Chart Updates: Fleetwood Mac + Stevie Nicks Bella Donna Comes in out of the darkness

Billboard Top 200 
Week Ending June 17, 2012 - Chart date June 30, 2012

This past Sunday, my post indicated that Fleetwood Mac's Very Best Of album held on for a second week on Billboards Top 200 Albums Chart for the chart dated June 30th with the "The Very Best Of.  This post includes the numbers for that week.  During the week ending ending June 17th the album sold 3,589 units in the US up from 3,310 the previous week which is an 8% increase week over week thus moving the album from #166 to #163.  Total sales in the US to date = 1,486,881.

Last weeks Top 200 Catalogue Albums Chart breakdown:

Fleetwood Mac's The Very Best Of moved down to #32 from 27. Rumours was static on the chart hanging onto #134 for the week but sold 11% more albums vs the previous week.  Sales were 1,906 units vs 1,718 for total sales in the US since November, 1991 of 2,963,387.  Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits also increased in sales by 14% selling 1,851 copies vs 1,617 the previous week and moved up the chart to #144 from #147.

Last weeks Top 200 catalogue Digital Albums Chart:

Fleetwood Mac's Rumours sold 847 digital copies vs 915 the previous week declining in digital sales by 7% moving from #73 to #87.  Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits was flat moving 806 copies vs 808 the previous week but moved down the chart to #101 from #97 on the previous weeks chart.

Billboard Top 200 Albums
# 163 (166)  Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

Top 200 Catalogue Albums 
#   32   (27)  Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 134 (134)  Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 144 (147)  Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

Top 200 Catalogue Digital Albums 
#  87  (73)  Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
#101  (97)  Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

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Billboard Top 200:
Week Ending June 24, 2012 - Chart date July 7, 2012

The latest Billboard Chart will have Fleetwood Mac's The Very Best Of hanging on yet again marking it's 3rd week on Billboards Top 200. The album drops to #181 from #166 the previous week on sales of 3,134 units vs 3,589 the previous week or a 13% decrease in sales.  Total sales to date = 1,490,015.

Top 200 Catalogue Albums breakdown:
Fleetwood Mac's The Very Best Of moves down to #37 from #32 last week.  Stevie Nicks 1981 debut album Bella Donna zooms up the chart re-entering at #76 on sales of 2,235 units vs 1,168 the previous week or a 91% increase in sales.  Total sales for the album since November, 1991 = 886,711.  Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits increased in sales by 20% selling 2,222 units vs 1,851 the previous week moving up to #78 from #144.  Total US sales since November, 1991 = 4,556,122.  Rumours moves up on the Catalogue chart as well to #107 from #134 on the previous chart on a 4% sales increase or 1,991 units vs 1,906 the previous week.  Total US sales since November, 1991 = 2,965,678.

Top 200 Catalogue Physical Albums breakdown:

Fleetwood Mac's The Very Best Of moves from #9 to #7 this week.  Rumours re-enters this chart at #163 on physical sales of 1,139 vs 1,059 the previous week or an 8% increase.  Stevie's Bella Donna moves down the physical albums chart to #198 from #163 last week on physical sales of 1,011 vs 1,099.

Top 200 Catalogue Digital Albums breakdown:

Stevie Nicks' Bella Donna sold 1,224 digital copies during the sales period ending June 24th vs 69 digital copies the previous week allowing the album to enter this chart at #56.  The bump in digital sales can surely be attributed to the Amazon mp3 album deal that was going on. The digital album was listed for $2.99 for over a week.  Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits should get a further bump in digital sales this week as it's now listed at $2.99 on Amazon for the week.  During the sales period ending June 24th the album sold 1,397 digital copies vs 806 the previous week or a 73% increase in sales moving from #101 up to #42.  Rumours was flat in sales selling 851 digital copies vs 847 the previous week.  The album moves down the chart to #107 from #87 the previous week.

Billboard Top 200 Albums
# 181 (166)  Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

Top 200 Catalogue Albums 
#    37  (32) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
#   76 (R/E) Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna
#   78 (144) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
# 107 (134) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Top 200 Catalogue Physical Albums:
#     9     (7) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 163 (R/E) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 198 (163) Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna

Top 200 Catalogue Digital Albums #   42 (101) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
#   56 (R/E) Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna
# 107   (87) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Ticket Update: Lindsey Buckingham - Des Moines, IA Sept 1st - On Sale July 6th

Just a quick update that tickets for Lindsey Buckingham live in Des Moines, IA go on sale July 6th with the Meet and Greet option available.

An Evening With
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM
Saturday, September 1st
Des Moines, IA
Hoyt Sherman Place

- Tickets:  $47.50 | $67.50 Golden Circle (front 6 rows) | $127.50 (includes meet and greet with artist)
- Prices above reflect all fees for tickets purchased at the Box Office.
- Pre-sale tickets on sale July 2nd 10am through Ticketmaster. General Public on sale July 6th at the Theatre Box Office or at Ticketmaster

Contest: Win a Pair of Tickets to Lindsey Buckingham in Council Bluffs, IA Aug 31st #Omaha

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Interview: Stevie Nicks - Thankful to her audience

Jones Beach: 
Stevie Nicks' 'Dreams' spot
Long-Island Newsday

Stevie Nicks is on a mission.

Though her album "In Your Dreams" (Warner Bros./Reprise) reached No. 6 when it was released last year and spawned two Top 25 hits on the adult contemporary charts, it hasn't made the kind of impact the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is used to. So Nicks is taking to the road again this summer -- kicking off her tour Friday at Nikon at Jones Beach Theater -- to bring the music to more people.

"I lost my mom in December," Nicks said, calling from her home in Los Angeles. "But one of the last things she said to me was: 'Don't you give up on this record. . . . You take 2012 and you go out and work this record because this record is your little masterpiece. Don't be swayed by everybody else. You do what you need to do to sing these songs.' She knew it was important to me."

You really are showcasing "In Your Dreams" on this tour.

No one puts six new songs in their set. You're taking a big chance that people are going to say, "Excuse me, what songs have you just taken out to put that song in?" But that didn't happen last tour, and we were able to do the important old songs and the new songs. I feel like it's really a gift that my audience has given me to allow me to do the new songs and not start complaining. . . . I feel really thankful for that. You feel creative. You feel like you're still a really creative artist.

That creativity is still on display in the new song "Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream)." What more could you possibly do for a hit today?

I know! [Laughs.] I'm trying to understand the music business today, and I'm trying to learn why it is that that's true. I'm not feeling quite so bad about it anymore because it's happening to everybody. It's not just me. . . . It's happening to everyone unless you're 20 and have a big hit single. Then, even if you are 20, you have to be nervous about that 19-year-old who's going to come up with a song that someone else wrote for them that's really great and wipe you off the map. It isn't good for the young kids and it isn't good for us, either.

So you have to do something else to get the word out about your new music.

Yes, and if you're me, you're lucky because you get to walk out on the stage and say, "This is not a Stevie Nicks' greatest hits tour. This is a tour promoting a record called 'In Your Dreams.' I'm giving it a second run because I believe in it that much, and I hope that you like them. And if you like them and you're a part of my little army, do me a favor and tell a friend." I get to do that. Most people don't get to do that. I feel like I'm really lucky, and I'm in a good place in the music business. My heart breaks for the younger artists -- because I know that there's another Fleetwood Mac out there, and I know that there's The Who out there, that there's a James Taylor out there, a Carole King out there. I know they're all out there, but . . . someone has to figure this out.

WHO Stevie Nicks
WHEN | WHERE 8 p.m. Friday, Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh. (Also, 8 p.m. Monday, Beacon Theatre, 2124 Broadway, Manhattan)
INFO $20-$175; 800-745-3000, livenation.com

More Lindsey Buckingham Tour Dates TBA Beyond Sept 8th

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM CONTINUES U.S. TOUR
NEW DATES BEGIN JULY 26

June 26, 2012 -- Due to overwhelming demand, LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM is extending his critically-acclaimed U.S. tour with additional dates on the East coast and Midwest. He’s also making a few stops in Canada. The new six-week trek begins July 26 in Birmingham, AL and lasts through September 8 in Rama, Ontario. 

As for the rest of the country, they need not worry, as even more tour dates are in the works and will be announced in the coming weeks. 

Lindseybuckingham.com

Song Premiere: Best Coast Performs Fleetwood Mac's 'Rhiannon'

Song Premiere: 
Best Coast Performs Fleetwood Mac's 'Rhiannon'

Best Coast covers Fleetwood Mac's 1975 smash "Rhiannon" on a forthcoming tribute album — a task which clearly requires quite a bit of reverence, to the point where singer Bethany Cosentino even channels Stevie Nicks' warbling rasp. And, while the song's familiar guitar line is replaced with a dramatically simplified piano melody, the result captures the melancholic yearning of "Rhiannon" — its mystical side, its understanding of unattainable love — without losing the beach-bound giddiness of Best Coast's simple, shiny sound.

Check it out at NPR.org

Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac, out August 14