I'm not a fan of your music Alex but best of luck with this! Good to see you're committed to getting another hit.

Or what if the Twitter account is fake? :o :kink:

Seeing as it's got the twitter "official account" tick thing, I think it's fair to say it isn't :P

I bought Forever Yours last year - quite liked but I haven't listened to it since I got it.

 

Good luck anyway, Alex.

awch, love that you're trying this again! you and charlie are adorabubbles.

Can anyone escape Griff's advice?! :o

"I don't think you've understood my point though. It doesn't matter if you come up with the greatest song of all time, you've made it really hard for yourself to take seriously by having these flash-in-the-pan successes. The general public are very likely to not give you a second chance. Maybe it would help if the song was playlisted and got airplay, but all the reasons why radio isn't taking the song seriously makes me think that you do need to think outside the box to have long-term success. One-offs don't repat themselves successfully very often (because your rise to chart fame has been a one-off), which is the reason why I don't think that this song isn't doing to do very well commercially."

It's not something I've really had much say in: I can't make Radio 1 play it and I can't make people buy it for more than one week. I didn't set out with Forever Yours thinking 'I'm going to make this a flash-in-the-pan success'. Doesn't mean I should give up now just cos that's what it was.

 

"I'm not trying to bring you down and I'm happy for your success, I'm just trying to give you some advice and help you out."

I know and I'm not being brought down :) no worries.

 

"How many versions of the new song are going to be produced? I seem to remember there were about 20 of "Forever Yours""

There were 11 of Forever Yours and there will be 5 of Stupid Stupid, all done by other musicians and friends. (Not including two additional versions exclusive to the physical CD which will be available in HMV.)

 

"regardless of chart success, as long as you put out good quality music, that's all that really matters to me"

Me too! The reason I do this (and I joked about it in my video) was not so people know ME but because I think my music deserves to be heard by more people. I agree incidentally with whoever said Good Morning Sunshine should be the real hit - I love that song, it's my favourite of all the songs I've released this year but I wanted to take a break from the chart conquest thing so it didn't get boring and as a result I didn't push the song that hard. The video got a million views though - I'm really proud of it.

Edited December 3, 201212 yr by Alex Day

I'm not a huge fan of Alex's music, but he seems like such a likeable guy and his achievements as an unsigned artist are impressive. How often do unsigned artists get in the charts? I admire his drive and ambition, perhaps I'll support it this time.

Thanks Aaron! I really appreciate that. Maybe you'll like the next one. :)

I bought Lady Godiva, never listen to it now but it was alright for a while! Good luck Mr Day, you'll get a #1 one day.

I'm not a huge fan of Alex's music, but he seems like such a likeable guy and his achievements as an unsigned artist are impressive. How often do unsigned artists get in the charts? I admire his drive and ambition, perhaps I'll support it this time.

 

I think Alexa Goddard is unsigned. There's probably a fair few others, I just don't realize they're unsigned. :lol:

I'll be honest when I say that I really do like your videos a lot (discovered you through charlieisocoolike) and I really admire what you do and the way you do it but I thought you have came across as a bit of a knob on twitter lately with your chart tweets (particularly by retweeting some people who said it to you thus your fans attack them)

 

But listening to your new song and watching your latest video the other day reminded me why I liked you in the first place and I think you've earned a sale (and a re-follow) My friend is thinking of going to the event in Stratford and I would think about going with her but I'm going to a football that finishes halfway through it on that day.

 

Then again if I still can't stop singing and thinking of "stupid, stupid, na na, na na, na na na" all week to the point of annoyance then I might might reconsider again :P

Seeing as there is going to be 5 versions of this please can you add a 6th and make it a banging dance remix!

Alex Day when you're replying to comments click on the "+ Quote" rectangle then click on "More Options", it's much easier that way.

 

Also why is it only when you're releasing a new song that you come on here?

Edited December 4, 201212 yr by Pablo Escobar

Good luck, Alex!

 

I remember being so amused over the 10,000 versions of FY's which flooded the iTunes top 100. Kinda sad there isn't going to be even more version of SS :lol:

I think initially for the sucess of the single it would be a better idea to release one version to itunes and the other versions later in the week to get the original as high as possible up itunes so people notice it and not have 10 versions between no 15-115!

Alex Day when you're replying to comments click on the "+ Quote" rectangle then click on "More Options", it's much easier that way.

 

Also why is it only when you're releasing a new song that you come on here?

 

I've just never liked the quote thing cos I think it looks bulky.

 

It's cos it's only when I'm releasing a new song that I need to know how it's selling :)

I think initially for the sucess of the single it would be a better idea to release one version to itunes and the other versions later in the week to get the original as high as possible up itunes so people notice it and not have 10 versions between no 15-115!

The people that buy the original are gonna buy it either way; I need to maximise the sales figures by having them all out at the same time.

How much does the chart position of your song matter to you? Congratulations on the success of 'Forever Yours' from last year and 'Lady Godiva'. Will you be releasing an album soon or not?

The chart position doesn't matter to me unless I get number one because I want one of those cool trophies! The reason for pursuing the charts is that it's a means to an end: the end being to break my music beyond my YouTube audience and get my songs into the mainstream. I hoped to do that with Forever Yours last year - #4 put it on the radar of all the radio stations so it was definitely gonna be played into the New Year, it'd be playlisted, it'd really break ... nope. Nobody played it and it dropped off again the following week. Lady Godiva and Stupid Stupid are further attempts to achieve that, by showing that I wasn't just a kid who released a song out of boredom last year but a musician with regular singles who wants more attention to his music. If this doesn't work it'll be the last time I'll be trying the 'YouTube audience get me in the charts' route and will start thinking of other ways to break, but for now it's worth giving it one more try.

 

In terms of an album, no, it's not something I'm thinking about. Why bother releasing ten songs if most of the general public haven't even heard one yet?

Hi Alex, good luck with the single, you might want to include a Bhangra Mix