Shouldn't mean owt, should it? But... get in there.

inspirit wrote:

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Shouldn't mean owt, should it? But... get in there.

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Exactly how I feel, I hope they're very proud and pleased!

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Sounds like Jarvis is, from his insta:

More has entered the Official UK Albums Chart at NUMBER 1!!!! OMG!

Don't know if we're allowed to post instagram links here? There's a picture of a metal award for getting to number 1 - had no idea they did that.

There's also a pic on instagram of Slow Jam beer, from 'beerwax_' . I'm quite naiive, and new to social media just this year, so have no idea if such things are real?

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Ah, interesting to see the WLL opening week's sales figures as I've always wondered. That must have been a real disappointment at the time.

Did think that More's figures might be similar but obviously it's almost a quarter of a century later with less music consumption that translates into sales so of course it's a much better result. 30k consolidated sales is an impressive result. I wonder could it get to 100k around the world by the end of the year.

Nice to see that it's gone in at number 6 in Ireland. Helped by the Dublin gig too, I imagine.
From memory, WLL was way further back.


More only got to number 70 in the UK charts in streaming which is interesting. Physical sales are the main driver but more people stream so More is unlikely to have much staying power.
1,000 streams are equal to 1 album sale so the total number of times a More track was streamed last week was... (2,094 x 1000) over two million! Seems like a lot. But in context not particularly, as none of the tracks are in the Top 100 streaming singles chart.

They down-weight the two most popular tracks streamed on an album so that it better reflects the album charts. That might explain why Addison Rae, who got to number two in the album charts, was less of a threat despite having a couple of tracks in the singles chart.

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One other observation, I do wonder how many customers make up the sales of the physical album. Some of us have bought multiple copies due to all the vinyl variants etc. That wasn't really a thing in 2001. So less people may actually have bought More.

Also, I'm surprised paid-downloads are still a thing. Would you not just stream it on your phone/computer? Presume it must be people who don't have Spotify/AppleMusic etc.

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I saw a bit of a rant from, I think, Andrew McKinney, though I can't find it to link to. He was encouraging people to buy physical copies or downloads on places like Bandcamp, even if you would never listen to them or didn't own a record player and would only stream them, as musician's income from streaming is so pathetic.

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I saw a bit of a rant from, I think, Andrew McKinney, though I can't find it to link to. He was encouraging people to buy physical copies or downloads on places like Bandcamp, even if you would never listen to them or didn't own a record player and would only stream them, as musician's income from streaming is so pathetic.

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 Presumably bigger acts like Pulp (though it's a lot of shares now) would do okay, given a larger volume, but even so the share of streaming income is manifestly unfair. For smaller acts it's insupportable - it'll kill it as a way of life, it'll end up like acting where only toffs and nepo-kids can follow a career. Then you end up with a narrow range of talent and experience, and all culture suffers for it.

Streaming doesn't work for me - other than messing about on youtube - so I'm not a customer anyway, but I'm increasingly feeling that its just unethical to stream. There should be some sort of mass action, from artists and labels and what used to be called the music industry to stop these tech companies doing what they are doing; they're parasites, vampires.

When I can I like to buy my physical stuff from artists webstores, or from gigs. CDs are often more expensive, usually about £10, but that used to be the cheapest you could get a new CD for 30 years ago, so even that must generate only a modest income. There are plenty of people without a hi-fi buy physical albums, and that's good, it supports the creators, and they are often attractive as objects. Yet, it's also a bit wasteful of material / energy in a world where we waste a lot; so it would be better if streaming was made MUCH MORE equitable for creators, as even if the tech corporations took a much smaller share of each pie, they're still eating part of all the pies anyway. Effing fat b*stards.

More gets to Number 9 in Germany: https://www.offiziellecharts.de/charts/album I wonder how many sales.

In Spain's Apple charts, not sure how reflective that is of national charts, More is 47. I would expect higher, Spain loves Pulp more than most European countries, right?

https://kworb.net/charts/apple_a/es.html

I think France's chart straddles midweeks, so More may not appear til next week.