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Just saw this in this week's HUMO magazine (belgian weekly):

quote (free translation)
no. 96 : STEVIE NICKS
At the age of 4, Stevie Nicks already sang duets with her grandfather, an unsuccesfull country singer.
It was her smoky,country voice, always filled with emotion, that helped resurrect Fleetwood Mac - who at that time was a struggling
blues-rock band. Together with ex-lover Lindsey Buckingham, Nicks enriched the Fleetwood sound with ghostly harmonies, and
also added a whiff of fallen-angels-glamour.That the band as well as Nicks herself would eventually break down only added that something
extra to her stricking vocals.
3 most essential tracks:
Sara (with Fleetwood Mac)
Dreams (with Fleetwood Mac)
Rooms on Fire
unquote

Considering most people in Belgium have no clue who Stevie Nicks is, i would say she has'nt done half bad !

that is pretty awesome. I love how ROF gets so much attention in other countries.

All I can say is "WOW".. this is pretty exciting!! She hasn't done badly at all! GOOOOO STEVIE! :nod:

I know.... Why is that?

Because outside of the states it was one of her biggest hits. I know that in NZ ROF and SDMHA are the only two solo singles that charted in the top 10 here...

Well yeah, I know it was a huge hit outside the US, but I was just wondering why that was. Know what I mean?

I don't know - why was it not as successful in the US? It is an unanswerable question...

Because God works in mysterious ways, my chylde~

Three reasons. One, because it was the first single released by a member of Fleetwood Mac after the huge success of the Tango album. And that album really was massive for the two years prior to that, especially in Europe, which meant that a lot of radio stations put it on their playlists where before Stevie had never got that much radio play in Europe. Secondly, because she did more promotion for The Other Side Of The Mirror album here than she ever did for her previous albums. She even appeared on UK TV several times! Third, because Steveee is ~magick~ in all her finery.

Funny that we're talking about this now, because I had a friend come up to me a few days ago, and he was asking me about this hit Stevie had in the late 80s. He was like, before we didn't even know she had a solo career, and all of a sudden she was everywhere. Bad Stevie. I think if she has just worked a little extra hard at it, she would be coming over here more often. TOSOTM was not her finest work at all, yet it still garnered quite some attention here, of course riding on the coat tails of the massive success of TITN.

Well, why was Tango so popular abroad? :laugh:

I agree Vanessa I definitely think Bella Donna in particular could have been equally huge here, granted she probably didn't have the time to fully promote it because she had to run back to the Mac. At the same time she's never seemed that interested in taking the time to tour or promote her music outside of the States, which is odd.


Because it's a great album and had five hit singles.

5 singles!! :shocked:

ok there was
Big Love
Everywhere
Seven Wonders
Little Lies

what was 5!!!!
Family Man? [thats the only other music video of tango ive seen, but i know that Isnt it Midnight <3 was released in England....]

sooo. confusing.

In the UK, it went:

Big Love
(highest chart position: 9)

Seven Wonders
(highest chart position: 56)

Little Lies
(highest chart position: 5)

Family Man
(highest chart position: 54)

Everywhere
(highest chart position: 4 - the Mac's highest charting UK single since 1969)

Isn't It Midnight
(highest chart position: 60)

Tango was so successful because it was commercial and mainstream. People seem to like commercial and mainstream.

As for Rooms On Fire...we have Top Of The Pops to thank for that. It was Stevie's ONLY top 20 UK single and the album became her only UK top 10 album (Bella Donna just missed it - scraping in at number 11). At this time, MTV was not widely available in the UK and so TOTP was the only source of new music. Her performance on that brought the single up from something like number 45 I think it was - upto number 21 and eventually number 16.

Thank you for that info!! I had no idea.:nod:

Oh and by the way, I love your sig.