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Posted by: Joe. 4th April 2016, 10:12 AM

DNA

Single 1: Wings
Single 2: DNA
ALBUM
Single 3: Change Your Life
Single 4: Madhouse
Single 5: How Ya Doin' Ft. Missy Elliot

Salute

1st Single: Move
2nd Single: Towers
3rd Single: Nothing Feels Like You (Sports releif)
4rd Single: Salute

(Little Me is nice, but not single worthy, Word Up! shouldn't have been released, it would have made a fun B-side for Nothing Feels Like You IMO)

Get Weird

1st Single: Black Magic
2nd Single: Love Me Like You
ALBUM
3rd Single: Secret Love Song
4th Single: Weird People / OMG (Slightly slicker radio edits)
5th Single: Hair with feature.

(This era has been perfect so far, I'd just like to have seen better promo for Secret Love Song).

Posted by: MrLoverboy 4th April 2016, 11:53 AM

Salute

1st: Move
2nd: Towers
3rd: Nothing Feels Like You
4th: About The Boy (Although if we are considering the time of release, I would change the order of this with NFLY so the latter got the BGT performance slot)
5

Get Weird
1st: Black Magic
2nd: Love Me Like You (European/Australian single)/ Grown (International)
3rd: Secret Love Song
4th: Hair or A.D.I.D.A.S (I don't think any of those would be huge though)

Posted by: Defaze 4th April 2016, 12:32 PM

Your Salute era is pefect, it's the exact singles I would've opted for. 'Towers' would've been sublime on the radio. I'd perhaps put 'Salute' before 'Move' as another pre-album single, possibly released in Summer. I imagine it would've fared much better chart-wise if that was the case; not only cause it'd be pre-album, but it probably would've received much stronger radio support too.

For DNA, I'd just forego a slow-tempo song entirely. I do enjoy CYL occasionally, but it was a bit of a comedown following 'Wings' and 'DNA'. I'd go with:
1st Single: Wings
2nd Single: DNA
3rd Single: Red Planet (recently revisited DNA and this is such a huge moment. Plus, it sounds slightly reminiscent of DLG. Would've been a nice tribute).
4th Single: How Ya Doin' (with a proper Sunday release, rather than the hasty mid-week one that squandered its peak).

I agree that Get Weird has been perfect thus far. I hope they don't ruin that by releasing 'Lightning', as their recent social media activity seems to be suggesting. I sound like a broken record, but 'Grown' seems like the logical next choice, either remixed or with a feature added (or both, a la HYD). I think 4 singles is sufficient. I see where you're coming from with 'Hair' as a 5th given that it's already charted, but I can't see the 4th doing massively well, and two consecutive 'flops' may seem a little questionable. I'd rather they took a break and returned with a killer lead for album 4 (or perhaps a re-release).

Posted by: Joe. 4th April 2016, 12:40 PM

It would be between Red Plant and Madhouse for the DNA replacement, both are strong.


Lots of fans on Twitter see Love Me Like You's peak and say it wasn't a good single choice. But I still fully back that as a choice. The reason it was such a good single choice is that it fitted in so perfectly with all the radio demographics. I really don't see Black Magic being as good as an album seller, despite being a huge #1.

Posted by: Jonjo 4th April 2016, 02:30 PM

'Love Me Like You' kept the album selling imo, so I agree with it's single choice too.

Posted by: Jimmy Jam 4th April 2016, 05:30 PM

DNA:
1. Wings
2. DNA
-Album-
3. How Ya Doin ft Missy Elliot
4. Change Your Life

(Don't really have any complaints in hindsight for DNA singles, maybe red planet, or stereo soldier, but I think 4 was a good number debut album. Only thing I would have changed is How Ya Doin first because I feel like it could have made more of an impact)

Salute:
1. Move
2. Towers
-Album-
3. Competition (Sports Relief song)
4. Salute
5. About the Boy

(To me they got more wrong singles wise this era. little me is great, but definitely album track for me, towers is better, and better for single 2. competition screams Sports Relief single to me, so as much as I love Nothing Feels Like You, would have went there, and About the Boy is a jam, so would have loved to see it as a single)

Get Weird:
1. Black Magic
2. Love Me Like You
-Album-
3. Secret Love Song
4. Hair (with another feature)
5. ADIDAS

(I agree, they've gotten everything right this era so far, and there are many other moves they could make single for wise, that I would also be at peace with, bar 1 choice, which is obvious my opinion on)

Posted by: SeanGrey 4th April 2016, 05:32 PM

LMLY has sold pretty decently as well. Anything that followed Black Magic was going to be overshadowed anyway.

Posted by: Juliano 4th April 2016, 11:57 PM

The only thing I would have changed would be Nothing Feels Like You instead of Word Up! and then possibly These Four Walls or Towers to finish the Salute era before Black Magic.

Posted by: mr_pmt 5th April 2016, 12:36 AM

The big one for me is 'Red Planet' instead of 'Change Your Life' for DNA. I feel 'Word Up' kind of made the Salute era feel a bit disjointed, but I think they did alright with it aside from that. 'Nothing Feels Like You' slotted in somewhere would have been nice but no biggie.

Posted by: Mackenzie 5th April 2016, 07:43 PM

DNA

01. Wings (July 2012)
02. DNA (October 2012)
-Album Release-
03. Red Planet (January 2013)
04. Change Your Life (April 2013)

Salute

05. Move (August 2013)
06. Salute (November 2013)
-Album Release-
07. These Four Walls (February 2014)
08. Little Me (May 2014)

Get Weird

09. Black Magic (June 2015)
10. Love Me Like You (September 2015)
-album release-
11. Secret Love Song (December 2015)
12. OMG (February 2016)
13. Hair ft. Nicki Minaj or Iggy Azalea?? (May 2016)

Posted by: SeanGrey 6th April 2016, 07:36 AM

Wasn't there talk of a Minaj collab/they'd expressed desire to collab with her?

Posted by: Mackenzie 6th April 2016, 01:33 PM

yeah I read an article in which they said they wished she was the 5th member, that's why I added it in a perfect world

Posted by: Jimmy Jam 6th April 2016, 05:26 PM

I think i'd actually die if the queens collabbed together

Posted by: Electro Paradise 6th April 2016, 05:39 PM

DNA
Wings
DNA
Stereo Soldier
Red Planet feat T-boz
Madhouse

Salute
Salute
Move
Nothing Feels Like You
Good Enough (tour version)

Get Weird
Black Magic
Love Me Like You
Secret Love Song, Part II
Grown

I'm ready for the next album now though.

Posted by: Robot 6th April 2016, 05:58 PM

DNA:

1. Wings
2. DNA
3. Change Your Life
4. Madhouse

Salute:

1. Move
2. Salute
3. Towers
4. A Different Beat

Get Weird:

1. Black Magic
2. Love Me Like You
3. Secret Love Song
4. Weird People
[Re-release]

Posted by: SamJudd 6th April 2016, 06:21 PM

DNA

1. Wings
2. DNA
3. Change Your Life
4. Red Planet


Salute

1. Move
2. Towers
3. Salute/Word Up
4. Competition

Get Weird

1. Black Magic
2. Love Me Like You
3. Secret Love Song
4. Weird People
5. Lightning

Posted by: Matt1989 7th April 2016, 09:35 AM

Firstly- hi! My first ever post on this forum

Secondly (an on topic)- It seems to be universally agreed that Nothing Feels Like You should've been a single instead of Word Up. At the Get Weird live stream the girls were asked which song they wish had been a single and even they chose Nothing Feels Like You.

I seem to be in the minority that actually like Little Me but I would've changed the release date. Seriously, who in their right mind thought releasing a single on 30 December was a good idea?

This may sound controversial, but I think Secret Love Song is better without Jason Derulo. His verse takes away some of the original meaning of the song and a lot of Mixers I speak to on Twitter seem to prefer their version. If that had been the single (and it had some actual promotion) it could've been up there with Move in terms of chart peak and sales

Posted by: Joe. 7th April 2016, 09:49 AM

Hi Matt! Welcome to the forum, I hope you stick around.

I don't think it's controversial to prefer SLS part 2, I think loads of fans seem to agree. I'm in two minds about it though, as I feel like Jason's name probably attracted a lot more attention around the single and helped its performance a lot.

Posted by: Jimmy Jam 7th April 2016, 02:04 PM

welcome Matt!!!!

I am one of those fans who agrees with you about SLS!

Posted by: Ultraviolence1989 7th April 2016, 05:44 PM

Welcome Matt