US Chart Update: Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" "Greatest Hits" and a Re-entry for Landslide

Both Fleetwood Mac albums "Greatest Hits" and "Rumours" that re-entered last weeks Billboard Charts drop off the Top 200 Chart but remain on the Top 200 Catalogue Chart.

"Rumours" slides from # 31 last week to # 103 this week on sales 1,929 units vs 3,565 last week.  "Greatest Hits" drops 10 places from # 46 to # 56 on sales of 2,406 units vs 3,089.  To date, Rumours has sold 2,921,026 copies in the US since soundscan began tracking over the counter sales in November, 1991.  Greatest Hits has sold 4,519,558.  "Rumours" has been certified in the United States at 19x Platinum (units shipped) and Greatest Hits has been certified 8x Platinum (units shipped in the US). 

Re-entering the Top Digital Tracks Chart "Landslide" came in at # 58 selling 8,672 downloads vs 3,666  the previous week.  To date, Landslide has sold 793,114 copies.

Top Catalog Albums - Week Ending January 15, 2012 
# 56 ( 46)  FLEETWOOD MAC - GREATEST HITS
# 103 (31) FLEETWOOD MAC - RUMOURS

Digital Tracks Catalog - Week Ending January 15, 2012 
# 58  (-)  FLEETWOOD MAC - LANDSLIDE

Technically Speaking. Cubby Colby Talks About Mixing Quintessential Artist Lindsey Buckingham

Modern Technology With Old School Form For Lindsey Buckingham Concert Tour Cubby Colby talks about mixing a quintessential artist of this generation

Clair crew chief Rich Schoenadel (left) with
Cubby Colby prior to a Buckingham show

Life is a process of continual learning, from cradle to grave. Approach it any differently, and it stops.

This is certainly the mantra of Rob “Cubby” Colby, an industry vet with so much listed on his professional resume that it’s an order of magnitude easier to list who he hasn’t worked for as opposed to who he has.

Indeed, from Kansas to Prince and among a legion of others in between, countless artists have relied on Colby to manage either their monitor needs, those of the house, or both.

This group now also includes Lindsey Buckingham, whose just-concluded Seeds We Sow tour gained the benefit of Colby’s talents out front. 

Critically hailed for his solo work as well as that with Fleetwood Mac, Buckingham is a quintessential voice of his generation, having earned a place in the pantheon of 20th century postwar performers as a guitarist, singer, composer, and producer.

Check out the 3 Page Article at Prosoundweb

A visit with Lindsey Buckingham

As they waited outside of USC’s Carson Soundstage, students anxiously asked when they would be allowed to enter the first Pop Music Forum of the spring semester.

To kick start the speaker series, Lindsey Buckingham from Fleetwood Mac stopped by for an hour-long visit.

Read the full post at USC Pop Music Program

Stevie Nicks Appearance in "The Union" Premieres on HBO Feb 2nd

HBO premieres "The Union" the in-depth documentary look at the memorable 2010 collaboration between Elton John and longtime idol Leon Russell.

Stevie Nicks dropped in during filming and the recording of the album:

"Stevie Nicks dropped in to tell Leon that after she and Lindsey Buckingham opened for him as part of the band Fritz in the early ’70s, “That’s when the two of us thought, ‘That’s it. We’re gonna go to LA. We’re gonna do it.”"

Via HBO

Chart Update: Fleetwood Mac | Stevie Nicks Australia, Ireland, UK

AUSTRALIA (January 16, 2012)
(Previous week in parenthesis)

Top 50 Catalogue Chart
#   3 ( 2)  Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 12 (26) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 13 (24) Stevie Nicks - Crystal Visions...The Very Best Of
# 20 (16) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits


Top 100 Albums Chart
# 35 (31) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 75 (92) Stevie Nicks - Crystal Visions...The Very Best Of

Top 40 Music DVD Chart
# 12 (15) Fleetwood Mac - The Dance

IRELAND (Week ending January 12, 2012)

Top 100 Albums Chart
# 89 (R/E) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

UK (January 14, 2012)

Top 40 Catalogue Chart
# 25 (32) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

TODAY ON ITUNES:

Top Rock Albums Chart
#  6 - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (Australia)
#  6 - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (New Zealand)

Top Pop Albums Chart
# 10 - Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits (Australia)
#   7 - Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits (Belgium)
#   6 - Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits (New Zealand)

Book: Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album

[Updated January 14, 2012]  The Book Cover was released

Making Rumours: 
The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album
Release date set for April 12, 2012 on the NEW book written by "Rumours" producer Ken Caillat with Steve Stiefel...

Hardcover | 400 pages

Got a question for Ken about the book?... Rumours?... or anything else... Ken will happily answer what he can on the Facebook site set up for the book launch.  Check it out and ask away... He's a cool guy! 

Rumours (The Book) on Facebook

Fleetwood Mac′s classic 1977 Rumours album topped the Billboard 200 for thirty–one weeks and won the Album of the Year Grammy. More recently, Rolling Stone named it the 25th greatest album of all time and the hit TV series Glee devoted an entire episode to songs from Rumours, introducing it to a new generation. Now, for the first time, Ken Caillat, the album′s co–producer, tells the full story of what really went into making Rumours—from the endless partying and relationship dramas to the creative struggles to write and record "You Make Lovin′ Fun", "Don′t Stop", "Go Your Own Way", "The Chain", and other timeless tracks.

• Tells the fascinating, behind–the–music story of the making of Fleetwood Mac′s Rumours, written by the producer who saw it all happen.
• Filled with new and surprising details, such as Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham′s screaming match while recording "You Make Lovin′ Fun", how the band coped with the pressures of increasing success, how the master tape nearly disintegrated, and the incredible attention paid to even the tiniest elements of songs, from Lindsey playing a chair and to Mick breaking glass.
• Includes eighty black–and–white photographs.

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