![]() “If we couldn’t be there to play it for you live, the least we could do was give you the next best thing.” “We feel bad we have to delay our tour, so to make up for it we want to give our fans the music earlier than we had planned,” drummer Tré Cool said at the time. 11, as a mea culpa of sorts for the cancelled shows. Days before the release of “The Forgotten’s” music video, the band announced that they would shift the “Tre!” release date from Jan. “The Forgotten” has sold 4,000 downloads to date according to SoundScan, while “It Will Rain’s” sales total 3.1 million. Meanwhile, the band’s contribution to the “Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 2” soundtrack, the string-laden ballad “The Forgotten,” was released as the lead single to the compilation in October, but could not receive the kind of high-profile push that was given to Bruno Mars’ “It Will Rain,” which led the “Breaking Dawn – Part 1” soundtrack last year. ![]() Read The Green Day Billboard Cover Story from July 2012 23 announcement, Green Day could not spread the word about the releases of “Dos!” and “Tre!,” 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 “Uno!” was promoted with a single, “Oh Love,” that hit No. The group’s 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 “Uno!’s” release - that he would be seeking treatment for substance abuse, the rollout of “Uno!,” “Dos!” and “Tre!” 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 “21st Century Breakdown” sold in its first frame in 2009 - which came in an abbreviated three-day sales week, no less - the initial figures for the band’s ambitious three-part epic have to be viewed as underwhelming. “Uno!,” 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 week’s Billboard 200 chart. But that disappointing sales debut just occurred twice for the pop-punk mainstays: first with “Dos!,” the second part of the group’s three-album follow-up to 2009’s “21st Century Breakdown,” which started with 69,000 copies sold in its first week in November according to Nielsen SoundScan, and now with “Tre!,” 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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