The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project (aka Preachin’ about the Preachers if today’s selection sucks)

TenderLovingKiller® said:
There were roughly three times as many people in the UK than the US in 1966.but you would assume charts are adjusted to scale accordingly to take that into account.
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I mean it’s just a number of how well it sold here compared to other albums. It would be insane to adjust the charts in the US because an album did better in Venezuela and this would be the same for the U.K. I’d guess it did better than a few of the nine above it here if it were a global sales chart.
 
Nee Lewman said:
I mean it’s just a number of how well it sold here compared to other albums. It would be insane to adjust the charts in the US because an album did better in Venezuela and this would be the same for the U.K. I’d guess it did better than a few of the nine above it here if it were a global sales chart.
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My point is the albums was properly regarded in the UK where it was not regarded as highly (at the time of its release) within the US. Pet Sounds spent 6 months in the top ten there in the US it cracked the top ten and then bowed out. A higher percentage of Brits were buying and listening to Pet Sounds than Americans.
 
Nee Lewman said:
They were Scottish and really this was their moment. I don’t think they really had much reach outside the clubs/raves. They stopped releasing stuff by the end of the 90s. No idea how big they were back home.
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They had a big uk chart hit with Ebenezer Goode maybe a year or two after this but this wasn’t my scene and I was pre teen so they’re not really in my conscious beyond that. Yeah I remember Ed being into them.
 
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