We will collect the different official chart entries and positions of Roxette’s new album “Charm School” in this post. How is the album doing in your country? Let us know! Please provide sources to your numbers.
Update February 21: Roxette entered straight to #1 in Germany! Announcement by Media Control | EMI (who also provided us with a new promo picture).
Update April 1: “Charm School” enters South Africa! And Per says that it has been certified gold in Switzerland! Germany and Austria should follow that style, while the album is heading to platinum in Sweden, according to the latest Live Nation press release. And CS is not the only charting album: The current Roxette action brought the “Hits!” compilation up to #65 in the German charts…
Update April 14: The album has reached the Brasilian charts! According to different retailer charts it’s also selling well in Argentina, but the official chart site doesn’t get updated. There’s also lack of official sources for Russia and Asian countries. We’re grateful for your help!
Update April 20: “Charm School” got Gold in Germany for more than 100,000 sales! Russia now included in the table.
To see the charts:
Brasil—————222017
Russia** – Gold——881313——
| Chartweek | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | 1 | 12 | 8 | — | 7 | 12 | 17 | ||||
| Australia | 49 | 72 | — | ||||||||
| Austria | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 17 | 36 | 45 | |||
| Belgium (Flanders) | 27 | 29 | 36 | 54 | 90 | 84 | — | ||||
| Belgium (Wallonia) | 102* | 57 | 82 | 92 | 84 | — | |||||
| Czech Republic – Gold | 1 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 32 | 17 | |||
| Denmark | 11 | 21 | 31 | — | |||||||
| Finland | 34 | 29 | 22 | 43 | — | ||||||
| Germany – Platinum | 1 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 19 | 20 | 23 | ||
| Greece | — | — | 28 | 15 | — | ||||||
| Hungary | 19 | 21 | 16 | 27 | 33 | — | |||||
| Italy | 45 | 80 | — | 99 | — | ||||||
| Netherlands | 21 | 58 | 83 | — | |||||||
| Norway | 26 | 38 | 38 | — | |||||||
| Poland | 16 | 40 | 73 | — | |||||||
| South Africa | — | — | — | — | 10 | 8 | 13 | ||||
| Spain | 14 | 21 | 42 | 53 | 68 | 63 | 62 | 85 | |||
| Sweden – Gold | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 16 | 24 | 26 | 26 | ||
| Switzerland – Gold | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 10 |
Various contributed to this article.
Sources: Argentina | Australia | Austria | Belgium (Flanders) | Belgium (Wallonia) | Brasil | Czech Republic | Denmark | Finland | France | Germany | Greece | Hungary | Italy | Netherlands | Norway | Poland | Portugal | Russia | South Africa | Spain | Sweden | Switzerland
*In the first week it was #2 of the “Heatseekers 20” in Wallonia, which features the sales under the top 100.
**Russian charts are published only every second week. Original source is this.
Switzerland no. 10/9
Spain – out of the chart
South Africa – no. 13/8 and no. 9/9
Czech R. no. 33/9
Austria no. 53/9
Sweden no. 36/10
Brasil no. 17/9
Switzerland no. 9/10
Czech no. 34/10
Germany: #19 – week 10.
Source: http://www.mtv.de/charts/album50 (Official Media Control charts)
Charm School re-entered the official Hungarian album chart at #40.
http://mahasz.hu/?menu=slagerlistak&menu2=top_40_album_es_valogataslemez_lista
I guess it is because of the concert promotion of the past weeks.
Germany no. 21/11
Czech no. 35/11
South Africa no. 14/10
Austria no. 54/10 and no. 50/11
Sweden no. 26/11
Switzerland 14/11
South Africa no. 13/11
Sweden no. 52/12
Czech no. 25/12
Switzerland no. 14/12
Germany no. 27/12
‘Charm School’ is back in the Top 40 list at #27 in Hungary.
Great to hear! 😀 Sorry I got to lazy to keep the table up-to-date over months.
Late update with Platinum from Germany and chart info from Argentina, based on http://roxetteblog.com/2011/09/09/charm-school-success-in-argentina/