Billboard 200 Chart Moves: 12-Year-Old Pianist Joey Alexander Has Big Gain, Hits No. 1 on Jazz Albums
1/15/2016 by Keith Caulfield
http://www.billboard.com/articles/co...joey-alexander
...Now, let’s take a closer look at some of the action on the latest Billboard 200 chart:
— Fleetwood Mac, Greatest Hits - No. 87 — Perhaps surprisingly, this 1988 release was the third-largest selling album of 2015 in the U.S. for Warner Bros. Records, with 257,000 sold. Ahead of it: Josh Groban’s Stages (637,000) and Kid Rock’s First Kiss (354,000). The classic Rumours-era lineup of Fleetwood Mac reunited in 2014 for a successful world tour, which played more than 100 shows in 2014 and 2015. Clearly, fans were energized by the reunion and tour, and turned to buying the Greatest Hits album. Its sales in 2015 grew 114 percent compared to its haul in 2014 (120,000).
In a similar vein The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac saw a sales spike in the UK recently. It was at #81 last week and #88 this week.