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Post by MrWaistcoat on Oct 18, 2016 21:34:25 GMT
Perfect Remedy above QPQ certainly reflects the reduction in people buying albums. Or reflects that this list cannot be trusted! There's no way these two albums outsold rtyd ,but they do on this list AC (9 weeks in chart) is higher than piledriver (37 weeks in the charts - how cool is that?!!!)
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Post by kachunk on Oct 18, 2016 21:57:21 GMT
According to one of the old Quo books,JS was the biggest seller since OTL. I would have thought that ITAN was a very respectable seller,but not the biggest one.
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Post by whoami on Oct 19, 2016 5:26:01 GMT
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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Oct 19, 2016 16:15:26 GMT
AC bigger than Piledriver ?? Not easy to believe It's based on time in the charts as opposed to actual sales, or even claimed sales. Its easy to forget what a great shifter of albums they were. Such a shame they never saw most of the money from the sales. I haven't looked at the link but.... If it's about number of weeks on the charts as opposed to unit sales, this might help, and Jason would be able to confirm it if he stills visits here. For an album to be 'in the UK chart', in Quo's early days it used to be classed as the Top 50, then they changed it to the Top 100, then they changed it again to the Top 75 (which I believe it still is). So when you compare Quo's 70's album to the 80/90's album to the 00/10's albums, it's not a level playing field. We discussed it on one of the boards while Aquostic was in the charts. I can't remember the dates when the rules changed though. That would definitely account for some of the obvious descrepancies you've discussed such as Piledriver, ITAN, 12 GB and PR. Hope this helps.
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Post by curiousgirl on Oct 19, 2016 17:03:57 GMT
It's based on time in the charts as opposed to actual sales, or even claimed sales. Its easy to forget what a great shifter of albums they were. Such a shame they never saw most of the money from the sales. I haven't looked at the link but.... If it's about number of weeks on the charts as opposed to unit sales, this might help, and Jason would be able to confirm it if he stills visits here. For an album to be 'in the UK chart', in Quo's early days it used to be classed as the Top 50, then they changed it to the Top 100, then they changed it again to the Top 75 (which I believe it still is). So when you compare Quo's 70's album to the 80/90's album to the 00/10's albums, it's not a level playing field. We discussed it on one of the boards while Aquostic was in the charts. I can't remember the dates when the rules changed though. That would definitely account for some of the obvious descrepancies you've discussed such as Piledriver, ITAN, 12 GB and PR. Hope this helps. I'm wondering if you've missed a detail. In 1st para you explain the chart names but I still don't quite know what you're getting at. Are you saying that for the early albums, they only counted sales for the Top 50 albums but for later albums, it was Top 100 and then reduced to Top 75. So for an early Quo album, it could still have been selling well but we wouldn't know if it dropped below 50. And conversely, we've got more accurate figures for the later albums as the chart covered a wider range?
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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Oct 20, 2016 9:34:46 GMT
I haven't looked at the link but.... If it's about number of weeks on the charts as opposed to unit sales, this might help, and Jason would be able to confirm it if he stills visits here. For an album to be 'in the UK chart', in Quo's early days it used to be classed as the Top 50, then they changed it to the Top 100, then they changed it again to the Top 75 (which I believe it still is). So when you compare Quo's 70's album to the 80/90's album to the 00/10's albums, it's not a level playing field. We discussed it on one of the boards while Aquostic was in the charts. I can't remember the dates when the rules changed though. That would definitely account for some of the obvious descrepancies you've discussed such as Piledriver, ITAN, 12 GB and PR. Hope this helps. I'm wondering if you've missed a detail. In 1st para you explain the chart names but I still don't quite know what you're getting at. Are you saying that for the early albums, they only counted sales for the Top 50 albums but for later albums, it was Top 100 and then reduced to Top 75. So for an early Quo album, it could still have been selling well but we wouldn't know if it dropped below 50. And conversely, we've got more accurate figures for the later albums as the chart covered a wider range? I should look at the link really....maybe at lunch time. It's not that sales below that chart position don't count, it's that an album was classed as being 'in the chart', down to number 50, or 100 and now 75. So I assume sales would still count below that number but an album wasn't classed as being 'in the charts'. So if 12GB had 48 weeks in the charts, that was between 1 - 50 in the charts, whereas when Aquostic had 18 weeks in the charts that was between 1 - 75 (and it might only have had 12 weeks between 1 - 50).
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Post by I Ain't Complaining on Oct 20, 2016 12:59:29 GMT
Just had a look at the link, and whilst it does list the number of weeks on the UK chart which should follow the rules I stated above, I'm not sure how they have come up with the order of success of the albums? I don't believe that either Perfect Remedy or 12 Gold Bars (or Ain't Complaining) are where they should be on that sort of list!!! I know it's world wide, but I'm not sure what criteria they are using there?? Maybe jason knows?
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