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Post by fretbuzzzzz on May 6, 2020 16:00:00 GMT
Quo singles up to and including 1981, with the number of weeks in the charts: POMM 12Ice In The Sun 12Down The Dustpipe 17
In My Chair 14
Paper Plane 11
Mean Girl 11Caroline 13Break The Rules 8Down Down 11LIVE! (EP) 8Rain 7Mystery Song 9Wild Side of Life 12Rockin' All Over The World 16Again And Again 9Accident Prone 8Whatever You Want 9Living On An Island 10What You're Proposing 11Lies/Don't Drive My Car 10Something 'bout You Baby I Like 7Rock 'N' Roll 11
'Are You Growing Tired Of My Love' peaked at no.46 including a re-entry in May/June 1969, 3 weeks in the chart. 1969 – the BBC and Record Retailer joined forces to revolutionise the UK’s chart compilation process. The two organisations commission the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB) to compile the UK’s charts on their behalf. These are the first true industry recognised charts and are referred to as the UK’s 'official' charts for the first time. These charts were initially compiled from a panel of 250 record shops, who would log their sales by hand and submit their totals by post. Plenty of room for errors in different ways, I would say! Really interesting. Can anybody post the sales for each single? Best I can come up with at the moment is as follows: Caroline 200,000 +Down Down 200,000 +Wild Side of Life 200,000 + Rockin' All Over The World 400,000 +Whatever You Want 200,000 +What You're Proposing 200,000 +Lies/DDMC 200,000 +Rock N Roll 200,000 +
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Post by backwater67 on May 6, 2020 18:41:26 GMT
Looks like these sales are based on BPI sales awards. Back in the 1970s & 80s silver was based on a minimum 250,000 units sold. (Today it’s 200,000 units for silver) Nearer estimates....Caroline 350,000...Down Down 400,000...Wild side of life 320,000....Rockin’ all over the world 750,000...Whatever you want 375,000....What your proposin’ 470,000....Lies 275,000 & Rock n roll 300,000. Also Margarita time 395,000 & Army 385,000.
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Post by MrWaistcoat on May 6, 2020 21:31:25 GMT
Remember reading in the Mirror years ago that Army was the bands biggest selling studio album. Management BS or fact?
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Post by viza on May 7, 2020 6:44:49 GMT
It's a little bit of a surprise for me that their 2nd most sold single is Just Supposin'. I know it even peaked at #2 in UK. It's their 2nd biggest hit both sales wise and chart wise. That should result in at least top 3 of their most successful singles.
Maybe it's just in Sweden but if you ask people about what Quo songs they know they probably pick RAOTW, WYW, ITAN, Caroline, Down Down and Rain before Just Supposin'.
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Post by backwater67 on May 7, 2020 19:46:56 GMT
Remember reading in the Mirror years ago that Army was the bands biggest selling studio album. Management BS or fact? Probably the best selling studio album for Quo 1986 onwards (est UK 275,000) On the level & Blue for you sold in bigger quantities in the UK & worldwide. Rocking all over the years is the biggest selling compilation, closing in on 1 million UK sales & 5,500,000 worldwide. Quo Live & Rockin’ albums both shifted over 500,000 units in Germany alone! Army single was a massive no’1 in 5 or 6 countries. 850,000 in Germany & 700,000 in France.
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Post by 37 on May 8, 2020 11:28:20 GMT
Down The Dustpipe, I just love it!
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Post by MrWaistcoat on May 14, 2020 23:17:46 GMT
Remember reading in the Mirror years ago that Army was the bands biggest selling studio album. Management BS or fact? Probably the best selling studio album for Quo 1986 onwards (est UK 275,000) On the level & Blue for you sold in bigger quantities in the UK & worldwide. Rocking all over the years is the biggest selling compilation, closing in on 1 million UK sales & 5,500,000 worldwide. Quo Live & Rockin’ albums both shifted over 500,000 units in Germany alone! Army single was a massive no’1 in 5 or 6 countries. 850,000 in Germany & 700,000 in France. Cheers for that. Would be really interesting to see the full breakdown but doubt that's possible. My theory is that a weaker album will have damaged sales of the follow up ( eg 1982 in at no1, BTB not top 5. NTL had won the band new fans) Still really surprised about DTD. The band don't seem to have realised how big it was. Neither had I. Vertigo certainly won't have had any interest in reminding them of that particular hit or wanting it in the set
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Post by quodec on May 16, 2020 17:16:12 GMT
I still think its strange that, with the success of DTD in the charts from May to Sept 1970 followed by the almost as impressive run of In my Chair from Nov '70 to Feb '71, they didn't release something of similar theme, ie 'Railroad' from the '71 release of DOTH and continue their chart run. It just dosn't make sense that they faffed around with something like the filler that was Tune to the Music, when the 1970 releases had already shown them the way to go?? In other words had they grasped the nettle, they could have been charting throughout '71 and '72, instead of the two year hiatus of changing labels and having to wait until 1973 and Paper Plane. Just a thought!
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Post by juansupposin on May 16, 2020 17:28:49 GMT
Love the song, even the RIFF track!
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Post by gerh on May 16, 2020 17:46:56 GMT
this has been one interesting thread, folks! G
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