CHART UPDATES: UK AND AUSTRALIA - FLEETWOOD MAC "The Very Best Of"

Chart Update: UK & Australia

Fleetwood Mac's "The Very Best Of"

Issue Date: November 16, 2009

• AUSTRALIA TOP 50 ALBUMS: #49 - Re-entry
• UK TOP 75 ALBUMS: #15 - Drop of 3 places

MICK FLEETWOOD (FLEETWOOD MAC) BLUE AGAIN DVD RELEASE DATE JAN 12, 2010

Mick Fleetwood, Blue Again

DVD Coming January 12, 2010

429 Records are confirming that Mick Fleetwood's DVD "Blue Again" will be released on January 12, 2010.  No other details available. I'm assuming this is the St. Louis show that the audio disc released earlier this year is from, but there was a London show filmed for DVD - so it's possible that it's from that show.

Timed perfectly to coincide with their February/March, 2010 tour dates in Australia and New Zealand with Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs.

Press Release | Press Release

Australia - 2010
February 20: Sutton Grange Winery
February 21: Balgownie Estate Vineyard, Yarra Valley
February 26: WIN Entertainment Centre, Wollongong
February 27: Riverstage, Brisbane
Tickets on sale now at Ticketmaster and Ticketek

New Zealand - 2010
March 3: Westpac Arena, Christchurch
March 5: Vector Arena, Auckland
March 6: Pettigrew Green Arena, Napier
Tickets on sale Thursday, November 26th Ticketmaster and Ticketek

BLANKET BAN LIFTED AT BOWL...

Blankets are fine, but forget the picnics.
By JARED SMITH - Taranaki Daily News

Organisers of next month's Fleetwood Mac are assuring concertgoers they don't want them to freeze in the TSB Bowl of Brooklands.

Alarm bells began ringing last week after a district council update in the North Taranaki Midweek suggested blankets would be banned from the Bowl.

Bowl manager Adrienne Kensington was quoted as saying that the 17,000 fans who attended on December 19 and 20 should not bring blankets with them.

"People who bring in blankets won't be able to use them for very long because of the crowd size, so we urge people to leave them at home," she said.

Mrs Kensington said her office had received calls from concerned ticket holders worried about keeping warm if it was a cold Taranaki weekend.

In fact, the explanation was that people could not expect to fan out picnic fashion because of the sheer crowd numbers.

Rather than a ban on blankets, it was merely a warning of what to expect. "It was just a suggestion that they do that. It is more or less to inform them they won't be able to spread out," said Mrs Kensington.

"We are going to be packed and people are going to stand up and dance.

"We're not saying, `Don't bring blankets at all'. It's just not a spread."

Beach chairs and large picnic hampers
would not be allowed

and anyone entering the Bowl with them would be asked to return them to their cars, or leave them in the area provided at the gate.

Signs would be put up around the racecourse area informing arrivals of the rules.

Mrs Kensington said similar restrictions were in place in the Bowl during the Elton John concert in 2007, attended by 14,500 people.

Each Fleetwood Mac concert would have another 2500 in the crowd, plus the 1100 on the special seating over the lake.

"The fences are right back, for room to be freed up."

There would be a ban on bringing alcohol
into the Bowl for the concerts.

Mrs Kensington also said no commercial
food would be allowed

because there was a contract with catering company Eurest.

Simple snack food in a backpack was all right, but carrying 10 pizza boxes was not.

First Security would handle the entry points and crowd control on the concert nights.

There would be no parking on Kaimata,

Somerset and Cornwall streets

to accommodate those walking in and out.

Mrs Kensington said more information on conditions of entry to the concerts would be released on websites and advertised in the Taranaki Daily News closer to the concert dates.

IRISH TOP ALBUMS CHART RUN - FLEETWOOD MAC VERY BEST OF

For the week ending November 12th:  Fleetwood Mac's "The Very Best Of" drops 9 places on the Irish Top Albums chart to #36.

Chart Run:
IRISH TOP ALBUMS CHART:
Week 1 #32 Debut
Week 2 #14
Week 3 #27
Week 4 #36

PHOTOS: Fleetwood Mac Live in London at Wembley Arena Oct 30, 2009

FLEETWOOD MAC WEMBLEY ARENA

LONDON OCTOBER 30th (Night 1)

Photos by: Karen D Birch 

BILLBOARD: HOT TOURS: FLEETWOOD MAC

Hot Tours: Fleetwood Mac
Billboard

Totals from the European leg of its Unleashed Tour place Fleetwood Mac on the Hot Tours list with grosses topping $13 million from ten venues. Top-grosser is a two-show run at Wembley Arena (Oct. 30-31) with 22,209 in attendance and ticket sales at $2.5 million. After the U.K. trek, the tour will continue in December with dates in Australia and New Zealand.

#4 FLEETWOOD MAC

Gross: $13,124,830
Dates: Oct. 8-Nov. 3
Total Attendance: 124,021 (130,343)
- Parken Stadion, Copenhagen (1/0)
- Ericsson Globe, Stockholm (1/0)
- Sportpaleis, Antwerp, Belgium (1/0)
- Ahoy, Rotterdam (1/1)
- Le Zenith, Paris (1/1)
- Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre, Glasgow, U.K. (1/1)
- Manchester Evening News Arena, Manchester, U.K. (1/0)
- Wembley Arena, London (2/0)
- Sheffield Arena, Sheffield, U.K. (1/0)
- National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, U.K. (1/1)

FLEETWOOD MAC 2009 BOXSCORES UPDATED INCLUDES EURO SHOWS

BILLBOARD BOXSCORES UPDATED
INCLUDES MOST EUROPEAN DATES
Received most of the numbers for the European shows today... 4 shows showing sold out, but I'm missing both Germany dates, both Ireland dates and the last London show... Maybe next week. Click to enlarge.