Nice boost next week with this "quitting music" shizz? :kink:

I did notice that The Abbey Road Sessions has returned to the Top 200 on iTunes...

Out of the top 100 this week, i thought she might have scraped another week top 100 this week but it wasnt to be.

Falls from #81 to #113.

I thought it'd drop much more than that tbh.

A year since it charted! :wub: This did so well for an album that was little more than a treat for the fans.

it done so much better than most fans expected, i thought 100,000 sales max so it sold double what i expected,,all going well her new album will make platinum at worst.

I hope she goes for a Spring release rather than a Summer one - the state of the current album market, she'll be lucky to go Platinum if she releases at a similar time that Aphrodite was.

All signs point to a Spring release tbh. If the single does premiere this month then she'll likely use The Voice to promote it and release the album soon after.

That's true, it would make great sense to take full advantage of the exposure she'll get from The Voice. Fingers crossed for another #1 album but it's perhaps too early to say without knowing what the rest of the release schedule will be like.

Happy 10th anniversary to 'The Abbey Road Sessions'!

 

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I'm conscious of celebrating too many anniversaries but I can't let @kylieminogue #AbbeyRoadSessions10 go without a little celebration as it remains one of the privileges of my life rocking up to that building to go to work every day for the period of time we made this.

 

It was two weeks of intensive rehearsals beforehand figuring out which songs would work best with the band then a little break to get everything scored and arranged before settling into our new home at Studio 2 trying ever so hard not to be intimidated by the history it held within its walls.

 

You can't help it though, one glance and thats where John and Yoko's bed was, there's the stairs George Martin walked up and down so many times. But weirdly that quickly went away and we tapped into the absolute warmth of the place. The reason why so many creative people have been inspired just by being there.

 

Along with my brilliant co producer Colin Elliot we recorded everyone in the same room , nobody was in a booth, it was all just takes, if something went wrong we just did another one.

 

Plus there was the day that royalty visited in the form of the perfect gentleman that is @nickcaveofficial . That was quite the moment, everyone sat together playing "Where The Wild Roses Go" with the two of them singing along.

 

So many incredible memories, the first time hearing the strings on "Lucky" and "Finer Feelings", finally seeing "Flower" come to life after waiting its turn for its time in the sun and the breathtaking pin drop moment recording her and @davidtench for a one take unicorn moment on "Never Too Late" which along with her other performances on this album remain some of the best vocals ever performed for me.

 

Everyone that worked and played on this album remembers this time as fondly as I do , it was magical, beautiful and most of all full of fun and laughter throughout and its always so wonderful when I hear that comes across to the listeners too.

It's always nice to acknowledge anniversaries but abbey roads isn't an album I'd go back too at all, flower is the complete highlight from it.