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Rapture‘2025 in the charts
Zee Germans did it again — the 2025 remix of Rapture of the Deep also entered top albums charts at #9 (interesting to note that the original release in 2005 peaked at #10).
Let us know in the comments if the reissue charted in your country (preferably with proof links).
Thanks to Tobias Janaschke for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Dee-heep Purp-le ü-ber a-al-les,
Ü-ber al-les auf de-her Welt … 🎶
https://youtu.be/vDlo0Ys1VNw
Da geht einem doch das ♥️ auf …
September 6th, 2025 at 02:01UK charts:
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#6 Rock & Metal Albums (#3 in 2005, #37 in 2021)
#13 Independent Albums (#8 in 2005, #42 in 2006)
#24 Scottish Albums (#71 in 2005)
#29 Albums Sales
#31 Physical Albums (#81 in 2005)
#32 Record Store
#67 Album Downloads
https://www.officialcharts.com/albums/deep-purple-rapture-of-the-deep/
September 6th, 2025 at 02:15I have not seen any ROTDcd on the shops where I use to go for buying here in Italy..
September 6th, 2025 at 09:34#3 Norway (Physical Albums)
https://topplista.no/charts/physicalalbums/
September 6th, 2025 at 13:59This is a way better album the way it was remixed and repackaged than the original. And, especially, the way the songs were re-sequences.
I have the CD versions for both the 2005 and 2025 albums. The newer version slots “Things I Never Said” as the second song instead of “Girls Like That,” and maintains the hard-driving continuity of the first track, “Money Talks.” “Girls Like That” is a decent tune but not rocking enough to be in the second position like it was on the 2005 album.
It was also a good move to re-sequence the track list, so that “Rapture of the Deep” is now the third song. That way, the album starts off with three rocking songs right out of the gate. The “Rapture” song is essentially an Ian Paice workout piece at the end, and it’s some of the best work he’s done on the drums.
By the fourth song, it’s time to slow it down and “Clearly Quite Absurd” is one of the better slow-tempo songs Gillan has ever sung.
The album artwork and general layout is vastly improved in the 2025 edition. Not only much better brighter and more attractive coloring, but the fine sketch of the man looking at his reflection in the water is larger to fill the album cover from top to bottom. The ‘Deep Purple’ banner is made smaller and moved to the bottom of the cover to give more room for that fine sketch of the man looking at his reflection.
The three-panel foldout of the CD on a nice digipack blows away the 2005 tin box. And it comes with a nice booklet with a short essay. The LP version I saw on TV with the gatefold looks really good.
Most important, the sound quality is greatly improved on the 2025 album version. The drums are higher up in the mix, which is appropriate because the album – arguably – was Paice’s best studio work since “Burn” and “Made in Japan.” Roger Glover’s bass work was a high point, too.
I had been waiting for years for a remixed version of this album to come out, because I felt it had some terrific tunes on it. The first four songs on the 2025 disc are outstanding, and I like the instrumentation on “MTV” and “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye.”
September 6th, 2025 at 14:11The Brits always beef up their chances with tricks like that, three international football teams from England, Wales and Scotland (probaly from Northern Ireland too) and all these charts no one has ever heard about! 😂 That is like mature ladies in certain Scandinavian regions proclaiming what they play around the house to defenseless pets as “the Danish Charts“ …
I will ask Max to publish the Bavarian charts from now on here. With a first name like that he must be.
September 6th, 2025 at 15:09Sweden Charts:
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#7 Physical Albums
#9 Vinyl Albums
#14 Hard Rock Albums
Norway Charts:
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#3 Physical Albums
📷: EarMUSIC
September 6th, 2025 at 16:111 Deep Purple Uber Alles.. 🙂
September 6th, 2025 at 21:26@7 (at myself). Meant to say best studio work since Burn and Machine Head. Got a little distracted writing that drivel the first time around.
September 7th, 2025 at 00:39@6
And in Denmark:
Purple has always been, is and I guess will always be: 🥇
Denmark my not be as big a country as Germany, Spain, France, USA, but man our taste in music is outstanding 😍
September 7th, 2025 at 05:54#5
**the album – arguably – was Paice’s best studio work since “Burn” and “Made in Japan.”**
I’m affraid you forgot to mention Come Taste The Band…
September 7th, 2025 at 08:06Not bad at all. Öne wonders though how many actual copies sold would all this mean? Any clue on this? Thanks.
September 7th, 2025 at 09:55I liked Paicey’s drumming on the Stormbringer album too, very cool and collected with an excellent ear for the music.
But the album that has Paicey sounding best is ironically not even a Purple one, but PAL’s Malice in Wonderland. That was a master class of 70s state-of-the-art, intelligent drumming.
That said, CTTB was great too. Tommy and Paicey had an immediate groove rapport with each other. Tommy, who had played with Billy Cobham and Alphonse Mouzon, was floored by Ian’s abilities and even admitted so in an interview.
September 7th, 2025 at 12:10“Denmark may not be as big a country as Germany, Spain, France, USA, but man our taste in music is outstanding.”
Three time winner of the ESC!
https://youtu.be/AYyhJvRE3mQ
https://youtu.be/JF8fkHK0AWs
https://youtu.be/k59E7T0H-Us
Much better at music than they are as cøœks!
https://youtu.be/LkMvcIRZRdo
September 7th, 2025 at 14:49@11 Too many funk songs on Stormbringer to rank it in the same grace as Burn or Machine Head. A few good songs, but a fair amount of garbage. The funk is what drove Blackmore away. Come Taste the Band was underrated and a better LP.
September 7th, 2025 at 17:13@14
Yeah well Uwe, that is lame pop songs you’re linking to!
Our music understanding and taste in rock is outstanding too 😃
You have never tasted my cakes! They are so yummy that you would forget all about lawyering all together, so keep the Swedish chef away from my hood! 😄
September 7th, 2025 at 17:42I’m not saying that Stormbringer is musically in the same league as MH and Burn, but the drums sound great on it. It was DP’s first Musicland Studios production and you could hear the difference to the previous theee studio albums which had all been with the “Rolling Truck Stones Thing”. Recording at Musicland with its then new technology was a sonic step forward. The two Musicland recordings Purple did – Stormbringer and CTTB – had the best drum sound.
September 7th, 2025 at 19:50Don’t write “Zee Germans”. Please.
September 7th, 2025 at 21:16@15
September 8th, 2025 at 11:04Well I can’t detect any amount of garbage on Stormbringer. It still sounds very good and fresh after 50 years – other than In Rock or Rising that could use a make over soundwise. Stormbringer is for the most part warm sounding, has groove and feel galore and the songs are timeless beauties for the most part. Stood the test of time much better than a lot of other stuff.
And yes, PAL shows Paicey on top of his game, as do Burn, Stormbringer and CTTB.
I like Paice also in TheHouseOf…
September 8th, 2025 at 17:14Don’t write “Zee Germans”. Please.
Robert is right, I feel öffended töö, it’s not cönsistent. It should rather read:
Ze Tshörmens …! 🤣😂😊
Wir sind sticklers für äccüräcy! Don’t jüst dö zings hälfwäy, nein.
And don’t mention ze wär or say “cleaning woman” = Reinemachefrau either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1oFnWHDPg0
Who knows how our easily traumatized souls might react!
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTZjMDliOTUycG1lcGN0OWNqY3p2MXI1bmFzczM4eWlkd3pvMzAwenBvYTcydTl3MiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/oR3IyFMKn6zuM/giphy.gif
September 8th, 2025 at 20:07A actually see Come Taste The Band as much more hard, heavy and complex work of music than Stormbringer, half of which is the ballad-esque, down-tempo, radio-friendly funk-rock stuff (besides the title track of course).
September 8th, 2025 at 20:28@ 17 – talking about quality drum sounds, I don’t believe it. I must be hallucinating, surely. I have just woken up and the coffee is still to kick in, maybe it is just that. Cheers.
September 8th, 2025 at 21:39Just got a copy of RoD 2025 and it is much better, seems more exciting and Deep Purple. Everything is much clearer and bright, not listened to it all yet but it is pity that it was not originally released like this!
September 8th, 2025 at 21:48Attila, how the data feeding the two major German charts (Media Control and GfK, the latter being more of an industry internal statistic) is weighed is a science in itself
https://www.radiobob.de/top-100-und-co-wie-funktionieren-eigentlich-die-charts
and très complicated.
CDs, vinyl, streaming, downloading and airplay all play a role. GfK focuses on turnover not quantity, which means that an expensice boxed set can climb up the charts because it generates more turnover than a single CD even though the number of boxed sets sold is less. 6.000 thousand physical items sold per week can in this day and age give you a chart entry in a “slow-business-week”, i.e. if no megasellers have a current release that push the numbers up you need to chart at all.
A gold record used to be 250.000 sales in Germany until after the millenium when the number was first decreased to 150.000 and then to 100.000. Platinum status was/is twice as much.
But of course: Something can chart and never be a gold record because it just doesn’t achieve the necessary sales in the long run or it can be a gold record, but never ever charted, because it was a slow, but consisten seller.
September 8th, 2025 at 23:25@ 20 – agree with AndreA regarding THOBL and Paice’s drumming. Nice and busy and to the fore again, so to speak. I still find the Machine Head drum sound to be the finest though. A bit more all round bottom end there compared to the ‘clinical’ Stormbringer album sound, which is very good. Cheers.
September 8th, 2025 at 23:30@ 25 – good points Uwe regarding the ‘charts’ these days. A few of us said it a few years ago. These modern day charts are split up genres, all over the place, nothing like it was back in the 1970’s etc. Then you HAD to sell ship loads as you were competing with everyone and anyone. Big names selling much much more and if you charted well it was obviously because you were also selling truck loads. It is always amusing in a sense to look at those older charts, meaning just how prolific the artists were at that time. These days someone could sell a couple of thousand and end up at the top of the chart they are categorised in. Good promotion in that sense and obviously better than not selling anything at all. Cheers.
September 9th, 2025 at 09:07Many thanks, Uwe
September 9th, 2025 at 14:22The drum sound on Machine Head has something, no doubt. Those hotel hall acoustics were an accident/had to make do, but they created special sonics. And Stormbringer does sound squeaky-clean, maybe because it was their first time in that particular studio. CTTB sounded more organic. Tommy had a knack for sounding very organic even in the studio, Ritchie could sometimes be a little sterile as he tended to overthink things and became uneasy with the red recording light as he has himself often admitted.
The confounding thing about Musicland Studios is that one and the same producer, namely Martin Birch recorded with largely the same musicians at least in part brilliant sounding albums like Stormbringer, CTTB and PAL’s Malice In Wonderland there that have stood the test of time, yet also the dull-sounding and muffled Rainbow debut (immediately after the presence-rich Stormbringer!) and the instrumentally unbalanced/uneven Rising.
September 9th, 2025 at 22:02#10 Austria
https://oe3.orf.at/m/charts/stories/oe3austriatop40longplay/
#26 Switzerland
https://hitparade.ch/charts/alben
September 10th, 2025 at 16:18@19
“It still sounds very good and fresh after 50 years “
– well I have the exact same feelings towards any Purple album! (Essentially when Ian is the vocalist) even without any remixes 😊
Of course I am thrilled of MiJ and RotD remixes. But hadn’t anyone got the idea to fix them up a bit, I would still get chills down my spine every single time I’m listening to them.
Some days ago Uwe said ‘In Rock’ wasn’t important, thankfully I know now he was just kidding (and yes I have cancelled the hitman 🥸) but In Rock, with all its flaws, because of course there are flaws, it was so early on in their career and the technology behind making albums were lacking a, well, lot.
But still, ohhh man, it is so living, vibrating, as if a new upcoming band had borrowed a garage and just played their minds out ☺️
And even now, where Purple have matured (😉) they still sound so fresh and intriguing, interesting and really worth listening to 😍
September 11th, 2025 at 09:02That joke is gonna haunt me forever … 🙄
September 11th, 2025 at 12:48@32
“That joke is gonna haunt me forever … 🙄”
– awww poor Uwe! Well you can make amends by admitting that EAP is an overrated bt 😂🤣
Noooo even I couldn’t be that mean!
Instead tell me how you protect that pond of yours in the winter time ☺️
September 11th, 2025 at 19:10Not at all. It’s too deep (2 m) and there is too much water movement (waterfall, filter pump, small fountain, aeration – I keep everything running 24h/365 days) for it to ever seriously freeze except in the most shallow parts. All the fish are “winterfest” – some like the Wels catfish hibernate as temperatures drop below 10 degrees celsius, others like the sturgeons stay active and eat all through the winter, albeit lesser amounts. Of course, with climate change and all, winters in the more southern parts of Germany don’t really get chilly for prolonged periods anymore.
As I was typing this a baby raccoon just made a visit to the pond! 😂 They’ve become a prevalent species here by now, but invasive or not, I really like them. If (s)he grabs a goldfish then and now, so be it. Everybody has to eat and we live right across the forest so who can blame them.
Edith is currently in Denmark, if I tell her that a raccoon family is moving in with us, she won’t be pleased I tell you. My dear wife does not quite share the laissez-faire stance of her hubbie as wild animals go! 🤣 I then tend to remind her that it was HER IDEA to move that close to the forest, wimmin really appreciate it if you lay out their past mistakes for them, I’m empathetic that way. 🤗
September 11th, 2025 at 22:51@34
Thank you 🙏🏼
Oh she is in Denmark!
Tomorrow we go to a summerhaus nearby Ringköbing, we have friends living in our house, so they get a holiday while we get a holiday! W – W
Well, what I will suggest is that I will look her up! I will walk around fjorden and look after a woman who bares the resemblance of a woman taunt and in agony – 😁 noooo!
I will look for a woman that bares the resemblance of a woman who is in pain by being married to a ferocious wild animal loving Taylor Swift listening, double negatives throwing, red wine consuming kind of guy!
And I will comfort her and give her some advices about how to cope in such a hostile environment 😄
Ohh Uwe, so sorry, I don’t know what it is about you that brings this up in me! Normally I’m so kind and friendly, but whenever I read your posts in here something happens in my brain 😈
You take it easy now, make yourself nice cup of coffee, sit comfy in your chair/sofa and listen to these youngsters:
September 12th, 2025 at 08:03https://youtu.be/sbV5qf594X8?si=VRnNNr5LXnllPlpA