Talk:Wow/Grape Jam

Chart position

The chart position for this release is misleading. Only Wow by itself charted to 20, not this combined album. TheClashFan (talk) 03:19, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

This criticism is really quite silly. Since the albums were never sold individually (at least in the U.S.) they were sold in exactly the same numbers and therefore should have qualified for the same U.S. chart placing in Billboard. If the Billboard chart forgot to mention the 'Grape Jam' album then I think it was Billboard who were misleading.

Since 'Grape Jam' was considered as a free album perhaps the people at Billboard decided that it did not count with 'Wow'. If you take this argument to a logical extreme one would have to create separate Wikipedia articles 'Wow' and 'Grape Jam'. This seems rather silly to me. I suppose one could make an argument that the official title of the 2 album set is simply just 'Wow' (with a free bonus album 'Grape Jam' included.) However, I decided to title the Wikipedia article 'Wow/Grape Jam' because it is much more accurate and descriptive and eliminates the need for a second article for 'Grape Jam'.

BTW, when the album was released in the U.K. by CBS Records 'Grape Jam" was not included. CBS apparently decided it was not worth the extra expense to include the free album. So some fans there actually preferred to buy the U.S. version. Incidentally, there was a mono version of 'Wow' which was released only in the U.K. and as a U.S. radio station promo item. The standard stereo version is much more common. Strangely enough, the band was actually more popular in the U.K. at this time than in the U.S. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zoni4316 (talk • contribs) 15:20, 12 May 2009 (UTC)