Alphaville Chart Positions

[TheMoonBoy]

I searched but I didn't find a topic (you have to be careful these days) on this subject, except for one about the Swedish re-entry of Forever Young.

Now, I've always been curious as to how well albums such as Prostitute and Salvation did in the charts, or singles such as Fools and Wishful Thinking?
For this I think especially of Germany, where they did have some promotion for those releases...

Anyone who can shed some light over this?

Regarding the chart history in Sweden (top 60) I do know this:

Singles
#1 Big In Japan
#1 Sounds Like A Melody
#1 Forever Young
#17 Jet Set
#5 Dance With Me
#15 Big In Japan 1992 A.D.

Albums
#1 Forever Young
#7 Afternoons In Utopia
#39 First Harvest 1984-92 (first entry 1992)
#13 First Harvest 1984-92 (re-entry 2000)

This info is taken from an official sales chart book which name I cannot remember at the moment, but I have a copy from the page and the info is official and can also be found online.

[Krapplund]

First Harvest was at #13 in Sweden back in 2000 after a Lindex spot on TV

[TheMoonBoy]

Originally Posted by Krapplund

First Harvest was at #13 in Sweden back in 2000 after a Lindex spot on TV

I didn't know that, thanks!
I also remember that they made a sort of re-release of the album around that time, with a TV spot promoting the album, do you recall this?

All I can remember about it though was that it featured the Forever Young video and a speaker that among other things said that their "period of success was short but memorable"...

[wii]

Wasn´t Salvation in the charts in Germany back in 1997 ? I remember some news about that, but can´t find anything about it online.

[poul e]

Here is what I could find with a little surfing around:

Singles:
Big in Japan #1 Sweden, Greece, Germany, Switzerland #2 Italy, Holland #3 Norway #4 Austria, Ireland #5 South Africa #8 United Kingdom #13 France #66 USA
Sounds like a melody #1 Italy, Sweden #2 South Africa #3 Germany, Austria #4 Switzerland #5 Norway, #10 France
Forever young #1 Sweden #3 Switzerland, Norway, Italy #4 Germany #7 South Africa #13 France #17 Austria #18 Holland #93 USA #98 United Kingdom
Jet Set #11 Germany #13 Switzerland #17 Sweden #42 Italy
Dance with me #4 Norway, South Africa #5 Sweden #9 Switzerland #11 Germany #14 France #25 Austria #28 Italy
Universal daddy #36 Germany
Jerusalem #57 Germany
Forever young 1988 #65 USA
Romeos #45 Germany
Big in Japan 1992 #15 Sweden
Fools #70 Germany
Forever young 2006 #31 Australia

Albums:
Forever young #1 Sweden, Norway #3 Germany #4 Switzerland #16 Austria #20 Italy #180 USA
Afternoons in Utopia #7 Sweden #8 Norway #12 Swizerland #13 Germany #41 Italy #174 USA
The Breathtaking Blue #49 Germany
First Harvest #13 Sweden
Salvation #74 Germany
Forever Pop #59 Germany

Furthermore there were a couple of hits on the US Dance charts with BIJ (1), FY (32), DWM (22) and RR (24)

App. amount of records sold in Germany

FOREVER YOUNG: 2.500.000
AFTERNOONS IN UTOPIA: 750.000
THE BREATHTAKING BLUE: 40.000
FIRST HARVEST 1984-92: 35.000
PROSTITUTE: 20.000
SALVATION: 20.000
DREAMSCAPES: 5000
STARK NAKED AND ABSOLUTELY LIVE: 20.000
FOREVER POP: 25.000
CRAZYSHOW: 2.000
ALLE SINGLES: 5.000.000

[TheMoonBoy]

Yeah, I knew about the Billboard positions but had no idea about the rest! Maybe I should try that Google sometime Btw, Stark Naked was #1 on the German alternative chart as well but I guess everybody knows that.

What about countries such as Finland and Denmark then?

[poul e]

Originally Posted by TheMoonBoy

What about Denmark then?

I had all that info once. When I moved out from my parents I had to leave some stuff behind because I only moved to a room in a friends cellar and before I got around to picking it up my dad had thrown it all away. I had saved all Alphaville chartpositions in Danish and German magazines and all clips about Alphaville in general so I lost a lot of great stuff that way....

I have been trying to find the info online but so far I have not been lucky!

[manu]

i remember in France when the official single sailing charts begun
it was october 1984 Big In Japan was number 5 a long time after it was release
so we can deduct it reach certainly the number 1 during the summer.
Forever Young reach 5 position
sounds like a melody was 7
Dance With Me reach the 6th place

[Leningrad]

Originally Posted by wii

Wasn´t Salvation in the charts in Germany back in 1997 ? I remember some news about that, but can´t find anything about it online.

Interesting i also thought about it but like you, never found any info.

[poul e]

Originally Posted by Leningrad

Interesting i also thought about it but like you, never found any info.

Salvation #74 Germany