seems like the olympics helped shift a few more copies of
GREATEST HITS !!
also NO 1 No2 No3 No 6 No 10 no 12 no 17 n0 36 in uk rock charts !!that must be a record
I haven't checked out the charts, but I presume the other chart positions will be singles charts listings for individual tracks (WWRY, WATC, Bo Rhap etc..)
Rhianna has just got the number 1 spot with a record low (less than 10 thousand units). I reckon for Queen to get to number 79 they must have sold 38 copies of Greatest Hits
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mooghead wrote: Rhianna has just got the number 1 spot with a record low (less than 10 thousand units). I reckon for Queen to get to number 79 they must have sold 38 copies of Greatest Hits
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WTF? Are you kidding? Even in the Netherlands, with only a tiny music industry, you don't even get a gold record for 10 000 units sold (that is given at 25 000, I think). If your figures are accurate, it suddenly becomes very cheap for a major record label to get an album way up in the charts by just buying their own stock.
no wonder EMI are headed into bankruptcy
they sent one of their messengers into HMV to "buy back a load of old EMI pressed queen cds" and he came back with hundreds of copies of the universal reissues
These are wonderful news. I love to see Queen flying high in the charts, even if they are segregated charts (rock singles charts).
Let's hope we will still be able to see them up there in the regular chart and with new material.
Cheers,
Ogre-
wouldn't hold your breath on that one
the last "new material" - The Cosmos Sucks
sold a staggering 37,000 copies in the USA - a country of 250 million people - peaking at no47 and only being on the billboard chart for two weeks
brENsKi wrote: wouldn't hold your breath on that one
the last "new material" - The Cosmos Sucks
sold a staggering 37,000 copies in the USA - a country of 250 million people - peaking at no47 and only being on the billboard chart for two weeks
Getting an album to chart isn't nearly as difficult as it once was...
brENsKi wrote:
wouldn't hold your breath on that one
the last "new material" - The Cosmos Sucks
sold a staggering 37,000 copies in the USA - a country of 250 million people - peaking at no47 and only being on the billboard chart for two weeks
Not surprised since everyone says Queen is not that popular in the US. How did it do in the UK?
no5, 6 weeks on chart
here's the full(ish) list - ighest position first then weeks on chart
Estonia 1 10
Czech Republic 4 7
Germany 4 7
Switzerland[12] 5 7
United Kingdom 5 6
Italy 6 5
Netherlands 8 7
Greece 9 1
Austria 11 8
Hungary 15 1
Finland 15 2
Belgium 18 8
Spain 20 6
Denmark 24 1
Sweden 24 5
Portugal 25 1
France 28 4
Norway[ 31 1
Canada 33 1
Japan 40 6
Malta 20 2
United States 47 2
Ireland 47 1
Australia 49 1
Those figures are shocking. There cant have been any promotion or distribution in half those countries. Granted the album is mediocre but there are a few decent songs. Were there really 23 better sounding albums selling in Denmark on that single week it was in the charts?
e-man wrote:
too bad it wasn't released in 2012 - I suppose 37k would have easily been a top 10 in the US?
the whole debate about sale figures is outdated anyway
you need to explain this last statement - because although bands make money the opposite way around to in years gone by - where they used to tour to promote album sales, now they release an album to promote tour ticket sales
so surely without album sales, there's less interest in a tour?
Well, I think it must be noted Rihanna sold 10 000 in a week, and not since the release date. Still, a poor week for UK standards indeed. As for The Cosmos Rocks, I'm surpised it got to no. 47 in the States at all. Remember that Made in Heaven, a huge release at the time, charted only for a week there in 1995 and reached no. 58! How bad is that?? Anyway, TCR was very average and did not contain a single hit. But I won't go on about this, as most of you probably know what my opinion on QPR is.
