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  • Andalucía Fails to Chart

    Unsurprisingly Andalucía didn’t trouble the UK singles chart despite the best efforts of teps. With no physical release and all promotion focused on the album I don’t think anything other was expected. Here’s what the iTunes UK singles chart (where something like 95% of all single/song sales now come from) looks like..

    241. There Goes the Fear – Doves
    256. Andalucía – Doves
    339. Black and White Town – Doves
    576. Pounding – Doves

    Not quite as exciting as the Bruno Brooks chart countdown I used to enjoy back in the day. What may be even more surprising, is that Radio 1 didn’t see fit to put Andalucía on any of its playlists. It seems like Doves are no longer cool for school..

    Edit: To be fair, I don’t listen to Radio 1, so maybe R1 audience has changed somewhat? 6 Music has played lots of Doves of late, of course that wont be the case if the big wigs at the BBC get their way..

  • UK Album Chart Highest New Entry

    Doves Best of The Places Between this week scored the UK album chart’s highest new entry, coming in at number 12*.

    In the Irish chart, the album came in at number 57.

    More Stats:

    Official album download chart: 15
    Scottish Albums Chart: 13

    * Not Number 11 as the BBC album chart website first reported.

    Information from the official UK charts website.