July 30, 201014 yr Snow Patrol - Open Eyes. If I remember correctly it went to Number 1 in the album chart when released, and reclimbed due to Chasing Cars being released. Also Travis - The Man Who was saved after Why Does It Always Rain On Me came out, and quite possibly Moby's Play hang around after after releasing Porciline. A few others: The Kooks - Inside In Inside Out due to 'She Moves in her own way' The Killers - Hot Fuss thanks to Somebody Told Me The Zutons - Tierd Of Hanging Around because of Valrie (I think that's the correct ablum title :lol:)
July 30, 201014 yr Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction thanks to 'Sweet Child O Mine' First single released was 'Nightrain' which didn't trouble the charts at all, but then along came SCOM and everything changed - went from unknown rockers to the biggest band in the world overnight.
July 30, 201014 yr Garbages first album. It entered at 12 and then hovered in the lower ends of the chart until Stupid Girl was released. It then spent 7 weeks in the top 10 :dance:
July 30, 201014 yr Diana Vickers - Songs from the tainted cherry tree It rose to #13 last week from the release of The Boy Who Murdered Love Don't think that counts as it debuted @ #1.
July 30, 201014 yr I think David Gray's White Ladder came out in 1999 but started to sell more after Babylon came out in 2000. Dido's No Angel also came out before Eminem's Stan which then made the album a big hit.
July 30, 201014 yr Lighthouse Family - Ocean Drive - came out in 1995 and charted for 1wk at No.74. Lifted came out in 1996 and the album went to No.3 and charted for 141wks. The Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doind It So Why Can't We? - Came out in 1993 and charted at No.64 for 1wk. Linger came out in 1994 and the album went to No.1 and charted for 86wks. Inxs - Kick - Charted for 3wks in 1987 and peaked at No.37. In 1988 New Sensation came out and the album went to No.9. The singles to follow ie Devil Inside, Never Tear Us Apart, Mystify and the re-issue of Need You Tonight kept the album in the charts for 103wks and well into 1989.
July 30, 201014 yr I vaguely remember Dina Carroll first few singles doing so-so and then the album seem to take off after the 5 th single "Express" made it to #12 . Then followed by two major Top 5 singles "Dont Be A Stranger" and "Perfect Year" which helped make the album one of the biggest UK debut albums of the 90's
July 30, 201014 yr Don't think that counts as it debuted @ #1. It does me thinks. Anyway, I don't think that album is or will be saved. :D
July 30, 201014 yr If I remember correctly, Whitney Houston's 1999 comeback album My Love Is Your Love performed pretty poorly prior to the release of the title track as second single. I may be wrong, but I think it debuted outside the top 20 and, despite the gold-selling first single It's Not Right But It's Okay (her biggest single in years), didn't make much of an impact until My Love Is Your Love started picking up airplay a few months later. I remember it climbed into the top 5 (peaking maybe at number four, I think) and went multi-platinum. Go, girl! Gabrielle's Rise album had much the same chart run - again, not selling much until the release of second single, Rise.
July 30, 201014 yr Pixie Lott - Turn It Up I remember it falling like a brick after Boys & Girls was released but Cry Me Out gave it som longevity and it rose back into the Top 40 and had consistency. Turn It Up was released 2 weeks after Boys & Girls but your point is correct.
July 30, 201014 yr Author Snow Patrol - Open Eyes. If I remember correctly it went to Number 1 in the album chart when released, and reclimbed due to Chasing Cars being released. Also Travis - The Man Who was saved after Why Does It Always Rain On Me came out, and quite possibly Moby's Play hang around after after releasing Porciline. A few others: The Kooks - Inside In Inside Out due to 'She Moves in her own way' The Killers - Hot Fuss thanks to Somebody Told Me The Zutons - Tierd Of Hanging Around because of Valrie (I think that's the correct ablum title :lol:) When I made this topic, I meant albums which flopped initially and were saved, not albums that re-climbed to their positions. Diana's album does not count also, and I wouldn't count Pixie either. I'm really talking albums which completely flopped and it looked like they had no hope of being saved, but somehow did.
July 30, 201014 yr I guess Hips Don't Lie saved Oral Fixation Vol.2, albeit with a re-release adding that particular song. It was top 75 for just three weeks courtesy of Don't Bother and definitely looked like a lost cause, but began a long (and deserved :wub:) residency in the top 20 when Hips Don't Lie became successful.
July 30, 201014 yr When I made this topic, I meant albums which flopped initially and were saved, not albums that re-climbed to their positions. Diana's album does not count also, and I wouldn't count Pixie either. I'm really talking albums which completely flopped and it looked like they had no hope of being saved, but somehow did. I have been chuckling at some of the inclusions.
July 30, 201014 yr How about Billy Joel's Piano Man - The Very Best Of? Not necessarily saved by singles as such, but on its initial run it made just #40 and vanished quickly then 2 years later it got a much higher peak, 2 more years later it went top 10 for the first time and then a further 2 years later (this year) it reached its peak of #7. It should be due to repeak again in 2012 :lol:
July 30, 201014 yr Gwen with The Sweet Escape. I seem to recall it missed the top 20 entirely when first released and it wasn't until the title song became a hit that it started selling. I think that counts if Stripped does!
July 30, 201014 yr Gwen with The Sweet Escape. I seem to recall it missed the top 20 entirely when first released and it wasn't until the title song became a hit that it started selling. I think that counts if Stripped does! I wouldn't really include The Sweet Escape. The album was clearly dying but the single didn't really save it. It climbed into the top 20 briefly and then died again, never to be seen. Apparently The Sweet Escape is the only album not to reach the top ten after following a million seller (LAMB). Poor Gwen.
July 30, 201014 yr Author Gwen with The Sweet Escape. I seem to recall it missed the top 20 entirely when first released and it wasn't until the title song became a hit that it started selling. I think that counts if Stripped does! Yep, I'd definitely count that!
July 30, 201014 yr Author But Stripped went on to sell bucket-loads... The Sweet Escape barely hit gold. It sold around 300k which is platinum.
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