Greatest Hits No 79 + 1/2/3 80 back in UK album chart No 1 in Rock Charts

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[b]brENsKi wrote: [/b] wouldn't hold your breath on that one

the last "new material" - The Cosmos Sucks
sold a staggering 37,000 copies in the USA - a country of 250 million people - peaking at no47 and only being on the billboard chart for two weeks[/QUOTE]
Getting an album to chart isn't nearly as difficult as it once was...

[QUOTE] [b]brENsKi wrote:[/b]
wouldn't hold your breath on that one
the last "new material" - The Cosmos Sucks
sold a staggering 37,000 copies in the USA - a country of 250 million people - peaking at no47 and only being on the billboard chart for two weeks
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Not surprised since everyone says Queen is not that popular in the US. How did it do in the UK?

no5, 6 weeks on chart

here's the full(ish) list - ighest position first then weeks on chart

Estonia 1 10
Czech Republic 4 7
Germany 4 7
Switzerland[12] 5 7
United Kingdom 5 6
Italy 6 5
Netherlands 8 7
Greece 9 1
Austria 11 8
Hungary 15 1
Finland 15 2
Belgium 18 8
Spain 20 6
Denmark 24 1
Sweden 24 5
Portugal 25 1
France 28 4
Norway[ 31 1
Canada 33 1
Japan 40 6
Malta 20 2
United States 47 2
Ireland 47 1
Australia 49 1

Those figures are shocking. There cant have been any promotion or distribution in half those countries. Granted the album is mediocre but there are a few decent songs. Were there really 23 better sounding albums selling in Denmark on that single week it was in the charts?

i'm more intrigued by Estonia...wtf happened there for ten weeks....do they not get out much?

too bad it wasn't released in 2012 - I suppose 37k would have easily been a top 10 in the US?

the whole debate about sale figures is outdated anyway

time to re-release the cosmos rocks.

[QUOTE] [b]e-man wrote:[/b]
too bad it wasn't released in 2012 - I suppose 37k would have easily been a top 10 in the US?
the whole debate about sale figures is outdated anyway[/QUOTE]
you need to explain this last statement - because although bands make money the opposite way around to in years gone by - where they used to tour to promote album sales, now they release an album to promote tour ticket sales

so surely without album sales, there's less interest in a tour?

Well, I think it must be noted Rihanna sold 10 000 in a week, and not since the release date. Still, a poor week for UK standards indeed. As for The Cosmos Rocks, I'm surpised it got to no. 47 in the States at all. Remember that Made in Heaven, a huge release at the time, charted only for a week there in 1995 and reached no. 58! How bad is that?? Anyway, TCR was very average and did not contain a single hit. But I won't go on about this, as most of you probably know what my opinion on QPR is.