Thread started 08/03/21 9:14amNumber23 |
Welcome 2 America currently at Number 3 in UK album charts Good result, kudos to Sony Legacy's marketing department.
Certainly changed days from 1999 when I strode valliantly into HMV to buy Rave. The guy actually laughed as he shouted the full album title across to his collegue at the back of shop to see if they had it. You could have lit a cigarette off my face. Cue a tiny cardboard box being produced with two or three copies in it - they hadn't even bothered to display them.
https://www.nme.com/news/music/billie-eilishs-happier-than-ever-is-currently-outselling-the-rest-of-the-uks-top-10-combined-3009567
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Reply #1 posted 08/03/21 11:41am
FunkyBrotha |
Wow impressive result here. And I haven't even bought it yet ! What's the cut off for the first weeks chart position |
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Reply #2 posted 08/03/21 3:34pm
KoolEaze |
Wow, that´s a bit of a surprise to me considering that it isn´t even in the top 100 in Germany or the Netherlands. " I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" |
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Reply #3 posted 08/03/21 5:07pm
SquirrelMeat
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It just beat the UK chart positions of 1999, Purple Rain, ATWIAD, Parade and Sign O The Times! . |
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Reply #4 posted 08/03/21 9:35pm
dodgydicko |
Thats the midweek chart , the sales would have been front loaded , i would be very surprised if its top 10 by the time the chart is released on Friday. |
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Reply #5 posted 08/04/21 3:06am
leecaldon
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Number23 said:
Good result, kudos to Sony Legacy's marketing department.
Certainly changed days from 1999 when I strode valliantly into HMV to buy Rave. The guy actually laughed as he shouted the full album title across to his collegue at the back of shop to see if they had it. You could have lit a cigarette off my face. Cue a tiny cardboard box being produced with two or three copies in it - they hadn't even bothered to display them.
https://www.nme.com/news/music/billie-eilishs-happier-than-ever-is-currently-outselling-the-rest-of-the-uks-top-10-combined-3009567
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That was when Tower Records in Piccadilly Circus did a giveaway with the album the week of its release, thus rendering opening week sales ineligible for the charts. |
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Reply #6 posted 08/04/21 5:54am
JAYJOE |
leecaldon said:
Number23 said:
Good result, kudos to Sony Legacy's marketing department.
Certainly changed days from 1999 when I strode valliantly into HMV to buy Rave. The guy actually laughed as he shouted the full album title across to his collegue at the back of shop to see if they had it. You could have lit a cigarette off my face. Cue a tiny cardboard box being produced with two or three copies in it - they hadn't even bothered to display them.
https://www.nme.com/news/music/billie-eilishs-happier-than-ever-is-currently-outselling-the-rest-of-the-uks-top-10-combined-3009567
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That was when Tower Records in Piccadilly Circus did a giveaway with the album the week of its release, thus rendering opening week sales ineligible for the charts.
What was the giveaway? I dont recall hearing of this!, and how would tower doing a giveaway make it ineligible as stores often do that and sounds mighty unfair to Prince if ONE store giving something away with the album denied him chart placing!!!! he might have better luck if he was drummin with his Dick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Reply #7 posted 08/04/21 6:05am
MattUK |
dodgydicko said:
Thats the midweek chart , the sales would have been front loaded , i would be very surprised if its top 10 by the time the chart is released on Friday.
sadly likely to be true.
all the preorders will have been taken into account.. and now its down to streaming numbers for the rest of the week + any physical purchases that weren't pre-orders.
it would be nice if it held on to a Top10 place by Friday but I suspect that's not going to happen. |
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Reply #8 posted 08/06/21 11:30am
leecaldon
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Charted at #5 in the official UK chart. That sounds excellent to me. |
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Reply #9 posted 08/06/21 12:59pm
JudasSmile |
leecaldon said:
Charted at #5 in the official UK chart. That sounds excellent to me.
It's pretty great, I agree. It will probably be out of the top 100 in three weeks' time, but it's a strong start.
U been bamboozled, hoodwinked, took. |
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Reply #10 posted 08/06/21 1:47pm
RODSERLING
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JudasSmile said:
leecaldon said:
Charted at #5 in the official UK chart. That sounds excellent to me.
It's pretty great, I agree. It will probably be out of the top 100 in three weeks' time, but it's a strong start.
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Reply #11 posted 08/06/21 4:50pm
MattUK |
#5 is better than I thought.
I really like this album. I know we're all used to Ps idiosyncrasies.. but why did he leave this one on the shelf? |
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Reply #12 posted 08/06/21 11:13pm
nextedition
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KoolEaze said:
Wow, that´s a bit of a surprise to me considering that it isn´t even in the top 100 in Germany or the Netherlands.
Its number 2 in holland |
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Reply #13 posted 08/07/21 6:11am
Nightcrawler |
It‘s No. 3 in Germany! See the man with the blue guitar, maybe one day he`ll be a star... |
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Reply #14 posted 08/08/21 1:03pm
KoolEaze |
nextedition said:
KoolEaze said:
Wow, that´s a bit of a surprise to me considering that it isn´t even in the top 100 in Germany or the Netherlands.
Its number 2 in holland
OK then.....good news.
I googled " Dutch album charts" and could not see it in the top 100. " I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" |
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Reply #15 posted 08/08/21 1:04pm
KoolEaze |
Nightcrawler said:
It‘s No. 3 in Germany!
They did some nice promo work in Berlin, renaming the Prinzenstr. to Prince-Str. and lots of posters everywhere. " I´d rather be a stank ass hoe because I´m not stupid. Oh my goodness! I got more drugs! I´m always funny dude...I´m hilarious! Are we gonna smoke?" |
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Reply #16 posted 08/08/21 2:12pm
Blondies1973 |
It’s no 2 in the vinyl chart in Sweden, so that’s at least some consolation, even if the low ranking in the overall chart here is hard to understand. |
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Reply #17 posted 08/08/21 3:13pm
PURPLEIZED3121 |
RODSERLING said:
JudasSmile said:
It's pretty great, I agree. It will probably be out of the top 100 in three weeks' time, but it's a strong start.
Rod...we need you on this ! Are you doing a thread on sales / chart positions etc...damn well hope so! |
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Reply #18 posted 08/08/21 3:45pm
RODSERLING
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PURPLEIZED3121 said:
RODSERLING said: JudasSmile said:
It's pretty great, I agree. It will probably be out of the top 100 in three weeks' time, but it's a strong start.
Rod...we need you on this ! Are you doing a thread on sales / chart positions etc...damn well hope so! But I do my job here many times a day! : https://prince.org/msg/7/...?&pg=3 |
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Reply #19 posted 08/09/21 7:53am
PURPLEIZED3121 |
RODSERLING said:
PURPLEIZED3121 said:
Rod...we need you on this ! Are you doing a thread on sales / chart positions etc...damn well hope so!
But I do my job here many times a day! : https://prince.org/msg/7/...?&pg=3
ha..should've known by now! |
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