it's not just that it's not going #1, it's the proportion of the flop (if Mint's twitter is correct)

wonder if all these people criticising Forever Young have even heard the original version which is upbeat and pretty decent

 

This. Could they have sucked any more life out of the track with this dire arrangement?

This. Could they have sucked any more life out of the track with this dire arrangement?

 

I'm glad you've said that. It's a great ballad. I've always loved it. It is an awful arrangement and fundamentally has switched people off is my guess. I barely recognised it :blink:

Still better than the Reggie N Bollie version but then so is stepping in cow pat.

I love the Louisa song but as a debut single, it's easy to see why it's struggling so much. I'm sure she'll be able to prove herself with her album.

 

After this, there'll be *no* album - she'll be lucky if Cowell gives her bus fare to the nearest job centre!

 

On the plus side though, this will kill XF stone dead. :yahoo:

After this, there'll be *no* album - she'll be lucky if Cowell gives her bus fare to the nearest job centre!

 

On the plus side though, this will kill XF stone dead. :yahoo:

There will be an album, she's the winner, she's signed a record contract. A winning single is no indicator of future success.

Heck maybe this may cause them to move x factor to summer and bgt to christmas hmmmmmm

After this, there'll be *no* album - she'll be lucky if Cowell gives her bus fare to the nearest job centre!

 

On the plus side though, this will kill XF stone dead. :yahoo:

 

If its an historic chart flop it certainly wont do her any favours to have her name negatively tagged, but sure she'll get an album, whether it might effect the budget they allocate, who knows.

I get the feeling the press will go after the XFactor being finished more than a 17 year girl though. Her best bet next week is to keep a very low profile...

Midweek update coming ~

I really don't rate all the "BUT IT'S FOR CHARITY" vibes.

 

Yes!

 

That makes me root against it even more because it is clearly engineered to make the song more successful, if you want to give to charity: do so, but don't buy some awful song because you feel guilty!

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Wednesday Update Top 40 Only

Source: Music Week

Missing Data: tba

 

Singles

 

1 Justin Bieber - Love Yourself (67,857)

2 Justin Bieber - Sorry (48,873)

3 Adele - Hello

4 Grace feat. G-Eazy - You Don't Own Me

5 Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean?

 

6-10

7 Coldplay - Adventure of a Lifetime

8 Louisa Johnson - Forever Young (24,752) *

10 Stormzy - Shut Up (19,836) *

 

11-20

11 One Direction - History ^

15 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

19 99 Souls feat. Destiny's Child & Brandy - The Girl Is Mine

20 Little Mix - Love Me Like You

 

21-30

25 Wham! - Last Christmas

30 Shawn Mendes - Stitches *

 

31-40

33 The 1975 - Ugh!

34 Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday ^

35 Sia - Alive ^

36 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone ^

 

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Albums

 

1 Adele - 25 (269,358)

2 Elvis Presley - If I Can Dream (86,391)

3 Coldplay - A Head Full of Dreams (86,239)

4 Justin Bieber - Purpose

5 Jess Glynne - I Cry When I Laugh

 

6-10

8 One Direction - Made in the A.M.

 

11-20

13 Cilla Black - The Very Best of Cilla Black

14 James Bay - Chaos and the Calm

17 Sam Smith - In the Lonely Hour

19 Ellie Goulding - Delirium

 

21-30

21 Taylor Swift - 1989

25 Eva Cassidy - Nightbird

28 Years & Years - Communion

29 Hozier - Hozier ^

 

31-40

32 Stereophonics - Keep the Village Alive ^

34 Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott - Wisdom, Laugher and Lines ^

37 ELO - All Over the World: The Very Best of ELO

39 Take That - III

40 Ben Haenow - Ben Haenow ^

Do we have the sales or Get Weird? And how far away it is from Jess Gylnne?

Louisa's not even gonna make the top 5 is she?

YES Stormzy :cheer:

 

Where are Sigma/Rita & Mariah if possible? Thanks.

Looks like Stormzy could overtake Louisa but then again, Louisa could increase her sales as the CD is out today

Adele likely to be 350k-400k this week? As oppose to the 450k-500k some where suggesting because of the X factor?

Do we have the sales or Get Weird? And how far away it is from Jess Gylnne?

 

All the sales we have are posted, it's just a Music Week top 40 today.

 

Aly - Louisa probably coming for a low top 10 debut :(

 

Dobbo - Sigma/Rita are #16, Mariah is #13!

Louisa :drama: Any idea where Kylie and The Overtones are in the charts please? I see that The Overtones have reduced their album and climbed massively on the iTunes chart to #6

So around 370-380K for Adele.. not too bad for week 4 :P

Louisa :drama: Any idea where Kylie and The Overtones are in the charts please? I see that The Overtones have reduced their album and climbed massively on the iTunes chart to #6

Kylie #22, Overtones not top 40 ~