Anyone have this information at their fingertips? I read somewhere that Main Offender peaked at #99 on the Billboard Chart. That would seem to suggest sales of just a few thousand copies, a real shame. I bet a lot of YOU have never even heard it!

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"What do you want - what?!"
- Keith

It definitely deserved better than #99 - perhaps the best "Stones" album since the 70s.

Thanks for the link, with sssoul. Looks like Main Offender sold about as well as a Bill Wyman album! No wonder Keith hasn't bothered to do another one! If you've never heard it, by all means, get it. I was in Best Buy yesterday and was pleased to see that they had all three Keith solo albums in stock .... $11.99 each.

Keith's chart runs:

1. TALK IS CHEAP
UK Date: 15/10/1988 - Run: *37*-59-88 (3 wks)
US Date: 22/10/1988 - Run: 75-36-31-27-*24*-26-29-30-42-50-50- (11 wsf)
07/01/1989: 54-59-73-82-96-122-122-155-163-171-166-183 (23 wks)

Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks hits:
Take It So Hard (#3, 9 wks on chart)
You Don't Move Me (#18, 13 wks on chart)
Struggle (#47, 4 wks on chart)

US Gold Award: June 20, 1989


2. MAIN OFFENDER
UK Date: 31/10/1992 - Run: *45* (1 wk)
US Date: 07/11/1992 - Run: *99*-130-145-158-164-184-0-0- (6 wsf)
02/01/1993: 196-0-0-0-0-192-197-0-200 (10-6c wks)
Total # of re-entries: 3

Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks hits:
Wicked As It Seems (#3, 18 wks on chart)
Eileen (#17, 9 wks on chart)

thank you kindly, GeorgeLicks!
weird indeed that Main Offender didn't sell better than that.
another of those bizarre unsolved sales-chart mysteries ... hmp.




"What do you want - what?!"
- Keith

While TIC had all the pre hype going I thought MO was much better. TIC had Keith doing his version of How Do You Sleep? on there, the good lead off single. I remember TIC was very big on the College charts. there was a coolness to the Keith solo album in the alternative circles. Maybe it was the anti Jaggerisms in play. But then by MO the novelty had worn off. This is too bad becasue by then that band had become just lethal. Keith was much more comfortable as a frontman and bandleader. Steve Jordan had calmed down a little. There were more finished produced tunes on MO. And also the one thing that went up while sales wnet down was the attendance and impact of the Wino's liveshows. Keith might have not been sellingmmany albums but he was selling tickets.

What about goddess in the doorway ? I've heard that sales were really bad.
Is it true ?