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For the week February 20, 2012.
All albums plus The Dance on the Top DVD chart move down the charts significantly this week. Rumours plus The Greatest Hits albums both drop off the catalogue charts completely making way for a slew of Whitney Houston catalogue titles that re-enter the charts.
TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 59 (48) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUM CHART
# 8 (3) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 41 (32) Stevie Nicks - Crystal Visions... The Very Best OfTOP 40 MUSIC DVD CHART
# 29 (19) Fleetwood Mac - The Dance
UK
For the week ending February 18, 2012
TOP 40 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 13 (22) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
THE NETHERLANDS
For the week ending February 18, 2012
TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 23 (12) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
USA
For the week ending February 5, 2012.
Two weeks worth of Top Catalogue chart info and sales data for the US beginning with the chart for the week ending February 5th. Rumours drops to #128 from #93 the previous week. Sales for the period were 2,026 for an accumulated total of 2,928,923 units sold in the US since November, 1991. Greatest Hits drops out of the Top 200.
TOP 200 CATALOGUE ALBUM CHART
# 128 (93) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
USA
For the week ending February 12, 2012.
Rumours continues its decent on the Catalogue Chart sliding 8% in sales moving from #128 to #181. Sales for the week ending Feb 12th were 1,867 for an accumulated total of 2,930,949 units sold in the US since November, 1991.
TOP 200 CATALOGUE ALBUM CHART
# 181 (128) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
In terms of digital sales vs actually CD sales, Digital sales for Rumours for the week ending February 12th were 1,354 and for Greatest Hits they were 680. Landslide drops off the Top 200 Digital Tracks listing this week - it was #141 last week.
TOP 200 CATALOGUE DIGITAL ALBUMS
# 58 (27) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 131 (107) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
ADELE'S HOT ON FLEETWOOD MAC'S HEELS
With "21" about to hit its 21st non-consecutive week at No. 1 on the US Billboard Top 200 album chart this coming week - with predicted sales in the 600-700k range (it's largest one week sales ever), Adele is hot on the heels of Fleetwood Mac's 31 week stint at No. 1 with Rumours.
Here are the albums with the most weeks at No. 1 in the nearly-56 year history of the Billboard 200 chart: (Weeks at No. 1, Title, Artist, Peak Year)
54 -- "West Side Story soundtrack, 1962**
37 -- "Thriller," Michael Jackson, 1983
31 -- "Rumours," Fleetwood Mac, 1977
31 -- "South Pacific" soundtrack, 1958
31 -- "Calypso," Harry Belafonte, 1956
24-- "Purple Rain," Prince and the Revolution/Soundtrack, 1984
24 -- "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack, 1978
21 -- "Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em," M.C. Hammer, 1990
20 -- "21," Adele, 2011
20 -- "The Bodyguard," Whitney Houston/Soundtrack, 1992
20 -- "Blue Hawaii," Elvis Presley/Soundtrack, 1961
** (The figure of 54 weeks at No. 1 combines the set's time atop separate stereo and mono LP charts before the Billboard 200 became a singular ranking the week of Aug. 17, 1963.)
