KOTB charting
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"Electric Arguments" reached number one on alternative rock charts. The trendy indie charts
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SusyLuvsPaul:
"the first number one in many years, for him"--I thought "Ocean's Kingdom" was number one on the classical charts, for a while. I read that here somewhere, I think.
Yes, you're right--I posted that a page or two ago, and about how some of his more recent albums (think Electric Arguments or his classical releases) reached #1, just not on the Billboard 200 chart, more on the non-mainstream charts.
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BOYCIE:
steveramon:
#12 in UK Charts This Week
According to the BBC chart it's number 10 not 12. I must admit i thought it would have dropped out of the top 20 myself.
It was #10 on BBC midweeks but fell to #12 by Sunday.
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Dequalify it if you like, but it's still a #1 and on Billboards jazz charts not just any jazz chart! I'm more than happy to be wrong about kisses being McCartneys only #1 in recent years, but were those charts part of a major music entity like Billboard? I'm asking because I'd really like to know. If they were that's even more impressive!
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left hand man:
Dequalify it if you like but it's still a #1 and on Billboards jazz charts not just any jazz chart! I'm more than happy to be wrong about kisses being McCartneys only #1 in recent years, but were those charts part of a major music entity like Billboard? I'm asking because I'd really like to know. If they were that's even more impressive!
I don't think anyone is trying to "dequalify" the fact that Paul hit #1 on the jazz chart, but it's not a feat he hasn't accomplished on other non-mainstream charts in recent years. That's what I was saying. As for the recent #1's, I think that they were on the Billboard chart, maybe other major charts as well, but please don't quote me on that.
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Just in case it's being missed, the major feat is reaching #1 on a major chart like Billboards! Non mainstream is cool, but this is mainstream, one of the majors!
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left hand man:
Just in case it's being missed, the major feat is reaching #1 on a major chart like Billboards! Non mainstream is cool, but this is mainstream, one of the majors!
I don't think anyone is not happy about that, don't worry. 75,000 units was more than I thought he would sell, not because the album isn't good, but because CD sales are in the toilet right now, and this is an album of standards covers. It's an impressive sales number for that type of album.
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75, ooo is misleading, I'd like to know what are the worldwide total sales so far?
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left hand man:
75, ooo is misleading, I'd like to know what are the worldwide total sales so far?
It's not worldwide, but here's what I found so far... In its first week of sales: United States: 74,000 (source: http://www.mediatraffic.de/)) United Kingdom: Paul McCartney's 33rd post-Beatles chart album, Kisses On The Bottom debuts at number three (23,849 sales), instantly becoming his highest charting solo set since 1997, when Flaming Pie reached number two. Kisses On The Bottom is 69 year old McCartney's follow-up to 2007's Memory Almost Full, which debuted and peaked at number five with first week sales of 21,246, and has so far sold 105,010 copies. Memory Almost Full was made up entirely of original songs, whereas only two of the 14 tracks on Kisses On The Bottom are McCartney compositions. The rest are covers of American standards, including It's Only A Paper Moon, I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter (source of the Kisses On The Bottom title) and Bye Bye Blackbird. (source: http://www.mediatraffic.de/))
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walliebaby:
left hand man:
75, ooo is misleading, I'd like to know what are the worldwide total sales so far?
It's not worldwide, but here's what I found so far... In its first week of sales: United States: 74,000 (source: http://www.mediatraffic.de/)) United Kingdom: Paul McCartney's 33rd post-Beatles chart album, Kisses On The Bottom debuts at number three (23,849 sales), instantly becoming his highest charting solo set since 1997, when Flaming Pie reached number two. Kisses On The Bottom is 69 year old McCartney's follow-up to 2007's Memory Almost Full, which debuted and peaked at number five with first week sales of 21,246, and has so far sold 105,010 copies. Memory Almost Full was made up entirely of original songs, whereas only two of the 14 tracks on Kisses On The Bottom are McCartney compositions. The rest are covers of American standards, including It's Only A Paper Moon, I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter (source of the Kisses On The Bottom title) and Bye Bye Blackbird. (source: http://www.mediatraffic.de/))
The same website (reliable or not, I don't know) puts KOTB sales at 155,000 globally.
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It's still selling, so we'll see soon enough what the final numbers are.
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left hand man:
It's still selling, so we'll see soon enough what the final numbers are.
Yup--it's only been out for, what, a week and a half? We'll not know final numbers for quite some time.
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cfergoid:
BOYCIE:
steveramon:
#12 in UK Charts This Week
According to the BBC chart it's number 10 not 12. I must admit i thought it would have dropped out of the top 20 myself.
It was #10 on BBC midweeks but fell to #12 by Sunday.
Yeah you're correct i checked. Why they bother with a midweek chart is beyond me.
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USA: 6 PAUL MCCARTNEY HEAR MUSIC 58,082 -22% KISSES ON THE BOTTOM
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jan:
USA: 6 PAUL MCCARTNEY HEAR MUSIC 58,082 -22% KISSES ON THE BOTTOM
Really? I'm shocked it stayed in the top 10 for a second week! Congrats to Paul!
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left hand man:
Just in case it's being missed, the major feat is reaching #1 on a major chart like Billboards! Non mainstream is cool, but this is mainstream, one of the majors!
the Billboard Jazz chart is as relevant as the square wheel, i like your enthusiasm tho
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Macsback:
left hand man:
Just in case it's being missed, the major feat is reaching #1 on a major chart like Billboards! Non mainstream is cool, but this is mainstream, one of the majors!
the Billboard Jazz chart is as relevant as the square wheel, i like your enthusiasm tho
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Macsback:
left hand man:
Just in case it's being missed, the major feat is reaching #1 on a major chart like Billboards! Non mainstream is cool, but this is mainstream, one of the majors!
the Billboard Jazz chart is as relevant as the square wheel, i like your enthusiasm tho
Omg I just spit out my orange juice. Thank you, I really needed a good laugh! Sad it's true though..
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jan:
USA: 6 PAUL MCCARTNEY HEAR MUSIC 58,082 -22% KISSES ON THE BOTTOM
You know I'm especially surprised that it stayed in the top 10 of the main Billboard chart for a second week because of Whitney Houston. I was expecting public sentiment would fill the top 10 with her albums and push Paul's album down the chart very quickly. (Not that Whitney Houston ever produced an album that I would call "essential" -- some great singles, sure, but never an album. It's just I thought people would be buying her albums but maybe they aren't???). So if this holds and he stays at No. 6 on Billboard, that's quite a feat -- especially for a jazz album. I bet it's because Concord got the album into Starbucks. Or maybe it's the iTunes promotion? Still shocked if these numbers are accurate.
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Kisses On The Bottom is #1 on the Billboard jazz charts, so why would Whitney Houston knock him off that chart, she didn't do anything close to jazz? You can say the Billboard chart isn't relevant all you want, but that's just totally ridiculous, you think all the working jazz artist out there think the top of their chart isn't relevant? They're working their whole lives trying to reach that position and now just because Paul McCartney has reached the top, the entire chart is all of a sudden not relevant? Boy the lengths some people go to!