Re: Joni in Record Collector

[Dan Olson]

Your post suggests an issue: What does it mean for an album to be #20 (what an amazing achievment for DJRD in the UK; I'll bet it never reached that here - see post below)? Is it the RATE at which they're selling (taken over what period), and do I understand correctly that sales only "count" if they're from major chains like Tower. What's up with that?

At 09:22 PM 1/30/2003 +0000, you wrote:

Has anyone seen the Record Collector mag yet?
Right at the back they do a '25 years ago' thing and this month they
mentioned that DJRD got to number 20 in the UK this month 25 years ago.
There is also a photo of Joni holding a rose. I'm guessing it was used to
promote the album when it came out. She looks so pretty. One of the best
Joni photos I've seen!

Stephen Toogood

At 12:45 PM 1/22/2003 -0500, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In the This Month is History section of jmdl, it
tells us that THOSL peaked at #4 on the U.S. charts,
and HEJIRA peaked at #13. That's amazing, huh?
With no hits on the radio? Wow.

I had previously suggested that Hejira was the last album that the general public bought; a new theory is that DJRD sold poorly because it was a double album. Lots of double albums did/do poorly (the White album, T'log); I believe there is too much new material to digest properly - It's not the right "chunk" of new material.