, so maybe by then? A conservative estimate would be it has sold around 400,000k in america by now, but who knows. 

browsing the RIAA website, apparently Dookie has gone double diamond. 20 million! fuck

also old albums like She Wants Revenge (remember them?) just got a gold album last year. so they do keep up with some of this, but no clue if you need to be proactive in receiving one. 

yeah i know motion city soundtrack had a gold single a few years back, which implies that someone (mgmt, label, etc) pay attention. who knows! what you will notice on RIAA is an artist will get sort of “re upped” and dozens of singles and albums will get adjusted at once. blink is way overdue though. the last time they measured any of EOTS’s sales for example was like mid-2000, and while it’s not a strong catalog seller like idk dark side of the moon, it’s defintiely, by their metrics (sales + streaming) got to be certified for higher by now.