Stevie Nicks | Lindsey Buckingham and the Grammy Possibilities

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham

Two amazing artists putting out arguably their best solo material 

Could a Grammy be next?

2011 has been an incredible year for both Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.  Within the span of 5 months both have put out critically and to a certain extent commercially successful albums.  They have both toured North America this spring, summer and fall and continue to tour with upcoming shows booked in the UK and Australia. They have surrounded themselves with incredible musicians backing them up in the studio and on the road which resulted in two stellar albums, cool videos and really amazing interesting live performances in some great historic venues!  It goes without saying that each has had an amazing run as a solo artists over the years, not to mention being members of Fleetwood Mac, so to see this level of artistic achievement from them at this stage in their careers is just mind blowing... And both show no signs of stopping now!  In fact it almost feels like they are just getting started!  They continue to roll on with Lindsey releasing a live DVD/CD package out Oct 31st in the UK & November 1st in North America and Stevie is reportedly prepping her "Making of" In Your Dreams documentary.  It's also been an incredible year for fans on both sides of the fence so any Grammy nominations on top of all this would just be icing on the cake!

I'm really excited for both of them and wish them both the best of luck as the list of artists and their submissions is fairly lengthy with a lot of really great performers this year hoping to grab a nomination.

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

Here's a list of submissions for Grammy consideration for both Lindsey and Stevie.  Actual nominations are announced at some point in December with awards given out early next year.

Stevie and her team have submitted two songs in 5 categories. "Secret Love" for Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Best Short Form Music Video categories.  They have also submitted "Soldiers Angel" in the Best Rock Performance and Best Rock Song categories.  Stevie's album "In Your Dreams" was also placed in the Best Pop Vocal Album and Album of the Year categories.  Lindsey Buckingham and his team have submitted his album "Seeds We Sow" in for consideration in the Best Pop Vocal Album and Album of the Year categories with the lead single "In Our Own Time" being submitted to the Best Pop Solo Performance and Song of the Year categories. GOOD LUCK TO BOTH!! 

STEVIE NICKS

BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM

- In Your Dreams - Stevie Nicks

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

- In Your Dreams - Stevie Nicks

BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE

- Soldiers Angel - Stevie Nicks

BEST ROCK SONG

- Soldiers Angel - Stevie Nicks

(Songwriter award)

SONG OF THE YEAR

- Secret Love - Stevie Nicks

(songwriter award)

RECORD OF THE YEAR

- Secret Love - Stevie Nicks

BEST SHORT FORM MUSIC VIDEO

- Secret Love - Stevie Nicks

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM

BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM

- Seeds We Sow - Lindsey Buckingham

BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE

- In Our Own Time - Lindsey Buckingham

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

- Seeds We Sow - Lindsey Buckingham

SONG OF THE YEAR

- In Our Own Time - Lindsey Buckingham

(Songwriter award)

BRIEF EXPLAINING EACH CATEGORY:

AN EVENING WITH STEVIE NICKS A Special Benefit For The Grammy Museum

AN EVENING WITH STEVIE NICKS
A SPECIAL BENEFIT FOR THE GRAMMY MUSEUM AND THE GRAMMY FOUNDATION
PRESENTED BY AMERICAN EXPRESS
Wednesday, October 19, 2011; 8:00pm
Grammy Museum

The GRAMMY Museum, in conjunction with The GRAMMY Foundation, is honored to welcome the multi- GRAMMY Award -winning Stevie Nicks to the Clive Davis Theater. As a member of the legendary Fleetwood Mac as well as her extraordinary solo career, Nicks is one of the world's most influential and inspiring artists of the last three decades. Before an audience of 200, Nicks will converse with GRAMMY Museum Executive Director Bob Santelli about her history-making career and her current CD, In Your Dreams, her first studio album in a decade. After the discussion, Nicks will take audience questions and perform a few songs.

Doors open at 7:30 pm. American Express presale tickets are $50 and can be purchased at Museum Box Office starting Thursday October 13, 2011 at noon. Public onsale is Saturday, October 15, at noon. American Express is the exclusive payment method for presale tickets. American Express ticket purchasers will also receive a special gift. All proceeds benefit the GRAMMY Museum and The GRAMMY Foundation. For more information, please call 213.765.6803.

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Stevie Nicks - "Moonlight" [Official Music Video]

BellaAndEdward.com is proud to be exclusively premiering the much-anticipated music video for Stevie Nicks’s Twilight-inspired song “Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream)” from her current album “In Your Dreams.”

If you click through and watch the video on Youtube which you can do by clicking on the Youtube logo on the bottom right of the video screen, I encourage all of you to please leave a comment on Stevie's Youtube page and "Like" the video... It'll help the video blowup on Youtube and gain wider attention... Thanks!

Stevie Nicks and Dave Stewart have penned a modern classic in “Everybody Loves You"

Stevie Nicks, “Everybody Loves You”
By Davis Inman
American Songwriter

With a chorus hook that seems in equal parts inspired by the hit DNA of U2′s “One” and REM’s “Everybody Hurts,” Stevie Nicks and Dave Stewart have penned a modern classic in “Everybody Loves You.”

The song comes on Stevie Nicks’ new album, In Your Dreams, produced by Dave Stewart. It seems appropriate that for Nicks’ first album in a decade, she’s chosen to tackle aspects of Fleetwood Mac’s complicated past: the romantic entanglements and revolving personnel doors that would lead to the group’s most successful work.

Fleetwood Mac began life as a Peter Green-helmed British blues rock entity, along with the rhythm section of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie, for whom Green named the band and who would prove to be the only stable force through years of lineup changes.

By the early ‘70s, Green was out, and the band seemed to be switching guitar-playing singer-songwriters like relief pitchers in a baseball game. (1974’s Kiln House seems a clear high-water mark for the ’50s blues-meets-’70s soft rock transitional period caretaken by Danny Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer.)

By 1975, Mick Fleetwood had moved the band to Los Angeles and was looking for a new guitarist. In a feature story, Nicks tells American Songwriter’s Lynne Margolis that “destiny” brought she and Lindsay Buckingham together.

“[Mick Fleetwood] definitely heard strains of Peter Green [in Lindsay Buckingham] and all the other famous guitar players who had been in Fleetwood Mac for the five years before that. So the fact that this big tall guy would come in and Keith Olsen would play him a song off a Buckingham-Nicks record that never really went anywhere, that two years before had opened to critical acclaim and then was dropped like a rock by Polydor—what are the chances of that? One in 20 million?”

Buckingham and Nicks would join the group and Olsen would produce the new lineup’s first album, Fleetwood Mac (their second eponymous release). The Buckingham-Nicks dynamic would help move the band into Fleetwood Mac’s golden era of ‘70s California smooth rock, which in 1977 produced Rumours, created in the midst of the power couple’s disintegration.

Stewart also headed up a famous formerly-romantic musical duo with Annie Lennox in Eurythmics, and Nicks says there was an unspoken bond between the two when working together on “Everybody Loves You.”

"For What It's Worth" not lookin' too good on the charts!

Stevie's latest single "For What It's Worth" isn't looking too good at the moment on the AC Charts... In it's 3rd week on the chart (Billboard Magazine issue October 15th) the single has dropped to # 29 after debuting at # 25 and dropping to # 26 the second week.  This was to be expected as there have been virtually no radio stations in the US in the month of September picking up the track for play... Too bad, it's a great track!

I'd suggest getting another single out there to radio, but at this late stage in the fall and with AC radio's slow building pattern, by the time anything begins to gain some traction it'll be Christmas and the onslot of holiday tunes on radio will be relentless... Remember what happened in the fall of 2003 when Thrown Down and Steal Your Heart Away were released from Say You Will?... Not a lot!  Both radio singles were lost in the holiday shuffle... 

Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Blondie and The Cars - Ageless on new albums

Veteran rock artists like Lindsey Buckingham prove ageless on new albums
By Joe Szczechowski
Delconews Network

If there’s anything more difficult than achieving success in popular music, it’s sustaining that success. The overwhelming majority of artists and bands never sign to a national record label. Only a small percentage of signed artists ever sell enough music to make the charts. Of those that do, the majority make their mark and disappear with careers that last less than five years. For that reason alone, artists and bands that have enjoyed careers lasting 10, 20 or 30 years and more deserve respect and attention.

Rock and pop music is primarily marketed to and created by young people. With a few exceptions, established artists who pass middle age and continue to create music are often overlooked or ignored. Ironically, while the artists may be aging, their music remains ageless. Over the last few months, a wealth of "classic" rock and pop stars released new, notable albums that belied the age of their creators and deserved an audience.

In case you missed them, here are four of the best:

Panic of Girls; Blondie (Eleven Seven/EMI)
Move like This; The Cars (Hear Music)

In Your Dreams; Stevie Nicks (Reprise) –In the press release accompanying In Your Dreams, Stevie Nicks’ first album in 10 years, Nicks is quoted as saying: “This was one of the most extraordinary experiences I’ve had making a record. It is the first album that I have had this kind of collaboration since the making of Rumours. It was everything I always wished making a record would be.” Since major-label releases by major artists are often accompanied by their fair share of hype, it was clear that the album was being marketed as a “return to form” for Nicks.

Surprisingly, In Your Dreams not only meets expectations; it surpasses them. Nicks’ solo work outside of Fleetwood Mac has always been uneven. She’s capable of writing some of rock music’s most poetic lyrics and matching them to memorable melodies, but she seemed to thrive best in Fleetwood Mac’s group environment, where her individual musical excesses were reined in.

In Your Dreams was written and recorded at Nicks’ Los Angeles home and is co-produced by Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) and Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette). Perhaps Stewart’s guiding hand was needed to extract this gem from Nicks. She literally sounds reborn – her voice is as clear and strong as it was on anything she ever sang with Fleetwood Mac.

Most of the material on the album was written over the past few years, but some songs – like the album’s first single, “Secret Love” and the Edgar Allan Poe-inspired “Annabel Lee” – date back as far as the early 70s.

Album highlights include “For What It’s Worth,” an acoustic mid-tempo ballad that’s as good as anything on Tusk, the aforementioned “Secret Love” and the up-tempo title track, which proves Nicks can indeed still “rock a little.”

Elsewhere, Nicks draws inspiration from literary sources in “Wild Sargasso Sea” (from the book and movie of the same name) and “Moonlight (A Vampire’s Dream)” (inspired by the film New Moon), as well as places in “New Orleans” and “Italian Summer” and events in “Soldier's Angel.”

With only a few slight missteps, In Your Dreams might be Stevie Nicks’ most consistently strong album to date.

B+

Seeds We Sow; Lindsey Buckingham (Buckingham Records) – Ever since the modern incarnation of Fleetwood Mac rose to popularity in the mid-70s, the band’s most valuable player has been Lindsey Buckingham. Buckingham’s contributions – solid songwriting, emotional vocals, fluid, finger-style guitar playing, and state-of-the-art production – are largely responsible for making albums like Rumors and Tusk the pop music milestones they are.

All of those attributes align once again on Buckingham’s new solo album, Seeds We Sow. While it’s by no means a stripped-down acoustic set (the route Buckingham took for the most part on Under the Skin), Seeds We Sow has a very intimate feel to it. It’s an album that’s meant to be listened to with headphones – the better to appreciate every detail of Buckingham’s musical tapestry.

Buckingham is an excellent traditional pop songwriter, but what sets his music apart from the crowd is the unexpected, sometimes quirky layers he adds to his songs – the echo effect in “Stars Are Crazy” or the intense vocal surge on the chorus of “On Our Own Time.”

Fans of Buckingham’s Fleetwood Mac contributions or his earliest solo work will find much to like on Seeds We Sow. Songs like “Gone Too Far,” “Illumination,” and especially “That's the Way Love Goes” would have fit well on Fleetwood Mac albums of the late 70s and early 80s. It helps that Buckingham’s voice hasn’t lost any of its range or power, and also that his guitar playing remains top-notch. He shows off his trademark finger-style playing throughout the album, and even pulls out a terrific shredding solo on “One Take.”

With “Seeds We Sow,” Buckingham has created an album that will be appreciated by Fleetwood Mac fans, Lindsey Buckingham fans, and if there’s any justice, lots of new fans.

A-

Stevie Nicks... Vamping it up!

via Flourish Public Relations - Melbourne

Fleetwood Mac take a GIANT leap up the Billboard Top 200 + Lindsey Buckingham Tour Stats

Billboard Magazine 

Week ending September 25th, issue date October 8th:

The big news this week isn't the fact that both Lindsey and Stevie drop off the Top 200 Albums Chart this week with Seeds We Sow and In Your Dreams, but that Fleetwood Mac's 1977 Rumours album continues to sell so well 34 years after it's initial release.  Again this week the album re-enters multiple Billboard charts, most notibly the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart where it re-enters at # 74 on a 328% sales increase or 6,293 total units sold vs 1,470 units sold the week prior.  The massive increase is likely due to Amazon's deeply discounted mp3 album download that saw the title being sold for as little as $3.99 last week.  Even today the album can be bought for $5.99 as an mp3 download on Amazon.  To date Rumours has sold 2,891,943 albums in the US since November, 1991 when Soundscan began tracking over the counter sales.

No such luck for Lindsey's Seeds We Sow on the Top 200, even though Amazon had the album for most of last week discounted down to as little as $4.99 the album drops off the Top 200 this week.  Seeds We Sow in it's 3rd week of release remains on the Top 200 Current Albums Chart falling from # 132 last week to # 177 this week.  On the Top Independent Albums Chart, the album remains in the Top 40 at # 38 down from # 32 last week.

Back to Rumours:  On the Top Digital Albums Chart, Rumours re-enters at # 24 this week while on the Top Catalogue Albums Chart the album re-enters at the # 4 place right behind The Beatles at # 1, Adele and Amy Winehouse.

Stevie's In Your Dreams drops out of the Top 200 Albums chart this week along with the Top 200 Current Albums Chart and the Top 50 Rock Albums Chart.  Her new single "For What It's Worth" remains on the Top 30 AC Charts holding steady at # 26 for a second week.

Complete charts below.  Previous week in parenthesis.

USA ALBUM CHARTS

Billboard Top 200 Current Albums Chart
# 177 (132) Lindsey Buckingham - Seeds We Sow

Billboard Top Independent Albums Chart
# 38 (32) Lindsey Buckingham - Seeds We Sow

Billboard Top Digital Albums
# 24 (-) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (Re-entry)

Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart
# 74 (-) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (Re-entry)

Billboard Top Catalogue Albums Chart
# 4 (-) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (Re-entry)

Billboard Top 30 AC Charts
# 26 (26) Stevie Nicks - For What It's Worth

On the tour front, Seeds We Sow Tour attendance to the first 3 shows reported by promoters to Boxscore have been published.  Attendance average based on these first 3 is at 73% which is higher so far then his last two tours ended up after a majority of the dates had been published... It's early yet so provided more stats are published on more dates, this will change.

Chart Updates: Lindsey Buckingham | Stevie Nicks Albums - Billboard

Billboard Magazine Albums Chart for the sales week ending September 18th and issue date October 1st has Lindsey's "Seeds We Sow" in week 2 dropping over 100 places from a debut last week at # 45 to # 149 this week.  On the Top Current Albums Chart the album drops to # 132 from # 43 last week.  Lindsey's album sold 3,513 units in the US last week down from 8,857 the previous week for a total thus far sold in the US of 12,496.

Stevie's "In Your Dreams" moves up to # 161 after re-entering the chart last week at # 198. Also on the Top 200 Current Albums Chart in it's 18th week of release In Your Dreams moves up to #142 from # 157 last week. Stevie's album sold 3,305 units in the US last week up from 2,597 the previous week for a total this far in the US of 155,581.

Both albums drop on the Top Rock Albums Chart, Seeds to # 44 and Dreams to # 49.  Lindsey's Seeds We Sow remains on the Top Independent Chart at # 32.

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM

Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart - Chart Date October 1, 2011
# 149 (45) Lindsey Buckingham "Seeds We Sow"

Top 200 Current Albums Chart
# 132 (43) Lindsey Buckingham "Seeds We Sow"

Top 50 Rock Albums Chart
# 44 (06) Lindsey Buckingham "Seeds We Sow"

Top 50 Independent Albums Chart
# 32 (05) Lindsey Buckingham "Seeds We Sow"

STEVIE NICKS

Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart - Chart Date October 1, 2011
# 161 (198) Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams"

Top 200 Current Albums Chart
# 142 (157) Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams"

Top 50 Rock Albums Chart
# 49 (44) Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams"

Depending on what chart you look at, either Billboad.com or the charts to the right, Stevie's single "For What It's Worth debuts this week at either # 25 or  # 26 on the Top 30 Adult Contemporary Charts.

Billboard Top 30 Adult Contemporary Charts
# 25 (NEW) Stevie Nicks "For What It's Worth" Debut

(I'll update with more as the information becomes available)

Chart Updates: Fleetwood Mac, Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks Around The World

Album Charts and Sales (if available) From Around The World

Lindsey's new album Seeds We Sow debuted in two more countries this past week.  In Canada Seeds debuted at # 92 on the Top 100 Albums Chart and in Norway the album debuted at # 28 on the Top 40 Albums Chart.

In Ireland Lindsey's Seeds We Sow drops off the Top 100 albums chart after one week debuting last week at # 95.  The album remains on the Top 20 Independent Albums Chart for a second week at # 19 after debuting last week at # 9.

In Australia Fleetwood Mac remain on the Top 50 Catalogue Chart placing 3 titles in the Top 30 plus 1997's The Dance DVD moves up on the Top 40 DVD Chart.  Stevie Nicks' Best Of album Crystal Visions hangs on for another week on the catalogue chart moving up slightly over last week.

In The Netherlands Fleetwood Mac's Rumours remains inside the top 15 on the Top 50 Catalogue Chart at # 12.

In the US this past week, Lindsey's Seeds We Sow debued at # 45 on Billboards Top 200 Album Chart with sales of 8,857.  Stevie's In Your Dreams album re-entered the Top 200 at # 198 with sales of 2,597, down slightly from last weeks 2,708 with an accumulated total for the album so far of 152,276.

In the UK, Lindsey's Seeds We Sow debuted last week at # 82 and drops out of the Top 100 this week. On the Top 40 Independent Albums Chart the album drops to # 38 this week after debuting at # 12 last week.  The Top 40 Catalogue Chart shows Fleetwood Mac's Rumours moved down this week to # 19 from # 16 last week.  Full rundown below.  Previous week in parenthesis.

UK - September 24th

Top 40 Independent Albums Chart

# 38 (12) Lindsey Buckingham - Seeds We Sow

Top 40 Catalogue Chart
# 19 (16) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

IRELAND - September 15th

Top 20 Independent Albums Chart
# 19 (09) Lindsey Buckingham - Seeds We Sow

AUSTRALIA - September 19th

Top 100 Albums Chart
# 82 (78) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Top 50 Catalogue Chart
# 12 (11) Fleetwood Mac - The very Best Of
# 14 (14) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
# 27 (25) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 33 (35) Stevie Nicks - Crystal Visions... The Very Best Of

Top 40 DVD Chart
# 24 (32) Fleetwood Mac - The Dance

CANADA - September 15th

Top 100 Albums Chart
# 92 (-) Lindsey Buckingham - Seeds We Sow (Debut)

NORWAY - September 12th

Top 40 Albums Chart
# 28 (-) Lindsey Buckingham - Seeds We Sow (Debut)

THE NETHERLANDS - September 17th

Top 50 Back Catalogue Chart
# 12 (15) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

The following below were previously posted September 14th

Must Read: "In Defense Of Stevie Nicks"

This was a good read:

I’m a fan of Stevie Nicks. And that hasn’t always an easy thing to admit, at least not publicly.

But, today, with many of her songs (“Landslide,” “Leather and Lace”) rightfully acknowledged as modern pop standards, and as a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Ms. Nicks is being more and more recognized as a true rock legend. But for many years, as she airily floated about, she was far too close to punchline and parody for even the most die-hard of fans to ably defend her fully. Hence, our frequent silence. Even the truly devoted among us, who secretly worshiped every aspect of her gothic crystal vision, often had to wonder if she wouldn’t be taken a bit more seriously, by audiences and critics alike, if just once she’d toned down some of her Enchanted Forest fever.

Continue for the rest at: Thoughtcataloge

Stevie Nicks > Collaboration Results in Refreshing 'Dreams'

NEW YORK — Stevie Nicks has her own way of doing things. And why shouldn’t she? The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer with five platinum albums to her name, not to mention all her work with Fleetwood Mac, has done pretty well for herself.

So when producer Dave Stewart, of Eurythmics fame, showed up at her house one day, guitar in hand, expecting to write a song with a woman who has written alone for decades, she was taken aback.

“He just said, ‘I like this poem. Let’s do this one,’ ” says Nicks, calling from her home in Los Angeles. “I’m thinking, ‘ OK, he doesn’t really think we’re going to write a song here in the room together.’ Then, he just started playing, and he said, ‘Chime in.’ And I’m like, ‘OK,’ and I start reading my poem, and pretty soon a melody started to happen, and in 20 minutes, ‘You May Be the One,’ which is a pretty serious song, was done.”

For Nicks, it was an epiphany. “I got it,” she says. “I understand why people write together who don’t have to write together. I understand Paul and John, and Rodgers and Hart, and Carole King and Gerry Goffin. … They didn’t need to write together. They could write just great on their own. So why did they? Well, now I know.”

Nicks says the sessions that became the album “In Your Dreams” (Reprise) were so good that she thought, “Oh, my God, I’m never gonna make a record this good again.

“This record is what we would call in San Francisco in the ’60s a ‘happening,’ ” she says. “Every part of it was so much fun. ... It had everything that I love. It had craziness, and we set up a very romantic setting. There were a lot of people here, and we had dinners every night, where we stopped and talked about the world. … We created a Parisian salon in the ’20s in my house. Friends came, and they asked if they could listen, and we said, ‘Sure, come on,’ because it was a very open thing. Everybody was welcome. It was a very easygoing, free-flowing musical thing.”

Album Chart Updates... USA | Australia | Ireland | UK

Chart Updates for the week ending September 4th and Billboard Magazine issue September 17, 2011.  

In Your Dreams drops off the Top 200 Albums chart this week after re-entering last week at # 150.  On the Top 200 Current Albums Chart the album moves down to # 166 from # 132 last week.

Fleetwood Mac remain on the Top 200 Album Charts with Rumours at # 182 down from # 155 last week.  The album sold 2,961 this week vs 3,037 last week.  

On the Top 200 Catalogue Chart Fleetwood Mac's Rumours moves down to # 28 this week from # 22 last week.  Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits collection moves down to # 114 from # 90 last week with sales of 1,676 vs 1,707 last week.  Fleetwood Mac's The Very Best Of drops off the chart this week.  Stevie's Crystal Visions Best Of album moves down to # 169 from # 124 last wee on sales of 1,373 vs 1,470 last week.

• Fleetwood Mac's Rumours has sold 2,882,291 in the US since November, 1991 when Soundscan began keeping track of over the counter sales.
• Greatest Hits has sold 4,489,255 since November, 1991.
• Crystal Visions has sold 383,889 since the spring of 2007.

TOP 200 CURRENT ALBUMS CHART
WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 4, 2011
# 166 (132) In Your Dreams, Stevie Nicks (16 weeks on the chart)

TOP 200 ALBUMS CHART
# 182 (155) Rumours, Fleetwood Mac

TOP 200 CATALOGUE CHART
# 169 (124) Crystal Visions, Stevie Nicks
# 28 (22) Rumours, Fleetwood Mac
# 114 (90) Greatest Hits, Fleetwood Mac

Stevie Nicks | Fleetwood Mac - Billboard Chart Update with Sales

Billboard Top 200 Charts for the week ending August 28th, issue date September 10th:

Stevie's "In Your Dreams" jumps back onto the Top 200 Albums Chart this week at # 150 with 3,103 in sales for the week up from 2,532 last week (Total accumulated since release = 146,971.  In Your Dreams also moves higher on the Top 200 Current Albums Chart to # 132 from # 170 last week.

Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" also re-enters the Top 200 at # 155 this week on 3,037 units sold vs 2,052 last week (Total accumulated since 1991 = 2,879,330).  Both albums taking a jump in sales could be as a result of her appearance on Good Morning America on Thursday August 26th, but because the sales week ended Sunday the 28th that leaves only 2 days to accumulate enough for a re-entry.  It's likely just a combination of GMA and the current tour.

On the Catalogue Chart Stevie's "Crystal Visions" moves up to # 124 from # 149 last week selling 1,470 units this week which is up slightly from last weeks 1,408.  Total accumulated for Crystal Visions = 382,516.  Fleetwood Mac move up to # 22 from # 65 last week with "Rumours".  "The Greatest Hits" moves up to # 90 from # 95 last week on sales of 1,707 down from 1,713 the previous week.  Total accumulated sales since 1991 in the US = 4,487,579.  Fleetwood Mac's other hits collection the double disc "The Very Best Of" moves down to # 188 from # 143 last week on sales of 1,228 vs 1,436 the previous week.  Total accumulated units sold for The Very Best Of = 1,436,657  

Top 200 Albums Chart:

# 150 (-) Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" Re-enters The Top 200 Albums Chart
# 155 (-) Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" Re-eners The Top 200 Albums Chart

Top 200 Current Albums Chart
# 132 (170) Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams"

Top Rock Albums Chart:
# 40 (-) Stevie Nicks "In Your Dreams" Re-enters the Top Rock Albums Chart

Top 200 Catalogue Chart:
# 22 (65) Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"
# 90 (95) Fleetwood Mac "Greatest Hits"
# 124 (149) Stevie Nicks "Crystal Visions"
# 188 (143) Fleetwood Mac "The Very Best Of"

Kings of Leon, Fleetwood Mac, more: The iTunes Store's back to school sale -- where selected albums are sale priced at $7.99 engineers gains for a number of charting sets this week. Among the gainers: Kings of Leon's "Come Around Sundown" returns at No. 144 (up 52%), Nickelback's "Dark Horse" gallops 198-153 (up 9%), Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" re-enters at No. 155 (up 48%).

(Previous week in parenthesis)

Still following her ‘Dreams’

Stevie Nicks tours behind new album that takes her in many different directions

By Sarah Rodman
Globe Staff / August 26, 2011
Boston Globe

Stevie Nicks will twirl her way to the stage of the Bank of America Pavilion on Monday, and she’s thrilled to be hitting the road in support of her latest solo release, “In Your Dreams,’’ her first in a decade and what she calls one of the best of her career.

Produced and partially co-written by erstwhile Eurythmic Dave Stewart - with help from Glen Ballard - at a studio in Nicks’s Los Angeles home, the album finds the Fleetwood Mac chanteuse covering a lot of ground. She spreads her patented brand of mystical glitter on everything from the emotional ode to our troops “Soldier’s Angel,’’ featuring Mac compatriot Lindsey Buckingham on guitar and vocals, to the expansive rocker “Wide Sargasso Sea.’’

We chatted with Nicks recently on the phone from LA.  Check out that interview here

Behind The Scenes With Stevie Nicks on For What It's Worth Video

Relaxed in black and looking ever the rock star, Stevie Nicks proves she's still got it in these just released behind-the-scenes photos for her new music video, For What It's Worth.

The song is the second single off Nicks' first studio album in ten years which was released early this May. The Fleetwood Mac legend produced and co-wrote much of the CD In Your Dreams with Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame.

Keep an eye out for Stewart and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty + The Heartbreakers who make a special cameo in the video.

Don’t miss Stevie when she Performs live in Central Park this Friday on Good Morning America.

In Your Dreams is in stores now.

Photos by Kristin Burns

ETonline

HERE IT IS... THE NEW STEVIE NICKS VIDEO "FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH"...

Stunningly beautiful! 

Okay... I've watched this a bunch of times.  I really love it, I think they did an outstanding job on this... it fits the song perfectly!  Stevie looks stunning in the desert with the wind blowing at sunset...  

Appearing in the video: Stevie | Dave Stewart | Mike Campbell | Jessica Nicks 

Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks - 2 singles Impacting Radio

Both Stevie and Lindsey have new singles out promoting their respective albums Stevie with "For What It's Worth" and Lindsey with "In Our Own Time".  Lindsey's tune is so far impacting at Triple A stations and was picked up by 5 stations today.. That's great!  Stevie's track has been building slowly since it's release in July primarily at AC stations with a  few Triple A stations picking up the track.  Stevie's track should officially enter Billboards Top 30 AC chart within the next week or two and with the video for the song expected in the next few weeks it will only help with awareness. Lindsey's song was just released so it still needs to build up some radio spins before it hits any charts.  No word on whether a video will be serviced or not.  Good news all around!

Stevie Nicks' new whirl + Fleetwood Mac Reuniting Update...

"Lindsey has made a really beautiful record ['Seeds We Sow,' due Sept. 6] and he's going to go work that record. By the time we're both done working these records and you put a little time between it, Fleetwood Mac will probably start dancing around the fire at the end of next year."

Article by: JON BREAM

Star Tribune

This summer, Stevie Nicks was invited to sing on TV's "America's Got Talent" and "The Voice." This month, she joined Jeff Bridges and John Fogerty at a benefit for wounded soldiers in Sturgis, S.D. In May, her Fleetwood Mac songs were featured on a "Glee" episode.

Why is the witchy woman so suddenly in demand?

It probably has a lot to do with "In Your Dreams," her first solo album in 10 years and her best since 1981's "Bella Donna."

"I have to tip my top hat to Dave Stewart" of Eurythmics, she said, who produced the album. "I think the seven songs that he and I wrote together mixed in with the five songs that I wrote by myself made for a much more interesting and diversified record," said Nicks, who performs Wednesday at Mystic Lake Casino amphitheater.

As a musician, Nicks, 63, knows she's limited. She didn't expect to be writing with Stewart but she sent him 40 pages of poetry. He came to her house and said, "Let's do this one."

Recalled Nicks: "In my head, I'm like, 'You don't think we're really going to sit in this room and write a song together, 'cause I don't do that.' But he was so kind and so sweet and no ego, and we just started playing, and in 15 minutes we finished 'You May Be the One.'

"Suddenly, I had an epiphany. Wow! That worked. And this is a really great song with no grief. I don't feel punished or like something was taken away from me. I don't miss spending two months sitting at my piano in tears."

One of her own songs on "In Your Dreams" actually dates back to Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" days in the mid-1970s. She knew she had "Secret Love" on a cassette somewhere but couldn't find it. Then her assistant discovered it on YouTube. It turns out that Nicks had actually recorded it for "Bella Donna" but never released it. Keyboardist Benmont Tench, the musical director for that album, was the only person to remember it.

"Ben told me that the other day," Nicks said. "Now my whole story about having no idea [what happened to the song] has gone to hell in a handbag. I remember we recorded a lot of songs for 'Bella Donna'; I just did not remember that."

Album Sales Update: Stevie Nicks | Fleetwood Mac

Stevie's new album "In Your Dreams" in it's 15th week of release (13th week on Billboard Magazine's Top 200) remains on Billboards Top 200 Album Chart this week moving down to # 198 from # 161 last week.  On the Top 200 Current Albums Chart the album moves down to # 163 from # 137 last week.  The album re-entered the top 200 three weeks ago at # 181 after a two week absence.  The album is also at # 49 on the Top Rock Albums Chart down from # 47 last week.  

Chart positions for the last three weeks are noted below with sales for the previous two weeks plus the total units sold thus far in the US. The latest stats are for the week ending August 14th and for Billboard issue August 27th.

Billboard Top 200 Album Chart

Stevie Nicks - In Your Dreams
Week ending August 14th

# 198 - In Your Dreams - 2,714 units sold
# 161 - In Your Dreams - 3,442 units sold
# 181 - In Your Dreams
Total units sold USA: 141,336

Billboard Top 200 Catalogue Chart

On Billboard Top 200 Catalogue Chart, Fleetwood Mac place three titles, Rumours, Greatest Hits and The Very Best Of.  Stevie Nicks places one title, Crystal Visions.  I've noted the previous three weeks on this chart plus the units sold and total soundscan sales to date in the US.

Stevie Nicks - Crystal Visions
Week ending August 14th

# 191 - Crystal Visions 1,371 units sold
# 155 - Crystal Visions 1,613 units sold
# 161 - Crystal Visions
Total Units Sold USA: 379,638

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Week ending August 14th

# 75 - Rumours 2,046 units sold
# 52 - Rumours 2,455 units sold
# 39 - Rumours
Total Units Sold USA: 2,874,242 (since November, 1991)

Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
Week ending August 14th

# 118 - Greatest Hits 1,663 units sold
# 110 - Greatest Hits 1,869 units sold
#  82 - Greatest Hits
Total Units Sold USA: 4,484,159 (since November, 1991)

Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
Week ending August 14th

# 145 - The Very Best Of 1,491 units sold
# 132 - The Very Best Of 1,761 units sold
# 101 - The Very Best Of
Total Units Sold USA: 1,433,993