Chris Jericho’s “Fozzy” Album Flops, Shawn Michaels Sets New Royal Rumble Record, More

Posted by Daniel Pena on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

– Chris Jericho’s Fozzy album, Chasing the Grail, failed to crack Billboard’s Top 200 chart in its first week of release.

Despite a heavy promotional push which included Martyr No More being used as one of the official theme songs for this year’s Royal Rumble pay-per-view, the album sold a mere 2,200 copies in the United States in its first week out.

On a positive note, it ranked sixth in sales on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of the Billboard 200.

Chasing the Grail was released on Jan. 26 via Australia’s Riot! Entertainment.

– In statistic news, Shawn Michaels’ six eliminations in this year’s Royal Rumble match gives him 37 for his career, beating the record of 36 set by “Stone Cold” Steve Austin. Undertaker remains at 35, while Kane now has 34 with Triple H in fifth place at 26. For most time spent in the Rumble over the course of a career, the top three spots remain the same, but the numbers have changed with Triple H at 231:12, Shawn Michaels at 213:34 and Kane at 173:46.

– WWE plans on pushing this year’s WrestleMania festivities harder this year. The mindset is to keep the talent busy and have so many activities for fans that they don’t attend the Ring of Honor and Dragon Gate shows.

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8 Responses to Chris Jericho’s “Fozzy” Album Flops, Shawn Michaels Sets New Royal Rumble Record, More:

  1. weeweepeepee

    Date: Feb 10, 2010 at 4:26 PM

    all fozzy albums flopped

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  2. baddog_1_2k

    Date: Feb 10, 2010 at 4:51 PM

    Thats a suprise. Fozzy is actually really good. I have friends who don’t watch wrestling that love Fozzys music.

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  3. Andrew_Gigan

    Date: Feb 10, 2010 at 6:36 PM

    I didn’t even know Chris Jericho played in a band til like two months ago when I saw him on “that metal show.”

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  4. Mannul

    Date: Feb 10, 2010 at 7:28 PM

    Who cares about Billboard’s Top crap? They only pay attention to popular teeny-bop hip-hop garbage,not the real bands who actually work their asses off and not given the chance over night. The real fans of real music are the ones who care.

    Seems like the WWE is kind of not letting the superstars and divas have actual lives besides what they do in the WWE. No wonder some of them left and never looked back.

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  5. NuclearShadow

    Date: Feb 10, 2010 at 7:57 PM

    I am left wondering if Jericho’s heel position in the WWE somehow effected the sales of the album. It certainly helps sell merchandise or even movie tickets if the wrestler is a face and is being pushed at the time. So the reverse could very well be true too. Either way 2,200 sales is pretty low and certainly the his heel character can’t be the majority of the blame for such small sale numbers. Sounds like a failure to advertise correctly.

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  6. Proud WWE Fan

    Date: Feb 11, 2010 at 5:32 AM

    i have every Fozzy Cd & Chasing the Grail is awesome so i dont get why its supposedly not selling…but i do think ppl dont kno jack sh*t about REAL MUSIC!!! Fozzy is REAL MUSIC

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  7. Rob

    Date: Feb 11, 2010 at 9:16 AM

    I’d say it has more to do with the fact that Fozzy has no real mainstream push. No video plays on MTV or VH1, nothing on the radio, or other outlets like that. Bottom line is, if no one knows anything about you, they are not gonna buy your CD. Odds are, most people will probably never even see it because they won’t be looking for it.

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  8. kelly

    Date: Feb 11, 2010 at 1:45 PM

    Rob Mtv IF they play music videos it’s shitty rap now not rock so fozzy would never have a chance for a video on there.

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