Billboard changes Top 200 policy - where will GH be?

[LunsJail]

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i603a2426afda5aaafb64750aacecd192

Billboard is changing it's Top 200 to include catalog albums as well. Any predictions where Greatest Hits would be when this happens?

[russtcb]

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i603a2426afda5aaafb64750aacecd192

Billboard is changing it's Top 200 to include catalog albums as well. Any predictions where Greatest Hits would be when this happens?

Wasn't this how it always was and then they changed it in the early 90s or something? They did it to knock stuff like Rumours, Dark Side of the Moon, Back In Black and Thriller out of the running. So they're going back to how it used to be?

[LunsJail]

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i603a2426afda5aaafb64750aacecd192

Billboard is changing it's Top 200 to include catalog albums as well. Any predictions where Greatest Hits would be when this happens?

Wasn't this how it always was and then they changed it in the early 90s or something? They did it to knock stuff like Rumours, Dark Side of the Moon, Back In Black and Thriller out of the running. So they're going back to how it used to be?

I'm not sure how it used to be back then but....yeah, Thriller, Dark Side, etc. would be up there with the latest releases. That's how I read it. I think it's the state of the record industry. Labels realize it's easier to flaunt catolog albums and sell those than try and break a new band.

[russtcb]

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i603a2426afda5aaafb64750aacecd192

Billboard is changing it's Top 200 to include catalog albums as well. Any predictions where Greatest Hits would be when this happens?

Wasn't this how it always was and then they changed it in the early 90s or something? They did it to knock stuff like Rumours, Dark Side of the Moon, Back In Black and Thriller out of the running. So they're going back to how it used to be?

I'm not sure how it used to be back then but....yeah, Thriller, Dark Side, etc. would be up there with the latest releases. That's how I read it. I think it's the state of the record industry. Labels realize it's easier to flaunt catolog albums and sell those than try and break a new band.

Just read through the article and found this:

"That rule, in place since 1991, stipulates that an album that ranks below No. 100 on the chart, is more than 18 months old, and does not have a current charting single at radio, would be removed from the Billboard 200 and other corresponding album charts on which it has appeared. While the catalog rule will no longer apply to the Billboard 200, it will remain in effect on all other current-based album charts"/i]

So it sounds that you and I are exactly right. It's basically going back to how it used to be.

It's interesting. It'll be interesting to see where things like AFD, GN'R GH, Dark Side, etc. land when placed back in with albums released since that rule went into place.

[LunsJail]

I just realized that Billboard already has this category labeled Top Comprehensive Albums which will become the Top 200. So looking at that should give us an idea where the classics would chart when the rule changes.

[uzisuicide2002]

i think you'll see AFD on there not GH...AFD still sells like a million a year i think...

[LunsJail]

Just looked at the Top 200 after the change and GH sits at #130. Pretty good considering the shitload of Christmas albums and other catolog albums on there as well. It's even ahead of the new Alice in Chains.

[Street of the Blues]

This just goes to show that folks in the United States still love Guns N' Roses.

[jarmo]

This just goes to show that folks in the United States still love Guns N' Roses.

Why would you doubt that?




/jarmo

[Bodhi]

Just looked at the Top 200 after the change and GH sits at #130. Pretty good considering the shitload of Christmas albums and other catolog albums on there as well. It's even ahead of the new Alice in Chains.

its also pretty good considering that "Greatest Hits' came out in March of 04!!!   Amazing really.

[Naltav]

i think you'll see AFD on there not GH...AFD still sells like a million a year i think...

I doubt that is correct.

From the Rolling Stone article in 2000: "GN'R's debut record, Appetite For Destruction, released in 1987, marches on. The second biggest debut album in rock history (15 million copies at the last count), Appetite thirteen years later still sells a remarkable 5,000 to 6,000 copies per week - more than 200,000 units annually."

So if it sold about 200'000 copies a year in 2000, it most likely less now almost 10 years later. But no doubt it's on of those classic albums that sells a steady number of copies around the world...