Maybe it was the Tonight with Jimmy Fallon bounce or the impending arrival of the album, but Faith No More’s Sol Invictus is now at a peak number 7 in the Amazon.com music chart.
Put it this way, the album is selling more than Taylor Swift and Mumford and Sons’s godawful effort even thought it has not been released yet.
The album is #5 in Germany, number 15 in the UK chart and #9 in France.
On iTunes, the album is also making an impact and number 25 in Australia.
iTunes
#4 Hungary
#6 Chile
#8 Finland
#20 Norway
#25 Australia
#29 New Zealand
#30 Sweden
#46 Russia
#54 Belgium
#63 Netherlands
#65 Italy
#65 Switzerland
#66 Belarus
#71 Denmark
#72 Brazil
#75 Germany
#84 Slovakia
#94 Austria
#108 Bulgaria
#110 Canada
#114 Poland
#121 United States
#140 Estonia
#161 Czech Republic
#189 France
Chris. You wrote you purchased the 96kHz/24bit flac files. I take it you mean the FNM – Sol Invictus album.
Can you please tell us where they can be purchased? I cannot find them anywhere.
Honestly, I’m fairly new to the whole “dynamic range” and “loudness wars” when it comes to audio, but after all the research I’ve done over the past year on the subject I tend to fall on the side of more dynamic range and less compression. There are certainly both camps out there arguing for both sides, but after spending the better part of a few months last year re-ripping all my CDs into FLAC files, I certainly want the best audio quality available, ya know? I even went so far as to purchase the 96kHz/24bit FLAC files a couple of weeks ago, and I must say that the songs sound quite nice to my ears. There are certainly individuals out there far more versed in the subject matter than I am, and hopefully someone else might chime in, but I could really only point you to relevant links and articles that read much better than I could put into words, ya know? And, the DR numbers of Sol Invictus aren’t terrible for a CD, but I’m sure the compression applied during the mastering of the CD could have been better. Whether it’s an audible difference or not, though, I couldn’t tell you. There’s a lot of subjectivity when it comes to all of this stuff, as well, and, of course, everyone’s hearing and equipment isn’t going to be the same, which is why there’s the argument on the other side of the fence because some people just can’t hear audible differences in certain frequencies.
http://www.pleasurizemusic.com/en/what-advantage-music-more-dynamic-range
http://www.metal-fi.com/about-page/dynamic-range/
http://neonmastering.blogspot.com/2010/06/what-is-dynamic-range-and-why-is-it.html
Interesting Chris. Care to add a little context on loudness as I’d like to do a post on this?
After seeing the band in Boston this week and resisting all urges to download the album online, I can’t wait to finally listen to the whole Sol Invictus album next week. However, for a band whose sonic soundscape is so well defined and layered I’m a bit disappointed to see the dynamic range numbers that have been posted online. http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/88980
I’m expecting it to hit top 10 in Australia… Reckon they’re bigger now than they were back in ’97, but then people don’t buy albums like they used to … Be interesting to see how it goes.