Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album returns to the top half of the Catalogue Albums Chart this week coming in at #94 on sales in the US of 2,290 units. The prior week the album sold 1,511, not enough to make the top 200 listing. Since November, 1991 when soundscan began tracking over the counter sales and subsequently digital sales, the album has sold 2,938,119 units in the US.
TOP CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART - MARCH 24, 2012
# 94 (-) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
On the Catalog Physical Albums listing, Fleetwood Mac's 2002 double disc Very Best Of set sold 1,156 units in the last week down slightly from the previous week of 1,258. To date, sales in the US are 1,465,827 units. Technically the album is due to be re-certified. It's was certified platinum once it sold 500,000 units (because its a 2 disc set, each overall album sold is counted twice 500,000 x 2 = 1,000,000.) with 1,465,827 in sales, its sitting just below triple platinum.
TOP CATALOGUE PHYSICAL ALBUMS - MARCH 24, 2012
# 197 (-) Fleetwood Mac - Very Best Of
On the Catalogue Digital Albums list Fleetwood Mac have two titles, Rumours and Greatest Hits. Rumours sold 1,677 digital copies last week up from 910 the previous week. Greatest Hits sold 634 digital copies up from 534 the previous week. These numbers for Rumours would be included in the Top Catalogue Albums Chart total of 2,290 above which means that Rumours sold 613 physical copies last week.
TOP CATALOGUE DIGITAL ALBUMS - MARCH 24, 2012
# 30 (65) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 157 (183) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits