November 24, 201212 yr I am actually a fan of Taio Cruz, I really liked 'No Other One' Taio Cruz has fans! :o Genuinally shocked :lol: Do you get his albums too?
November 24, 201212 yr Taio Cruz has fans! :o Genuinally shocked :lol: Do you get his albums too? Taio Cruz releases albums? He was good from the start of Come On Girl's release, until he moved on to the next single. (I joke of course. I Can Be, Break Your Heart and Higher are all good, he's just painfully by numbers now. :()
November 24, 201212 yr 'Departure' is a brilliant pure RnB album! Definitely one of my favourite RnB albums in the last 5 or 6 years or so. 'Rokstarr' was good to start with, but the more his songs got overplayed, the less appealing his album became. 'Ty. O' sounds awful so far. I really hope he will one day, go back to his 'Departure' days. :(
November 24, 201212 yr 'Departure' is a brilliant pure RnB album! Definitely one of my favourite RnB albums in the last 5 or 6 years or so. 'Rokstarr' was good to start with, but the more his songs got overplayed, the less appealing his album became. 'Ty. O' sounds awful so far. I really hope he will one day, go back to his 'Departure' days. :( As much as I love Come On Girl, that is what did it to him I think. That was his success story (and sounded nothing like any of his other singles around the time), and then when Break Your Heart and Dynamite smashed it kinda sealed the deal... Luckily his 'sound' seems to be wearing thin with people now, so maybe he'll try something a little different again!
November 24, 201212 yr Author AVENUES AND ALLEYWAYS- TONY CHRISTIE http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/images/to/tony-christie-avenues-and-alleyways.jpg PEAK POSITION: 26 SALES: 16K FOLOW UP TO: (IS THIS THE WAY TO) AMARILLO? Quite why Christie thought that re-releasing this song in 2005 would provide a decent follow up to “Amarillo” is anyone’s guess after the song originally made No 37 in 1972. Well it did do better than that anyway making it 11 places higher but in the poor sales climate of 2005 only equates to 16k sales, actually this isn’t so bad on hearing it again but where’s Peter Kay? MORAL OF THE STORY: SHAME GERALDINE MCQUEEN WAS INVENTED TOO LATE TO HELP HERE mcfGeNqp-bY
November 24, 201212 yr Author ABIDE WITH ME- VIC REEVES http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v481/23Daves/left%20and%20to%20the%20back/abide.jpg PEAK POSITION: 47 SALES: 16K FOLLOW UP TO: DIZZY Composed in 1847 this religious hymn was given a dance overhaul by Vic Reeves for Christmas 91, it has a certain bizarre genius to it I confess though it passed me by entirely and I imagine it isn’t on Cliff’s playlist as he tucks into his turkey. Anyway clearly not many people got the joke and it didn’t even make the top 40 signalling the end of Reeves’s pop career though he returned for a one off in 95 with EMF. MORAL OF THE STORY: NOT EVERYONE CAN PULL A “MILLENNIUM PRAYER” AXYmA1ly_g0
November 24, 201212 yr Avenues and Alleyways only made #26 :o I would've thought it got higher considering it made it onto Now That's What I Call Music, and I wasn't following the chart at the time. Of course Now aren't always right as I know now. I remember listening to DJ Q 'You Wot!' and thinking 'wow was this really a hit?' and then I slowly grew into it. Years later I discovered it only went to #50 :lol:
November 24, 201212 yr Aww, I actually quite liked Avenues And Alleyways. It's a shame that no one else seemingly did though. :( Edited November 24, 201212 yr by Grief
November 24, 201212 yr Author FEELS LIKE HOME- MECK http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/3769485/Meck%20feat%20Dino%20Lenny%20meck.jpg PEAK POSITION: 39 SALES: 15K FOLLOW UP TO: THUNDER IN MY HEART AGAIN Not content with resurrecting the career of Leo Sayer in 2006, Meck’s follow up sampled Felix’s “Don’t You Want Me” long before Snoop Dogg got his hands on it. For Madonna fans you may recognise it as the song mashed up with “Like A Prayer” on her Sticky & Sweet World Tour (ironically “Sorry” knocked “Thunder In My Heart Again” off the No 1 spot) , not a bad tune actually, mind you it’s hard to slaughter such a 90s classic like Felix. MORAL OF THE STORY: BRINGING BACK LEO SAYER IS A CRIME! 4VCrxHXB65I
November 24, 201212 yr Three different versions of 'Abide With Me' have charted then and all of them peaked around the same position - if The Inspirational Choir's version wasn't re-released imrpoving its peak from #44 to #36 they would have all peaked within 3 places of each other!
November 24, 201212 yr Taio Cruz has fans! :o Genuinally shocked :lol: Do you get his albums too? Yeah, I have Rokstarr, Rokstarr Collection was far too similar so I didn't bother getting it, I agree his sound can be a bit repetitive but I do quite like him :) Feels Like Home was amazing :( Shouldn't have flopped. Yeah, it does sound quite good :)
November 24, 201212 yr I quite like "Avenue and Alleways" - Surprised he wasn't top 10 after "Amarillo". The Meck song was waaay better than "Thunder in my heart", Vic Reeves - erm...interesting :P
November 25, 201212 yr AVENUES AND ALLEYWAYS- TONY CHRISTIE Quite why Christie thought that re-releasing this song in 2005 would provide a decent follow up to “Amarillo” is anyone’s guess after the song originally made No 37 in 1972. a) Christie himself probably wasn't involved in selecting the follow-up b) What else should the record company have promoted? "I Did What I Did for Maria"? (That was probably the only other half-sensible choice from the back catalogue) A brand new track? Or not bother at all?
November 25, 201212 yr Author a) Christie himself probably wasn't involved in selecting the follow-up b) What else should the record company have promoted? "I Did What I Did for Maria"? (That was probably the only other half-sensible choice from the back catalogue) A brand new track? Or not bother at all? a) You may be right, you may be wrong- we'll never know b) Don't artists who are normally in this position try to sell their bigger hits with a better chart record on the basis they have proven appeal?
November 25, 201212 yr Author D.I.S.C.O- CHICO http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519PbW+Mq0L._SL500_AA300_.jpg PEAK POSITION: 24 SALES: 14K FOLLOW UP TO: IT'S CHICO TIME I’m not even going to go into the reason why this failed, suffice it to say that even the UK Public can see a threadbare joke from the off. MORAL OF THE STORY: BLATENTLY OBVIOUS I SHOULD THINK JBqeaD4u40g
November 25, 201212 yr Author FORGIVENESS- WRETCH 32 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/Forgiveness_song.jpg PEAK POSITION: 49 SALES: 14K FOLLOW UP TO: DON'T GO It’s a game of rich karma here for Wretch, the demo of this featured the vocals of Emeli Sande who was replaced with Etta Bond and resulted in his first real chart failure since he hit it big. He also held off Sande’s debut solo single “Heaven” from getting to No 1 but here he pays the price for need heading my advice to Professor Green. MORAL OF THE STORY: SAME AS PROFESSOR GREEN uwwcLu93Ttw
November 25, 201212 yr Author FRIDAY- DANIEL BEDINGFIELD http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/68/Fridaydb.jpg PEAK POSITION: 28 SALES: 13K FOLLOW UP TO: NEVER GONNA LEAVE YOUR SIDE The final release from his debut album it was always gonna struggle but Bedingfield’s chart history had consisted of peak positions 1-4-1-6-1-28 for its singles. In short everyone who wanted the songs had, by this point, got the album (it had sold a million copies plus by now) and he just needed to stop! MORAL OF THE STORY: ONLY MICHAEL JACKSON, KATY PERRY, AND RIHANNA CAN LIFT 47 TOP 10 SINGLES FROM AN ALBUM OimHNoCgWCU
November 25, 201212 yr He also held off Sande’s debut solo single “Heaven” from getting to No 1 but here he pays the price for need heading my advice to Professor Green. Just realised Emeli Sande would be on this list had Heaven reached number one too!
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