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Forbes
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Bob Marey's Blockbuster Blasts Back Onto Several Charts
Bob Marley's Legend reenters a pair of Billboard charts this week, including the Top Album Sales and ... More Vinyl Albums lists, driven by a 17% sales jump. KINGSTON, JAMAICA - JULY 9: Bob Marley relaxes with friends in front of his house at 56 Hope Road on July 9, 1979 in Kingston, Jamaica. (Photo by Charlie Steiner - Hwy) Legend, the compilation album by Bob Marley and the Wailers, has long reigned as one of the most successful collections of all time. The set, which assembles many of the group's most familiar tunes and standout tracks, turned 40 years old last year. Despite being available for decades and already moving tens of millions of units around the globe, fans still can't get enough — especially in the U.S. Now that many Record Store Day exclusives have cleared out from the Billboard rankings, Legend is mounting yet another comeback. While it never stopped selling, the sales field is less competitive this time around. That opens up space on several charts, allowing Marley and his band to return to multiple tallies where the title has already spent hundreds of weeks. This frame, Legend appears on four Billboard charts in the U.S. alone. It returns to half of them — and it is once again a bona fide bestseller. The compilation breaks back in at No. 16 on the Vinyl Albums chart. At the same time, it reappears just one spot lower, at No. 17, on the Top Album Sales chart. The comeback is driven by 3,500 pure purchases, according to Luminate. Legend likely didn't even need to increase its sales to find its way back to these rosters. Many recent bestsellers vanished after selling out their Record Store Day exclusive runs, opening up space on tallies like the Top Album Sales and Vinyl Albums lists. That said, Marley's collection actually did grow its weekly purchase tally by 17%, moving several hundred more units than just a few days before. While Legend is back inside the top 20 on both purchase-only charts, the rankings are packed with comebacks. On the Top Album Sales roster, Legend is the third-highest rising reentry. Over on the vinyl-only tally, the title earns the ninth-loftiest return, trailing other beloved efforts by Fleetwood Mac, Lady Gaga, and Billie Eilish. Unsurprisingly, Legend continues to dominate the Reggae Albums chart — the only Billboard list dedicated solely to the genre. It would be stranger to see the album not in charge. Over the 277 frames it has spent on the roster, it has only failed to rule on one occasion. Legend already holds the distinction of being the second-longest-charting title in history on the Billboard 200, the most important albums ranking in America. This week, the project jumps 13 spots to No. 61. In terms of total consumption, the compilation moved 14,700 equivalent units this frame, with both sales and streaming playing large roles in that figure. It once peaked at No. 5 decades ago, and Legend has now spent 884 weeks somewhere on the Billboard 200. At some point later in 2025, it is poised to join Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon as only the second album to reach 900 weeks on the ranking.
CBC
09-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
People love these giant Screaming Heads, but how did they get here?
Social Sharing Destination: Art is a series uncovering some of Canada's unique, unexpected and under-the-radar art experiences. With spring in the air, adventure on the mind and many looking to explore more Canada, CBC Arts is adding some new attractions for readers who want to discover the treasures hiding in their own backyard. For Peter Camani, Midlothian Castle isn't just his life's work, it's also his house. Located in Burk's Falls, Ont. — 265 kilometres north of Toronto — the building now known as Midlothian Castle started life in the early 20th Century as a farmhouse. Today, it's an expansive outdoor art project that's been the subject of over 12,000 Instagram posts, and is home to the Harvest Festival — an annual four-day rave. Camani, a retired high school art teacher, bought the property back in 1981. At the time, it was quite literally falling apart, and he initially had no plans of making it into a local attraction "I started repairing it in different ways, and the next thing you know, the public got interested because it was quite unusual," he says. "And I just kept going." "The house was built in 1912," Camani says. "The old guys that used to live here used to sleep around the wood stove because the front of the house was falling off." Over the next several years, Camani set about repairing the collapsed house. But as an artist and art teacher, he decided to do it with flair, adding a series of towers and turret-like chimneys, giving the house a castle-like appearance. Concrete inspiration As a kid growing up in Hamilton, Camani was fascinated by large structures and the concrete pillars used to hold them up. He remembers the construction of the Burlington Skyway Bridge and Hwy. 403 with fondness. "You would be driving along or pedaling along on your bike, and in the middle of a field you would see a round tower of cement, 20 or 30 feet in height, where they were going to build a roundabout or whatever. So you would see these odd shapes… these large pillars in the middle of fields in Burlington." Camani also draws inspiration from more classical sources, like the ancient Greek Parthenon in Athens. At home in the artwork It didn't hurt that, by making his home an art project, Camani didn't have to worry as much about building codes. "The house is not really that large, so I wanted to build something larger," he says. "I knew that if you built art structures, usually the building department had nothing to say about it, right?" Making Midlothian Castle in 1996 2 hours ago Duration 5:34 Camani lived in the house while simultaneously renovating it, spending seven years living in just one room while the rest of the building was in various stages of demolition, construction, and renovation. Eventually, the local building department gave the new additions a permit as a "leaning porch," making the structure legal. As wild as Camani's house may be, the Midlothian Castle is best known for its Screaming Head statues. The large, circular faces with great gaping mouths, equal parts unsettling and beloved, have become so associated with the place that some people just refer to the site as "the Screaming Heads." Camani started building the heads back in 1995 when the castle was due to be featured on the CBC TV show On the Road Again, and he wanted to have something new to show off. Initially, he wanted to add another tower, but the towers took around a year to build, and he only had five weeks. So instead, he built the first of the heads, a triangular, claw-like statue. Camani came up with the idea of making the concrete heads in two dimensions, laying them flat on the ground, and then lifting them up with a crane. The heads have giant, creepy mouths, Camani says, and it's so they don't blow over. Specifically, he drew the idea from watching the construction of a nearby arena, and seeing its large concrete wall topple in the wind. "So when I was building the first head, the idea is [with] the bigger the mouth, the wind … would go right through." Camani then added three more triangular heads, followed by 25 round heads that form the shape of an eye when observed from the air. Next, he added another series of round heads in a field farther out on the property. The site now has over 100 Screaming Head statues. Justin Martins, one of the co-founders of the Harvest Festival, says Camani's property is magical. "It's a property full of art and creation, built by somebody who encourages other people to be creative." The four-day, multi-stage electronic music festival has taken over the property nearly every September since 2007. Encouraged by Camani, the Harvest Festival team has added several structures to the property over the years, including a geodesic dome and a pyramid. Martins says the festival organizers have developed a somewhat symbiotic relationship with Camani and the castle. "We look at everything we're going to do as 'How is it going to improve the property?'" he says. "Not just for the festival, but improve the property for people to experience it throughout the year." When the festival isn't happening, Martins says the property attracts many visitors. "[It's] a free place to come and take yourself and your family for a walk… and see things that are interesting and engaging and thought-provoking." Camani is still adding more sculptures to the site every year. His latest plan is to build a wall around one of the existing towers. "From one side of the pond, it would look like a massive fort," he says. "It's got four towers going up. It's got heads coming up to make part of the wall, and then it's got hands coming up out of the pond towards the wall. So it's going to be a very complex visual image." He figures the new wall will take about three years. At 77, Camani is going strong. "It's one thing that keeps the mind and body active," he says.
