Hello everyone,
Graham has just reminded in the
Classical Brits thread here that I never posted the UK Classical Charts (with sales) for 2007
oops, sorry! I also seem to have missed Richard's post on the previous page of this thread of the Classic FM Top 30 of 2007 which, if I'd seen it, would have made compiling the 2007 sales figures a bit easier (thanks Richard, it's a very useful check!).
Anyway, as luck would have it, the numbers have been kind and I can now post one chart with everything in it - Classic FM Top 30, Classical Artist Top 20, 2007 sales
and my guess for the top nominations in the Classical Brits Album of the Year. These are usually the 10 best selling Artist Albums released in the year and excluding "Greatest Hits" albums - I have put them in bold (and Hayley in Blue!).
Classic FM (Classical Artist) Artist - Title (2007 Sales)01 ( 01 ) Fron Male Voice Choir - Voices of the Valley - Encore ( 212,000 )
02 ( 02 ) Royal Scots Dragoon Guards - Spirit of the Glen ( 204,000 ) 03 ( -- ) Various Artists - The Number One Classical Album 2008 ( 140,000 )
04 ( 03 ) Fron Male Voice Choir - Voices of the Valley ( 114,000 )
05 ( 04 ) Katherine Jenkins - Serenade ( 94,000 )
06 ( 05 ) Luciano Pavarotti - The Ultimate Collection ( 90,000 )
07 ( 06 ) Blake - Blake ( 85,000 )
08 ( 07 ) Hayley Westenra - Treasure ( 75,000 ) 09 ( 08 ) Katherine Jenkins - Second Nature ( 71,000 )
10 ( -- ) Various Artists - Classic FM Relax ( 70,000 )
11 ( -- ) Various Artists - Classic FM at the Movies - The Sequel ( 62,000 )
12 ( 09 ) Russell Watson - The Voice - The Ultimate Collection ( 55,000 )
13 ( 10 ) All Angels - Into Paradise ( 54,000 ) 14 ( 11 ) Luciano Pavarotti - Icons ( 51,000 )
15 ( -- ) Various Artists - The Ultimate Classical Album 2008 ( 47,000 )
16 ( -- ) Various Artists - A Classic FM Christmas ( 42,000 )
17 ( 12 ) Katherine Jenkins - Premiere ( 40,000 )
18 ( -- ) Various Artists - Classical 2008 ( 39,000 )
19 ( 13 ) Katherine Jenkins - Living A Dream ( 35,000 )
20 ( 14 ) Pavarotti/Domingo/Carreras - Pavarotti/Domingo/Carreras ( 33,000 )
21 ( -- ) Various Artists - Classic FM - As Heard on TV ( 29,000 )
22 ( 15 ) All Angels - All Angels ( 28,000 )
23 ( -- ) Various Artists - Myleene's Music for Romance ( 26,000 )
24 ( -- ) Various Artists - Dad's Anthems ( 25,000 )
25 ( 16 ) Mario Lanza - The Essential Collection ( 24,000 )
26 ( 17 ) Andrea Bocelli - Viaggio Italiano ( 24,000 )
27 ( 18 ) The Choirboys - The Carols Album ( 24,000 ) 28 ( 19 ) Sarah Brightman - Classics - The Best Of ( 22,000 )
29 ( -- ) Various Artists - Classic FM PTS Voices ( 21,000 )
30 ( 20 ) Gardar Thor Cortes - Cortes ( 21,000 )But that only gives us seven potential nominations for Album of the Year - who will the other three be?
I can only make an intelligent guess at:
Onward - Alfie Boe (18500)
Divenire - Ludovici Einaudi (13000 )
LA PASSIONE - Alfie Boe (10000)
and as an outsider:
Amour - Natasha Marsh (8000 sales).
So I shall guess at 10 of those 11, in the Classical Brits thread.
Dave