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Purple Rain Re-Enters Charts Purple Rain re-enters the Billboard 200 this week at 161.
But where are ANY other Prince albums? Even "Very Best of" hasn't popped up on the charts for ages?
Yet, Michael Jackson, Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, AC/DC, Eagles, Pink Floyd, Tom Petty, Nirvana, The Beach Boys, Guns N Roses, Amy Winehouse, Elvis Presley, 2Pac, etc. almost always have multiple albums firmly lodged on the Billboard 200 every single week.
Do the Beach Boys and Tom Petty really have that much more relevance to today's music consumer?
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Maybe not to the current music consumer but the average music consumer these days doesn't buy music. The music consumers of past generations do, however, which is what keeps/reinstates some of these artists' names on the charts. | |
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Amy Winehouse charts regularly? Now that's surprising! | |
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What do all those other albums have in common? Other than Thriller (which at least contains "Beat It") they're all classic rock records. Older fans of that music listen to the same albums over and over for decades, and Purple Rain is Prince's only album with classic rock appeal. The people buying/streaming "Stairway To Heaven", "Back In Black", "Hotel California", "Sweet Child O' Mine" and "Go Your Own Way" are the same ones buying/streaming "Purple Rain" and "Let's Go Crazy" over and over each week. Madonna doesn't really have that kind of album in her catalogue and is rarely on the BB200 these days. Be glad Prince has at least one album with that kind of enduring appeal! |
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Prince also re-enters Billboard's Top 100 Artists Chart at Number 99. | |
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Back To Black is one of the best-selling albums of all time and its iconic hits still get radio play. I imagine it will hover on the 200 for years to come. | |
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Yeah all these albums are classic rock albums, and for those artists especially like Guns N Roses and Nirvana those were those artists calling card, Amy Whineshouse is like Alanis Morrisette one album that people latched onto, also expect Alanis to resurface with Jagged for a while now.the others Presley the Beatles Fleetwood Mac, all legends with album sales, and the Eagles could sell an empty album and people would buy ten million of it, Prince on the other hand lets be real it's PR and that's it "We went where our music was appreciated, and that was everywhere but the USA, we knew we had fans, but there is only so much of the world you can play at once" Magne F | |
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Prince has been re-entering the charts whenever reissues have come out, right? Or at the very least, the vinyl charts... which is the kind of chart where you're likely to see his name popping up these days. | |
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