QuoteGasLightStreet QuoteIrix QuoteGasLightStreet If there's a second disc for 2 tracks someone needs to be fired - they can be added on after BLACK AND BLUE, since it's 41 minutes long. Second disc maybe for the Vinyl edition - similar to 'Blue & Lonesome' with 3 tracks per side - the 'Black and Blue' original gatefold packaging would make sense then. V
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Blue and Lonesome - 2.4 m. worldwide (370,000 in the US) HD - 1.4 m. worldwide (250,000 in the US)
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QuoteGasLightStreet It's reasonable to see that the fan base is different than concert attendees: STEEL WHEELS/URBAN JUNGLE had about twice the attendance as record sales. More people saw the VOODOO tour than bought the album world wide (not that that really means a lot since there are many countries they don't play shows in but also attendance was hardly more than record sales)
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Quotemailexile67 @Georgelicks Is the mixing finished? Is Ronnie involved in it or only Mick and Andrew Watt? What is the favourite period according to Umg for a release:end of November or next year in the Spring supporter by a possibile Tour? The album is still being mixed, that's the last update from 5-6 days ago, mostly Andrew Watt and his team with Mick in/out all the time, both Ronn
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Quotetreaclefingers Quotetiffanyblu QuoteBig Al Quotemailexile67 ABB sold over 2.5 worldwide B&L sold over 2.5 worldwide HD sold almost 1.5 worldwide Not bad at all for albums since 2000. And Blue & Lonesome did particularly well in the U.K., or I've read, here. HD as well to my recollection, worse in the US. HD actually did worse in the US than almost anywhere else. Quickl
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QuoteBarkerboy2 Any news of the new album though? The album is being mixed right now, it should be done in 15 days or so with a late November or early December release as a strong posibility.
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30 Seconds Preview for all the tracks available here:
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QuoteGlimmerest Quotegeorgelicks Keith's work on the album is finished, he's back in New York and went to the Tribeca Film Festival yesterday. Mick and Ronnie are still in London with Andrew Watt, completing the final overdubs. They'll probably finish everything in a few days, and the album will go into final mixing, which will be finished by the end of June. Wow this is all
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Keith's work on the album is finished, he's back in New York and went to the Tribeca Film Festival yesterday. Mick and Ronnie are still in London with Andrew Watt, completing the final overdubs. They'll probably finish everything in a few days, and the album will go into final mixing, which will be finished by the end of June.
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Ok, some fresh information: The album is almost ready, 95% at least, some missing overdubs will be finished in the next few days, there are tracks in the mixing stage now and it is estimated that everything will be finished by the end of June or the beginning of July at the latest, very similar to the recording of Steel Wheels in 1989 which was from April to June of that year. Andrew Watt i
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If Black and Blue is ready to go in November, then the new album could be released in April/May 2026 if they want to tour Europe next year. The logical is to release the new album during the Christmas season this year with Black and Blue pushed to April 2026, but who knows.
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QuoteIrix QuoteProfessorWolf maybe my impression overall is wrong but they do seem as a group to be more open to older music then i would have ever thought That's interesting. Play them the album ‘The Rolling Stones’ (UK, 1964) and then let them decide whether they would spend their $25 on this album or rather on the next album by Taylor Swift (respectively a present-day musician).
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She owns the whole industry, the #1 by a very long shot, she devalued the cost of the original masters and paid less for them now than she would have in 2019, and there is no doubt that the re-recordings were a big boom to her crazy popularity the last few years, a 100% win in every aspect.
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Quotetreaclefingers Quotegeorgelicks The Stones have been recording in Metropolis for a month now, first Mick with Andrew Watt starting April 22/23, Keith a week later, and the rest joined between the 4th and 8th of this month. Andrew has barely posted on his Instagram for a month, so he must be working very hard on the album since he knows it's difficult to get everyone together at the s
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The Stones have been recording in Metropolis for a month now, first Mick with Andrew Watt starting April 22/23, Keith a week later, and the rest joined between the 4th and 8th of this month. Andrew has barely posted on his Instagram for a month, so he must be working very hard on the album since he knows it's difficult to get everyone together at the same time and he has to make the most
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That's at Metropolis Studios in London, Mick and Andrew are there since April 23 at least.
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Every new release has a team working on its promotion and a budget for it. no label is going to throw money away, no matter who you are and with Hackney Diamonds the entire budget was provided upfront, Universal knew that the album would remain in the charts for two months due to demand during the holiday season, and that nothing could be done after that, radio wouldn't play any new singles,
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QuoteGasLightStreet UMG's biggest issue was not releasing a (fourth) single just prior to the 2024 tour. UMG's 18 month plan turned out to be a bust: with a new single they could've done more in regard to sales for HD yet alone streaming, which is an aside regardless, but, you know, numbers. Instead they focused on various vinyl issues. Name/star recognition is not enough. That
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Quotekeefmick Georgelicks--is that from insider knowledge or an educated guess? A mix of both, Universal is ready to promote a new Stones album by late 2025. If all goes well it is a probable plan, if the album is finished by July it is a minimum of 4 months for the manufacturing of the vinyl so a release in the last week of November or the first of December is perfect to take advantage of t
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Quote2120Joe Other tidbits, -Ronnie scheduled at Glastonbury with Rod Stewart -Recording expected to be finished in May. Familiar studio reserved through June. Mixing in June, album release on late November (21, 28) or early December (5) to cash in during the Christmas season. They have the new album almost in the can from early 2023, plus 2-3 other songs with Charlie from 2019 and I'
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QuoteA whole different thing started in 2005. Horrible, really. It's amazing they toured. Financial amazement, Stones doing Stones, inventively dead. Nostalgia band. Nothing strange happened, in 2005-2007 the key members of the band (Mick, Keith and Charlie) reached retirement age, 65 years, and the band practically retired in 2007, since then they continued sporadically with mini tours
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Mick and Madonna at the Oscars party
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More but from Friday's night (Feb. 28) at the CCA Oscar Party in LA.
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Lots of pictures and videos of him at the party last night in LA with Andrew Watt, Adrien Brody, Jeff Bezos among many others.
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New Andrew Watt' interview in Rolling Stone: There are plenty of leftover songs from the Hackney Diamonds sessions, and Watts wants the Stones to finish them. “It was a prolific time for the band. Those sessions, they had amassed like 18 years of material,” Watt says. “There was so much to go through and there was so much to kind of choose from initially, and then there were new songs tha
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When Ghost Town came out, Mick and Keith said they had 5-6 songs finished from the 2019 sessions. In 2023, Mick said they had more songs finished with Charlie and they only chose 2 that went well with Hackney Diamonds, Mick also said they had several recorded takes of Driving Me Too Hard with Charlie but they didn't like it and re-recorded it with Steve Jordan. The question is whether the
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BILLBOARD HOT 100 - MARCH 10, 1984
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Undercover shared its release with an impressive number of albums and classic songs, the competition they faced at that time was fierce, much bigger than what they had faced in other years, a trend they would have to accept from then on. BILLBOARD 200 - DECEMBER 17, 1983 BILLBOARD HOT 100 - DECEMBER 24, 1983
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Rock Is the Second-Biggest Genre in the U.S. Why Was It Missing From the Grammys? Rock music may still be huge, but its current leading lights are putting up much smaller sales and streaming numbers than those in pop, R&B/hip-hop and country. BY ED CHRISTMAN This might have been the year that both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones won Grammy Awards, but older demographics who wa
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