According to Wikipedia, Top Album Sales is "a pure album sales chart" and Top Current Albums is " the same chart as Top Album Sales, with catalog titles removed. An album becomes a catalog title when it is more than 18 months old and has fallen below position 100 on the Billboard 200."

Thank you for explaining! *.* I wonder how many copies it takes to be Top 100 on top album sales? :o

I know it's likely not many sales, but how cool for Mel to actually chart on an American chart in 2020!!

The album has entered the Swiss album charts at #50

 

Melanie's chart peaks in Switzerland

 

Northern Star #12

Reason #21

Beautiful Intentions #14

This Time #8

The Sea #13

Version of Me #24

Melanie C #50

The album has entered the Swiss album charts at #50

 

Melanie's chart peaks in Switzerland

 

Northern Star #12

Reason #21

Beautiful Intentions #14

This Time #8

The Sea #13

Version of Me #24

Melanie C #50

 

 

Ouch that's quite a fall for Melanie after having 6 top 30 albums! :cry:

#8 this time

#50 Melanie c

Switzerland positions

 

#57 this time

#8 melanie c

Uk positions

 

How the tables have turned. She does well I think to still chart in the German territories as she hasn't had decent air play or hits since this time era over thirteen years ago.

'Melanie C' is midweek #114 today, a fall of two places. Currently predicted to end up at #133 on Friday.

Ouch!

After that #102 I was worried she'd fall straight out the top 200 so that's...something. It doesn't matter really, she has her first top 10 in 17 years and that's allT

Holding up on iTunes currently #31. Must be streaming letting her down a lot of older albums seen to still get decent streams lower down the chart.

She's sold 93 album downloads all week, that goes to show how much the iTunes album chart matters...!!

#89 on Spanish Charts. Not amazing but then again, it's Mel's only THIRD charting album in that country as far as we know...

#117 in today’s midweeks. It’s not collapsed quite as much as I feared it would, in relation to Monday’s midweek.

 

Monday - #102

Tuesday - #112

Wednesday - #114

Thursday - #117

 

It’s sold 942 copies so far this week, so at least it’ll manage 1k this week.

The album is #22 on iTunes at the moment which is pretty good considering it was released nearly 2 weeks ago

The album is #22 on iTunes at the moment which is pretty good considering it was released nearly 2 weeks ago

 

Well, as JosephStyles said, from Friday-Tuesday it had accumulated 93 downloads, so it's all very low there. I guess it at least gives it some exposure if it can stay on the iTunes albums chart and might inspire a casual buy or two.

 

I guess we're looking at ~8.2k sold in two weeks.

Up to#19 on iTunes. Highest it's been since week one I think.

It's certainly surprising that it's still hanging around in the iTunes chart!

 

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Here's some more detailed midweek info, to expand on my earlier post:

 

#81 (402 sales) - Sunday

#102 (517 sales) [+115] - Monday

#112 (641 sales) [+124] - Tuesday

#114 (789 sales) [+148] - Wednesday

#117 (942 sales) [+153] - Thursday

 

942 sales =

702 Physicals (74.52%)

134 Streaming (14.23%)

106 Downloads (11.25%)

 

Melanie C is predicted to end up at #126, but I'm thinking she might slip to the 130s.

 

 

There’s currently 206 signed copies available on Amazon.

She's shifted a few copies, there's 143 left now. Still £10.99.

At least she is adding another 1k sales I guess, who knows maybe she might stick around the hundreds chart area for a few weeks and shift some more copies, it's better than nothing (I'm dreaming I reckon lol). Such a shame I was really hoping she might stick around the top75 for a second week :( Ah well 2 weeks is more than Version of me and Stages managed right?

Stages and VOM both charted top 200 for 2 weeks. Stages was a random 2nd week later after release when she flogged the album on QVC. VOM had a big 2nd week drop but stayed top 200 for a 2nd week.

She needs to get on QVC and get flogging again!!!

Melanie's Red Girl albums:

 

 

24-53-91-136-x [beautiful Intentions]

 

57-97-200-x [This Time]

 

45-101-x [The Sea]

 

50-x-151-x [stages]

 

25-146-x [Version of Me]

 

8-? [Melanie C]

 

 

With hindsight it looks odd that This Time, an album that peaked as low as #57, still at least managed a second week in the Top 100. It was also rather fortunate to get that third week in the Top 200! I wonder whether The Sea was close to managing a third week in the Top 200?

 

I wish albums were able to have better stability now, but streaming makes it impossible. There's so many old albums or Greatest Hits that casually generate thousands of streaming units a week. In her second week on sale it's too much of a uphill struggle to combat those streaming friendly albums with her physical sales.