Aha take on me went to no.1 after it was re-released.

Among those songs which were big hits only after they were re-released

 

Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

Radiohead - Creep

 

As was Michael Jackson's One Day In Your Life

I can understand if it's a lesser known album track...but not a song that was top 40 under 12 months ago.

 

 

Aha take on me went to no.1 after it was re-released.

I think you mean The Sun Always Shines On TV. Take On Me only made number two - shockingly

Marina released an EP with I Am Not A Robot, plus nobody knew her back then. Album release always works for the singer, plus Hollywood was a really good choice for a single! I see IANAR easily go in the Top 40 at least now, as well as Obsessions or Mowgli's Road had she re-released any of them.

Re-releasing flop singles makes sense. It's re-releasing successful singles that doesn't.

Over the years there have been loads of successes re-releases.

 

A-Ha 'Take On Me', INXS 'Need You Tonight', Madison Avenue 'Don't Call Me Baby' spring to mind.

 

Maybe another reason why record companies might be re-releasing singles to down to financial issues. There's been plenty of news reports relating to how illegal downloading has made artists/record companies suffer as they're not making money. So perhaps the cheapest way to get around this is by re-releasing singles - they already have a music video so they're saving costs on producing another promo.

 

Who knows, maybe 'Don't Trust Me' and 'Candy' might both go top 5 second time round. I would wonder what's making the songs so popular now compared to first time round. Both tracks got enough airplay on radio/music channels.

Livin' Joy's Dreamer went to #20 originally and then re-entered at #1, same with Berri's Sunshine After The Rain - top 30 originally and then a top 5 upon re-release! Runaway by The Corrs wasn't a smash until its fourth release once the band had become huge :lol: Obviously it's slightly different for dance tracks to gain extra momentum with club play and added remixes generating more hype but in the case of Paolo and 3OH!3, it's obvious that both act's profiles have grown massively in the time since they released these singles so I guess it makes sense that they'd want to try again with the songs that they personally felt were good enough to launch their eras with.

 

I do personally think that both have their own reason for being pointless. Don't Trust Me was already quite big in the first place - got some good airplay and hung around for a while. And Paolo's album has shifted a million now - he should have tried another different album track to try to appeal to the few people who are still likely to buy it that still don't.

 

But my point is that I might not be happy with these re-releases but I can see why they've done it :lol:

I think that in this day and age re-releases are pointless. You can download anything you like any time you want. In the days when there might have been a track that sold on word of mouth, or on club exposure and is a small hit, and then gets on an ad or gets playlisted by a major station you needed a re-release, but there's really no point now, people will (or at least should) buy what they want to buy...

Aha take on me went to no.1 after it was re-released.

 

Take On Me bizarrely never reached number 1, and The Sun Always Shines on TV was never re- released, it was straight after TOM

 

I dont think any aha songs were ever re released :huh:

 

Edit: sorry I was wrong :blush: but it wasnt number 1

Edited March 25, 201015 yr by chart wizard

If the song was already a moderate hit like Candy then I really don't see the point but if a single performed poorly and the artist has gained some popularity after the release then I feel it is justified like with Marina and Flo.

I've heard the album & 3OH!3 have nothing better to release.

Re-releasing Candy doesn’t cost anything; it’s more about keeping Paolo on the radio to keep sales of Sunny Side Up going. I doubt the record company expects it to make an appearance in the top75.