Sweet Dreams My LA Ex was deleted in order to make way for the smash hit follow up Funky Dory

Sweet Dreams My LA Ex was deleted in order to make way for the smash hit follow up Funky Dory

 

That deletion had relatively little effect, "Sweet Dreams..." had already left the Top 40. Leaving "Funky Dory" until after the Christmas rush had died down would have been a better idea.

 

Sweet Dreams My LA Ex was deleted in order to make way for the smash hit follow up Funky Dory

 

Am I the only person who *liked* Funky Dory?

Boyzone's No Matter What was taken off the shelves quite abruptly for their next single, which missed the top spot. And of course who knows how long Wet Wet Wet's Love Is All Around would have gone on for if the band hadn't personally halted the single whilst it was still at number one.

Am I the only person who *liked* Funky Dory?

 

Well, David Bowie might have liked it because he made some money off it. Otherwise yep, I reckon it's pretty much just you.

Well, David Bowie might have liked it because he made some money off it. Otherwise yep, I reckon it's pretty much just you.

 

I thought DB's album was called *Hunky* Dory...

Yes, but he didn't invent the phrase (and wouldn't get royalties for the title even if he had). The song 'Funky Dory' is so called because it samples Bowie's song 'Andy Warhol' (as in holes) which is from the Hunky Dory album.

Yes, but he didn't invent the phrase (and wouldn't get royalties for the title even if he had). The song 'Funky Dory' is so called because it samples Bowie's song 'Andy Warhol' (as in holes) which is from the Hunky Dory album.

 

I didn't know that.

This: :wub: :heart:

 

 

I think I read in a paper somewhere the reason this was deleted was because they didnt want to go into a chart battle against Westlife but in the greatest hits sleeve Rollo says the reason was down to creating hype for the album but it felt like this could have been huge! I remember going into town after school trying to find a copy but every store had sold out :(

 

Also, Doves in the same year with There Goes The Fear. Debuted at 3 then thanks to it being deleted crashed to 34 on its second week

Am I the only person who *liked* Funky Dory?

Nope :wub:

Boyzone's No Matter What was taken off the shelves quite abruptly for their next single, which missed the top spot. And of course who knows how long Wet Wet Wet's Love Is All Around would have gone on for if the band hadn't personally halted the single whilst it was still at number one.

Boyzone (or rather their label) went one step further in order to get 'No Matter What' off the chart. The follow up single 'I Love The Way You Love Me' featured a live version of 'No Matter What' on one of the CD formats. As a result, following the release of ILTWYLM on the Monday, when the Tuesday midweeks were compiled, because NMW was still in the top 40 ILTWYLM was chart ineligible. So that very day the record label reduced the record dealer price of NMW to one pence below the minimum dealer price a single had to be to qualify for the charts, thus making it chart ineligible and therefore meaning the follow up single could now chart. On the midweeks for the Wednesday NMW was nowhere to be seen with ILTWYLM a new entry at number 1 though it eventually ended up at number 2 on the Sunday.

 

At least Boyzone's record label were able to get 'No Matter What' off the chart through, literally, price fixing. When Daniel Powter released 'Free Loop', his follow up to 'Bad Day' the record label included a live version of 'Bad Day' on the CD single version of 'Free Loop'. The problem was 'Bad Day' was still in the top 20 and the deletion rule hadn't yet been introduced. The outcome was that 'Bad Day' continued to chart while 'Free Loop' was chart ineligble. Had it been chart eligible it would have been inside the top 20.

Just to be pedantic, I'm not sure I buy into the concept of this thread entirely - at least, I don't think the next single being less popular makes the deletion look foolish; if the later song was more popular there'd be no need to delete the earlier one surely?

And I don't class 'Chasing Cars' as a late deletion anyway - it wasn't deleted until November 2006, five months after release which is pretty late for a physical single in my lifetime - it would certainly have been much later than the physical singles were selling in any significant quantities.

 

All of that said, I'm surprised nobody's mentioned 'You're Beautiful'.

And of course who knows how long Wet Wet Wet's Love Is All Around would have gone on for if the band hadn't personally halted the single whilst it was still at number one.

 

I see this one a lot but Wet Wet Wet were always going to be knocked off by Whigfield. The single's sales actually rose 60% in the week it fell to #2 because it was so well publicised that it had been deleted. And it remained in the top 75 for ages after that so it's possible that it was just a publicity stunt!