It's nice to see it picking up sales again and it's done decently considering how successful the first greatest hits was.

They should release a package of it vinyl, CD, cassette etc while it is riding high for that higher peak!

If only, but at least the original CD is still available as new (on both Amazon and HMV) to be able to count as sales! Although sometimes I wonder if it simply being called 'Ten' does it a disservice, because it doesn't exactly scream "I'm a Greatest Hits album!" lol. At least it doesn't matter for streaming, because people don't have to play the songs via Ten, for it to be counted to Ten.

 

I suppose a Ten vinyl isn't planned if they went to the trouble of planning a vinyl for The Whole Damn Show Megamix. A pity if that release ultimately ends up being their only "hits on vinyl" album.

 

Ten should have been on vinyl in 2012 tbh! It's just at that point, pop music on vinyl wasn't terribly common, for albums at least. So their label probably didn't even consider it then unfortunately. Even though they released a fair few singles on vinyl.

I agree it should be called Ten (Greatest Hits) to help drive sales for sure. Is there no way they can re-title it?

I agree it should be Ten The Greatest Hits as GH do pick up more casual sales than what people deem a regular album which many might think it is.

Ten is up 9 places to #30 in the UK this week!

Massively surprised they didn’t announce the GH on vinyl - either version - to go with the tour.

Happy to see it top 30 and hopefully rise again this week.

After a massively impressive re entry at number 10 last week here in Ireland, Ten drops to number 66 this week.

Keep going :cheer:

 

I hope this tour can help their catalogue get healthier residual streams/sales over time, as aside from the big hitters it's felt a bit dormant for years in that regard.

Very dormant for too long so hopefully this resurgence helps.

I'm still holding out hope that the success of the reunion will lead to new music.

Keep going :cheer:

 

I hope this tour can help their catalogue get healthier residual streams/sales over time, as aside from the big hitters it's felt a bit dormant for years in that regard.

 

 

Girl bands and female pop artists in general do! With the amount of hits Madonna and Kylie have you think they would be up there in the top 20 all the time like Elton John or Fleetwood Mac are, and then Spice Girls greatest hits is never to be seen in the top 100 but Westlife and Take That are always surfacing in it. :blink:

 

No real justice at all.

Massively surprised they didn’t announce the GH on vinyl - either version - to go with the tour.

I wish they had, but the upcoming existence of the new Megamix on vinyl makes me fear that they'll never press either of their hits collections on vinyl. :cry:

 

I think 'Ten' as a title/theme, does the album a disservice in many respects, and one of them is that it doesn't really make sense anymore from a marketing perspective, in terms of releasing a new format of it.

 

If it really had to be called Ten, I wish they'd been a bit more obvious with the title and called it something like 'Ten: The Hits', 'Ten: The Greatest Hits', 'Ten: The Greatest Hits of Girls Aloud', 'Ten: The Singles Collection'... basically anything to make it super clear that it's a compilation album.

 

The CD is still available to buy "as new" from HMV/Amazon, and yet it's not Top 100 in the physical chart this week. It's letting them down in the main album chart... they're actually #24 in the streaming chart (which is pretty incredible!) but the album ended up at #30 overall.

 

I hope this tour can help their catalogue get healthier residual streams/sales over time, as aside from the big hitters it's felt a bit dormant for years in that regard.

Absolutely! Considering how well they're doing on streaming right now (for 'Ten' to be #24 in the streaming chart), their singles must be getting significantly more sales per week... perhaps the most since their years of release? :o

 

It makes me hopeful that some of their currently uncertified singles go Silver a lot earlier than anticipated. No Good Advice has already defied my expectations: based on how it was selling in the 2010s, in August 2019 I estimated that Silver didn't look achieveable until Summer 2026 - yet it's done it, 2 years in advance, just as the tour started. Which may indicate that Girls Aloud being active since last November has already made their streams healthier. It makes me hopeful that Sexy! No No No... isn't far off silver at this point. Back in 2019 I estimated 2027 as being its silver year, but could it do it this year? :thinking:

I'm surprised the physicals aren't doing anything so its strange in a good way that its streaming that's bringing the success for the album at the moment.

I'm surprised the physicals aren't doing anything so its strange in a good way that its streaming that's bringing the success for the album at the moment.

 

Would the physicals be doing not much/nothing because most or all of the fans already own it on cd?

 

This is where a vinyl or a potential re-release could’ve come in handy.

Would the physicals be doing not much/nothing because most or all of the fans already own it on cd?

 

This is where a vinyl or a potential re-release could’ve come in handy.

If a vinyl was out this week they would go top 10.

Anyone have predictions for where Ten will be this week I'm thinking top 25.

Hopefully a good midweek position today, because on Friday and Saturday they did shows in Newcastle, so fingers crossed that resulted in strong streams. They did a show there on Sunday too but any streams from that day won’t count to today’s midweek. Then there’s Aberdeen on the 4th. That’s it for this week’s shows that could boost their streams.

 

Tour schedule in relation to chart weeks:

 

17/05 - 23/05: Dublin x2, Belfast x2, Manchester x1 = Ten at #39

24/05 - 30/05: Manchester x2, Cardiff, Sheffield = Ten at #30

31/05 - 06/06: Newcastle x3, Aberdeen

07/06 - 13/06: Glasgow x3, Nottingham x2

14/06 - 20/06: Leeds x2, Birmingham x3

21/06 - 27/06: London x5

28/06 - 04/07: Liverpool x2

 

I have high hopes for the chart week that includes all 5 London dates!

 

At least it seems Ten is guaranteed 5 more weeks in the chart, and I hope once the tour is over it can at least hold up for another couple of weeks before I assume it inevitably falls off.

It's great that tour will see the album back in the charts for a few weeks rather than a flash in the pan number 55 re entry for 1 week type return.

Now I'm always happy to see it chart at all but this return helps give it a real improved chart run.

I really hope they can somehow get aware of the chart success and try and do some plugging for it even just on socials. Imagine if they’d actually pressed some new physicals for this like a new vinyl / CD or cassette etc it could’ve actually reached a new peak.

 

Seeing it back inside the top 40 is nice to see though. I think it *could* perhaps manage top 20 maybes during London week but I’m just happy they’re back inside the top 40 again. The albums chart run initially was quite short and the Ten tour didn’t seem to have as much impact as this tour is having but this tours had quite substantial publicity and streamings now a factor in the charts where as before it was all down to paid sales and those attending likely bought it already.

Edited June 3, 20241 yr by Jordanlee

Ya it's initial chart run was far too short so this nicely will bring it over the 20 week run on the chart and nicely edge it towards 400k sales.