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OfflineJeroenvG

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First number 1 for Mark Knopfler
« on: September 07, 2012, 01:47:13 PM »
Just got an email from Universal!

Privateering is Mark's first number 1 solo album in The Netherlands!

Last time it was with Dire Straits' On Every Street!

Yeah for Mark!!
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Re: First number 1 for Mark Knopfler
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2012, 01:50:41 PM »
Wow, great news!!
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Re: First number 1 for Mark Knopfler
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2012, 02:28:22 PM »
Well, I tried and searched but am totally confused - The German Top 100 album charts (from media control) seemed to be the "official" charts in the last years - MK has not appeared on the list from Sept. 10th...
whereas Ry Cooder's new album is on 96 and Robert Cray even made a "new entry" at 36 or something...

there are so many different charts - download, single, album, every radio station has its own charts, I have no idea what is important today.... on the iTunes download charts, Privateering was somewhere around 33...

At amazon.de which seems to be the biggest and most important seller, the album was on 1 from release day on and is on 2 now for two or three days. Strange that it doesn't turn up in the "official" charts then..
 ???

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Re: First number 1 for Mark Knopfler
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2012, 02:29:08 PM »
Privateering was number 1 in itune Spain...

Which is also great because Spain is a country without legal downloading culture...
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Re: First number 1 for Mark Knopfler
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2012, 02:38:14 PM »
I don't care too much about charts positions, but this is interesting because a lot of people repeatedly claim that "Mark has lost it", that he "should go back to what he did with Dire Straits", "play more solos again" etc.

His chart success shows that his newer records can clearly stand on their own. After seven records no one would still buy a Mark Knopfler album just because they liked Dire Straits. People who loved Dire Straits but don't like his solo albums surely must have stopped buying them by now.

Conclusion: The (many!) people who buy MK albums today  buy them because they actually like them. Which is how it should be, of course.
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Re: First number 1 for Mark Knopfler
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2012, 02:52:52 PM »
jeroen, got info on other countries too?
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Re: First number 1 for Mark Knopfler
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2012, 03:01:21 PM »
In todays hard times, everyone's looking for a bargain and with Privateering you get a good 2 for 1 offer!  Mark's not daft and in todays economic climate this is the best time ever to launch his first double album! ;D
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Re: First number 1 for Mark Knopfler
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2012, 03:13:05 PM »
Quote from: Rail King on September 07, 2012, 02:38:14 PM

After seven records no one would still buy a Mark Knopfler album just because they liked Dire Straits. People who loved Dire Straits but don't like his solo albums surely must have stopped buying them by now.

Conclusion: The (many!) people who buy MK albums today  buy them because they actually like them. Which is how it should be, of course.

You talk as if there was no continuity between the band time and the solo career. I think this is a bit more complex than that although you are right on some level as I did not buy a couple of MK solo album, and to my great surprise he put out GL at a time I though that I was done with MK's new solo records and did not expect to have interest for them anymore.
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Re: First number 1 for Mark Knopfler
« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2012, 03:15:57 PM »
Quote from: Pottel on September 07, 2012, 02:52:52 PM
jeroen, got info on other countries too?

Only for The Netherlands.
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Re: First number 1 for Mark Knopfler
« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2012, 03:29:17 PM »
I am sure ustas will come up with ALL the figures...  ;)

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Re: First number 1 for Mark Knopfler
« Reply #10 on: September 07, 2012, 04:14:09 PM »
Quote from: JeroenvG on September 07, 2012, 01:47:13 PM
Just got an email from Universal!

Privateering is Mark's first number 1 solo album in The Netherlands!

Last time it was with Dire Straits' On Every Street!

Yeah for Mark!!


Great news, but I allready knew that people in Holland had a very fine taste in music  ;) ;) ;)
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Re: First number 1 for Mark Knopfler
« Reply #11 on: September 07, 2012, 04:25:21 PM »
Here is a dutch link of this news:
http://www.nu.nl/muziek/2903894/mark-knopfler-eerst-1-met-soloalbum.html

Amazing!

For the non Dutch. The article mentions also that it is the first solo album to reach the first place.
« Last Edit: September 07, 2012, 06:02:50 PM by Guitarman1972 »
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Re: First number 1 for Mark Knopfler
« Reply #12 on: September 07, 2012, 05:28:06 PM »
Quote from: Marikablue on September 07, 2012, 04:14:09 PM
Quote from: JeroenvG on September 07, 2012, 01:47:13 PM
Just got an email from Universal!

Privateering is Mark's first number 1 solo album in The Netherlands!

Last time it was with Dire Straits' On Every Street!

Yeah for Mark!!


Great news, but I allready knew that people in Holland had a very fine taste in music  ;) ;) ;)

They already did the same on the early days of the now defunct famous band.
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Re: First number 1 for Mark Knopfler
« Reply #13 on: September 07, 2012, 07:24:06 PM »
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Re: First number 1 for Mark Knopfler
« Reply #14 on: September 07, 2012, 07:32:30 PM »
Hey, Dutchessy, thanks very much!

That Hans Schiffers' voice is connected with me with a very intense On Every Street Launch radioshow, which I recorded in 1991 and must have 100 times during that autumn. Nice memories. It seems Mark and him have met several times in both their careers...

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