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Number 4 in this week's album chart. Terrific!


http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/albums.shtml

This is BRILLIANT news! I think so, anyway! I'll be honest and admit that, once it had started to slip (it went down one place last week), I thought it was on its way out. How wrong I was. Obviously I have no idea how many copies it has sold, but it suggests that all the hard work the boys are putting in touring is paying off. The fact is that they are brilliant live and the album is a fair representation of this. How many people, I wonder, are buying the album after they have seen them live and having been, until then, undecided? 30 years ago, something similar happened with String of Hits (you know, that album that isn't even mentioned in the new tour brochure!!!) and I am now pretty optimistic that Reunited could also hit the number one spot. Let's hope that EMI think so too and think it worthwhile stepping up the advertising campaign - I have yet to see a newspaper ad., for example.

Congratulations to Cliff and the Shads on making the top 5. Number 1 before November...