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Did the album chart ?

DazzerUKUK wrote:Did the album chart ?

I am watching the charts on Radio 1 but I don't see them. But of course, I knew they wouldn't be top 40.

DazzerUKUK wrote:Did the album chart ?

As far as I can find out, the album did NOT reach the Album Top 75 this week. I doubt if it's listed in the regular album charts at all. Perhaps some kind of classical album chart?

Chart?!


StevePSB

Soundtracks do not chart on the proper album chart, there's a separate chart for them.

Zeus On The Loose wrote:Soundtracks do not chart on the proper album chart, there's a separate chart for them.

Wrong.

War of the Worlds, Gladiator and a Bob Dylan OST are all in this weeks official album charts.

Dave

Almost nobody has bought Potemkin

nickname wrote:Almost nobody has bought Potemkin

stop laughing, this is all very sad, I think we should have a quiet moment...

Wasn't it #82 in the midweeks? So it should have gone top 100...

Undertaker wrote:

Zeus On The Loose wrote:Soundtracks do not chart on the proper album chart, there's a separate chart for them.

Wrong.

War of the Worlds, Gladiator and a Bob Dylan OST are all in this weeks official album charts.

Dave

Wrong.

Bob Dylan is a Best Of style compilation. It's labelled as 'OST' because there's a documentary about his career released on DVD shortly.

War Of The Worlds by Jeff Wayne is a concept album written and released by Jeff Wayne in the 70's, inspired by the original book and is not the soundtrack of the film.

I don't see whatever the 'Gladiator' is on the Top-40?

According to www.theofficialcharts.com album chart rules information, there is indeed a separate Soundtracks album chart.

Soundtracks and compilations do not chart in the proper chart. They haven't done so since the mid-80's.

Zeus On The Loose wrote: I don't see whatever the 'Gladiator' is on the Top-40?

Number 44 on the official album chart is Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard. Gladiator O.S.T
http://uk.launch.yahoo.com/c/uk/album_charts.html

Zeus On The Loose wrote: According to www.theofficialcharts.com album chart rules information, there is indeed a separate Soundtracks album chart.

So what? There is also an official chart for RnB music and a rock chart. That doesn't mean you cannot chart in the official charts too. As the above link proves.

Zeus On The Loose wrote: Soundtracks and compilations do not chart in the proper chart. They haven't done so since the mid-80's.

Compilations don't but if you take a butchers at the link provided, you will see O.S.T do.

Dave

This Gladiator CD is again, not the O.S.T of the actual film. It's a new album compiled by the composers of the original O.S.T, after winning lots of awards for the film music and the tracks on it are dance mixes and leftovers or unfinished demos that didn't make the soundtrack and don't feature in the film.

Soundtracks do not chart in the proper chart.

nickname wrote:Almost nobody has bought Potemkin

Not very suprising as its not being sold everywhere. I went to get it on Friday in Woolworths but there were no copies. It was supposed to be at number 44 but there were no copies, Woolworths probably ordered about 2.

I tried Tesco, Sainsburys and Morrisions (all cheap places ) but none of them even had a position in the chart set aside for it - they just aren't selling it.

By the looks of it, Soundtracks appear in the Compilation chart as 99times out of 100 a soundtrack has tracks by more than one artist on it - hence its a compilation.

However, Jeff Waynes WOTW and Bob Dylan's latest offering contains tracks from a single artist and therefore is not deemed a Various Artists collection and appears in the standard chart.

I therefore see no reason why, if Battleship Potemkin sold enough copies to chart - and clearly it didnt - it would have appeared in the NORMAL chart.

On a separate note, EMI Classics webshite does not list BP anywhere.

Jeff Wayne, Bob Dylan and Gladiator are all *not* O.S.T's. BP is. There doesn't have to be a rationalisation, O.S.T's have not been eligible to chart in the proper album charts since sometime in the 80's, at the same time when the same rule for V.A's was applied.