You are clutching at straws now Scotty. :(

You are clutching at straws now Scotty. :(

 

I know :(

 

It's stil the best selling album in Europe, lets just forget about the utter joke that is the UK chart -_-

At least it's still in the UK Top 10. Unlike bloody Ireland. :angry:

At least it's still in the UK Top 10. Unlike bloody Ireland. :angry:

 

No need Jupiter :cry:

 

If Scotland had their own chart, I predict it would be fifty something :smoke:

Behind the MacDonald Brothers no doubt. :(

Behind the MacDonald Brothers no doubt. :(

 

Don't get me started on them :arrr:

Scotland does have it's own singles chart. Not sure about an album one.

 

The singles one often does vary quite a bit from the UK one. Less Hip Hop and RnB. But I guess that is to be kind of expected. -_-

oi, no. 9.... :cry:

The fact that there were 7 new entries helps a bit I guess, but still :unsure:

I'm really worried that it will be out of the Top 10 next week and will drop into nowhere pretty soon :puke2:

 

Well look at it this way, Rudebox has been out only 3 weeks and although has'nt done well compared to previous Rob albums, it has sold nearly as much as Justin Timberlake's album which has been out for 9 weeks :D

 

It also has a pretty poor chart run so it's not all bad :D

 

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OMG, An add for the album has just be shown on RTE1 here in Ireland :o :yahoo:

 

The first time I've seen it in full :rolleyes:

 

Lovelight came on and I nearly had a heart attack :lol: I thought it was an add for Lovelight itself, which would make sence if he was with any other record company <_<

 

It is 'Golden Discs' album of the week this week and has been reduced to 13.95

 

Lets hope it climbs from number 20 now :rolleyes:

Well I've seen no adverts. And I still haven't heard Lovelight on the wireless. But to be fair I've had Rudebox playing constantly in my car since 23rd Oct. :lol:

I can honestly say I think his latest album is the best thing he has ever done and it will feature very highly when I compile my albums of the year list. (Last year, Intensive Care finished 24th out of my 29 albums).

 

However he has got to do some promo for this album, because I think it is suffering from the "Peter & The Wolf" syndrome.

 

People have (wrongly in this case) got scared off of buying this album because if truth be told Escapology was erratic (yes it had the classics Feel & Come Undone, but a lot of the album was patchy in quality); Intensive Care was average (it was a lot more consistent, but to be honest it contained no classics, that would get close to an All-Time top 10 Robbie songs); while the two new tracks on his Greatest Hits album (Radio & Misunderstood) were nothing special & the final nail in the coffin for a lot of "Tesco Mums" was releasing Rudebox as the lead single from the album.

 

He has got to do a TV special promoting some of the best tracks from the album (ideally) before Xmas. If the average "Tesco Mum & Asda Dad" was to hear She's Madonna, Keep On, The 80's, The 90's & Viva Life On Mars then I cannot see how the album would fail to sell.

 

Still if there is any consolation The Beatles (now) most critically acclaimed album "Revolver" was their poorest selling album, while they existed in the 1960s and David Bowie's poorest selling studio album of the 1970s & 1980s was arguably his greatest "Low".....

I agree with everything you said there. But I guess we ain't gonna get much promo as he's about to start his Australian Tour in a couple of weeks ( which takes him right up to Xmas). <_<

 

Love the Siggie by the way. :lol: :lol: :lol:

I can honestly say I think his latest album is the best thing he has ever done and it will feature very highly when I compile my albums of the year list. (Last year, Intensive Care finished 24th out of my 29 albums).

 

However he has got to do some promo for this album, because I think it is suffering from the "Peter & The Wolf" syndrome.

 

People have (wrongly in this case) got scared off of buying this album because if truth be told Escapology was erratic (yes it had the classics Feel & Come Undone, but a lot of the album was patchy in quality); Intensive Care was average (it was a lot more consistent, but to be honest it contained no classics, that would get close to an All-Time top 10 Robbie songs); while the two new tracks on his Greatest Hits album (Radio & Misunderstood) were nothing special & the final nail in the coffin for a lot of "Tesco Mums" was releasing Rudebox as the lead single from the album.

 

He has got to do a TV special promoting some of the best tracks from the album (ideally) before Xmas. If the average "Tesco Mum & Asda Dad" was to hear She's Madonna, Keep On, The 80's, The 90's & Viva Life On Mars then I cannot see how the album would fail to sell.

 

Still if there is any consolation The Beatles (now) most critically acclaimed album "Revolver" was their poorest selling album, while they existed in the 1960s and David Bowie's poorest selling studio album of the 1970s & 1980s was arguably his greatest "Low".....

 

I agree with ever single word of that post

 

If he wants this album to be as succesful as he makes out, he needs to realise it is'nt going to walk off the shelves. Obviously he can't depend on his god-awful record company to do some promo so he needs to take some action, or this album will not be a million seller. And I know that would really upset him cause he is clearly more proud of this album then any of his previous albums.

 

I agree with ever single word of that post

 

If he wants this album to be as succesful as he makes out, he needs to realise it is'nt going to walk off the shelves. Obviously he can't depend on his god-awful record company to do some promo so he needs to take some action, or this album will not be a million seller. And I know that would really upset him cause he is clearly more proud of this album then any of his previous albums.

 

Well said Scotty.

We know there won't be any promo before Xmas because of the Australian tour leg. And I'm pretty sure

he will have time off in January. I'm wondering if we will get to see him somewhere on the telly after that, doing some serious promotion. I guess it's possible, but we just don't know anything about plans for 2007 yet which I find scary anyway. I mean last year we knew there was going to be the tour and this year it's a bit like ... :huh: I don't like that at all. :cry:

Rob, we know the world tour is not finished and you deserve a break but could you please get your ass over to Europe in the new year, get those Rudebox songs out there and make everyone realise that it is an amazing album ! -_-

If only he listened to auntie monsoon... :lol:

I think new year might be too late since the album is now out of the top 10 in the mids :cry: :cry: :cry:

 

Shame on the British puplic. :angry:

 

But even more so, shame on EMI for being the most useless piece of $h!te of a record company on the face of the earth :puke:

From http://entertainment.ie/reviews

 

 

A belated review from The Emerald Isle :rolleyes: (But it's a good one :cheer: )

 

 

 

Love him or loathe him, you simply cannot deny that Robert Peter Williams has been responsible for some of the greatest pop singles of the 90s and beyond. C'mon - No Regrets? Strong? Rock DJ?. So, it came as something of a surprise when last year's Intensive Care (actually the best-selling album of his career) - was disappointingly drab. Choc-full of reflective, mostly mid-paced ballads, it signalled a change of pace for Williams, and apparently waved goodbye to the incendiary, cheeky, likeable pop that he excelled in. We should have known better. Williams has returned with possibly not only the finest offering of his career to date, but one that sounds like the album he's always wanted to make. On this evidence, it would seem that he's been immersing his lugs in 80s nostalgia; not only are most tracks smattered with electronica, but the both Pet Shop Boys and Human League also feature in some form or other. The former's influence is prevalent throughout; on the title's track's funky, robotic-laced bleepfest, Buslem Normal's sparse, spacey glow and not least on synth-laden tongue-in-cheek homage She's Madonna. Messrs. Tennant and Lowe also make an appearance on the excellent cover of My Robot Friend's We're the Pet Shop Boys (irony is alive and well in RW HQ), which isn't the sole cover on offer, either. Manu Chao's Bongo Bong receives a spicy, colourful makeover with Lily Allen on guest vocals; Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy's 80s classic Kiss Me is well-suited to Williams' warm voice, which has now made it a surefire dancefloor hit at G-A-Y, and the Human League's Louise also gets the treatment - albeit with none of the bittersweet charm that the original exuded. Most of Williams' original compositions are also top-notch, oozing the cheeky-chappy charm and clever turn of phrase he was once famed for; and though there are a few bloopers (Good Doctor, Summertime), overall, Rudebox is a thrilling return to form that suggests that Williams still has a hell of a lot to offer.

 

 

4/5 :yahoo:

 

 

 

 

CD Review by Lauren Murphy

Reviewed on 14 November 2006

 

You can download the remix of Rudebox vs Sexyback here :lol:

 

http://www.mytempdir.com/1010319

I'm quite happy with how the album is doing in my homecountry Austria. Still no. 2 in its third week.

So far it was 1- 2- 2