These days is gaining fast on band aid 30 and that's before x factor,hopefully it can gain some streaming points as if they do another number 1 looks very possible,its boding well now for the album to open with good sales as they have some great promo lined up. I agree the CD single track listing is disappointing adding a good b side would have really boosted sales.

Edited November 23, 201410 yr by Aphrodite

Hope it overtakes band aid!

The single's already doing amazingly well considering it only came out at midnight. They were way ahead of McBusted who also released at the same time. I hope they get the number 1 they deserve.

Great performance by the guys! Just a shame Geldof came on and told everyone to buy Band Aid again

Great performance on x factor, the band aid plug will probably push take that back from number 1 but a number 2 with good sales is good too.

Disappointed with that Band Aid plug tbh. Needless, and TT would probably be #1 now. Still, fingers crossed

Looks like another number 2 for them.

Frustrating how this could be the 4th time including Gary where it's so close but not enough

25 years on and getting top 3 hits is amazing as not many manage it nowadays.

Yeah good point...

 

I don't know if anyone has heard this, an album track called If You Want It.

 

http://m.mixcloud.com/michellethornton2203/new-tt-song/

25 years on and getting top 3 hits is amazing as not many manage it nowadays.

 

I can only agree with this point. Also 25 years on and still selling out huge tours and selling albums in big numbers is just an incredible achievement.

These Days debuts at #89 in Germany

Edited November 24, 201410 yr by jay727

Hopefully it can climb in Germany.

A climb would be great as it would help the album too.

I think it will, it's high 70s at the moment without any promo over there yet

I'm starting to think the album will open with about 250,000.

These Days is #1 in the Tues Mids. Hopefully Band Aid will continue to fall and TT's Graham Norton performance will be enough to get them over the line.

In the current sales climate, 250,000 would be wonderful. The albums market has changed dramatically since Progress was released and to achieve the opening sales of their last 3 studio albums is a very hard task. It is possible they may come near but its likely sales will be down. One Direction for example were 100,000 down with their new album opening sales comparing to the opening sales of their previous album last year.

 

If three manages 1 million UK sales in total i think it is a good outcome. More than it would be even more wonderful.

I think it's preorders will be very strong seeing as the album on Amazon came with presale codes and was #1 and #2 for a week before they went on sale

All their previous albums opened with sales of about 400k. I was hoping III could sell at least 300k in the first week, but, as long as the sales are good and ensure them a no 1, I'll be happy.

We have to see how much AC/DC sell during the 1st week as well. In pre-orders, I think TT are ahead of them.