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As of May 21, 2005

1974 Man Of Miracles #154
1974 The Serpent Is Rising #192
1975 Styx II #20
1976 Crystal Ball #66
1976 Equinox #58
1978 Pieces Of Eight #6
1978 The Grand Illusion #6
1979 Cornerstone #2
1981 Paradise Theater #1
1983 Kilroy Was Here #3
1984 Caught in the Act #31
1990 Edge of the Century #63
1995 Greatest Hits #138
1997 Return to Paradise #139
1999 Brave New World #175
2003 Cyclorama #127
2004 Come Sail Away: The Styx Anthology #136
2005 Big Bang Theory #46

yeah but you're assuming Big Bang won't go higher. Not that I think it will... I think it *could* depending on radio...

what would be better is to see a chart that has opening chart position for all Styx records.... I realize that may be a big tougher to get tho

Thanks for the info-ERIC

nice informative post

Thanks for the list. Appreciate it.

Bugsy

1995 Greatest Hits #138
1997 Return to Paradise #139

Interesting. While both charted similarly in terms of position, I believe GH outsold RTP considerably. I always find this stuff fascinating.

ek88 wrote:1995 Greatest Hits #138
1997 Return to Paradise #139

Interesting. While both charted similarly in terms of position, I believe GH outsold RTP considerably. I always find this stuff fascinating.

My understanding is RTP went gold. But since it was a doulbe cd it had to sell half to reach that-ERIC

ek88 wrote:1995 Greatest Hits #138
1997 Return to Paradise #139

Interesting. While both charted similarly in terms of position, I believe GH outsold RTP considerably. I always find this stuff fascinating.

Yes, because chart position is relative to what other product is currently in the market place.

While it's less of an impact lower down in the chart, there are many albums that failed to reach #1 only because of bad timing when another extremely huge album happened to be out at the time.

One famous example is Van Halen's "1984". It was a huge album but failed to gain #1 status week after week because of another album... one by the name of "Thriller".

I find it interesting that Cyclorama charted higher than Return to Paradise or Brave New World.

What chart is this referring to?

exsgt33 wrote:As of May 21, 2005

1974 Man Of Miracles #154
1974 The Serpent Is Rising #192
1975 Styx II #20
1976 Crystal Ball #66
1976 Equinox #58
1978 Pieces Of Eight #6
1978 The Grand Illusion #6
1979 Cornerstone #2
1981 Paradise Theater #1
1983 Kilroy Was Here #3
1984 Caught in the Act #31
1990 Edge of the Century #63
1995 Greatest Hits #138
1997 Return to Paradise #139
1999 Brave New World #175
2003 Cyclorama #127
2004 Come Sail Away: The Styx Anthology #136
2005 Big Bang Theory #46

Interesting. While both charted similarly in terms of position, I believe GH outsold RTP considerably. I always find this stuff fascinating.

I have heard/read/whatever that Greatest Hits is double platinum now. I think "The Legend" has stated such.

I also wonder about the status of Kilroy and Cornerstone. I keep seeing differering numbers on those two, but Styx is always listed as having 4 triple platinum albums in a row, which would include Cornerstone. And I have seen figures that Kilroy sold 2.5 million.

What chart is this referring to?

I think this is album sales charts from Billboard (?), and these figures are the highest position a particular album reached. It has no relation to overall sales, simply where an album charted for that particular time.

I may be wrong about this, but I think this is correct.

Bugsy

kansas666 wrote:

exsgt33 wrote:As of May 21, 2005

1974 Man Of Miracles #154
1974 The Serpent Is Rising #192
1975 Styx II #20
1976 Crystal Ball #66
1976 Equinox #58
1978 Pieces Of Eight #6
1978 The Grand Illusion #6
1979 Cornerstone #2
1981 Paradise Theater #1
1983 Kilroy Was Here #3
1984 Caught in the Act #31
1990 Edge of the Century #63
1995 Greatest Hits #138
1997 Return to Paradise #139
1999 Brave New World #175
2003 Cyclorama #127
2004 Come Sail Away: The Styx Anthology #136
2005 Big Bang Theory #46

U.S. Billboard Top 200 Album charts

Unfortunately comparing album peak chart positions is a little difficult considering the differences in the way ranks are calculated now and the way albums are bought now. It used to be albums and movies had a longer life-span and built more slowly to a peak position and dropped more slowly. Now albums and movies get hyped like crazy before a release and the buzz fades fast.

Thats why EOTC went gold even though it charted lower. It had staying power. The GH and GH2 albums have consistant sales over very long time periods.

I thought the 4 triple platinum albums were GI, PO8, CS and PT.

Scott

swwskj wrote:Thats why EOTC went gold even though it charted lower. It had staying power. The GH and GH2 albums have consistant sales over very long time periods.

Exactly. You can't compare pre-91 charts with post-91 charts.

They are completely different animals.