Monday, August 27, 2012

Fleetwood Mac's "25 Years - The Chain" box set goes Top 5 in New Zealand!


 NEW ZEALAND - Week ending August 27, 2012
Fleetwood Mac's newly re-released boxset "25 Years - The chain" released again in New Zealand on August 10th entering the charts at #29 on August 20th explodes this week moving up to #5.  This gives Fleetwood Mac it's 11th top 10 album in New Zealand since Rumours

TOP 40 ALBUMS CHART 
# 5 (29) Fleetwood Mac - 25 Years - The chain (box set)

AUSTRALIA - Week ending August 27, 2012
TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART 
# 85 (73) Fleetwood Mac – The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac

TOP 40 MUSIC DVD CHART
# 10 (6) Fleetwood Mac - The Dance

TOP 50 CATALOGUE CHART
# 13 (11) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
# 17 (15) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac

UK - Week of September 1, 2012
Fleetwood Mac's box set "25 Years - The Chain" hangs on for it's 11th week on the UK chart moving down to #99.

TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 99 (85) Fleetwood Mac - 25 Years - The chain (box set)

IRELAND - Week ending August 23, 2012 
TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART 
# 63 (59) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
# 83 (60) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours





FLEETWOOD MAC FRIDAY on New Zealand's The Sound 8/31



The Sound (New Zealand)

Join The Sound all day this Friday, August 31, 2012 as they spotlight Fleetwood Mac - a band regarded as one of the greatest in rock history - they're also giving you the chance to win the newly re-released 4 CD Box Set – “25 Years - The Chain”.

Warner Music Catalogue releases a re-formatted version of Fleetwood Mac 25 Years: The Chain. The boxed set includes four CDs covering the history of the band from its formation in 1967 up to 1992 and features studio tracks, remixes and live recordings from the band's first 25 years together; including the massive hits Dreams, Everywhere, Go Your Own Way, Rhiannon, Sara, The Chain, Little Lies and Don't Stop.

The package will feature the same artwork and audio as the original release but the new format will be a fatpack, with a high gloss slipcase, 4CDs and a 68 page booklet.

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Saturday, August 25, 2012

Fleetwood Mac's "25 Years - The Chain" box set Re-Released in New Zealand


Re-Released by Warner - August 10, 2012

Fleetwood Mac's 25 Years The Chain box set was re-released in New Zealand August 10, 2012.  The box set debuts this week at #29 on New Zealands Top 40 Albums Chart.

This four disc best of was originally released in 1992 to celebrate 25 years of Fleetwood Mac music. With the announcement of them going on a world tour again a few weeks ago, the collection has been re-released globally, getting to number 9 on the UK charts recently - This week in New Zealand the album debuts at # 29 on the Top 40 Albums Chart. 

The boxed set includes four CDs covering the history of the band from its formation in 1967 up to 1992 and features studio tracks, remixes and live recordings from the band's first 25 years together; including the massive hits Dreams, Everywhere, Go Your Own Way, Rhiannon, Sara, The Chain, Little Lies and Don't Stop.

The package will feature the same artwork and audio as the original release but the new format will be a fatpack, with a high gloss slipcase, 4CDs and a 68 page booklet.

A superb, value for money package!

Album of the Week at Coast Timeless Music.  LISTEN AND WIN

Buy the boxset at JB Hi-Fi


Track listing:

CD 1
1. "Paper Doll" (Stevie Nicks, Rick Vito, John Herron) † – 3:56
2. "Love Shines" (Christine McVie, Eddy Quintela) † – 4:48
3. "Stand Back"* (live - Recorded at The Cow Palace in San Francisco, California, 12/12/1987) (Nicks) – 5:00
4. "Crystal" (Nicks) – 5:09
5. "Isn't It Midnight" (alternate mix) (C McVie, Quintela, Lindsey Buckingham) – 4:02
6. "Big Love" (Buckingham) – 3:39
7. "Everywhere" (C McVie) – 3:43
8. "Affairs of the Heart" (Nicks) – 4:20
9. "Heart of Stone" (C McVie, Quintela) † – 4:39
10. "Sara" (full-length version) (Nicks) – 6:26
11. "That's All for Everyone" (Buckingham) – 3:02
12. "Over My Head" (C McVie) – 3:34
13. "Little Lies" (C McVie, Quintela) – 3:38
14. "Eyes of the World" (Buckingham) – 3:42
15. "Oh Diane" (Buckingham, Richard Dashut) – 2:33
16. "In the Back of My Mind" (Billy Burnette, David Malloy) – 7:00
17. "Make Me a Mask" (Buckingham) † – 4:02
* Originally recorded by Nicks solo and released as the lead single from second studio album The Wild Heart

Friday, August 24, 2012

FLEETWOOD MAC Back on Billboards Top 200 Albums Chart... Sort of

BILLBOARD TOP 200 ALBUMS CHART

Just Tell Me That You Want Me, the new Tribute to Fleetwood Mac album debuted at #45 on Billboards Top 200 Albums Chart this week with sales of 8,029 units in the United States. The album also debuts at #39 on the Top 200 Current Albums Chart, #15 on the Top Rock Albums Chart, #67 on the Top 200 Digital Albums chart and #34 on the Top 50 Internet Albums Chart.

# 15 - Top 25 Rock Albums Chart
# 45 - Top 200 Albums Chart
# 34 - Top 50 Internet Albums Chart
# 39 - Top 200 Current Albums Chart
# 67 - Topo 200 Digital Albums Chart

TOP 200 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART:
On other US charts, Fleetwood Mac have four (4) titles maintaining a presence on this weeks Top 200 Catalogue Albums. 

1988's GREATEST HITS moves up to #83 from #90 last week with total sales of 2,001 units vs 1,893 the previous week. Of the 2,001, Digital sales amounted to 1,415. Total US sales since November, 1991 = 4,579,523.

1977's RUMOURS moves down one place this week to #92 but increases in sales by 2% with 1,928 units sold for the week vs 1,891 the previous week. Of the 1,928, Digital sales amounted to 1,075. Since November, 1991 the album has sold 2,984,146 units in the US.

1975's FLEETWOOD MAC moves up to #116 from #130 last week with a 5% increase in sales to a total of 1,682 units sold for the week vs 1,599 the previous week. Of the 1,682 units sold, 1,364 were Physical album sales.  Total US sales since November, 1991 = 865,475.

2002's THE VERY BEST OF moves down to #141 this week from #112 last week.  Total US sales for the week were 1,557 vs 1,688. All 1,557 US sales were physical album purchases, as the album isn't available digitally in the US.  Total US sales for the double CD set to date is 1,506,828.  By crossing the 1.5 million in sales mark, the album now qualifies to be certified for 3 x Platinum in the US.  Because it's a double album, each cd in the set is counted towards certification, so for every sale, its like 2 albums are sold.

TOP 200 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART:
# 83 (90) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
# 92 (91) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 116(130)Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
# 141(112)Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

TOP 200 CATALOGUE PHYSICAL ALBUMS CHART
# 61 (28) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 87 (74) Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac

TOP 200 CATALOGUE DIGITAL ALBUMS CHART 
# 35 (52) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
# 61 (78) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours


Photos: Fleetwood's on Front Street Grand Opening

FLEETWOOD'S ON FRONT STREET
GRAND OPENING
August 23, 2012: Mick Fleetwood's new restaurant on Maui celebrated it's Grand Opening last night in Lahaina. Fleetwood's opening was in support of one of Mick's charities Childhelp. 

Pictured: Rick Vito, Mick Fleetwood, Steven Tyler, Johnny Lang and Willie K.  Also in attendance (pictured below) was Mick's wife Lynn. 





2 Photos below taken by Cindy Clark via Twitter

Below: Folks outside the restaurant on Front Street can be seen watching what's going on inside from a monitor hanging outside the building.

Photo by: Ryan Stevens via Twitter
"Dream On" - Willie K, Mick Fleetwood, Steven Tyler and Jerry

Reviews x 3 Lindsey Buckingham Live in McKinney

Lindsey Buckingham unleashes a torrent of potent solo and Fleetwood Mac songs during one-man show
By Mario Tarradell
Dallas Morning News

McKINNEY – It only took Lindsey Buckingham two songs to unleash a torrent of potency that would immediately color his one-man concert performance in dramatic shades of red and black.

He was singing “Bleed to Love Her,” a track from Fleetwood Mac’s 2003 album Say You Will, and his voice was an intense series of whispers and screams. His guitar work was at once menacing and delicate, an intricate pastiche that amazed at every turn.

Buckingham delivered 13 numbers during 75 minutes Thursday night at the McKinney Performing Arts Center, a courthouse converted into a venue with impressive acoustics. His intimate turn onstage touched on some of his Mac contributions as well as material from four of his solo albums.

"Buckingham turned just about every song he played inside out"

Great Review!!  Continue to the full version here... Includes a couple of great shots of Lindsey.

Review: Lindsey Buckingham at McKinney Performing Arts Center
By Robert Philpot
Photo by: Laura Smetak
McKINNEY -- All too often, when an artist familiar from a band context puts on a one-man (or -woman) show, it's a pleasant but ordinary experience: The songs done more quietly, probably acoustically, but not changed all that much from their original incarnation.

Lindsey Buckingham is too much of a risk-taker for that, and in a relatively brief but exhilarating concert Thursday at the McKinney Performing Arts Center, Buckingham -- accompanied solely by his raft of guitars and a few effects -- turned the whole idea of "quiet one-man show" on its head.


"The closing guitar solo on the latter-day Fleetwood Mac song
 Come was brain-frying in the best way"

Another great Review + Photos! Check it out in full at DFW.com

Review: Lindsey Buckingham proves his worth as one of world’s greatest guitarists
by Angie Bado

MCKINNEY — "Awesome, amazing, and fantastic" were some of the adjectives that I heard from fans as they left the McKinney Performing Arts Center following Lindsey Buckingham's performance there Thursday night.

Buckingham, who graced the stage before a packed house, has still got it. The critically acclaimed singer-songwriter has won numerous accolades and awards over the course of his lengthy career. He's best known as guitarist and male lead singer for Fleetwood Mac and as a solo performer. And on Thursday, he held the audience captive from the first note, as he opened with "Cast Away Dreams."

"Yes, Buckingham is still all that and a bag of chips"