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JosephBoone View member profile	4th May 2014, 04:22 PM Post #1
you never forget your first time... Pronouns: he/him Joined: 19 April 2011 Posts: 121,734 User: 13,530	2004 Important events: - Start of 2nd album campaign. - Recorded the Children In Need single for the year - a cover of I'll Stand By You by the Pretenders. - Announcement of first tour! Releases - Singles The Show Peak Position: #2 First Week Sales: 28,572 (Entry at #2) Total Sales: 98,955 (Official Figure from 21/06/09) Best Sellers List: 76th (Singles in 2004) Chart Weeks: 1wk (Top 3) \| 2wks (Top 5) \| 2wks (Top 10) \| 4wks (Top 20) \| 6wks (Top 40) \| 10wks (Top 75) \| 15wks (Top 200) UK Top 200 Chart Run [Peak Position: #2] [1st Entry: 04/07/04] 02-05-12-15-22-28-42-56-58-75-Out [2nd Entry: 31/10/04] 129-198-180-159-Out [3rd Entry: 09/01/05] 165-Out UK Top 100 Radio Airplay Chart Run [Peak Position: #25] [Entry: 20/06/04] 88-51-31-25-31-32-43-63-Out UK Top 40 TV Airplay Chart Run [Peak Position: #4] [Entry: 19/06/04] 05-04-06-06-07-12-15-20-32-Out Love Machine Peak Position: #2 First Week Sales: 35,800 (Entry at #2) Total Sales: 190,000 (Official MTV Figure from April 2010) Best Sellers List: 49th (Singles in 2004) Chart Weeks: 2wks (Top 3) \| 2wks (Top 5) \| 3wks (Top 10) \| 4wks (Top 20) \| 7wks (Top 40) \| 10wks (Top 75) \| 25wks (Top 200) \| 39wks (Top 250) UK Top 250 Chart Run [Peak Position: #2] [1st Entry: 19/09/04] 02-02-08-18-21-32-34-48-54-75-Out [2nd Entry: 23/01/05] 88-113-128-Out [3rd Entry: 20/02/05] 134-185-Out [4th Entry: 13/03/05] 147-180-188-Out [5th Entry: 17/04/05] 214-201-167-151-151-168-200-238-Out [6th Entry: 26/06/05] 242-218-Out [7th Entry: 17/07/05] 228-245-225-205-212-216-144-181-210-226-216-Out UK Top 20 & Top 40 Download Chart Run [Peak Position: #6] [1st Entry: 19/09/04] 12-06-09-12-17-13-15-Out [2nd Entry: 05/12/04] 13-13-20-23-25-28-40-Out UK Top 100 Radio Airplay Chart Run [Peak Position: #36] [1st Entry: 29/08/04] 81-51-48-36-36-58-71-83-Out [2nd Entry: 12/12/04] 72-Out UK Top 40 TV Airplay Chart Run [Peak Position: #6] [Entry: 28/08/04] 23-12-06-06-09-08-13-09-15-Out I'll Stand By You Peak Position: #1 Certification: Silver First Week Sales: 57,597 (Entry at #1) Total Sales: 210,000 (Official MTV Figure from April 2010) Best Sellers List: 34th (Singles in 2004) Chart Weeks: 2wks (#1) \| 2wks (Top 3) \| 4wks (Top 5) \| 6wks (Top 10) \| 7wks (Top 20) \| 9wks (Top 40) \| 14wks (Top 75) \| 17wks (Top 200) \| 20wks (Top 250) UK Top 250 Chart Run [Peak Position: #1] [1st Entry: 21/11/04] 01-01-04-05-09-09-12-22-40-51-59-64-63-71-Out [2nd Entry: 17/04/05] 143-184-183-204-225-Out [3rd Entry: 05/06/05] 240-Out UK Top 40 Download Chart Run [Peak Position: #5] [Entry: 21/11/04] 16-05-05-12-13-19-29-Out UK Top 100 Radio Airplay Chart Run [Peak Position: #9] [Entry: 24/10/04] 96-55-40-25-13-11-12-09-11-24-46-41-90-Out UK Top 40 TV Airplay Chart Run [Peak Position: #6] [Entry: 06/11/04] 24-06-09-09-12-14-11-12-10-20-22-Out - Albums What Will The Neighbours Say? Peak Position: #6 Certification: 2xPlatinum First Week Sales: 85,717 (Entry at #6) Total Sales: 599,000 (Official figure from March 2013) Best Sellers List: 44th (Albums in 2004) \| 136th (Albums in 2005) Chart Weeks: 2wks (Top 10) \| 6wks (Top 20) \| 8wks (Top 40) \| 17wks (Top 75) \| 40wks (Top 200) UK Top 200 Chart Run [Peak Position: #6] [1st Entry: 05/12/04] 06-09-13-12-15-18-27-38-41-54-47-46-44-50-55-58-77-123-110-93-103-96-98-134-143-177-Out [2nd Entry: 21/08/05] 166-139-147-105-103-137-180-180-Out [3rd Entry: 25/12/05] 157-75-134-91-96-110-Out UK Top 50 Budget Chart Run [Peak Position: #13] [1st Entry: 01/04/07] 15-13-15-32-Out [2nd Entry: 28/10/07] 41-Out What were your memories from this time? Did you buy all the CDs? What were your favourite songs from What Will The Neighbours Say? Were you excited about the tour? Did you have any favourite TV performances from this time? Let us know here PAST TOPICS - feel free to contribute to these still! 2002 2003


Hayzayy View member profile	5th May 2014, 08:42 AM Post #2
Who's Daniel btw ? Joined: 28 October 2006 Posts: 15,594 User: 1,804	"I'll stand by you" is basically the first song I heard from them so of course it is gonna bring back some memories. I remember reading about them on some internet forums and downloading both "I'll stand by you" and "Wake up" and loving it I remember as well witnessing WWTNS?! in the album charts and thinking they weren't doing too bad for a girl band. I wasn't a huge fan back then but it was the first album of them I bought, and I still love it a lot. I've listened to it so much over the years, and the likes of "Hear me out" and "Deadlines & diets" are still in my head I don't know why but I still find weird they didn't release the album on the back of "Love machine". Surely that was wise though since "I'll stand by you" was much bigger.


JosephBoone View member profile	11th May 2014, 04:19 PM Post #3
you never forget your first time... Pronouns: he/him Joined: 19 April 2011 Posts: 121,734 User: 13,530	BUMP! Will leave this open for 1 more week before starting the 2005 thread. I was properly stanning for GA during 2004, The Show and Love Machine are both two of my favourite singles of theirs and I remember so clearly seeing them on the music channels all the time.


April View member profile	13th May 2014, 12:45 PM Post #4
changed the game with that digital drop Joined: 26 September 2010 Posts: 13,000 User: 11,905	The Show and Love Machine are far better than I'll Stand By You. I think if you compare some of the performances of Love Machine in 2004 to the 2012 one on Graham Norton, you can see how far they've come!


-Jay- View member profile	23rd May 2014, 11:51 AM Post #5
"Jayrusaleminians" - Umi. Pronouns: he/him Joined: 4 April 2007 Posts: 41,455 User: 3,217	'The Show' - I guess this single must have premiered in May 2004, so it's exactly 10 years old. This song was being promoted while I was doing my GCSEs, so this song strongly reminds me of that time. I loved their performance of it on CD:UK - I had it recorded on VHS and would replay it over and over! 'Love Machine' - this was definitely my first "wtf?" moment with Girls Aloud. A preview of the song aired on SMTV or CD:UK, and I remember many of us on internet forums were completely baffled by it. The premiere left me feeling a bit confused too... it just seemed such a weird song. Dare I say it, but I honestly thought they had misfired, and that it had the potential to flop. But of course it was the complete definition of "grower", and by the time it was released I was completely obsessed with the song. Both peaked at #2... this was becoming really frustrating, as a fan of them & as a follower of the charts! Their singles had gone 1-2-3-2-2-2 up to this point, and of course their debut album was #2. It was just like... will they ever get a second #1? ... 'I'll Stand By You'! Their second best cover single imo, after 'Jump'. Was so, so pleased when this went all the way to #1 - and for two weeks. I think there was a bit of a grumble on the internet that after a lot of fantastic originals, it was disappointing that they could only manage #1 with a ballad cover, but I really didn't mind. The 'What Will The Neighbours Say?' album - what a mind-blowing listen that was back in 2004. Fantastic first week sales too, about 85k. It was their first release to miss the Top 5, peaking at #6, but it was such a strong and competitive album market in the run up to Christmas, so I wasn't too gutted. I have a strong memory of the announcement of the 'Love Machine' formats being revealed, and me being a bit confused about what a "picture disc" was. It wasn't stocked in my local HMV, but I really wanted it. A friend of mine from school, who was also into them, bought it for me from a record shop which was local to her. Prior to that, there was the 3" pocket CD for 'The Show', which was rather hard to come by - it was nowhere to be found where I lived. Luckily my parents had planned a trip to London in summer 2004, so I managed to find it in HMV Oxford Street. I wish I'd bought more than one of these! Did any of you ever play the Games that were on the Girls Aloud website / the CD singles? I remember the I'll Stand By You game being particularly addictive. Here's a screen shot... I really liked the drawings of the girls.


JosephBoone View member profile	23rd May 2014, 11:54 AM Post #6
you never forget your first time... Pronouns: he/him Joined: 19 April 2011 Posts: 121,734 User: 13,530	Oh gosh, I remember those games I'll have to go and play them again later for old time's sake.


Nina West View member profile	26th May 2014, 07:12 PM Post #7
We're all Glitter and Tears in the Moonlight... Joined: 24 September 2013 Posts: 10,022 User: 19,846	Another great year for the girls, loved "The Show" still one of my faves, "Love Machine" took me a while to warm to but I now love it and I did actually like their cover of I'll Stand By You I thought It was great and glad it became another #1 for them and shame about The Show sold so little, should at least be silver status, (why wasn't downloads added sooner). The album "What Will The Neighbours Say" such a fantastic follow up, better than the first and should have been #1 (still livid at the #6 position) but at least it sold more than they're debut. FAVE TRACKS = The Show (of course), Wake Me Up (another gem), Love Machine, Graffiti My Soul (such a missed opportunity) and Deadlines & Diets was quite fun in a camp sort of way and Hear Me Out was lovely.