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Post by Partridge on Sept 7, 2023 23:31:04 GMT -5
Radio and Records, March 14, 1980Billboard, March 15, 1980CashBox, March 15, 1980Record World, March 15, 1980
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Post by erik on Sept 8, 2023 8:23:10 GMT -5
If I am not mistaken, Mad Love had the absolute highest first-week posting of any of Linda's albums ever on Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart, all the way up at #5 for the week ending March 15, 1980. So for us it makes it all a little frustrating, to put it mildly, that it didn't become Linda's fourth #1 album (after Heart Like A Wheel, Simple Dreams, and Living In The U.S.A.). But Pink Floyd's album The Wall was all the rage at the time, I guess.
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Post by MokyWI on Sept 8, 2023 12:43:35 GMT -5
With all of Mad Love’s momentum it should have been a #1 album. Timing is everything, and Pink Floyd had a firm hold on the top spot at the time.
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Post by RobGNYC on Sept 8, 2023 17:03:52 GMT -5
Tom Petty and Bob Seger also got in her way. Interesting that Mad Love was her first album since Linda Ronstadt (1972) not to be released in August-November (Greatest Hits was December 1976), including her three #1 albums. She got back on the September-November release schedule 1980-1993 with Greatest Hits Vol. 2, Get Closer, What's New, Lush Life, For Sentimental Reasons, Canciones, Rainstorm, Mas Canciones, Frenesi, and Winter Light. (The outlier was Trio (March 1987).)
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