Quotetreaclefingers QuoteGasLightStreet Quotetreaclefingers Quotegeorgelicks Quotetreaclefingers I remember at the time that it failed to reach the top 10 which broke their longest streak of top 10 albums of any artist if my memory is correct. Correct, it reached #15 on Billboard ending a string of 26 consecutive albums in the Top 10 between 12x5 and Emotional Rescue. That string of consecu
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Quotetreaclefingers I remember at the time that it failed to reach the top 10 which broke their longest streak of top 10 albums of any artist if my memory is correct. Correct, it reached #15 on Billboard ending a string of 26 consecutive albums in the Top 10 between 12x5 and Emotional Rescue. That string of consecutive Top 10 albums remains an all time record up to this day.
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The main hit singles from that era is a pretty good list: Emotional Rescue She's So Cold Start Me Up Waiting On A Friend Undercover Of The Night She Was Hot Harlem Shuffle One Hit Mixed Emotions Rock And A Hard Place
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QuoteDoxa Looking at the UK single charts, they had no problem getting top 20 with most leading singles all the way to "Streets Of Love" that made #15 (quite good, huh?). Then dramatical fall ("Doom And Gloom" #61, "Living In A Ghost Town" #61), reflecting the tendency happened earlier in the US Charts. Actually, the last UK number one is "Honky Tonk Women"
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QuoteHere are Spotify stats for the songs you mentioned: "Shot In The Dark" ": 35 million streams "Ghosts": 7 million streams "Living In A Ghost Town": 35 million streams Looking at those numbers all one can say is that (a) none of them are any real hits by the criterion of topping any major charts (except some special/artificial 'rock chart',
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Over 1.1 million views in 30 hours, not bad for a guy reaching 78 years old in 2 months, that's the way things work right now, a surprise drop, no physical format available, quick, fast and collect views on Youtube.
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Well, according to Mick the new stuff hurts the Stones legacy, "it has to be very good" on his own words. After ABB he lost interest in music too, he didn't release a solo album in 20 years either, only a couple of new songs here and there and I'm sure he has over 50 songs or demos written during the last 15+ years.
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HOT ROCKS reaches 350 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart this week, only 29 albums reached that mark in the US since 1958. The Dark Side Of The Moon, Pink Floyd Legend: The Best Of..., Bob Marley And The Wailers Journey's Greatest Hits, Journey Metallica, Metallica Greatest Hits, Guns N' Roses Curtain Call: The Hits, Eminem Johnny's Greatest Hits, Johnny Mathis My Fair Lady
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QuoteTell that to Paul McCartney. Since 2006, he's released 4 albums of completely new material, one cover album, 2 classical(!) albums, one 'super group' album, and has launched his own (arguably better than the Stones) Archives line. All while touring like mad. Or if we want someone not exactly on the same level as the Stones, let's look at Bruce Springsteen. Since 2006,
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Seeing some of the latest releases from vintage acts, one can see why the Stones are not in the rush to end the album. No release from any old act lasted more than a month in the charts, actually almost no one survived after the second week, and without a tour to bundle the album and get more sales is even worse. Mick is very aware of that, too much hard work only for the die hards, a bette
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Quotewalkingthedog QuoteKRiffhard Quotegotdablouse Andbon NP Mick sounds exactly like he did on Primitive Cool so...each to their own I suppose ;-) NP seems a Primitive Cool outtake I agree, although it could be from She's The Boss. The vocals are very close to War Baby on some parts, the same style, so it looks like end of 86 or 87 to me.
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Quoteyearsinthemaking We know there are extensive recordings of the '78 and '81 tours. My belief is that they have numerous earlier shows recorded as well. The Stones were ahead of the curve when it came to audio and light effects at shows. They also have long been the wealthiest touring band out there. I just can't believe that the number of shows they have available wouldn&
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UK sales for previous Christmas #1 Albums: 2020 Paul McCartney 33,079 2019 Rod Stewart 47,495 2018 The Greatest Showman 61,328 2017 Eminem 131,622 Bonus: #10 album on the chart was Noel Gallagher with 36,692 2016 Michael Ball & Alfie Boe 109,708 Bonus: Blue and Lonesome was at #4 with 57,483 The collapse of album sales in the past 4-5 years is impressive to see, one
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It's amazing how low the sales are in the UK this year, Taylor Swift just hit #1 with only 27k, Macca will be #1 on Christmas week with less than 50k sold. Blue and Lonesome sold 105k in the first week of December 2016, the entire Top 6 on Christmas week sold over 50k that year including B&L at #4 with 58k sold in the 4th week, sales are down over 50% in less than 4 years.
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QuoteStoneage I don't know, Dandy. I guess this album is rather fresh still. Maybe Bruce is not going down with the kids? Probably not. Heavy radio rotation though. A very radio friendly song. Radio is about 10-15% of the singles charts these days, 70% is streaming and 10-15% sales. The #1 song on rock radio or Triple A radio is not even on the US Hot 100.
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4th Album to make the Billboard 200 on 2020: * Hot Rocks (#133, 23 weeks) * Honk (#163, 1 week) * Goats Head Soup (#19, 2 weeks) * Steel Wheels Live (#180, 1 week)
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The CD/Digital version debuted at #180 on this week's BILLBOARD 200 with 5k, it also debuted at #1 on the Music Videos chart. It is the 4th album to chart on the BILLBOARD 200 in 2020 after Hot Rocks, Honk and Goats Head Soup. It also debuted at #2 on Germany and #9 in the Netherlands.
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About Some Girls re-issue: it was released during the 2011' thanksgiving week with high sales for seasonal albums, it debuted low on Billboard (#46) but with respectable sales during the first week (24,000 copies sold). It remained 6 weeks (46-92-122-125-135-193) on the Top 200 during the whole 2011 Christmas season selling over 130k in that time, not bad but almost 300k less copies than
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QuoteGasLightStreet Doxa, I'm going to walk out on a limb that doesn't even need to be walked out on: just the GHS deluxe reissue in its entirety will have faded in its streaming numbers by mid October at the latest: it was a huge flavor of the week thing. Scarlet had a lot of press because it crossed thanks to Jimmy Page. If All The Rage had been released first it probably would ha
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From Billboard: Soup-y Sales The deluxe reissue of The Rolling Stones’ 1973 No. 1 album, Goats Head Soup, prompts the set’s reentry at No. 19 on the Billboard 200 and its debut at No. 1 on Top Rock Albums and Catalog Albums. The LP earned 21,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 10, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data (up 7,890%) of that sum, 18,000 are in album sales, resulti
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GHS chart debuts (or re-entries) so far: #1 Austria #1 UK (16,800 copies / 13,107 copies on week 1 and 3.600 copies on week 2 charting at #14) #1 Scotland #2 Germany #2 Belgium (Flanders) #3 Swiss #6 Netherlands #6 France (3,300 copies) #7 Portugal #8 Sweden #8 Spain #8 Belgium (Wallony) #13 Ireland #14 Norway #16 Finland #17 Australia #19 USA (#3 on sales only, #19 including
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Also posted on the GHS thread: 1973 2020
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QuoteStoneage This interview was on a breakfast show on BBC 2 Radio. It was aimed for the broad public. Not fans solely. Hence the questions. As I said you can tell she's not a big Stones fan. But one can't demand that. This is primarily PR. They have a new product and want to advertise it. To everyone. Not nerds only. The questions are secondary... It was all PR to hype the album i
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1973 2020
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QuoteDoxa QuoteDandelionPowderman 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... - Doxa They had 3 albums at #2 in the UK during the 00's, and 2 were very unlucky: - Forty Licks (3 weeks at #2, debuted at #2 selling nea
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From Music Week: We are used to the sight of catalogue albums receiving special edition spruce-ups and journeying back into the charts after an absence of years or even decades. Regular readers of these pages will note that rare are the weeks in which at least one vintage recording doesn’t make a returning impact. But it appears to be left to the Rolling Stones to take these comebacks to an en
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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 bac
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#1 confirmed in the UK, amazing achievement.
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The album is on sale on UK's iTunes, Amazon and the oficial store, they want that #1 tomorrow.
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The Rolling Stones pull ahead of Declan McKenna in this week's Official Albums Chart race The Rolling Stones have pulled ahead of Declan McKenna in the nail-bitingly close race for this week’s Number 1 album. After holding at Number 2 throughout the week, The Rolling Stones’ reissue of their 1973 album Goats Head Soup has steadily been gaining ground and the Official Charts Company can
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