"Hard Candy" in Russia:

[Ugly Hecty]

Note, I got this from a t.A.T.u. blog site.

Russian Monthly Album Sales Chart For May 2008 - From the July 2008 Issue Of Billboard Magazine Russia

Russian Monthly Albums Sales Chart For June 2008 - From the August 2008 Issue Of Billboard Magazine Russia

And the next chart for July 2008 should be available in a few weeks. Note - this chart first started in May 2008, hence why most of the albums only say they've been on for 2 weeks.

And Hard Candy so far has been certified 3X Gold in Russia (30,000 copies). Although if it received a new certification, sniper would know best about this situation.

[Guest Hafo]

Wow, thanks Hecty! Great to see that there is an album chart for Russia. Wonder if it's 100% official - those Billboard charts from countries outside the US/Canada have so many different methodologies, it's not always easy to validate their info - e.g. Japan and Turkey.

[sniper]

thank you so much

I didn't knew that they've started to post the monthly chart

as you can see HC is the best selling international album even with import sales

import edition [released in May] 21$

russian edition [released in July] 8$

I'll ask HC's distributor about the shipments in June - August

btw

Ray of Light [MC + CD] 123.000 legal copies [6xP] March 1998 - May 1998

and about 200.000 illegal copies

http://kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=198798

it was the first Warner's ptoject in Russia

we had never seen any Warner's legal MC/CD before "Ray of Light"

[Ugly Hecty]

Breaking news: Billboard Magazine Russia now has a weekly album chart!

The top 10 from this site: http://blog.tatu.ru/Media/

Doing really well there!

[Zezwer]

Weird album chart... it's a mix of albums, compilations and singles...

well at least finally there's an album chart from Russia... so far there have just been an Singles (airplay) chart.