Bowie Hits Number 1 on UK Album Charts
When all the sales were tallied up for the week yesterday, David Bowie’s The Next Day ended up at #1 on the UK album charts, selling 94,000 copies. This is his first #1 UK album since Black Tie White Noise in 1993.
Fans will be watching closely to see how the album does in other territories. In the US, he’s apparently neck-and-neck with the new Bon Jovi album, What About Now. Amazingly, Bowie has never had a #1 album in America. Ever.
I don’t have any figures for Canada, but I’m hoping he’ll do well here, too. We’ll find out late Tuesday/early Wednesday. Watch this space.
(Via The Independent)
From Toronto, I have no idea where I could expect to hear any song from Bowie's new album (or of this last three to four albums) – via local radio.
The retro station? With its mishmash 70s/80s/90s short playlists across all genres (excepting R 'n' B of course).
The (Hollywood white) dance station(s) and the soccer mom station(s)? The (Hollywood black) dance stations? A rigidly alt-rock 90s grunge led station? A good ol' hillbillies and hippies classic rock station or an AM dial 50s/60s oldies for during part of the evenings radio station?
So please stop bothering to mention this artist. As Avril long ago might have said, who was David Bouwie?