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Made in Japan‘2025 in the charts
The newly remixed and reissued Made in Japan managed to re-enter the charts. It has reached to the respectable #5 on the Top 100 Album chart in the Purple heartland of Germany (beating the new album of teens’ darling Laufey, which only managed #11 on its debut the week after). It dropped to #82 the next week.
The reissue also reached #90 in the UK Official Albums Chart (the 2014 remix was at #71) — down from #21 on the mid-week chart. It also appeared at #8 on the Scottish Albums Chart, at #10 on the Albums Sales Chart, at #23 on the Album Downloads Chart, at #10 on the Physical Albums Chart, at #14 on the Vinyl Albums Chart, #28 on the Record Store Chart, and #2 on the Rock & Metal Albums Chart. All for the week ending August 28, 2025, with charts reflecting sales for the previous week.
Let us know in the comments if the reissue managed to chart in your country as well.
Thanks to Tobias Janaschke and Micke for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
#2 Norway (Physical albums)
#5 Switzerland
#5 Germany
#8 Austria
#8 Scotland
#27 Belgium (Wallonia)
#34 Netherlands
#60 Belgium (Flanders)
#90 United Kingdom
Also, according to the Warner Music Group/Rhino official label store, both the 10LP and 5CD+BD Super Deluxe box sets are now SOLD OUT.
August 31st, 2025 at 18:21“Purple heartland”, now that is the nicest term I’ve heard for Germany ever!
https://youtu.be/LeNEu_Fsn2Q
BTW: The 50th Anniversary releases were already sold out two weeks ago. They severely underestimated demand.
August 31st, 2025 at 21:13Here in Milano I haven’t seen it in stores yet. Rapture Of The Deep is also expected to arrive next weekend..🤷
August 31st, 2025 at 21:34And in Denmark:
Nr.1!
At least in my home ☺️
August 31st, 2025 at 21:48I can’t believe that Belgium – according to Charles de Gaulle notably “a country invented by the British to annoy the French” –
August 31st, 2025 at 23:40maintains separate charts for Flanders and Wallonia, can’t you guys even agree on one chart that is mostly gonna feature English-sung music anyway? 😂
ho hum, no sign of MIJ on the No Man’s Land charts. Such is life. There are too many phenomenal ‘artists’ to contend with. Cheers.
September 1st, 2025 at 01:59The issue of course is that if MiJ 50 is now sold out, then no one can buy it anymore, sales dwindle fast and it falls out of the charts – if you want to stay in the charts a steady supply of your product is key. And it is by no means clear that a second production run will still have the momentum of getting MiJ 50 into the charts a second time.
Whoever decided on the initial number of the boxed sets to be produced, must have done so on the basis of poor market research, greatly underestimating demand.
September 1st, 2025 at 12:38Dronning Karin @4, I’m afraid that Her Majesty’s definition of “no 1 in Denmark” does not quite satisfy internationally recognized standards of empirical science and is more in line with Louis XIV’s legendary L’État, c’est moi! 🤣
All bow to Queen Karin!!!
September 1st, 2025 at 13:34@7 Uwe- another thing also, just like our beloved Quo, the box set isn’t on Spotify to enjoy either.
September 1st, 2025 at 14:09@ 1 Sweden 14, top 20 hardrock
September 1st, 2025 at 15:06Why would anyone listening to Spotify give a rat’s ass about what version of MiJ in what mix and mastering generation (s)he is listening to? That’s like adult film consumers giving a thought whether the actors in question live a vegan lifestyle or not. 😎
September 1st, 2025 at 15:52Re market research, certainly as regards Denmark at least, no one thought of asking Her Majesty Dronning Karin I who would have in no uncertain terms stipulated to them how DP and Ian Gillan are only behind the Royal Family in sheer popularity in the Kingdom thus warranting a separate ‘Denmark only/Det findes kun i Danmark Editiøn of Mæde in Jåpæn 50!
It would have come with LEGO figurines handcrafted by Karin during one of her regular royal stays in Billund – what an opportunity missed!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/61995467@N02/6911315142
September 1st, 2025 at 16:11Easy now peasant 😄
I just meant that in my home, Purple has always been, is, and will always be number One!
Finito!
Et quant à moi, état ou non, je ne suis pas une reine, mais une Viking de part en part, c’est tout Monsieur!
September 1st, 2025 at 16:20@12
Aww Uwe, thank you so much for the pic of Purple mk ll in Lego!
I am tearing up 🥹
And actually, to correct you a tiny bit: Purple, and especially Ian, are way more popular than anyone in the royal household 😊
I always giggle when you make deliberate spelling mistakes in Danish!
Spøg til side: living here, in my hood, Purple are heard all over town 🤩 so I guess it’s not just me who love them so much!
September 1st, 2025 at 17:11In America, Who Are Deep Purple. 🤔
September 2nd, 2025 at 11:59@15
What!
I mean: WHAT! Timmy, I blame Russ!
September 2nd, 2025 at 12:19He must be more forward in the very important work of promoting Purple 😃
How about in Japan??
September 2nd, 2025 at 13:42Wow, one wonders how many special versions and editions and remastered versions of the same music will still be bought again and again by the fans. I’m impressed! I wouldn’t have thought it possible…
September 2nd, 2025 at 14:12MinJ e TROTD
September 2nd, 2025 at 14:39Today in the shop I found neither one nor the other…
Sob 😢
@ 16… Karin in America most people are more interested in when the new Taylor Swift album will be released…Sad.
September 2nd, 2025 at 15:34@16
I’ll have you know that one of the meatcutters that I work with told me that since he came to work at my store he has been listening to a LOT more more Deep Purple than he used to (thanks to me suggesting DP songs for him to listen to).
And furthermore Ms. Verndal, just this afternoon, he also confessed to me that last night he listened to Hush 15 times in a row.
If you think I’m making this up, I’ll gladly send you my work phone # and you can ask Travis himself.
September 3rd, 2025 at 05:11@11
Well, I for one uses Spotify as my main source for music both in my car, my phone and my stereo at home. I do not know how to “give a rat’s ass” (so I don’t), but I do care about the different generations. I don’t care, though, whether an actor is vegan or not (in any genre).
September 3rd, 2025 at 06:00@20
Sad to inform you Timmi, but even in these holy halls of enlightenment we also have a worshipper of the boyfriend-downer (yes Uwe I am thinking of you here 🤔)
What about Oasis? Saw at fb that they give big concerts all over the US!
September 3rd, 2025 at 08:48@21
Oh there you are Russ! Thought you had left us all in the – no doubt – capable hands of Uwe!
Well, well, well, aren’t I impressed!
Now we just need you to dress like Ian, and I will happy and content 😁
Ohh send my regards to Travis! No I complain trust you (-ish 😄)
September 3rd, 2025 at 08:51@22
Hear hear my Danish friend!
Because this is the Danish way of living:
Each take care of one’s own taste in music…
(I was merely stirring up the lazy lot in here 😅)
September 3rd, 2025 at 08:52@21 and @24
“No I complain trust you (-ish 😄)”
September 3rd, 2025 at 10:21Sorry, meant: I COMPLETELY trust you (-ish)….
@ 7 – On the contrary Uwe. How many people do you think would buy this latest version of a 53 year old live double album, with all the bells and whistles to boot. They are not going to manufacture a shit load of these just in case they take off and surprise everyone with a gazillion copies sold. The chances of that happening is virtually zero. They would have indeed had a fair idea of the market and would not give a toss as to how many don’t sell because they are not available. As long as they cover their costs would be their first priority, anything else is a bonus of sorts. It is ‘dinosaur’ music don’t forget. Even classic era Deep Purple are not THAT big anymore. It is only for die hard fans that are interested and how many of those are that keen to part with their hard earned cash for something that has more than likely already been owned by them at least once, but more than likely more than once over the previous five decades. Cheers.
September 3rd, 2025 at 12:01@24
“Now we just need you to dress like Ian…”
You mean like this? http://www.deep-purple.net/othernews/harrison2.htm
😈 😈 😈
September 3rd, 2025 at 20:32Ignoring the partial derision here at the HS, the Zappa remix of MH had sold exceedingly well, so good sales of a revamped MiJ (the original release of which was the second bestselling DP album after In Rock in Purple’s spiritual heartland of Germany) shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone, Herr MacGregor. There is a reliable market out there for – in corporate lingo – “reassuringly priced” boxed sets. The MiJ 50th Anniv. Box had already sold out before (!) shipping began – that is a clear sign of an underestimated demand.
A release like the current MiJ one isn’t made on a “let’s hopefully recover the costs”-premise, but with a clear vision of tapping an existing market segment of baby boomers prepared to shill out a premium for an upmarket physical product.
If the same thing is done to In Rock in the future, it will sell like hotcakes I’m sure. People would give their left and right nut for an embossed relief top with the iconic Pop Art Mount Rushmore image sleeve.
Janbl @22, I will make a note of it with my own blood in my Purple Diary that you, Sir, are the one righteous and upstanding Spotify user/sinner who cares for what remix he is listening to! You are – only biblical parallels can apply here! – truly a virtuous Lot in this Spotify Sodom cesspool of decay and I promise to not turn you into a pillar of salt on the day of reckoning! 😇
https://www.1st-art-gallery.com/media/catalog/product/cache/9bad95616889b8b60a4bb85fbf2f33f9/b/a/base_27121862.webp
September 3rd, 2025 at 21:55@ 20… At one time Karin, Oasis were really big in America, Now you never hear about them. Kids in America have a really short attention span. They move on to what is popular at the time. Then bands or pop artists are forgotten.
September 4th, 2025 at 11:55@28
My eyes 😵💫
😄 well by all means!
September 4th, 2025 at 14:16@30
Yeah, guess it’s the same all over with youngsters 😃
But I’ve seen at yt that the venues where Oasis are having concerts are sold out..
September 4th, 2025 at 14:18Oasis were an import from England which US music media people tried to implant in the US – that failed big time because Oasis believed their own hype, but were not prepared to do the hard work touring the US from the ground up. They were never as rooted and entrenched in North American as, say, Nickelback or The Black Crows were who were bands who worked their way up through relentless touring.
But it is true that US rock and pop fans tend to have a short memory: Otherwise it would be inexplicable how former US million sellers like Bread, Three Dog Night, Foghat, Loggins & Messina, J. Geils Band, Seals & Crofts or Grand Funk Railroad could be wiped so completely from public memory.
September 4th, 2025 at 15:35The linked picture @28: Thanks for reminding us, Russ, about the true nature and purpose of the Made in Japan socks currently being peddled. Are there VIP, uhum, packages available where devoted fans from Denmark and other countries might be able to procure a pair previously worn by the lead singer himself? Has that merchandising (d)angle been fully explored yet?
September 4th, 2025 at 15:43@ 29 – do you mean these ‘iconic’ Mount Rushmore images Uwe? Cheers.
https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/big-four-classic-rock-reaction
September 4th, 2025 at 23:50@38
“Are there VIP, uhum, packages available where devoted fans from Denmark and other countries might be able to procure a pair previously worn by the lead singer himself? Has that merchandising (d)angle been fully explored yet?”
I think you’re onto something there… You take care of the financing & I’ll handle the business aspects (procurement, marketing, etc..). Just have to get BIG Ian to go along with this.
September 5th, 2025 at 04:15@31
“well by all means!”
Already do most of the time. The only time I wear sock(s) is with shoes.
September 5th, 2025 at 04:19@ 37- “The only time I wear sock(s) is with shoes.” What about with thongs Russ? Seriously though, we would have to ensure the ‘pair’ of socks were adequately washed and dried and even pressed, although the latter isn’t necessarily a requirement. The last thing anyone would want is a troupe of crabs wandering around their toes. This is getting worse, who brought this up? Oh, I knew it, the ‘terrible twosome’ again. Russ and Uwe. Say no more. Cheers.
September 5th, 2025 at 08:06Are you telling me that I can’t hear the difference between the different generations and might as well listen to the cassette tapes I made from the records for use in my car then in the early 70s? Or telling me that my stereo isn’t good enough to listen to the nuances of Deep Purple? I might not have the SOTA high tech super system, but what I have is ok.
I once visited a colleague who had a 100000+ dkr(about 13000€) system, and while it sounded good it was not 10 times better than my system (in my opinion).
I’m old, yes, and I might not hear the higher frequencies but I’m not deaf.
Yes, I would rather have all the cd’s but I do not have room (or money) for it, the ones I buy is the Deep Purple ones (but not necessarily the big box-sets), but I still use Spotify.
Janbl
September 5th, 2025 at 08:41@39
“I once visited a colleague who had a 100000+ dkr(about 13000€) system, and while it sounded good it was not 10 times better than my system (in my opinion).”
– I know what you’re getting at Jan!
Years ago a friend of mine apparently had the same very expensive system, with gold-sticks! Crazy expensive.
He very proudly showed me everything and when I listened to the music, I didn’t know how to react, because honestly I couldn’t hear it sounded better than the NAD I had at home.
Maybe it’s some kind of placebo effect! 😄 like medicine where a person in a white coat tell you that ‘this pill will remove all your pains’, and for a lot of people that is the effect! (For a while that is)
September 5th, 2025 at 12:02If you’re told some insanely expensive system is the very best, and especially if you have payed for this yourself, then it’s not easy to admit to yourself that the sound is pretty la-di-da!
Janbl, anything that makes your U-Boat float, dive and shoot torpedoes!
Audiophile stuff, even in the premium range, never sounded 10x better than a rank & file stereo, more like 10% better. You’d be spending 10x the money or more for a 10% improvement! That’s an old production of goods rule, the last 10% in quality are as costly or even costlier as the 90% before. The key question is what are these last 10% worth to you? (And I’m by no means an audiophile or own equipment satisfying audiophile requirements except maybe in my Volvo, I hear music from various sources at home, but they are always physical because hearing it from Spotify doesn’t satisfy my Freudian oral & anal stage requirements of “owning” the music. Which is silly, I know, but going back to childhood I’ve always been a collector of things. Yet, I am of course fine with streaming films, because I’ve never collected VHS, DVD or Blu-ray.)
All practical aspects speak for Spotify (as long as the particular music is available there) if you are willing to sacrifice physical media and its possibility to serve as a point of reference while you are listening to the music.I was just jibing youbecause the majority of Spotify users I know don’t listen to albums in different remix variations in sequence, but to song collections of various artists where they are not too unduly bothered which remaster or remix generation it is as long as it sounds good to them. That doesn’t mean you can’t use Spotify like you do.
September 5th, 2025 at 15:57Note to self: Never discuss audiophile requirements with wimmin. In general, their only concern is whether there is a set-up available without cables messing up their interior design vision.
September 6th, 2025 at 11:55@42
“In general, their only concern is whether there is a set-up available without cables messing up their interior design vision.”
– well 😄 I didn’t mention that! Because I do not have any interior design vision whatsoever!
September 7th, 2025 at 05:59I’m going for a trip to Japan soon, and will be staying about 5 minutes from Budokan in Tokyo and the same from the Festival Hall in Osaka and though it’s about 53 years later I am sure the echos from those great concerts still linger.
September 7th, 2025 at 08:54@44
If possible: please take pics and upload them in here 🙏🏼
September 7th, 2025 at 09:24Pics or you weren’t there, janbl-san!
September 7th, 2025 at 12:25Karin & Uwe
Ganbarimasu (I’ll do my best).
September 7th, 2025 at 16:31@47
Mange tak!
September 7th, 2025 at 20:06DISCOGS Best Live LP’s of all time: (ps #2/1 crap)
#3
Made In Japan
Deep Purple
1972
Made In Japan wasn’t supposed to be a statement album. In fact, Deep Purple initially resisted releasing a live album. Even after the 1972 recordings, several members didn’t realize the lightning they had caught. Spread across a double LP, the performances see the band at full throttle and fearless in their improvisation. Throughout, tracks stretch and twist into new shapes, with an effects-filled “Space Truckin’” even clocking in just shy of 20 minutes without losing steam — anchored by Jon Lord’s keys, Ritchie Blackmore’s searing guitar freak outs, and Ian Paice‘s thunderous drumming.
The label released “Smoke on the Water” as a single around the same time as the album and even put the expansive live version from the record on the B-side, leading to increased interest. There’s a volatility to Made In Japan that studio records can’t replicate. The crowd is loud, the solos are unrestrained, and the band sounds like they’re running down something just over the horizon. What started as an afterthought became a benchmark for live rock albums.
Made In Japan
September 26th, 2025 at 08:22Deep Purple
1975
2 x Vinyl, LP, Reissue
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