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-0-0 View member profile	Apr 28 2015, 11:44 PM Post #1
🙄 Joined: 14 February 2010 Posts: 53,654 User: 10,643	I would actually much rather they got a top 10 album selling 30,000 rather than a top 20 album selling double tbh


PaPa Ri View member profile	Apr 28 2015, 11:49 PM Post #2
JanWasRobbed Joined: 20 February 2009 Posts: 8,229 User: 8,335	Doesn't really matter as neither will ever happen again, but I'd rather they got a 60k selling album. Chart positions for albums never mattered to me as far as The Sats are concerned.


jakee View member profile	Apr 29 2015, 12:17 AM Post #3
i thought you wore the hairpiece for style Pronouns: · Joined: 7 March 2006 Posts: 22,456 User: 47	i'd rather they do a mission to the moon for £75,000 (all donated)


-0-0 View member profile	Apr 29 2015, 12:38 AM Post #4
🙄 Joined: 14 February 2010 Posts: 53,654 User: 10,643	QUOTE(┌ ╫ ┘ @ Apr 29 2015, 01:17 AM) i'd rather they do a mission to the moon for £75,000 (all donated) I'd rather you do a mission to the moon and not return.


Hurricane View member profile	Apr 29 2015, 01:16 AM Post #5
get me started, hot like fire Joined: 21 June 2012 Posts: 6,221 User: 17,262	Hard to say. I guess it depends on how cheap the album is. I mean for just +30k more, I'd rather they add another top 10 album to their list, especially if the album is a cheap knock-off. If it was to be their best album yet, I guess 60k would be nice...just for the sake of such a good album at least outselling 'LFTW' and the Greatest Hits. I don't know, tbh.


365 View member profile	Apr 29 2015, 10:55 AM Post #6
BuzzJack Legend Joined: 11 October 2013 Posts: 31,023 User: 19,931	I'd rather sales, as that's what radios/record companies etc actually look at when investing in artists' music.


JosephBoone View member profile	Apr 29 2015, 10:59 AM Post #7
you never forget your first time... Pronouns: he/him Joined: 19 April 2011 Posts: 121,537 User: 13,530	I'd prefer the top 10 album tbh, they'd make less out of it of course but with a pop act like The Saturdays, I think it's the chart peak that matters most - a top 10 album would look much better on their record.


Martyn View member profile	Apr 29 2015, 11:35 AM Post #8
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 7 March 2006 Posts: 13,207 User: 66	It depends where in the top 10/20. If it was a case of a #10 album selling 30,000 or a #11 album selling 60,000 I think everyone would go for the #11 album. However I think for The Saturdays, chart positions are the important thing. As they have 5 top 10 albums. Which sounds great, if we ignore what they have sold. So a 6th top 10 album would sound better than a 6th top 20/7th top 25 album as a promotional thing.


(Zach) View member profile	May 2 2015, 02:00 AM Post #9
BuzzJack Gold Member Joined: 23 March 2013 Posts: 3,902 User: 18,512	Sales over chart position any day.


Hurricane View member profile	May 2 2015, 04:15 AM Post #10
get me started, hot like fire Joined: 21 June 2012 Posts: 6,221 User: 17,262	But is #20-60k really that much better than #10-30k? Of course if you offered me #22 with 150k, I'll take it over #4 and 50k, but a 30k difference (especially in that case where both numbers are under the 70k bar) just isn't enough to really put it above a good top 10 position, in my opinion.


(Zach) View member profile	May 2 2015, 02:13 PM Post #11
BuzzJack Gold Member Joined: 23 March 2013 Posts: 3,902 User: 18,512	In my opinion, fans who follow the charts closely always put more emphasis on chart position but in the grand scheme of things I think sales are so much more important. How often do they use the whole "5 Top 10 Albums" thing anyway? It's not like they run ads or do X-Factor performances. I'd rather 60,000 people have their album over 30,000 because that means twice as many people are fans of their music, twice as many people are sharing that music with friends, twice as much revenue from album sales, twice as many people will feel compelled to buy concert tickets, etc. Plus, is having a "Top 10" album really that much better than having a "certified album" from a marketing standpoint? Finally, if they could get a Silver album and keep momentum going then the following release would most likely peak much higher as they've acquired new fans.


SGrey View member profile	May 2 2015, 02:37 PM Post #12
BuzzJack Platinum Member Joined: 4 December 2013 Posts: 8,400 User: 20,182	Obviously album sales are pretty dire in general unless you are Sam Smith or Ed Sheeran, but would be interesting to see how the last few album attempts would have panned out in better sales climates.


Hurricane View member profile	May 2 2015, 07:26 PM Post #13
get me started, hot like fire Joined: 21 June 2012 Posts: 6,221 User: 17,262	QUOTE((Zach) @ May 2 2015, 02:13 PM) In my opinion, fans who follow the charts closely always put more emphasis on chart position but in the grand scheme of things I think sales are so much more important. How often do they use the whole "5 Top 10 Albums" thing anyway? It's not like they run ads or do X-Factor performances. I'd rather 60,000 people have their album over 30,000 because that means twice as many people are fans of their music, twice as many people are sharing that music with friends, twice as much revenue from album sales, twice as many people will feel compelled to buy concert tickets, etc. Plus, is having a "Top 10" album really that much better than having a "certified album" from a marketing standpoint? Finally, if they could get a Silver album and keep momentum going then the following release would most likely peak much higher as they've acquired new fans. Ah, see, to me, it's the opposite. I think fans put more emphasis on the sales because they actually know them, unlike the general public or people from radio stations. Truth is, chart positions are usually the only thing you're going to find right away on Wikipedia, not sales - which are far more a "stans" thing. I truly wonder if radio stations actually have access to such things as sales. I'm pretty sure people are just paid to evaluate how popular an act is at the moment and checking charts positions on Wikipedia is a really quick way to do it, whereas I feel like finding actual sales is harder. I mean, here on Buzzjack, it's easy, but otherwise, not really. As I said, a certified album with an actual good certification would be great, yes, but saying "Buy the Silver certified album of The Saturdays!" is probably equivalent to "Buy the latest top 10 album of The Saturdays" because usually, unless you're a total flop like the girls, a top 10 album will actually get certified Silver. There really are just the girls (and a few other flops) to have a top 10 album sell so little. Usually, a #10 album will go on and sell 60k. So I wonder, in the public eye, if selling 60k is really a bigger marketing standpoint than "Buy this top 10 album". Now, for "twive many people" argument, that's actually not untrue. However, I pretty much approached the whole debate in a different way. For me, this was more of " it's all settled and done" situation. Like it's a #20-60k album and not one more single sale due to someone sharing a video on their Facebook page (and same for the #10-30k). But your point still stand when it comes to twice as much people feeling compelled to buy tickers for their tours, gigs, etc. That's really the only compelling point to it (as for me, I mean). But I wonder if it's really important if the label isn't even paying for a tour...


Mike Sugafan View member profile	May 4 2015, 02:14 PM Post #14
BuzzJack Gold Member Joined: 17 July 2006 Posts: 2,839 User: 945	I thought it would be like Sweet 7, missing top 10 and almost 20,000 only


Jordanlee View member profile	Jun 13 2019, 11:57 PM Post #15
Jord Joined: 12 March 2017 Posts: 10,758 User: 27,116	More sales.


miichaelking21 View member profile	Jun 14 2019, 01:30 PM Post #16
BuzzJack Regular Joined: 12 June 2017 Posts: 345 User: 33,161	Top 10 selling 10,000 copies feels more likely based on the fact LFTW hasn’t even sold 60k after 6 years and the current albums climate is so low currently.


Jessie Where View member profile	Jun 14 2019, 03:08 PM Post #17
Break the tension Joined: 7 March 2006 Posts: 88,874 User: 51	We'll never know now!