From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #897 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Wednesday, November 26 2014 Volume 15 : Number 897 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Avonmore chart placing... [Richard Evans Subject: Re: [AVALON] Avonmore chart placing... Chris Thanks for that - not so good after all Richard Evans On 23 Nov 2014, at 22:29, Chris Turner wrote: > Just dreadful. This matches Olympia which despite the big push from BF (remember the horror of his 'Loose Women' appearance?) entered at 19 and left after two weeks. Only 'The Jazz Age' has entered at a lower position. > > This will likely be The Commander's third consecutive album to fail to reach Silver BPI Certification for the sale of 60,000 units in the UK. Dylanesque was the last to achieve that feat, nearly eight years ago. Mamouna has yet to reach Silver certification after 20 years, meaning all three parts of the 'Horoscope' trilogy have failed to trouble the scorers. > > His last Gold record, for clearing 100K sales was the compilation 'Slave To Love' in 2000 (the slow-burning 'As Time Goes By' also went Gold the year before) > > His last Platinum solo album (for selling 300K) was 'Boys and Girls' nearly 30 years ago although both the Roxy/Ferry compilations 'Street Life: 20 Great Hits' and 'The Ultimate Collection', and later RM best of compilation 'More Than This' also went Platinum, 'Street Life' doing so on its day of release. The Ultimate Collection eventually went triple Platinum with sales approaching 1 million copies, or one for every 60 people in the UK. How times change. > > Chris > > From: Richard Evans > To: Jonathan Wilkins > Cc: avalon > Sent: Sunday, 23 November 2014, 20:39 > Subject: Re: [AVALON] Avonmore chart placing... > > Pretty good > > Richard Evans > > > On 23 Nov 2014, at 20:23, Jonathan Wilkins wrote: > > > > In at number 19. > > > > > > > > Sent from my Ipad > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #897 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest