There'll be no 4th single, promotion would be a waste of money, OMG did hardly anything for album sales after missing the top 10 and look at how badly Busy did, only the first two singles are shifting albums each time. He's already writing the 3rd album, between that and gigs he has no time to promote it considering the new one will be out in November and half of the time he'll be in America. If he starts releasing 3 singles from a yearly album he'll be releasing singles more often than most people.

Bit late here but I've only just heard about Chiddy Bang featuring on the US version and I have liked a couple of Chiddy Bang songs in the past but my god. A perfectly good song RUINED.

It's already out in the U.S, I don't think it has airplay yet though so it's gonna be a while before it charts. Still, he's building a decent fanbase over there stealing One Direction fans.

So less than two weeks left of Murs being out in America then (until he goes back for a week in September, reasons of which I'll explain in a second...)

 

For anyone who hasn't seen it cos' of country restrictions on VEVO and all that poncey stuff this is the US version of the 'Heart Skips a Beat' video. It's a funny video, it's totally Olly's sense of humour and personality coming across - almost a bit Benny Hill-esque. The Chiddy Bang inclusion on this is still terrible though, nothing on Rizzle Kicks in the original.

 

And this was Olly's performance on Jay Leno last Friday. Brilliant as always.

 

Just wish the same could be said for how HSAB is faring in America atm. And it's not really the fault of Olly from where I'm standing, it's Columbia's for messing around with the song - only Z100 in New York and Radio Disney in California seem to be playing it and it's not as if Olly's not been working as hard as he does out there - he's been to radio stations during the day and doing TV spots and doing this 'Olly Checks In' campaign in all the different states since he's been out there. But HSAB is getting virtually no airplay still and the single's not even top 200 on iTunes there anymore so I just feel bad for Olly that his best chance of cracking America is being pissed around with by US label people who think they know better and can control him like they do One Direction. He's his own artist here and is very much in creative control back here and they obviously are trying to eradicate that.

 

The US version of 'In Case You Didn't Know' is released there 25th September. There's new artwork (below) and a tracklisting that mixes about 75% of our version of the album with 'Please Don't Let Me Go' and 'Thinking Of Me'.

 

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We're apparently getting the 1st single from third album in August/September - along with his iTunes Festival date, and surprisingly his first official book which is as yet untitled but is published 11th October...look forward to reading that!

Edited June 19, 201213 yr by ThePensmith

I MUCH prefer that album cover, I am gonan swap them over on my itunes.

 

Olly was blessed enough to meet Sir Adam Brody when he was on Leno <3

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I would much rather prefer BUSY being on his US album over Thinking Of You

Thinking Of ME is the best thing he's recorded.

'Thinking Of Me' is amazing. I'd much rather it was 'Busy' over 'Please Don't Let Me Go'. TOM would be a US hit I reckon.

I would indeed :kink:

 

Seriously though, good on Olly for trying but I just think his sound isn't the kind of thing that will hit in the US now. I guess the third album will be more US-centric, and probably shite :(

So less than two weeks left of Murs being out in America then (until he goes back for a week in September, reasons of which I'll explain in a second...)

 

For anyone who hasn't seen it cos' of country restrictions on VEVO and all that poncey stuff this is the US version of the 'Heart Skips a Beat' video. It's a funny video, it's totally Olly's sense of humour and personality coming across - almost a bit Benny Hill-esque. The Chiddy Bang inclusion on this is still terrible though, nothing on Rizzle Kicks in the original.

 

And this was Olly's performance on Jay Leno last Friday. Brilliant as always.

 

Just wish the same could be said for how HSAB is faring in America atm. And it's not really the fault of Olly from where I'm standing, it's Columbia's for messing around with the song - only Z100 in New York and Radio Disney in California seem to be playing it and it's not as if Olly's not been working as hard as he does out there - he's been to radio stations during the day and doing TV spots and doing this 'Olly Checks In' campaign in all the different states since he's been out there. But HSAB is getting virtually no airplay still and the single's not even top 200 on iTunes there anymore so I just feel bad for Olly that his best chance of cracking America is being pissed around with by US label people who think they know better and can control him like they do One Direction. He's his own artist here and is very much in creative control back here and they obviously are trying to eradicate that.

 

I read that it won't be officially launched on pop radio til the 8th of July so that could be a reason for the lack of airplay? Anyway, has Ed Sheeran even had a hit over there, and his album is doing alright, went top 5, so a hit single is not the be all and end all. Decent album sales could hold him over til the next album where his sound is probably gonna be more US friendly; "Maroon 5 esque".

Edited June 25, 201213 yr by BuzzLightyear

I read that it won't be officially launched on pop radio til the 8th of July so that could be a reason for the lack of airplay? Anyway, has Ed Sheeran even had a hit over there, and his album is doing alright, went top 5, so a hit single is not the be all and end all. Decent album sales could hold him over til the next album where his sound is probably gonna be more US friendly; "Maroon 5 esque".

 

Why they've left it until after he's back here to start playing the single on radio is beyond me when it's been out there on iTunes since the beginning of this month? I don't get how it works with America at all, all this 'impact date this' etc etc.

 

TBH the chances of a decent selling album are probably against him, the pre-order on iTunes was #189 for a brief second and has disappeared off again. Everyone's gonna have forgotten by September.

 

And I hope to God they don't force him to be more 'US-centric'...ugh, he's not a puppet like bloody One Direction! Although he did say in an interview the other day he was going for a more funk-y feel a la James Brown/Jamiroquai for this album which could be interesting :) I'm sure Olly won't let them boss them into taking away what we love him about anyway. The US HSAB video is proof of that - it's still his personality and sense of humour!

For a song in America to become a hit it takes a hell of a lot longer than it does in the UK. It doesn't impact straight away (unless they're already huge - Katy Perry, Rihanna, Lady GaGa, Taylor Swift, Lil Wayne, Maroon 5 etc...). 'Call Me Maybe' has only just got to number 1 over there (well a couple of weeks ago) 'We Are Young', 'Somebody That I Used To Know' were also "sleeper hits". Ellie Goulding 'Lights' has just reached the top 10 over there too. She's been climbing and dropping for about a year (I think?) now. It's because for it to chart on the BBH100, then they need to have a nice airplay count as opposed to just sales. (And we know how long it takes radio to latch onto a song :lol:)

Why they've left it until after he's back here to start playing the single on radio is beyond me when it's been out there on iTunes since the beginning of this month? I don't get how it works with America at all, all this 'impact date this' etc etc.

 

TBH the chances of a decent selling album are probably against him, the pre-order on iTunes was #189 for a brief second and has disappeared off again. Everyone's gonna have forgotten by September.

 

And I hope to God they don't force him to be more 'US-centric'...ugh, he's not a puppet like bloody One Direction! Although he did say in an interview the other day he was going for a more funk-y feel a la James Brown/Jamiroquai for this album which could be interesting :) I'm sure Olly won't let them boss them into taking away what we love him about anyway. The US HSAB video is proof of that - it's still his personality and sense of humour!

 

He's going back over in September to promote the album, we'll have to wait and see how it does. I never expected him to ever try and break into the American market so any success he has is a bonus. I don't know how it works, only that it's alot different. He's working with Claude etc again as well some new ones like Ed Drewett, it's bound to be more of the same but a bit more dancey, I can't see a drastic Americanized change, it'll be the sound of Olly's influences as usual.

He's going back over in September to promote the album, we'll have to wait and see how it does. I never expected him to ever try and break into the American market so any success he has is a bonus. I don't know how it works, only that it's alot different. He's working with Claude etc again as well some new ones like Ed Drewett, it's bound to be more of the same but a bit more dancey, I can't see a drastic Americanized change, it'll be the sound of Olly's influences as usual.

 

That's what I'm thinking (and hoping) it will be. Adam Argyle and Martin Brammer are on this album again too - they did Busy and Oh My Goodness :)

 

PS How AMAZING was he on the T in the Park coverage tonight? Smashed it!

So 'Heart Skips A Beat' has finally charted in America. Albeit on Billboard Pop Songs at #36, which is depressing to say the least - not even on the main Billboard chart. It's in fact about the same position JLS reached with 'Everybody In Love' back in 2010. I dread to think how the US version of the album's gonna perform now.

 

I just think so much of this US campaign for him could have been handled so much better. He admitted in an interview last week it wasn't even his decision to take Rizzle Kicks off the track, it was Columbia's because they apparently told him bluntly that 'UK rappers don't work in the States'. So Tinie Tempah's success over there with 'Disc-Overy' and 'Written in The Stars' was nothing then? What a bunch of k***s!

 

All this trying to meld him into the 6th member of One Direction and throwing him on their tour was a big mistake in any case cos' it's alienating his US fanbase that knew of him before that - I know having spoken to them on Tumblr - and if you look at the reviews for the US remix on iTunes 99.9% of them say the Rizzle Kicks version is better. So because Columbia can't do their job properly and pissed around with what isn't broken it's gonna look bad on Olly when it wasn't even his fault - he's still been doing some US promo this week in fact with some US radio stations that are over here in London for the Olympics so it's not as if he's not fulfilling his end of the bargain - he was doing all the radios in the States on the tour as well.

 

In better news though 'Oh My Goodness' is released in Germany on Monday with a physical format (which we didn't get, lucky sods, 'Don't Say Goodnight Yet' is still the B-side). It's already at #38 on iTunes there so hopefully he'll another big hit there shortly, I know he's doing some more gigs in Germany soon, he's doing a show in Baden Baden with Ed Sheeran and Marlon Roudette and he's doing 'The Dome' (I think it's called?) at the end of August in Ludwigsburg.

Higher hopes for the album or it's game over in America.

#129 on US iTunes now. New peak?

 

Still climbing slowly on radio too. :)

Oh My Goodness is single #2 in Germany, it's already charted... really badly -_-

Oh My Goodness is single #2 in Germany, it's already charted... really badly -_-

 

Well the single's only just been released there today in digital EP/CD format so will probably peak within the next two weeks as 'Heart Skips...' did - and he's back for more promo there soon as well!

#129 on US iTunes now. New peak?

 

Still climbing slowly on radio too. :)

 

Given it's had a consistent pattern of peaking at #99 or #100 then dropping again I don't feel too optimistic. TBH If Columbia are to have any chance of not further screwing up Olly's career for him out there their best move would be to drop this fiasco of a US remix and release either 'Dance With Me Tonight' or 'Oh My Goodness' to the radio stations out there. No chance of hideous US rent-a-rappers damaging Olly's chance of success thus.