Chart Updates: Fleetwood Mac back at No.1 in Australia. Stevie Nicks has a 4th week on DVD Chart

This week around the world we see the usual suspects charting on the main charts - all hits packages from the 1992 4CD box set "25 Years - The Chain" (reissued in 2012) to Fleetwood Mac's 2002 2CD "The Very Best Of".  Stevie's new DVD "In Your Dreams" is still going strong on the top 40 hanging on for a 4th week and Rumours appears once on the UK Catalogue Albums chart where I think it's taken up permanent residency.  I still find it impressive that any of these albums appear on any charts given the glut of new music out there and the age of some of these Fleetwood Mac titles. Just goes to show the testament of good quality music.

USA - January 11, 2014
In it's 4th week on the U.S. Top 40 Music Video Sales Chart, Stevie's In Your Dreams DVD slips out of the top 20 down 4 places to No.22.

TOP 40 MUSIC VIDEO SALES CHART
#22 (18) Stevie Nicks - In Your Dreams

Chart run thus far:
TW     LW    Weeks On
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

AUSTRALIA - January 6, 2014
After an impressive week in the lead up to Christmas in Australia where the 4CD box set "25 Years - The Chain" sold just over 14,000 copies in Australia and notching it's 10th non-consecutive week in the top 10, "25 Years - The Chain" drops to No.13 this week.  The set moves back to No.1 on the Catalogue Albums Chart.

TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
#13 (10) Fleetwood Mac - 25 Years The Chain [box set]
#54 (65) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

Fleetwood Mac's 4cd box set moves back to the No.1 spot on the Catalogue chart this week. Over all the box set has spent 30 weeks on the Top 50 Catalogue Chart.

TOP 50 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
# 1   (2)    Fleetwood Mac - 25 Years The Chain [box set]
# 8 (12)    Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of
#26 (R/E) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

TOP 50 DIGITAL ALBUMS CHART
#37 (R/E) Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits

NEW ZEALAND - January 6, 2014
25 Years - The Chain drops to No.17 from No.9 last week. The box set has spend a total of 38 weeks on the Top 40 Albums Chart in New Zealand.

TOP 40 ALBUMS CHART
# 17 (9) Fleetwood Mac - 25 Years The Chain [box set]

IRELAND - January 2, 2014
TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
#76 (R/E) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

UK - January 11, 2014
Slight uptick for The Very Best Of Fleetwood Mac, up 10 spots in the UK this week to No.60.

TOP 100 ALBUMS CHART
#60 (70) Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

TOP 40 CATALOGUE ALBUMS CHART
#21 (16) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

This Wednesday... Don't forget!
American Horror Story returns to FX on January 8 with its last four episodes, leading up to the finale on January 29, 2014.  Fleetwood Mac’s Stevie Nicks, the witchiest woman in rock history, guest stars as herself. 10pm ET on FX

2014's biggest new album releases + Ten Rumoured Returns - Fleetwood Mac?

Photo by @patbutcherer

From Katy B to the Boss, David Smyth sizes up the big new albums already announced for 2014 plus includes a list of the "Ten more rumoured returns" he includes Fleetwood Mac.

London Evening Standard

by David Smyth

Fleetwood Mac

Christine McVie appeared briefly on stage with them last year and has publicly expressed a desire to rejoin properly. There’s talk from their camp of an album in late summer, which would be their first in more than a decade, but it’s all very vague at the moment.

REVIEW: Fleetwood Mac December 30, MGM Grand Garden Arena ★★★★ (out of 5)

Photo by Tom Donaghue

CONCERT REVIEW: 
Fleetwood Mac Caps Its Tour With An Emotional Vegas Stop
by Andrea Domanick

Lindsey Buckingham shared an old music-business axiom during Fleetwood Mac’s year-end show at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Monday.“‘If it works, run it into the ground,’” he said. “Well, that may work if you’re trying to be a businessman, but not if you’re trying to be an artist.”

Though Buckingham was referring to the stylistic departure of 1979’s experimental opus Tusk, it’s a mentality that speaks to the band as a whole. At a time when many of their classic-rock peers have devolved into nostalgia-driven caricatures of themselves, Fleetwood Mac remains unapologetically authentic.

Never far from emotional tumult, the band closed out its 63-date world tour Monday night with the return of bassist John McVie, who left the band to undergo cancer treatment this fall, delivering a relentless three-hour set of classics and deeper cuts that left the crowd and the band in tears.

Continue to the full review at Las Vegas Weekly
READ MORE ABOUT FLEETWOOD MAC'S LAST TOUR DATE HERE

"O" Mick

Mick Fleetwood Celebrates 2014 at “O” by Cirque du Soleil

Mick Fleetwood, original member and co-founder of the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, celebrated the new year in Las Vegas with a visit to “O” by Cirque du Soleil at the Bellagio on Wednesday, January 1, 2014 

Fleetwood, in town to host and perform at MGM’s Garden Arena for New Year’s Eve, enjoyed his first day kicking off 2014 with friends at Cirque du Soleil’s signature water production. Joined by his twin daughters and assistant, the group enjoyed popcorn and soda during the show visited the “O” cast afterwards. While backstage, Mick mingled with the show’s talented artists and even inquired with Toumany, one of the show’s band members about a possible future musical collaboration.

Photo credit: Von Loyrangsy/Cashman Photo
Vegas News

Fleetwood Mac Rank No.14 on Pollstar Year End Top 20 Worldwide Tours. Details here

Fleetwood Mac grossed nearly 100 million dollars performing 67 shows in 63 cities in 2013 landing them at No.14 on Pollstars Year End Top 20 Worldwide Tours tally.  Almost 900,000 fans from US/Canada, UK and Europe saw the band between April and December.  Pollstars full 2013 touring report will come available January 9th.

Just to compare to the last time the band toured I dug out the 2009 Year End Results from Pollstar - they ranked No.13 in the world for the Unleashed Tour grossing 84.9 million from 79 shows in 72 cities. What you have to look at is the increase in the Average Ticket Price and the Average Attendance per show for 2013 - both of which are way up, which increases your per show take.  The band did very well in 2013!

VIDEOS: Fleetwood Mac Live in Las Vegas - Full Show

FLEETWOOD MAC LIVE IN LAS VEGAS
December 30, 2013 - MGM Grand Arena

Close to the full show was captured from different perspectives and angles... Only a couple of songs are missing like "Not That Funny" and "Sad Angel".  Most of the videos are the full songs, some are just clips, a lot of them are AWESOME!... Thanks to everyone that took the time to capture the final show of Fleetwood Mac's 2013 World Tour!

SECOND HAND NEWS
THE CHAIN
DREAMS

Video: Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham Singing Auld Lang Syne on Last Fleetwood Mac Gig of 2013

Fleetwood Mac rang in 2014 in Las Vegas playing a private event for approx 1,500 people held by the MGM Grand. The band ran through a 70 minute set (set list below) capping off the evening with their version of Auld Lang Syne.

Fleetwood Mac Live in Las Vegas MGM Grand Arena - December 31, 2013 (Private Event)
01 The Chain 02 Dreams 03 Second Hand News 04 Rhiannon 05 Tusk 06 Gold Dust Woman 07 Big Love 08 Gypsy 09 So AfraidSet List 10 Landslide 11 Stand Back 12 Go Your Own way


Photos by: Andrew Stuart | Sebastian St George