Has Fm.lb,sn Reached Their End?

[Christopher]

Originally Posted by BaronVonBielski

SYW went gold by July and it was released in April... that's not half bad. I read somewhere at last look it had sold close to 900k units. So if that's true, if they release an album in the future or tour or both it will likely push it back a million. A #3 debut in 2003 isn't necessarily bad, in fact I believe it sold over 300k to land that spot. Nowadays you'd be #1 for sure... half that gets you the top spot. I wish it had done better. If LB was thinking more straight up rock and roll it may have done better. If Christine were there it would have done a bit better. Hopefully they'll do another album and just do what they do best. That's good enough for me.

Huh!? Fleetwood Mac has always been considered light Rock and mostly pop. None of the FM (Buckingham Nicks) records are straight up rock and roll and I'd venture to guess if SYW went that route, it would have sold less. The most rock record of the BN era is hands down BTM (and that was obviously w/o Buckingham) Lindsey has always brought a mad pop scientist vibe to the FM equation, that evokes his love of Brian Wilson and other visionaries that made FM work as a solid hit machine in the studio all the way up till TITN. Even Stevie Nicks solo catalogue is more rock than FM's.