I feel it may climb through the week but will not end up any lower than its current position.

There's rumours that on Monday we might get the European dates.

There's already a list of German dates. Nothing is official yet, but I have a feeling these dates are real:

*** BREAKING NEWS - TAKE THAT DEUTSCHLANDTOUR 2015 ***

02.10. Hamburg

04.10. Köln

05.10. München

08.10. Berlin

11.10. Stuttgart

https://www.facebook.com/takethatfanclub/po...152977987194098

 

The sure thing is there'll be European dates in September - October (right from the wolf's mouth):

http://www.heart.co.uk/showbiz/movies/take...sman-interview/

Edited January 22, 201510 yr by milly

Really interesting news!

 

Take That fans had to wait an agonising four years between Progress and the group's latest album III.

 

However, Gary Barlow has told Digital Spy they will not have to wait that long again for their next album...

 

http://m.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a6229...~p27UBS7IVLojx9

III (the standard edition) is reduced at £5.99 on iTunes and this has had a good effect on the sales because the album is now in top 20 on iTunes.

I wonder if this is a one day deal or if the deal extends on a longer period of time.

That's great! Hopefully that'll help the album out after JR tonight. Wish they reduced GRFI too

 

No sign of GRFI ...

Edited January 24, 201510 yr by jay727

JR performance will boost album sales, These Days had a steady 3 place drop this week,ideally they will stay top 40 this week for a 10th week with these days. These Days now has the potential to reach 400,000 which i view as impressive.

In case people haven't heard the 2 Google Play bonus tracks from III...

 

Fall down at your feet:

 

 

If it's not love:

I am hoping the album will be back in the top 20 of the chart this week.

Album up to number 12 in the midweeks.

I hope the album manages to stay in top 20 till Sunday, now that the iTunes deal is over. At least this deal has shown that the interest is still there, but that the target public has other priorities probably and isn't willing to spend on an album as much as they used to.

 

Unrelated to this thread, but I can't help myself: what do you think of the new song from Finding Neverland? It sounds almost like an autobiographical song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=14223...-yt-cl=84838260

I think I love it more than the TT album :wub:

I really like that song. From what I've heard so far I think I'm going to enjoy the musical

 

I've listened to many of the songs from the musical. They don't strictly follow the musical genre and there's a strong pop ballad element to them. Mixed reviews for the score from the critics when the musical had its pre Broadway run but the audience response was far more positive. I personally love many of the songs and fingers crossed the musical is a Broadway success.

 

It's a shame they replaced Jeremy Jordan in the lead role. He was outstanding in the bits I've seen - hopefully Mathew Morrison will do a good job. If this goes well Gary will be offered more opportunities to write musical scores and I can envisage more projects of this kind. He seems to have a great personal and song writing relationship with Eliot Kennedy and they've produced some really good work.

Most of the critics are snobs and they always follow an agenda when writing a review. I prefer to hear or see things with my own ears/eyes and judge for myself.

I love what I've heard from the musical so far and I like the pop element in the songs. Musicals often sound childish, but these pop songs sound pretty mature. When Your Feet Don't Touch the Ground has a real depth to it. To me, it sounds like it could have been on SISYL, because the lyrics convey a very personal story. To be honest, I miss this element from III and that's why I prefer SISYL. TT albums have always had this one weakness: lyrically, they tread on neutral territory. It's understandable, of course, given the fact that the songs must reflect a group of people, but I always find myself wishing they could go deeper with the lyrics. When Your Feet Don't Touch the Ground, This Time, SISYL, they all satisfy that need and they remind me of Elton John's songs.

Critics can be extremely snobby and from the offset i knew regardless of quality or lack of quality they would never favor a Take That musical.

Based on sales only, These Days should have been 31 in the charts, instead of 38 :( Streaming is meant to favorize only artists with a predominantly young fanbase.

Glad to see III back in top 20, though.

Great to see three back in the top 20 and these days get a 10th week top 40 :cheer:

Great news. Shame that streaming is working against TT now, but in fairness it certainly aided in them getting the #1 spot

They performed better with streaming than i initially expected. The album sales look like three managed to sell a further 5,000 copies last week. My estimation is UK are now 420,000. Ac Dc and Pink Flyod were hugely hyped an anticipated albums so i am delighted Three has managed to outsell both.

And the single has sold another 12-15k bringing its sales in 2015 to 91,000, so comfortably into the 300k mark overall

Edited February 2, 201510 yr by jay727

These Days would be close on 320,000 sales at this particular time.