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Nice surprise!

XTZ1969 wrote:'PopArt' re-enters the UK Album Chart this week at #185.

Do you count the chart as low as to 200 or what? Normally a 185th spot is very much outside the chart.

Hillbilly wrote:

XTZ1969 wrote:'PopArt' re-enters the UK Album Chart this week at #185.

Do you count the chart as low as to 200 or what? Normally a 185th spot is very much outside the chart.

They usually publish the top 200 but that's normally later in the week. XTZ is probably a subscriber to one of the chart magazines, or knows someone that is. The top 40 is aired, then immidiatly after that, they publish the top 75 and then top 100. The charts actually go on forever, though because someone suppiled me with the info about the last two Erasure releases, which never made the top 300. So all kinds on information is out there.

You can even follow the top 1000 singles chart, live but it's only downloaded songs, not physicals.

Let's hope it can get even higher!

I was also pleasantly surprised.

I've updated the stats on the first page. Discography, Pop-Art and Yes but it was hurting my head. There is still some info not there, like the performance of Yes everywhere else other than the U.K and also the two singles after Love etc. If anyone has all this info, stick it up here if you have time and i'll update the first page

These are the facts I can provide for "Yes":


Germany: #3 → #9 → #6 → #8 → #13 → #19 → #22 → #26 → #29 → #40 → #42 → #55 → #49 → #59 → #79 → #92 → #84 → #91 → #101 → #109

UK: #4 → #21 → #43 → #57 → #79 → #116 → #117 → #105 → #163 → #189 → #194 → #170 → #149 → #200

Austria: #5 → #32 → #23 → #29 → #34 → #39 → #42 → #63 → #70

Czech Rep: #6 → #10 → #8 → #21 → #32 → #37 → #38 → #38

Croatia: #6

Argentina #6

Switzerland: #7 → #21 → #20 → #36 → #30 → #43 → #48 → #53 → #53 → #70 → #67→ #74 → #83

Denmark: #9 → #32 → #39

Spain: #10 → #37 → #40 → #39 → #45 → #? → #75 → #94 → #89

Brasil: #22 → #12 → #11 → #13 → #22 → #27

Sweden: #12 → #19 → #34 → #33 → #37 → #41 → #46 → #60

Greece: #41 → #16 → #14 → #18 → #46

Japan: #32 → #15

Norway: #16

Hungary: #37 → #24 → #28 → #40 → #37

Russia: #25 → #20 → #10 → #14 → #24

Island: #26

Finland: #28

USA: #32

Australia: #32

The Netherlands: #34 → #77 → #66 → #63 → #69 → #82 → #95

Ireland: #34 → #42 → #58 → #64 → #89

Italy: #40 → #49 → #100

Mexiko: #51 → #40

Canada: #56

France: #64 → #127

Belgium (Flandern): #92 → #69

Belgium (Wallonien): #74 → #49 → #88 → #57 → #93 → #93

I didn't know the Walloons and the Flemish have two different charts? Geez Belgium, you're really breaking up on us aren't ya? I wonder what the Bosnia chart is like.

Thanks guys. I've updated it. Fell free to point out any mistakes i've made.

PopArt is currently 4th on the Electro & Synth album chart on Amazon, while Discography is at 8th. In between them are two Best of collections for Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, and somebody I've never heard of called Yeasayer. Pandemonium is also 11th.

UK/First Week Sales:

16,710 Alternative:1995
23,732 Bilingual:1996
17,038 'Nightlife' (#7-October 1999).
18,008 'Release' (#7-April 2002).
26,492 'Fundamental' (#5-May 2006).
30,196 'Yes' (#4-March 2009) (#2-March 2009 if you include the itunes blunder)

Their first week sales have been on the rise over the past 10 years.

Ah, it's all coming screaming back to me - before the iTunes error - where the Pet Shop Boys were being outsold by Ronan Keating, denying them their number one position.

Pet Shop Boys sold 1.2 million singles in the 1990's.