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Category: charts

  • Andalucía Fails to Chart

    Unsurprisingly Andalucía didn’t trouble the UK singles chart despite the best efforts of teps. With no physical release and all promotion focused on the album I don’t think anything other was expected. Here’s what the iTunes UK singles chart (where something like 95% of all single/song sales now come from) looks like..

    241. There Goes the Fear – Doves
    256. Andalucía – Doves
    339. Black and White Town – Doves
    576. Pounding – Doves

    Not quite as exciting as the Bruno Brooks chart countdown I used to enjoy back in the day. What may be even more surprising, is that Radio 1 didn’t see fit to put Andalucía on any of its playlists. It seems like Doves are no longer cool for school..

    Edit: To be fair, I don’t listen to Radio 1, so maybe R1 audience has changed somewhat? 6 Music has played lots of Doves of late, of course that wont be the case if the big wigs at the BBC get their way..

  • More Chart News

    Kingdom of Rust placed 11th in the European Top 100 Albums chart. The album sold 44,978 units in the UK alone.

    More chart placings:

    Canada: #79
    Ireland: #8

    If you know of the album’s chart placing in your country let us know, so we can archive this info.

  • Kingdom Of Rust Album #2 In U.K. Charts

    Doves’ Kingdom Of Rust album entered the official U.K. album chart at #2 yesterday, beaten only by (the tabloid-friendly) Lady Gaga’s The Fame.

    To view the full U.K. album chart, click here.