HOME is #1 Album in Ireland!!

[DazedOblivion]

For the week ending 6 October 2005, HOME is at the TOP of the album charts in Ireland in its second week of release! ;D ;D Here are the top 25 according to Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA):

• 01. HOME, CORRS (Atlantic)
• 02. You Could Have It So Much Better, Franz Ferdinand (Domino)
• 03. Back to Bedlam, James Blunt (Atlantic)
• 04. Life In Slow Motion, David Gray (IHT)
• 05. Piece by Piece, Katie Melua (Dramatico)
• 06. The Collection 1990-2005, Sharon Shannon (DaisyDiscs)
• 07. Eye to the Telescope, KT Tunstall (Relentless)
• 08. Late Registration, Kanye West (Rocafella)
• 09. Breakaway, Kelly Clarkson (RCA)
• 10. Have A Nice Day, Bon Jovi (Mercury)
• 11. X&Y, Coldplay (Parlophone)
• 12. The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses (Silvertone)
• 13. Prarie Wind, Neil Young (Reprise)
• 14. Forever Faithless, The Greatest Hits, Faithless (Cheeky)
• 15. Employment, Kaiser Chiefs (Bunique/Polydor)
• 16. Demon Days, Gorillaz (Parlophone)
• 17. Throw Down Your Arms, Sinead O'Connor (That's Why...)
• 18. Hot Fuss, Killers (Lizard King)
• 19. American Idiot, Green Day (Reprise)
• 20. PCD, Pussycat Dolls (A&M)
• 21. Working Class Hero: The Definitive John Lennon, John Lennon (Parlophone)
• 22. Teenage Dreams, Daniel O'Donnell (Rosette)
• 23. The Magic Numbers, Magic Numbers (Heavenly)
• 24. Guilty Too, Barbra Streisand (Columbia)
• 25. The Trinity, Sean Paul (Atlantic)

Woohoo!!!! ;D ;D ;D

[Andypandy]

Whohoo!!!!!!!! Btw I'm thinking of moving to Ireland-what does it take? citizenship?

[SingleTunePoet]

WE LOVE THE CORRS!!!!

Wooohooo, now this IS good news! ;D

Btw, gonna move to Ireland with you Scott *lol*

[Andypandy]

admin said:

WE LOVE THE CORRS!!!!

Wooohooo, now this IS good news! ;D

Btw, gonna move to Ireland with you Scott *lol*

yeah the twins are moving there in may and they are gonna tell me how to obtain work visa.

[Keith]

It's great that they've done so well in Ireland. They'll get a lot of scrutiny there because it's a traditional album. It's commercial success there will be a great affirmation for them!! I'm sure they're very proud. ;D

[DazedOblivion]

The Corrs Official Website has posted the following message in reponse to their #1 position in Ireland:

Last week the band’s new album shot straight into the number two spot in the Irish Album Charts and this week we are delighted to announce that it has now claimed the number one slot. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank everyone out there, both home and away, for buying the album and making it such a huge success. Thanks guys!!!

And for this week Home is currently the #28 in the WORLD, according to the United World Chart. Home is #8 in France and #23 in the UK at the moment. I think these numbers are great for this particular album.

[Andypandy]

the debut of Home on the records charts have been a pleasant suprise ;D

[DazedOblivion]

keith said:

It's great that they've done so well in Ireland. They'll get a lot of scrutiny there because it's a traditional album. It's commercial success there will be a great affirmation for them!! I'm sure they're very proud. ;D

Yes, so right, a great affirmation! And it must be especially sweet after some really outrageous negative reviews by some idiotic Irish music critics. But, come to think of it, do the Corrs really read these reviews?

And when one considers that Home has made it to #28 on the WORLD CHARTS without any release in the United States, it really puts in context the phenomenal early success that this album is enjoying!

I really hope that the success continues and that, somewhere in the ivory towers of Atlantic Records U.S., some naysaying executives are walking around with sweaty armpits and feeling like complete jackasses!

[Andypandy]

dazedoblivion said:

keith said:

It's great that they've done so well in Ireland. They'll get a lot of scrutiny there because it's a traditional album. It's commercial success there will be a great affirmation for them!! I'm sure they're very proud. ;D

Yes, so right, a great affirmation!
And when one considers that Home has made it to #28 on the WORLD CHARTS without any release in the United States, it really puts in context the phenomenal early success that this album is enjoying!

I really hope that the success continues and that, somewhere in the ivory towers of Atlantic Records U.S., some naysaying executives are walking around with sweaty armpits and feeling like complete jackasses!

;D yup jackasses! Your right steve i didnt even think how they are #28 on world charts with no help from the USA

[welovethecorrs]

thta is BRILLIANT news!! we are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY!!!!! the band deserves it, HOME rocks and so do the corrs!! this is BEAUTIFUL news!!

the twins

[DazedOblivion]

dazedoblivion said:

And for this week Home is currently the #28 in the WORLD, according to the United World Chart.

Home is STILL in the Top 40 albums (#38) in the entire WORLD this week.

I think that this is really a strong showing for an album that was not made with massive "pop" appeal in mind, and has had limited promotion. It is also an amazing accomplishment, especially when one considers that the album has the great disadvantage of not being released in the United States!

[snookyjojo]

wow! Yesss! Right you are!!! IT's really great! "home" is such a great album and I think it and the band really deserve such a position... hey steve? who was on #1 in this "World chartlist"?

[DazedOblivion]

snookyjojo said:

hey steve? who was on #1 in this "World chartlist"?

You can look by clicking the link (that I posted above) to United World Chart but, to answer your question, the number one album in the world is a brand new album called Natural by a Japanese group Orange Range. Incidentally, this is another one of the albums that is not released in the U.S. Doing well in Japan obviously helps a lot!