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Ding-dong, we have a winner
The new Deep Purple album inFinite has achieved top position in the German album charts for the week of April 7-14. It follows on the success of Now what?!, which also got to number 1 upon its release. This is the eighth number 1 Deep Purple album in the country, and the last time two consecutive studio releases went both to number 1 spot was in 1972, when Machine Head followed Fireball.
Congratulations to everybody involved.
We are summarizing inFinite chart positions around the world elsewhere.
Thanks to Fabian Sterlzig, Georgi Zbirchev, Nigel Young, Claus, and Giorgi for the info.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Sue Estrella
April 18th, 2017 at 21:03Infinite is number 5 in Sweden.
April 18th, 2017 at 21:26http://www.sverigetopplistan.se
Ritchie must have bought few copies to help his friends in DP.
April 18th, 2017 at 21:41Well done boys. To infinity and beyond.
This German chart has Sheeran outselling Purple by a country mile.
April 18th, 2017 at 21:51https://www.charts.de/musik-charts/alben
Think the last album was called Now What?! though…👍🏻
April 18th, 2017 at 22:16Congratulations & celebrations!.
April 18th, 2017 at 22:20Listened to it all again today. Def a grower! Except the Cockroach bit. Obvs.
April 18th, 2017 at 23:26Deep purple terbaik
April 19th, 2017 at 01:31Ja fein
April 19th, 2017 at 04:54It’s just one of the greetest Purple realisation…
April 19th, 2017 at 07:14Congratulations Deep Purple. I couldn’t be more proud with your achievement on the new album. Maybe it’s not really important to you but we’re really glowing to know that the album is doing fine on international charts and you’re being recognized among those modern music
April 19th, 2017 at 10:21Nuff said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzkueuywybQ
Played that way, it has something Gershwin’esque to it.
April 19th, 2017 at 13:23Suomen virallinen lista – Albumit 15/2017
Finland’s official album list, week 15, 2017
(1.) Haloo Helsinki! Hulluuden Highway Sony
April 19th, 2017 at 15:02(2.) Ed Sheeran ÷ Atlantic Records Uk
(3.) The Chainsmokers Memories…do Not Open Sony
(4.) Deep Purple Infinite Ear Music
To my ear, Now What?! and Infinite are easily the best sounding (from a production standpoint) Deep Purple studio albums. Previous to these two stellar Ezrin productions, I think the next best, in terms of sound quality, were Who Do We Think We Are and Fireball.
April 19th, 2017 at 15:10We just hit the US Billboard Charts..in 3 categories: #6 in the Hard Rock, #16 in the Rock and #105 in the Billboard Top 200. Congrats to Deep Purple and their fans.
April 19th, 2017 at 15:43@12 use horning, oompah, oompah, oompah…. in my mind I kept hearing a mash up of SOTW with the Hogan’s Heroes theme. & BTW, wasn’t that a dapper Pierce Brosnan playing the part of Colonel Hogan watching them play?!. Ritchie would have been proud of them!. Smiles to ya.
April 19th, 2017 at 23:17Actually Purple had three #1`s in a row in Germany starting with In Rock with 13 weeks at #1 and 61 weeks in the Top 10
1970 1 (13)(61) Deep Purple in Rock
April 20th, 2017 at 15:571971 1 (4)(30) Fireball
1972 1 (9)(26) Machine Head
Alerickson @17:
possibility of a third album with Bob Ezrin producing has not been ruled out 😉
April 20th, 2017 at 17:55@16: Lieber Richwood Moreblack, I knöw nüzzing!, but we all know what Ritchie’s favourite song with a German subject is, it has been closing every Blackmore’s Night gig I’ve seen, eins, zwei, drei, vier …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxzg_iM-T4E
Now that you mention it, our former Minister of Defense, who tripped over a doctor’s thesis that wasn’t really his, but liked AC/DC and Deep Purple, did look like Pierce Brosnan!
April 20th, 2017 at 22:57In your wildest dreams would you have ever imagined that Deep Purple would be #1 anywhere in the world in 2017?! A stunning accomplishment by any measure. Man, I love this band!
April 20th, 2017 at 22:57@17: I remember how ubiquitous In Rock was in Germany in 1970/71! Not only did it grace the display windows of every – yes, every – record store for a year and more, it was practically in every household. Admittedly, the iconic and extremely eye-catching cover which seemed to sum up “pop art” at the time, must have had something to do with it. It was perceived as both edgy and popular, a cultural phenomenon. In those two years, Purple were viewed as contemporary, “underground” and even slightly dangerous. In the years that followed, more and more apparently “cool people” turned their backs on them and the “corporate riffmeisters with one songwriting recipe only”-clicheé allegation came in.
I’ve never compared sales figures, but back then it “felt” like In Rock was more prevalent than either Machine Head or Made in Japan later on.
April 20th, 2017 at 23:16@21 uwe hornung (had to redo that twice thanks to the auto spell corrector), I remember In Rock as being like an unexpected punch on the nose that left us all stunned for ages (the Black Night single stung like a savage wasp), during which time Fireball slipped in & out again without asking….. then Machine Head came along & had us all happily clapping our hands & stomping our feet as we sang along. I remember Slade & Sabbath were at about that level of popularity around my neck of the woods as well. God, I was so young then….
April 21st, 2017 at 13:25InFinite entered the austrian album charts at #4
http://www.austriatop40.at/longplay.php
Took some time to get it over the alps, we’re a bit slower than others 🙂
April 24th, 2017 at 10:10Slade were one of the most underrated Brit bands ever, Jim Lea’s bass playing and songwriting were immaculate. People didn’t see the musical craft behind their Charles Dickens meets Clockwork Orange outfits (nor how much Beatles the boyzz from Wolverhampton actually had in them).
April 24th, 2017 at 21:28GERMANY 100 BEST-SELLING ALBUMS OF THE SEVENTIES
Position – Artist – Title – Weeks at #1 – Weeks in chart – Year
001 – Beatles – The Beatles 1962-1966 – 0 – 133 – 1973
002 – Deep Purple – Deep Purple In Rock – 13 – 61 – 1970
003 – Beatles – The Beatles 1967-1970 – 0 – 91 – 1973
004 – ABBA – Arrival – 15 – 39 – 1976
005 – Pink Floyd – The Wall – 17 – 41 – 1979
006 – James Last – Golden Non Stop Dancing 10 – 4 – 39 – 1970
007 – Supertramp – Breakfast In America – 1 – 45 – 1979
008 – Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water – 17 – 30 – 1970
009 – James Last – Non Stop Dancing 1972 – 13 – 30 – 1971
010 – James Last – Non Stop Dancing 11 – 22 – 30 – 1970
017 – Deep Purple – Fireball – 4 – 30 – 1971
April 26th, 2017 at 18:49025 – Deep Purple – Machine Head – 9 – 26 – 1972
026 – Deep Purple – Made In Japan – 4 – 30 – 1973
028 – Deep Purple – Burn – 9 – 30 – 1974
082 – Deep Purple – Who Do We Think We Are – 0 – 17 – 1973
Albumcharts
The TOP10 most successfull albums in Germany 1962-2014 from groups
1 The Beatles 1962-1966
April 26th, 2017 at 18:522 The Beatles 1967-1970
3 Unheilig Grosse Freiheit
4 Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
5 Genesis We Can’t Dance
6 Pink Floyd The Wall
7 Deep Purple Deep Purple In Rock
8 The Beatles With The Beatles
9 Dire Straits Brothers In Arms
10 The Kelly Family Over The Hump
Some more trivia for Germany
Germany year end album charts 1970
1. Udo Jürgens – Udo ’70
2. Mireille Mathieu – Mireille Matthieu
3. Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
4. Easy Rider – OST
5. James Last – Golden Non Stop Dancing 10
6. Hair – Various Artists
7. Led Zeppelin II – Led Zeppelin
8. James Stop – Non Stop Dancing 9
9. Stunde der Stars 2 – Various Artists
10. Iron Butterfly – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
11. Deep Purple – Deep Purple In Rock
year end album charts 1971
1. Wim Thoelke präsentiert 3 x 9 – Various Artists
2. Deep Purple – Deep Purple In Rock
year end album charts 1972
1. James Last – Polka-Party
2. Tony Marshall – Schöne Maid
3. James Last – Non Stop Dancing 1972
4. Deep Purple – Machine Head
5. Deep Purple – Fireball
year end album charts 1973
1. Heino – Seine grossen Erfolge 3
2. Deep Purple – Made In Japan
14. Deep Purple – Who Do We Think We Are?
year end album charts 1974
1. Beatles – The Beatles/1962-1966
April 26th, 2017 at 19:142. Beatles – The Beatles 1967/1970
3. Suzi Quatro – Suzi Quatro
4. Heino – Seine grossen Erfolge 4
5. Deep Purple – Burn
Aaahh Deutschland, where they adore the Beatles, Udo, James Last & Deep Purple?!…. Mmmmmmmm, interesting, but perhaps more surprisingly, no Tiny Tim?…. absolute madness I tell you!. Lol.
April 26th, 2017 at 23:47A few other charts in Europe for Infinite
ch Peak: 1 / weeks: 2
April 27th, 2017 at 14:36de Peak: 1 / weeks: 2
at Peak: 4 / weeks: 2
nl Peak: 6 / weeks: 2
be Peak: 7 / weeks: 2 (Vl)
Peak: 5 / weeks: 2 (Wa)
se Peak: 5 / weeks: 2
fi Peak: 4 / weeks: 1
it Peak: 3 / weeks: 1
es Peak: 10 / weeks: 1
pt Peak: 20 / weeks: 1
au Peak: 20 / weeks: 1