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Posted by: Saenerys 5th September 2017, 08:03 PM

Old thread reached 50 pages, hola new thread!

Posted by: Saenerys 5th September 2017, 08:05 PM

For those who missed the end of the last thread, check out Bryan's (AllFiredUp93) Gemma Collins edit. I'm howling!

https://twitter.com/allfiredup93/status/905130638281461761

Posted by: leewallace 9th September 2017, 04:49 PM

https://vimeo.com/58167343
4:39 still makes me HOWL.

7:08 Vanessa

It's hilarious how awkward they all are, Una speaks so much crap.

9:30 IS ANYBODY HAVING REALLY LOUD SEX (OMG!!!!)

Posted by: Totto 12th September 2017, 02:20 PM

Apparently Xenomania have lots of unheard Sats materials.

I hope some will leak eventually. Maybe in 2060, but I'll be waiting till then.

Posted by: Saenerys 13th September 2017, 08:05 AM

Rochelle with the banging back though!



I imagine it's from around the time they recorded OYR so it's probably just sitting there waiting to be heard....one day, in a distant dream land

Posted by: Liаm 14th September 2017, 03:42 PM

Plug sesh for AFSC here https://plug.dj/buzzjack-listen-throughsat 8!

Posted by: Saenerys 30th September 2017, 10:29 AM

Another bump for AFSC: http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=204886&st=20&gopid=5832727&#entry5832727

Vote away!

Posted by: (Zach) 3rd October 2017, 02:07 AM

Watching Ghost Hunting w/ The Sats again in celebration of it being October now. Living for Mollie's meltdown "please don't say that!!"

Posted by: Martyn 4th October 2017, 09:01 AM

What About Us is 59p on iTunes this week.

Posted by: leewallace 4th October 2017, 06:12 PM

Remember to vote in AFSC what closes tonight x

Posted by: SeanGrey 5th October 2017, 12:53 PM

Smart move to reduce and capitalise on Mollie being in the public eye

Mollie and Vanessa are like opposites, I'm sure Vanessa said she believed in something after she saw a fortune teller on Sats 24/7. Poor Mollie

Posted by: Juliano 9th October 2017, 03:00 PM

I always found Anywhere With You a highlight of Living For The Weekend, which a lot of people didn't agree with (reject Katy Perry demo my a***). Almost on a million streams on Spotify, far ahead of other album tracks! Winning! #TasteAlwaysWins.

Posted by: SeanmanjiGrey 9th October 2017, 06:19 PM

Imagine the royalties (or lack of) they'll get for those streams!

I've never seen it compared to a Katy Perry demo but it definitely is one of the tracks I don't find a highlight!

Posted by: Juliano 9th October 2017, 09:18 PM

I remember people saying this, I think it was because Katy's "Prism" was literally out the week after LFTW and "International Smile" bears similarities.

Posted by: leewallace 10th October 2017, 02:58 PM

I was looking into the Little Mix forum and seeing the impact 'Black Magic' had on being the lead single and how it helped Little Mix get over a rather disappointing era in Salute and it made me think how huge 'Wordshaker' could have been had 'Ego' been the lead single and not 'Forever Is Over' followed by 'One Shot' and 'Here Standing'.

Then, imagine had 'Higher' been the lead single from 'Headlines', I honestly feel like this could have been a SMASH around Europe and that's not me just being deluded, I honestly think if the label had more faith in them at the start of the 'Headlines' era then they could have pushed 'Higher' around Europe. I remember they had meetings in Germany and they were going to release 'Higher' but moved onto 'Notorious' instead what got no promotion worldwide although it's opening sales is actually incredible omg.

The more I look into 'Living For The Weekend', it never really had a big budget, did it? I feel like for working with E the budget would have been bigger and maybe that's why they got 'Lease Your Love' which was refused by almost everyone. 'What About Us' not being promoted around Europe / Australia was also a huge, huge, huge mistake. It got to #44 in Germany without ANY promotion and #27 in New Zealand.

The release of 'Not Giving Up' killed them as they managed to recover from 'Gentleman' a little bit by 'Disco Love' going top five.

Posted by: SeanmanjiGrey 10th October 2017, 06:06 PM

Forever Is Over should not have been the single the album was released off. For a single that hit number two and is nearly certified single, I can only fault it for where it came in the release pattern. FIO -> Ego -> Album release -> Wordshaker/One Shot/Denial/other, in whichever combination for post-album.

Posted by: (Zach) 24th October 2017, 02:00 AM

Una has shared that the girls have discussed the possibility of a reunion and will most likely come back together in "two years." She said a few of the girls are very keen on it, herself included. You know Vanessa is not one of them.

Posted by: Martyn 24th October 2017, 05:48 AM

I think it will be a 3(Mollie, Una and Frankie)-2 (Rochelle and Vanessa) For-against split.

Frankie and Rochelle are interchangeable from for and against.

Posted by: missingyou 24th October 2017, 10:26 AM

i could see a JLS/Saturdays reunion tour in the future actually.


But yeah Nessa can jog on, Rochelle can do all her parts and actually hit the notes

Posted by: SeanmanjiGrey 24th October 2017, 11:06 AM

I think it'll be more of a case that Vanessa will realise she needs the group and come back round to the topic of a reunion.

Posted by: Totto 27th October 2017, 04:58 PM

She'll return and take the lead-singer spot as she should!

Posted by: SeanmanjiGrey 27th October 2017, 07:06 PM

But that Ego note can only be sung by Vanessa tho

Posted by: Cameron 27th October 2017, 08:10 PM

I love the bitter fans here, I missed you guys.


Sidenote, Promise Me has actually finally hit me lmao wtf

Posted by: Cameron 27th October 2017, 08:15 PM

Faster deserved better

Posted by: SeanmanjiGrey 27th October 2017, 08:53 PM

Who you calling Bitter???

I used to dislike both Promise Me and Faster but they worked their way into my ratings overtime

Posted by: (Zach) 28th October 2017, 11:35 PM

One of my favorite Sats moments from 2:40-2:55. Mollie 'accidentally' exposing Rochelle.

Posted by: SeanmanjiGrey 29th October 2017, 09:04 AM

When was that? Looks around the time of On Your Radar. Must have missed it but as if any of them get ready THAT quickly!

Posted by: Totto 4th November 2017, 07:45 PM

https://youtu.be/23FsUaLVbzE?t=1m57s

Posted by: SGrey 5th November 2017, 01:28 PM

Shouting contest much! there is no denying that Rochelle has the second best voice (we'll agree to disagree!) after Vanessa.

Posted by: (Zach) 5th November 2017, 03:48 PM

Yes, I believe it was while promoting Notorious or All Fired Up!

Posted by: Cameron 14th December 2017, 12:02 AM

I can't cope.

Posted by: TheGrinch 14th December 2017, 12:04 AM

Mollie and Una are tragic

Posted by: Martyn 14th December 2017, 12:08 AM

Wild Bobchelle appeared! You’re supposed to warn us!

Posted by: SGrey 14th December 2017, 06:11 AM

So mimed in places but Vanessa at the beginning was amazing!

Posted by: P@ul 27th January 2018, 01:05 AM

https://t.co/5n8y4NI81D

This ustream killed me.
Rochelle ringing Flo rida and then realising he was in jail, then accidentally giving out Chipmunk’s number to everybody (Old school pre vanilla media trained Roch was the best ) Frankie admitting to wearing no knickers. Una cursing

Posted by: (Zach) 10th May 2018, 03:37 AM

Mini Sats reunion AKA my three favorites AKA the future Sats lineup.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BijNEtJn5nj/?hl=en&taken-by=mollieking
https://www.instagram.com/p/BijWHy2A63V/?hl=en&taken-by=francescabridge

When's the last time three of the girls were together?

Posted by: (Zach) 16th May 2018, 03:07 AM

Bless Una for still calling it a hiatus.

Posted by: (Zach) 19th August 2018, 05:59 PM

Walked into a department store here in Michigan yesterday and For Myself was playing

Posted by: Totto 21st August 2018, 10:09 PM

Haha wow random.

Posted by: Martyn 30th November 2018, 10:07 AM

Their Live Lounge cover of Winter Wonderland is on the new album The Sound of Christmas-Live and exclusive at the BBC.

Posted by: (Zach) 22nd December 2018, 03:17 PM

I'm rewatching Chasing The Saturdays this weekend and forgot how many great moments there are. Recording Not Giving Up, Mollie's awkward date with Calvin, the LA County Fair and Vanessa eating fried butter, random cameo from The Wanted. The banter between Mollie and Vanessa/Frankie/Rochelle is everything. Ben and his injury got so much attention though

Posted by: TheGrinch 7th January 2019, 09:03 PM

https://youtu.be/SbLLI4n4kR0

Gemma shading Ben *.*

Posted by: TheGrinch 7th January 2019, 09:05 PM

The Saturdays are the 72nd most played ever on BBC Radio 1.

Top 10 most played
01. What about us
02. Up
03. Disco love
04. Ego
05. Missing you
06. All fired up
07. Issues
08. Notorious
09. My heart takes over
10. Forever is over

Surely a mistake as higher would be top 10???

Posted by: Martyn 8th January 2019, 09:02 PM

72nd is impressive as I almost never hear them on there anymore.

Higher not being Top 10 and My Heart Takes Over being there doesn't seem right.

Posted by: TheGrinch 8th January 2019, 09:37 PM

Higher was their most played song on radio 1 last year with 8 plays followed by UP with 7

Posted by: TheGrinch 9th January 2019, 11:56 AM

Remember The Saturdays had to pull out of supporting Justin Bieber in America due to Rochelle being pregnant

Posted by: (Zach) 9th January 2019, 11:41 PM

Not sure where that list was pulled from but maybe Higher is registered under "The Saturdays & Flo Rida" and not under The Saturdays.

Posted by: Juliano 20th January 2019, 07:39 PM

Una on Instagram recently has been showing Ben what an idiot he was.

Posted by: (Zach) 24th March 2019, 04:14 AM

Just thinking about how close the girls got to breaking through outside the UK and wondering what could've been had they not gotten baby fever. What About Us was gaining traction in Germany and did decently well in New Zealand, they were doing that France promo, WAU almost broke the Top 100 on US iTunes...and then it all came to a screeching halt. They were fortunate to get spots on shows like Jimmy Kimmel (how they pulled that off I'm not sure) so I don't know what it was that truly ended their international efforts. Did the song underperform in other markets considering the amount of promo so they decided to pull the plug? Or was it really due to Rochelle's pregnancy?

On a somewhat related note, even Disco Love saw some international success that showed its potential. It charted in the most countries only behind WAU. Getting that Hungarian smash.

Posted by: Wall 24th March 2019, 05:26 AM

What About us got serviced to radio too late. I remember they were #101 on USA iTunes before their today performance and their performance got interrupted with a Obama message, legit typical.

They were also going to support Justin bieber in America but couldn’t due to Rochelle, that legit would have been so big for their status and following and they probably would have lasted a bit longer and got better material in the future and a much bigger following

Posted by: Juliano 24th March 2019, 02:45 PM

I had a dream last night they had a cute bop comeback but it flopped.

Posted by: Prettylittlebry 29th March 2019, 04:07 PM

I’m another one who had a dream about them recently. I dreamt it was me planning their reunion (without Vanessa apparently) 😂

Posted by: Juliano 29th March 2019, 06:31 PM

Oh damn, the dreamy shade of it all!

Posted by: (Zach) 31st March 2019, 04:34 PM

Speaking of "without Vanessa"

Posted by: Wall 31st March 2019, 06:04 PM

Oh god

Posted by: (Zach) 1st April 2019, 02:30 AM

They look great. It seems to be impossible for all five of them to be together at once.

Posted by: Juliano 1st April 2019, 05:04 PM

Mollies episode on The Cube is on Challenge! The girls are all there, making me wish they were back together again!!

Posted by: (Zach) 14th April 2019, 09:16 PM

The girls' joint company, Day and Night Ventures Ltd, was dissolved in July. Odd that they've waited this long.

Posted by: Wall 14th April 2019, 09:38 PM

They were probably hoping one of them would be on another reality show for the ££££

Posted by: P@ul 3rd May 2019, 09:19 AM

So she’s hoping for Marvin and JLS to reunite but ruled out the Saturdays ever doing so because the music industry has “changed”?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6984579/Rochelle-Humes-reveals-met-husband-Marvin-just-16.html

Posted by: Wall 3rd May 2019, 10:54 AM

Tbf the girls haven’t been together proper for yearss

Posted by: Saenerys 3rd May 2019, 12:49 PM

As a five piece I very much agree it always seem to be threes or fours

Posted by: JosephAvery 5th May 2019, 07:30 PM

Posted by: Saenerys 6th May 2019, 01:20 PM

Chasing Lights rate going on now!

http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=221534&pid=6230230&st=20&#entry6230230

Closing next weekend!

Posted by: Saenerys 9th May 2019, 07:04 PM

Vote for Notorious in the AF Idol please!!!!

Posted by: Juliano 9th May 2019, 11:09 PM

Not Good Enough came on a pop playlist radio on Spotify and I was thinking how great it sounds. Such an underrated song.

Posted by: Saenerys 15th May 2019, 05:02 PM

It is underrated indeed!

Posted by: Wall 7th June 2019, 10:55 AM

Remember The Saturdays were working with Demi Lovato in the studio
Remember The Saturdays were due to support Bieber on his USA tour

Thank you Rochelle x

Posted by: *Tim 7th June 2019, 11:51 AM

Honestly Rochelle's uterus saved them from the utter embarassment of potentially scoring a very minor hit in the US (like #80) before flopping into oblivion with Gentleman

Posted by: Wall 7th June 2019, 12:14 PM

a billboard hit is better than none?

Posted by: *Tim 7th June 2019, 02:06 PM

I'd rather have no hit than to be known as the people that released Gebtleman

Posted by: Saenerys 7th June 2019, 04:28 PM

Think I’d have preferred WAU to chart in the US!

Y the gentleman h8 tho x

Posted by: Wall 6th August 2019, 09:43 PM

Rugby star Ben Foden marries his girlfriend after two weeks of dating

Gahhhh

Posted by: Jay ☆ 12th September 2019, 02:39 AM

Mollie dislikes Forever Is Over!

However she stans Higher, Up and All Fired Up - Queen *.*

Posted by: Medellíam 12th September 2019, 10:57 AM

I can't stand Matt Edmondson. Trust him to have horrific taste in Saturdays songs.

Posted by: Jordan Lee 12th September 2019, 11:32 AM

My top 3 would’ve probably been

1. Higher (without Flo Rida)
2. Up
3. Issues

Posted by: George.keh 12th September 2019, 04:44 PM

1. Ego
2. Up
3. Notorious
For me

Posted by: JosephStyles 12th September 2019, 06:13 PM

It shouldn't be top 3 but Forever Is Over is a bop so no shade pls x

Posted by: Juliano 12th November 2019, 03:05 PM

1. Ego
2. Higher
3. All Fired Up

Posted by: Juliano 15th November 2019, 03:32 PM

Well even Rochelle has said "Never say never!!" Especially seeing the JLS comeback.

TRIGGERED!!!

Posted by: Jay ☆ 28th November 2019, 03:04 AM

Ina Wroldsen in an interview:

Least favourite track you have wrote?
I’ve done so many songs I don’t think have aged well! One I always think of is Higher by The Saturdays. The opening lyric - “I’m doing nothing, ‘cause then at least I’m doing nothing wrong” - makes no sense and the song is just like, what? It’s fun to listen to the old stuff and see the progression. I miss some of the naivety I used to have.


Ina, girl!

Posted by: Wall 28th November 2019, 10:13 AM

Ew

Posted by: Beautiful Ghosts 28th November 2019, 04:09 PM

Ina serving taste *.*

Posted by: LikeLeeIs 2nd April 2020, 03:40 PM

They’ve updated their twitter profile and pic
They’ve updated their Instagram profile and pic
They’ve updated their Facebook
They’ve updated their website and got it back up and running again

They’re trending on twitter

Posted by: StupidLove 2nd April 2020, 08:26 PM

I will be so happy if they come back together next year, with Chasing Lights / Headlines level of quality music though!

Posted by: P@ul 2nd April 2020, 08:49 PM

I’m ready for it. The world is ready. Frankie, Mollie and Una are ready.
I want the saturdays artist page back.

Posted by: Cameron 2nd April 2020, 10:08 PM

Rochelle was just drunk from her Instagram live.

It is probs their old management doing this to try and get WAU to platinum.

Posted by: Jay ☆ 3rd April 2020, 11:45 AM

#bringbacktheSatsforum

Posted by: LikeLeeIs 3rd April 2020, 12:15 PM

BBC Radio 2 we’re talking about it today also saying they could reunite next year lmao

Where is all this coming from but I’m here for it

Posted by: JulianNial 3rd April 2020, 02:36 PM

Also no one talked about Up going Gold! FINALLY! But it was much faster to get there than the other songs that just got given Gold. I NEED THIS TO HAPPEN, but I feel like the updates are due to the What About Us remix trending on Tik Tok.

Posted by: LikeLeeIs 3rd April 2020, 03:22 PM

No Aaron done a what about us yesterday once they were trending

Posted by: JulianNial 3rd April 2020, 11:47 PM

Ahh there you go then. Hopeful?

Posted by: Mr. C. Joel 4th April 2020, 12:23 AM

PLEASE!!!!! I’ve wanted them to reunite since the day they split!

Come on What About Us pt 2.

Posted by: Herbs 4th April 2020, 03:11 AM

Would love them to reunite but fully expecting any reunion to be a get together/tour rather than new music

Even if they released new music, can’t see it doing well (sadly)

Posted by: Mr. C. Joel 4th April 2020, 06:50 AM

If they did come back, I don’t see them genuinely wanting a hit anyway, it would probably be a small tour and hopefully a couple of extra tracks just for the fans.

They have always been all about the fans, that’s what I’ve always loved about them.

Posted by: Jay ☆ 4th April 2020, 12:55 PM

Posted by: LikeLeeIs 4th April 2020, 01:25 PM

Teasing us tbh

Posted by: LikeLeeIs 4th April 2020, 01:26 PM

Frankie not including ego , not giving up, what are you waiting for and disco love

Posted by: LikeLeeIs 4th April 2020, 01:27 PM

Or all fired up

:Frankie;

Posted by: Cameron 4th April 2020, 01:45 PM

Frankie was popping a baby out during Disco Love, she probably forgets it exists.

Posted by: Klaus 4th April 2020, 01:48 PM

She spoke about Disco Love on Scott Mills’ show on 5 Live a couple of weeks ago and how she had to be stuck in the campervan �� She initially confused it with 30 Days which she said she didn’t like

Posted by: Liam.k. 4th April 2020, 02:03 PM

'Disco Love' is overrated.

Posted by: kyesolating 4th April 2020, 03:08 PM

even if there are no immediate plans, i think it's encouraging that they were trending + there was some buzz around the idea!

Posted by: P@ul 4th April 2020, 08:08 PM

Their manager Peter liked a comment on their Instagram saying how there is a demand for them to return.He knows they can make some pennies.

Posted by: StupidLove 5th April 2020, 02:26 AM

Una's playlist is just going to be Gentleman on repeat... I remember her saying it was their best single lmao oh Una

Posted by: JulianNial 26th April 2020, 04:51 PM

Really enjoying the B-Sides being on Spotify!

OMG... was just listening to Flashback then Don't Let Me Dance Alone came on afterwards and I bout popgasmed.

Posted by: Liam.k. 8th May 2020, 01:11 AM

The single of 'If This Is Love' has just been (re?)uploaded to Spotify:



Underrated bop.

Posted by: AdamAloud 8th May 2020, 11:34 AM

Quite a nice idea, even if this has reminded me that this was 12 years ago *_*

Posted by: Andrew. 8th May 2020, 12:09 PM

Omg I can't believe they're doing this *.* If This is Love is one of there best, justice for it!

Posted by: JulianNial 8th May 2020, 03:41 PM

Yeh I don't know why so many people don't like it, okay it's rather non-sensical (not a real word, I am aware), but it's a bop and it was one of the songs that made me fall in love with them.

Posted by: JulianNial 8th May 2020, 11:32 PM

Why is 'Lease My Love' in the NZ iTunes chart? Random!

Posted by: Prettylittlebry 9th May 2020, 06:24 PM

omg imagine if this led up to a reunion announcement! As the tweet says it’s the first in a series.. can’t wait to see what new mixes we will get!

Posted by: Jay ☆ 11th May 2020, 12:28 AM

As of 2017 she has mixed feelings about it She didn't end up including it in her playlist either, oop.

“My least favourite… I guess probably Gentleman. I loved it when I heard it first but ended up just not liking it. It didn’t connect with the fans. We used to say to each-other, performing it felt like it was tumbleweed. Fans would be all going for it, and then we’d do Gentleman and the tumbleweed would go across the stage. That’s just being honest, but I love the song - the way people received it made me not like it. It just didn’t connect!”



Nonsensical actually is a word!

I love If This Is Love, it's so underrated. I have so many great memories from around the time it was released, so that makes it an extra special song for me! I saw them four times at Girls Aloud's tour, and I also went to see The Saturdays perform in a few clubs / shopping centres, with a bunch of friends who also liked them. It was a lot of fun travelling around the country and supporting them, and I even met them a few times! I feel a bit that it was 12 years ago, I can't quite believe it!

Good to see that their team is maintaining their social media presence even though they're no longer active, and that they're making changes to their back catalogue on download/streaming sites! Totally unexpected, but I appreciate it. I wish Girls Aloud would get the same treatment.

It was high time that all of The Saturdays' B Sides were available to stream, and I like that their singles are being freshened up too. Some of the tags for the older singles are a bit strange (for instance Issues, Just Can't Get Enough and Work singles are tagged as "All Other BPs", whatever that means!). Other singles have multiple different versions spread out in different releases instead of all being compiled together, so hopefully those will be combined.

Posted by: Dane 11th May 2020, 11:35 PM

Vanessa’s playlist including her original but also one of their best songs Unofficial

How this ended up being JUST A B SIDE. It’s better than most of their album tracks. ‘I could go on and on with reason I should stay, I could go on and on with reason I should go away ‘ is iconic.

Bring them back, I’ve had 2 bottles of wine and I miss them.

Posted by: JulianNial 12th May 2020, 12:14 PM

Oh yeh, it's 'sensical' that isn't a word, my bad.



MOOD! I mean same without the wine, but even more with the wine.

Posted by: Wall 12th May 2020, 10:28 PM

All fired up still remains fresh as f***.

Posted by: StupidLove 13th May 2020, 01:39 PM

Out of all their singles, it's aged the best.

Ego is still a pop music high for me but I couldn't imagine it released now.

Posted by: Liam.k. 14th May 2020, 11:05 PM

Think this could be my favourite from The Saturdays! I think it was the first song I heard from them. Strong memories of the video with the coloured tights!

Posted by: Prettylittlebry 14th May 2020, 11:14 PM

The new mixes sound great!

Posted by: George.keh 14th May 2020, 11:26 PM

these are great really loving them

Posted by: JulianNial 15th May 2020, 10:10 AM

Woah! That Sticky Club Remix is quite something!

I'm assuming these single rereleases are in attempt to push for few more Certs.

I should imagine What About Us is on the cusp on Platinum, If This Is Love and Work could be close to Silver, next for Gold would be Just Can't Get Enough, unless Issues overtook, it picked up quite a lot of sales when Julia Michael's song was in the charts. Who knows, would be interesting to have an update.

Posted by: Prettylittlebry 15th May 2020, 12:32 PM

The sticky remix is my favourite!

Posted by: Liam.k. 15th May 2020, 01:29 PM

These are the estimates by Shireblogger on Haven, up to the end of 2019:


'What About Us' was on 554k in May 2019 and 584k in April 2020, so is shifting ~700 a week. Should be Platinum around October time.

Posted by: Jordan Lee 15th May 2020, 01:47 PM

Chasing Lights is £3.99 on iTunes!

Posted by: Andrew. 15th May 2020, 01:54 PM

Thanks Liam

So Higher might get platinum as well in a few years with how much it's streamed. Honestly I can't see any more certifications for a while though Maybe one of Work/If This is Love could go silver but they don't do great on streaming so I can't see where that 50k is gonna come from. Same for JCGE/Issues going gold as well.

Posted by: Wall 15th May 2020, 02:07 PM

The UP album is almost top 200 on German iTunes!

Posted by: Liam.k. 15th May 2020, 02:14 PM

Smashing it in Hungary!

Hungary iTunes Albums:
2. Up
3. Chasing Lights
4. Wordshaker

Posted by: Jordan Lee 15th May 2020, 02:16 PM

Love those sales stats!

So funny seeing a #10 and #9 peakers being their second and third biggest sellers overall. They often used to get long running hits with their second singles whilst their leads peaked higher typically but sold less iirc.

Posted by: JulianNial 15th May 2020, 04:33 PM

Thanks for the update! I was curious.

Posted by: Chemistry 20th May 2020, 04:58 PM

Thanks for this update, interesting. I had no idea they had 500k sellers! Looking back, they actually did very very well. Sure they were no Girls Aloud or Sugababes in (album) sales, but they had a very good run. Especially when so many other girl groups that came around the same time struggled to even get one hit single.

Posted by: JulianNial 20th May 2020, 05:04 PM

I'm convinced if they decided to wait a couple more months, released Wordshaker off the back of Ego and managed to record a couple of the Headlines! tracks replaced the couple of duds, pushed One Shot as a single, then re-released the album as a Deluxe version in the Summer (Maybe with Higher as the re-release single)... they would have 2 Platinum albums. 'On Your Radar' being released in December was also a choice.

Posted by: StupidLove 21st May 2020, 01:00 PM

I agree, they have so many missed single opportunities it's crazy.

Wordshaker: Lose Control, One Shot

On Your Radar: Faster, Get Ready Get Set, Last Call

LFTW: Leave A Light On

GH: 808

I know they weren't huge touring artists or album sellers, but they sold quite well for singles and should've pushed for more.

Posted by: Andrew. 21st May 2020, 02:00 PM

Omg all those, and Here Standing, The Way You Watch Me and Anywhere with you too. I get why they had some low peaks because OYR, Wordshaker and Chasing Lights were released in Q4 but I don't get why they never sold albums? They were pretty well known and had hit singles but their album sales are so bad, I can't believe a masterpiece like On Your Radar was released in Q4 and sold 60k

Posted by: JulianNial 21st May 2020, 02:00 PM

I could have seen them pushing 'Lose Control', It was great on tour! As cheesy as it is.

On Your Radar could have easily been that era where they pretty much released everything but their management wimped out after 'MHTO' under-performed. The plan was to record a video for 'The Way You Watch Me' with the 'Solo Version' that ended up as B-Side on '30 Days', but due to strong fan backlash, the plans were scrapped and instead of thinking "Let's do Faster/GRGS/Last Call/White Lies" instead they rushed onto '30 Days' before a quite awkwardly long gap until 'What About Us'. They could have saved '30 Days' for a re-release also and voila, OYR would have been at least Gold by now.

As far as LFTW was concerned, I'm pretty confident if 'Not Giving Up' performed better they probably would have pushed 'Leave A Light On' too, in fact they could have squeezed it's release between 'Disco Love' and 'NGU' seeing as there was yet another 6 month + gap between singles during the same album campaign. Bizarre. OR even better, 'NGU/Wildfire' replaces 'Gentleman', 'Leave A Light On' is single 3 and 'Disco Love' 4th single. Another thing that dawned on me, they so could have tried to dub 'Gentleman/Wildfire' a double A-Side.

'808' being wasted will forever be a travesty. That equally with 'One Shot' are the biggest wastes I think.

Posted by: Chemistry 21st May 2020, 02:31 PM

I am honestly not that surprised tbh. They have always striked me as a pure singles act, with sometimes a song that the public could get behind, but without having a massive fanbase that would rush out to buy their stuff. That's why they have had quite an inbalanced chart run with their singles. They were in a very different position compared to Girls Aloud and Sugababes and the time they came out also didn't exactly help.

I do agree it's a shame and undeserved, their albums had some real bops and it would have been nice to see them doing better. Still, like I said earlier, I think they did very very well compared to most other girlbands. Only Girls Aloud, Little Mix and Sugababes had more success as a British girlgroup since 2000.

Posted by: Andrew. 21st May 2020, 02:54 PM

Yeah it's worth noting tbh that unlike 2 of those 3 bands they had to come from nowhere and didn't have a reality show. They didn't really get big performances either sadly, This Morning and Loose Women was as far as it went sometimes :') I'm not making it a competition but I wonder how they'd have done if they got repeated X Factor, BGT performances etc. Not as good as LM obviously but I'm sure their albums could have at least all sold 200k easily.

Posted by: Chemistry 21st May 2020, 03:18 PM

No absolutely, you're right with that. I am also definitely not trying to compare the groups towards each other, as I think they have all done some brilliant stuff during their careers, but I just always felt the gp were never that much behind them, especially not as them as a group and just liking the occasional song. I also don't think being from a reality show helped GA in the long run, as their first record was their worst selling one and I bet no-one expected them to be so successfull for such a long time.

It's interesting what you note about their promotion, and quite bizarre they never booked an X Factor slot. You would expect, with the amount of top 10 hits they had, it would have made a lot more sense. The biggest show they probably promoted on was CIN, with My Heart Takes Over? And look how that went I am still sad that is one of their least performing songs, as to me it's definitely in the top 5 of their best singles.

Posted by: Wall 21st May 2020, 03:23 PM

They actually had an X Factor slot for My Heart Takes Over but they were replaced with a pre-recorded Justin Bieber performance. They were then demoted to Xtra Factor but cancelled it. It would have made On Your Radar a much bigger success and I guess we would have got another single which probably would have been The Way You Watch Me but Faster / Do What You Want With Me could have been big selling singles, especially the latter.

Posted by: Liam.k. 21st May 2020, 03:28 PM

I think by the time The Saturdays arrived, televised promotion was becoming much bigger with the likes of X Factor and BGT etc. The Saturdays' way of promoting on lots of daytime/weekend chart-based TV programmes was a method that worked wonders for Girls Aloud and Sugababes throughout the Noughties but it was becoming more outdated at the turn of the 2010s.

I also think The Saturdays were viewed as a Girls Aloud stand-in whilst they were on hiatus, so the public were here for their singles but weren't invested enough to properly buy into their albums. Also, I think Girls Aloud were pretty well-liked by critics as far as pop bands go, which I don't think The Saturdays had, which may have affected their sales.

This isn't a slight on the girls btw, I love their music and they worked extremely hard. I just think they had a fair bit stacked against them.

Posted by: Chemistry 22nd May 2020, 07:21 AM

I would have to agree with this, yes. As much as I like them as well. Girls Aloud were quite respected by critics, especially from Chemistry onwards (especially for a manufactured pop act), and The Sats never had that. Their music was also slightly more typical girlband-ish and probably stand out enough for people to get interested in a full album.

Posted by: Spiceboy 22nd May 2020, 05:38 PM

Their single sales are pretty impressive to be honest, over 4 million singles, all in all they have probably sold about 5 million records which, considering they were very much UK based and never really hit the big time, isn't bad at all.

Posted by: Liam.k. 22nd May 2020, 05:41 PM

Another favourite that packs a lot of nostalgic value. I remember listening to this following a year 7 relationship break up!

Posted by: Spiceboy 22nd May 2020, 05:43 PM

Awww how sweet

Posted by: P@ul 23rd May 2020, 05:18 PM

They performed What About US on Strictly in 2013 which rated higher than X Factor and BGT at the time if I recall correctly.

Posted by: JulianNial 23rd May 2020, 09:49 PM

Whilst they were supposed to be promoting 'Disco Love'.

Also could have been a great opportunity to push 'Not Giving Up'.

Posted by: Wall 24th May 2020, 03:32 PM

The what about us performance legit didn’t even put it back top 200 on iTunes!

I think they performed what about us because frankie had returned from pregnancy and their strictly performance was very last minute, I believe Robbie pulled out?

Posted by: Liam.k. 29th May 2020, 11:43 AM

I know people usually grown at pop bands covering 80s classics but I love this cover! The radio mix is better than the video mix, but the video itself is great - so fun and cheeky!

Posted by: Andrew. 29th May 2020, 12:03 PM

JCGE might be their worst single for me oops, I love cheese but it’s just too much

Posted by: Chemistry 29th May 2020, 12:15 PM

Same for me! I don't think I have ever listened to it after the era was over

Posted by: Cameron 29th May 2020, 01:32 PM

We'll get Work next week then. I hope it manages to pick up a few sales.

Posted by: Prettylittlebry 29th May 2020, 02:42 PM

JCGE is my least fave of their whole discography. Hasn’t dated well for me

Posted by: JulianNial 29th May 2020, 03:08 PM

OKAY but I'm having a blood orange gin in the sun and I'm enjoying it far too much!

#JusticeForWork next week! We should start a campaign to get it into the iTunes charts.

Posted by: Wall 29th May 2020, 03:16 PM

Just Can’t Get Enough is an absolute bop, if y’all can tell me a better comic relief / sports relief song I’ll argue against it.

Posted by: Liam.k. 29th May 2020, 03:28 PM

Yes for the 'Just Can't Get Enough' support, although I'd have to say 'Some Girls' beats it for best Comic/Sports Relief song.

Posted by: Jay ☆ 29th May 2020, 04:22 PM

Also Rachel Stevens - Some Girls is better than a lot of Saturdays singles, let alone Just Can't Get Enough!



I always found it a bit unusual that they used a different mix for the Just Can't Get Enough music video than what was played on the radio and ultimately what they included on Chasing Lights. What was the rationale? The Radio Mix is definitely superior!

Remixes missing from these digital reissues so far:

If This Is Love (Moto Blanco Dub) [7:47]
Up (Wideboys Dub) [6:01]
Up (Sticky Dub) [5:20]
Up (Hypersonic Mix) [3:20]
Issues (Digital Dog Dub) [6:52]
Just Can't Get Enough (Wideboys Radio Edit) [3:25]

They could have thrown Instrumentals on too!

I appreciate the effort though, it's going to look so neat once they've finished reissuing them all I'm sure I've said this before but I would love for Girls Aloud to get the same treatment.

Posted by: Wall 29th May 2020, 11:31 PM

No jay baby no

Posted by: Chemistry 30th May 2020, 06:07 AM

Who Do You Think You Are, Some Girls, Uptown Girl, just to name a few

Posted by: Wall 30th May 2020, 10:32 AM

Uptown Girl is a bop

Posted by: Liam.k. 30th May 2020, 10:41 AM

Spirit in the Sky is also a guilty pleasure.

Posted by: Spiceboy 30th May 2020, 12:50 PM

Who do you think you are

Also
- When the going get's tough (Boyzone)
- Some girls (Rachel Stevens)
- Uptown girl (Westlife)
- All about you (McFly)
- Love can build a bridge (Cher )

Basically... any... other... charity... single (apart from Liberty X one but wasn't that CIN???)

Posted by: Wall 30th May 2020, 12:53 PM

Anymore Zara shade that’s where I’ll put you x

Posted by: Chemistry 30th May 2020, 04:42 PM

A Night To Remember was indeed CIN and was still quite the bop. Obviously no Just A Little or Got To Have Your Love, but still very enjoyable.

Posted by: Jay ☆ 30th May 2020, 05:22 PM

Posted by: Liam.k. 4th June 2020, 11:22 PM

This was another favourite of mine at the time! All the singles from this era were great tbh. A shame it couldn't go Top 20 for them but I guess it did alright for a fifth single?

Posted by: Andrew. 4th June 2020, 11:33 PM

Complete and utter BOP. It would've peaked at #17 if it wasn't for MJ's death as well which is fine for a 5th single in the download era I agree. Can we just relieve this as well:



I play this performance a lot

Posted by: JulianNial 5th June 2020, 10:40 AM

I'm still surprised it didn't rise the week after, but I guess most of the bigger fans already had the album at that point.


An unfortunate peak but nevertheless still one of my favourites by them.

Posted by: Liam.k. 5th June 2020, 11:48 AM

That iconic Mollie note. *.* Sarah Harding could never.

Posted by: Andrew. 5th June 2020, 11:51 AM

It's like their team said 'right this is a great opportunity guys and you're gonna get the chance to show the public you can sing live' then Mollie made that note and they urgently pressed play on the track

Posted by: Liam.k. 5th June 2020, 12:08 PM

Yes!! That just makes it even better! :')

Posted by: Wall 7th June 2020, 01:01 PM

Vanessa is one of the favourites to take part in Strictly Come Dancing this year. Watch her get eliminated round 1’

Posted by: StupidLove 8th June 2020, 12:38 AM

Popstar to Operastar, I'm A Celebrity... of course Strictly was next given 2/5 of them had already competed

Posted by: JulianNial 8th June 2020, 09:55 AM

Quoting myself, it did reenter a in a few countries including NZ and Austria. The power of these rereleases!

Posted by: Andrew. 11th June 2020, 02:34 PM

Finally

Posted by: Prettylittlebry 11th June 2020, 11:39 PM

Liking The Dealer remix of Forever is Over!

Posted by: Liam.k. 11th June 2020, 11:43 PM

Didn't like this as much as their previous singles at the time, but it has similar nostalgic value and I do like it much more now.

Posted by: JulianNial 12th June 2020, 04:04 PM

Another case of B-side is better than single.

Wordshaker could have been made instantly better if they switched 'I Can't Wait' with... I dunno, probably 'No One'.

Posted by: StupidLove 12th June 2020, 04:43 PM

Yep always re-placed No One with I Can't Wait on my laptop when I was younger how it made the album I have no clue!

Posted by: Prettylittlebry 12th June 2020, 11:32 PM

No One is quite forgettable tbh, not a song I think of really.

Posted by: Chemistry 15th June 2020, 09:17 AM

https://audioboom.com/posts/7606500-the-saturdays

Has anyone else listened to this? The guys of Right Back At Ya! (a podcast that celebrates 00's pop music and is honestly the funniest podcast I have ever listened it) have done an episode about The Saturdays. Such a nice trip down to memory lane! Made me re-discover some forgotten album tracks as well.

Posted by: JulianNial 15th June 2020, 09:10 PM

I totally didn't just make a 'Headshaker (Deluxe Edition)' playlist and am letting it shine high up in my playlists on Spotify AT ALL.

'I Can't Wait' made it... 'No One' didn't.

In other news, what on Earth is this?!

Forever Is Over

iTunes:
#167 New Zealand
#168 New Zealand
#169 New Zealand
#170 New Zealand
#171 New Zealand
#174 New Zealand

Posted by: Andrew. 16th June 2020, 06:08 AM

They have a new fan in New Zealand *.*

Posted by: Chemistry 16th June 2020, 06:49 AM

Get that NZ smash, girls!

Posted by: P@ul 19th June 2020, 07:37 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv4MYqzg-P4

There’s a lot of buzz around this in Ireland. Una about to get that first Irish number 1!

Posted by: Liam.k. 19th June 2020, 07:47 PM

Another classic! I kinda forgot what a great run of singles they had. They were definitely flying the girlband flag high with Girls Aloud on hiatus and Sugababes on their way out.

Posted by: Wall 19th June 2020, 08:09 PM

Una #1 on Irish iTunes!

Posted by: Wall 20th June 2020, 11:29 PM

Their live performances truly became tragic during the promotion of Greatest Hits and What Are You Waiting For! You can tell they couldn’t really be arsed anymore.

Posted by: Liam.k. 25th June 2020, 11:07 PM

I feel like this one is quite underrated / overlooked in favour of the full-on pop bangers. I really like it! It's a bit like a summery version of 'Issues'.

Just checked out the critical reception on Wiki - yikes, they were harsh!

Posted by: Andrew. 25th June 2020, 11:10 PM

Frankie was the lead singer, I'm not surprised

This is fine, it just doesn't quite go where I need it to. Towards the bottom of their singles discography ngl

Posted by: Wall 25th June 2020, 11:18 PM

The acoustic version is lush

I think Missing You gets a lot of hate because it missed #1 and was released instead of Higher. The amount of promotion Missing You got was the most I’ve ever seen an artist get but it mainly before it was released and it even got to 99.7% on Livepopbars before it started free falling and ended up debuting at #3. I still feel like Higher would have somehow been even bigger had it been released as the lead but in general Missing You was a good album seller and Headlines was a huge success.

Missing You is very overrated and when you hear it for the first time in a while it still sounds a bit fresh in comparison to their other singles!

Posted by: Wall 25th June 2020, 11:25 PM

They’re still managing 1.3m listeners a month on Spotify which is pretty good!

Issues has now managed to pass 10m streams and What About Us has now managed to pass 35m streams... almost 1m behind Higher

Current Top 10 atm
What about us
Higher
Ego
When love takes over (lol)
Issues
Disco Love
All fired up (FINALLY)
Greatest Hits Megamix
Just Can’t Get Enough
Up
notorious !!!
Missing You! (Would be nice if this can climb a bit too)

Posted by: Chemistry 26th June 2020, 08:55 AM

It's pretty insane they have more monthly listeners than Girls Aloud.

Missing You is such a bop Definitely one of their most underrated songs, as it seems a lot of fans don't enjoy it that much. Perfect summer song and it will always remind me of my trip to London during the release week.

Posted by: P@ul 5th July 2020, 06:04 AM

“I miss them all a lot,” she says. “I get very nostalgic especially at this time of year because it is now 13 years since we all first met and started as The Saturdays. I miss strutting around in heels on stage as well. I am still in touch all the time with all the girls so when the time is right, I wouldn’t rule out a reunion.”

Una giving us the closest hope yet.

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/amp.independent.ie/style/celebrity/home-schooling-two-kids-under-eight-was-interesting-una-healy-on-life-in-lockdown-and-a-possible-saturdays-reunion-39340032.html

Posted by: JulianNial 10th July 2020, 12:30 AM

This still bothers me.

Posted by: WinterFreeze 10th July 2020, 02:08 AM

I never knew there was a Notorious remix featuring Chipmunk until now.

Posted by: Cameron 16th July 2020, 04:41 PM

Cheryl Hole is doing a podcast on The Sats and Mollie is a guest: https://ggg.worldofwonder.com/episodes/the-saturdays-with-riyadh-khalaf-and-mollie-king

Posted by: Andrew. 16th July 2020, 04:43 PM

Day MADE

Posted by: shadow2009 16th July 2020, 05:25 PM

It's funny because I grew up with The Saturdays being the only girl group on the scene and was a huge fan (still am)..but when you watch Little Mix, Fifth Harmony and GRL performances you really see just how bad The Sats were. Like, they had a seriously strong discography + were lovely people + they always nailed their acoustics but even The Honest Vocal Coach was constantly criticising them and looking unimpressed while she was blown away by other girl bands.

They just never seemed to have that fire inside them to become the worlds biggest girl band. Fifth Harmony get stick for their drama and their out of sync choreography which is fair enough but you saw those girls perform for their lives. They worked their asses off performing in malls and doing tiny gigs to build up a fanbase and even when they were travelling the world and performing to black curtained arenas you still saw them (kinda minus Lauren) being so extra and dramatic and putting 100% into every dance routine and vocal. Little Mix are pretty much the perfect girl band and have everything from vocals to dancing to stage presence on lock. Girls Aloud weren't great vocalists but you saw the energy in their performances and their tours were huge because people knew they could put on a show. GRL were like world class performers before they released their debut single.

Then you re-watch The Saturdays and it's just painful. Frankie and Mollie are weak singers, Vanessa's voice was cracking for half their run, Una and Rochelle were inconsistant and then there was all the out of sync dancing, awful pre-recorded 'live' vocals and they just looked so bored half the time. Their Tumble performance was supposed to be a celebration of their Greatest Hits and they had a tour to promote and yet they just stood there?

Even half their 'good' performances I've watched back and still aren't nowhere near the standard they should be.

EDIT - Wow at Una getting a top 13 smash in Ireland this year. Biggest solo Saturdays hit!!

Posted by: P@ul 21st July 2020, 11:25 AM

Una has moved back to Ireland and has been teasing something exciting coming soon. I can see her releasing another album, focusing on the Irish market and continue an Irish television and radio career.

On a side note, I’m still confused why The Saturday’s artist page was taken away while there is still an artist page for Girls Aloud.
The Popjustice page is constantly active, The girls are fairly busy, The Saturday’s social media pages are still active and a reunion is still possible with 3/5 of them meeting recently.

Posted by: shadow2009 21st July 2020, 11:41 AM

LOL @ them talking about their schedule and not realising how busy they would be when they first started.

Their biggest tour was 14 dates in the UK, their promo was morning TV shows once every few months and their music videos were one day affairs in studios and on beaches.

Posted by: Andrew. 21st July 2020, 09:16 PM

Tbh this. When they come back with a #1 smash this year the forum will have to return anyway x

Posted by: George.keh 21st July 2020, 09:19 PM

Listening to the Cheryl Hole podcast now and isn’t it fab really bringing back loads of mems!

Posted by: P@ul 23rd July 2020, 12:05 PM

Una’s new single “Until You” is being premiered on RTE Radio 1 tomorrow morning

https://twitter.com/rteradio1/status/1286227359310450688?s=21

Posted by: P@ul 24th July 2020, 03:22 PM

Una is #6 on Irish iTunes.

Posted by: JulianNial 26th July 2020, 10:52 PM

Their cover of Christmas Wrapping is #19 on Hungarian iTunes!!

Year round Sleighage.

Posted by: George.keh 26th July 2020, 10:59 PM

why not!

Posted by: Chemistry 27th July 2020, 09:37 AM

100% agree.

I have always loved The Sats since If This Is Love came out. They released bop after bop, seemed like the nicest girls and they were basically the only girlband around at that time, but having said that- they were just very basic. Nothing stood really out and especially their live peformances were just not that. Like you said, Girls Aloud were maybe not the strongest singers (except for queen Nicola and Nadine), but they always put on a SHOW and stood out. All Saints and Sugababes are amazing vocalists, Spice Girls are just Spice Girls and LM are brilliant performers. The Sats were a bit like Atomic Kitten, although the latter did have some more cultural impact and atleast two MASSIVE pop classics.

Posted by: P@ul 29th July 2020, 10:53 PM

@jaynecollinsmac “Like being in a time warp with these two lovely people. Lots of memories with @FrankieBridge , @MaxGeorge and I all working on the same project! @TheSaturdays @thewanted“

Hmm interesting. Frankie working with their old manager Jayne and Max from the Wanted on something...

Posted by: JulianNial 31st July 2020, 02:58 PM

A joint Sats + Wanted reunion is something I'd like.

As if.

Posted by: Wall 2nd August 2020, 05:33 PM

Really weird she’s working with Jayne after everything that happened following Wordshaker

Posted by: Cameron 2nd August 2020, 06:13 PM

What even happened with Jayne?

I can't remember the name of their other manager (was it Peter?) he was awful... He legit just let them go on holiday and do the bare minimum 24/7

Posted by: Wall 2nd August 2020, 06:24 PM

From what I remember

• Jayne originally banned Rochelle from dating Marvin or any other boy band members

• She told both Vanessa & Rochelle they were too big to be in girl groups, and is thought to have put them on diet pills

• Refused to give them any time off which forced Frankie into being signed off sick with exhaustion during their first album campaign

Posted by: Jay Something 7th August 2020, 09:30 AM

What About Us digital re-issue is now available!

Their team has slightly altered a few of their artworks, including this one - it's now the full uncropped image, and it's no longer at a slight angle. A gif to demonstrate the change:



1. What About Us
2. Somebody Else's Life (Acoustic)
3. What About Us (Extended Mix)
4. What About Us (2nd Adventure Radio Edit)
5. What About Us (Guy Scheiman Radio Edit)
6. What About Us [feat. Sean Paul]
7. What About Us (The Buzz Junkies Radio Edit) [feat. Sean Paul]
8. What About Us (Seamus Haji Radio Edit) [feat. Sean Paul]
9. What About Us (2nd Adventure Club Mix)
10. What About Us (Guy Scheiman Club Mix)
11. What About Us (The Buzz Junkies Club Mix)
12. What About Us (Seamus Haji Club Mix)

Versions not included in this new EP version:

Instrumental
12" Version
The Buzz Junkies Radio Edit
The Buzz Junkies Club Mix [feat. Sean Paul]
Seamus Haji Radio Edit
Seamus Haji Club Mix [feat. Sean Paul]
Seamus Haji Remix Instrumental

Posted by: Liam.k. 7th August 2020, 03:52 PM

Very fittingly, 'What About Us' has just been certified Platinum!

Posted by: Jay Something 7th August 2020, 05:42 PM

Yay, it's about time! All the biggest girl groups of the past 25 years have at least one platinum single, so I'm glad The Saturdays have finally joined that league.

I guess it won't be too much longer until Higher becomes their second platinum single - maybe in a year? Other girl groups with two platinum singles: Sugababes, Girls Aloud, Atomic Kitten & All Saints.

Posted by: Wall 8th August 2020, 12:20 PM

Yeh, 'Higher' is getting more streams than What About Us so I would guess that it's on 540,000?

Posted by: JulianNial 8th August 2020, 04:58 PM

FINALLY!

So well deserved and it looks so right on their Discography page on Wiki.

Would be nice to see a couple more certs in the next couple of years. as you say I imagine 'Higher' will be next and there is a chance of 'Just Can't Get Enough' and 'Issues' getting Gold at some point, I'd love for 'All Fired Up' to get there but I think that'll take a long time! A bit more of a stretch, but to see another 'Silver' cert in the 'Chasing Lights' era would be beautiful!

Posted by: Wall 25th August 2020, 09:05 PM

Mollie King has played The Saturdays 25 times on BBC Radio 1 this year.

They’ve been played 29 times in total throughout 2020, despite being inactive for 7 years.

Posted by: P@ul 28th August 2020, 09:30 AM

Rochelle is interviewing Una on This Morning today!

Posted by: Chemistry 28th August 2020, 09:41 AM

Bless her

Are those total plays for Radio 1 only?

Posted by: P@ul 28th August 2020, 10:27 AM

God Rochelle just called Una’s new single “Until Now” and ignored Una when she corrected her. What a mess

Posted by: JulianNial 28th August 2020, 05:46 PM

Yeh that's just Radio 1.

All Fired Up - 9 Plays
Higher (feat. Flo Rida) - 6 Plays
Up (Radio Edit) - 6 Plays
Ego - 2 Plays
What About Us (feat. Sean Paul) - 2 Plays
Gentleman - 1 Play
Issues - 1 Play

Posted by: Wall 28th August 2020, 06:35 PM

OMFG

Posted by: Wall 28th August 2020, 06:39 PM

Gentleman getting more plays than notorious or disco love

Posted by: Cameron 28th August 2020, 10:12 PM

Rochelle was so awkward to Una. You could see Una was like 'eh' the whole time. I've never liked Rochelle's presenter persona.

Posted by: Andrew. 29th August 2020, 08:36 AM

I love to see a Saturday on TV so much in 2020 but I don’t get how she’s so successful on The Hit List and especially if I catch This Morning while she’s on her presenting is so bland. Mollie is a better presenter, this made me scream the other day

Posted by: P@ul 29th August 2020, 06:45 PM

I genuinely only think she has become so successful because the husband and wife brand created by her and Marvin.
This interview was so awkward. Not helped by the fact it was over zoom but you’d think they could have done something a bit more interesting than have Una blabber about her uncle Declan and country roots for the 100th time You could tell Rochelle was unimpressed when Una tried to bring up a sats reunion too.
I wish it was Mollie interviewing her because I think only Frankie, Mollie and Una seem to have a proper friendship still

Posted by: diva thin muffin 29th August 2020, 09:49 PM

Why was One Shot (esp the Starsmith remix) never released as a single? Rediscovered it recently and it's on constant replay *.*

Posted by: Wall 30th August 2020, 04:00 PM

Yeh it was actually so awkward but it’s like Rochelle did it on purpose

Posted by: JulianNial 30th August 2020, 04:12 PM

I honestly believe the 'Starsmith Remix' was created intended to be the 'Single Edit' to be the 3rd single for 'Wordshaker' until they decided to move forward to 'Headlines!', I wish they squeezed in it's release somewhere between 'Ego' and 'Notorious' anyway. I know there was some hesitation to release it due to JLS' 'One Shot' being released a month after 'Ego', but that's free press in it's self, battle of the 'One Shots'.

CRIMINAL that it wasn't released.

Posted by: Jay* 4th September 2020, 05:06 AM

All Fired Up was released 9 years ago on this date!

Also the What Are You Waiting For? re-issue was released today

Posted by: JulianNial 4th September 2020, 07:24 AM

When the B-Side is a cover and has 3x the streams of the single.

So it seems like it's their last week of reissues, HOWEVER let's dream that they decide to release 808 next week. It's actually Tik Tok ready.

Posted by: JulianNial 15th September 2020, 05:00 PM

'All Fired Up' entering their top 5 on Spotify feels correct.

Down with the 'When Love Takes Over' cover.

Posted by: P@ul 28th September 2020, 02:12 PM

Una dating a Hollywood A Lister might just be the best story of 2020.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8778403/Sam-Claflin-Una-Healy-messaging.html

Posted by: Dane 7th February 2021, 11:23 PM

Really random but just watching Aaron Renfree’s live and he just said that it was between What Are You Waiting For & 808 to be released as the last single and apparently the girls didn’t even know which song they were flying out to go record the video for. Madness. Justice for 808!

Posted by: Cameron 8th February 2021, 12:01 AM

That is so THEM.

Posted by: JSG 8th February 2021, 08:08 PM

808 would have been a great last single. I loved What Are You Waiting For at the time as well!

Posted by: Prettylittlebry 8th February 2021, 09:27 PM

Typical Sats wrong single choice. I really think they had the most missed opportunities of any girl group.

Chasing Lights
One Shot
Lose Control
Puppet
Get Ready, Get Set
Faster
White Lies
Last Call
808

Posted by: TalkAboutWall 8th February 2021, 09:52 PM

I still get mad over the way the on the radar campaign was handled but at the same time the singles choices were perfect, I would have preferred faster over 30 days or do what you want with me but by going with 30 days it followed a #1 single!

808 would have been a perfect final single but I wonder how different the video would have been

Posted by: JulianNial 9th February 2021, 01:05 AM

I feel like they wanted 808 as the single but the record company got funding for the video etc from First Choice and realised the set would suit WAYWF more so went with it. I do like it but 808 would have smashed!

Yeh the missed singles ops were countless really... You missed 'Wildfire', 'Leave A Light On' and honestly I wouldn't have been mad with ''Wordshaker', Anywhere With You' or 'Here Standing'.

Posted by: tommie 9th February 2021, 08:36 AM

No one really decides singles or films videos like that though - you need backing tracks in order, plans for how to shoot things, who sings what etc etc.

If anything - if the story is true - it just sounds like very bad communication between them, their label and their management, which explains why everything went tits up.

Posted by: JulianNial 9th February 2021, 10:38 AM

I didn't mean they literally decided on the day or days before just somewhere in the pipeline leading up the video shoot being planned. But yeh probably not how it happened anyway.

Just Can't Get Enough is top 20 on Norwegian iTunes... random! Must be an advert or something.

Posted by: JulianNial 19th February 2021, 10:25 PM

'Finest Selection' is now Gold! I'd love another of their albums to get there!

'Higher' is very much on the cusp of Platinum and I should imagine 'Issues' and 'Just Can't Get Enough' can't be far off Gold now.

Posted by: TalkAboutWall 19th February 2021, 10:27 PM

How many sales is gold again, 100,000?

Pull through Higher!!

I wonder if higher could outsell What About Us? It’s always higher on streaming playlists

Posted by: JulianNial 19th February 2021, 10:35 PM

Gold is 400,000 sales and you knew that
I'm sure only last update 'Issues' was around 350,000 and 'JCGE' was on '320,000'

I'm imagining Higher is around the 590,000 mark more or less around 20,000 behind 'What About Us' and yes 'Higher' is catching it up fast with the streams.

Posted by: TalkAboutWall 20th February 2021, 12:07 AM

I meant for album!

Posted by: JulianNial 20th February 2021, 03:25 PM

Oh right, my bad! Sorry! Yeh it's 100,000!

Posted by: Juliannnial 7th March 2021, 02:09 PM

With 'Mollie King' being in the spotlight today on Buzzjack, I thought I'd give you an approximate sales update for The Sats albums.

albums:
Chasing Lights (400,000)
Headlines! (290,000)
Finest Selection: Greatest Hits (100,000)
On Your Radar (93,000)
Wordshaker (91,000)
Living For The Weekend (50,000)

Headlines!, On Your Radar, Wordshaker and Living For The Weekend could all collect new certifications relatively soon.

Singles wise 'Higher' will be their next song to go Platinum and their cover of 'Just Can't Get Enough' and 'Issues' are next set to go Gold. In regards to singles going 'Silver', I'd say 'Work' could get there eventually, I predict it to be on around 160,000 sales right now, so it might take YEARS.

Posted by: Liam.k. 7th March 2021, 02:30 PM

Chasing Lights was just below Chemistry by Girls Aloud in a 2019 OCC list of best selling girl band albums; Chemistry was on 395k that year so I don’t think Chasing Lights will have sold much more than its 2013 total of 385k.

Headlines was just below One Touch by Sugababes on the list. Last know total for One Touch was 220k in 2009 but I doubt it’s added that many sales to that total.

Posted by: Juliannnial 7th March 2021, 02:44 PM

Oops, sorry dodgy Twitter source, I'll lower it to around 400,000 since that's much more realistic. Maybe the source was supposed to say 405,000?

Posted by: shadow2009 17th March 2021, 09:44 PM

Greatest Hits Megamix is 133 on iTunes. Another campaign?

Posted by: Juliannnial 18th March 2021, 01:59 AM

Yeh it was a Twitter campaign which was inspired by our 'Back To You' campaign.

Posted by: Dane 18th March 2021, 10:57 AM

It got to number 93 I do believe.

Posted by: Juliannnial 19th March 2021, 12:00 PM

Well... at least it did "something", I was going to help out but I already have Finest Selection downloaded.

Posted by: Anth 22nd March 2021, 10:46 PM

Has there been any interviews where one of the girls has said the reason why the group never came back together? I have watched interviews from round about the greatest hits era circa 2014 and they always said a new album was on its way and they weren’t splitting, I’m quite curious to know what actually happened

Posted by: StupidLove 23rd March 2021, 12:43 AM

So weird how close their albums are to new certifications haha

Posted by: tommie 23rd March 2021, 07:14 AM

Those sound a tad optimistc, especially the Living For The Weekend one? My understanding is that the two (or three?) most popular tracks don't contribute to the "sales" of an album and that one had sold like 20-25k at the end of the chart-run. I'd also assume that a lot of the streaming of the singles go towards the Finest Selection and not the albums.



Honestly, if it's not schlager season it takes very little to impact Scandinavian iTunes - I bought an Annie track once and it shot up to the top ten for a bit, so it could just literally be a random purchase.

Posted by: Bré 24th March 2021, 12:57 AM

quoting myself from the last time you posted this misconception

Posted by: Juliannnial 24th March 2021, 05:31 AM

Again sorry guys I just got excited by a dodgy Twitter post and thought the numbers sounded somewhat realistic. Do you really think it's super optimistic to think that 'Living For The Weekend' has sold the same in 8 years as it did in 5 or 6 weeks

Oh and the Scandi itunes thing.. I thought as much.

The only way we are going to know if these are realistic is if we get a new cert soon or a sales update which will only happen with a reunion announcement.

Posted by: tommie 24th March 2021, 06:57 AM

In general, studio albums just don't tend to sell that much even with trickle sales from streaming. Fan updates tend to be a tad over-optimistic.

I mean, a huge group like the Spice Girls sell around 10k of their most popular studio album (Spice) per year, 3-4k of their second most popular album (Spiceworld) and let's not even mention Forever (less than 1000?). And the first two of those contained 7 number one singles (8 if you count Who Do You Think You Are and Mama as seperate tracks) and a number 2 hit! Unless there are updates where we know exact sales from year A and year B we can't really know what the average sales are for their studio albums.

Posted by: Juliannnial 24th March 2021, 11:05 AM

Ahh that's a shame, it did look so good to see them all so close to certification, at this rate it seems like they won't see anything for YEARS to come then. At least it's still nice to see their singles getting there.

Posted by: -Jay- 27th May 2021, 11:56 AM

Rochelle is adding celebrity cook/author to her résumé!

Posted by: Simon. 28th May 2021, 01:22 PM

Only just discovered ‘I Say Okay’ by them, it’s so good how did I miss it at the time.

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 28th May 2021, 01:59 PM

No baby no

The On Your Radar album is so amazing though, I Say Ok and Promise Me are the only duds

Posted by: Dangerous Julian 28th May 2021, 02:05 PM

BLASPHEMY!! Promise Me is bop!

I'll take it over 'Do What You Want With Me' any day of the week.

Posted by: Simon. 28th May 2021, 02:14 PM

Really Let i say okay in already.

Posted by: Dangerous Julian 28th May 2021, 03:56 PM

For me she's the Wordshaker - 2am of the album... cute occasionally but usually a skip.

I like that you stan it though, go give them those streams honey, WE NEED THAT GOLD CERT FOR THIS ALBUM.

Posted by: Dangerous Julian 28th May 2021, 03:56 PM

For me she's the Wordshaker - 2am of the album... cute occasionally but usually a skip.

I like that you stan it though, go give them those streams honey, WE NEED THAT GOLD CERT FOR THIS ALBUM.

Posted by: Simon. 28th May 2021, 04:43 PM

You skip Wordshaker too?!?

Posted by: Dangerous Julian 28th May 2021, 05:43 PM

Hell nawww! I just meant 2am from Wordshaker. I could have put it better. I thought maybe if you had never listened to 'On Your Radar' that maybe you didn't know the album tracks of Wordshaker.

Posted by: Simon. 28th May 2021, 06:32 PM

OH no it was very much me being slow, I also skip 2am.

Posted by: ClaudiaKinkleman 28th May 2021, 06:48 PM

Oh my word I think I Say OK is one of the worst songs in their discography (only second to What Am I Gonna Do?)

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 28th May 2021, 10:50 PM

All fired up is still timeless

Posted by: Tafty 29th May 2021, 12:10 AM

I SAY OK IS A BANGER AND YOU WILL ALL DEAL!

TF IS WRONG WITH YOU ALL!?

Posted by: PAJ 29th May 2021, 12:17 AM

I’ve always liked I Say OK.

Posted by: sjadeupdate 29th May 2021, 02:57 AM

I've been obsessed with The Saturdays again lately. Glad the topic is still alive. I've been eating "Ego" and the underrated "Not Giving Up" all day everyday.

Posted by: JSG 29th May 2021, 06:38 AM

I went through all their single videos on YouTube a couple weeks ago and watched some of their live performances. There really is quite a stark difference performance wise between their first & their final single, which is always good of course!

Posted by: Dangerous Julian 29th May 2021, 05:02 PM

A diet fit for a Saint.

Posted by: PAJ 29th May 2021, 10:05 PM

Ego is one of my favourites by them, never really clicked with Not Giving Up.

Posted by: Alberto! 29th May 2021, 11:18 PM

Ego is ironically one of their songs I skip regularly, and I'm normally a big fan of any other single/most album tracks.

Posted by: Dane 30th May 2021, 12:01 PM

WHATTT! Promise Me is a certified bop

I Say Ok is literally Ok. One of my least favourite is probably 2am & Open Up ( ) on Wordshaker, still cringe when Mollie starts singing she sounds so cheesy haha.


I go through phases where I literally wont listen to any of there music for ages and then binge listen to them all over again haha. Last year they were my 4th most played artist on Spotify.

Posted by: Dangerous Julian 30th May 2021, 02:21 PM

I completely forgot about 'No One'... not terrible just a bit boring (similar to the majority of the second half of Living For The Weekend). Personally I kind of like 'Open Up' as cheesy as it is.

Posted by: Billy. 30th May 2021, 02:46 PM

Open Up is one of my fav songs of theirs! ‘I tried but babe, I couldn’t get a taxi’’

Posted by: StupidLove 31st May 2021, 12:14 PM

White Lies and Last Call are still the most underrated songs on On Your Radar!!

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 31st May 2021, 02:02 PM

tea

Posted by: ClaudiaKinkleman 31st May 2021, 02:40 PM

Chasing Lights
01. Work
02. Up
03. If This Is Love
04. Set Me Off
05. Lies
06. Chasing Lights
07. Issues
08. Fall
09. Just Can’t Get Enough
10. Keep Her
11. Why Me, Why Now
12. Vulnerable

Wordshaker
01. Ego
02. Denial
03. One Shot
04. Forever Is Over
05. Wordshaker
06. Open Up
07. Lose Control
08. Not Good Enough
09. Here Standing
10. Deeper
11. 2am
12. No One

Headlines!
01. Higher (feat. Flo Rida)
02. Missing You
03. Karma
04. Puppet
05. Died In Your Eyes

On Your Radar
01. Notorious
02. All Fired Up
03. Move On U
04. For Myself
05. Faster
06. White Lies
07. My Heart Takes Over
08. Last Call
09. Promise Me
10. Get Ready, Get Set
11. Do What You Want With Me
12. The Way You Watch Me (feat. Travie McCoy)
13. Wish I Didn’t Know
14. I Say Ok

Living For the Weekend
01. Not Giving Up
02. Disco Love
03. What About Us (feat. Sean Paul)
04. Gentleman
05. 30 Days
06. Leave a Light On
07. Don’t Let Me Dance Alone
08. Lease My Love
09. Anywhere With You
10. You Don’t Have the Right
11. Somebody Else’s Life
12. Problem With Love

Finest Selection
01. 808
02. Walking Through the Desert
03. What Are You Waiting For?

B-Sides
01. Not That Kinda Girl
02. Flashback
03. Ladykiller
04. Bigger
05. Turn Myself In
06. Wildfire
07. Crashing Down
08. On the Radio
09. Love Come Down
10. Unofficial
11. Somebody Else’s Life (Acoustic)
12. So Stupid
13. Golden Rules
14. Had It With Today
15. When Love Takes Over
16. I Can’t Wait
17. Ready To Rise
18. What Am I Gonna Do
19. Beggin’

Posted by: Dangerous Julian 5th June 2021, 04:18 PM

Chasing Lights
01. Work
02. Up
03. Chasing Lights
04. If This Is Love
05. Issues
06. Set Me Off
17. Keep Her
08. Lies
09. Fall
10. Just Can’t Get Enough
11. Why Me, Why Now
12. Vulnerable

Wordshaker
01. Ego
02. One Shot
03. Wordshaker
04. Forever Is Over
05. Here Standing
06. Lose Control
07. Open Up
08. Denial
09. Not Good Enough
10. Deeper
11. No One
12. 2am

Headlines!
01. Higher (feat. Flo Rida)
02. Missing You
03. Puppet
04. Karma
05. Died In Your Eyes

On Your Radar
01. All Fired Up
02. Notorious
03. White Lies
04. Get Ready, Get Set
05. Last Call
06. Faster
07. My Heart Takes Over
08. Move On U
09. Promise Me
10. Wish I Didn’t Know
11. For Myself
12. Do What You Want With Me
13. The Way You Watch Me (feat. Travie McCoy)
14. I Say Ok

Living For the Weekend
01. Not Giving Up
02. Disco Love
03. What About Us (feat. Sean Paul)
04. Anywhere With You
05. Leave a Light On
06. 30 Days
07. Don’t Let Me Dance Alone
08. Lease My Love
09. Gentleman
10. You Don’t Have the Right
11. Problem With Love
12. Somebody Else’s Life

Finest Selection
01. 808
02. What Are You Waiting For?
03. Walking Through the Desert

B-Sides
01. Wildfire
02. Flashback
03. Not That Kinda Girl
04. So Stupid
05. I Can’t Wait
06. Ladykiller
07. Bigger
08. Unofficial
09. Love Come Down
10. Turn Myself In
11. Crashing Down
12. Had It With Today
13. On the Radio
14. When Love Takes Over
15. Ready To Rise
16. What Am I Gonna Do
17. Beggin’
18. Golden Rules
19. Somebody Else’s Life (Acoustic)

Posted by: slowdown73 6th June 2021, 10:29 PM

The saturdays did some great tunes. I have all their albums and singles.

Posted by: ClaudiaKinkleman 7th June 2021, 12:09 PM

I’ve been binge-watching The Saturdays 24/7 on YouTube over the past few days and wow how I miss them. With this whole trend of groups reuniting and getting back together it’s high time they throw their hat back in the ring

Posted by: Dangerous Julian 7th June 2021, 04:34 PM

Girlband reality TV was a real peak for the gays!

Posted by: Prettylittlebry 8th June 2021, 08:24 AM

I re-watch these and Chasing The Saturdays at least once every year. Fills me with so much joy and nostalgia, I’d love for a reunion tour/album!

Posted by: -Jay- 19th June 2021, 10:35 PM

Excuse me!!

Posted by: Tafty³³³ 19th June 2021, 10:48 PM

We are assuming it's coz she has no lines in that song coz otherwise...

Over 'Forever Is Over' and 'Gentleman'? Frankie... u ok!?

Posted by: kye 20th June 2021, 12:34 AM

wasn’t that the single she missed promo for cause she was pregnant? probably doesn’t have any memories of it.. at least i hope that’s what it is.

Posted by: Tafty³³³ 20th June 2021, 01:10 AM

If they were asking for "Fave songs to sing and perform live" or something I'd understand that logic. But you can surely enjoy a song even if you're not a part of it?

Posted by: LMFan 20th June 2021, 11:55 AM

I was just going to post this! I think Frankie misspelt Gentleman 🤣🤣

Posted by: shadow2009 20th June 2021, 12:18 PM

Has there even been a pop group that HASN'T ever got back together? It seems like The Saturdays might be the only ones in history.

Girls Aloud, Spice Girls, Sugababes/MKS, JLS, Westlife, All Saints, Pussycat Dolls, Take That, Busted, S Club 7, Steps....

I know it's only been seven years but there isn't even a slight hint that it's even been a discussion for them.

Posted by: Mr. C. Joel 20th June 2021, 12:29 PM

I feel like Frankie didn’t actually like the music she was putting out with The Sats.

She’s never really been a pop music kinda girl has she?

I’m sure she loved performing them etc, but I can’t imagine her actively listening to them?!

It still upsets me that 808 was never single! It popped off on Tour!

I adored the final tour, It was genuinely one of the best concerts I’ve been too!

They gave it everything!

Posted by: Tombo 20th June 2021, 02:33 PM

I love that she's shown love to What About Us

Posted by: StupidLove 20th June 2021, 02:41 PM

hahaha the Disco Love erasure is REAAL

Posted by: Dangerous Julian 20th June 2021, 04:54 PM

She probably doesn't even have a hidden vocal on 'Disco Love' to be fair, so that's no surprise at all.

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 21st June 2021, 12:50 AM

That's horrifying! This song has became such an essential gay anthem since its release and it's one of theirs that has held up the best for me.

Posted by: Dangerous Julian 22nd June 2021, 01:48 PM

God 'LFTW' is truly slogging it's way to a certification isn't it. I can't believe with their biggest hit being on it that it and their last full album released during the streaming era that it hasn't even managed Silver.

Posted by: shadow2009 22nd June 2021, 06:41 PM

To me that just shows how little replayability it has for even hardcore Saturdays fans.

I think I listened to it three times in the seven years it's been released. Aside from What About Us (which is still one of their weakest singles), Disco Love, the single mix of Not Giving Up and MAYBE You Don't Have The Right/Leave A Light On it's such a mess of overproduced, American pandering, autotuned demo sounding rejects with awful lyrics.

Posted by: tommie 23rd June 2021, 07:28 AM

I'd assume that it does less than 1000 copies a year tbh. People are most likely to listen to What About Us and Disco Love (and the top two tracks doesn't contribute sales to it - see I'm learning) from it and I'd assume that if people went to an album to actually play by them it'd be the Finest Selection.

Posted by: -Jay- 23rd June 2021, 08:02 AM

Yeah I doubt it's at all close to going silver unfortunately. I'm not sure if we've had an official sales total since 2014, but in April 2014 it had only sold 25,000 (after 6 months on sale - and with the era being pretty much dead at that stage, I doubt it sold many more physicals/downloads). Another 35,000 sales is a huge mountain to climb.

Like tommie says, What About Us and Disco Love's streams are negatable due to being reduced to the average of the next 10 tracks on the album - and most of those songs are not doing great numbers on Spotify.

I wouldn't be too surprised if its weekly sales figure is only in the region of 20-30 sales, at a push.

> Watch it go silver next week now


~

Regarding On Your Radar, I'll always think it's a shame that it rather emphatically spoiled their streak of Top 10 albums. It's my favourite album of theirs!

#23 must have come as a huge shock to the label/the girls (it would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall when they found out that position ). The 5 individual member CD covers and the box set with DVD suggests that there was quite a lot of confidence that it would be a strong seller.

Looking back, its first week sales of 18,044 doesn't look too bad... but evidently not strong enough for a November release. #20 sold 20,314 and #10 sold 34,754. The Saturdays' previous highest first week sale was under 23,000... so that's another sign of over-confidence from the label, to have scheduled it late into Q4.

It seems like they must have had a huge amount of faith in My Heart Takes Over being a smash, but it was such a misfire (very ironic that it's ended up being one of their most streamed songs!).

If only the album had been ready to go straight after All Fired Up. I think a September release would have been considerably less risky. 2 weeks after All Fired Up, only 12,380 was needed to get to #10.

Posted by: StupidLove 23rd June 2021, 04:18 PM

On Your Radar is one of my favourite girlband albums. Shame it wasn't as big at the time but still full of hits.

Posted by: Dangerous Julian 23rd June 2021, 07:42 PM

I was hoping at the time that they'd attempt a re-release with 'On Your Radar', tack a feature on 'White Lies' or 'Get Ready, Get Set' followed by '30 Days' and relaunch the album in attempt to get it into the Top 20. I feel it in my bones that 'White Lies' would have ended up one of their most successful singles.

Posted by: Tafty³³³ 23rd June 2021, 08:58 PM

'White Lies', 'Faster', 'Get Ready, Get Set' and 'Do What You Want With Me' would've been big/decent hits I think. MHTO bombing probably put them off 'Last Call' too which I think would have been a hit too...

Also, I still stand by 'My Heart Takes Over' as a single choice... I just think they shoulda pushed hard with more promo.

Posted by: tommie 24th June 2021, 05:22 AM

I've noticed on Wikipedia that fans tend to love to put sales just under the next certification - I was on Nicola Roberts' page the other day and it claims her album sold 50,000 copies in the UK; err, no. Pretty sure the last update had it on around 20k. I guess some people think it sounds better that they're just under the next certification level rather than being far off. (*edits in that Siobhan Donaghy's Revolution in Me and Ghosts sold 59.9k* 😂)

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 24th June 2021, 09:12 AM

Do you remember when it looked like they were gonna release 'The Way You Watch Me' as a single? SO glad that never happened!

Posted by: kye 24th June 2021, 09:55 AM

they should have released the remix of ‘my heart takes over’ that sounded like ‘don’t hold your breath’ as that was a stormer! i guess it went against the whole video concept they had though.

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 24th June 2021, 10:11 AM

the remix video of the digital song has 1.3m views on youtube, i think thats there most for a remix

Posted by: shadow2009 24th June 2021, 09:56 PM

A song called 'Glitterball' is on Mollie's discography page for 2021.

Posted by: StupidLove 24th June 2021, 10:27 PM

Here for the White Lies love!! Always thought it should've been a single!!

Posted by: Dangerous Julian 24th June 2021, 11:38 PM

Yes I remember, they were casting for the video and I was horrified and the reaction of the fandom was overwhelmingly negative which is for sure why it was given the axe. The fact we got the 'Saturdays Only version as a '30 Days' b-side can't have been a coincidence. Their team was on some messy s***.

Posted by: ClaudiaKinkleman 25th June 2021, 11:16 PM

I’ve been listening to Up a lot lately and my GOD what an absolute BANGER it is

Posted by: -Jay- 28th July 2021, 01:13 PM

13 years!!

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 28th July 2021, 01:18 PM

Refusing to accept that's 13 years. Point blank refusing.

Posted by: Dangerous Julian 28th July 2021, 06:24 PM

13 YEARS?! I think it's underrated, okay it doesn't make that much sense, but it's a bop.

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 28th July 2021, 06:34 PM

Omg

Posted by: HarryBorelli 28th July 2021, 06:49 PM

13 years?? I dont like it

Posted by: Chemistry 28th July 2021, 07:09 PM

13 years! Wow. I remember getting the CD single for my birthday

Posted by: tommie 29th July 2021, 05:11 AM

lol old

Posted by: PAJ 29th July 2021, 06:31 AM

13 years ago? Wow.

Living in Australia this totally passed me by it wasn’t until Up that I’d come to know who The Saturdays were.

Posted by: Dangerous Julian 29th July 2021, 08:43 AM

I remember hearing it for the first time, my Father was driving me and my sister in an open top Jeep through the Suffolk countryside and it came on Radio 1 after an interview and for some reason I understood that the members were all of the girls from S Club 8.

Posted by: Prettylittlebry 29th July 2021, 08:44 AM

I remember seeing the video for the first time on TV and I loved The Saturdays ever since 😂

Posted by: -Jay- 26th August 2021, 05:23 PM

Not a whole lot said about The Saturdays, but still nice to see her talk about her music career including S Club Juniors!

Posted by: shadow2009 26th August 2021, 06:26 PM

What is taking them so long to get back together?

Posted by: Cameron 26th August 2021, 06:51 PM

Tv presenter Rochelle
Vanessa not liking or interacting with Frankie and Mollie on social media (and vice versa)
Una’s constant WhatsApp messages

Posted by: Lee_J11 26th August 2021, 08:15 PM

That above video was just one section of the interview i think, they cut to a break at that point and said there would be more from Frankie afterwards, so presumably the bit after the break went over her time in The Saturdays in more detail.

I was watching it on my lunch break but had to attend a meeting for the final part

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 26th August 2021, 09:32 PM

tell us when you watch x

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 26th August 2021, 09:32 PM

i’m not sure what Vanessa’s issues are now with the girls tbhb

Posted by: Dangerous Julian 26th August 2021, 09:56 PM

In regards to The Sats, she spoke about how the girls didn't really know what was going on until the gig in Dublin where Mollie found her crying in bed with the curtains drawn and she also talked about getting admitted to a specialist hospital at the same time she was supposed to be doing the 'My Heart Takes Over' music video.

Posted by: Dangerous Julian 27th August 2021, 05:30 PM

'Higher' is now PLATINUM!!

Posted by: Lee_J11 27th August 2021, 07:11 PM

Yay finally for higher what’s next do we know?

Posted by: Dangerous Julian 27th August 2021, 09:34 PM

'Ego' will be next Platinum, but I don't think it'll be for another 2 or 3 years, it's probably on around 500,000 and something sales right now.

Next Gold will be 'Issues' or 'Just Can't Get Enough'. Album wise 'On Your Radar' and 'Wordshaker' are slowly clawing their way there but it may take some time.

Next Silver will probably be 'Work' or 'If This Is Love', but it's also achievable for '30 Days'... not quite sure how 'My Heart Takes Over' is doing, it was a low seller originally but has done very well on streaming.

EDIT: And 'Headlines!' album can't be far away from Platinum.

Posted by: -Jay- 6th September 2021, 02:57 AM

Released 10 years ago this week ( ). For me this is a timeless bop, one of their very best

Posted by: PAJ 6th September 2021, 03:06 AM

I loved it when it was released but it would be in my top 5 now, pods not too 10 either. It was a cracking song in 2011 though.

Posted by: shadow2009 6th September 2021, 09:51 AM

Honestly as much as these girls are the butt of jokes for their messy performances and lack of sales, it was REALLY brave for a girl group to make a dance album and release stuff like All Fired Up and Not Giving Up. Seriously. They absolutely nailed that sound and it's a shame it completely flopped for them.

Posted by: dannjohn 6th September 2021, 10:21 AM

i honestly think the saturdays are the most overrated group to those in the LGBT+ community.

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 6th September 2021, 10:46 AM

AFU is an enduring classic. It sounds quite distinctly 2011 but somehow still fresh.

I was pleased to see it do so well for them at the time.

Posted by: Jade 6th September 2021, 10:53 AM

I actually wasn't huge on 'All Fired Up' at the time but it's massively grown on me over the years - I'd consider it one of their best now! Where has time gone

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 6th September 2021, 11:50 AM

all fired up for me is my fav now

it's nowhere near as aged as the other tracks and would probably do well if released now.

Posted by: Billy. 6th September 2021, 12:31 PM

missing you is my absolute fav from these girls & it makes me sad when people hate it! i thought it was quite unique at the time and frankies first verse was so good.

Posted by: Jord 6th September 2021, 01:30 PM

I’m the same!!

I wasn’t keen on it at all in 2021 but love it now.

Of all their singles I’d probably say it’s the one what would be the biggest hit today. It’s very GA in places as well the way it’s structured. I can totally hear Nadine singing Rochelle’s part

Posted by: Feel_The_Fever 6th September 2021, 01:58 PM

Ego was and still is by far my fave song from them, its one of their few songs that i have always enjoyed.

Posted by: PAJ 7th September 2021, 08:07 AM

Yes, Ego is fantastic. Ego, Up and Higher are my top three.

Posted by: rafik4u 7th September 2021, 10:55 AM

I seem to be the only Notorious stan

Posted by: LMFan 7th September 2021, 11:49 AM

I loved all of their singles except Forever is Over, Issues and Gentleman. So consistent with their releases.

Posted by: schizo_spice 7th September 2021, 09:15 PM

Disco Love

Posted by: shadow2009 8th September 2021, 02:34 PM

So now The Wanted are back together too...

COME ON GIRLS.

Posted by: kye 9th September 2021, 10:24 AM

rochelle, frankie + mollie have well-paid, much cushier gigs on tv + radio now. i can’t see it happening for a while

Posted by: ThePensmith 9th September 2021, 01:58 PM

I'd personally love it to happen; more so in light of the sad news we've been dealt this week from the Girls Aloud camp.

Equally if they're not all in that place yet, there's no point forcing it. There's nothing worse than when bands come back and you can tell they're not really feeling it.

Posted by: kye 9th September 2021, 03:00 PM

the saturdays weren’t really feeling it the first time around sooo

Posted by: ThePensmith 9th September 2021, 03:31 PM

Having listened to certain members on assorted podcasts talking about their time in the band and their "first manager" (i.e. Jayne Collins) over the last year I can't say I'm surprised!

I think as well The Sats always got such a rawer deal than most pop groups, let alone girl groups. It always felt like the done thing (not from these quarters, mind) to knock them at every opportunity.

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 9th September 2021, 04:15 PM

the energy the girls gave at the end of their time was horrific, no energy and cba

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 9th September 2021, 04:24 PM

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 9th September 2021, 04:26 PM

we need a saturdays singles rate

Posted by: kye 9th September 2021, 09:19 PM

ooh i’d love to hear the podcasts, which ones are they?

Posted by: ThePensmith 9th September 2021, 09:23 PM

Well Frankie spoke to Mollie on the first episode of her "Open Mind" podcast. There was one Rochelle did where she talked about it as well, I forget for the life of me which one. But I do remember her saying she was told to lose weight when she joined by someone in their team during their first year.

Posted by: shadow2009 10th September 2021, 03:28 PM

It's really embarrassing they were six years into the game at this point. The fact that they just drop in and out of choreography whenever they can be arsed (and even then it's sloppy and out of sync), the lack of energy and a member missing while they half-sing half-mime to the track just sums them up their commitment from On Your Radar onwards.

Posted by: Dangerous Julian 14th September 2021, 01:17 PM

Absolutely not, Notorious is absolutely a great from them, the video is exquisite and looks expensive. The only hindrance is the gangster lyric.

Posted by: P@ul 29th September 2021, 03:56 PM

https://goss.ie/showbiz/una-healy-hotly-tipped-to-appear-on-major-reality-show-269375

Una would be great in the jungle/castle judging by their ghost hunting. I hope this happens!

Posted by: shadow2009 29th September 2021, 06:00 PM

I swear Una has been rumoured for years but I'd love her to do it this year.

EDIT - Yup.

https://www.thesun.ie/tvandshowbiz/5724727/maura-higgins-una-healy-itv-im-a-celebrity/

Pretty much the same article in 2020.

Posted by: Dangerous Julian 30th September 2021, 09:23 AM

I'd love to see Una on there I feel like she'd be so good!

'Up' was justifiably though briefly in their top played on Spotify. I'm assuming the fact that the Album and Radio Edit streams are split has something to do with that. Still makes me chuckle how their cover of 'When Love Takes Over' remains so popular. Gross.

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 30th September 2021, 10:32 PM

surprised just can’t get enough hasn’t passed 10m yet! only 500,000 away

Posted by: Mr. C. Joel 16th October 2021, 09:08 PM

It’s really sad to see that performance of WAYWF I actually went to see the Greatest Hits tour before they split and I feel like they really gave it everything.

Been visiting On Your Radar and Living For The Weekend (Since hearing No it just sounds like a Sats track) there’s so many bops which honestly would work even now.

It’s just a shame they never had an edge it was all very pose, hand movements and mime a lot of the time.

Will always be a Stan but you can see why popularity dwindled because at times it was cringe even as a bubblegum pop fan when they’d just stand there and awkwardly try to remember the minimal choreo (They loved to dramatically switch positions too)

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 16th October 2021, 10:35 PM

i don’t actually think they get as much credit as they deserve, they did promo more than anyoneee. their choreography was just awful but they managed to main relevant for so long and they never ever got a big primetime tv slot. it’s sad they only managed graham norton once and never got bgt or x factor, especially the latter where they were dropped last minute and refused to go on xtra factor

Posted by: Cameron 17th October 2021, 12:23 AM

The Saturdays were released at a time when it was fine to just pose and do hand movements. Little Mix are really the first proper all singing girl band (sorry PCD) to incorporate full choreography into their routines.

Posted by: shadow2009 17th October 2021, 02:16 PM

So is Una doing I'm A Celeb?

Posted by: Prettylittlebry 18th October 2021, 01:05 PM

It seems frankie will be!

Posted by: DangerousJulian 2nd November 2021, 05:37 PM

In an alternate universe 'I Can't Wait' is track 4 on 'Wordshaker' and 'No One' was the 'Forever Is Over' B-Side.



Such a quality mid-tempo.

Posted by: shadow2009 7th November 2021, 11:37 AM

Frankie is doing I'm A Celeb. I hope she'll be more interesting than Vanessa was.

She's favourite to win before launch night.

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 11th November 2021, 01:26 PM

they still have 1.4m listeners on spotify They are still getting more listeners than JLS

Higher coming for 50m in the next couple of months which is insane.

Posted by: Dane 11th November 2021, 03:54 PM

More than Girls Aloud & Steps also which is quite good!

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 21st November 2021, 11:37 PM

wholesome to see all sats doing stories for frankie and commentating on her stuff minus vanessa

Posted by: DangerousJulian 24th November 2021, 08:14 AM

Since Frankie's been on I'm A Celeb they're almost up to 1.5!

Everyone stream 'Work' so it finally gets it's Silver cert.

Posted by: JulianaGrande 27th January 2022, 03:00 PM

Has 'Chasing Lights' (The Album) been removed from anyone else's Spotify or is it only me?

Posted by: HarryBorelli 27th January 2022, 03:22 PM

I still see Chasing Lights on spotify, thats stange.

Posted by: JulianaGrande 27th January 2022, 03:23 PM

It's still not there for me.

WHY AM I BEING PUNISHED?!

Maybe Spotify is telling me to stop listening to it so much and broaden my musical horizons.

I'll keep an eye on it.

Posted by: Chemistry 28th January 2022, 05:46 AM

Vanessa was in the studio with Bimini the other day. Interesting combination!

Posted by: Cameron 28th January 2022, 04:37 PM

I actually wonder how Vanessa makes money these days. All she seems to do is go out to restaurants

Posted by: tommie 28th January 2022, 04:52 PM

I'm assuming she's made investments? Either property or something else, which is what most retired pop stars that don't have a day job seems to have done.

Posted by: P@ul 8th February 2022, 06:08 PM

I wonder would the other girls reunite without Rochelle in the future. She seems set on not wanting to do it but I can see the others doing it.

I think Una even said she’d do something but doesn’t know if all of them would be apart of it.

Posted by: (Zach) 22nd February 2022, 04:02 PM

Up has reached 429,000 in sales and was streamed 1.3 million times in 2021.

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/forgotten-second-singles-did-these-follow-ups-deserve-better__35281/

Posted by: JulianaGrande 27th February 2022, 03:43 PM

Sad that it's such a slow burner now, it should be in their top 5 most played on Spotify. Pop cult classic.

Posted by: Run_For_Cover 27th February 2022, 07:48 PM

Agreed, Up really is one of their best songs.

Posted by: JulianaGrande 9th May 2022, 03:53 PM

Not their cover of 'When Love Takes Over' becoming their 3rd most streamed on Spotify over 'Ego'.

Only them.

Posted by: Rough_edges 9th May 2022, 06:11 PM

Why has this become popular all of a sudden?

Posted by: Cameron 10th May 2022, 07:33 AM

It’s on a lot of work out playlists

Posted by: -Jay- 10th May 2022, 08:52 AM

I'm surprised to see Not Giving Up in their Popular Top 10 at #10! Plus there's a remix of What About Us at #9. I can't remember what they've replaced... Issues and Disco Love? Was Up in there at some point?

Posted by: shadow2009 10th May 2022, 09:03 AM

How has it almost been 8 years since they were active?

Come on Rochelle! Do it for the gays.

Posted by: -Jay- 10th May 2022, 09:19 AM

It's weird to think that they've been apart for longer than they were together. I'm struggling to imagine a reunion ever happening, as much as I'd love it to. They all seem so content with what they're up to nowadays, which is good for them of course.

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 10th May 2022, 09:45 AM

Mollie Frankie and Una would do it I think

Posted by: kye 10th May 2022, 09:48 AM

there would have to be some serious money in it for them + 3 of them have pretty cushty broadcasting gigs so it won’t happen. the cash is in touring + they didn’t do particularly well there so there’s no incentive for them to do it. as long as rochelle continues to get the big presenting gigs, we have no hope

Posted by: Mangø 10th May 2022, 11:14 AM

Yeah there's literally no reason for them to reunite. They were a great band but they'd never be able to recreate the magic of their heyday so some things should just be left in the past where they belong.

Posted by: Mr. C. Joel 10th May 2022, 11:18 AM

I’d love them to come back with a dance feature, new album and tour...

In reality I went to the Greatest Hits last tour and it wasn’t exactly full (lots of the top rows were empty)

And didn’t they have a Groupon deal for half price in some locations?!

So I just can’t see it unless they need the money and do smaller tours?!

I mean I’m sure they could make money reuniting but not whilst they’re earning decent figures.

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 10th May 2022, 11:41 AM

the saturdays walked so little mix could run

Posted by: Bustin Jieber 10th May 2022, 11:50 AM

Girls Aloud walked so The Saturdays could run.

Posted by: JulianaGrande 10th May 2022, 05:47 PM

Definitely don't deny that at all. And love all 3 groups. Sugababes too.

Posted by: StupidLove 10th May 2022, 06:05 PM

I doubt they'd ever come back for a whole tour given how unsuccessful their last two tours were but I would love to see 'One Night with The Saturdays' in London maybe - that could sell well given it's only one night and the right venue.

I think a performance ten years after splitting up or maybe for the 15th year anniversary after Chasing Lights was released (2023 Autumn) - that would be cute.

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 10th May 2022, 06:13 PM

Notorious really hurt them and the On Your Radar campaign, Headlines tour sold out in minutes and probably could have been upgraded to an arena tour, Notorious even opened with great sales and then had a poor chart run as it wasn't really supported by radio.

Gentleman was the final nail in their 99 lives.

Posted by: Billy. 10th May 2022, 06:15 PM

I’d love them to come back, they represent such a fun time in life for me to be honest but I don’t see it happening. I’m sure Frankie said recently she wouldn’t go back to singing.0

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 10th May 2022, 06:18 PM

i remember how wild the forum was when they went to #1

In all honesty, All Fired Up if released today would still do well, TIMELESS CLASSIC. Those 16 writers knew what they were doing

Posted by: JulianaGrande 10th May 2022, 06:35 PM

I still haven't forgiven myself for my own stale reaction upon it's first listen. Nowadays I consider it holy.

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 10th May 2022, 06:54 PM

it was a serve

the video is their best too and it's so simple

Posted by: Slayer 10th May 2022, 08:12 PM

I absolutely loved The Saturdays and would love a comeback of some sort!

Posted by: Mr. C. Joel 10th May 2022, 08:15 PM

The Saturdays actually made so many poor choices...

Following What About Us with Gentlemen...


Wordshaker era was so bad (promo wise and the whole styling)

Headlines saved it luckily!

The campaigns really started to feel meh with Living For The Weekend (The cover was so bland and it was a bit of a mess)

It’s a shame as they had some iconic songs (I even loved half the dross) but I can see why sales dwindled with poor decision making / thought.

What about us was just the best feeling as a fan though! When that hit number 1 we all went wild!

Posted by: Bustin Jieber 10th May 2022, 09:00 PM

I think trying the OA/OS method for 'Notorious' is what damaged that the most, it was obviously never going to work for an act like them - see also The Wanted with 'We Own The Night'.

They really did well to survive the amount of forks in the road they did though, I certainly didn't imagine they'd last 6 years when they started out.

Posted by: -Jay- 10th May 2022, 11:53 PM

I feel like Notorious did very well to debut at #8 with the OA/OS method, but this resulted in them struggling to find momentum for it in the following weeks! When the CD came out it only climbed back up to #21. Funnily enough it managed to climb to #18 a week after without the physical boost, so that suggested that they mistimed the CD release.

9 weeks inside the Top 40 is better than many of their singles achieved though, so that was a positive to take from how the release of Notorious was handled. Maybe if they'd done a traditional held back release it would have been more like 5 weeks Top 40, even if it's likely they'd have got a better peak position for it.



Top 40 weeks, in order of release:

#08, 05 weeks - If This Is Love
#05, 19 weeks - Up
#04, 13 weeks - Issues (Post-album single)
#02, 07 weeks - Just Can't Get Enough
#22, 07 weeks - Work (Post-album single)
#02, 06 weeks - Forever Is Over
#09, 13 weeks - Ego (Post-album single)
#03, 07 weeks - Missing You
#10, 13 weeks - Higher (Post-album single)
#08, 09 weeks - Notorious (On Air/On Sale)
#03, 06 weeks - All Fired Up
#15, 02 weeks - My Heart Takes Over
#07, 03 weeks - 30 Days
#01, 10 weeks - What About Us
#14, 02 weeks - Gentleman
#05, 05 weeks - Disco Love
#19, 01 week - Not Giving Up (Post-album single)
#38, 01 week - What Are You Waiting For

Top 40 weeks, in order of most weeks to least:

#05, 19 weeks - Up
#04, 13 weeks - Issues (Post-album single)
#09, 13 weeks - Ego (Post-album single)
#10, 13 weeks - Higher (Post-album single)
#01, 10 weeks - What About Us
#08, 09 weeks - Notorious (On Air/On Sale)
#02, 07 weeks - Just Can't Get Enough
#03, 07 weeks - Missing You
#22, 07 weeks - Work (Post-album single)
#02, 06 weeks - Forever Is Over
#03, 06 weeks - All Fired Up
#05, 05 weeks - Disco Love
#08, 05 weeks - If This Is Love
#07, 03 weeks - 30 Days
#14, 02 weeks - Gentleman
#15, 02 weeks - My Heart Takes Over
#19, 01 week - Not Giving Up (Post-album single)
#38, 01 week - What Are You Waiting For



Up spending 19 weeks in the Top 40 was truly remarkable! All Fired Up deserved so much more.

Their label deciding to abandon the 'On Your Radar' album and not even try with a post-album single, that was a shame really. I don't actually mind '30 Days', but I'm not sure what the idea was behind them releasing a stand alone single like that (I know it was eventually included on 'Living for the Weekend'). It didn't really do much for them, and they could have spent that time trying to course-correct the album they'd only just released?

Their career was so messy!! With a few high points. I always felt like they were on the cusp of getting bigger, but it never really happened. 'What About Us' felt like things finally were coming together for them, so in typical Saturdays style they well and truly unravelled it with its follow up!

Posted by: kye 11th May 2022, 12:11 AM

30 days was cute but when you had the likes of faster, get ready, get set and white lies just sitting on an album, it was crazy that they were passed up in favour of it. the album had done so poorly that the gp wouldn’t have known where the tracks had come from.

Posted by: kye 11th May 2022, 12:19 AM

i’ll also die on the hill that wildfire was leaps + bounds ahead of gentleman in quality - that really should have been the a-side. it was so much more where the uk music scene was at that time. gentleman was very clearly meant for an american audience, the rap section listing off a list of largely american men, as if lamar odom and larry king were households names here?!

had they gone what about us > wildfire > disco love > not giving up i think a different story would have played out.

Posted by: Mangø 11th May 2022, 08:35 AM

Wildfire is pop perfection

Posted by: Bustin Jieber 11th May 2022, 09:04 AM

'Wildfire' would have been a better choice (I mean, anything would). I'd really love to see how it would have panned out if they followed up 'What About Us' with 'Not Giving Up' (knowing they had that the whole time, and 'Disco Love' didn't exist yet).

I can't imagine they'd have survived long into the streaming era anyway, but they could have easily have squeezed a few more hits and perhaps one more studio album out of their run had they not catastrophically f-ed up with 'Genntleman'.

Posted by: -Jay- 11th May 2022, 09:34 AM

Their taste was certainly questionable because they were all super excited and passionate about Gentleman. Although Una said years later that it became a least favourite for her because whenever they performed it they sensed tumbleweed from the crowd. I seem to remember they were apathetic about Not Giving Up and surprised that it was a fan favourite.

They really needed to follow up What About Us with a song that was somewhat similar. For some reason I’ve not given Wildfire much attention over the years, but I just listened to it and I agree that it had more potential than Gentleman! Trust them to make it the B Side to it

I also agree about the songs you mention from On Your Radar, Kye! I’ll always find it curious their label decided to launch a dance-pop heavy album with a ballad single. Their decision making was wild! I think the album really should have been ready to release directly after All Fired Up.

Posted by: shadow2009 11th May 2022, 10:01 AM

As much as I blame their label/management for their shocking decisions at times, I have to admit that looking back these girls just weren't good enough.

It wasn't until I saw other girl groups after them that I realised how lazy and sloppy The Sats were. Little Mix and Fifth Harmony blew them out of the water vocally and work ethic wise and even GRL were giving amazing performances on their first single release.

They definitely had bops and they looked SO GOOD together and yeah they had nice harmonies and some of them were decent singers but they had so many performances and chances to impress people and gain new fans on TV and they always sucked. Their performances of What About Us and All Fired Up were always atrocious.

Posted by: -Jay- 11th May 2022, 10:41 AM

They didn’t often get the opportunity to do major TV performances did they? I think their budget was a bit of an ongoing issue for them and may have held them back.

Their earliest performances included being a support act, lots of nightclub appearances & shopping centres, which was a fairly low level start, in terms of honing their performance skills. The regular GMTV & This Morning performances, with their basic set ups and camera work, always shone a spotlight on sloppy choreography. I feel like those sort of performances were always a bit phoned in because they didn’t allow for anything extravagant.

What I’m getting at is that if they’d had the chance to “level up” earlier on in their career, such as gaining experience with The X Factor appearances, then maybe they’d have honed their skills & generally been able to put on more of a show?

I think we saw occasional glimpses of what The Saturdays were capable of. Their “So You Think You Can Dance” performance of Notorious was good, I thought!

Towards the end of their run, they were totally going through the motions. I feel like I can sense their boredom when they performed What Are You Waiting For on This Morning

Little Mix had a very different journey from the very start, which I think put them in better stead to become a far more polished act. If you think about it, before they’d even released their first single they had a string of major performances under their belts thanks to The X Factor. They weren’t stuck in a perpetual cycle of This Morning performances.

Posted by: shadow2009 11th May 2022, 11:18 AM

Well honestly I remember their Greatest Hits medley on Tumble and that was a PERFECT opportunity to really let loose and sell some tickets for their tour and even though they had a HUGE empty space they just stood still for half of it and done some basic arm movements as usual. They had 5 big songs to showcase and they didn't even bother.

Their Paul O'Grady performance of Forever Is Over was traumatic, they performed Missing You on some big TV shows and it was dodgy miming and crap dancing and their Ant and Dec performance is only known for Mollie's bum note so they definitely had chances on bigger stages and never made a good impression.

Even in America when they launched on Jay Leno with a live band and vocals both Una and Vanessa were shocking at points and Rochelle completely changed the melody of the chorus.

Posted by: Mr. C. Joel 11th May 2022, 11:26 AM

The Sats had no budget though...

It was obvious they were clawing cash from all sorts of brand deals to keep them afloat.

I don’t doubt they made a lot of money but it was totally different back then labels focused on chart positions / every single needed to succeed with decentish sales...

I’m sure they would have looked / seemed more polished if they had more of a budget which included some clever choreo (They tried to stay with old school moves (Steps etc) but times were changing especially half way through the 6 year stint they had.

Posted by: Mr. C. Joel 11th May 2022, 11:28 AM

It really showed when they performed What About Us on The Today show in the US! Such a big moment and they literally looked like they had been formed the day before or it was an audition

Posted by: tommie 11th May 2022, 11:39 AM

Considering Peter Loraine ran Bananarama's fan club at one point, I think he didn't properly push them to do more probably thinking that it would have that shambolic drunk-girls-on-a-night-out appeal that Bananarama had, except it just didn't work with The Saturdays and it just came off as shoddy and sloppy since they were put together by a (supposedly) professional management.

Posted by: kye 11th May 2022, 12:03 PM

it’s also worth noting that they didn’t give themselves a lot of time to rehearse for their performances. those of us that followed them know that there was always something happening with them - biggest thing being the pregnancies, it was a miracle they managed to get anything done. plus, they always seemed to be on holiday

i always thought part of their charm was that they weren’t quite as polished but then when you see some of the bigger performances, i wished they’d put a bit more in it.

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 11th May 2022, 01:00 PM

Their tumble performance was announced two days before so they wouldn’t have had much time

Posted by: shadow2009 16th May 2022, 09:01 PM

Now N-Dubz are even getting back together.

Posted by: tommie 16th May 2022, 09:33 PM

Well, N-Dubz had three Platinum albums, one of which was double Platinum...

Posted by: shadow2009 17th May 2022, 12:04 AM

I’m not downplaying their success at all, just poking fun at the fact yet another unlikely group from the 00’s/10’s is back together. Pretty sure Tulisa and Dappy had a falling out and genuinely didn’t think there’d be demand for an arena tour for them. They were popular but thought their demographic was chavvy teenagers.

Posted by: tommie 17th May 2022, 05:44 AM

Well, Dappy and Tulisa are cousins so they were bound to make up sooner or later

Posted by: -Jay- 28th July 2022, 04:28 AM

Today's date is 14 years since the release of their debut single 'If This Is Love'!

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 28th July 2022, 06:21 AM

with the issues screen grab *.*

Posted by: Run_For_Cover 28th July 2022, 06:30 AM

I was going to say that that’s not from the video…

Posted by: -Jay- 28th July 2022, 06:47 AM

Yeah for some reason the Issues video also has an If This Is Love picture lol, who knows why that mistake happened!

Posted by: tommie 28th July 2022, 06:52 AM

Trick from back in the day of trying to boost the views?

Posted by: Jessie Where 28th July 2022, 11:00 AM

14 years! Can't believe that.

For all their ups and downs, I certainly didn't think they'd last anywhere near as long as they did when they started out.

Posted by: Mr. C. Joel 28th July 2022, 01:44 PM

The Sats to return please with All Fired Up part 2 x Jax Jones

Posted by: StupidLove 28th July 2022, 04:07 PM

I still miss them

Posted by: Cameron 28th July 2022, 04:27 PM

I don't actually miss them... However, I do miss seeing them together. Not a massive fan of Rochelle's 'I hated being a popstar' stance. You can tell Una would give her left leg for a reunion.

Of course, if they did reunite, I would be there front row crying.

Posted by: shadow2009 28th July 2022, 08:46 PM

Mollie was presenting on This Morning today.

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 28th July 2022, 08:56 PM

rochelle fuming

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 29th September 2022, 07:51 PM

I heard from someone ITK today that The Saturdays considered reforming this year, but Rochelle wasn’t up for it.

Posted by: ClaudiaKinkleman 29th September 2022, 11:42 PM

Why does Rochelle wanna forget that she was ever in a girl group so bad

Posted by: -Jay- 30th September 2022, 07:36 AM

Oh Rochelle

I wonder if the other 4 would ever consider doing it without Rochelle? I know that wouldn't be ideal, and I'd totally respect it if all 5 of them are on the same page as each other that it's 5 or nothing. I'd certainly rather 5. However if 4 of them have reached the point that they'd really love to do it, maybe they should just go for it? Maybe if they told Rochelle they will do it, it could prompt Rochelle to have a change of heart if she experiences fear of missing out. The thing is, if she feels that her lack of involvement means that the others definitely won't go ahead, then she'll likely never feel motivated to do it, she'd be the one holding the cards. Unless she has a sudden change of heart of course... but she's been pretty persistent about having no interest in it.

It's so crazy that it's been 8 years since they were last active. It felt like there was a wave of interest in them again when all the singles were being reissued, I seem to remember there being some viral tweets. It would be a shame if they let opportunities pass them by. It would be so fun for them to revisit those times, I'd love to see them perform again.

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 30th September 2022, 04:50 PM

I would love one final song from them

Mollie GETTING them that Radio 1 Plays

Frankie getting them those ITV promos

Posted by: Mr. C. Joel 30th September 2022, 06:23 PM

It would be such a shame for them never to reunite when they did so well in staying relevant for so long.

So many other girlbands came and went during there time and they were still charting when Little Mix were.

They could definitely release some of the albums on Vinyl at least I’m sure they would sell well.

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 30th September 2022, 06:26 PM

just re release all fired up tbh, still sounds like a smash

Posted by: Cameron 30th September 2022, 07:11 PM

Rerelease not giving up.

Not surprised she said no. Another reason why she has always been my least favourite.

Posted by: Slayer 30th September 2022, 07:29 PM

Random but I always absolutely loved this performance!

I wish they had done more stuff like this.

Posted by: spiceboy 1st October 2022, 08:49 PM

I don’t get what she has to lose out on by doing it. I know she has a couple of shows but it’s not like she is a huge solo star, she can easily do a reunion alongside the tv shows she presents… Marvin did it why can’t she? Unless she just doesn’t want to perform anymore which is fair enough I guess.

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 2nd October 2022, 05:15 PM

I feel like Mollie is probably in the best position of them all right now, Rochelle is just a This Morning stand by isn’t she? You know, rochelle has been the only one that’s spoke publically about not wanting to return to The Saturdays! I hope they return for a top 10 iTunes smash and make a massive £20 while sellling their tour on itison and TRUST ME, i will BUY

Posted by: tommie 2nd October 2022, 06:02 PM

It's more the fact that The Saturdays isn't likely to get a big money offer to do a tour or a record deal and would actually have to put work in. There's not a lot of money for them to return briefly to coast on their past successes - it's not a minimal effort and cash in deal.

Posted by: ThePensmith 2nd October 2022, 09:26 PM

I think, especially after listening to Rochelle's episode of Steven Bartlett's podcast recently (The Diary of a CEO), I've made peace with the fact that it's still not the time for her. She's not in that place in her life where she wants to revisit whilst she has her presenting / baby brand / the interior design thing she does on W at the moment (which just seems to be "Here, have a white and beige k!tchen with bifold doors and an island". I digress)

Which you can understand on one hand - let's not forget that her and Frankie were both in S Club Juniors and OK, there was a gap of about five years between their last single and The Saturdays' first. So they basically were in pop longer than any of the other girls in one form or another.

But that time will eventually come, and probably when we least expect it. I dare say Peter Loraine and Fascination, knowing how meticulously they've done other reunions in the past - Steps, Bananarama, All Saints - will ensure this is done serving everything we want!

Posted by: JulianNial 7th October 2022, 12:37 PM

Kind of LOVE that 'Last Call' is now in their top 10 most played on Spotify, what an absolute gem.

Posted by: -Jay- 7th October 2022, 01:00 PM

Ha their Top 10 really has been so random over the years, but it's lovely to see Last Call getting some attention.

Not Giving Up being their fifth highest placed single is quite strange too. I mean, bop, but it was their second worst selling single at the time.

When Love Takes Over reaching 13m streams, and being third place for them... it's so wild for a B Side.

Posted by: Cameron 7th October 2022, 03:41 PM

NGU has done well in YouTube views too over the years. Which is deserved. Need it to become a TikTok hit.

Posted by: StupidLove 8th October 2022, 07:18 PM

Last Call was always the best ballad on OYR. Should've been a post-album single and Where My Heart Takes Over should've been paid dust especially when gems like Faster and White Lies were sitting right there.

Posted by: Scary Spiceboy 8th October 2022, 07:26 PM

Can’t believe white lies didn’t get its moment! I’m not even particularly a Sats fan but I love the at track!

Posted by: Run_For_Cover 8th October 2022, 08:55 PM

Last Call is great! Happy to see it get some attention. White Lies is another good one too. Whilst I like Where My Heart Takes Over there were better choices for single 3.

Posted by: StupidLove 9th October 2022, 04:17 PM

I feel like it killed all momentum the album had at the time after All Fired Up.

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 9th October 2022, 04:31 PM

My Heart Takes Over was a brilliant choice of single it just didn’t perform as good as we all expected, I think the X Factor promo being cut last minute really affected the single and album performance. I’m guessing Faster would have been the logical third single tbf

Posted by: JosephStyles 9th October 2022, 04:35 PM

My Heart Takes Over was a terrible single choice I think. I like the song a lot but its chart performance leaves a LOT to be desired and I think is largely responsible for On Your Radar's peak position. I adore Last Call and if they really wanted a ballad, it would've been the better option, though I think Faster is the biggest missed opportunity for a single release and I believe it would've been a top 10 hit at least. X Factor would've potentially helped it into the top 10 but I don't think MHTO was ever destined to be much of a hit sadly.

Posted by: Cameron 9th October 2022, 04:44 PM

Need to disagree. I love Last Call but My Heart Takes Over is an amazing ballad. (Side eying those who are calling it Where My Heart Takes Over too lmao). On Your Radar really deserved a campaign as long as Chasing Lights. I would gladly have had them repackage it with 30 Days to bridge the wait until What About Us.

Also, did On Your Radar not sell like 18k first week? Which is very respectable. Also releasing it in Q4 didn’t help either.

Posted by: LMFan 9th October 2022, 04:56 PM

I think My Heart Takes Over was a brilliant single choice and is one of threat only singles that I regularly listen to. X Factor being pulled significantly impacted on its success unfortunately.

Posted by: JosephStyles 9th October 2022, 05:08 PM

The sales were fine and obviously it was a tougher market, but I doubt their label would've been happy at all about a peak of #23. They wouldn't have picked a Q4 date if they didn't expect them to compete for top 10 minimum I'm sure (especially after three consecutive top 10 albums!), and perhaps with a different single, it could've been at least a bit more competitive than it was because it's clear MHTO didn't resonate with the public.

Obviously that's just how I see things and I enjoy MHTO a lot on its own.

Posted by: Cameron 9th October 2022, 05:14 PM

I have such wonderful memories associated with the album release and it breaks my heart that it doesn’t have the peak it deserved.

Posted by: -Jay- 9th October 2022, 08:53 PM

Just to reiterate others, from a commerical point of view My Heart Takes Over ended up coming across as a bad choice for them. A pretty terrible singles chart performance (only four weeks in the Top 200 was quite shocking!) and On Your Radar missed the Top 20 off the back of it.

Even though its first week sales seem rather good (particularly compared to nowadays!) in the context of Q4 2011 they were a bit meh. Particularly considering they did multi formats (which still wasn't a very common thing to do in those days. Imagine if they'd only released a standard CD and Deluxe CD!). I think the label had a lot of confidence and high expectations in On Your Radar to justify doing the individual member artworks and a box set.

Maybe the proposed X Factor performance was the key that was needed for it to become a hit, but many other singles of theirs did a lot better despite not having major TV slots. Which really suggests that My Heart Takes Over didn't connect by their usual standards.

It was kind of an odd choice to release a predominantly pop-dance album off the back of a ballad. I think the album should have been released directly after All Fired Up. Then release Faster, which personally I believe would have been a strong enough choice to be able to do well as a post-album single! I feel like My Heart Takes Over might have been better served as an album track gem, with fans saying for 11 years how it should have been a single

Posted by: Tafty³³³ 9th October 2022, 09:06 PM

'My Heart Takes Over' was, on paper at the time at least, the best to be the ballad single imo. It's one of the most bizarre flops I can think of. The song is strong. The video suited the time of year and I really think had it got that XF performance it was rumoured to get, it would've propelled it to being a decent sized hit. But without that type of promo, it bombed. Casual fans weren't interested for whatever reason and the non-fans they won over with 'All Fired Up' wouldn't be interested when all they would have wanted was another banger.

Would MHTO have sufficed better in late Winter (ala 'Issues')? After 'All Fired Up' they should've probably stuck with that sound and gone for something like 'Get Ready, Get Set' or 'Faster'. Just NOT 'The Way You Watch Me'! LMAO.

I think 'Last Call' is nice. But I think it'd have performed very similar to MHTO/not much better. Especially as I think, in hindsight, following up AFU with a big ballad was probably their mistake?

Posted by: Tafty³³³ 9th October 2022, 09:07 PM

Lets be honest though...

NOT RELEASING 'WHITE LIES' AT ANY POINT WAS A HUGE MISFIRE.

Posted by: LMFan 9th October 2022, 09:08 PM

AGREED!!! Such a tune.

Posted by: ThePensmith 10th October 2022, 05:31 AM

Looking back objectively, On Your Radar should have been the killer double platinum campaign. It's still their most consistent album for me and the one I revisit the most. "Notorious" and "All Fired Up" were and still are that killer 1-2 punch of opening singles so that set it up perfectly.

But I think "My Heart Takes Over" was an ideal choice for third single - it was the right time of year for it, it had wider crossover appeal and the video was gorgeous, and I don't believe it deserved to foot all the blame for the album then not doing as well.

Those with short memories may forget but between "All Fired Up" charting and "My Heart Takes Over" being released, that was when Una announced she was pregnant with Aoife and when Frankie took her sabbatical, which as we now know was for her depression.

That did set off a chain of "Are they gonna split" type rumours which sad but true, was still happening as commonplace for a girl group back then, and which, on a wider public scale, did somewhat overshadow the fact a new single and album were imminent.

Also I remember seeing the girls during promo for "My Heart Takes Over" when they filmed a TV show - think it was The Album Chart Show special they did, I remember because Olly Murs and JLS filmed theirs that night too, and I was in the audience for all three. It was just the four of them cause of course this was when Frankie was still off of promo duties. They were juggling all that with the arena tour rehearsals - at some point something would have to sacrifice one thing over another.

I don't really remember The X Factor performance rumour. It's a shame if it's true that was on the table because it does bring up a "what could have been" style scenario. But on a positive at least the arena tour was everything they deserved and more. I saw the Wembley show and I was so proud of them when they did it, especially because exactly two years before I'd seen them at my students Union Christmas party (when someone bottled Mollie - how dare they?) so it was a bit of a YES moment for me. Like "Go on girls!"

I still say "30 Days" should have been tacked onto a deluxe reissue with the tour DVD. It had no place being on Living For The Weekend TBH.

Posted by: Cameron 10th October 2022, 05:57 AM

I’m sure they were actually announced on the show the week prior to which they were to perform, weren’t they?

Posted by: kye 10th October 2022, 06:47 AM

my heart takes over is nice but it’s not what the public wanted from them. it should have gone notorious into all fired up and faster lead the album.

i know they did the album chart show performance of ‘faster’ and it was starting to get played on radio but then it got pulled. i guess they thought with una being pregnant and what was happening with frankie, it would be easier to have a vanessa and rochelle led single.

Posted by: Jessie Where 10th October 2022, 07:54 AM

I like a bit of 'My Heart Takes Over' but it was in no way strong enough to release an album off the back of, particularly in Q4. Very unfortunate what happened with the lined-up X-Factor performance though.

I remember at that exact same time both them and Pixie Lott released a single which drastically underperformed, taking their respective albums with it.

Posted by: -Jay- 10th October 2022, 10:56 AM

(The link is dead by the way)





Looking through the My Heart Takes Over thread it doesn’t seem like it was ever confirmed / announced officially that they’d be on The X Factor’s main show, just that a user on Digitalspy with insider info said that they were intended to be, then got demoted (which he confirmed on 11th November).

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One positive happening regarding the single is that it was A Listed by Radio 1, and surprisingly it received stronger TV airplay than Notorious. So My Heart Takes Over was getting some decent exposure. Looking further into the thread, it seemed to become clear to everyone on its release date that it was struggling - the iTunes updates left a lot to be desired.

Posted by: Jessie Where 10th October 2022, 11:36 AM

They're so lucky they weren't dropped at the start of 2012 when you think about it.

Posted by: bpdbryan 10th October 2022, 02:24 PM

Still hoping for the All Fired Up Tour DVD 😂 (or for it to at least leak online)

Posted by: -Jay- 10th October 2022, 03:02 PM

They definitely had 9 lives! I think a harsher label might have pulled the plug after Wordshaker. They were fortunate that the label's response to Wordshaker's performance was the idea to completely rebrand it as a different album altogether. Quite unusual, yet it actually worked. It was a bit annoying that Wordshaker was scrubbed from being able to be purchased (or streamed) for many years.

Something random I read on Popjustice - I'm not sure if it's been discussed before or if it's common knowledge. Apparently Ina Wroldsen mentioned it. If This Is Love was originally called 'If It's Not Love'. It certainly makes more sense... "If it's not love, then I don't want to know what is"

Posted by: Mr. C. Joel 10th October 2022, 03:03 PM

Now is this time for them to return with Little Mix on a break.

I honestly think they’d get some hype with good promo and be able to sell tour tickets.

It would all need to handled properly though not a half assed attempt.

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 12th October 2022, 03:19 PM

The limited support from Notorious was quite bizzare considering it’s amazing start, it really struggled on airplay didn’t it!

Posted by: 365 12th October 2022, 05:30 PM

They'd be perfect for some Pride festival slots.

Posted by: -Jay- 15th October 2022, 05:28 PM

Posted by: Rodent-boy 15th October 2022, 06:29 PM

My Heart Takes Over is legit one of my favourite Saturdays singles!

Posted by: Scary Spiceboy 16th October 2022, 07:22 AM

Mine too.

Posted by: Run_For_Cover 16th October 2022, 07:25 AM

Whilst I know I said it wasn’t the right choice for single three I do absolutely love My Heart Takes Over. I remember the first time I heard it. Listening to Radio One via a radio app on my phone.

Posted by: tommie 16th October 2022, 08:20 AM

This is heterosexualism.

Posted by: Tafty³³³ 16th October 2022, 12:56 PM

YESSS WE BETTER KEEP STANNING MHTO!!

Posted by: shadow2009 16th October 2022, 04:22 PM

A bit late but just chiming in to say that the week they were 'rumored' to be on X-Factor performing was also the same week they were filmed meeting Little Mix for their VT. I don't think it's a coincedince that the producers bothered to send a camera crew to the rehearsals of The Saturdays for a 20 second clip if they weren't also performing that weekend.

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 17th October 2022, 11:00 AM

i still can’t believe they never really got that big promotional slot, I mean they got Strictly but that had no affect what so ever back then

Posted by: -Jay- 22nd October 2022, 02:40 PM

Posted by: Rodent-boy 23rd October 2022, 01:43 PM

The taste.

Posted by: Ho-Lee Smokes 27th October 2022, 11:12 PM

didn’t even realise Mollie is due to give birth this year!

Posted by: ClaudiaKinkleman 28th October 2022, 09:12 PM

Come on Rochelle do it for Una

Posted by: tommie 29th October 2022, 12:45 PM

Posted by: JulianNial 19th January 2023, 02:11 PM

I just still can't get over their B-sides...

'I Can't Wait' and 'Flashback' are better than half of 'Wordshaker', in fact they probably should have had 'No One' and either '2 am' as the B-sides.

Don't let's get started on 'Wildfire', it could have been their LM 'Touch' moment. HUGE hit potential.

Posted by: One_For_Sorrow 19th January 2023, 08:25 PM

Agree that the majority of their b-sides are superb. How did Wildfire miss the album? Should’ve also been a single, oh well.

Posted by: StupidLove 19th January 2023, 10:54 PM

Very much agree! Some of their best tracks. Does make you wonder what crack the label/team was on when it comes to them picking trackless and B-sides.

Posted by: Cameron 20th January 2023, 05:53 AM

I love 2am lmao.

The fact that Wildfire was given B-Side treatment over Gentleman absolutely baffles me. I still blame Una for hyping Gentleman up saying that it’s her favourite… Then hating it when the fans didn’t react well to it!

Posted by: Yobnedor 20th January 2023, 06:22 AM

I love 2am as well actually!

Posted by: One_For_Sorrow 20th January 2023, 06:55 AM

2am and Open Up were two of my favourite songs on Wordshaker when it first for released.

Posted by: Yobnedor 20th January 2023, 11:21 AM

Literally same!

Posted by: Tafty³³³ 20th January 2023, 11:29 AM

2am is so cute! Reminds me ever so slightly of Madonna - True Blue lmao.

'Open Up' is a certified BANGER though! What a bop.

Posted by: JulianNial 20th January 2023, 08:28 PM

'Open Up' was actually one of my early favourites. Okay sorry about the 2am shade, I think it's only one of my lowest streamed by them because Last.fm has it as '2am', '2 am' and '2 A.M.', but at least we can agree on the No One/Flashback switch.

Also hating how underrated the whole 'Wordshaker' album was/is in general seeing as it gave us 'Ego', 'One Shot' and 'Wordshaker' (title track).

...'One Shot' not being a single, curses me monthly as well.