STEVIE NICKS SONG FINDS NEW GENERATION...

THE "LANDSLIDE" EFFECT

GLEE's version of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide" is all over the place on various itunes charts in multiple countries.  The Stevie Nicks song which originally appeared on the 1975 Fleetwood Mac album titled "Fleetwood Mac" was never a single back in the day in it's original form, but since 1975 it was a hit for Fleetwood Mac as a live cut in 1997/98 from their live album "The Dance" and The Dixie Chicks made it a monster hit in 2002 (which is actually the version that Glee is covering here).  It's the little song that just goes on and on.  In my mind it doesn't matter who sings it... It's a beautiful contemplative song!

Like I said, Fleetwood Mac's original 1975 version of "Landslide" was never released as a single. The group pulled three top 20 hits from its smash Fleetwood Mac album and then moved on to Rumours, which quickly became one of the best-selling albums of all time. (The group finally released a live version of "Landslide" from The Dance in 1998.) Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide" has sold 849K digital copies (and returns to Hot Digital Songs this week at #175). Dixie Chicks' 2002 cover version reached #7 on the Hot 100. It has sold 620K digital copies (and also returns to Hot Digital Songs this week at #114).

BILLBOARD MAGAZINE
Glee's version of Landslide will enter the Billboard Magazine Top 100 this week at #23 making it the charts Hot Shot Debut.  The casts version of the song sold 115,000 downloads in it's first week of availability.  It also increased sales for The Dixie Chicks version for the week moving 17,000 copies of their version up 897%.  Fleetwood Mac's original 1975 version moved 11,000 copies up 252% and The Smashing Pumpkins cover moved 1,000 up 151%.  Impressive!

The itunes charts are LIVE so these numbers are changing all the time, but as of right now, this is where things stand... 

SONG CHARTS - USA
#68 itunes Top 100 Songs - Landslide Glee Single
#57 itunes Top 100 Pop Songs - Landslide Glee Single
#7 itunes Top 100 Country Songs - Landslide Glee Cast Single Version
#60 itunes Top 100 Country Songs - Landslide Dixie Chicks version from the Album Home.

ALBUM CHARTS - USA
#4 itunes Top 100 Albums Chart - Glee The Music, Vol. 5 - Landslide version included
#2 itunes Top 100 Pop Albums Chart - Glee The Music, Vol. 5 - Landslide version included

ALBUM CHARTS - AUSTRALIA
#1 - itunes Top 100 Pop Albums Chart - Glee The Music, Vol.5 - Landslide version included
#1 - iunes Top 100 Albums Chart - Glee The Music, Vol.5 - Landslide version included

ALBUM CHARTS - CANADA
#1 - itunes Top 100 Pop Albums Chart - Glee The Music, Vol.5 - Landslide version included
#4 - itunes Top 100 Albums Chart - Glee The Music, Vol.5 - Landslide version included

ALBUM CHARTS - NEW ZEALAND
#1 - itunes Top 100 Pop Albums Chart - Glee The Music, Vol.5 - Landslide version included
#1 - itunes Top 100 Albums Chart - Glee The Music, Vol.5 - Landslide version included

FLEETWOOD MAC

ALBUM CHARTS - USA
#83 itunes Top 100 Pop Albums Chart - Fleetwood Mac "Fleetwood Mac" 1975 album
#20 itunes Top 100 Rock Albums Chart - Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" 1977 Album

ALBUM CHARTS - CANADA
#4 itunes Top 100 Rock Albums Chart - Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" 1977 Album
#32 itunes Top 100 Albums Chart - Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" 1977 Album

SONG CHARTS - UK
#9 itunes Top 100 Rock Songs - The Chain by Fleetwood Mac
#91 itunes Top 100 Songs - The Chain by Fleetwood Mac

SONG CHARTS - AUSTRALIA
#18 itunes Top 100 Rock Songs - Landslide by Fleetwood Mac

ALBUM CHARTS - AUSTRALIA
#10 itunes Top 100 Rock Albums Chart - Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" 1977 Album
#76 itunes Top 100 Albums Chart - Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" 1977 Album
#61 itunes Top 100 Albums Chart - Fleetwood Mac "The Very Best Of" 2009 Album

ALBUM CHARTS - SPAIN
#55 itunes Top 100 Albums Chart - Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" 1977 Album

Episode Centered Around Fleetwood Mac's Rumours

'Glee' scoop:
Entertainment Weekly
Deadline Hollywood

 GLEE creator Ryan Murphy told reporters last night in Los Angeles that the plan in the near future is to center an episode around Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 album Rumours.  Murphy says the show’s creators have long wanted to do an episode devoted to an album as opposed to an artist, and their wish has come true: Glee has been granted the rights to Fleetwood Mac’s legendary album, “Rumors,” so that episode is in the works.

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Rod Stewart & Stevie Nicks: First Show Together is Sunday... May Perform Stand Back Together!

Rod Stewart, Stevie Nicks kick off tour in Broward - Performing Arts

BY HOWARD COHEN
Miami Herald
HCOHEN@MIAMIHERALD.COM

Rod Stewart clearly has a weakness for women: The British rocker, 66, has fathered eight children with five women.

So when three of his daughters — Kimberly, 31, Ruby, 23, and Renée, 18 — suggested Stevie Nicks as a touring mate for their father’s latest tour, Stewart listened. The pair will co-headline the “Heart and Soul Tour,” which opens Sunday at BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise.

“I wanted to do a tour with someone and … they all love her, and she’s an icon, and so that’s how it happened,” Stewart said in a joint telephone conversation with Nicks.

Nicks is in Los Angeles, flush from a visit to the Glee set where the cast sang her Fleetwood Mac classic Landslide. Stewart is in England working with old partner Jeff Beck on new tunes. The two rockers burn through the phone lines like old friends, though before this tour, Nicks says she and Stewart had only met twice before, once “at a fantastic New Years’ Eve party Rod had at his beautiful house” in the 1970s and another time at a rehearsal studio.

“I can’t remember anything in the ’70s,” Stewart says, laughing.

Contrary to popular belief, rock stars don’t hang out together.

“You don’t get to meet your peers. Everyone is always working or in a separate city. We don’t live in an enclave in L.A. where rock stars live, where we hang out and barbecue,” Nicks, 62, jokes.

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"Secret Love" at Radio... It's Still Gaining...

Billboard Magazine AC Chart update for "Secret Love"

The New Single from Stevie Nicks "Secret Love" debuted at #29 on Billboard Magazines Top 30 Adult Contemporary Chart issue date March 12th.  The following week for issue date March 19th it moves up to #27.  For Billboard Magazine issue date March 26th it should land a couple places higher at #25.  The AC Chart is traditionally known for it's slow movement up the track up the chart... [Click the images to enlarge].

On the Triple A Radio Play charts, in terms of audience impressions the song is fairing a little better.  It's still early days for the track, hopefully it can gain some momentum... But it needs to be picked up by A LOT more stations then it currently has or it will stall!

To contact an AC station or a Triple A station in your area/state, a good starting point to find out what stations are in your area would be to use this site RADIO STATION LOCATOR  Click on your state to zero in.

GLEE The Music: Vol 5

GLEE CAST - GLEE, THE MUSIC: VOL. 5

In it's first week of release sold just over 92,000 copies and will open at #3 in the next issue of Billboard Magazine on the Top 200 Albums Chart.  

The album includes a cover of 

Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide".

Source: Hits Daily Double

HOLLYWOOD AND INDIO... 2 STEVIE NICKS CONTESTS

STEVIE NICKS AND ROD STEWART CONTEST

Birmingham, Alabama Radio Station Magic 96.5 is giving away a trip for two to Los Angeles to see Stevie Nicks with Rod Stewart at the Hollywood Bowl April 16th:

Enter to win a trip to see Stevie Nicks and Rod Stewart in concert April 16th at the Hollywood Bowl! HERE

One lucky grand prize winner will receive:

• Roundtrip airfare for two (2).
• Two (2) concert tickets to see Stevie Nicks and Rod Stewart in the Hollywood Bowl on April 16th, 2011.
• Two (2) nights hotel accommodations.

Prizes provided by Warner Brothers.  Contest ends April 1, 2011
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STEVIE NICKS SOLO CONCERT CONTEST

Also...  Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, CA is giving away a couple of tickets to Stevie's opening night show for her In Your Dreams Tour.

Win two tickets to see Stevie Nicks on May 13th at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino before they go on sale this Friday (May 18th). Just write “I want 2 tix 2 Stevie Nicks at Fantasy Springs!” in the comments section on their Facebook Page HERE

FIRST STEVIE NICKS LIVE SOLO DATE ANNOUNCED!

Fantasy Springs: Stevie Nicks performs May 13

If you love tambourines, flowing scarves and gypsies, we've got the show for you.

Stevie Nicks (the real one, not the really good impersonator we've seen in the area), will perform May 13 at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino's Special Events Center in Indio.

Nicks performed at Fantasy Springs in February 2008 to a sold out audience. Tickets for Nicks' concert are $69, $89, $99 and $109 and go on sale on Friday at 10 a.m. Tickets may be purchased in person at the Fantasy Springs Box Office, via telephone at 800-827-2946 or online at www.FantasySpringsResort.com

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CHART UPDATES: FLEETWOOD MAC, IRELAND, AUSTRALIA, NETHERLANDS, UK, USA, CANADA

The push began today to get "The Chain" to # 1 in the UK. Over at the Facebook Group: "Get 'The Chain' to number 1 for the new F1 season" members began today feverishly buying the track from "The Very Best Of" Fleetwood Mac album from various UK digital download retailers. So far they've managed to push the track to # 10 on the Top Rock Song downloads chart on itunes in the UK, and since this morning, when I begain following it's trajectory, I watched as the track started off at # 269 in overall digital download sales up to # 135 where it's sitting at the moment. Impressive!  

If you are in the UK... Join the action!  The group has amassed a sizable following approaching 5,000 in a very short time. Fans of F1 and Fleetwood Mac united.. It's great to see.

IRELAND: Top 100 Albums Chart - Week ending 10th March, 2011

• On Ireland's Top 100 Albums Chart Fleetwood Mac's 1988 "Greatest Hits" compilation moves up to # 59 after re-entering the chart at # 94 last week notching up its 75th non-consecutive week on the Top 100.           

UK:  itunes UK Top 10 Rock Albums Chart

• Fleetwood Mac's "The Very Best Of" is sitting at # 9 as of today (March 13th) on itunes Top 10 Rock Albums Chart.

CANADA:  itunes UK Top 10 Rock Albums Chart

• Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" is # 4 as of today (March 13th) on itunes Top 10 Rock Albums Chart.

NETHERLANDS: Top 50 Back Catalogue Chart - Week Ending 12th March, 2011

• "Rumours" moves down the chart to # 16 from # 7 last week on the Top 50 back catalogue chart.         

AUSTRALIA: Top 50 Catalogue Albums Chart - Week of 14th, March, 2011

• Fleetwood Mac returns to the # 1 spot on Australia's Top 50 Catalogue Chart moving up from # 2 last week with the 6x Platinum "The Very Best Of".  Total weeks on this chart - 51.  

• Fleetwood Mac's 12x Platinum "Rumours" moves up to # 26 this week after re-entering the Top 50 Catalogue Chart last week at # 38.  Total weeks spent on this chart non-consecutively is 17.

         itunes: Australia Top 10 Rock Albums Chart

• In Australia on The Top 10 Rock Albums on itunes as of today (March 13th) - "The Very Best Of" is at # 6.

Top 40 DVD Chart - Australia - Week of 14th, March, 2011

• On the Top 40 Music DVD Chart, Fleetwood Mac's 8x Platinum "The Dance" drops down to # 29 from # 16 last week. Total non-consecutive weeks for "The Dance" on this chart 227.

USA: As of March 13th on itunes:

         itunes: USA Top 100 Overall Songs | Top 100 Pop Songs | Top 100 Country Songs | 
         Top 100 Pop Albums | Top 100 Rock Albums

• Glee's version of the Stevie Nicks penned "Landslide" is currently # 21 on itunes Top 100 Overall Songs Chart with their single version.
• The Glee album version is currently # 85.
• On the Top 100 Pop Songs tally, the Glee album version is # 40.
• On the Top 100 Country Songs Chart the single version remains at # 1 where it's spent the majority of this past week.
• The Dixie Chicks version from their album "Home" is currently # 33 on the country songs chart.

• Fleetwood Mac's "Greatest Hits" from 1988 is currently # 43 on the Top 100 Pop Albums Chart.

• "Rumours" is # 38 on the Top 100 Rock Albums Chart today.

STEVIE NICKS VIDEO ANNOUNCEMENT.... NEXT WEEK!

It's finally upon us!... An announcement of some sort will be made next week regarding Stevie's video...I'm assuming this is for "Secret Love" but the "+" in one of Dave Stewarts Twitter posts this morning has me thinking we may be in for a little more than that, maybe we'll finally see the "sizzle reel" that Stevie previewed to industry types Feb 19th... Or it could be an announcement about the full on movie that Dave has been working on... It's not entirely clear at this point...  Follow Dave Stewart on Twitter

And is this the official tracklist for "In Your Dreams"?

MightyApe in New Zealand have this on their website where the album will be available to purchase:

Track Listing:

1. "Moonlight - A Vampire's Dream"
2. "For What It's Worth"
3. "In Your Dreams"
4. "The Ghosts Are Gone"
5. "New Orleans"
6. "Secret Love"
7. "The Soldier's Angel"
8. "Annabel Lee"
9. "Italian Summer
10. "Everybody Loves You
11. "Wide Sargasso Sea"
121. "You May Be The One"
13. "Cheaper Than Free"