Commercial Performance
In the week ending on September 23, 2009, the album debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 104,000 copies in its first week of release, charting behind Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3, Whitney Houston's I Look To You and Muse's The Resistance. On the 2009 year-end chart for Billboards 200, Man on the Moon: The End of Day was listed at number one-hundred-fifty-seven. The album also charted and peaked at the same position on Billboard's Rap Albums Chart. It failed to rise above its positions on those charts and would later be outperformed by his next studio album, Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager (2010). Man on the Moon: The End of Day also peaked within Billboards Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums top ten positions.
After being released over a year ago, in November 2010, Man on the Moon: The End of Day was certified gold for shipping over 500,000 copies in the United States by the RIAA, which is its only certification. In the UK Albums Chart it charted at number one-hundred-nineteen, and again did not rise above this position and had a better chart performance on its R&B Albums Charts, where it peaked at number eight. In the French Album Charts it debuted at number fifty-six, and again did not rise above this position. After charting on the chart for five consecutive weeks, it fell out of the top two-hundred positions by October 2009. Man on the Moon: The End of Day also found its peak at number fifty-six again on the Swiss Album Charts. In Australia, on the week commencing September 28, 2009, the album reached its peak of eighty-five on their ARIA Chart.
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