Jazz is an interesting entry. I guess the presence of Don't Stop Me Now and the sneaking suspicion that casual fans are deciding a good next album to get after the obvious ones.[/QUOTE]
It's only re-entered the charts because of the HMV release on pink vinyl. I imagine the chart quoted is just physical sales too. To show you the abysmal state of physical sales, releases that are limited to less than 2000 copies can chart well!
k-m · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]21st Century Music Fan wrote:[/b]
Several Queen enteries in the UK Albums Chart Top 40 Update:
[b]#08 - Never Boring[/b]
#15 - Bohemian Rhapsody - OST
#26 - The Platinum Collection
#28 - Jazz
[b]#34 - Mr. Bad Guy[/b]
[b]#39 - Never Boring - Solo Box Set[/b][/QUOTE]
The final results came in on Friday and it looks far from the optimistic figures above from the start of the week:
Never Boring - #18
Mr Bad Guy - #87
Meanwhile, the BR OST rises again to #7... Endless market for Queen, for FM alone not really.
Nathan H · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]k-m wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]21st Century Music Fan wrote:[/b]
Several Queen enteries in the UK Albums Chart Top 40 Update:
[b]#08 - Never Boring[/b]
#15 - Bohemian Rhapsody - OST
#26 - The Platinum Collection
#28 - Jazz
[b]#34 - Mr. Bad Guy[/b]
[b]#39 - Never Boring - Solo Box Set[/b][/QUOTE]
The final results came in on Friday and it looks far from the optimistic figures above from the start of the week:
Never Boring - #18
Mr Bad Guy - #87
Meanwhile, the BR OST rises again to #7... Endless market for Queen, for FM alone not really.[/QUOTE]
I saw on the weekend, I just thought I'd let someone post before me. I think this shows how corrupt charts are now from digital sales and streaming, how can albums dip so much from the start of the week to the end?
k-m · Member since
Isn't it just because new releases initially shift a lot of copies which gives them an early lead, but after a few days sales drop and it goes back to normal?
runner_70 · Member since
[QUOTE]
Regarding the Mr Bad Guy remix - I do like the idea in this thread (or the other one) that if they were going to remix they should've played up to it's 80s 'naffness' and gone overboard on that angle rather than try to normalise it. It would've done well in these post-Strnger Things times.[/QUOTE]
You will get a reply from a guy soon who will tell you otherwise. I think you are spot on. It fails most of the time with 2-3 exceptions (mainly the ballads and Maybe fooling around)
dysan · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]21st Century Music Fan wrote:[/b]
I saw on the weekend, I just thought I'd let someone post before me. I think this shows how corrupt charts are now from digital sales and streaming, how can albums dip so much from the start of the week to the end?[/QUOTE]
Yeah it was a noticible change in the chart when downloads were introduced (15 years ago-ish?) rendering the idea pretty much useless to us oldies. Pretty much every chart record was broken soon after. This is why watching the old TOTP reruns on BBC4 are so nice - you can track the chart career of a single and pretend the next 30 years didn't happen. Except when I had a jacuzzi with those two swedish chicks in Italy in 1998. That was sweeeeeet.
Holly2003 · Member since
Pics or it never happened :p
dysan · Member since
Sadly I only got my first camera phone about 7 years later.
dysan · Member since
After which nothing happened in my life
Dr Magus · Member since
Anyone else got the Never Boring picture disc?
dysan · Member since
Yeah the colours are badly mixed and the levels all over the place
etc etc
runner_70 · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]Dr Magus wrote:[/b]
Anyone else got the Never Boring picture disc? [/QUOTE]
Yup I changed the B-Side to A-Side as I hate that front cover. The "back" cover is great. Anyone know how many were made? They have numbers but not how many in general. I suppose it is just another QP ripoff
miraclesteinway · Member since
To be honest, despite the fact that I think this Never Boring LP is in fact, quite boring in it's own way (well, it's got Freddie's amazing vocals so it's not THAT boring!), I'm happy to see all this Queen product in the chart. It shows that the public do still appreciate good music (there's a lot in the album chart - Beatles, George Michael, even the second Oasis LP), and have a hunger for quality that may not be being offered else where.
Yes I understand that Queen have a very powerful marketing machine and could probably release whatever they want and make it chart - but I still think it's nice that 28 years after Freddie died, he's still making waves.
The worst I can say is, it's not how I would have done it, and I'd still like an original mix of Barcelona reissued. I have my 1988 Gatefold Vinyl in storage, but I'd like a nice clean CD copy. I'll hunt one down on Amazon I guess.
dysan · Member since
With very little effort they've made his back catalogue a total mess. Fair enough with this experiment to do a remix etc, but as for the compilation they should've just reissued The Great Pretender. Make that the one everyone has to buy. It's not like new stuff is being churned out every year. Keep it simple.
