October 25, 200816 yr GA number one on physicals, that surprises me! So does that mean GA sold 65k with saturdays sales left to add?
October 25, 200816 yr Author GA number one on physicals, that surprises me! So does that mean GA sold 65k with saturdays sales left to add? It does...and Saturday sales are the biggest of the week. What will be the final total?
October 25, 200816 yr Dave, although '20 Golden Greats' was a No.1 MRIB Album for Diana Ross, it was a No.2 BMRB, ('Official'), Album. She did not have a Solo No.1 Album in the 'Official' UK Charts until January 1994 - 'One Woman - The Ultimate Collection'. ABBA were not heading for their 5th UK No.1 with 'The Name Of The Game'. It was their 6th - 'Waterloo' (1974), 'Mamma Mia', 'Fernando', 'Dancing Queen', (1976), & 'Knowing Me, Knowing You', 'The Name Of The Game' - 1977.
October 25, 200816 yr ^^ thanks for that dave :) Erm, because of the performance on j.ross last night, i think 78k? Edited October 25, 200816 yr by Robintime11
October 25, 200816 yr Author Dave, although '20 Golden Greats' was a No.1 MRIB Album for Diana Ross, it was a No.2 BMRB, ('Official'), Album. She did not have a Solo No.1 Album in the 'Official' UK Charts until January 1994 - 'One Woman - The Ultimate Collection'. ABBA were not heading for their 5th UK No.1 with 'The Name Of The Game'. It was their 6th - 'Waterloo' (1974), 'Mamma Mia', 'Fernando', 'Dancing Queen', (1976), & 'Knowing Me, Knowing You', 'The Name Of The Game' - 1977. cheers for that! I was actually thinking I`d made the Abba mistake! The Diana Ross album situation was certainly strange...certainly no Radio One top 30 Album Chart topper, until 1994. Isn`t it strange that she managed to top the EMI/MRIB, NME, and Melody Maker lists, for 7 weeks! I never took album charts too seriously..different charts, having different cut-off days. Radio One`s top 30 Albums were announced on Wednesdays then. I was involved with that. Paul Burnett announced the Album Chart on a Weds, for sure. Music Week were always a week behind with their printed chart. Originally the BBC, only intercepted the Album Chart, from June 1969 via BMRB...but Radio One differed from every printed version, because until November 1975...all the Radio One Album charts featured all albums, whether they be full-priced, or budget albums. Infact, the holdings the BBC have of these are badly filed, and are all mixed up with the singles chart positions 31-50 between June 1969 - Aug 1971. I shall have to volunteer to go down, and sort them out (if only they`d still let me in)!! At the end of 1980, Music Week, finally got up to date with their publication of albums. Then at the end of the 80s, when we were just getting the full album picture..the compilations were put in their own chart. A situtation that makes the album chart, have something missing, I feel! :teresa:
October 25, 200816 yr GA number one on physicals, that surprises me! So does that mean GA sold 65k with saturdays sales left to add? TBH that doesn't surprises me. No big challengers really, and seeing the song's lead over the week it was clear that it has also the biggest physical sales.
October 25, 200816 yr TBH that doesn't surprises me. No big challengers really, and seeing the song's lead over the week it was clear that it has also the biggest physical sales. It wasn't earlier in the week, Geraldine was outselling them
October 25, 200816 yr Dave - we both made an error! The No.1 Album in your 1977 Chart is not by Diana Ross as a Solo Act. It is '20 Golden Greats' by Diana Ross & The Supremes. I knew that they had a No.1 Album in 1977, but I completely forgot that, when commenting on it as a Diana Ross Solo Album, in an earlier Post. As in the BMRB Chart, it was No.1 for 7 Weeks, in the 'New Musical Express' Chart in 1977. Diana Ross did have a Solo '20 Golden Greats' Album - but not until 1979. It reached No.2 in both BMRB & 'New Musical Express'. Also, she had earlier reached No.2 with 'Greatest Hits Vol.2' in 1976 - again in both BMRB & 'NME'. They were her highest Peaking UK Solo Albums until 1994. As I said earlier, she did not have a No.1 Solo Album in the 'Official' Chart (BMRB for most of the 1970's, Gallup for most of the 1980's, & CIN at the time that she reached No.1), until 'One Woman - The Ultimate Collection' in January 1994. But she had 3 No.1 Albums with The Supremes - 'Greatest Hits' in 1968, 'Diana Ross & The Supremes Join The Temptations' in 1969, & '20 Golden Greats' in 1977. To show how Charts vary - her 'Diana' Album peaked at No.12 in the BMRB ('Official'), Chart, in 1980, but it reached No.3 in the 'NME' Chart.
October 26, 200816 yr It wasn't earlier in the week, Geraldine was outselling them :o That's a surprise
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