^^ The Physical for the single is out on Monday, so I doubt Band Aid 30 will be #1 on Sunday, unless its physical sales are strong for Monday, and it probably won't even be #1 on Tuesdays mids, the track needs to climb back up, wherever it drops this week, (it should show on Weds mids if the track gets there).

Just wondering, were there plans for a Band Aid thingy in 1994? If so, why it didn't happen? Was the Band Aid II's embarassment still too recent?

 

A Band Aid 10 would have been fascinating. Who would have been on it? Britpop was rapidly emerging but hadn't properly reached its commercial peak yet, plus I can imagine the likes of the Gallaghers telling Bob where to stuff it. Then there's the idea of a ridiculously epic Eurodance 2 Unlimited/Cappella/Corona etc fusion, but very few of them come from the UK and even if they did it would perhaps put off the older buyers.

 

So you'd be left with a lineup similar to this I think:

 

Take That

East 17

D:Ream

Eternal

Wet Wet Wet

Gabrielle

Annie Lennox

Erasure

Aswad

UB40

Michelle Gayle

 

Can't imagine it any more than average with a lineup like that.

Britpop was rapidly emerging but hadn't properly reached its commercial peak yet, plus I can imagine the likes of the Gallaghers telling Bob where to stuff it.

And don't forget Damon Albarn, lead of Blur, has made his thoughts on Band Aid pretty clear recently! :P

So you'd be left with a lineup similar to this I think:

 

Take That

East 17

D:Ream

Eternal

Wet Wet Wet

Gabrielle

Annie Lennox

Erasure

Aswad

UB40

Michelle Gayle

 

Can't imagine it any more than average with a lineup like that.

 

Plus probably Bono to sing his line.

And don't forget Damon Albarn, lead of Blur, has made his thoughts on Band Aid pretty clear recently! :P

 

And yet he was one of the 'organisers/producers' of Band Aid 20. :P

Most (over 90%) of singles sold in 1989 were still on vinyl with 7" singles still accounting for over 60% of the market. But sales on cassette and CD were starting to take off. However cassette singles didn't reach their peak for sales until 1994 to 1997 with CD singles reaching their peak at much the same time. But in the second half of the 1980s there was just a general decline in singles sales and this continued into the first three years of the 1990s.

 

Some of the decline was probably due to people moving from buying records on vinyl to cassette / CD but it probably also reflected the move by many record buyers towards buying albums in preference to singles.

 

Thanks for the overview, I expect it was to do with people buying albums more!

If it had continued to be an "every 5 years" event following 1984 and 1989 then I wonder what 1999 and 2009 lineups would have looked like? The proposed possible 1994 lineup post a few posts above was interesting to read!

If it had continued to be an "every 5 years" event following 1984 and 1989 then I wonder what 1999 and 2009 lineups would have looked like? The proposed possible 1994 lineup post a few posts above was interesting to read!

 

Every 5 years would have just been overkill.

If it had continued to be an "every 5 years" event following 1984 and 1989 then I wonder what 1999 and 2009 lineups would have looked like? The proposed possible 1994 lineup post a few posts above was interesting to read!

Looking at who was successful in those years, I'd say these would have been considered:

 

1999: Steps, Martine McCutcheon, Westlife (possibly, Band Aid is usually entirely British), Robbie, Tom Jones, Cliff Richard, Geri Halliwell

 

2009: Cheryl, Alexandra Burke, Lily Allen, JLS, James Morrison, Susan Boyle, Robbie (for what would be a third time!), Leona Lewis, Florence + the Machine

 

And then other artists who were big a year or two before. I'd say the 2009 one would have been very reality TV orientated.

2009: Cheryl, Alexandra Burke, Lily Allen, JLS, James Morrison, Susan Boyle, Robbie (for what would be a third time!), Leona Lewis, Florence + the Machine

 

And then other artists who were big a year or two before. I'd say the 2009 one would have been very reality TV orientated.

 

That was basically that Haiti single thingy.

Edited December 4, 201410 yr by N-S

La Roux is the obvious missing choice for 2009. Florence didn't actually become massive until January 2010 when her decidedly average cover of "You've Got The Love" went Top 10 (after BBC 1 played it about 60 times in one day on NYE 2009).

1999 would have been a bouncy Alice Deejay style pop-trance remake, with the main instrumental riff made to sound like the one on ATB's 9pm Til I Come.

 

2009 would have been a urban electro-pop extravaganza pretty much sounding like Young Soul Rebels' 'I Got Soul'. The intro would have been slightly altered so that it now began with someone shouting "RED ONE", maybe Cheryl or Alexandra.

Edited December 5, 201410 yr by BillyH

Robbie (for what would be a third time!)

 

I think Take That would have been a 100% definite for Band Aid 10, making it four times in a row for Robbie!

I think I might actually prefer the German version (even though I know the language well enough to understand the lyrics).

A Band Aid 10 would have been fascinating. Who would have been on it? Britpop was rapidly emerging but hadn't properly reached its commercial peak yet, plus I can imagine the likes of the Gallaghers telling Bob where to stuff it. Then there's the idea of a ridiculously epic Eurodance 2 Unlimited/Cappella/Corona etc fusion, but very few of them come from the UK and even if they did it would perhaps put off the older buyers.

 

So you'd be left with a lineup similar to this I think:

 

Take That

East 17

D:Ream

Eternal

Wet Wet Wet

Gabrielle

Annie Lennox

Erasure

Aswad

UB40

Michelle Gayle

 

Can't imagine it any more than average with a lineup like that.

 

I think Tori, Kate, Neneh Cherry or Youssou N'Dour would have been good additions - and perhaps be produced by Enigma.

 

I realise only Kate is British from that lot.

Edited August 11, 20159 yr by AntoineTTe

well what about Miley Cyrus,Michael Bublé,James Blunt,Mika,Mr Hudson,Alesha Dixon on band Aid 25?

Edited August 12, 20159 yr by faisal.alrasheed

how about Miley Cyrus on Band Aid in 2009

excuse me,AntonieTTe who is Kate? :rolleyes:

 

 

Kate Bush.

excuse me,who is Tori?

well what about Miley Cyrus,Michael Bublé,James Blunt,Mika,Mr Hudson,Alesha Dixon on the 25th anniversary of Band Aid in 2009?