Fleetwood Mac Rumours Re-Enters UK Top 100 at #3 | Irelands Top 100 at #12 | Netherlands Top 100 at #7

UK Top 100 Albums Chart - Feb 9, 2013
Fleetwood Mac's Rumours debuts at #3 in the UK.  The reissue is their highest UK chart peak in more than 20 years after 1990's Behind The Mask reached No. 1 in 1990.

# 3 (NEW)  Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 35th Anniversary Edition

Ireland Top 100 Albums Chart - Week ending January 31, 2013
Rumours is new on the chart this week in Ireland as well re-entering at #12.  Greatest hits has been back on the chart a few weeks and moves into the Top 20 at #19.

# 12 (NEW)  Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 35th Anniversary Edition
# 19 (33)   Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

The Netherlands Top 100 Albums Chart - February 2, 2013
Rumours is new on the charts in The Netherlands on the Dutch Charts entering in the Top 10 at #7.

# 7 (NEW) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Box

Belgium Top 100 Albums Chart - February 2, 2013
Rumours is new on the Top 100 Album Charts in Belgium at #72.

# 72 (NEW) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Box

Australia Top 50 Catalogue Charts - February 4, 2013
The Rumours reissue was just released on February 1st in Australia, so will likely appear on next weeks charts.  In the meantime "Greatest Hits" and "The Very Best Of" have been enjoying some renewed interest linguring around the Catalogue Charts for the last few weeks.  Also, new on the Top 40 DVD Chart is the re-entery of Fleetwood Mac's "The Dance".

# 14 (12) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 21 (30) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

Top 40 Music DVD Chart

# 31 (R/E) Fleetwood Mac - The Dance

USA Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart - Feb 2, 2013

# 156 (195) Greatest Hits, Fleetwood Mac

Second week for Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits back on Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart. Sales for the week ending January 20th = 2,754 up 12% from 2,465 units sold in the US the previous week in which the disc re-entered the chart at #195 on a 66% sales boost. Sales for the week prior to its re-entery were 1,482 units.  Sales for the last 3 weeks for this album alone were: 6,700.  Total US sales to day (Since Nov, 1991) = 4,614,926.

Sales and Rank:
2,754 - #156 Billboard Chart
2,465 - #195 Billboard Chart
1,482 - Not charting

Billboard Top 200 Catalog Albums Chart - Feb 2, 2013

# 31 (44) - Greatest Hits, Fleetwood Mac - 473 weeks on chart accumulated

On the Top 200 Catalogue Chart, Greatest Hits moves up 13 spots to #31 from #44 the previous week.

Greatest Hits has subsequently dropped out of the Top 200 Albums Chart on billboard for the February 9th issue... Fully expect the re-issue of "Rumours" to enter next weeks chart... Where it will re-enter is anyones guess.

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Video: Mick Fleetwood UK TV Appearances... Alan Titchmarsh and The One Show

Mick Fleetwood Interview on UK TV program The One Show January 28, 2013 discusses Rumours and the upcoming Fleetwood Mac tour.



Mick Fleetwood Interview on UK chat show The Alan Titchmarsh Show Friday February 1, 2013 discussing the upcoming Fleetwood Mac tour and re-release of Rumours.

Mick Fleetwood recalls the nightmares behind a dream album, writes Kathy Mccabe

 Rumours were all true
by Kathy McCabe
The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney, Australia)

Fleetwood Mac's famed heartbreak album Rumours is being re-released

MORE than 35 years ago, Fleetwood Mac forged Rumours in the grip of relationship implosion medicated by substance abuse.

As the anniversary is marked by the requisite reissue, even band founder Mick Fleetwood shakes his head at how they managed to write and record one of the greatest break-up albums of all time in the midst of such heartache.

These days, as the Mac prepare to embark on a world tour, the lanky drummer and his bandmates Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham and John McVie share that comfortable affection which comes with the survival of such a long marriage.

You could fill a library with lurid stories from Fleetwood Mac’s past

Their own way
Sunday Star Times
by Grant Smithies

You could fill a library with lurid stories from Fleetwood Mac’s past, but everything you need to know is in the 12 songs of Rumours.

AH, YES, 1977. I remember it as if it was yesterday. It was a year of great rejoicing among the old and tired, due to the launch of the new National Superannuation Scheme, but, elsewhere, political tensions ran high. That old bully Muldoon was still in power, presiding over the shameful dawn raids in which hundreds of Polynesian ‘‘overstayers’’ were deported, and a group of Ngati Whatua was ensconced at Bastion Point, protesting government inaction over land claims. Sleeping Dogs was screening in our cinemas, a movie that imagined Aotearoa as a police state, complete with bombings, torture, and reluctant revolutionary Sam Neill hooning around in the Coromandel bush.

I, meanwhile, was marinating in male hormones in Whanganui, riding the rapids of puberty while listening to a steady soundtrack of David Bowie, The Commodores, and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours.

Mick Fleetwood cheerfully admits, talking about Fleetwood Mac is like free therapy

A LOVE AFFAIR OF TRUE SADNESS
As Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours celebrates its 35th birthday, drummer and band lynchpin Mick Fleetwood tells Charlotte Heathcote how he's kept the volatile band going so long.
By Charlotte Heathcote
Daily Express Weekend

AS Mick Fleetwood cheerfully admits, talking about Fleetwood Mac is like free therapy. The result is an unusually candid interview, tying in with the 35th anniversary re-release of the rock juggernaut that is Rumours, one of the bestselling albums in history.

Its success is largely thanks to it being an almost perfect record and one strewn with classics; but much of its emotional intensity flowed from the well-documented romantic, drug-fuelled dramas playing out in the studio.

Stevie Nicks had ended her relationship with Lindsey Buckingham after five years (so Stevie aimed Dreams at Lindsey who retaliated with the bitter, brilliant Go Your Own Way); while Christine McVie was splitting from her husband John (and taunting him with a song about a fling, You Make Loving Fun). At the same time, Fleetwood was divorcing his own wife Jenny. Not enough heartache and tension for one band? Mick would complicate matters by embarking upon a two-year affair with Nicks.