CDs/online? I can't remember the last time I played a CD, other than the Pulp Mojo one. Everything else is Spotify/Bandcamp/nicked from Soulseek.
More in the charts. No. 5 in the second week. Did not expect anything that high in the charts. Amazing sustaining!
"At what point would the Jarv Is people be considered members of Pulp?"
They seem to have made it pretty clear that Andrew and Emma are Pulp. Richard and Jason too, I presume?
As for Mark and Candida staying? Both of them clearly love it on stage. Mark does have a young kid about to enter tricky teenage years! But then again, with modern touring, it's more of an odd night away every few nights, than constantly away for weeks on end (apart from the US leg, of course!)
Interest in the band has probably dropped slightly because the UK tour has finished. Yes, absolutely, that would almost certainly turn around if they performed at Glastonbury tomorrow.
If "More" is still in the charts next week, it will have spent longer than "We Love Life" did. In terms of chart positions alone (which I understand work totally differently now), it has already done better: 1/5/29 vs 6/27/59.
Wow, We Love Life really did poorly ending up at #6...
Pop was pretty much king at that time. Steps, Westlife, Robbie and Kylie dominated the album charts for the last few months of 2001, followed by Pop Idol taking off in the spring of 2002. Being a Pulp fan wasn't very cool (not that I've ever been that cool).
There's plenty of indie/rock LPs in this list, however they are David Gray, Stereophonics, Travis, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, U2, Toploader... not the best time for music imo.
It's still Top Ten in the vinyl charts. Which must mean that even though it takes a lot of streams to equate to an album sale, certain (younger) artists with a younger fanbase must cane the fcuk out of Spotify/Apple etc. to get high album chart entries.
In France, More dropped from 26 to 86 in week two.
Austria loves them, week one was 5, week two is 22.
Switzerland 7 to 48.
Germany 9 to 49