Unless anybody can provide specific sales figures on these titles, along with reports on expected sales vs. absolute sales, this thread is completely moot.

How do we know how these titles are selling? I know of three WWEs on route near me. And we don't know shit about how Nelly is selling vs. how they expected it to sell. I doubt anybody at Stern was expecting to move thousands of those.

KISS has been confirmed as the next game immediately after the release of every Stern title over the past 4 years.

Pretty sure every single one of these arguments is refuted with the success of Metallica.

I'm not even a huge Maiden fan but I can see the parallels. Except with more international appeal.

And Maiden's artwork is a huge reason for their success - without Eddie we'd probably have never heard of em.

Maiden's international appeal is huge. And they are pretty "mainstream" as far as metal goes - you think metal you think Maiden. The Maiden section of Hot Topic has got to be at least as big as Metallica's.

I think you are underestimating the similarities a Maiden/Metallica pin have.

And Metallica has ONE song everybody knows (Enter Sandman). It's not like they are the beatles and "everybody knows their songs" isn't the reason the pin got made. Maiden's got Run to the Hills.