The surprisingly low sales for the top 2 albums can possibly be attributed partially to there being only a 2-week pre-order time. Usually there are months of preorders. Also, given most of these remixes aren't brand new and The Beatles charge a Beatle premium I guess the sales aren't too bad.

 

Plus Houdini is a bop!

Considering the price for the Beatles albums they are doing well as its expensive for the diehards having to buy both in the same week, i wonder can Taylor Swift hold on for a 3rd week though based on those sales.

OCC article saying The Beatles are set to do the chart double and setting fans up for double disappointment. :rolleyes:

Taylor closer to The Beatles this week than she was with Oasis last week! (5,937 copies between Oasis and Taylor last week vs 2,680 between The Beatles & Taylor this week...)

 

Is it too much to think she could nab a 3rd straight week at number 1?

Oh balls. All those weeks where the #1 album relentlessly changes and now a genuine great might be stuck at #2 twice in a row.

Can't believe the Beatles are doing so so little in albums

really bizarre, thought they'd be doing 10 times that

but didn't know about prices

Can't believe the Beatles are doing so so little in albums

really bizarre, thought they'd be doing 10 times that

but didn't know about prices

The 'Let It Be' super deluxe in 2021 "only" sold 17,123 with a similarly expensive release I believe, so it's done well to top that with Red & Blue combined.

Oh balls. All those weeks where the #1 album relentlessly changes and now a genuine great might be stuck at #2 twice in a row.

Good job they're being blocked and prevented by another "genuine" great then, eh? :heart: :heart: :heart:

Actually, considering the prices, it's a miracle the Beatles have sold 10K

Whats the cheapest price? 80 pounds?

from their website the CDs are going for £23 each and the vinyl is £70 each

 

so sure they'd be #1 by miles if the chart was based on how much £££ they make off album sales

yes forgot about CDs, was looking at vinyls only

OcC just posted Jack's now 1.6k ahead , it's gonna be down to the cds whether it's Jack or dua

Edited November 14, 20232 yr by 777666jason

I bought the Blue Album and it was £24. Expensive, but then you're getting a lot of new mixes plus Now And Then. Taylor was selling Speak Now TV for £20 in the summer so I guess it's not unusual these days.

 

My Houdini CD single arrived this morning too.

the OCC report actually also says Dua is 900 copies behind the Beatles

 

1 Jack

2 Beatles 1,600 copies behind Jack

3 Dua 900 copies behind Beatles

I bought the Blue Album and it was £24. Expensive, but then you're getting a lot of new mixes plus Now And Then. Taylor was selling Speak Now TV for £20 in the summer so I guess it's not unusual these days.

 

My Houdini CD single arrived this morning too.

 

But that's actually ok-ish

think the prices of the vinyls are insane though, 80 pounds for a vinyl is definitely too much

So Dua is 2,500 behind. That gap is only gonna grow with streaming as the week goes on.

Will she have enough physicals to clinch it? I reckon not, but will happily be proved wrong

Now And Then will definitely drop at least to #4 but seems it won’t be too much worse than that which is great.

 

I’m going to buy a blue and red CD for my dad for Christmas (for me to listen to when I visit :P ).

 

Edit - just twigged that if you buy the double set it counts as an album in its own right and doesn’t help either of their chart positions d’oh! They should just count it as 1 sale for each rather than a 3rd product in my view - for £44 it seems not unreasonable to give 2 sales!

Edited November 14, 20232 yr by JulianT

They should do what Queen did with the Platinum Collection album. Split it up and give equal sales to the Red and Blue albums.

they do that for the certifications but not for the weekly chart positions, same for Queen

I got both red and blue Beatles albums £39.46