FLEETWOOD MAC CERTIFIED 4 X PLATINUM IN THE UK "The Very Best Of"

FLEETWOOD MAC - THE VERY BEST OF

4 x Platinum Certification (Album) Friday, March 19, 2010

WARNER MUSIC (WSM)

Released Monday, October 19, 2009

Certification History:

3 x Platinum Certification Friday, October 16, 2009

2 x Platinum Certification Friday, July 08, 2005

Platinum Certification Friday, January 31, 2003

Gold Certification Friday, December 06, 2002

Silver Certification Friday, December 06, 2002

Silver = 60,000; Gold = 100,000; Platinum = 300,000

On October 19, 2009 Fleetwood Mac's "The Very Best Of" was reissued as a double disc set for the first time in the UK. Certifications from December, 2002 up to October, 2009 were based on the single disc version which was released in 2002.  

BARBS well hidden in FLEETWOOD MAC'S chart-topping 'RUMOURS'

Long Player: Barbs well hidden in chart-topping 'Rumours' | Otago Daily Times Online News:

In the age of the single download, Jeff Harford rediscovers the album...

Throughout 1976, the five members of Fleetwood Mac each rode a wave of private turmoil for the greater good. Rancour, grief and splintering relationships just had to be worked around; breaking up the band was unthinkable.

Convening for the sessions that would produce chart-busting album Rumours (1977), the group was riding high professionally but on shaky ground personally.

The previous year the Fleetwood Mac album had hit No 1 on the United States charts, but with the marriage of singer-keyboardist Christine McVie and bassist John McVie now ended due to the latter's heavy drinking, drummer Mick Fleetwood reeling from his wife's affair with his best friend, and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and singer Stevie Nicks fighting through the death throes of their fiery liaison, potential disaster loomed.

But the Mac beat the odds, harnessing the songwriting potential in the highly-charged atmosphere and stringing together a Grammy-winning slice of album-oriented rock that went on to dominate the playlist of every FM and AM pop music station in the Western world for a full year.

Heartfelt lyrics were the key, with Nicks, Buckingham and Christine McVie each taking a different philosophical approach to the dysfunction.

Nicks penned Dreams as a cautionary ode to Buckingham, urging him to take stock of what he had and was about to lose; Buckingham's riposte was the cynical Go Your Own Way, in which he trivialised the concerns of Nicks by proclaiming "shacking up is all you want to do".

McVie, meanwhile, had taken up with the band's lighting director and told him You Make Loving Fun, also writing Don't Stop in a surge of optimism that surely had to sting her unhappy ex.

Ironically, the album's mass appeal lay in the harmonies created by these three distinct voices, and in the warm and comfortable sound production. The rhythm section was strident, tribal and to the fore yet somehow blunted. Rumours' poisonous barbs and hooks were cleverly disguised.

(PHOTOS) MICK AND JOHN - FLEETWOOD MAC (1977 - 1980)

I don't typically post auction items, but I've really enjoyed seeing these vintage Ken Regan shots up for auction.... most of which I've never seen before. 

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FLEETWOOD MAC CHART ROUNDUP (USA, AUSTRALIA & UK)

THE UK
TOP 75 UK ALBUMS CHART
In it's 21st week of release "The Very Best Of" is up 2 places to #36 on the UK Top 75 Chart for the week of March 15, 2010.

UK TOP 75 CHART RUN (2009 2 Disc Version):
Week 01 #06 - Oct 26, 2009 - 18,763
Week 02 #10 - Nov 02, 2009 - 17,541
Week 03 #12 - Nov 09, 2009
Week 04 #15 - Nov 16, 2009
Week 05 #26 - Nov 23, 2009
Week 06 #29 - Nov 30, 2009
Week 07 #31 - Dec 07, 2009
Week 08 #25 - Dec 14, 2009
Week 09 #21 - Dec 21, 2009
Week 10 #23 - Dec 28, 2009
Week 11 #37 - Jan 04, 2010
Week 12 #42 - Jan 11, 2010
Week 13 #31 - Jan 18, 2010
Week 14 #35 - Jan 25, 2010
Week 15 #31 - Feb 01, 2010
Week 16 #22 - Feb 08, 2010
Week 17 #16 - Feb 15, 2010 - 16,895
Week 18 #25 - Feb 22, 2010
Week 19 #31 - Mar 01, 2010
Week 20 #38 - Mar 08, 2010
Week 21 #36 - Mar 15, 2010

AUSTRALIA
TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART - MARCH 15, 2010
Fleetwood Mac's 5x Platinum (350,000 units) "The Very Best Of" is in free fall slipping 18 places to #41 on the Australian Top 50 Catalogue Charts. Look for it to disappear next week unless it turns around. Total weeks on the Catalogue Chart = 18.

RUMOURS ON THE CATALOGUE CHART:
In week 4 Rumours drops one place to #9 on this weeks Catalogue Chart.

2010 Catalogue Chart Run - Austalia
#38 - Week of 2/22/10
#16 - Week of 3/1/10
#08 - Week of 3/8/10
#09 - Week of 3/15/10

U.S.A.

US BILLBOARD TOP 200 CATALOGUE CHART - MARCH 20, 2010
Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits will be sitting at No.40, down 3 places, on the upcoming chart. So far Greatest Hits has racked up 457 non-consecutive weeks on the Top 200 Catalogue Chart.

2010 Catalogue Chart Run - US
#49 - 03/06/10
#37 - 03/13/10
#40 - 03/20/20

MICK FLEETWOOD AUDIO INTERVIEWS - OCT, NOV, DEC, 2009

MICK FLEETWOOD INTERVIEW

OCTOBER 1, 2009 - PODCAST

Saturday Night Blues interview with Mick Fleetwood (CBC Radio) Canada

Mick Fleetwood, founder and drummer of Fleetwood Mac in conversation with Holger Petersen.

Running Time: 30:11

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MICK FLEETWOOD INTERVIEW

NOVEMBER 4, 2009 - PODCAST

The Mark Goodier Show - Smooth Radio 97.5 UK

Running Time: 10:03

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MICK FLEETWOOD INTERVIEW

NOVEMBER 26, 2009 - PODCAST

Chris Smith Afternoons - 2GB873am Austalia

Running Time: 17:00

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DAVE STEWART "THE HOUR" WRITING WITH STEVIE NICKS

Dave Stewart was interviewed on Canadian TV show "The Hour" on March 11th.  He's in Toronto for Canadian Music Week and he mentions to George that he's currently writing with Stevie Nicks.

You can watch the interview on "The Hour" website.  It's episode 117.