Fleetwood Mac News

Sunday, February 02, 2014

This week on the charts: Fleetwood Mac | Stevie Nicks U.S., UK, Canada, Australia, NZ

US - February 8, 2014

Rumours spends another week on the Top 200 in the U.S. moving up to No.191. Stevie's new film "In Your Dreams" in it's 8th week charting in the U.S. moves down a few places to No.22 from No.17 last week on the Top 50.

BILLBOARD TOP 200 ALBUMS CHART
# 191 (200) Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"

TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 36 (39) Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"

TOP 50 MUSIC VIDEO SALES CHART
# 22 (17) Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams"
# 19 (19) Sound City "Real To Reel" feat. Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood and Stevie Nicks

"In Your Dreams" Chart run thus far:
TW LW Weeks On
22 17 8 In Your Dreams Stevie Nicks
17 18 7 In Your Dreams Stevie Nicks
18 21 6 In Your Dreams Stevie Nicks
21 22 5 In Your Dreams Stevie Nicks
22 18 4 In Your Dreams Stevie Nicks
18 12 3 In Your Dreams Stevie Nicks
12 7 2 In Your Dreams Stevie Nicks
7 - 1 In Your Dreams Stevie Nicks (Debut)

UK - February 8, 2014
Fleetwood Mac have the No.1 Catalogue title in the UK this week with Rumours. Up ten spots from No.10 last week.

TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 51 (45) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 100 (60) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours - 35th Anniversary Edition

TOP 40 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 1 (10) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

NEW ZEALAND - February 3, 2014
TOP 40 ALBUMS CHART
# 39 (24) Fleetwood Mac - 25 Years The Chain [box set]

AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 3, 2014
TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 28 (20) Fleetwood Mac - 25 Years The Chain [box set]
# 69 (72) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 2 (2) Fleetwood Mac - 25 Years The Chain [box set]

# 13 (14) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 32 (29) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

TOP 40 MUSIC DVD CHART
# 21 (19) Fleetwood Mac - The Dance
# 36 (R/E) Sound City - Real To Reel

CANADA - January 26, 2014
TOP 150 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 17 (4) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 91 (120) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

TOP 50 MUSIC DVD CHART
# 33 (34) Fleetwood Mac - The Dance

THE AMERICAN HORROR STORY EFFECT

Fleetwood Mac's "Seven Wonders" had a nice little bump on iTunes after the American Horror Story:
Coven season finale aired last Wednesday, featuring Stevie Nicks. Stevie's appearance took the song from basically obscurity all the way up to No.98 on the overall Top 200 iTunes songs in the U.S. That's huge! The track made it up to No.2 (Tango version) on the Top 200 Rock songs chart and the remastered version from The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac reached No.6. Currently the Tango In The Night version is No.184 on the overall Top 200 chart and at No.3 on the Top 200 Rock Songs chart. Not bad!!

Not only was Seven Wonders seeing some action, but by the time Thursday rolled around there were 11 different Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks tracks on the iTunes Top 200 Rock Songs Chart (all but one song sung lead by Stevie) including the 2 versions of Seven Wonders, Landslide, 2 versions of Rhiannon, Dreams, Edge of Seventeen, Leather and Lace, Silver Springs, The Chain and Gypsy. On the Top 200 Rock Albums Chart on Thursday - 5 albums were making waves including Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits, Rumours, Stevie's Cyrstal Visions...The Very Best Of, Fleetwood Mac's The Very Best of and Tango In The Night.

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Broadcast | Rehearsal and Audience Shot Video: Lindsey Buckingham with NIN, Dave Grohl and QOTSA - Grammy's

Trent Reznor Tweets 'F--- You' to Grammys After His Performance Is Cut Short

Trent Reznor isn't happy about being played off at the Grammys on Sunday night. The Nine Inch Nails frontman took the stage at Staples Center, playing "Copy of A" from his 2013 album Hesitation Marks, as the final performance of the show. He was joined by Fleetwood Mac singer/guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, along with Dave Grohl, manning the drumkit and with frequent collaborator Josh Homme.

But the performance was cut short as the credits began to roll before the performance was done. Afterward, Reznor took to Twitter to express his displeasure with the decision.

Backstage, Recording Academy president Neil Portnow explained to reporters the thought process behind that decision.

"We save the end slot for something that is a bit of a jam, because you can have the energy go and then it's just a matter of the clock," he said.

Music's biggest night... to be disrespected. A heartfelt FUCK YOU guys.
— Trent Reznor (@trent_reznor) January 27, 2014

by Kimberly Nordyke
Hollywood Reporter

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Full Resolution Shots From Rehearsals

Rehearsal Video:

Broadcast Version Trent Reznor’s ‘F—k You’ To CBS for Cutting GRAMMY Performance
Billboard

Queens of the Stone Age Thrash Grammys With Dave Grohl, Trent Reznor
Nine Inch Nails, Lindsey Buckingham join megagroup to close out 56th Annual Grammy Awards
Rollingstone

The 2014 Grammys closed on gloriously weird note, thanks to a unique collaboration of Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Dave Grohl and Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham. The supergroup kicked things off with their take on Nine Inch Nails' "Copy of A," of the group's Hesitation Marks LP, beefed up with bubbling bluegrass guitar line and flashing psychedelic lights. If someone were to isolate the tracks of the song, it might sound like pretentious noodling – a little EDM flourish there, some jangly country guitar there, some Muppet-like drum crushing from Grohl and a whole lot of sweet vocal harmonies. But together, it made for a sound that was far trippier than the lighting rig but also something that was more than the sum of its parts.

Then out came the sun, or at least a very colorful globe. After a white backdrop fell to the stage, Queens frontman Josh Homme swiveled his head as he intoned "My God Is the Sun," a song off his band's 2013 album . . . Like Clockwork, a song that featured Grohl on the recording. The mega backing band shook maracas to the beat, but the glory didn't last long. Running overtime by about 15 minutes, CBS or one of the Grammys producers pulled the plug on the performance and ran ads for airlines and TV shows, which, to its credit, made the song seem all the more surreal as it played out this year's installment of the awards show.

Audience Shot Video:

Can't really hear Lindsey as prominently as on the televised version... But at least you get to see how the 2 song set ended! (Still pissed they cut the show because of time constraints)

Friday, January 31, 2014

OFF THE RECORD with Joe Benson Feat. Fleetwood Mac this Sunday 8pm 100.3 The Sound LA

This Sunday night at 8pm on 100.3 The Sound of Los Angeles, OFF THE RECORD with Joe Benson will feature the music of Fleetwood Mac as well as more of Joe's extensive conversations with Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood and Christine McVie.

Stream Live on Sunday at 100.3 The Sound of Los Angeles at 8pm

(Pretty sure this is pacific time).

Off The Record

Check out the audio promo HERE

UK TV Alert: Sound City feat. Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham & Mick Fleetwood debuts on BBC 4 Tonight

Dave Grohl's American rock documentary Sound City set to make UK TV debut on BBC Four

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl's documentary about Los Angeles' notorious Sound City will make its UK TV debut this month.

The rock legend, who was also a member of band Nirvana, directs, produces and appears in the feature length documentary about the history of American Rock.

It looks at some of the famous faces who called the shabby studio their second home, building some of the strongest careers in rock music.

Some of the albums created there include Nirvana's Nevermind, Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush, Fleetwood Mac’s eponymous album and Johnny Cash’s Unchained.

And through interviews, photos and video footage, Dave shows us how Mick Fleetwood met Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, leading to them joining Fleetwood Mac.

Looking at the rise of digital editing, he also discovers exactly why Butch Vig, Frank Black, Trent Reznor and Lars Ulrich all chose to work in an analogue environment.

The film ends when Dave brings some of the great names together at his Studio 606 to record a new album on the original Sound City Neve console.

It culminates in new performances from Rick Springfield, Stevie Nicks, Lee Ving, Josh Homme, Trent Reznor, Krist Novoselic and Sir Paul McCartney.

The documentary had a one-off screening in the UK in February last year.

Sound City will air on Friday, January 31, at 10:15pm BBC Four.

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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

American Horror Story... "Seven Wonders" with Stevie Nicks. What did you think?

AMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN - SEASON FINALE

Stevie was the focus of the full cold opening of tonights season finale of Coven. "Seven Wonders" was the title of the episode... and sure enough Stevie sang the Fleetwood Mac track "Seven Wonders". I thought it was really cool... and just like a music video which Ryan Murphy weeks ago said it would be.

While lip syncing to the song Stevie passed through many of the rooms on the main floor of Miss Robichaux's Academy decked out in a long flowing dress, platform boots and that famous top hat all the while singing "Seven Wonders" (the original 1987 Fleetwood Mac version from the Tango In The Night album). Glimpses of the girls in the coven off in their own spaces studying and getting ready for the Seven Wonders competition were shown while the track played. At the end of the song (It wasn't the full song, but a large portion of it), Stevie stood at the bottom of the stairs as the girls made their way down the staircase. They stopped... She said "Good luck girls" then turned, and walked down the long hallway and out the door. Pretty major segment! Not sure what happened with the track that Ryan Murphy said Lindsey and Stevie were working on for the show... Maybe it was supposed to be a retooling or updating of "Seven Wonders", not sure. In any case, it didn't happen.