WOW! Check out the 3 and 6 Disc Versions of Fleetwood Mac's Rumours coming in January!

FLEETWOOD MAC 'Rumours' Deluxe Edition Special Edition, Box Set
This blows my mind!! Check out the six disc version of the Rumours re-release coming in January!!  So far this Deluxe Edition is only listed on Amazon UK along with the 3 disc version.  I hope that the 6 pack isn't just a UK exclusive... be great for everyone to have a crack at getting this one!

6 DISC DELUXE EDITION

Here's what you get:  The Deluxe Edition includes four CDs, one DVD and a gatefold vinyl edition of Rumours along with a booklet. Disc 1 is the Rumours CD which includes "Silver Springs". Disc 2 is a live CD.  Disc 3 of the set is a new collection of outtakes and early versions that wasn't included on the 2004 deluxe edition of Rumours. Disc 4 is the same bonus material that was included in the 2004 deluxe edition.  Disc 5 is the DVD and the official release of the legendary ‘Rosebud’ film, with documentary footage of the band and live performances from this era. Disc 6 is the vinyl which will be a heavyweight 140g pressing.

UK Version:

Rumours (Deluxe Edition) [Special Edition, Box Set]
Released on January 28, 2013. - Amazon UK | Canada | USA 
Number of Discs: 6
Price: £65.30

Disc 1. Rumours
Disc 2. Live Tracks
Disc 3. The Recording Sessions
Disc 4. Roughs and Outtakes
Disc 5. The Rosebud Film (DVD)
Disc 6. Rumours gatefold 140g vinyl

PLUS a booklet.

3 DISC EXPANDED EDITION

The three disc version includes Rumours, the live CD and according to the picture, the third disc is the "Rosebud" film on DVD - although the spine of the package indicates 3 CD's so it could be an error, plus Superdeluxedition.com suggests the third disc could be the new disc of outtakes and demos not included on the 2004 deluxe edition which would mean the 'Rosebud' film isn't included in the 3 disc set.

USA | UK | Canada | Germany Version: 
Rumours (Expanded Edition)
Released on January 29, 2013 (January 28, 2013 in the UK)
Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon Canada | Amazon Germany
Number of Discs: 3
US Price: $17.04 UK Price: £17.75 Canada Price: $23.28

Disc 1. Rumours
Disc 2. Live Tracks from the Rumours '77 tour (never before released)
Disc 3. The Recording Sessions demos and outtakes (never before released)

6 Disc Deluxe Edition and 3 Disc Track listing

[click continue reading to see the full track listing for both sets]

For all its slickness, for all its laid-back California Charm, Fleetwood Mac's Rumours still cuts deep every time you hear it

"Rumours is special. One can spend an eternity trying to interpret every barbed lyric or stolen glance, without ever truly uncovering the complete truth."

Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" Re-enters Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart this week

Fleetwood Mac's Rumour album re-enters the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart once again this week at #129 marking it's 150th non-consecutive week on the chart.  Album sales for the week ending September 23, 2012 were up an impressive 137% or 3,421 units sold in the US versus 1,441 in the previous sale period.  The albums also up on the top Catalogue Albums Chart to #13.  Since November, 1991 when over the counter album sales and subsequently digital sales began being tracked by soundscan, the album has sold 2,994,382 units in the US.  Which on average works out to approximately 150,000 copies sold per year since 1991.

Chart Updates: Fleetwood Mac Australia & UK + Ken Caillat Book Signing Events

AUSTRALIA - June 4, 2012

Fleetwood Mac's 2CD "The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac" surges back into the top half of the Top 100 Albums Chart re-entering the chart at #49 this week helped along no doubt by the discounted album price of $9.99 at JB Hi-Fi. The album needs to spend just one more week within the top 100, which it likely will, to mark it's 300th non-consecutive week in the Top 100. The album also re-enters the top 10 on the Top 50 Catalogue Chart moving from #14 last week to #6 this week.  Rumours also re-enters the Top 50 Catalogue Chart this week at #34 after being absent for awhile.

TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
#49 (RE) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 6   (14) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 34 (RE) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Fleetwood Mac's 1975 song "Landslide" was covered by Karise Eden on Australia's "The Voice" TV show. The song is included on "The Voice: The Final 24" album.  That album entered the Australian Top 100 Albums Chart at #26. Karise's version of Landslide was the highest charting song from the album entering the Top 100 Singles Chart at #14 and also #14 on the Top 40 Digital Tracks Chart. Fleetwood Mac's original version of Landslide from the white "Fleetwood Mac" album earlier today was the No. 1 Rock Song on iTunes Australia.

UK - June 9, 2012

Rumours in the UK hangs on for one more week on the Top 100 Albums Chart moving from #81 last week to #99 this week.  The album remains within the top 10 on the Top 40 Catalogue Chart.

TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
# 99 (81) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

TOP 40 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 6 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

THE NETHERLANDS - June 2, 2012
TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 31 (25) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

SPEAKING OF RUMOURS... or THE MAKING OF...

Here are a couple of Book Signing/Speaking Events that Fleetwood Mac Engineer and Producer Ken Caillat can be found at over the next couple of weeks.

Book Signings Are No Rumour
Prosound News

Producer and engineer Ken Caillat will be speaking and signing his book, Making Rumours, in New York and New Jersey in early June.

Up first, Ken Caillat will be speaking about the book and the album at Cinema Arts Center in Huntington, NY (Long Island), and giving his firsthand account on working with the band and writing the book.  Tickets for the event are $10 and available at brownpapertickets, at the following locations:

Cinema Arts Center
June 5, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.
423 Park Avenue
Huntington, NY 11743

Books & Greetings 
June 6, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
(Colbie Caillat will also be attending)
271 Livingston Street, #G
Northvale, NJ 07647

A CONVERSATION WITH KEN CAILLAT at The GRAMMY MUSEUM
PRESENTED BY AMERICAN EXPRESS
Ken will also be at The Grammy Museum Tuesday, June 12, 2012; 7:30pm

Hear Caillat in discussion, along with Vice President of the GRAMMY Foundation and MusiCares Scott Goldman as moderator, talk about the making of both the album and the book. Following the interview, Caillat will take questions from the audience and will sign copies of his book.

Tickets are $15 for this event and available at Ticketmaster

BARNES AND NOBLE - THOUSAND OAKS
Catch Ken at a Book Signing Event at Barnes & Noble in Thousand Oaks, CA
Saturday, June 16th at 2pm

Barnes and Noble
160 S. Westlake Blvd.,
Thousand Oaks, CA 91362,

Author Discussion:

Thirty-six years ago, an up-and-coming band hired a young engineer to record its new album -- and magic happened. Join that engineer, Grammy-winning producer Ken Caillat, as he discusses and signs Making Rumours, the story of the iconic Fleetwood Mac album.

Barnes and Noble location

Fleetwood Mac | Stevie Nicks Chart/Sales Update: US | UK

Interesting what one repeat of a couple of documentaries can do for album/song sales in the UK and to a certain extent in Ireland as well.

Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop" 2009 documentary aired on BBC4 again last evening (May 4th) with Peter Green's "Man of the World" documentary following.  Both would repeat late in the night.  As a result, take a look at the charting songs and albums on iTunes right now.  On the Top 10 Rock charts Fleetwood Mac's 1988 Greatest Hits album is the #2 Rock Album.  Rumours is #3 and The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac is #6.  In Ireland, Greatest Hits is #2 with The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac at #4. Fascinating!

In other parts of the world Greatest Hits is #3 in Spain and #9 in Australia.

On the iTunes Top 100 Charts, the lists below reveal a little more of the impact a couple of airings of a documentary can make on album and song sales.

iTunes Top 100 Rock Songs - UK
#12 - Go Your Own Way (Rumours)
#30 - The Chain
#39 - Everywhere
#42 - Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks
#44 - Little Lies
#45 - Oh Well, pts. 1&2 - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
#49 - Man of the World - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
#51 - Go Your Own Way (Greatest Hits)
#54 - Dreams
#58 - Landslide
#87 - Rhiannon

iTunes Top 100 overall Albums - UK
#31 - Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits
#35 - Fleetwood Mac Rumours
#40 - The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac

iTunes Top 100 overall Albums - Ireland
#22 - Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits
#30 - The Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
#76 - Fleetwood Mac Rumours

US ALBUM SALES 

Week ending April 29th - Billboard Chart Date May 12th 

In The USA this past week... Fleetwood Mac's Rumours and Greatest Hits are still registering on the Top 200 Catalogue Album sales chart with pretty much static numbers in terms of sales both only dropping slightly by 2% vs last week.  Both albums increase in their chart positions as other titles on the chart have greater declines.  Rumours moves from #134 to #117 with sales of 1,824 units for the week, down from 1,864 last week.  Total album sales in the US since 1991 are 2,952,152.  Greatest Hits moves from#188 to #165 on sales of 1,489 units vs 1,519 last week.  Total US sales since 1991 are 4,543,494.  On the Top Catalogue Digital Albums Chart, Rumours moves from #51 to #21 on sales of 1,260 vs 1,208 last week.  Greatest Hits moves from #132 to #104 on sales of 687 digital downloads vs 702 last week.

Two catalogue tracks strike gains in sales this week on the Top 200 sales list.  Fleetwood Mac's Landslide moves from #155 to #95 on sales of 5,883 single downloads vs 4,512 the previous week.  Stevie's Edge of Seventeen moves down the chart even though sales increased this past week.  The tune moves to #180 from #127 last week.  Sales were 4,505 vs 2,694 the previous week.  Total digital sales for Landslide are 862,143 and the total for Edge of Seventeen are 505,673 - which means last week Edge surpassed the 500k mark in digital sales making it eligible for Gold status (not sure if the RIAA awards catalogue tunes Gold awards if they sell past the 500k mark).  In any case, the song didn't chart last week because of it's lower sales even though it's listed as being #127 last week. 

Top Catalogue Albums Chart:
# 117 (134) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 165 (188) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

Top Catalogue Digital Albums Chart:
# 21   (51)   Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 104 (132) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

Top Digital Tracks Catalogue
# 95 (155)  Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
#180 (127) Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen

Update: US Album | Single Sales - Fleetwood Mac & Stevie Nicks

Fleetwood Mac albums sales take a dip... But single sales soar.
Sales period - April 2nd to April 8th and Billboard Chart date April 21, 2012

On the Top 200 Catalogue Albums Chart, two Fleetwood Mac titles remain - Rumours and Greatest Hits.  Rumours slides down the chart from #59 last week to #142 this week on sales of 1,866 copies vs 2,511 during the previous sales period.  That's a decline of 26%.  Total album sales for Rumours since Soundscan began tracking sales in November, 1991 are 2,945,418.

The Greatest Hits collection released in 1988 moves down to #139 this week from #61 last week on a decrease in sales of 24% to 1,881 units vs 2,483 in the previous sales week.  Total sales of Greatest Hits since 1991 are 4,538,936.

On the Physical Catalogue Chart, Fleetwood Mac's 2002 double cd The Very Best Of drops down to #155 from #124 in the previous sales week, but sales are static only dropping 1%.  Total sales this week are 1,358 vs 1,366 in the previous sales period.

On the Catalogue Digital Albums Chart, Rumours and Greatest Hits remain both shaving 44% in sales off their previous weeks numbers.  Rumours at #44 sold 1,047 digital copies vs 1,880 and a #16 placing in the previous sales period. Greatest Hits at #68 sold 886 digital copies vs 1,570 and a #20 placing in the previous sales period. 

EDGE OF SEVENTEEN:

The big gains were on the Digital Tracks Catalogue Chart.  Stevie's "Edge of Seventeen" moves up to #25 from #44 last week on a 55% sales increase.  Sales for the single track were 11,708 this week vs 7,560 in the previous sales period.  Total sales for the digital track are 492,848.

LANDSLIDE:

Another boost in sales for Landslide this week.  Moving from #57 to #35 the track increased in sales by 57% selling 10,657 single copies vis 6,776 in the previous sales period.  Total sales for the digital track are 845,172.

DREAMS:

Dreams re-enters the Digital Tracks Catalogue Chart at # 142 on a 53% sales increase selling 5,990 single units vs 3,911 in the previous sales period.  Total digital sales for Dreams thus far are 583,206.

GO YOUR OWN WAY:

The Lindsey Buckingham penned track recently cited as the #2 best 70's track in the UK by the music publication NME, Go Your Own Way also re-enters the Digital Tracks Catalogue Chart this week.  At #165. the single track increased in sales by 133% in the US selling 5,568 digital tracks vs 2,388 in the previous sales period.  Total sales for the digital track are 583,206.

In Total these 4 single tracks have sold 54,558 units in the last two weeks.

Top 200 Catalogue Albums Chart
# 139 (61) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
# 142 (59) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Top 200 Catalogue Physical Albums Chart
# 155 (124) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

Top 200 Catalogue Digital Albums Chart
# 44 (16) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 68 (20) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

Top 200 Catalogue Digital Tracks
# 25 (44) Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen
# 35 (57) Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
#142 (-)  Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
#165 (-)  Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way


AUSTRALIA - April 16, 2012

Top 100 Albums Chart
#91 (92) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

Top 50 Catalogue Albums Chart
#22 (25) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

IRELAND - April 12, 2012

Top 100 Albums Chart
#67 (55) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

THE NETHERLANDS - April 14, 2012

Top 50 Catalogue Albums Chart
#27 (30) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

UK - April 14, 2012

Top 100 Albums Chart
#73 (71) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Top 40 Catalogue Albums Chart
#6 - Fleetwood Mac Rumours (As of March 31st)

Album Sales: Fleetwood Mac | Stevie Nicks Post Idol & Up All Night

THE POWER OF TV
Idol and Up All Night Reinvigorates Catalogue Sales

With last week being STEVIE WEEK on network TV... The numbers below are no doubt a reflection of her appearances on two high profile shows - American Idol (March 28th) and the NBC sitcom Up All Night (March 29th).  Four Fleetwood Mac albums increased in sales substantially, enough to re-enter various chart listings.  Two tunes written by Stevie also show up on the Top Digital Catalogue Charts.  Sales increases were likely experienced on Stevie's albums as well, but they weren't enough to make the charts below. 

RUMOURS
For the sales week March 26th to April 1st (Billboard chart date April 14th) Fleetwood Mac's 1977 Rumours album sold 2,511 copies in the US which is a 61% sales increase over the previous week of 1,563 units.  The album jumped up to # 59 on the Top 200 Catalogue Albums Chart from # 156 the week prior.

Of those 2,511 albums sold, 1,880 units were digital sales which placed the album at # 16 on the Top 200 Catalogue Digital Albums Chart.  This is an increase in digital sales of 81% vs the week prior where it sold 1,040 units. To date Rumours has sold 2,943,552 units in the US since soundscan began tracking over the counter sales in November, 1991.

GREATEST HITS

For the same sales period (March 26th to April 1st) Fleetwood Mac's 1988 Greatest Hits package sold 2,483 copies in the US, a 73% increase over the previous week of 1,437 units.  The album moves up the same Catalogue chart to # 61 from last week where it was # 174.  Since 1991 the album has sold 4,537,055 units in the US.

On the Top 200 Catalogue Digital Albums Chart, during the same selling period, Greatest Hits sold 1,570 units which is an increase of 141% over the previous weeks downloads of 651 units.  The album moves up to # 20 from # 102.

FLEETWOOD MAC

The first album featuring Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, 1975's white Fleetwood Mac album (where Landslide first appeared) enters the Top 200 Digital Albums Chart this week at #192 selling 519 digital copies up 177% over the previous week's download sales of 177.

THE VERY BEST OF

On the Top 200 Physical Catalogue Chart - Fleetwood Mac's 2002 (2CD) The Very Best Of also increased in sales by 21% or 1,366 copies landing at # 124 vs the previous weeks sales of 1,133 and a # 173 placing.

EDGE OF SEVENTEEN & LANDSLIDE

Two Stevie Nicks compositions re-enter the Top 200 Digital Tracks Catalogue Chart this week.  Edge of Seventeen is the big winner here.  Haven't seen this tune on a chart in quite some time. Stevie performed a version of her song as a duet with Christina Applegate during a segment of Up All Night, and it wasn't even the whole song - it was literally about a minute of the song.  American Idol also played the track, a brief version during their "trio" segment on the 28th, it was part of a medley with two other Fleetwood Mac tunes.  So it's remarkable that from those two appearances, the track gets some traction in the sales dept.  The track re-enters this chart at # 44 selling 7,560 copies in the sales period March 26th to April 1st - up an incredible 180% over the previous week where it sold 2,704 single units.  To date Edge of Seventeen has sold 481,140 copies which is just shy of being certified Gold! This total sales number is likely the number sold since November, 1991 when Soundscan began their tracking.

Landslide moves up 168% in sales and re-enters the chart at # 57 selling a total of 6,776 singles vs 2,531 the previous week.  To date Landslide has sold 834,515 single copies in the US.  

Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" back on the Top 200 Catalogue Chart

Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album returns to the top half of the Catalogue Albums Chart this week coming in at #94 on sales in the US of 2,290 units.  The prior week the album sold 1,511, not enough to make the top 200 listing.  Since November, 1991 when soundscan began tracking over the counter sales and subsequently digital sales, the album has sold 2,938,119 units in the US.

 TOP CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART - MARCH 24, 2012

# 94 (-) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

On the Catalog Physical Albums listing, Fleetwood Mac's 2002 double disc Very Best Of set sold 1,156 units in the last week down slightly from the previous week of 1,258.  To date, sales in the US are 1,465,827 units.  Technically the album is due to be re-certified.  It's was certified platinum once it sold 500,000 units (because its a 2 disc set, each overall album sold is counted twice 500,000 x 2 = 1,000,000.) with 1,465,827 in sales, its sitting just below triple platinum.

TOP CATALOGUE PHYSICAL ALBUMS - MARCH 24, 2012

# 197  (-) Fleetwood Mac - Very Best Of

On the Catalogue Digital Albums list Fleetwood Mac have two titles, Rumours and Greatest Hits.  Rumours sold 1,677 digital copies last week up from 910 the previous week.  Greatest Hits sold 634 digital copies up from 534 the previous week.  These numbers for Rumours would be included in the Top Catalogue Albums Chart total of 2,290 above which means that Rumours sold 613 physical copies last week.

TOP CATALOGUE DIGITAL ALBUMS - MARCH 24, 2012

# 30 (65)     Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 

# 157 (183) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

One on One with Ken Caillat - Fleetwood Mac Producer - NEW Book out in April

Kat Pat & Guest Cohost Tanya have a one on one conversation with Ken Caillat.

Ken Caillat, Grammy winning co-producer of the 1977 Fleetwood Mac Rumours Album, is now the Author of what really went into making Rumours—from the endless partying and relationship dramas to the creative struggles to write and record "You Make Loving Fun," "Don't Stop," "Go Your Own Way," "The Chain," and other timeless tracks.

Check out the interview/call in show from earlier today here

The book will be out in April - Pre-order through Amazon

Listen to internet radio with KatPat on Blog Talk Radio

Classic Albums Revisited

Classic Albums Revisited

Rumours Spotlight

Clash Magazine | March 2012

RUMOURS Track by Track with Ken Caillat... Reflects on 35th Anniversary

Fleetwood Mac's classic album Rumours track-by-track
Producer Ken Caillat reflects on 35th anniversary

"Records like Rumours don't happen anymore," says Ken Caillat, who along with Richard Dashut and Fleetwood Mac produced the 1977 mega album that has sold a mind-boggling 44 million copies. "We spent a year and a lot of hell working on it. Lives were changed, people changed, everything became different. Something like Rumours could never happen these days. A record label would have shut us down after two weeks."

The soap opera that attended the making of Rumours has been extensively documented - married band members John and Christine McVie broke up, as did lovers Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks; even Mick Fleetwood's marriage dissolved, as well - and Caillat confirms that 1976 was a wild ride. "There were fights, breakups, drinking, drugs... We all indulged in substances. But I had to be a therapist and record producer. When everything was insane, I had to be sane. If there was a rule book, nobody game me one."

Although 1975's self-titled release was rising up the charts during the making of Rumours, Caillat says that the band was still learning how to play together. "Basically, you had two teams: Christine, John and Mick, the three Brits, were pros, and the two Americans, Lindsey and Stevie, had their shorthand, but they were still new to the group. During the making of Rumours, they became a real band, one that was very intuitive, musically and otherwise.”

This intuition lent itself to songwriting. Rather than work with demos, the group's principle writers - Buckingham, Nicks and Christine McVie - would present live fragments of ideas for the group to build work on. "Richard and I had to capture light in a bottle," says Caillat. "The band would be tuning up, and before you knew it, a song was going down. John and Mick would hear something, they'd start playing, and we had to react fast. That kind of creativity doesn't happen these days - it's frowned upon. In 2012, a band has to have a committee approve their songs. Can you imagine Fleetwood Mac making Rumours under such conditions?"

Released on 4 February 1977, Rumours hit like a meteor, permanently altering the landscape of all involved. "Like Richard Dashut, I went from being a mid-level engineer to a Grammy-winning producer in one year," says Caillat. "The record was like Jaws and Star Wars combined. Everybody saw those movies, and everybody during that time bought a copy of Rumours."

In his forthcoming book, Making Rumours: The Inside Story Of The Classic Fleetwood Mac Album, Ken Caillat and Steve Stiefel recount the producer's year behind the glass in brilliant, page-turning detail. "It's amazing how everything came flooding back to me once I started the book," says Caillat. "It's one thing to remember cutting a number one song, but to think about what I was wearing that same day, that's incredible.

"But that's the kind of record Rumours is: You remember your first time hearing it. You even remember where you were when when you heard it. Not every album has that power. This one does. I was just lucky to be a part of it."

On the following pages, Ken Caillat takes a track-by-track look back at Rumours. To order his book, Making Rumours: The Inside Story Of The Classic Fleetwood Mac Album, click here.

Full Article at MusicRadar

Chart Update: Fleetwood Mac | Stevie Nicks Australia, Netherlands, UK & New Zealand

Not a lot of changes vs last week... The Very Best Of in The Netherlands moves up 22 places on the catalogue chart to #13.  Rumours re-enters the US Top 10 on the iTunes download chart - most likely because of the discounted price in lieu of its 35th Anniversary this weekend.

AUSTRALIA - February 6, 2012

Top 100 Album Chart
# 44 (37) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

Top 50 Catalogue Album Chart
# 4   (3)  Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
# 9   (4)  Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
# 25 (27) Stevie Nicks - Crystal Visions... The Very Best Of
# 43 (24) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Top 40 Music DVD Chart
# 16 (16) Fleetwood Mac - The Dance

THE NETHERLANDS - February 4, 2012

The Top 50 Back Catalogue Chart
# 13 (35) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

UK - January 28, 2011

Top 40 Catalogue Chart
#17 (21 ) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

ITUNES TODAY:

Top 10 Rock Albums - USA
# 5 - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Top 10 Pop Albums - NEW ZEALAND
# 9 - Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

Chart Update: Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" & "Greatest Hits" USA

After Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album re-entered Billboards Top 200 Albums Chart last week at #117 on a sales spike, the album drops off the chart this week - but remains one of the top 200 selling catalogue albums, along with "Greatest Hits".

"Rumours" sold 1,993 copies for the sales week ending Sunday January, 29th declining 51% from the previous week when it sold 4,037 copies.  Not enough to make the Top 200 but enough to keep it on the Catalogue Chart.  Total US sales since Nov. 1991 when sales began being tracked by soundscan = 2,927,056.

"Greatest Hits" sold 1,418 copies for the week up to the 29th declining 9% from the previous week when it moved 1,561 copies.  Total US sales = 4,522,537 since Nov. 1991.

"Landslide" sold 5,111 digital copies up to the 29th down 23% vs the previous week where it sold 6,616 downloads.  Total US sales = 804,841

Billboard Top 200 Catalogue Albums Chart:
For the week ending January 29, 2012 and chart date Feb 11th.
(previous week in parenthesis)

#  93 (19)  Fleetwood Mac - "Rumours"
# 195 (165) Fleetwood Mac - "Greatest Hits"

Top 200 Digital Tracks Catalogue:
# 141 (100) Fleetwood Mac "Landslide"

Chart Update: Fleetwood Mac & Stevie Nicks | Australia, The Netherlands

AUSTRALIA
January 30, 2012
(previous week in parenthesis)

Top 100 Albums Chart
# 37 (32) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

Top 50 Catalogue Album Chart 
#  3 ( 3) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
#  4 (14) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits (Reaching it's highest position so far)
# 24 (25) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
# 27 (23) Stevie Nicks - Crystal Visions... The Very Best Of

Top 40 Music DVD Chart
# 16 (14) Fleetwood Mac - The Dance

THE NETHERLANDS
January 28, 2012

Top 50 Backcatalogue Chart
# 35 (42) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

TODAY ON ITUNES
Top 10 Pop Albums

Australia
# 5 - Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

New Zealand
# 3 - Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

Fleetwood Mac featured on Official Brit Awards album coming next month

Three-CD compilation album containing 18 UK Number 1 singles will be released on February 13th to commemorate the return of the Outstanding Contribution To Music Award. 

The 3rd disc of the set is a bonus disc that features some of the previous winners of the award including: Paul McCartney, Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie, U2, Elton John, Queen, and this year’s recipients Blur.

Fleetwood Mac's "You Make Loving Fun" is included on the bonus disc.

Fleetwood Mac took home the award in 1998.

Full Tracklist

Fleetwood Mac "RUMOURS" Back on Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart - 2nd Time This Year!

"Rumours" will re-enter the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart again this week marking the 2nd time within a month the album has re-entered the chart.  For the sales week ending January 22nd, "Rumours" sold 4,037 units in the United States good enough for the album to land at #117 on Billboard Chart dated February 4th.

The REALLY interesting part about that is "Rumours" was released on February 4, 1977.  February 4th marks the albums 35th Anniversary and to see it sitting within the Top 200 Album Chart 35 years later, I think that's pretty amazing!

In the last 4 weeks "Rumours" has sold 11,477 units in the US.

Over on the Top 200 Catalogue Chart "Rumours" takes a giant leap up from #103 to #19 this week.  "Greatest Hits" which saw a spike in sales the last three weeks is #165 on the Catalogue Chart on sales of 1,561 which is down from #56 the previous week where it sold 2,406.

In the last 4 weeks "Greatest Hits" has sold 9,353 units int he US.

On the Top Digital Tracks Chart Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide", which re-entered that chart last week at #58 on sales of 8,672 tracks, drops to #100 with sales of 6,616.

Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart
# 117 (-) Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"

Billboard Top 200 Catalogue Albums Chart
#  19 (103) Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"
# 165 (56)  Fleetwood Mac "Greatest Hits"

Billboard Top 200 Catalogue Digital Tracks
# 100 (58)  Fleetwood Mac "Landslide"

Adele hits another milestone!

Adele's 21 tops The Billboard 200 for the 17th week, which is the longest run by any album since Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard soundtrack logged 20 weeks on top in 1992-1993.

It's the longest run for an album by a British artist since the Police's Synchronicity was #1 for 17 weeks in 1983. (Two of the three members of that trio were born in England.) 

Only two albums by British (or majority-British) acts have had longer runs at #1. Fleetwood Mac's Rumours logged 31 weeks at #1 in 1977-'78. (Three of the five members that pop-rock group were born in England.) The Bee Gees' Saturday Night Fever soundtrack logged 24 weeks at #1 in 1978. (All three members of the brother trio were born in England.) 

US Chart Update: Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" "Greatest Hits" and a Re-entry for Landslide

Both Fleetwood Mac albums "Greatest Hits" and "Rumours" that re-entered last weeks Billboard Charts drop off the Top 200 Chart but remain on the Top 200 Catalogue Chart.

"Rumours" slides from # 31 last week to # 103 this week on sales 1,929 units vs 3,565 last week.  "Greatest Hits" drops 10 places from # 46 to # 56 on sales of 2,406 units vs 3,089.  To date, Rumours has sold 2,921,026 copies in the US since soundscan began tracking over the counter sales in November, 1991.  Greatest Hits has sold 4,519,558.  "Rumours" has been certified in the United States at 19x Platinum (units shipped) and Greatest Hits has been certified 8x Platinum (units shipped in the US). 

Re-entering the Top Digital Tracks Chart "Landslide" came in at # 58 selling 8,672 downloads vs 3,666  the previous week.  To date, Landslide has sold 793,114 copies.

Top Catalog Albums - Week Ending January 15, 2012 
# 56 ( 46)  FLEETWOOD MAC - GREATEST HITS
# 103 (31) FLEETWOOD MAC - RUMOURS

Digital Tracks Catalog - Week Ending January 15, 2012 
# 58  (-)  FLEETWOOD MAC - LANDSLIDE

Book: Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album

[Updated January 14, 2012]  The Book Cover was released

Making Rumours: 
The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album
Release date set for April 12, 2012 on the NEW book written by "Rumours" producer Ken Caillat with Steve Stiefel...

Hardcover | 400 pages

Got a question for Ken about the book?... Rumours?... or anything else... Ken will happily answer what he can on the Facebook site set up for the book launch.  Check it out and ask away... He's a cool guy! 

Rumours (The Book) on Facebook

Fleetwood Mac′s classic 1977 Rumours album topped the Billboard 200 for thirty–one weeks and won the Album of the Year Grammy. More recently, Rolling Stone named it the 25th greatest album of all time and the hit TV series Glee devoted an entire episode to songs from Rumours, introducing it to a new generation. Now, for the first time, Ken Caillat, the album′s co–producer, tells the full story of what really went into making Rumours—from the endless partying and relationship dramas to the creative struggles to write and record "You Make Lovin′ Fun", "Don′t Stop", "Go Your Own Way", "The Chain", and other timeless tracks.

• Tells the fascinating, behind–the–music story of the making of Fleetwood Mac′s Rumours, written by the producer who saw it all happen.
• Filled with new and surprising details, such as Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham′s screaming match while recording "You Make Lovin′ Fun", how the band coped with the pressures of increasing success, how the master tape nearly disintegrated, and the incredible attention paid to even the tiniest elements of songs, from Lindsey playing a chair and to Mick breaking glass.
• Includes eighty black–and–white photographs.

Pre-order through Wiley  | AmazonUK  | AmazonUS

Fleetwood Mac Re-enter Billboard Top 200 Chart with 2 Albums this week

For the sales week ending January 8, 2012 significant enough sales in the U.S. were achieved by two Fleetwood Mac albums to re-enter Billboard Magazine's Top 200 albums chart date Janaury 21, 2012.

The Rumours episode on GLEE that originally aired back in May, 2011 was re-broadcast in the US this past week on January 3rd... Surely this must be the cause for the sales surge.  In 2011, the album sold at total of 144,000 copies (thanks in large part to "Glee") -- way more than the 48,000 it tallied in 2010 or 66,000 in 2009.

Billboard Biz

BILLBOARD TOP 200

# 158 (-) Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"
# 196 (-) Fleetwood Mac "Greatest Hits"

"Rumours" re-enters the Top 200 at # 158 with 3,565 units sold vs 1,946 units sold the previous week.  "Greatest Hits" shifted 3,089 units during the same period vs 2,297 the previous week and re-enters the chart at # 196.  

BILLBOARD TOP 200 CATALOGUE
# 31 (200) Fleetwood Mac "Rumours"

# 46 (137) Fleetwood Mac "Greatest Hits"

Over on the Top 200 Catalogue Charts, "Rumours" which had re-entered the chart last week at # 200 moves up to # 31.  "Greatest Hits" which also re-entered the chart last week at # 137 moves up to # 46.

Total accumulated sales since 1991 for "Rumours" is 2,919,097.  Total for "Greatest Hits" is 4,517,152

- Now if we could only see both Lindsey's and Stevie's new albums back on the chart!!