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Originally Posted by IntlDebris
That's... actually kind of depressing. I know how the charts work in this day and age, a band like the Manics aren't going to get the long runs they used to, but to not even hit the top 100 your sales have to be in the hundreds. So basically the first week was pretty much the entire album sales, and that was significantly down on the previous few. Hm.
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If you can be 6th in the Physical album chart (7th for Album Sales, 10th for Downloads, and 17th for Vinyl) on too few sales to crack the combined Top 100 that includes weighted streaming I think it says more about the state of the charts and the dominance of streaming than anything. Which I would agree is kind of depressing.
How many sales gets you 6th in the physical sales chart? Is it really in the hundreds? That would mean I could self-fund my own top 10 album if I stop buying multiple Manics releases for a few years(!)
But yeah, I only really care in as much as I know they do. I don’t feel like it’s just getting old, I think the charts really are just less meaningful nowadays, for a variety of reasons.
“The ecstasy of making things worse / seems to have become a worldwide curse”
Anyway, still loving this album more and more. Recency bias in full effect maybe but I’d be ranking it quite high if I did an album ranking today, but I’m gonna give it a bit longer before I do that I think.