I seem to be in minority here. I preferred III to Wonderland. I have to listen to it more, cause, at the moment, I can't make heads or tails out of it.

Come On LOve has started to grow on me a lot, so has New Day and Giants, but my favorite still remain It's All For You and Hope.

The weakest tracks are Howard's lead and Superstar. Don't really get Wonderland and The Band Plays, but, as I said, I need to play the album more.

 

Giants really grows on me with each live performance. Really nice surprise tonight on Takeaway - I wasn't expecting them to perform Giants.

 

Carpool Karaoke was hilarious last night :D

Superstar is pretty awful, I can't think of a song of theirs that I've liked less since the comeback. It's like a bad rip-off of Run To You by Bryan Adams, with terrible lyrics.

 

My faves, other than Giants and Cry, so far are Wonderland, New Day, Hope, And The Band Plays, River and Don't Give Up On Me. It's decent overall...the deluxe tracks are better than 2 or 3 on the main album!

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Take That are on 67k, more than double Ed. They'll get the #1, weren't they doing SNT tonight?

I'm amazed at that...! They never fail to surprise me, it seemed they have very little hype this time but I guess they have a still large-ish fanbase and are quite a magnet for casual buyers too. I bought it in a supermarket earlier today and saw two other people dumping it in their trolley with the food shop.

amazing that we can expect a #1 debut in the UK...

 

wonderland is amazing.

I need to come back and do a proper review later, but I just had to share my thoughts about Come On Love (which I really like). It's got a real New Radicals vibe about it - does anyone else a) remember them and b) agree ??

 

Love the Saturday Night Takeaway appearance . And you have to hand it to Ant and Dec for learning all the dance moves to Pray.

 

Ps - forgot to say in my last post: how funny was Howard's "can't be arsed comment" about breaking the US :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Take That are on 67k, more than double Ed. They'll get the #1, weren't they doing SNT tonight?

 

 

Where did you find out that?

Loved them on Ant & Dec, Pray is the song/dance routine that just keeps on giving. I love that they still do these moves 25 years on every time they perform this song :lol:

Take That are on 67k, more than double Ed. They'll get the #1, weren't they doing SNT tonight?

 

Better sales than I expected but I think it will slow down considerably and streaming will impact. Ed could still overtake later in the week!

I would imagine it will be close. Ed will do at least 100k surely, once streaming and the last minute Mother's Day buying is added. I don't see how he'd decline from 206k to under 100k suddenly.

 

Not sure how TT will hold up at all! Today's sales should be quite good with the Comic Relief exposure and Mother's Day buying, beyond that I don't know. Would be a shame for them to not get a #1 album, but any act going up against an Ed album in its first month is very brave indeed!

67k at this stage is good, it should mean they will easily manage 100,000 so it looks like they are def in with a shot of number 1, i really hope they do it.

 

I still dont have my copy, no place in the town i live sells cds anymore so i had it ordered online so im hoping il have it Tuesday.

Mint Royale says Ed have overtaken now, must have been a whopping Saturday sale for him.

 

So a #2 album for TT...still good but a shame to break their streak. I think it was just too early to release to get a #1, Ed will be on top for quite some time yet. In 2 or 3 weeks time they'd have done it...but then sales will be higher anyway with all the promo opportunities this weekend and the Mother's Day boost.

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Yeah they're 10k behind. Shame

Did they have a really poor Saturday, or did Ed just have a mammoth sale yesterday? I guess the Comic Relief promo will have done him no harm whatsoever, he came across as much more endearing and down to earth on there than he has of late.

So unfair :(

Did they have a really poor Saturday, or did Ed just have a mammoth sale yesterday? I guess the Comic Relief promo will have done him no harm whatsoever, he came across as much more endearing and down to earth on there than he has of late.

 

I think Take That are seriously front loaded (More so than usual) - it's been on pre-order since last year and had the Amazon pre-sale code promo which saw both versions hit #1 and #2 on Amazon.

 

Ed would have benefited from comic relief, Mothers Day and added to the fact that he is one of the biggest artists around right now - I really think Wonderland is going to be a 'flop' in Take That terms.

Yeah I suppose there's not going to be much to prop it up after the first week, other than the tour. Promo opportunities will be slim going into Q2.

 

Perhaps it will manage 250k in the long run...but even that is a big ask.

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I think anything Platinum in the albums is still a success so I'm hoping for at least that.

It might struggle to achieve platinum unless its reissued later in the year. It's a good album though. I like it a lot.

I think what will be interesting is how it does on week and will it completely plummet.