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Elmo Lewis
Sing It Again, Rod - now there's a damn fine collection of songs!
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Hairball
13,107 sales...doesn't take much these days to make the charts and specifically have a number 1, and I'd bet the members on this site are responsible for 90% of those sales!
Such a low number it seems almost meaningless, but hats off to the Stones anyways - Mick and Keith surely did their share of promo work to make it happen!
Maybe if and when there's a brand new album they'll be able to repeat the feat? Wondering how many sales it took for Blue and Lonesome to hit #1 in the UK?
"At 47 years old it isn’t quite the oldest album to top the charts, nor the one with the longest gap,
those records still held by Abbey Road by The Beatles which returned to No.1 last year on its 50th anniversary".
The Beatles still setting the high bar after all these years, and also have more number 1 albums in total at 15.
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EDIT: Curious as to where the new has GHS landed on the US charts? The Stones usually seem to do better in the UK.
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peoplewitheyes
The Heartbreaker instrumental has a Neil Young 'On the Beach' feel to it
Man, I can't get enough of this version. If only I had some something to inhale that aint just air...
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Hairball
13,107 sales...doesn't take much these days to make the charts and specifically have a number 1, and I'd bet the members on this site are responsible for 90% of those sales!
Such a low number it seems almost meaningless, but hats off to the Stones anyways - Mick and Keith surely did their share of promo work to make it happen!
Maybe if and when there's a brand new album they'll be able to repeat the feat? Wondering how many sales it took for Blue and Lonesome to hit #1 in the UK?
"At 47 years old it isn’t quite the oldest album to top the charts, nor the one with the longest gap,
those records still held by Abbey Road by The Beatles which returned to No.1 last year on its 50th anniversary".
The Beatles still setting the high bar after all these years, and also have more number 1 albums in total at 15.
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EDIT: Curious as to where the new has GHS landed on the US charts? The Stones usually seem to do better in the UK.
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georgelicks
Rolling Stones Break Records As ‘Goats Head Soup’ Returns To UK No.1
The new success is the Stones’ 13th UK No.1 album, and they become the first band to have UK bestsellers in six different decades.
Published on September 11, 2020
By Paul Sexton
At the end of a close-fought chart battle, the Rolling Stones’ expanded, multi-format reissue of Goats Head Soup has taken the 1973 album back to No.1 in the UK.
The album narrowly saw off the challenge of 21-year-old English singer-songwriter Declan McKenna’s second album Zeros, which had led in earlier midweek data from the Official Charts Company. The Stones pulled ahead in sales to the end of Wednesday (9) and maintained their lead to the close of the chart week at midnight last night. They won the race by the tiny margin of just over 800 combined units.
The new success gives the band their 13th UK No.1 album, drawing them level with the totals achieved by Elvis Presley and Robbie Williams. Only The Beatles now have more, with 15. Goats Head Soup was also this week’s bestseller in physical sales alone.
No.1s across six decades
The OCC has confirmed that the No.1 achievement means that the Rolling Stones are the first band in UK chart history to achieve chart-topping UK albums in six different decades. The sequence extends to more than 56 years, since their self-titled debut album spent the first of 12 consecutive weeks at No.1 in May 1964. The new feat also repeats the success of the 2010 deluxe reissue of 1972’s Exile On Main St., which returned to the summit after 48 years.
Goats Head Soup was first released on August 31, 1973, and debuted at the top of the UK chart for the week of September 22 that year. It spent two consecutive weeks at the summit, and six in the top ten. This week’s survey has the band leading a top five that also features, in order, McKenna, Pop Smoke, Nines and Taylor Swift.
Forty-seven years ago, their Top 5 rivals in the album’s debut week were Rod Stewart, who’d been on top the week before with the compilation Sing It Again Rod; easy listening acts Peters & Lee and the Carpenters; and David Bowie with Aladdin Sane.
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DandelionPowderman
I swore not to, but I caved in and got the album with the alternate cover + single as well.
I never learn
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DandelionPowderman
I swore not to, but I caved in and got the album with the alternate cover + single as well.
I never learn
Did you or anyone else already receive it?
I ordered one and received it today, but I don't see any single in the package, maybe it's inside the album cover, but that sounds not believable? The problem is, that if I'm open it I probably can't sent it back if it isn't. I ordered the album only for the vinyl single, because I already ordered and received the double vinyl version.
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jbwelda
I fail to see how Hairball is being a "negative nancy". What he says is truth, 13k sales to make a #1, boy thats off a bit from back when. Just face the truth and stop personalizing it. Shooting the messenger seems all the rage these days, after first engaging in character assassination that is.
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peoplewitheyes
The Heartbreaker instrumental has a Neil Young 'On the Beach' feel to it
Man, I can't get enough of this version. If only I had some something to inhale that aint just air...
Totaly agree!! Love this version!
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Rockman
#1 album is a #1 album....... YEAH thats it ...
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DandelionPowderman
Which album topped the charts in the 00s?
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DandelionPowderman
Which album topped the charts in the 00s?
None, yeah, but it was very close. I recall SHINE A LIGHT losing the number one spot just by a couple of dozen copies. Altogether they have 9 number two albums in UK...
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