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LC in charts
Australia: http://www.australian-charts.com/showit ... deas&cat=a
Austria: http://austriancharts.at/showitem.asp?i ... deas&cat=a
Belgium: http://www.ultratop.be/en/showitem.asp? ... deas&cat=a
Denmark: http://danishcharts.com/showitem.asp?in ... deas&cat=a
Finland: http://finnishcharts.com/showitem.asp?i ... deas&cat=a
France: http://lescharts.com/showitem.asp?inter ... deas&cat=a
Germany: http://germancharts.com/showitem.asp?in ... deas&cat=a
Greece: http://greekcharts.com/showitem.asp?int ... deas&cat=a
Ireland: http://irish-charts.com/showitem.asp?in ... deas&cat=a
Italy: http://www.italiancharts.com/showitem.a ... deas&cat=a
Mexico: http://mexicancharts.com/showitem.asp?i ... deas&cat=a
Netherlands: http://www.dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp? ... deas&cat=a
New Zealand: http://charts.org.nz/showitem.asp?inter ... deas&cat=a
Norway: http://norwegiancharts.com/showitem.asp ... deas&cat=a
Portugal: http://portuguesecharts.com/showitem.as ... deas&cat=a
Spain: http://spanishcharts.com/showitem.asp?i ... deas&cat=a
Sweden: http://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?i ... deas&cat=a
Switzerland: http://swisscharts.com/showitem.asp?int ... deas&cat=a
United Kingdom: http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=11109

Actual chart
Poland: http://olis.onyx.pl/listy/index.asp?lang=en

By the way, an essential addition: Old Ideas are #1 in both Belgian charts (Flanders & Wallonia), right?

It seems that Old Ideas is 10th LC album in Norwegian top-10 (after 5 most recent studio albums, 2 lives and 2 compilations).

Second in Sweden.
http://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?i ... deas&cat=a

His biggest success in the country (and fifth LC studio work in top-10 in a row).

Hm.

Polish charts:
1. ANDRZEJ PIASECZNY - TO CO DOBRE (SONY MUSIC PL)
2. Adele - 21
3. Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
4. Lana Del Rey - Born to Die

Andrzej Piaseczny (born Pionki, 6 January 1971) more commonly known as Piasek, is a Polish singer.
Piasek represented Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 with his up-tempo dance song "2 Long". He finished 20th from a field of 23 participating countries. The song received 2 points from Sweden, 3 points from Slovenia, 5 points from Germany and 1 point from Denmark.

Lana Del Rey looks set to debut at Number 1
01/02/2012
By Lauren Kreisler

25 year old US singer Lana Del Rey’s major label debut album, Born To Die, is comfortably outselling the rest of the Top 5 based on figures from today’s Official Chart Update.

Outstripping its nearest competitor, Leonard Cohen’s Old Ideas (2), by more than two copies to one, the album is the singer’s second studio album but her first release via a major label under the moniker Lana Del Rey.

New charts in: 00D 10H 50M 30S

A lot of news in Dutch media, that Leonard Cohen is the oldest artist with a number one album.

http://news.google.nl/news/story?ncl=dg ... &ned=nl_nl

Wijbe

A lot of news in Belgian weekend-papers too : saying 1) it's a very good album 2) fans 50 + and their children (it's the case for my family) 3) a good time at the beginning of the year to to bring the album out

Leonard is officially No. 2 in the album charts in the UK this week, Lana made it to No. 1.

Cool

Evie B

LC also takes #2 in Scottish Albums Top 40!

#3 in UK Album Downloads Top 40

Feb 5: Cohen enters Last.fm weekly artist chart:

147 (+79) Leonard Cohen - 26 095 listeners

Funny seeing this talk of Lana Del Rey here 'battling with Leonard' for no1...... the first time I heard her song Video Games the first thing I remember thinking was how much she reminded me of Jennifer Warnes and how similar her background vocals were to the female voices that Leonard has used (when she sings at the end "and now you do".)

I've listened to her album a few times and I have to say she is clearly a very good songwriter with an incredible gift for melody. The lyrics might not be quite up to Leonard's standards (then again whose are?) but there are some great turns of phrases there and she clearly is a proper artist.

Would have been sweet to have seen Leonard at no1, but I can't see him being too concerned about chart positions Maybe the next one will make it

P.S. speaking of chart positions does anyone else think that The Faith could've become a surprise hit single if it was released around about Christmastime? I can imagine it being used in a disney film or something similar and people walking out of the cinema wanting to know who on earth was responsible for such beautiful lushness

hadley wrote:P.S. speaking of chart positions does anyone else think that The Faith could've become a surprise hit single if it was released around about Christmastime? I can imagine it being used in a disney film or something similar and people walking out of the cinema wanting to know who on earth was responsible for such beautiful lushness

I don't know that the themes in "The Faith" would fit into a Disney movie ("so many graves to fill"...? A bit dark for Disney!). Beautiful song, though, and, if you were not aware, it is based on the melody of an old French Canadian folk song (which Leonard sang on his Recent Songs abum in 1979). But, we're 8 years out of date for this thread!

Back to Old Ideas... Yay, Leonard!!! Awesome album, deserves to be #1, and in my mind, it is!

#1 in New Zealand
http://charts.org.nz/weekchart.asp?cat= ... e=20120206
(I guess, Born to Die isn't released there yet)

#2 in Austria