It’s been the case for several albums that the tours don’t seem to align with the album releases. He is often mid tour when the album comes out and it’s ony the next tour that picks up new album tracks. Adding songs mid tour seems to be a no-go. Maybe there is a view that new albums need time to be ...

Wow! So much negativity on here. "albums done on the cheap"'!! The last three albums have all been doubles. Gatefold sleeves, a multitude of coloured vinyl to choose from, added DVD and bluray options. Choice of added merchandise. Certainly not a cheap option. As to sales.. OK sales are down for ro...

Flopped? By what measure? Having said the charts are meaningless what are you using to measure success or failure? Surely not the charts?

No disrespect to the Jocks but why does Scotland need an album chart? Because it's a country, like England, France, Italy and the USA are countries. Why shouldn't it have one? I don't remember ever hearing of it growing up. So what's it take to get to Number One there 500 copies? Is there a Welsh c...

My abridged Road on frequent repeat here too and Paranormal is being played as well.

Like it or not we should realise that the number of core fans actually buying product has been small for quite a long time now. The fact that most pre order or buy in the first week at least gets him somewhere in the charts and allows him to register a hit of some description. Good for the record bo...

As I said earlier, a couple of hundred sales can make a big difference in the lower half of the 200. Here is what Billboard say: “Sometimes it takes less than 1000 albums in one week to make a Billboard Chart, even 450 sales could make it to #200. ” And “Sales up to the release date of your CD count...

#11 in top album sales, so better there. I've not paid much attention to charts over the past decade or so, are first week numbers pretty much where he peaks, or have his releases climbed the charts, as could happen in the past? This is the peak. In the Uk at any rate, it’s probably been that way s...

Disappointing in the US but with physical sales missing for the orders that weren’t fulfilled even a couple of hundred sales could have pushed him up 40 - 50 places some weeks. The thing about the charts is that their objective is to measure popularity. How they have done that in the past was simple...

Saw Mott the Hoople twice in 73. SAHB was support at the first gig and Queen supported later in the year. Have to say that Alex Harvey was good but not great but Freddie (never a big fan) absolutely blew everybody away and stands as one of my top 10 sets ever.

One person’s trash is another persons treasure. We prove that time and again on every album we discuss. Think I’ve read/watched 30+ reviews now. Positive overall and with extreme views at either end, all from professed fans. That’s probably been the case for ever. I’ve got a review of Schools Out so...

Here is how the UK album charts are compiled. It’s worth highlighting that video streaming has also been included from 2023. Also explains a little why you release more than two tracks as the album comes out. “The ratio for an album stream in 1000:1. So that’s 1000 streams of a single track counting...

Guessing Wayne Kramer will be on the track ( paying tribute ) to himself and whoever played on the Road track. The Great Zal Cleminson is on the album which is unusual as I thought he had retired years ago. Another Alice Cover...... You a fellow SAHB fan? I wonder how many of those are on here? I t...

How refreshing all these suggestions : would make some fantastic "not-greatest-hits" Cds , proving that Alice and the ACG are some much more than NMMNG, SO, BDB and so on.. Funny you should say that. Here is my current “Alice ‘18’” playlist. Usually play it on random for the unexpected experience w...

Today’s view. I let them drop out of the head and they fell in batches. Very interested in my own subconscious demotion of LITD and Muscle of Love were always my least favourite of the ACG but MOL particularly has dropped a bit recently. Schools Out Killer WTMN Billion Dollar Babies Goes To Hell Lov...

Just finished playing the album start to finish. Benefitted a lot from taking it at face value and really enjoyed it with the exception of Big Boots and Rules of the Road. If you took them out altogether the album would benefit a lot. Overall, a fun and enjoyable ride with the potential for 3-4 trac...

Cheers, will tune in.

One from the Independent.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/alic ... 96893.html

The challenge is audience reach and, like it or not, the answer is streaming and therefore algorithms, specifically the recommendations or selections they make to listeners based on either a single song’s streaming profile or the changing streaming profile of the artist. In many ways recommendation ...

The challenge is audience reach and, like it or not, the answer is streaming and therefore algorithms, specifically the recommendations or selections they make to listeners based on either a single song’s streaming profile or the changing streaming profile of the artist. In many ways recommendation ...