where is mary j blige - her new album is amazing!!

Really feel for the sats, I like the album, By sunday it wont even be top 20 probably, Such a shame. :(

The annoying thing about The Sats is that it's practically nowhere to be found in stores. Several people on here, popjustice and DS have complained it's nowhere/limited stock in HMV or Tesco.

The annoying thing about The Sats is that it's practically nowhere to be found in stores. Several people on here, popjustice and DS have complained it's nowhere/limited stock in HMV or Tesco.

 

That's no excuse for how appallingly it's doing on downloads where there's infinite stock. :P

That's no excuse for how appallingly it's doing on downloads where there's infinite stock. :P

 

Also that it is being sold for only £6.99 on amazon.

 

Hope rihanna cracks 150k sales by the end of the week, whatever happenes she is looking at her biggest opening sales ever.

That's no excuse for how appallingly it's doing on downloads where there's infinite stock. :P

 

But the majority of album sales are from physical copies (over 90% is it not?) and the fact the biggest music entertainment store in the UK is barely selling them isn't very encouraging.

Great to see we look set for decent album sales this week, both rihanna and one direction will sell well past 100,000 this week. Very disapointing for the Saturdays and unless there is some turnaround and fast i think its over for them, sadly they have yet to have released an album that has been truly successful and they have been lucky in some senses to get as far as they have based on album performances, i would think a graetest hits will be rush released next year with a new single to try and sell it and that could be it for them as a group.

 

Im happy Olly Murs is number 1 in the singles and hope he stays there and its highly likely he will, single sales look like they could be up on last week also.

It really iritates me that Olly Murs' 'Dance With Me Tonight' is likely to get him a third #1 - when the fantastic 'Thinking of Me' only peaked at #4 - whilst his best single to date (in my opinion), 'Busy' only peaked at #45. His X-Factor performance may persuade my liking of the song though, it just doesn't sound like him.

 

As for the Saturdays, it's probably not well stocked for a reason - with two #8 albums and a #3 EP the band are hardly album sellers - and with 'Notorious', 'All Fired Up' and 'My Heart Takes Over' all doing relatively bad chart wise, it doesn't look like this era's done much for the girls at all. Music stores would have made their orders based on research - so it's not the biggest of surprises; the fanbase will no doubt have already pre-ordered or downloaded anyway. It seems that like Pixie Lott, people are beginning to give up - instead settling for new artists (i.e. Ed Sheeran + One Direction).

* Sugababes - not the actual current band or even Keisha/Mutya/Siobhan, but the completely new band with the Sugababes 1.0-2.0 indie vibe.

 

There's already one - they're called the WooWoos and are releasing their first teaser single this week called Fizzy Lettuce on the too-cool-for-school Moshi Moshi label, with a proper debut single coming in early 2012 under Island Records:

 

http://www.nmevideo.com/the-woowoos-fizzy-lettuce

 

:P

I love that ALREADY we're bringing out the old "STOCKING PROBLEMS" line.

I love that ALREADY we're bringing out the old "STOCKING PROBLEMS" line.

 

Cringe. By your wording I think you spend too much time on these forums. Maybe if you actually go outside and go in an HMV store you'll see for yourself. Maybe the reason people have said it in the past is because, erm, it's true? :unsure:

To be fair to The Saturdays, it's not sensible to overstock when you're only ever likely to sell 25K total at best.

 

The whole situation with Pixie Lott and The Saturdays shows exactly what the problems are with releasing in the packed fourth quarter. Yes, it can guarantee massive sales on one hand but on the flip side it can make an underperforming album look even worse.

 

If both acts had released in the Summer or very early in Autumn, they would probably have both reached the top 10 and also fallen more gradually because 1) of the slower release schedule; and 2) the prominent places in supermarkets, etc, that being higher up in the album charts would give them, therefore attracting more casual sales. By releasing in Q4 it just means it's going to BOMB down the charts because of so many acts releasing and the casual buyer won't even notice an album was released. Pixie is already in the process of doing that this week, as you can see.

 

It's the fault of the record companies for thinking both are big enough to survive in this market, really. It was always pretty obvious (to me, at least) that neither are/were, so I'm not remotely surprised. Plus I've seen this same thing happen to sooo many other acts over the years.

Edited November 22, 201114 yr by superbossanova

My HMV were playing the Saturdays album in the shop yesterday. Maybe that's why it's not selling? :P

Don't know why people are expecting the saturdays to be doing better.

 

this is their previous openings

 

-Chasing Lights 22,393

-Wordshaker 15,022

 

Nothing major at all! this album will probably be in the region of 10k-15k so not much different for the last one.

It's the fault of the record companies for thinking both are big enough to survive in this market, really. It was always pretty obvious (to me, at least) that neither are/were, so I'm not remotely surprised. Plus I've seen this same thing happen to sooo many other acts over the years.

 

The worst for me being Delta's Mistaken Identity, late November release = #25 smash and bomb down the chart - would it have hurt to have delayed it until February the following year when nothing was out? :( It's a really risky time for any act to release new product as like you say, after week one it's pushed aside in favour of another wave of new releases. Short of a miracle post-xmas boost these albums are dead in the water after the first set of midweeks.

 

Album sales are SO poor now that I'm really hoping that the 4th quarter rush soon becomes a thing of the past and that the releases are more spread out through the year. I can only talk for myself but there were NINE albums out that I wanted to buy this week, I could only afford four of them and five will have to wait or more likely I'll never buy them at all. If these nine had been spread throughout the year then chances are I'd have got all of them. There's far too much competition and people can only buy so much at one time. In comparison between June and August I barely bought any albums at all because nothing that interested me was released, insanely frustrating!

I'm a Sats loon too but I think the FANZ need to get over the fact it isn't going to do well. And you can't blame stock problems because even if it was there, fact is it still wouldn't make top 15...

My HMV only has 20 copies of The Saturdays new album in stock. All 20 are still on the shelf.

Cringe. By your wording I think you spend too much time on these forums. Maybe if you actually go outside and go in an HMV store you'll see for yourself. Maybe the reason people have said it in the past is because, erm, it's true? :unsure:

 

This does happen. It happened with Joe Mcelderry's album. They didn't stock enough in the first week because they didnt expect it to sell as well as it did and Twitter was full of people saying they were trying to buy it but couldn't. I don't know what amount the Saturdays would sell or if it would make a difference but people do just pick up things on impulse that they see. If its not visible its a big problem.

The saturday's just have a small but loyal fanbase, any of their longer/better hits are ones that get more casual buys. Their 3 singles so far have basically sold to their fanbase and barely anyone else. So it was inevitable the album would only sell to the fanbase and this time of year instead of it being enough for #9 it will be #19.