Absolute joke, been pre ordered since May and can't even get it out a few days after the pushed back dates

The mids might be a little deceiving though as if many of these copies (like yours jay) aren't getting dispatched they surely wont count towards this midweek?

 

I feel like this will not be front loaded as they are obviously struggling to get enough copies to send out to everyone. So the next few days, weeks the sales might be more steady.

I’ve never been certain whether a sale doesn’t count until it’s dispatched, or if it’s just automatically counted when its nominated week of release begins. Here’s hoping the low-ish figure means a lot of copies haven’t been counted yet though!

If released during the tour and combined with CD sales etc this could have helped them get top 10.Still good to them in the charts though.

I’ve never been certain whether a sale doesn’t count until it’s dispatched, or if it’s just automatically counted when its nominated week of release begins. Here’s hoping the low-ish figure means a lot of copies haven’t been counted yet though!

 

I'm not sure either but surely they cant count copies until they get dispatched as it may never get sent or you cancel your order before it gets dispatched.

I understood once it is paid for it counts as a sale.

I'm not sure either but surely they cant count copies until they get dispatched as it may never get sent or you cancel your order before it gets dispatched.

 

I think it is from dispatch as well, as technically they only charge you once it has been dispached, right?

Finally received it today :drama:

 

It's... well, it is what it is. I'll continue to dream about a proper vinyl with original artwork. :(

Big jump in the midweek chart today as they move up to Number 11.

Could a return to the Top 10 happen now?

Where can I see the new midweek?

 

 

It is in the chart forum called Friday predictions.

Wow that's a big jump, dispatch must have been holding it back. I meant to go grab a copy today will try get one tomorrow from HMV.

Yep as I thought a sale doesn't go through until it dispatches. Great to see it at number 11, hopefully it stays top 15 at least. It so nice to see it wracking up so many weeks in the chart.

A top 10 would be great. Again, a real shame it didn't happen with Wembley. It would have happened if they'd stocked the CDs better and had the vinyl ready when there was a lot of activity during the tour with streaming and downloads.

When you think it's likely to stay top 20 now, it just goes to show how high they could have gone during the tour if they had got this out then. On the plus side it is helping to lengthen it's chart performance...

It's definitely a shame that the vinyl release date didn't stay as being during the tour. I think Greatest Hits would have made it to around #7 or #8 instead of low Top 20.

 

Oh well, another Top 20 week will be nice, fingers crossed Top 15. It'll be its 8th week inside the Top 20. It'll also be its 70th week in the Top 200! That's a huge improvement from the mere 14 weeks it stayed in the Top 200 in 2007/8. :drama:

 

In theory the GH really should have done much better in 2007/8 than it actually did. [02-07-12-13-22-27-29-34-36-39-41-67-107-138-out] was its chart run. The 17 O2 dates & 3 Manchester dates took place during the 22-27-29-34-36-39-41 section of the chart run. It left the chart in February 2008 on about 360,000 copies sold, which really wasn't a great result for how strong the market was in the late 00s. We had to wait 11 years for it to reach the more respectable total of 600k!

 

I think a mistake made with the GH was lack of promotion for it specifically. I know there were a couple of performances & an advert, but they should have done a couple of high profile TV interviews like Graham Norton & Jonathan Ross (both shows were airing in Q4 2007) and ideally performed on those shows too. In fairness their schedule with tour rehearsals & Mel B being on Dancing with the Stars wasn't exactly ideal.

 

I suppose it could be argued that Spice Girls - Greatest Hits wasn't a desirable purchase for any casual fans who owned copies of Spice and Spiceworld. Yet having multi-platinum studio albums didn't prevent Westlife selling huge numbers of their GH. Their first GH from 2002 has sold almost 1,900,000, and even their second Greatest Hits from 2011 has managed to sell approaching 700,000.

Thanks Jay for the info. Yeah it seems to be generally a lack of promo that made the GH a really slow seller. Always astonished at the lack of interest from the group on the promo for the album, really.

 

Never understood why they didnt do a big interview last time either. Graham Norton would have been ideal! And even now, they could have done a couple of interviews around the tour as well.... nada...

 

Touring obviously brings the big bucks that 20k a year of sales of an album doesnt, but if they put more effort into it, it would obviously generate a bit more!! Sad days...

 

If they ever release new music - lol - I hope they will get behind it properly and release it properly.

A lot of what holds them back these days is whenever they reunite there is the feeling that they are only doing it temporarily. So if it feels like the girls aren't totally invested in being a group why should people be.

 

I must admit as I got the vinyl the other day I thought yay nice but it all seems to have fizzled into nothing again so it will probably be a one off release.

To be fair, that GH vinyl is probably their most boring release yet - and I include Headlines on that.

I dont think it is boring, vinyl is in and it has been stocked well and prominently in a lot of places.