I Am Not A Dog on A Chain enters UK album charts at number 3

The Weeknd scores second UK Number 1 album with After Hours

The Weeknd delivers a blinding performance on this week’s Official Albums Chart as he lands his second UK Number 1 album with After Hours. With 26,000 chart sales - 78% of which is made up by streaming equivalent sales - After Hours more than doubles the performance of its closest rival, Lewis...

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His 15th Top 10 hit, his 7th top-3 hit!

Viva Hate: 1
Bona Drag: 9
Kill Uncle: 8
Your Arsenal: 4
Vauxhall and I: 1
Southpaw Grammar: 4
Maladjusted: 8
You Are the Quarry: 2
Ringleader of the Tormentors: 1
Greatest Hits: 5
Years of Refusal: 3
World Peace is None of Your Business: 2
Low in High School: 5
California Son: 4
I Am Not a Dog on a Chain: 3

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UPDATE 11:25 AM PT:

Added placings:
#1 in the Official Physical Albums Chart Top 100
#1 in the Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50
#2 in the Official Vinyl Albums Chart Top 40

 

[Vegan]

Not really. He had hits by selling to a small but loyal following. Most of these 33 hits only had a 1-week chart run.

If your audience is large enough to get you in the Top 40 it isn't "small".

 

[Deleted member 29417]

Anyone that has 33 Top 40 hits is considered a commercial artist. Morrissey has been a commercial artist since his solo career began.

Commercial comes down units shifted. He was never in the charts long enough. Never had enough airplay. And he never consistently went out & sold his persona the way you'd have to.

 

[Deleted member 29417]

If your audience is large enough to get you in the Top 40 it isn't "small".

He's had a top 3 & you think it's flopped, so...

 

[Vegan]

Commercial comes down units shifted. He was never in the charts long enough. Never had enough airplay. And he never consistently went out & sold his persona the way you'd have to.

LOL. You really don't know what you're talking about here. Moz's chart history is that of a commercially successful artist. 33 Top 40 hits. Millions of records sold. That is to anyone not stubbornly holding on to some quixotic personal defense of Moz. You are simply wrong.

 

[Vegan]

He's had a top 3 & you think it's flopped, so...

Ok so it was a hit? Then he IS a commercial artist. Well done.

 

[Vegan]

Usually when someone's called a "pop star" he/she is considered a commercial artist
"Happy Birthday Morrissey! 19 times the Smiths frontman was the bitchiest pop star of all"

https://metro.co.uk/2016/05/22/happ...an-was-the-bitchiest-pop-star-of-all-5898024/

 

[Deleted member 29417]

Usually when someone's called a "pop star" he/she is considered a commercial artist
"Happy Birthday Morrissey! 19 times the Smiths frontman was the bitchiest pop star of all"

https://metro.co.uk/2016/05/22/happ...an-was-the-bitchiest-pop-star-of-all-5898024/

Filler tabloid stories are not known for their accuracy.

Quarry is his his biggest seller with (not that they ever really know) about a million worldwide on its first release.

 

[Anonymous]

He really isn't a commercial artist here. He had a high point with Quarry, everything else has been enough to keep going.

Absolute nonsense!

 

[Thewlis]

If your audience is large enough to get you in the Top 40 it isn't "small".

10K used to be enough to get you in the top-40. That isn’t ‘small’ but also not a figure that big commercial stars would sell. Moz has always been a cult star at best.

 

[From the left]

aside from the few first-week fanatics that bought several copies and dont care about his far-right escapades nobody else really cared about the album.

You know me so well

 

[Surface]

Not really. He had hits by selling to a small but loyal following. Most of these 33 hits only had a 1-week chart run.

Back to square one then, this album had a 3 day chart run?

 

[Thewlis]

Back to square one then, this album had a 3 day chart run?

Plenty of Moz-singles had a 1-week chart run back in the day, like I said. What matters is where they entered. This is and will forever be a UK Top-3 album. Period.

 

[Surface]

Plenty of Moz-singles had a 1-week chart run back in the day, like I said. What matters is where they entered. This is and will forever be a UK Top-3 album. Period.

Yes it will, just like it will say - did not chart in the Billboard 200.

 

[Thewlis]

Yes it will, just like it will say - did not chart in the Billboard 200.

Yes we agree on that. Those are the facts.

 

[Surface]

Yes we agree on that. Those are the facts.

Finally we agree on something. I actually think it's a shame as I am enjoying it far more than his last 3 albums and it does deserve to sell more.

 

[Anonymous]

Commercial comes down units shifted. He was never in the charts long enough. Never had enough airplay. And he never consistently went out & sold his persona the way you'd have to.

You have absolutely lost the plot, you literally haven't a clue what your talking about.

 

[Thewlis]

Finally we agree on something. I actually think it's a shame as I am enjoying it far more than his last 3 albums and it does deserve to sell more.

It is a great album, we also agree on that then.

And for an album that was ignored by radio and didn’t get any media promotion at all it performed really well for a short period.

Maybe in the autumn it will raise some interest again

 

[Deleted member 29417]

You have absolutely lost the plot, you literally haven't a clue what your talking about.

Then give me the sales figures.

 

[Surface]

Then give me the sales figures.

Are you aware he has had Platinum/Gold and Silver selling albums in the past, last one being YOR?

 

[Deleted member 28251]

Yes, if anything one could argue that it's getting worse (see the radio airplay in the UK difference between 2018/19 and this year so far). His current "strategy" of keeping quiet doesn't really seem to be helping, bless him.

National borders restored in a panic, disease from animal markets in China, Brexit threatened, martial law across Europe and most of the world, millions made jobless in the UK, a monarchy openly in disarray and a government that’s had to abandon the ideology that got it elected.

We are now transparently living what Morrissey has said, so silence seems a most appropriate response.