This week’s new records and stats w-e 13/07/19

Artist – Title – Cat No, Position (Chart weeks: Top 10/40/75)/Hit Singles represented (Position, Weeks on top 75)

CD Albums

Air – Everybody Hertz – CDV2956, #67 (0/0/1)/ No Singles

Anita Baker – Rapture – 7559604442, #13 (0/12/35/47*)/Sweet Love (#13, 12wks), Caught Up In The Rapture (#51, 5wks)

Bette Midler – Beaches Soundtrack – 7567819332, #21 (0/6/9)/Wind Beneath My Wings (#5, 13wks)

Metro Station – Metro Station – 88697278292, #35 (0/1/4)/ Shake It (#6, 18wks)

Nas – Street’s Disciple – 5177249, #45 (0/0/2)/Bridging The Gap (#18, 4wks)

Richard & Adam – The Christmas Album, #24 (0/2/4)/No Singles

Rod Stewart – Soulbook, #9 (2/8/16)/No Singles

Rufus Wainwright – Want Two – 9880444, #21 (0/2/3)/No Singles

Twista – Kamikaze – 7567932382, #19 (0/7/22) Slow Jamz (#3, 10wks), Overnight Celebrity (#16, 7wks), Sunshine (#60, 3wks; Reissued: #3, 10wks), So Sexy (#28, 3wks), Hope (#25, 6wks)

LP Albums:

Jane Fonda – Jane Fonda’s Workout Records New And Improved – CBS88640, #60 (0/0/2/4*)/ No Singles

Nana Mouskouri – British Concert – 6651003, #29 (0/11/11)/No Singles

Stage Cast Recording – Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be – LK4346, #5 (4/11/11)/ No Singles

Air album is their least successful album representing just 1 week at #67 and no singles. A nice obscure addition of a small hit.

Both Anita Baker and Bette Midler’s albums are debut hits containing the debut and highest charting hit singles. Bette Midler had a lower-placed follow-up single (From A Distance, #6) that spent more weeks on chart (14) than Wind Beneath My Wings.

The Metro Station album represents 100% of their chart hits (sole album and A-side of only top 75 single). Another single from the album ‘hit’ #89. That is their entire chart career.

Richard & Adam album is their 2nd and lowest charting hit album. It is the 3rd in my collection of 4. Only missing is their most recent Believe – Songs Of Inspiration. 26 of their 30 weeks in the top 75 are represented. They have never had a hit single.

Rod Stewart is part of his albums-only success. He’s not had a top 40 single since 2001 on Atlantic. The last label to have more than one hit with him since then, of 6 that have had chart action below the top 40. It is one of a huge 65 hit albums. MANY are missing from the collection!

Debut hit album for Rufus Wainwright. It’s predecessor, Want One contains his debut hit single (I Don’t Know What It Is, #74, 1wk) but as an album failed to hit the top 75 (#88, after Want Two had hit the chart). 8 of his 14 top-75 albums weeks are now in the collection with the 4 weeks of both singles combined represented on the albums.

Twista. Debut hit album and by far the most successful of the new additions in terms of it’s contained singles: 5 Singles, 2 of which were #3, the 5 singles spending a total 39 weeks on the singles chart. 22 top-75 weeks on the album chart, this purchase represents a total 61 combined chart weeks.

Jane Fonda. Nearly didn’t buy this as it is late for an exercise record to be a hit (1984) and I didn’t think it was a hit. The big hit exercise records were mostly 1981-2. As I have the original version, this New Improved edition completes the Jane Fonda hit record collection.

Nana Mouskouri once held the record for Album With Most Weeks On Chart By A Female for over a decade. Over And Over scored it’s 97th chart week in June 1974. Tina Turner’s Private Dance was the album to overtake that record and first charted almost exactly 10 years later, in June 1984. Both are already in the collection.

Fings Ain’t What They Used T’be is only the 4th stage recording to hit the chart and did so in 1960. Consequently, all 11 weeks recorded here are in the top 20. It contains no hit singles, but 2 different versions of the title track were: by Max Bygraves and Russ Conway respectively.

Totals:

Albums: 12

Albums chart weeks: 134

Singles: 0

Singles represented on albums: 11 (including 1 as re-issue)

Singles weeks represented on albums: 91

Combined weeks represented: 225

*Total top 100 chart weeks: contains chart-counting weeks in 1980s when albums chart was a top 100.