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T Boy View member profile	9th January 2021, 09:23 PM Post #1
Radical Pink Troll Joined: 11 March 2006 Posts: 26,603 User: 177	Pink had quite obviously released a lot of singles over the past 21 years but are there any that you feel didn’t reach their full potential. Here are some of my thoughts at the top of my head. Try-top 10 hit and sold pretty well. However it’s often picked out on here as one of her best so sometimes I wonder why it didn’t get a higher peak. Don’t Let Me Get Me-another top 10/big hit, I always feel like the quality of this track is so much better than it’s no.6 peak and one week in the top 10. This is the song that got me obsessed with Pink. Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely)-love this track and I’m sure it would have done better if it had been released earlier in the campaign. God Is A DJ-I through this would be an easy top 5 hit at the time.


Liam.k. View member profile	10th January 2021, 02:18 AM Post #2
BuzzJack Idol Joined: 8 December 2010 Posts: 50,972 User: 12,472	'Raise Your Glass' would be the main one for me. It's one of her most remembered hits yet only peaked at #13. Not sure why it entered so low, coming off the back of the 'Funhouse' era and a successful tour. Even Shanye Ward's single debuted higher in the same week and I don't think anyone was particularly here for his comeback (just shows the power of an X Factor performance in those days).


-Jay- View member profile	10th January 2021, 03:23 AM Post #3
"Jayrusaleminians" - Umi. Pronouns: he/him Joined: 4 April 2007 Posts: 41,452 User: 3,217	Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely) for me, a pity it didn’t get a CD single in the UK. In 2007 that would have still been beneficial!


T Boy View member profile	10th January 2021, 10:20 AM Post #4
Radical Pink Troll Joined: 11 March 2006 Posts: 26,603 User: 177	QUOTE(Liam.k. @ Jan 10 2021, 02:18 AM) 'Raise Your Glass' would be the main one for me. It's one of her most remembered hits yet only peaked at #13. Not sure why it entered so low, coming off the back of the 'Funhouse' era and a successful tour. Even Shanye Ward's single debuted higher in the same week and I don't think anyone was particularly here for his comeback (just shows the power of an X Factor performance in those days). Definitely! Always forget it had such a low peak when it’s one of her biggest selling hits. I remember it not doing amazing on iTunes initially and this was when the charts were very competitive but it hung around for a while.


Bjork View member profile	10th January 2021, 10:55 AM Post #5
BuzzJack Legend Joined: 13 November 2015 Posts: 33,254 User: 22,665	easily I Don't Believe You, it's my #1 Pink song and it's absolutely amazing, a total 11/10 of a song, and for a while, it was her only flop :/ even if it were like the 75th single from the album... Raise Your Glass was a shocking underperformance, as everyone thought it would be an easy #1, and it didn't even crack the top 10. By contrast, it went to #1 in the US... but in perspective, I personally think it's not a very good song, sounds like a re-hash of So What... On the other hand, Perfect was 1000 times better and it went top 10, but actually should have charted higher, Perfect it's a classic that everybody knows and loves, the US got it right (peaked at #2 there)


-Jay- View member profile	11th January 2021, 04:01 AM Post #6
"Jayrusaleminians" - Umi. Pronouns: he/him Joined: 4 April 2007 Posts: 41,452 User: 3,217	I did some research on the charts at the time, maybe this'll provide some context for 'Raise Your Glass' charting at #13. Firstly it's worth noting that the music video premiered quite late in relation to the single's release. Video premiere: 2nd November, Download release date: 7th November. 'Raise Your Glass' was released in an era of 6 week promotional build ups (typically), so that late music video release wasn't helpful. I looked back on some old threads and some members expressed that there wasn't any promo (i.e. performances) ~ http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?s...t&p=3317856 / http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?s...t&p=3324554 Initially the radio airplay for 'Raise Your Glass' wasn't too strong. It entered the airplay chart on 17th October 2010, and had a chart run of 81-60-30-25 in the run up to the song's commercial release. It moved up to #17 in the radio chart in the week it entered at #13 in the singles chart. A few of the songs that were ahead of her in the singles chart had much better airplay. Airplay positions vs. singles chart positions, in that week: #1/#2 Take That - 'The Flood' #3/#7 Cheryl - 'Promise This' #4/#10 Cee Lo Green - 'f* You' #5/#1 Rihanna - 'Only Girl (In the World)' #6/#8 Bruno Mars - 'Just the Way You Are' #7/#3 Katy Perry - 'Firework' #8/#6 Mike Posner - 'Cooler than Me' #10/#5 Alexis Jordan - 'Happiness' vs. #17/#13 Pink - 'Raise Your Glass' ...so I suppose it's not too surprising that those songs outsold Pink. As for the songs with worse airplay which still managed to outsell Pink: #28/#4 McFly - 'Shine a Light' - they could always rely on strong physical sales, though to be fair it was also #9 on downloads #43/#11 The Black Eyed Peas - 'The Time (Dirty Bit)' - their previous era was massive, and this was released "on air/on sale" #52/#9 Adele - 'Make You Feel My Love' had a major rise in popularity thanks to a contestant performing it on The X Factor DNC/#12 Shayne Ward - 'Gotta Be Somebody' - he had an X Factor performance, as noted by Liam! TV airplay: http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?s...t&p=3328132 #1 Rihanna, #2 Alexis Jordan, #5 Katy Perry, #6 Cheryl, #7 Mike Posner, #8 Cee Lo Green, #9 Bruno Mars, #21 Pink iTunes: Looking back on an old iTunes thread, it appears that 'Raise Your Glass' stalled at #11. The iTunes home page showed the Top 10 songs, and songs that went Top 10 usually experienced "the Top 10 effect" which often resulted in there being quite a significant sales gap between #10 and #11. 'Raise Your Glass' having slightly less visibility wasn't helpful. In the download chart, Pink reached #14. It was available on CD (it reached #6 in the physical chart) and that helped push 'Raise Your Glass' above Nelly - 'Just a Dream' in the singles chart, which didn't have a physical. The physical Top 3 was Take That, McFly and Shayne Ward. Shayne surprisingly sold more downloads than Pink in that week too. Going back to radio airplay, 'Raise Your Glass' ended up having a consistent run within the Top 20 - it peaked at #11 on several occasions and was still Top 20 by February 2011. 'Raise Your Glass' Radio Airplay chart run: 17/10/2010 #81 24/10/2010 #60 31/10/2010 #30 07/11/2010 #25 14/11/2010 #17 21/11/2010 #11 28/11/2010 #11 05/12/2010 #12 12/12/2010 #11 19/12/2010 #15 26/12/2010 #25 02/01/2011 #17 09/01/2011 #14 16/01/2011 #14 23/01/2011 #11 \| Perfect: #84 30/01/2011 #16 \| Perfect: #65 06/02/2011 #15 \| Perfect: #17 13/02/2011 #19 \| Perfect: #9 20/02/2011 #19 \| Perfect: #8 27/02/2011 #31 \| Perfect: #7 [Perfect peaked at #10 in the singles chart in this week] 06/03/2011 #40 \| Perfect: #8 13/03/2011 #30 \| Perfect: #4 20/03/2011 #37 \| Perfect: #6 27/03/2011 #42 \| Perfect: #9 03/04/2011 #29 \| Perfect: #9 10/04/2011 #28 \| Perfect: #8 17/04/2011 #47 \| Perfect: #7 24/04/2011 #50 \| Perfect: #12 01/05/2011 #41 \| Perfect: #10 08/05/2011 #44 \| Perfect: #16 15/05/2011 #38 \| Perfect: #15 22/05/2011 #46 \| Perfect: #20 ('Raise Your Glass' fell out of the Top 50) 'Raise Your Glass' deserved more than it got peak wise, for sure, considering that it went on to have a decent chart run and become one of her biggest sellers. Sadly things didn't quite fall into place for it in release week. I don't think I considered it as a #1 contender at the time tbh, not with Rihanna smashing and a 5 piece Take That single out. I'm sure I would have expected and hoped for more than #13 though. Finally(!) here are the sales from that week's Top 20 singles chart: 01 01 93,426 ONLY GIRL (IN THE WORLD) RIHANNA DEF JAM NE 02 69,484 THE FLOOD TAKE THAT POLYDOR 04 03 55,627 FIREWORK KATY PERRY VIRGIN NE 04 51,236 SHINE A LIGHT MCFLY FT TAIO CRUZ ISLAND/SUPER 03 05 45,503 HAPPINESS ALEXIS JORDAN COLUMBIA/ROCNATION/STARROC 07 06 44,943 COOLER THAN ME MIKE POSNER J 02 07 44,237 PROMISE THIS CHERYL COLE POLYDOR 05 08 44,186 JUST THE WAY YOU ARE (AMAZING) BRUNO MARS ELEKTRA 19 09 43,842 MAKE YOU FEEL MY LOVE ADELE XL RECORDINGS 06 10 38,438 FORGET YOU CEE LO GREEN WARNER BROS NE 11 37,654 THE TIME (DIRTY BIT) BLACK EYED PEAS INTERSCOPE NE 12 35,928 GOTTA BE SOMEBODY SHAYNE WARD SYCO MUSIC NE 13 33,201 RAISE YOUR GLASS PINK LAFACE** 08 14 32,423 JUST A DREAM NELLY UNIVERSAL 10 15 23,823 HIGHER SATURDAYS FT FLO RIDA FASCINATION/GEFFEN NE 16 23,537 HOLD YOU GYPTIAN MINISTRY OF SOUND 11 17 21,987 CHECK IT OUT WILL I AM & NICKI MINAJ INTERSCOPE 09 18 19,578 BARBRA STREISAND DUCK SAUCE 3 BEAT/AATW 16 19 19,235 MAGIC BOB FT RIVERS CUOMO ATLANTIC NE 20 16,057 2 MINUTE SILENCE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION ROYAL BRITISH LEGION


p a v View member profile	11th January 2021, 04:04 AM Post #7
thanks for being a sarcy lil bitch Joined: 25 September 2007 Posts: 79,277 User: 4,397	Trouble being only Top 10 in the UK and not even Top 70 in the US (!!!) is troubling ~~


inactiveaccount View member profile	13th January 2021, 09:30 AM Post #8
BuzzJack Legend Joined: 3 August 2006 Posts: 24,289 User: 1,030	'raise your glass' and 'perfect' haunt G-A-Y, so even though they may have not been that big... both are played so often so feel like huge hits. I'd say 'I Don't Believe You' or 'Please Don't Leave Me' or 'True Love' feel like big smashes that weren't?


Liam.k. View member profile	13th January 2021, 09:48 AM Post #9
BuzzJack Idol Joined: 8 December 2010 Posts: 50,972 User: 12,472	Thanks for all that context Jay! 'Raise Your Glass' ended up having a really decent chart run despite that debut so radio airplay clearly helped there, but it does make you wonder what could have been if it had strong support to start with. I agree with Bjork that it's slightly 'So What Pt.2' but that didn't stop me loving it at the time and I do think it has its own merits too.


Envoirment View member profile	13th February 2021, 02:40 PM Post #10
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 21 November 2009 Posts: 8,556 User: 10,030	I was surprised about "Raise Your Glass" peaking so low, but I'm glad it stuck aorund and become a long-selling hit. I agree with "Leave Me Alone (I’m Lonely)". If it was given the full proper single treatment it would've been massive. I was also surprised that her version of "A Million Dreams" didn't go top 10. If a music video was released it likely would've gone top 10. I would hear it all the time back when it was released.


T Boy View member profile	17th February 2021, 09:35 AM Post #11
Radical Pink Troll Joined: 11 March 2006 Posts: 26,603 User: 177	A Million Dreams I think suffered from lack of streaming. It did make top 10 midweek if I remember but it just wasn’t being streamed enough to make it across the line officially. As always, it was a great download seller! I am surprised the song that took off from that album was Rewrite The Stars by the awful James Arthur and the awful Anne Marie.