Patty Brard's book: 6th week on the Dutch bestseller lists

The tell-all book entitled "Patty: de negen levens van Patty Brard" (written by Michel van Egmond and Antoinnette Scheulderman) has spent six weeks on the Dutch bestseller lists.

The biography, which came out on March 25th (on Patty's 65th birthday), spent 3 weeks on the Top 5. Then it experienced a drop in sales (see news on April 23rd, 2020). 

This week, the sensationalist publication has fallen to #25 on De Bestseller 60 (a list by the Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek ("Collective Promotion for the Dutch Book") representing Dutch bookstores and publishers). 

Here are the current positions on the other bestseller lists: #7 on the AKO Boeken top 100, #20 on The Read Shop Top 50, #51 on Paagman.nl, #30 on the Bruna Top 100 and #1 on Amazon.nl (Bestsellers in E-books biografieën & memoires).

Excerpts from the book have been published in the press to keep it hot. Columnists and celebrities have discussed it as well. Recently, Patty's SBS6 colleague and singer Gordon told Paul de Leeuw on his TV-Quaran-Tine vlog that he didn't appreciate that the diva published one of his private Whatsapp messages in her book. In this message, Gordon criticized Patty's look during the premiere of SBS6's celebrity figure skating competition Dancing On Ice (see news posted on December 8th, 2019). Gordon told Patty that she looked like a candidate of Hotter Than My Daughter. He also disapproved of her presentation of the SBS6 show and said that Winston Gerschtanowitz (the other co-host) and she were not a good match. Gordon thought that La Brard should have informed him about the publication of his message in her biography. 

Two days ago, Paul de Leeuw's interview with the authors Michel van Egmond and Antoinnette Scheulderman for his TV-Quaran-Tine vlog was posted on YouTube. Van Egmond explained that he had known Patty for a long time when he worked as a journalist for the magazine she launched with Eric Peute in the early 1990s, just before her bankruptcy. Click here to watch the video of Paul with Michel and Antoinnette discussing their bestselling publication. 

Source: De Bestseller 60, AKO Boeken top 100, The Read Shop Top 50, Paagman.nl, Bruna Top 100, Amazon.nl, YouTube, Mediacourant.nl...