oh dear - this is the most depressing misconception on the whole of planet indie i.e. that chart success is purely a concern for 'manufactured' boy/girl bands. cool bands don't care about the charts or record sales!
absolute bollocks.
Morrissey needs to have a level of commercial success to attract record companies. he needs record companies in order for him to record and release new music. of course he could go the DIY route but refuses to do this.
these are jittery times for Morrissey. Quarry sold half a million, ROTT, about 200,000 and YOR less than 100,000.
if you want Morrissey's activity simply to be restricted to touring an ageing body of work, then the attitude that chart positions and sales are for Jedward (and their ilk) is fine.
if you wanna hear new songs/albums by Morrissey (as I do), you need to realise how fundamental chart success, or at least decent album sales, are to enable this to happen.