Raspbernie Posted August 6, 2014 Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 THE CHARTING IS THE SWEETEST PART Petty Earns First #1 Album Bow, Showing—With Clapton, Guardians—Power of Classic Rock, Pop Reprise's Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers celebrate their first album to debut at #1 on the HITS Building Album Sales Chart after 38 years. The classic rock staple raked in a whopping 126k for their 13th studio album, Hypnotic Eye. The large bow was powered by a Ticketmaster ticket bundle; approximately half of Eye's sales come from ticket purchases for their current tour. Eric Clapton's J.J. Cale tribute on Bushbranch/Surfdog, featuring friends Petty, Willie Nelson, Mark Knopfler and John Mayer, debuted in the #2 spot with 59k. What year is it again? We've apparently smoked so much weed that we've traveled back to the late '70s. Hey, it's nice here. Disney's Guardians of the Galaxy ST, a self-titled Mix Tape of pop and rock chestnuts, materializes at #3 with a 57k bow following the blockbuster film's $94m opening. —HITS Daily Double, August 5, 2014 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raspbernie Posted August 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 Same industry website with an eye toward next week: Two Hit Comps, One From Earth and One From the Outer Reaches of the Galaxy, Vie for #1 Next Week Now 51 is the top debut this week and has an early edge in the race for next week's #1 album. But we're keeping a close eye on Disney's currently charting Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack, which will bow in the Top 5 very shortly and which has already blown away initial expectations. If sales grow as they could this week, the film's retro-pop Awesome Mix may take the top spot from Sony's first Now compilation (this time via Legacy) since Now 32 debuted at #5 in November of 2009. Invariably, one or another anthology of established hits will rule, whether it's hits like "Rude" and "Stay With Me" or hits like "Spirit in the Sky" and "Fooled Around and Fell in Love." —HITS Daily Double, August 5, 2014 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liseli Posted August 6, 2014 Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 I can't believe the chart number. As long as the hits in the collections are compellingly catchy--think of the new people who can enjoy hearing them! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Carmen Posted August 6, 2014 Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 "Guardian's Of The Galaxy" Awesome Mix, Number One is number one on Billboard's "Digital Downloads" Chart. It is only available as a digital download, not in CD format, hence Tom Petty at number one on Billboard's Album Chart. And Marvel isn't giving it away with tickets. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raspbernie Posted August 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2014 Sweet! Bernie 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted August 8, 2014 Report Share Posted August 8, 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack is available now on Amazon in two versions. The complete soundtrack on CD is around $16 Bat-bucks, and the Awesome Mix Vol. 1 CD is around $10. Bat-bucks. The 2-disc vinyl version of the complete soundtrack will be released on 9/16/14 for around $18. Bat-bucks. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Ellen Posted August 8, 2014 Report Share Posted August 8, 2014 GATW is closer to it's rightful #1 spot on the UCR poll too. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raspathens Posted August 8, 2014 Report Share Posted August 8, 2014 Anne and I are going tonight! Looking forward to a theater full of people, for the most part, hearing GATW for the first time. Such a demand for tickets that we are having to reserve seats. ROCK ON!!!!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raspathens Posted August 9, 2014 Report Share Posted August 9, 2014 Just got back - the sequence connected to GATW was just perfect. It boomed loud and clear throughout the theater - sent chills down my spine. It's the summer of 2014, that's 2014, and it emerges again. That' says a lot about the song. You will have to sit through a very long credit roll before you get to GATW. Credited the performance to "Raspberries" without a "the". The movie was pretty good too. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raspbernie Posted August 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 The Soundtrack is still #1 everywhere and currently outselling both the new Tom Petty and Eric Clapton releases. We'll find out if it successfully moved up a couple of chart positions on Wednesday! Bernie 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LobsterLvr Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Doing my best imitation of Casey Kasem: "And coming in at number one, topping the charts for a whole new generation of pubescents and their power-pop-loving parents...still fresh 42 years later...it's Eric Carmen and The Raspberries with Go All The Way". 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susie b Posted October 24, 2014 Report Share Posted October 24, 2014 Good deeds rewarded!!!! Was running errands for my dad today, and this is what happened...I was walking back to the car and glanced across the street to one of my favorite hole-in-the-wall, old school, mostly vinyl, record shops. I was deciding whether or not I had time to pop inside for a few minutes. The door was wide open & the luscious vocals of The Dells singing, Oh What A Night, were wafting across the parking lot. The instant I made the decision to walk over, an album cover caught my eye through the open door from about 50 feet away...Guardians of the Galaxy Deluxe Vinyl Edition was front & center on the New Arrivals rack! Paul said they had just been delivered an hour before, so I got the first one, and of course we had our regular discussion on how vinyl is the medium on which these songs are meant to be played. I'm so happy! Love that I got the album. Love that I got it on vinyl. Love to support Eric's climb up the charts. Love that I got to support a small independent business. It's a win, win, win, win. Wishing everyone a beautiful weekend! Susie 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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