Its incredible how many of these Banquet have sold a few weeks back after it had been on sale for 3 or 4 days so well past its peak i still managed to add 1300 across the formats to my basket and go for a pretend checkout ,i wouldnt be surprised if they alone have sold 7 or 8000 of these
More than annoying that one of his biggest radio hits, "Dial Drunk" is not on the standard version of the album, but yeah, he's pretty popular right now - was recently on SNL, summer tour dates were on sale almost a year prior, etc.
"saw" him last weekend as part of a festival and didn't make it past one song, but he has a huge following. the younger folks seem to really relate to him. He was basically the 2nd top bill of the show, so take that for what it is. I can understand how this has sold out so quickly. either for the flip as he gets bigger or there are just a lot of fans, or both is probably the real reason.