R@inmaker
Educated Fool
Maiden makes the vast amount of their $ on touring and merchandising. The studio albums are nothing but an excuse to make $ on tour and to get their creative juice flowing. They know there's no money in new music these days. End of story. When they tour they make tens of millions. When they put an album out, they might make a couple hundred grand in profit, max. That's the biz these days.Calm down man if you want to talk normal.
12 mil.on YT is not a such a big number today. In metal music it is, but overall is not very big. But here Maiden are comparing to world wide music in charts.
We all now that this Maiden marketing is joke and they are not investing money in it. That is ok for me, if you want to have numbers you need to put a big effort in it. Just like Metallica now with Black Album.
Maiden are not doing that so we cannot expect that sales and streams going through the roof.
And I belive that with this video game they are making a lot of money so they dont care really about sales and charts.