Capital must have premiered this early by accident then!

Depends. I think they may have just "premiered" the Sats only version.

Quen Rochelle was missing from Daybreak today, the world is ending!

According to Wiki

 

What about us - release

 

 

United States and Canada 18 December 2012

Australia 15 March 2013

Ireland, New Zealand and United Kingdom 17 March 2013

Spain 19 March 2013

It's not the end you know. Take Ellie Goulding whose a perfect example. She released her song 'lights' last year with the same amount of promotion as the Saturdays. Then she released her album there going to #121 and lights only debuting

heatseekers chart. Then she just left it and fans felt bad like some of you do now. She came back a whole month after and a bit over a while later, after a huge radio tour and double the tv promo, lights shot up and so did her album. she had a platinum selling single and a top 25 album hit at the end. Was r released in May 2011 and didn't hit contemporary radio til January 24th 2012. After January she became so famous there and I know some of you may snubbed this but it is the truth.

Edited January 30, 201312 yr by vivek

They were on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show yesterday with Nick Grimshaw, and their play of What About Us was apparently its world premiere. :lol: I switched off before it got played though.

 

And I highly doubt that The Saturdays are going to do what Ellie Goulding did with Lights at all.

And I highly doubt that The Saturdays are going to do what Ellie Goulding did with Lights at all.[/size]

 

Well of course you're going to say that, in denial that they're gonna be bigger than Little Mix? :P

Well of course you're going to say that, in denial that they're gonna be bigger than Little Mix? :P

 

:kink:

 

No, it's the fact that the chart success of Lights was a rare occurrence and wouldn't usually happen otherwise. It's like a song climbing to its peak position in 2003. It just doesn't happen very often at all.

Not really, they just have to be really dedicated to promoting it and apparently they're coming back late Feb anyways

Not really, they just have to be really dedicated to promoting it and apparently they're coming back late Feb anyways

 

And until then?

 

I just can't see The Sats being dedicated enough to do the promo and touring that Ellie and Cher Lloyd done.

Can you guys please be a little more positive? Nearly every post on here is negative

 

 

I think you're all forgetting the fact they even bothered to step foot in America. Give it some time and stop complaining.

This might be released the same week as One Direction's Comic Relief single.

Lights had a popular remix, which was the reason it started climbing the charts, if I remember correctly.

Edited January 30, 201312 yr by Marina Hurts

There's no point comparing 'Lights' with 'What About Us'. The Sats have a TV show promoting the song, arrived in the US with four big TV appearances within ten days, had a very American music video released and they're an extremely commercial group. Ellie on the other hand was a nobody in the US and had to work her way up and do tons of promotion before she could land the spots that The Sats got instantly. 'Lights' isn't that mainstream and Ellie isn't the most commercial artist, so it was no wonder the song took ages to take off.

There's no point comparing 'Lights' with 'What About Us'. The Sats have a TV show promoting the song, arrived in the US with four big TV appearances within ten days, had a very American music video released and they're an extremely commercial group. Ellie on the other hand was a nobody in the US and had to work her way up and do tons of promotion before she could land the spots that The Sats got instantly. 'Lights' isn't that mainstream and Ellie isn't the most commercial artist, so it was no wonder the song took ages to take off.

 

The Saturdays could still be considered "nobodys" though. Just because they have a reality show on E! and have done a few promo TV shows doesn't mean they deserve INSTANT commercial success. I think Lights is a good example that sometimes it takes a while for songs to take off when you are a new artist & when you don't have a large fan base. Did we really expect the song to get instant radio play? Judging by the Daybreak interview this morning, Mollie (and the girls) are well aware that a radio tour is necessary & it's going to take a while to tour major cities all over the US.

Griff, how could you dislike What About Us when you've not bothered listening to the song?

Anyway, number one seems to be out of the window as it's being released the same week as One Direction.

They were on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show yesterday with Nick Grimshaw, and their play of What About Us was apparently its world premiere. :lol: I switched off before it got played though.

 

And I highly doubt that The Saturdays are going to do what Ellie Goulding did with Lights at all.

IIRC, it was the "world premiere" for the Sean Paul version. Obviously we've had the version leak online, but I don't think it's had an official, radio play until now. (I could be very wrong though).

 

Also, The Saturdays aren't likely to do what Ellie did, but what Ellie did in the US should keep all of your minds settled that it "could" very well happen. I'm not saying it will, but we just never know. I do think it's too early to start moaning still, but I've said that more than enough times on here already so I'm not gonna waste another post repeating it :lol: We shouldn't worry until mid-end March at the earliest.

They should bring the UK release of this forward... 3rd March would be a decent time.

Edited January 31, 201312 yr by Encore

If thy don't bring the release forward then they're screwed.