I don't think Pixie will get to number one tbh, She's 60% behind Jessie J and that's a lot. I can't see her Dancing On Ice performance helping her no more than 15% on Sunday. I think the best she will do is reduce the gap to around 20% and even that's a massive ask as she would have to double her %.

KTS is continously on the increase though, the DOI performance and the increase in airplay and videoplay and talk about the video over the next few days COMBINED could be enough. KTS is having a similar style climb as 'Domino'.

A big single and continued radio support is great and all but at the end of the day if her album continues to sell peanuts she's going to get dropped :P I think this era has gone well enough for her to get a third album but she won't last much longer unless she can go back to selling albums as well as singles which she did perfectly with Turn It Up.

 

Which is why Flo Rida and Jason Derulo have long since given up on intoxicating our airwaves? Obviously Pixie hasn't gotten any singles as big as that but her album sales are stronger (even Young Foolish Happy will probably end up selling as much as their best selling efforts - likely more) and Turn It Up alone more than makes up the difference. Small budget too. I can't see Kiss The Stars not helping the album to an extent. I don't know if it will be a big album seller but even a few weeks top 40 would send her past 100k I'd imagine (she's on something like 70k now I think?). Follow up singles could get her anywhere from 150k to 300k or more. It all depends on single choices and promotion. Kiss The Stars has given the campaign the momentum that had seemed utterly dead after WDYTMF? SHAMEFULLY flopped. That's what I'd call an era saver.

Edited January 13, 201213 yr by Umi

KTS is continously on the increase though, the DOI performance and the increase in airplay and videoplay and talk about the video over the next few days COMBINED could be enough. KTS is having a similar style climb as 'Domino'.

 

I don't think it will go to number one as Swedish House Mafia is out next week. Top 3 peak is looking likely what is good news. I would have happily accepted Kiss The Stars getting top 10 never mind top 5!

Which is why Flo Rida and Jason Derulo have long since given up on intoxicating our airwaves? Obviously Pixie hasn't gotten any singles as big as that but her album sales are stronger (even Young Foolish Happy will probably end up selling as much as their best selling efforts - likely more) and Turn It Up alone more than makes up the difference. Small budget too. I can't see Kiss The Stars not helping the album to an extent. I don't know if it will be a big album seller but even a few weeks top 40 would send her past 100k I'd imagine (she's on something like 70k now I think?). Follow up singles could get her anywhere from 150k to 300k or more. It all depends on single choices and promotion. Kiss The Stars has given the campaign the momentum that had seemed utterly dead after WDYTMF? SHAMEFULLY flopped. That's what I'd call an era saver.

 

Flo Rida and Jason Derülo are big international artists, a completely different scenario to an act like Pixie Lott whose success is entirely concentrated in the UK (and Ireland to a much, much lesser extent). 100k would be an utterly DIRE total for Young Foolish Happy after how much Turn It Up sold. If it gets towards the upper end of your other prediction that would be just about acceptable but I can't see it happening, album sales will be in the shitter to an even greater extent than they were last year and YFH is nowhere near the top 40 at the moment. It'll need something massive to properly 'save' it. (Kiss The Stars/future singles may well do this in the coming weeks/months, I don't know - but that's why I'm saying KTS is only an era saver if it helps the album).

 

I'm not trying to be negative on purpose here though - I guess it is good for her that she has managed to salvage a bit of a success story post-All About Tonight after the disaster of WDYTMF? - I just think that selling a decent amount of singles is a good thing but it doesn't really count as saving an era if it does nothing for the album itself whose success is more important :P

Edited January 13, 201213 yr by Bré

A UK artist with a UK budget. 100k would be dire in comparison, sure, and poor by "normal standards" but she'll have a lot of good will leftover from Turn It Up (which sold more than either of Flo Rida's first two albums worldwide) and I don't see why Platinum status would be too bad. It's a big drop from Turn It Up but that was a huge seller and it's not like they went in all guns blazing with this. She'll have a lot of good will leftover from the first album with her label and Platinum is good in this day and age. Although Platinum is "best case scenario" so there's no guarantee it will reach that at all obvs.

 

And if worst comes to worst, re-release and milk it as much as you possibly can.

Pixie Lott is also signed to Interscope, so if she loses her record deal in the UK, she can still have a career in the US. :)

Yeah, I think she's going to attempt to crack the Us this year, what a record label to have in attempt to do it. Turn It Up has sold 860,000 in the Uk alone and over 1million worldwide. The good thing about Pixie is she writes most of her material so she saves money compared to artists who get songs written for them...

Pixie won't get dropped

Annoying how much iTunes has reverted this week.

 

01. Jessie J - Domino 100%

02. Flo Rida - Good Feeling 64.5%

03. Rizzle Kicks - Mama Do The Hump 63.6%

04. David Guetta & Sia - Titanium 58.4%

05. Taio Cruz - Troublemaker 45%

06. Pixie Lott - Kiss The Stars 42.7%

07. Coldplay - Paradise 41.2%

08. Lloyd - Dedication To My Ex 40%

09. Avicii - Levels 38.1%

10. Beyonce - Love On Top 31.7%

 

11. Olly Murs - Dance With Me Tonight 27.9%

12. Kelly Clarkson - What Dosen't Kill You 26.4%

Pixie Lott is also signed to Interscope, so if she loses her record deal in the UK, she can still have a career in the US. :)

 

Good joke :P

I love how people talk about artists being dropped all the time, yet it never seems to happen. Yes, the likes of Wonderland and Mini Viva get dropped (and other UK artists who get one top 40 single and a flop follow up and album) but when has a name like Pixie Lott or The Saturdays ever been dropped?

Good joke :P

 

Interscope are a fantastic label for getting artists out of nowhere to have massive hits. They've done it COUNTLESS times. Don't Cha, Like a G6, Just Dance, In Da Club, Party Rock Anthem. I could go on. They just pull artists out of thin air and they end up releasing one of the biggest hits of the decade. You would've laughed and called it a "joke" if I told you early 2010 that Far East Movement and LMFAO would get massive US #1s. But they did.

 

Pixie Lott will be next.

Interscope are a fantastic label for getting artists out of nowhere to have massive hits. They've done it COUNTLESS times. Don't Cha, Like a G6, Just Dance, In Da Club, Party Rock Anthem. I could go on. They just pull artists out of thin air and they end up releasing one of the biggest hits of the decade. You would've laughed and called it a "joke" if I told you early 2010 that Far East Movement and LMFAO would get massive US #1s. But they did.

 

Pixie Lott will be next.

 

Just looked at who Interscope have on their label, actually quite incredible how many massive names they have. I wonder why Pixie's not given America a proper go yet?

 

I weirdly think What Do You Take Me For would do way better in USA than it did here tbh.

Edited January 13, 201213 yr by lee wallace

Just looked at who Interscope have on their label, actually quite incredible how many massive names they have. I wonder why Pixie's not given America a proper go yet?

 

I weirdly think What Do You Take Me For would do way better in USA than it did here tbh.

 

Interscope used to be my favourite record label. It had ALL my favourite artists on. Fergie, will.i.am, Eminem, The Game, 50 Cent, Pussycat Dolls, Gwen Stefani, Timabaland, Keri Hilson, Dr. Dre, Black Eyed Peas (and they also extended out to Akon, Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado), etc.

 

Now, however, the record label has gone massively downhill and they just sign crummy pop tarts like Lady Gaga, Madonna, Natalia Kills, Lana Del Rey, etc. :rolleyes: And if you're wondering why Pixie hasn't given America a proper go yet, THIS is why. The record label now spend ALL their money on those people, so nobody else stands a chance. I'm still waiting for 50 Cent and Dr. Dre's new albums, but I'm afraid I have to wait for Lady Gaga's career to end before any rappers on the label will get any money put into their album promotion campaigns. :rolleyes:

 

will.i.am also signed Cheryl Cole to Interscope. :D

Edited January 13, 201213 yr by Eric_Blob

Just looked at who Interscope have on their label, actually quite incredible how many massive names they have. I wonder why Pixie's not given America a proper go yet?

 

I weirdly think What Do You Take Me For would do way better in USA than it did here tbh.

What Do You Take Me For? would do spiffingly in the US as RnB is still so popular there. I actually think it would be perfect to launch her there actually! :o

Interscope used to be my favourite record label. It had ALL my favourite artists on. Fergie, will.i.am, Eminem, The Game, 50 Cent, Pussycat Dolls, Gwen Stefani, Timabaland, Keri Hilson, Dr. Dre, Black Eyed Peas (and they also extended out to Akon, Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado), etc.

 

Now, however, the record label has gone massively downhill and they just sign crummy pop tarts like Lady Gaga, Madonna, Natalia Kills, Lana Del Rey, etc. :rolleyes: And if you're wondering why Pixie hasn't given America a proper go yet, THIS is why. The record label now spend ALL their money on those people, so nobody else stands a chance. I'm still waiting for 50 Cent and Dr. Dre's new albums, but I'm afraid I have to wait for Lady Gaga's career to end before any rappers on the label will get any money put into their album promotion campaigns. :rolleyes:

 

will.i.am also signed Cheryl Cole to Interscope. :D

 

so much irony here I can't even begin :drama:

What Do You Take Me For? would do spiffingly in the US as RnB is still so popular there. I actually think it would be perfect to launch her there actually! :o

 

It's a shame What Do You Take Me For? wasn't released in 2004 though. Would've been a sure-fire US #1 then. :lol:

 

Europop is more popular in the US at the moment than RnB though, so she'd be better leading with Boys and Girls or All About Tonight in my opinion. There was only 1 vaguely RnB #1 in the US in 2011 (Grenade). There was also Wiz Khalifa and 2 Adele songs at #1, but then the rest of the #1s that year were dance music (although E.T. crossed-over to hip hop/RnB a bit).

Edited January 13, 201213 yr by Eric_Blob

Interscope used to be my favourite record label. It had ALL my favourite artists on. Fergie, will.i.am, Eminem, The Game, 50 Cent, Pussycat Dolls, Gwen Stefani, Timabaland, Keri Hilson, Dr. Dre, Black Eyed Peas (and they also extended out to Akon, Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado), etc.

 

Now, however, the record label has gone massively downhill and they just sign crummy pop tarts like Lady Gaga, Madonna, Natalia Kills, Lana Del Rey, etc. :rolleyes: And if you're wondering why Pixie hasn't given America a proper go yet, THIS is why. The record label now spend ALL their money on those people, so nobody else stands a chance. I'm still waiting for 50 Cent and Dr. Dre's new albums, but I'm afraid I have to wait for Lady Gaga's career to end before any rappers on the label will get any money put into their album promotion campaigns. :rolleyes:

 

will.i.am also signed Cheryl Cole to Interscope. :D

 

So they're concentrating on crummy pop tarts but ignoring Pixie Lott? THE HORROR. She's one of the biggest stars in the world, a fashion icon and can send a song to #1 just by releasing a pretty mediocre video.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh wait, that's GaGa.

Interscope are a fantastic label for getting artists out of nowhere to have massive hits. They've done it COUNTLESS times. Don't Cha, Like a G6, Just Dance, In Da Club, Party Rock Anthem. I could go on. They just pull artists out of thin air and they end up releasing one of the biggest hits of the decade. You would've laughed and called it a "joke" if I told you early 2010 that Far East Movement and LMFAO would get massive US #1s. But they did.

 

Pixie Lott will be next.

 

I notice a bit of a recurring theme in the artists behind those tracks - American, American, American, American, American :P Excluding featured artists only six Brits have had a US #1 in the 21st century and two of them (Jay Sean and Taio Cruz) required so much Americanisation that they may as well not be classed as British, which just leaves Coldplay, Adele, Leona Lewis and James Blunt. Let's look at the UK success of those four acts:

 

Coldplay - four, soon to be five, million selling albums, three of those over 2 million, generally one of the biggest bands in the world

Adele - her success last year in the UK requires no explanation

Leona Lewis - Spirit sold 3 million copies in the UK and Bleeding Love sold a million and spent 7 weeks at #1

James Blunt - Back To Bedlam also sold over 3 million copies in the UK, You're Beautiful spent 5 weeks at #1

 

Pixie doesn't come close to competing with any of that so it will take a true MIRACLE for her to overcome the nationality barrier.

 

That's not to say she won't get any success at all - for example The Wanted have defied all odds and made some waves in the US with 'Glad You Came', as has Ellie Goulding with 'Lights', plus Tinie Tempah had very decent success with Written In The Stars - but it's fair to say the likelihood of Pixie becoming massive in America is about zero.

Edited January 13, 201213 yr by Bré

Would love to see where KTS would've been WITHOUT the price reduction.