40 40 & appologies

[Carps1000]

Hello everyone. Im back again. First let me say sorry for not being in touch in quite a while. Due to ill health & lack of computor & Illness es in my family & with my partner life has been kinda hectic of late & theres not enough hours in the day. Also just when it was safe to go out my lovely house got hit by a storm causing lots of damge...I know ill have u lot in tears in a mo. This new album 40 40 is I hope gonna b big & with the TV programme with tribute acts lets hope it gets this new comp lp in the charts. i understand rich is gonn a b on the show too. Well Ill b sitting in front of my TV bombarding me gob with malteasers that night ill tell ya. I nwill be resuming my charts week by week dossier of the singles and lps it is just getting the time. Tho to b perfectly frank if any one wants this sooner log on to Chart Stats & hopefully youll get the info sooner but do remember this is just 4 UK placings only. Hope u all are in good health etc & ...what do u mean waffle waffle waffle didnt u lot miss me in my absense??? U didnt? Oh well thats nice aint it thats the last time i sit thru an entire episode of Will & grace. Take care back soon. X Ken xx

[Rick Henry]

Hi Ken... it's fabulous to hear from you. It's been a while. I am sorry to hear that you have had health issues and a storm causing damage to your home. It's always nice to hear from you.

It will be interesting to see how 40/40 does in the UK. I suspect, that many fans (even in the UK) have purchased a Japanese copy... seeing that was released initially... we'll have to count on the record buying public to push this one up the charts.

Here in the U.S. 40/40 has shown less than fair sales... peaking just outside of the Top 600. A month after it's U.S. release it is currently around #1300. Not too good. The release in Japan took away about a good 100,000 or more U.S. sales... also this is one in about five or six compilation releases in the last 9 years to contain many of the same songs... they should have put an unreleased Karen Carpenter lead voiced song on it... that would have generated a good amount more sales.