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...And the worst part of it is, this comes after the Hip's best record in years...it risks robbing them of a chance to build on the ears perked up by IBE...

Whose ears were percked up??? other than on this sight, That album didn't sell worth a shit.

IBE sold fairly well. It went Platinum (100,000 copies) in just 4 months.

Check out the CRIA Database to see how all of their albums have sold: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.cria.ca/cert_db_search.php">http://www.cria.ca/cert_db_search.php</a><!-- m -->

EP - 200,000
UTH - 1,000,000
RA - 800,000
FC - 800,000
DFN - 600,000
Heksenketel - 50,000
TATH - 500,000
LBU - 200,000
PP - 300,000
MAW - 200,000
IVL - 100,000
IBE - 100,000

Thanks for that Chris, I didn't think it did nearly that well, but still the steady decline in album sale's is clear by your post.

Don't knock Bob Rock or the band until the album comes out.