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I did say 'very rare' if you read closely, that was a very rare exception. Although the album was huuuge in the US which gives it a better advantage, and doesn't really matter if it doesn't perform greatly here.

vidcapper, almost impossible. :P Xtina will be forever Floptina with this album. Can she recover in the future? This is an interesting question.

vidcapper, almost impossible. :P Xtina will be forever Floptina with this album. Can she recover in the future? This is an interesting question.

 

I really think she's on the slippery slope to where J-Lo now is, this album is probably her Rebirth and the next one may be her Brave.

I'm 85% percent sure that Christina will get an X Factor slot later this year. Simon loves her, believes Beautiful is one of the best pop songs ever plus she was brilliant on American Idol.

 

She's got a big enough profile, it's just that she hasn't promoted AT ALL in the UK this era.

 

Tbh I'd rather have an album that fell 1-29 than an album that fell 2-29. Even if it is the lowest-selling #1 in UK chart history with the biggest drop from the top spot, at least it got to #1 in the first place with no promotion and an underperforming lead single.

I'm 85% percent sure that Christina will get an X Factor slot later this year. Simon loves her, believes Beautiful is one of the best pop songs ever plus she was brilliant on American Idol.

 

She's got a big enough profile, it's just that she hasn't promoted AT ALL in the UK this era.

 

Tbh I'd rather have an album that fell 1-29 than an album that fell 2-29. Even if it is the lowest-selling #1 in UK chart history with the biggest drop from the top spot, at least it got to #1 in the first place with no promotion and an underperforming lead single.

 

Couldn't agree more! Yes this album has underperformed BUT it still managed to get to #1 and im pretty sure it will recover - Its an amazing album with so many standout tracks.

Couldn't agree more! Yes this album has underperformed BUT it still managed to get to #1 and im pretty sure it will recover - Its an amazing album with so many standout tracks.

 

Yep. If it fell 2-29 or even 10-29, I doubt people would make such a big deal about it. Why is it so terrible that she has the lowest-selling #1 in UK chart history? It's not good but AT LEAST it got to #1. -_-

 

The general public would think it was a huge success by seeing it was #1. It was a mega underperformance in reality but it won't look that way to the public.

Why is it so terrible that she has the lowest-selling #1 in UK chart history?

 

Because of pretty much exactly what you just said - it would still be pretty bad if it was 2-29 or 10-29 but nobody would care, the fact it got to #1 is the significant bit. It makes the case unique. Nobody cares about huge drops which aren't from #1. Its terrible case is made unique by the fact it got to #1 rather than #2 etc. then fell to #29.

Because of pretty much exactly what you just said - it would still be pretty bad if it was 2-29 or 10-29 but nobody would care, the fact it got to #1 is the significant bit. It makes the case unique. Nobody cares about huge drops which aren't from #1. Its terrible case is made unique by the fact it got to #1 rather than #2 etc. then fell to #29.

 

Yes but people are forgetting the "it got to #1" bit. It's still a #1 record and deserves credit for that - even if it was the lowest-selling with the biggest drop afterwards.

Yes but people are forgetting the "it got to #1" bit. It's still a #1 record and deserves credit for that - even if it was the lowest-selling with the biggest drop afterwards.

 

It has credit for being #1 in virtue of that being a part of the 'biggest drop from #1' record. :P

Not such a shocking drop this week - #45! Not great but was expecting it to be around the #60 mark - hopefully a few more weeks in the Top 75 before it gets added to the '2 For £10' section in HMV -_- i still can't believe how badly the album has performed, I think its one of her best and have not stopped listening to it.

 

And just in reply to the comments above the 'general public' rather than us chart freaks won't have even noticed its dramatic fall from the top but they will however thanks to Radio 1 know that it was a #1 album.

I did say 'very rare' if you read closely, that was a very rare exception.

 

I *did* read it closely, which I why I felt the need to *name* an exception.

 

Couldn't agree more! Yes this album has underperformed BUT it still managed to get to #1 and im pretty sure it will recover - Its an amazing album with so many standout tracks.

 

Or so many tracks, period.

 

I downloaded the deluxe edition, which has 23 (though technically some of them are just intros, of course)

I think it is awful how badly the album has performed and that it had the lowest sales to get to No.1 in about a decade. BUT the era isn't over yet, she will release another single which may revive it, I think we can only say "the album has underperformed" if at the end of the era it actually has. At the moment it's underperformed to this point.