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#130433

NCS

Shifting units, current no.1 album 10 Years, 3 Months ago

Paul Simon's Ultimate Collection hit number one on the official album chart with 15.487 sales. Only 313 were downloads. Must be selling somewhere when there can't be many retail outlets (esp. chart retailers) these days.

May well give naive hope to misguided music industry veterans who hanker for the days of shifting units.

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#130448

Re:Shifting units, current no.1 album 10 Years, 3 Months ago
Sounds like a generational thing to me, the majority of people listening to him are from the vinyl/CD era. Does the downloads figure also include streaming? Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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#130483

dixie

Re:Shifting units, current no.1 album 10 Years, 3 Months ago
313 refers to streaming. There were 2,778 downloads Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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#130489

Re:Shifting units, current no.1 album 10 Years, 3 Months ago

dixie wrote:
313 refers to streaming. There were 2,778 downloadsAs I said, it's probably just the habits of the main age group Paul Simon appeals to. The 2,778 and 313 were probably a younger age bracket who have been lucky enough to discover good music

I do wonder who of the physical format buying generation doesn't already have a greatest hits of his though, I'm pretty sure there's been a few.

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#130491

JK2006

Re:Shifting units, current no.1 album 10 Years, 3 Months ago
Funnily enough although I do have the definitive multi CD collection I'm thinking of buying this too. Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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#130509

Re:Shifting units, current no.1 album 10 Years, 3 Months ago
JK2006 wrote: Funnily enough although I do have the definitive multi CD collection I'm thinking of buying this too.I have the Greatest Hits of both Simon & Garfunkel and Paul Simon. I could make this new album as there's nothing new on it. Why buy it again? Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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#130545

giles2008

Re:Shifting units, current no.1 album 10 Years, 3 Months ago
Meanwhile the new singles top 100 contains no older songs and has not done so since they changed the rules. Previously there were always one or two advert or tv related oldies in the lower regions. Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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#130611

dixie

Re:Shifting units, current no.1 album 10 Years, 3 Months ago

JK2006 wrote:
Funnily enough although I do have the definitive multi CD collection I'm thinking of buying this too.
I got this last Friday. A good choice of tracks on one CD. As someone who still listens to CDs, this works well, even though I've got all the tracks on the original albums.

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#130619

JK2006

Re:Shifting units, current no.1 album 10 Years, 3 Months ago

I think one of the reasons is that Paul was the consummate sound person; his tracks are incredibly clean, bright and sonic. I played them to Tommy, Alex and Charlie in trying to teach them the value of music sound. So brand new CDs, of top quality, without the scratches and skips that seem to arrive within weeks of buying a CD, replace older ones if we can afford to duplicate.

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#130746

NCS

Re:Shifting units, current no.1 album 10 Years, 3 Months ago
Agreed, and I admit I want to buy it too even though I have the original tracks and could fudge around in iTunes and burn a playlist to CD. However, I'd rather have the properly mastered version in the packaging with the booklet - and bought for a song, so to speak. Enter code here Please note: although no board code and smiley buttons are shown, they are still usable.

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