The average number of weeks an album was on the charts in the 90s was Number of the Beast - 1,, sales 2. Piece of Mind - 1,, sales 3. Somewhere in Time - 1,, sales 4. Powerslave - 1,, sales 5.
Killers - 1,, 6. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - , 7. No Prayer for the Dying - , 8. Iron Maiden - , 9. Brave New World - , The Book of Souls - , Final Frontier - , A Matter of Life and Death - , Dance of Death - , Fear of the Dark - , X Factor - 60, Virtual XI - 40, Last edited: Jun 9, A FAR cry from the acclaimed 90 million.
Several live albums missing but I can't figure they amount to a missing 30 million acclaimed albums. TheTalisman Ancient Mariner. S, that's not bad.
Last edited: Jul 19, Vantage Point Educated Fool. As unit sales could include singles as well. Vantage Point said:. You must log in or register to reply here. This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. By continuing to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies. In early , Bruce Dickinson announced his plans to leave Iron Maiden to focus on his solo career.
However, with the band's Real Live Tour already booked, Bruce agreed to proceed with the shows as a farewell to fans. Unsurprisingly, the tour was blighted be inter-band tensions with Steve Harris in particular extremely unhappy with Bruce's inconsistent performances — claims that Bruce denied.
Bruce himself later said of the tour: "It wasn't a good vibe. We walked out onstage, and it was like a morgue. The Maiden fans knew I'd quit, they knew these were the last gigs and I suddenly realised that, as the frontman, you're in an almost impossible situation. With Bruce Dickinson gone, in Iron Maiden pored over hundreds of demo tapes sent by vocalists aiming to become the band's new singer. However, with Steve Harris wowed by Blaze Bayley 's vocal prowess when Wolfsbane supported Maiden on the No Prayer on the Road Tour, the band successfully convinced him to join their ranks.
Blaze Bayley told Planet Rock in : "They offered me the job. I'm so different to Bruce Dickinson , I mean just so different in my presentation, my voice, everything. But I think they wanted to change, and they offered me the job. So I left Wolfsbane at that point and went on to the greatest job in the world for a heavy metal singer.
It was fantastic, an incredible time. Unfortunately for Blaze Bayley, his tenure with Iron Maiden didn't start well as he injured his leg in a motorcycle accident near his home delaying the band's tenth studio album. Eventually, 'The X Factor' finally saw the light of day on 2nd October Iron Maiden's first album since their eponymous debut without the now retired producer Martin Birch at the helm, sonically the band traversed darker musical realms including the Apocalypse Now inspired 'The Edge of Darkness'.
Although 'The X Factor' was initially met with a more muted response than its predecessors, it's looked on much more favourably retrospectively and minute epic 'Sign of the Cross' was added to the setlist for Maiden's The Legacy of the Beast Tour in The hard-hitting artwork was created by graphic artist Hugh Syme noted for his work with Rush and features a revival of the lobotomised Eddie.
It saw Maiden return to more intimate venues except for the closing South American and Mexican concerts that took place in stadia and arenas. Due to the rigours of touring, Blaze Bayley suffered vocal problems in North America resulting in the cancellation of eight show in spring After unleashing their first greatest hits compilation 'Best of the Beast' in and the accompanying standalone single 'Virus', Iron Maiden released their eleventh studio album 'Virtual XI' on 23rd March Widely regarded as a nadir in Iron Maiden's recording history, 'Virtual XI' was the band's biggest commercial flop to date charting at no.
Yet, despite being savaged critically, there were some standout moments on the record including the fast and ferocious opener 'Futureal' and the bona fide Iron Maiden classic, 'The Clansman. Blaze Bayley's five-year tenure with Iron Maiden came to an end in January when he was fired by the band. Blaze noted 20 years later: "It was a shock to leave Iron Maiden - it was an absolute shock. But CD sales were gone; there was no interest in the band; things were going down; and they wanted a reunion with Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith — the record company wanted a reunion.
The very same day Adrian Smith was also invited back by phone and Iron Maiden became a three-guitar, six-piece heavy metal behemoth. The line-up has remained constant to this very day. The newly legged Iron Maiden embarked on The Ed Hunter Tour in the summer of in support of their greatest hits album and video game 'Ed Hunter. Musically, 'Brave New World' is a majestic heavy metal opus that has plenty of progressive flourishes and it ushered in the new Millennium perfectly for the band.
For the artwork, Derek Riggs returning to a Maiden cover for the first time in a decade created the Eddie that appears as a menacing cloud of smoke above a Steve Stone illustration of a space-age London. It would be Riggs' last Iron Maiden album cover artwork to the present day.
Pictured is the fearsome wicker incarnation of Eddie at London's Earl Court Arena on the opening month of the tour. Three months later, Iron Maiden performed in front of a massive crowd of , fans at Rock in Rio, which was released as a live album and video. In March , Iron Maiden performed a trio of sold-out benefit concerts at London's Brixton Academy raising money for former drummer Clive Burr, who had recently been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
Two weeks after the conclusion of their Give Me Ed Peaking at no. Eddie the Head plays the role of the grim reaper on David Patchett's computer generated sleeve.
The first European leg culminated with a massive 60, capacity show at Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden on 9th July , before Maiden returned to headline Reading and Leeds Festival pictured at the end of the summer. Alongside the band's handprints, Eddie the Head's skeletal claw was also immortalised in concrete. Sandwiched between the European dates, in the summer of Iron Maiden co-headlined the majority of the Ozzfest tour with Black Sabbath.
Seemingly unhappy with comments Bruce Dickinson had made on stage about reality TV and certain artists using autocue, Sharon Osbourne allegedly sabotaged Iron Maiden's final performance at the Hyundai Pavilion in San Bernardino on 20th August During opener 'Murders in the Rue Morgue', Maiden were pelted with eggs, cups and bottle caps from a specific area of the pit and a man invaded the stage during 'The Trooper' clutching an American flag.
Worse, the PA system cut out numerous times and "Ozzy, Ozzy, Ozzy" chants were played through the speaker system. At the end of the set, Sharon Osbourne addressed the audience calling Iron Maiden "wonderful" but Bruce Dickinson a "prick. I do think the band deserve an apology from a number of people, and you know who you are. Iron Maiden's 14th studio album 'A Matter of Life and Death' came out 25th August and it embraced themes of war and religion throughout, including on the artwork which was created by Tim Bradstreet and depicts Eddie as an army general driving a tank through a desolate, war-torn landscape with his skeletal comrades.
Continuing their rich vein of form since Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith returned to their ranks, 'A Matter of Life and Death' was praised by critics and it was their first album to dent the Top 10 on the Billboard debuting at no.
It was their first tour since not to feature 'The Number of the Beast' in the set. This was rectified in on the A Matter of the Beast Tour, which featured five songs from their latest records and four songs from 'The Number of the Beast' alongside other Maiden classics.
Pictured is Steve Harris throwing his iconic pose in Toronto in October A week later they headlined Download Festival for the second time, which was their fourth bill-topping spot at Donington Park including Monsters of Rock. Iron Maiden kicked off the Somewhere Back in Time World Tour in February and it took in 90 shows over 14 months in front of 2 million people. Of course, above any other frills and strategies, it helps that the album has been met with almost universal critical acclaim — yet another rarity for a band so deep into its tenure.
In a slower week without two superstars duking it out, Maiden may have had a chance at an even higher placing, a notion not lost on Shack. We did the best we could. We have well over a dozen number ones around Europe with it, and we sold a lot of records. We managed to give them a bloody nose.
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