I don't think so, Jay.

Gary is in NY at the moment, rehearsing for the opening of FN on Sunday.

If TT were to appear on Comic Relief, they'd be eaten alive by the press and the haters. I think it's gonna be a long time before we see them associated publicly with charities again.

Most certainly cant see them appearing on Comic Relief. Are they on Saturday night Take Away for certain this week?

From reading through sales information in the chart forum Take That are 63,000 sales for this year with Four by One Direction on 65,000. Take That will most likely over take them this week for 2015 sales ONLY, not overall sales.

LITS is #100 in the first midweek updates :(

This is a mess. It could have charted so decently. :cry:

Based on physicals only I imagine, so it'll miss the top 100 by some distance I think

Edited March 10, 201510 yr by jay727

I'm hoping fans will keep buying the CD-s this week, but I may be a little too optimistic.

 

If, as predicted LITS doesn't chart in the Top 100, will it be TT's lowest charting single since their comeback?

If, as predicted LITS doesn't chart in the Top 100, will it be TT's lowest charting single since their comeback?

It would be their worst charting single ever.

 

Oh, that's a real shame. It isn't a bad single by any stretch of the imagination and deserves better. However I still maintain it was the wrong choice for the second single and it obviously hasn't appealed to the wider buying public.

Hold up a light only went to #126 or something...

 

Just seen the top 200 UK singles chart from last week. LITS was #161 last week. Quite surprising I thought.

 

Debuts at #50 in Belgium however so a glimmer of light, and hopefully it'll re-peak here in the UK now

Edited March 10, 201510 yr by jay727

 

Was Hold Up A Light actually released as an official single? I thought it was simply used as a promotional tool for the DVD, but I could well be mistaken as the Circus era seems so long ago!

 

At the moment Gary appears pre occupied with the premiere of Finding Neverland and I'd be surprised if he's given LITS a second thought. I don't understand why they release a single if they're not prepared to promote it. I haven't heard the single on the radio once, and I'm often in the car travelling around for work, whereas I still hear These Days on a regular basis.

People say they hear LITS on Capital Fm constantly, but, since I'm not in UK, this is all hearsay for me.

Even so, airplay without some proper promotion won't do much.

The simple fact that there isn't a single version, other than the album one, has had a big impact on the sales.

I still don't understand why the label decided to release the single now, since they were aware Gary wouldn't be able to promote it.

Was Hold Up A Light actually released as an official single? I thought it was simply used as a promotional tool for the DVD, but I could well be mistaken as the Circus era seems so long ago!

 

I think that's correct, it wasn't an official single release. It also didn't have huge platform like The Brits. I'm surprised the latest single hasn't charted somewhere - I imagined merely on the strength of it being Take That alone it would be somewhere within the 75 by now! Its not a great song but its million times better than I'd Wait For Life - which got an undeservedly high placing of 17 for such a drab (and vain) effort.

 

BTW - HUAL is one of my favourite songs from The Circus (it, like Shine, was a grower with me - and only really caught me when I saw and heard them sing it live) Mark had such passion in his voice for such an 'ickle fella!

Edited March 11, 201510 yr by Kath

I like LITS, but I love I'd Wait For Life and, in my opinion, it should have got into top 10 at least.

 

Hold Up A Light was a promotional tool but never an officially released single, that said it should have been given an official release with promotion as it could have done well.

To be honest, I find it a bit unfair that Robbie gets to be part of Comic Relief this year, while the boys are not. It would have been the best opportunity for them to perform Higher than Higher, it would have been appropriate.

Edited March 11, 201510 yr by milly

 

HUAL is one of those songs which sounds better live than as a recording which is why I don't think it would have achieved a high chart position. I heard a snippet of it at the War Child concert and I thought it was fantastic. Hoping it makes the cut for this tour, which I think it will.

 

Can't imagine any one singing the song other than Mark - its the perfect type of song for him.

 

Re Comic Relief - can you imagine the outcry if TT turned up on the show - oh my!! Given that Rob has been implicated in a possible tax avoidance scheme recently it will be interesting to see the fall out for him and others such as Beckham if the scheme is classified as an avoidance one . I understand the governments position on it is being challenged at the moment.

Exactly. If TT were to appear on Comic Relief, they'd be flooded with insults, while the backlash against people such as Robbie, Annie Lennox and so on is non-existent. I'm not saying I'd be happy if they got the same backlash Gary did, but I'm annoyed with the double standards from the press and the public. One is demonized, while the other one gets to walk it off as if nothing ever happened.

Exactly. If TT were to appear on Comic Relief, they'd be flooded with insults, while the backlash against people such as Robbie, Annie Lennox and so on is non-existent. I'm not saying I'd be happy if they got the same backlash Gary did, but I'm annoyed with the double standards from the press and the public. One is demonized, while the other one gets to walk it off as if nothing ever happened.

 

Don't underestimate the public - we all know that most of them in celebrity-land are on one tax dodge or another. We know that Gary Barlow isn't the only one who avoids paying his taxes.

Was Hold Up A Light actually released as an official single? I thought it was simply used as a promotional tool for the DVD, but I could well be mistaken as the Circus era seems so long ago!

 

At the moment Gary appears pre occupied with the premiere of Finding Neverland and I'd be surprised if he's given LITS a second thought. I don't understand why they release a single if they're not prepared to promote it. I haven't heard the single on the radio once, and I'm often in the car travelling around for work, whereas I still hear These Days on a regular basis.

 

I do wonder too why they even bother to release a single when they don't seem to really care about it or are prepared to put some more effort in it. If they are doing it this way it probably hadn't made a huge difference which song they had released as a single. I'm thinking of both the lack of promotion, but also the lack of a proper b-side. Maybe I'm a bad fan but I haven't bought LITS because I already have III, but had they put a new song as a b-side it would have been a different matter. I don't understand their lazyness with b-sides.

 

As others have already said on here, I think one problem with III, or picking out singles from III, is that aside from These Days there really isn't a strong enough song to stand on its own, a song that will appeal to a wide enough audience. I'm afraid their performance of LITS at the Brits didn't really help either. I don't know what it was, but that performance wasn't so great I think.

 

I do wonder about the future of TT. After the anniversary I wouldn't be surprised if they would call it a day as TT, or at least take a very very long break. With all the projects Gary has going on, I can't even keep track of them all, I can't see how he also would have time to, or maybe want to, make another album/tour with TT in the near future. When I read about all those projects my thought was, is TT getting too "small" for him? Like now when his priority seem to be with Finding Neverland, despite the release of LITS and the upcoming TT tour. At the time of Progress I think he said something like had not Robbie came along for that album, he would have been bored with just making another album, the four of them. I'm seeing Gary as an extremely ambitious person who thrive with new challenges, and maybe making a new TT3 album is not a big enough challenge for him?

 

When people first heard Shine they thought it was awful (I did when they performed it on 'An Audience With' but it was a grower and it brought Take That a lot of new fans - people I know who didn't even know it was Take That - one of the reasons was because they didn't think it was Take That - they wouldn't have been seen dead listening to anything that a boyband had anything to do with previously).

 

Your line 'pleasing a few hundreds of Mark's fans' just proves that there are two types of fans of the group - Gary fans and Take That fans - I assume Milly that you are just a Gary fan and put up with the others out of sufferance. :lol:

 

And this! Kath, I think you are absolutely right. That line ("pleasing a few hundreds of Mark's fans") is just so arrogant it's almost funny :rolleyes: