Well mostly because he was such a success on popstar to operastar

 

Oh oh btw 23 weeks till Christmas since someone mentioned his classic Christmas album

 

Only 23 weeks?! The second half of the year flies by...

Is it on the budget chart or has it had its sales added to something just like this? I would have assumed if it was treated as a normal album, or single it would have shown on one of the chart updates.

It won't be on the budget chart as that only deals with physical formats (could possibly chart there when the physical is released).

:lol: I'm the opposite the buses are a joy to get into work with plenty of room - come September they fill with annoying kids who don't even pay on but take up all the seats. Plus the roads are far busier as spoilt children are lifted and laid to the bus stop/school gate!

 

 

We have a school not far from us :lol: :( 3 minutes walk away :drama:

It's being heavily advertised by ITV at the moment, especially ITV1 during Good Morning Britain.

I'm always amazed hy the number of people who don't seem to have worked out what the mute button is for. I haven't watched and heard a commercial on my own television for at least 25 years.

It won't be on the budget chart as that only deals with physical formats (could possibly chart there when the physical is released).

Ah ok, didn't know that about the budget chart. Thanks! :D

We have a school not far from us :lol: :( 3 minutes walk away :drama:

My nearest secondary school is literally at the end of my street and around the corner, it's less than a 30 second walk away. That's another thing - the street is usually clogged up with cigarette ends as the kids all stand at the end of the street smoking like chimneys before school and during the lunch break. And the teachers just leave them alone as they are outside of the school gates. In my day we would have been frog marched into school and caned or given the slipper even if we were outside of school premises.

 

Not to name drop of course but it's the same school that Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music used to go to, when it was a Grammar school. As did the late Howard Kendall, who managed Everton in the 1980s. They were both in the same class at school and in the same football team (along with my uncle). Not sure if they stood at the end of the street and smoked liked chimneys though of course I wasn't born back then so would have been none the wiser.

Someone's a jealous guy 😜

Someone's a jealous guy 😜

:lol:

 

I'm always amazed hy the number of people who don't seem to have worked out what the mute button is for. I haven't watched and heard a commercial on my own television for at least 25 years.

Commercials don't bother me and I've discovered a lot of great songs from them! You might be missing out! :P

I really don't get why Coldplay released this EP if it's ineligible... and why they didn't synchronise it with the physical CD, could have been an easy #1 in the summer lull

 

crazy that the 1st week x Vamps is gonna be higher than Katy Perry, Lorde, Dua Lipa, Zara Larsson, Haim, even Calvin Harris!!

That's what a fanbase act will achieve when they release 4 seperate versions of the album! (Although the HMV I'm at only has the Brad version)

Anyone know how far off the Top 40 Dua Lipa's "New Rules" is?

 

EDIT: I'm dumb, didn't realise the whole Top 100 was accessible :D WOO #49

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That's what a fanbase act will achieve when they release 4 seperate versions of the album! (Although the HMV I'm at only has the Brad version)

Are the four CDs actually musically identical apart from the front cover? Surely fans wouldn't pay for the same CD four times, just because each one has a different band member on the cover??

the multi covers is a trick that always works, and not only boybands... Tori Amos did the same for her Strange Little Girls album, 4/5 different covers... I admit I bought more than 1 :)

Are the four CDs actually musically identical apart from the front cover? Surely fans wouldn't pay for the same CD four times, just because each one has a different band member on the cover??

Each edition has the same 8 tracks, followed by two bonus tracks that vary between editions!

Are the four CDs actually musically identical apart from the front cover? Surely fans wouldn't pay for the same CD four times, just because each one has a different band member on the cover??

They would, and The Vamps aren't the first to do this either.

 

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I think Popstar To Operastar really saved his career. If he kept trying to release pop music he'd be nowhere now but him constantly being on reality TV and appealing to the Mums is proving to work.

 

He hasn't done a reality TV show since The Jump, and even then it was only skill-based shows. The first album didn't really work, it was completely different to what made people vote for him on X Factor in the first place: the ballads, which are his strength.

Each edition has the same 8 tracks, followed by two bonus tracks that vary between editions!

Well at least they're not paying for the same CD 4 times then. I know other bands do it too but it still seems like a real rip off!

Killers only 4 places out from top 40 is really something to behold.

 

Also awkward at Zedd/Liam Payne dropping like a rock after 1 week.

Joe McElderry on track for his 4th top 10 album. Not sure many other X Factor stars have achieved this (if it makes it) - One Direction, Olly Murs, anybody else?