KOTB charting
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walliebaby:
Michelley:
This. Horse. Won't. Die. And we've been beating it for weeks now. I'm glad to hear that KOTB is getting talked about on jazz radio stations. And I'm really surprised it moved back up to No. 40 on the main Billboard chart last week. What's up with that? But good for Paul. Personally I'm still really enjoying the record. It's been a nifty little diversion and will continue to distract me until my baby, the Ram reissue, arrives on my doorstep in May. Anyone else hear that Neil Young's next album with his Crazy Horse band is also going to be an album of covers? Except he's doing a selection of American folk songs. Maybe, like Paul, Neil just wanted to play around in a different genre, too.
I hadn't hear Neil was also doing an album of covers. I'm much more into folk music than jazz standards, so that's good news. Oh, and good call on the Ram reissue--can't wait!
Boy this timing thing is really messed up. I read about Neil Young's new album on Rolling Stone's site: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-and-crazy-horse-to-release-new-album-americana-on-june-5th-20120319 It's due out in June and will include songs like Oh Susannah, She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain, and This Land is Your Land. I'm not kidding -- he's going waaay back. I'm more interested in the sort of standards Paul did but I suppose Neil will have fun with this.
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Michelley:
Boy this timing thing is really messed up. I read about Neil Young's new album on Rolling Stone's site: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-and-crazy-horse-to-release-new-album-americana-on-june-5th-20120319 It's due out in June and will include songs like Oh Susannah, She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain, and This Land is Your Land. I'm not kidding -- he's going waaay back. Personally I'm more interested in the sort of standards Paul did but I suppose Neil will have fun with this.
The time travel stuff is making me crazy. It's been taxing trying to follow conversations on here the past few days. I'm interested in anything Paul does, so I liked the standards album (mostly) for that reason. However, I'm curious to see what Neil and Crazy Horse do with those old school folks songs, mostly because I think Neil will go a bit crazier on those songs than Paul did on KOTB. They're two grreat, but distinctively different artists.
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Michelley:
... I'm really surprised it moved back up to No. 40 on the main Billboard chart last week. What's up with that? ....
The buzz is still going -- plus, the announced tour dates always give sales a little uptick. I anticipate that sales will increase even more after the first shows coming up.
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walliebaby:
Michelley:
This. Horse. Won't. Die. And we've been beating it for weeks now. I'm glad to hear that KOTB is getting talked about on jazz radio stations. And I'm really surprised it moved back up to No. 40 on the main Billboard chart last week. What's up with that? But good for Paul. Personally I'm still really enjoying the record. It's been a nifty little diversion and will continue to distract me until my baby, the Ram reissue, arrives on my doorstep in May. Anyone else hear that Neil Young's next album with his Crazy Horse band is also going to be an album of covers? Except he's doing a selection of American folk songs. Maybe, like Paul, Neil just wanted to play around in a different genre, too.
I hadn't hear Neil was also doing an album of covers. I'm much more into folk music than jazz standards, so that's good news. Oh, and good call on the Ram reissue--can't wait!
Crazy Horse's 1994 Sleeps With Angels is one of the best albums of that decade. I'm very curious to see what songs an angry ol' feedback-lovin' geezer like Neil Young would choose. I'd bet he'll do a Paul song.
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audi:
I'd bet he'll do a Paul song.
Oh I would love that...
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Re: the time travelling, after we changed the clocks here, I had to reset my time zone on this site. so it is 4 hours before GMT instead of 5. Maybe that is part of why some posts are so off, time-wise, if people didn't change it. :
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Michelley:
This. Horse. Won't. Die. And we've been beating it for weeks now. I'm glad to hear that KOTB is getting talked about on jazz radio stations. And I'm really surprised it moved back up to No. 40 on the main Billboard chart last week. What's up with that? But good for Paul. Personally I'm still really enjoying the record. It's been a nifty little diversion and will continue to distract me until my baby, the Ram reissue, arrives on my doorstep in May. Anyone else hear that Neil Young's next album with his Crazy Horse band is also going to be an album of covers? Except he's doing a selection of American folk songs. Maybe, like Paul, Neil just wanted to play around in a different genre, too.
No one said there was anything wrong with the album moving back up the BIG chart a few places, that will ring true if you take the time to look back on the posts where dear Audi started his nonsense again by trying to make his now customary underhand remarks and delusional posts.
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Nancy R:
Re: the time travelling, after we changed the clocks here, I had to reset my time zone on this site. so it is 4 hours before GMT instead of 5. Maybe that is part of why some posts are so off, time-wise, if people didn't change it. :
you would think we would be told if somethings wrong or what to do if we can fix the problem at our end, thats quite a few weeks now this has been going on
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lazydynamite88:
is this thread still going? never have so few got so excited about so little. i think mccartney needs to get his arse into gear ASAP and give us all something to sing and shout about. its also worth pointing out that even 'ringo' has a current record deal and he hasnt shifted any 'serious units' since he made his home bar in the early 1980s.!
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is this thread still going? never have so few got so excited about so little. i think mccartney needs to get his arse into gear ASAP and give us all something to sing and shout about. its also worth pointing out that even 'ringo' has a current record deal and he hasnt shifted any 'serious units' since he made his home bar in the early 1980s.!
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BOYCIE:
Paul's album sales over the last 30 years have been mediocre to okay, which is a shame considering the quality of some of the recent material. It's even more galling when Adele's 21 album has just overtaken Dark Side Of The Moon to become the 7th best selling album in the UK ever, having sold over 4 million albums.
I can't believe that Adele has taken over Dark Side Of The Moon in sales... it seems very wrong somehow... is it due to a larger population perhaps? There's no comparison, Adele to Paul... they are in different leagues altogether...
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love2travel:
BOYCIE:
Paul's album sales over the last 30 years have been mediocre to okay, which is a shame considering the quality of some of the recent material. It's even more galling when Adele's 21 album has just overtaken Dark Side Of The Moon to become the 7th best selling album in the UK ever, having sold over 4 million albums.
I can't believe that Adele has taken over Dark Side Of The Moon in sales... it seems very wrong somehow... is it due to a larger population perhaps? There's no comparison, Adele to Paul... they are in different leagues altogether...
some might say that adele is bigger than all four members of pink floyd put together
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I think Paul has done good to ok with this album. It's gotten critical praise (mostly),was not an embarrasment like we all thought it might be (ala Rod Stewart, Robbie Williams) and was all rather pleasant. An enjoyable, easy going listen (and I like the album) with two great original songs. It's done modestly with sales though and I wouldn't call it a smash. Bless over eager Stuart Bell! Maybe it will make the 500,000 album sales mark which is quite good for a standards album. Very little UK airplay though which is disappointing and follows a trend (unfortunately) for all of Paul's recent music. Adele admittedly is a 'smash'. Can't for the likes of me see why, but obviously 7 million people 'get' her.
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love2travel:
BOYCIE:
Paul's album sales over the last 30 years have been mediocre to okay, which is a shame considering the quality of some of the recent material. It's even more galling when Adele's 21 album has just overtaken Dark Side Of The Moon to become the 7th best selling album in the UK ever, having sold over 4 million albums.
I can't believe that Adele has taken over Dark Side Of The Moon in sales... it seems very wrong somehow... is it due to a larger population perhaps? There's no comparison, Adele to Paul... they are in different leagues altogether...
totally agree with you L2T, there's no comparison but the fact is, the current fad will sell more if they go head to head with a artist from yesteryear, Adele is a young artist with a young following and more young people buy records. We get the exception to the rule every now and again, Susan Boyle if i'm correct has shifted albums by the bucket load in the states, wasn't her first album the biggest seller on its year of release? I don't know what you guys see in her Adele may have sold more now than DSOTM in the UK which is pretty surprising but records are there to be broken, I wouldn't put it down to the rise in population as Floyd's album has been released and re-released for many generations of music fans. there is no excuse for taste when it comes to buying music, the ordinary Michael Jackson Thriller and awful Elton John tribute to Di prove this.
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Macsback:
Adele may have sold more now than DSOTM in the UK which is pretty surprising but records are there to be broken, I wouldn't put it down to the rise in population as Floyd's album has been released and re-released for many generations of music fans.
Is that a first year statistic, Adele selling 4M copies in the UK? has to be, right? Cause Pink Floyd has sold way more than 4M of Dark Side in the UK. probably at least 20M, right? Isn't Dark Side the most sold album ever, 250M worldwide or some nonsense?
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lisalou7:
I think Paul has done good to ok with this album. It's gotten critical praise (mostly),was not an embarrasment like we all thought it might be (ala Rod Stewart, Robbie Williams) and was all rather pleasant. An enjoyable, easy going listen (and I like the album) with two great original songs. It's done modestly with sales though and I wouldn't call it a smash. Bless over eager Stuart Bell! Maybe it will make the 500,000 album sales mark which is quite good for a standards album. Very little UK airplay though which is disappointing and follows a trend (unfortunately) for all of Paul's recent music. Adele admittedly is a 'smash'. Can't for the likes of me see why, but obviously 7 million people 'get' her.
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kapoo:
Macsback:
Adele may have sold more now than DSOTM in the UK which is pretty surprising but records are there to be broken, I wouldn't put it down to the rise in population as Floyd's album has been released and re-released for many generations of music fans.
Is that a first year statistic, Adele selling 4M copies in the UK? has to be, right? Cause Pink Floyd has sold way more than 4M of Dark Side in the UK. probably at least 20M, right? Isn't Dark Side the most sold album ever, 250M worldwide or some nonsense?
I would say DSOTM has sold more worldwide, 250m ww and 20m in the UK tho is way off the mark, I think Sgt Peppers is still the biggest selling album in the UK.
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Macsback:
kapoo:
Macsback:
Adele may have sold more now than DSOTM in the UK which is pretty surprising but records are there to be broken, I wouldn't put it down to the rise in population as Floyd's album has been released and re-released for many generations of music fans.
Is that a first year statistic, Adele selling 4M copies in the UK? has to be, right? Cause Pink Floyd has sold way more than 4M of Dark Side in the UK. probably at least 20M, right? Isn't Dark Side the most sold album ever, 250M worldwide or some nonsense?
I would say DSOTM has sold more worldwide, 250m ww and 20m in the UK tho is way off the mark, I think Sgt Peppers is still the biggest selling album in the UK.
This has Queen's Greatest Hits edging out SPLHCB. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums_in_the_United_Kingdom
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Nancy R:
Macsback:
kapoo:
Macsback:
Adele may have sold more now than DSOTM in the UK which is pretty surprising but records are there to be broken, I wouldn't put it down to the rise in population as Floyd's album has been released and re-released for many generations of music fans.
Is that a first year statistic, Adele selling 4M copies in the UK? has to be, right? Cause Pink Floyd has sold way more than 4M of Dark Side in the UK. probably at least 20M, right? Isn't Dark Side the most sold album ever, 250M worldwide or some nonsense?
I would say DSOTM has sold more worldwide, 250m ww and 20m in the UK tho is way off the mark, I think Sgt Peppers is still the biggest selling album in the UK.
This has Queen's Greatest Hits edging out SPLHCB. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums_in_the_United_Kingdom
a far bigger tragedy than 'adele' topping 'dark side of the moon'
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kapoo:
Macsback:
Adele may have sold more now than DSOTM in the UK which is pretty surprising but records are there to be broken, I wouldn't put it down to the rise in population as Floyd's album has been released and re-released for many generations of music fans.
Is that a first year statistic, Adele selling 4M copies in the UK? has to be, right? Cause Pink Floyd has sold way more than 4M of Dark Side in the UK. probably at least 20M, right? Isn't Dark Side the most sold album ever, 250M worldwide or some nonsense?
It was 50M worldwide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums Only Thriller beat it with 65M.