love2thenines2003 said:

muleFunk said:

Parade Deluxe.

I hope to see that but I have doubts.... from what I hear from some birds...the Parade SPDL.would be cancelled again ...so?

Super Parade Deluxe is the most logical choice as the next one to do.

ludwig said:

#20 on Billboard 200

After 3 decades

RODSERLING said:

Moreover, I m sure SOTT made more money in Germany last week, than in its original week of release in 1987. So this is even more amazing.

I'm not so sure about that.

Would be interesting to see if the sales of the deluxe set make the RIAA certify it at 2x Platinum in USA as it is stated to have sold over 1.6 million in USA alone.

RIAA still has SOTT as 1x Platinum, but Chartmasters including sales plus streaming has it as

• US – 2,550,000 sold...

ludwig said:

ludwig said:

RODSERLING said:

Smittyrock70 said: SOTT originally peaked at #17 in Germany. The only other best peak position of Prince in this country was Batman, peaking at #3 too. This new peak is really impressive.

You can't compare record sales in the 1980ies with todays market situation. Back then you had to sell MANY more records to enter the top 10 than nowadays. I wouldn't be surprised if the album sold better in the week were it peaked at #17 than last week.

We need total numbers, not chart positions.

[Edited 10/5/20 15:21pm]

But surely you also need to compare the album in the time it's selling in. There are raw numbers, but it's also relative.

love2thenines2003 said:

muleFunk said:

I heard it's in the pipeline along with two more.

From Duane Tudahl (last interview in french magazine Funku) «Of course, I can't reveal the content of the next project, but the Prince Estate is working on something unexpected, surprising, profound and very complete. Prince has recorded so much music, and I think we'll be talking about these reissues for the next twenty or thirty years, if not more.» Any guesses ?

Tell Me How U Wanna Be Done (Josh Welton Remaster)

RODSERLING said:

NoSwan said:

It's so nice to see this kind of success for the box set. I still think "Forever In My Life (Early Vocal Run-Through) should have been a single pushed at radio as an edit which would have been helped even more.

RODSERLING said:

NoSwan said:

Last week SOTT entered the Italian Top 100 Album Chart at n.38, this week evaporated... From the other side, one should consider that this list is full of Italian trash trap phenomena...

But SOTT NEVER entered the french charts

I'm just looking on Wikipedia, and they don't list the French charts at all for albums and singles.

Did he never chart there?

leecaldon said:

In germany the album dropped from #3 to #46.

http://www.mtv.de/charts/70tgrf/album-top-100

[Edited 10/10/20 18:45pm]

RODSERLING said:

leecaldon said:

I'm just looking on Wikipedia, and they don't list the French charts at all for albums and singles.

Did he never chart there?

Of course it charted in 1987(#24 best sellling album of the year) and in 2016 at#61. Wikipédia is not comprehensive at all. [Edited 10/10/20 8:54am]

That sounds more like it. I wonder why they don't list his French chart history.

After two weeks the album disappeared from the german top 100 album charts.

RODSERLING said:

SOTT is now out of the top 100 sales albums in the UK. It was #47 last week, after peaking at #4 the week before. Ouch.

That's good numbers for a high priced box set in an era where full albums don't sell well.

kewlschool said:

RODSERLING said:

SOTT is now out of the top 100 sales albums in the UK. It was #47 last week, after peaking at #4 the week before. Ouch.

That's good numbers for a high priced box set in an era where full albums don't sell well.

I'm not sure how many weeks anyone expected a boxset like this, costing 10x a regular album, to hang around in the charts for. I'm sure it will chug away for a long time to come - a few people might be getting it as a gift the next few months.