Chart Updates: Fleetwood Mac US Album Sales + Irelands Top 100 Re-entry

THE BILLBOARD CHARTS + IRELAND TOP 100 ALBUMS

Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and Greatest Hits are the only two entries found this week on the Billboard or Soundscan sales charts.

On the Top 200 Catalogue Albums Chart for the week ending May 6th and for Billboard Chart date May 19th Rumours moves up 1% in sales to 1,847 units sold vs 1,824 last week moving from #117 last week to #116 this week.  Greatest Hits drops 4% in sales to 1,433 vs 1,489 last week moving down the chart to #173 from #165 last week.  Total sales for Rumours in the USA since November 1991 are 2,953,999.  Total sales for Greatest Hits = 4,544,927.  In Ireland, Rumours re-enters the Top 100 albums chart at #76.  Fleetwood Mac's 2009 "Don't Stop" Documentary re-aired on a bunch of BBC stations beginning May 4th all over the UK and Ireland... Album sales likely spiked in the UK over the last week and we'll likely see the results on tomorrows published UK charts.

TOP 200 CATALOGUE ALBUMS
# 116 (117) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 173 (165) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

TOP 200 DIGITAL ALBUMS
# 27 (21) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 99 (104) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

IRELAND TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART - Week ending 10th May 2012
# 76 (Re-entry) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 83 (94) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

Odds and Ends... Plus Win Tickets To Lindsey Buckingham at Hampton Beach Casino

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LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM LIVE 

SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA - MAY 8TH 

Photo below at The Fremont Theatre by Joe Johnston Photography

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM LIVE 
FRESNO, CA - MAY 9TH

It was a suit jacket night for Lindsey Buckingham at The Tower Theater in Fresno Wednesday night for those keeping score.  Here's Go Your Own Way from the show.





LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM LIVE 
CARMEL, CA - MAY 10TH

Frustration ensues as Lindsey dismisses one guitar for another during the beginning of Big Love.  Something technically went awry with the amp according to twitters @___A__J___ and he sort of just threw the guitar down and picked up another and on with the show he went,  The video captures the ending of it all with a brief explanation before he moved on.  He throws a little humour into the situation to lighten his mood... To the untrained I'm sure you wouldn't have noticed the difference... But to Lindsey, being somewhat of a perfectionist, it's likely a big deal.  Technical glitches happen and have happened at a number of shows... But it's par for the course when you are alone up there playing back to back to back to back shows, with no other band members to fall back on or cover up any mistakes... It's all good though - this is like a marathon run!... It's real and it doesn't take away from any of the shows or the power of his playing.

A couple of cool shots below by Ron Emery

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM LIVE 
SANTA CRUZ - MAY 11TH

Santa Cruz gets the suite jacket! This is a record third night in a row!    - Setlist intacked minus "Dancing".

Below two photos by @bennettjackson

Seven Songs Inspired by The Beach Boys:
Paste Magazine

The influence The Beach Boys had on popular music is undeniable. Here are seven tracks directly influenced by Brian Wilson and company.

1. Lindsey Buckingham: “The D.W. Suite” (from Go Insane, 1984)

There may be no bigger Brian Wilson fan among rock stars than Buckingham, who convinced Fleetwood Mac to cover the Beach Boys’ “The Farmer’s Daughter” for the 1980 Live album and who co-wrote “He Couldn’t Get His Poor Old Body To Move” with Brian as the B-side of the latter’s 1988 solo single, “Love and Mercy.” Buckingham’s 1992 Out of the Cradle, may well be the best Beach Boys’ album of the ‘90s. But Buckingham’s most direct tribute is this suite, named after Dennis Wilson and structured like the complex song suites Brian created for Smile.

Full List of 7 at Paste Magazine

Lindsey Buckingham sows his own seeds
by:  Sean McCourt
San Francisco Bay Guardian

For nearly 45 years, Lindsey Buckingham has been writing and performing songs with an indelible impact on rock'n'roll; and several of those tracks are nearly universally considered to be among the pillars of the classic rock pantheon.

Full article

A towering achievement • Lindsey Buckingham comes to Tower Theatre, Bend,OR

For all the things Lindsey Buckingham has done in his life, his place at the helm of Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” — one of the 10 best-selling albums of all time, according to the Recording Industry Association of America — continues to tower over his career.

One can imagine that shadow as both a blessing and a curse. Without “Rumours,” who knows where Buckingham, a Californian and multi-instrumentalist, would’ve ended up. Certainly his talent for pop music might have carried him to stardom, but there’s no doubt that tens of millions of records sold and an Album of the Year Grammy will open a few doors, including the one to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which Fleetwood Mac joined in 1998.

Surely, Buckingham is appreciative of the opportunities that came his way post-“Rumours.”

Still, 35 years after its release, it’s not hard to see how Buckingham might also be tired of hearing about — and playing songs from — his grand, emotionally raw masterpiece, especially given that he continues to record, and prolifically. Last year’s “Seeds We Sow” was his third solo effort in five years.

For example: Buckingham will come to Bend Thursday for an intimate one-man show — billed as “an evening with” — in which he’ll play songs from “Seeds” and previous solo faves. Plus, says his website, “a variety of Fleetwood Mac classics.” As if, at this point, he has a choice.

Lindsey Buckingham; 

Thursday May 17th - 8pm

Tickets: $62 and $96 plus fees available through the venue; Tower Theatre, 835 N.W. Wall St., Bend; www.towertheatre.org.

— Ben Salmon
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Lindsey Buckingham - Carmel, CA (Setlist and Vids)

Lindsey Buckingham Live in Carmel, CA - May 10, 2012

Photo by Ron Emery

The set remains intact (without Dancing) and looks like it will stay that way... The mystery each night seems to be which jacket Lindsey will be wearing... Leather or Suit!  In Carmel, he went with the suit jacket!

Trouble

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Buckingham Ready To Rock Near Sell-Out Show - Redding, CA May15th

Buckingham ready to rock Redding, Cascade May 15th with decades of hits
Staff Reports - Thursday, May 10, 2012
Redding.com

Polydor Records made a lot of good moves during its heyday, but dropping Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks in 1973 was not one of them.

The pair recovered nicely, riding the critical acclaim from their only album, “Buckingham Nicks,” into a long stay with Fleetwood Mac during that band’s long and lucrative pop music phase. The band’s 1977 release, “Rumours,” has sold more than 40 million copies and featured Buckingham’s “Go Your Own Way.”

Buckingham, a self-taught guitarist and California (Palo Alto) native, has not exactly been in cruise control in the intervening 35-plus years and the fruit of those labors will be on display Tuesday at the Cascade Theatre.

Buckingham, 62, continued to perform and record with Fleetwood Mac on an intermittent basis while simultaneously fashioning a solo career. His first solo album, 1981’s “Law and Order,” was a well-received blend of his guitar playing and studio production skills and featured the Top 10 single, “Trouble.”

Other solo projects included “Go Insane” in 1984 and “Out of the Cradle” in 1992. “Under the Skin,” released in 2006, followed a long gap and was written while Buckingham was touring with a reunited Fleetwood Mac a few years earlier. “Gift of Screws” in 2008 was followed by his latest solo effort, “Seeds We Sow,” in 2011.

“You work in a band, and it tends to be more like moviemaking, I think. It tends to be more of a conscious, verbalized and, to some degree, political process,” Buckingham recently told a National Public Radio interviewer. “I think when you work alone — the way I do it, anyway — you could sort of liken it to painting, where there's sort of a one-on-one with the canvas. And you get different results.”

Buckingham will perform several songs from “Seeds We Sow” as well as a handful of Fleetwood Mac hits.

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