November 21, 20169 yr If Olly stays there albums-wise, won't he be the third act in a row to drop from #1 to #6? :o
November 21, 20169 yr 46. Tom Zanetti ft Sadie Ama - You Want Me So delighted to see this so high ─ hopefully it manages to scrape top 40 this week provided it has a big Spotify update tomorrow.
November 21, 20169 yr I expected King Astley to be higher due to his Strictly Come Dancing Performance. I am delighted with the sales for Little Mix and also on how Olly Murs is performing. Oh my my, what a huge surprise at Number 77, Matt Cardle, Intimate and Live, i never even knew this was been released, its the first i have heard of it. Easy 100k by the end of the week for Little Mix? I didn't expect them to be doing so well. As for Matt Cardle, I think most people out of his fanbase wouldn't have heard of it either to be fair. With a bit of promotion it could do something I feel.
November 21, 20169 yr Guys just so you know, the top 100 links are in the mids post for you to check any position you like!
November 21, 20169 yr Easy 100k by the end of the week for Little Mix? I didn't expect them to be doing so well. As for Matt Cardle, I think most people out of his fanbase wouldn't have heard of it either to be fair. With a bit of promotion it could do something I feel. I can only agree with your Matt Cardle comment, i am a huge fan of Matt and knew nothing of the release until i saw it appear on the chart. With no promotion, very few knowing of the release he is doing well. Matt has such huge potential if he could just get a track that hits a chord with people like James Arthur did do.
November 21, 20169 yr This success for Little Mix is so unheard of. Firstly for a girl group, who usually have a quick shelf life. Secondly for a Syco/X Factor act. 1D, Olly and SuBo are the only artists under the label who managed more than 4 studio albums, and they decreased in popularity rather than increased. Though still a decent success, Little Mix's second album showed signs of them weakening, and made it look like they'd sell even less on their 3rd era, so to see them releasing an album in 2016 that looks like it'll be the second fastest selling of the year is crazy. I don't know, I feel like girl groups have larger shelf life than boybands. Girls Aloud come to mind. Sugababes also took awhile to reach their peak. Even The Saturdays lasted for awhile and had different peaks/buzz despite their limited commercial success. While highly impressive, I don't find their trajectory particularly unique.
November 21, 20169 yr I don't know, I feel like girl groups have larger shelf life than boybands. Girls Aloud come to mind. Sugababes also took awhile to reach their peak. Even The Saturdays lasted for awhile and had different peaks/buzz despite their limited commercial success. While highly impressive, I don't find their trajectory particularly unique. It's different in this day and age
November 21, 20169 yr It's different in this day and age Not really (when it comes to girl bands). The UK market always had successful girl groups with somewhat decent shelf life (unlike other Western markets).
November 21, 20169 yr I agree about girlbands; Girls Aloud had seven years, Sugababes a full decade and even the likes of The Saturdays and Atomic Kitten had good five year or so runs. Little Mix are in their fifth year now and show no signs of slowing down. Boybands, no matter how successful, seem to always have a shelf life of only four years or so; One Direction, JLS, The Wanted, Blue, N Sync, Backstreet Boys, Jonas Brothers are all examples of this. The exceptions to the rule seem to be Westlife, Boyzone and Take That but in their later years they were aiming more for the steady 'Mum' market rather than the teenage girl demographics (plus with all the members being in their 30's at least by this point, they could hardly be described as 'boybands' anymore and the latter two both had substantial breaks) which is the key to longevity it seems.
November 21, 20169 yr Author I agree with the above, I don't feel like girl groups have short shelf lives There are literally 2 properly successful girlgroups in the world at the moment...And one of them is struggling to sell tickets or Albums. Let's look at girlgroups from the past 5/6 years...Stooshe, Neon Jungle, Girls Can't Catch to name a few, none of them lasted (heck, even on the X Factor the girl groups are usually some of the first to go). Girls Aloud and The Saturdays are pretty much the only 2 other long running successful UK girl groups from the past decade, and The Saturdays were lucky to stay around as long as they did and eventually got dropped because none of their past 3 albums were selling. I wasn't REALLY comparing them to boybands, because they usually have similar fates... but the on air seems to have totally killed them of. Look how Spice Girls and The Saturdays' were doing by their 4th eras...bar a couple of hits. The point I was making is how RARE it is for a girl group to be hitting such huge highs on their 4th era.
November 21, 20169 yr Hope LM can break 100k although the mids will have the biggest bulk of sales early in the week because of the Friday chart now - weekends are busiest in Q4! Hope Metallica can break 60k, I imagine a lot of their sales will be from preorders!
November 21, 20169 yr There are literally 2 properly successful girlgroups in the world at the moment...And one of them is struggling to sell tickets or Albums. Let's look at girlgroups from the past 5/6 years...Stooshe, Neon Jungle, Girls Can't Catch to name a few, none of them lasted (heck, even on the X Factor the girl groups are usually some of the first to go). Girls Aloud and The Saturdays are pretty much the only 2 other long running successful UK girl groups from the past decade, and The Saturdays were lucky to stay around as long as they did and eventually got dropped because none of their past 3 albums were selling. I wasn't REALLY comparing them to boybands, because they usually have similar fates... but the on air seems to have totally killed them of. Look how Spice Girls and The Saturdays' were doing by their 4th eras...bar a couple of hits. The point I was making is how RARE it is for a girl group to be hitting such huge highs on their 4th era. Stooshe, Neon Jungle, Girls Can't Catch, etc. were never properly successful, they aren't even comparable. They didn't had short shelf lives, they had no shelf lives at all. Spice Girls are also a really drastically different case (and they never had a 4th era). When girl groups are properly successful, they don't have short shelf lives at all. Sugababes were huge in their 4th era (Taller In More Ways); Girls Aloud reached their peak in their 4th/5th era also (GH/Tangled Up/Out of Control). The Saturdays were pretty stable throughout most of their career (although their sales were always mediocre, bar their first album). Anyway, I am not trying to dismiss Little Mix success. I think what they achieved is hugely impressive. But girl groups -- when successful -- tend to have long shelf lives (compared to fellow bubblegum pop acts).
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