The Company Man

Here's a press article in German where exactly this is stated: https://www.rollingstone.de/album-charts-ab...voyage-2378459/ 200,000 sales for the Top 100 (except for the number 1)? OMG - how low are sales today!

How many units have Wolf Alice shifted for pos 197?

Her album French Touch (out today) will probably not chart in the UK and I won't buy it either but I heard Carla Bruni's stripped-down version of Enjoy the silence earlier this morning on German radio and liked it. So if you are interested in an album full of cover versions sung with a certain "French Touch" give it a try. She also does Moonriver on the album. The A-ha MTV unplugged will not sell well either I fear since there was hardly and promotion in the Uk was it?

WOLF ALICE: Visions of a life: On vinyl from their shop with delivery to Germany (will it count towards UK chart sales?) on CD from FNAC Toulouse streaming on napster Germany INDOCHINE: 13 streaming on napster Germany London Grammer: Truth Streaming in napster How so incomplete album streams count, eg The First 5 tracks?

Both of you are absolutely right, unfortunately, but I wonder where the fanbase is. Is it really only 20k fans left for, say, the Manics, or does the majority just not buy/listen to the band's new releases anymore? I mean more than 2 Million UK citizens shall have a copy of Parklife in their shelves, and only 5% of them still purchase or stream the latest Blur record? That's a loss of 95% of the clientele. Also, I think it's a bit too easy to blame the record companies. I mean, there was a lot of publicity in the context of say the Pixies, Blur or Libertines comebacks but still no spark. At least in Germany, it's also riodiculous that there is hardly any airplay for new songs of more established acts. For instance, although lana has a new record out, one of the biggest German radio stations, Einslive (they try to imitate R1), only plays Summertime Sadness or Video Games. Not fair.

Hi all, I live in Germany but, thanks to buzzjack and websites like nme, tend to follow the UK album charts and music scene more closely than the German ones (which are much more focused on German and US music). Some of my favourite bands stem from the 80s and 90s and include Blur, Suede, a-ha, Faith no more, Beastie Boys, Travis, Manics, Charlatans, Hard-Fi, EMF, Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys, but I also like newer acts like Wolf Alice, Saint Motel, Lana del Rey, Angel Olsen, Alexandra Savior, or London Grammar very much. Lately, there have been quite a few combacks, including some rather unexpected ones. The music press has covered them quite well, and I got the feeling many people knew about them, but still I wonder if they can really be considered succesful , compared to the sales these acts had generated 10-20 years ago. What do you think? Blur - The Magic Whip; Wikipedia reports 40k units for the US and Gold in the UK. Even Think Tank had shifted 94k in the US and in the 90s they had 3-4* platinum records in the UK. Faith no more - Sol Invictus: Wikipedia shows good chart positions (many top 10s) but apparently no certifications yet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_No_More_discography). In the 90s, Gold was standard for them. The libertines - Anthems for doomed youth; only silver in the UK (far from platinum!) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Libertines_discography) Manics and Charlatans, Suede - despite continously good reviews, they all seem to be able to activate a kind of core fanbase, selling 10k-25k in week 1, but remain far from Gold or even Silver. Pixies - much talked about comeback but far from 90s sales Okay, on the pop side Take That and - surprisingly - Rick Astley have done well, but all these other "older acts": are new albums just used to justify tours and "milk" the existing fanbase? And how does it come that even big players like Katy Perry and Lana der Rey struggle to go silver this year?

I wonder if anyone has sales data for a-ha and Wolf Alice? a-ha: I wonder if they continue to constantly sell a few units or not. I'm especially interested in Memorial Beach, ME/MS, Lifelines, Analogue, Foot of the Mountain and Cast in Steel albums. Wolf Alice: How is their latest, brilliant but radio-killing single Yuk Foo doing? Thank you!!!

a-ha Memorial beach Deluxe CD a-ha east of the sun deluxe CD a-ha Stay on these roads deluxe CD Philipp Boa and the Voodooclub - Bleach House Vinyl Lana del Rey - Honeymoon Vinyl

albums: a-ha Cast in Steel no singles

Albums: Wolf Alice - Your love is cool The Offspring - Day by day

a-ha - Take on me (was no. 2 only)

a-ha / The sun always shines on TV

Albums: Manic Street Preachers - Futurology (Vinyl) (it's brilliant by the way and really deserves a no. 2 position) Phillip Boa and the Voodooclub - Loyalty (CD) (from 2012)

Albums (Vinyl): Lana del Rey - Ultraviolence (bought at HMV Oxford Street 16/6) James - la petite Mort (bought at HMV Oxford Street 16/6) Katy Perry - Teenage Dream (bought at amazon.de 16/6 at 8 EUR bargain price) Albums (CD): none Downloads: I don't buy digital formats unless they are included free of charge in a physical product.

Vinyl: Manic Street Preachers - Rewind the film CD: Placebo - Loud like Love