Another 116,000 copies sold this week! Absolutely tremendous!

delighted with the position and even more delighted with those excellent sales, i would have prefered one direction to be number 1 instead of robbie.

I don't like 1D at all so glad another member of TT is showing them how to do it! Quite amazing really how nearly 25 years on 2 boyband members are selling over 100k a week of their 3rd and 13th albums!

 

So if my maths is correct, we are up to 414k at the moment! So if he can get another 100k this week due to last minute shopping and voucher purchases, double platinum could be on the cards!!

So Gary Barlow is only 10k behind One Direction and Robbie Williams. He's got his Afghanistan show on TV tomorrow and then his New Year's Eve show - do you think he will go up to number one in the new year? I think so. By the way, sorry I have been lurking so long. I've been regularly reading this forum to see all the latest developments and discussions.

Edited December 22, 201311 yr by Bond Bug

So Gary Barlow is only 10k behind One Direction and Robbie Williams. He's got his Afghanistan show on TV tomorrow and then his New Year's Eve show - do you think he will go up to number one in the new year? I think so. By the way, sorry I have been lurking so long. I've been regularly reading this forum to see all the latest developments and discussions.

 

Hi! Welcome to the forum! Great to have you here :)

 

I'm not sure how much of an effect his Afghanistan documentary will have on his album as from what I've heard, he sings covers like: he's not heavy, he's my brother and buble's home

 

Saying that I've heard great things about it from the early reviews! Here's one from Ross King: http://www.sundaypost.com/tv-showbiz/showb...-tears-1.168693

 

New Year's Eve might help but I suppose it depends on how much of his new material he plays. I'd hope he does least let me go, face to face and maybe since I saw you last at least. But I hear he will have guests so expect JLS, Cheryl and Nicole (maybe TT for NF?)

 

I would absolutely love him to get #1 but to have already sold over 600,000 copies of new material in 1 month I think is amazing!

Record labels will be wanting him to release another solo record in the future so I'm sure we'll have that to look forward to in the next 3 years or so

Edited December 22, 201311 yr by jay727

Thanks for the link to Ross King's piece. Lovely read.

 

I'm thrilled at the sales so far, it's wonderful and just what was needed. I hope he does another solo project within the next 3 years. If TT have an album in 2014 and a tour in 2015, then I'll be looking for another album from Gary in 2016. I'm an eternal optimist.

All the promo will help keep the album stable which is great and he probably is in with a shout of number 1 but i think he may end up number 3 again. When i originally saw he was up against One Direction i knew he wouldnt make number 1 so i originaly hoped platinum solo album would be great, he has thrashed that now so i just want to to make double platinum.

 

And i hadnt thought of him recording another solo album, thank you for that jay727, his will no doubt be in demand to record a solo album now that this album has being so succssful, i think we could have Take That album next year and Garys other solo the following, id love that.

 

:cheer: Bong Bug huge welcome :yahoo: to the forum and lovely to see you posting, i hope you stay with us and join in the fun and banter.

Hi! Welcome to the forum! Great to have you here :)

 

I'm not sure how much of an effect his Afghanistan documentary will have on his album as from what I've heard, he sings covers like: he's not heavy, he's my brother and buble's home

 

Saying that I've heard great things about it from the early reviews! Here's one from Ross King: http://www.sundaypost.com/tv-showbiz/showb...-tears-1.168693

 

New Year's Eve might help but I suppose it depends on how much of his new material he plays. I'd hope he does least let me go, face to face and maybe since I saw you last at least. But I hear he will have guests so expect JLS, Cheryl and Nicole (maybe TT for NF?)

 

I would absolutely love him to get #1 but to have already sold over 600,000 copies of new material in 1 month I think is amazing!

Record labels will be wanting him to release another solo record in the future so I'm sure we'll have that to look forward to in the next 3 years or so

 

Thank you for your warm welcome upon my entrance. Yes, that is a great review. I understand he is also performing some new material. With it being so close among the top three albums. I hope a little bit of extra publicity gives him a number one.

 

All the promo will help keep the album stable which is great and he probably is in with a shout of number 1 but i think he may end up number 3 again. When i originally saw he was up against One Direction i knew he wouldnt make number 1 so i originaly hoped platinum solo album would be great, he has thrashed that now so i just want to to make double platinum.

 

And i hadnt thought of him recording another solo album, thank you for that jay727, his will no doubt be in demand to record a solo album now that this album has being so succssful, i think we could have Take That album next year and Garys other solo the following, id love that.

 

:cheer: Bong Bug huge welcome :yahoo: to the forum and lovely to see you posting, i hope you stay with us and join in the fun and banter.

 

Thank you so much. He really had to release an album this year, as he knew he may not have another chance to use X-factor as a platform to relaunch his solo career as a recording artist. I think the royal wedding tie-in project gave him the confidence. He's really learned the importance of capitalizing on media opportunities this time around. Personally, I hope he focuses on Take That, rather than the solo career. Take That provides the high-profile, the fan base and in the main, backing vocals to his talent.

Very nice documentary, very moving as well.

 

Not sure how much of an effect it will have on the album though with only Shine sung from his back catalogue..but a fantastic piece of work there, really insightful.

 

Beautiful performance of Home as well. Shame he didn't release it for charity.

Whether it will benefit sales we dont know but we do know it definitely wont harm sales.

On a different note, the more i listen to the album the more and more i want since i saw you last to be the third single, really love it.

Edited December 24, 201311 yr by Aphrodite

Hi everyone, hope you all had a great Christmas!

 

Up to number 2 this week, just missing out on number 1 but with a strong 79,000 sales. Puts the album on the brink of half a million in just 5 weeks!

Edited December 29, 201311 yr by jay727

great to see the album top 2 again but i had hoped for higher sales in general this week....still almost half million sales done so surely he will manafe 100,000 in the coming months bringing him to double platinum.

great to see the album top 2 again but i had hoped for higher sales in general this week....still almost half million sales done so surely he will manafe 100,000 in the coming months bringing him to double platinum.

 

I hope so! 105,000 copies from double platinum. How many weeks do you think it'll take to reach that?

 

Quick note - the album has risen to #1 in Scotland this week for the first time

Hope everyone had a great Christmas.

 

I'm very happy to see the album back at No.2 with strong sales. I'm sure it'll reach double platinum during January. :)

 

 

78,729 sales this week which brings him to 494, 312 so next week will easily see him sail past half a million sales. Sadly next week album sales will return to abysmal sales, so hopefully he can stay top 10 for a few weeks although with big sales on and albums selling cheap (Garys aint one of them) it could see him drop a nice bit. I so want this album to make double platinum now as i really think it has a great chance of doing so.

I'm not giving up on it being number one in UK in the new year with his New Year's eve show to help out.

the show can do nothing but help and for him to go number 1 would be great....fingers crossed it happens.

Especially as it was so close last week! Robbie's album isn't very good at all imo, not a patch on his first swing album. Just hope SISYL gets the boost needed to pinch #1 🙏🙏

the album is now the 9th best seller of the year :yahoo: