Official Albums Chart on 23/9/2022

But not The Queen Is Dead.

it doesn’t matter, as long as the smiths are falling down the charts then im happy. i REALLY hate the smiths lol.

also morrissey is a scumbag so i don’t want him to do well

Why so much ate speech on ere nahadays.

so i’m not allowed a f*cking opinion then? 🖕

I don't reckon insultin someone or swearin at another poster on ere is an opinion meself, iss juss bile, atred n vitriol n thass wot yourn stand for.

Yep, me too , Rina deserved it Olivia...the album is awesome

i don’t think it’s as good as her debut, but it’s still a great listen and finally gave rina some radio time over here :D

Glad that she's having recognition in the UK

Number 66. Amazing!!!!

Not sure who said that. My prediction is still on the cards for being correct: out of the top 75 by October. Probably even top 100. (Along with the other 3 top 5 new entries of 1/9//22). Total places climbed: zero.

Not really , is it though? You sell literally in the hundreds (rather than thousands) when you are below the top 60. That goes for ALL artists selling that low, not just Madonna. But there are some acts with 3 or 4 albums an that region of the top 100.

lol he won’t “twist his words”, i bet you he’ll still say the same sh*te about madge still falling down the charts, being “disgusting”, calling her “granny” again and ranting about her armpits of all things 💀

all in all, im pleased madonna is still here, remix albums aren’t commercial at all and it’s rare to see longevity for one happen.

So after saying "all the top 5 new entries (released Madonna's week) would be out of the chart by October, you're now saying "top 75" lol, What are you going to do next week if she's at #74, move the goal posts again?

I'm not moveing the goalposts. I've never counted the positions 76-100 in the chart since 1989. So below #75 to me is "out of the chart". Without you knowing, I am still consistent. If you buy the OCC printed chart books (even modern charts - 2020's), they count only the top 75, not top 100. The only period of OCC top 100 is Album Chart August 1981-January 1989. So there's my rationale for sticking to the top 75. Although I still expect to be right about the top 100 too. We shall see.

Those with 3-4 albums are mostly by younger acts like Adele, Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift. Strange how you have high expectations of a 64 year old woman competing with people half her age.

Well at her age, it is hard to have any OLDER acts. Most still on the chafrt born before her are dead!

I don't care what the printed chart books say, it literally says at the
top of this page "Official Albums Chart Top 100". It goes from 1-100,
not 1-75. You can go through all the mental gymnastics you like but
you're wrong...yet again.

Look at my prediction. I *don't* have high expectations of her. The latest release is achieving almost exactly my prediction - no more, no less. It's the fans that seem to have the high expectations that are falling flat and then change the statistic criteria when presented with a comparible fair test. Changed when she loses by one statistic to another to where she wins.

Interesting, I wonder what Elton, Abba, Phil Collins and Billy Joel would make of what you've just said.

I haven't been proven wrong. Nor have I been proven right. I can only be proven one way or the other in October, and the first chart of October hasn't been revealed yet.

Ever since 1983, there has been an 'industry top 200'. It would have been deemed official internally. The publicly published one since 1978 was always the top 75. Still is in print. It's just now that online extends it's consumer chart by 25 places. The lower positions have always been calculated in the EPOS era.

Well let's just see what happens come October, shall we?

I said most, not all. There's always half the Beatles, Elvis, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Freddie Mercury. I think MJ is in the same year.

Well then I suggest you take it up with the OCC if you have an issue with the website.

I have done. About 6 years ago, I got a reply from Rob Copsey regarding my research finding the first 500 errors for the charts before 1960. It looked promising that they would look into rectifying them. I found 2-3 years later nothing had changed and subsequent contact went unanswered.

Since then, I've gone on to check every one of the 1.5 million+ data points in all singles and album charts to date. Errors becoming too frequent to even bother to record them, but I have made a record of my own or made a comment here on the significant ones (e.g. mismatched positions, incorrectly merged records of the same title / artists of the same name etc.).

I don't think attention to detail is one of OCC's strong points.
I simply correct the OCC errors on my own database and leave the original errors here.

the fact a remixes album (which is pretty uncommercial as it is) from madonna who come october that you're mentioning will have been in the game for 40 years, is still at #66 is impressive. it's outlasted the other two albums from the week it debuted and though it's falling, its fall is not as rapid as other albums. you're creating all these paragraphs and for what? don't be weird

I'll start by saying I'm pleased that Madonna is still in the chart! It is worth pointing out that the streaming sales that were originally contributing to Immaculate Collection have carried over to Finally Enough Love instead, which is helping it to achieve this longevity. It wouldn't surprise me if Finally Enough Love manages a few more weeks in the Top 100, unless the streaming data goes back to Immaculate Collection at some random point.

Yeah iss interestin ow many errors they make. Wikipedia seem to get their facts right on them artists.

Yeah but I reckon in the 70s n 80s artists sold more records n wot I don't understand on ere is why double albums don't count as 2 sales instead of 1.;

I'm pleased Madonna is still in n all I like er early music n makes a change from all them autotuners on ere, if you old your nose you can sing juss like them.

HOW MANY PURCHASED IT IT IS STILL GOING DOWN WHILE THE SAME ONES ARE GOING UP NOT EVEN A #1 UNHEARD OF

Even in the 90's they sold more. Every position in general sells less now than in the pre-digital era. The market is much bigger and many more records are sold in total, but is spread over many, many more titles. The result is the average sales per title is massively down, with the odd exception like Ed Sheeran, Adele and very few others.

Multi-disc albums don't count as each disc because it's a single "unit". Just one title. Although they generally cost more, so the amount of income form the sales is still there for the people involved in selling it. I think US charts do count multi-disc albums for record awards though but not for weekly chart positions.

If that was the case, those 200+ Mozart / Bach / classical boxsets that sell for well over £100-200 would hit the chart with less than 10 sales!

True it has outlasted the others. Actually there were 3 other new entries in the top 5 that week (Steps, AItch and one other which this website won't let me research!). But it probably hasn't outsold. If it has it isn't by many. The difference in sales between a #1 and #3 is far greater than those achieved this low down the chart. Would need to be on chart for about the rest of the year to make up that difference. Abba and Elton John's recent albums were much higher in their 5th week. Not to mention younger artists who are achieving (surprisingly) long-standing studio material. Taylor Swift (Evermore and Folklore in particular), Olivia Rodrigo, Harry Styles and the inevitable Ed all achieving 70+ weeks in the top 40 and almost consecutively. I expected some to be out of the chart months ago. Weeknd is doing the same with a greatest hits and Sam Fender is doing well. Very few new records do that well. The ones that do tend to be the aforementioned more established acts and a stellar debut (Olivia).

You'd ave to limit it to juss double albums thass still 2 albums sellin n many older albums should ave ad more sales than they do.

Jeez, the amount of bitter Betty's on here is astounding. It's a remix album, not a studio album. I really didn't want to go there (as I love him) but Prince fans haven't got room to talk since it's been at least 30 years since he had a #1 album.

Earplugs alert on ere.

David I agree with you. I for one have never counted the positions 76-100 ever. All my chart stats are based on 1-75.

Me too. I have previously contacted OCC about their numerous mistakes to get diddly squat in return. After all ... I nvrer mkae mystaikes!!

CD1 is basically a nice greatest hits collection of her 80s/early 90s stuff as those remixes don't don't that different from the original versions.