I love New Day and, in a poll in a big TT group, New Day was the most liked song.

 

Have you heard the Soho sessions? They sound amazing: https://www.mixcloud.com/michellethornton22...tm_content=html

I love New Day and, in a poll in a big TT group, New Day was the most liked song.

 

Have you heard the Soho sessions? They sound amazing:

 

This is very good. Make me miss the Abbey Road session. Thank you.

New Day at this early stage is the stand out track but that could change with further listens to the album. On the whole, i am disappointed with the album. I cant put my finger on it, but there is something missing from the album. There is a part of me that feels it is not a Take That album i am listening to and there is another part of me that feels i am listening to a Take That album compromised of b sides and rarities (i.e left overs).

 

This is exactly the album we didn't need from them. It will do nothing to really reverse the sales decline previously experienced and it wont attract any new fans either. It will likely keep some of the fans happy but there is nothing on the album that will be remembered in years to come. This is the first album from them that i feel wont have one song that people will remember down the line, its an album that attempts to represent the music of NOW and it doesnt quiet pull it off and in doing so, it fails the trademarks that makes many Take That songs so memorable.

 

I cant help but wonder how a band that made such wonderful albums such as Beautiful World and The Circus ended up making an album like Wonderland. I know its very early judgement and i will continue to listen to the album in hope that i get to like it but this album brought home how much i miss the Take That of a few years back.

I'm with Pippa somewhat on this.

I don't actually dislike the album, I just enjoy very few songs on it and, even so, there's not one track I can say is better than anything I've heard from them before.

With III, I was madly in love with WYBTFM, Freeze, Flaws, HTH and quite a few others and I found myself listening to them on repeat. This hasn't happened to me with this album.

I still wish it does well, of course. I'm still hoping I'll grow to love some of the tracks more once I hear them live.

 

PS: An Evening with TT will be on the 8th of April, at 8:30, on ITV.

Edited March 29, 20178 yr by milly

Have to admit that I'm still yet to establish my faves from this album. On first listen I did enjoy New Day but it doesn't exactly scream THIS MUST BE A SECOND SINGLE at me.

 

Loving the Soho Sessions. The intro to Giants is very reminiscent of a version of Mark's Alone Without You that I have somewhere (not 100% sure but I think is the one from the Live At The Academy DVD). I'll see if I can find/post a link so you can see what I mean.

 

A box set of Greatest Hits will be quite interesting/intriguing. Despite their comeback period spawning more albums and (arguably) better quality songs overall, they haven't exactly racked up the hits singles-wise since 2006. I probably should have researched this more thoroughly before posting but if we are talking Top 20 hits then I guess we're only talking about 11 or 12 overall. I hope the earlier post about some new songs with Robbie being added to the mix is true, that would definitely make things more interesting. I'm not desperate for him to return to the band as such but do think he would bring something to the party (Eight Letters was/is just beautiful). Speaking of which, maybe a new Greatest Hits would be a great time for them to finally release The Party Is Over . I'm dying to hear that song! (But only on the basis that the "party", as it were, keeps on going :)

 

 

new day? really...? they reall unlearned how to release the best songs on their albums.

Looks like Wonderland was very front-loaded as they've only sold 10K in the last 2 days bringing sales to 105,000.

 

 

Graham Norton will probably help Take That considerably next week.

I wish they would sale more. I bought like 2 copies from amazon.co.uk even I'm not in the UK. I thought that would help. :teresa:

Disappointing how much sales have slowed down in the last 2 days,they will probably end the week near to 120,000. Maybe if it had been released next week it may have been enough to get the number 1. I hope it can go top 10 here in Ireland, Three made a number 10 debut but climbed to number 6 after some promotion here on the Late Late Show, that was based on These Days getting to number 8 here, Giants on the other hand reached number 86 here so hopefully the album can make top 10 here.

How can you complain? 100,000 are a lot these days and they are up against Ed Sheeran. For the little promo they had done ot shows that the TT fan base is strong. The question will be how they continue selling as the people buying now is the general public and not the hard core fan. They will be important to keep appealing to if they want to sell more. The additional problem is that they have lost any other market aside the UK and possibly Ireland (in sales) so they need to be strong there. I hope it will turn out well.

Upcoming promo -

 

Friday 31st March - The One Show

Friday 7th April - Graham Norton Show

Saturday 8th April - Audience with Take That

 

Great promo with GN and Audience With both being in the same sales week - they should get a huge boost!

Edited March 30, 20178 yr by ___∆___

I really like Wonderland. I think the last 4-5 songs on the album are particularly strong. You need to listen to the album a few times though as it's a grower. 120k is far more than I anticipated they would sell in the first week. Had the album been released in Q4, it may have done even better but it's still a success particularly in today's market of declining returns. With good promotion and further singles, it may reach platinum by the end of the year!

The sales are solid, especially for the time of year, and in most weeks of the year this would be more than enough for number 1 and outsell the top 20 combined. The power of Ed Sheeran is just to strong for them. I do like Ed Sheeran but i wonder will an album by him in 20 years time open on such strong numbers?i doubt it. I say this in no dig to Ed Sheeran as i am a fan. I say that as a testament to Take That, 25 years on and opening with such big sales outside q4 is remarkable.

It's a no win-win situation. If they open this week, they wouldn't get the Mother's day sale plus the Red Nose promo. So sale might not be as good as this and Ed would still outsell them.

 

I guess we will have to settle to the fact that they are no longer number one. Just keep doing good songs is good enough.

 

 

This album is full of wonderful things to discover on every listening. I found something new to like every time. There are no instant hits for sure but so full of details.

Take That would have easily been no 1 any other time Ed wouldn't have had strong sales, that's a certainty.

 

I don't think they were that frontloaded. They had 65k on pre-orders and managed to sell almost as much as that since then, which is pretty good, imo, especially at this time of year.

I don't believe Mother's Day had that much of an influence on their sales - Ed would have benefitted from that much more than them.

Imo, they should have advertised on tv, on Red Nose Day, the release of their album, and gathered a few more pre-orders and released next week. But what's done is done.

Sales are slowing down by the day,only 3k more since the last update putting them on 108,000. Looks like an end of week sale of 110,500.

Sales are slowing down by the day,only 3k more since the last update putting them on 108,000. Looks like an end of week sale of 110,500.

 

But sales will slow - they have no radio smash to sell the album and the effects of promo only last so long.

 

They have 'The One Show' tomorrow which should give them a boost and then get a huge boost next weekend with the TV promo.

 

I was disappointed with 'Giants' and them being overtaken by Ed but the fact they are going to finish the week on 100k+ when albums aside from the recent smashes have been selling 15k to go to #1 and 5k to go Top 10 is huge.

With the main promo coming next weekend rather than during the coming week will we see a weird chart run as in a number 2 debut drop to 6 or 7 and then back up to number 2 following the itv show. Hopefully they can hold top 3 this coming week and in an ideal world overtake Ed if the show really boosts them.

 

Im a bit peeved off they have such great sales and will only be number 2 when we see so many albums getting a number 1 credit on 12-15 thousand sales.

Yes, if they lost out to number 1 on poor sales it would seem fairer. That said, i would prefer a big selling number 2 than a low selling number 1.