Have you taken a look at your fave's recent sales? Do tell us once more how BMG must be THRILLED with Emma's sales. :rolleyes:

 

6,691 - Baby Please Don't Stop

2,159 - You're All I Need to Get By

1,113 - Too Many Teardrops

620 - Coming Home for Christmas

155 - Santa Baby

 

At least Melanie has her gigs, festivals, corporate events, DJ sets, etc. which make up for the costs of recording & releasing.

 

To be honest, judging by the quality of those records, videos and promotion schedules, those sales were probably enought to cover costs :jump: :P

Have you taken a look at your fave's recent sales? Do tell us once more how BMG must be THRILLED with Emma's sales. :rolleyes:

 

6,691 - Baby Please Don't Stop

2,159 - You're All I Need to Get By

1,113 - Too Many Teardrops

620 - Coming Home for Christmas

155 - Santa Baby

 

At least Melanie has her gigs, festivals, corporate events, DJ sets, etc. which make up for the costs of recording & releasing.

 

 

Ok there's really no need to bring Emma into the discussion. Both the girls have abysmal sales, quite frankly Emma's record deal must have been the barest minimum, I can't imagine they paid her anything to sign her.

 

Melanie is likely to match BPDS in the long run, probably surpass it, with WIA and possibly with BIOM, they both brought money in through different ventures Emma with her Royal Albert Hall gig and Melanie does with her touring , DJ, coporate events etc, so actually both girls are very similar now in terms of success. Therefore no need to drag one down to make the other look better.

Ok there's really no need to bring Emma into the discussion.

I think I'm perfectly entitled to do so, in order to expose Sammy's hypocrisy & double standards. I've stated FACTS. B-)

Edited June 7, 20205 yr by Voodoo

Ok there's really no need to bring Emma into the discussion. Both the girls have abysmal sales, quite frankly Emma's record deal must have been the barest minimum, I can't imagine they paid her anything to sign her.

 

Melanie is likely to match BPDS in the long run, probably surpass it, with WIA and possibly with BIOM, they both brought money in through different ventures Emma with her Royal Albert Hall gig and Melanie does with her touring , DJ, coporate events etc, so actually both girls are very similar now in terms of success. Therefore no need to drag one down to make the other look better.

 

Good point!

 

I wish Emma toured more though. I really do... She could make much more of a name for herself if she did that.

I think I'm perfectly entitled to do so, in order to expose Sammy's hypocrisy & double standards. I've stated FACTS. B-)

 

Preach !!! :cheer:

To be honest, judging by the quality of those records, videos and promotion schedules, those sales were probably enought to cover costs :jump: :P

 

Emma had 2 cheap ass videos, Baby please don't stop was basically a behind the scenes at a photoshoot video that a Sunday magazine doing a spread with Emma would put out to promote it.

 

Coming home for Christmas didn't have a video but it had a £10 cd single which sold 1,100 copies at that price. That is £11,000 which she would need to sell nearly 14,000 downloads at 79p to make the same amount.

 

My happy place was cheap, no expense on videos and mostly covers. It had £30 vinyls, cassettes, deluxe cd and a regular CD to make lots of easy cash from it.

Emma had 2 cheap ass videos, Baby please don't stop was basically a behind the scenes at a photoshoot video that a Sunday magazine doing a spread with Emma would put out to promote it.

 

Coming home for Christmas didn't have a video but it had a £10 cd single which sold 1,100 copies at that price. That is £11,000 which she would need to sell nearly 14,000 downloads at 79p to make the same amount.

 

My happy place was cheap, no expense on videos and mostly covers. It had £30 vinyls, cassettes, deluxe cd and a regular CD to make lots of easy cash from it.

 

 

The expensive prices of her items is the ONLY saving grace though let's be honest. I think why people get so riled up by you is that you paint Emma as being this amazing success while at the same time tearing the others down (especially Melanie C) for actually doing very similar to Emma. In fact let's be honest Melanie's success is more because she is doing it off her own back, without the support of a major record label unlike Emma, who still didn't manage to sell much more than Mel despite this. If she wanted to Melanie could easily sell 1000 CD's of Who I am or Blame it on me at £10 a pop and make 11k herself... tbh I don't understand why she doesn't :blink:

The expensive prices of her items is the ONLY saving grace though let's be honest. I think why people get so riled up by you is that you paint Emma as being this amazing success while at the same time tearing the others down (especially Melanie C) for actually doing very similar to Emma. In fact let's be honest Melanie's success is more because she is doing it off her own back, without the support of a major record label unlike Emma, who still didn't manage to sell much more than Mel despite this. If she wanted to Melanie could easily sell 1000 CD's of Who I am or Blame it on me at £10 a pop and make 11k herself... tbh I don't understand why she doesn't :blink:

 

From a financial point of view I'm sure My happy place did well and that is the bottom line for any label. I forgot it had those white test pressings of the vinyl too that were signed, was it 50 copies at £100 each or 100 copies at £50, cant remember now but again its another £5k easy money.

 

From the signed vinyl, test press and Coming home CD single that generated £46,000. That at max accounts for less than 500 of her UK sales listed in this thread to as her opening week vinyl sales were 400 and something (the rest were sold internationally evidently) and the test press and signed vinyl were sold out by then. Coming home for Christmas CD single wasn't chart eligible.

Edited June 8, 20205 yr by sammy01

In some ways it's quite sad that she had 700 versions of the album and still only sold 12k. Thank God the label were creative enough to give her a range and charge extortionate prices imagine if she had released just the 1 CD album...

Blame it on me charts

Scotland: 61-x

UK downloads: 66-89

UK sales: 66-90

In some ways it's quite sad that she had 700 versions of the album and still only sold 12k. Thank God the label were creative enough to give her a range and charge extortionate prices imagine if she had released just the 1 CD album...

 

No artists on a label releases just 1 cd though, it is not like you can blame Emma for that when every artists does it to boost sales and profits.

Blame it on me charts

Scotland: 61-x

UK downloads: 66-89

UK sales: 66-90

 

 

Is that #61 on Scotland's overall chart? If so did Who I am chart on Scotland's overall chart at all do we know?? Ps I'm taking that as a #61 on a UK chart :w00t: :cheer: :yahoo: :lol:

The Scottish chart doesn’t include streaming </3

The Scottish chart doesn’t include streaming </3

 

 

Omg I love the Scottish charts :w00t: MELANIE HAS A TOP 100 :wub: :lol:

 

Where did Who I Am chart on the Scottish charts does anyone know?

 

These are her other Scottish peaks

 

Northern Star [#3] +1

Reason [#9] -4

Beautiful Intentions [#9] +15

This Time [#66] -9

The Sea [#69] -24

Stages [#79] -19

Version Of Me [#28] -3

 

When you're gone [#2] +1

Going down [#3] +1

Northern star [#5] -1

Never be the same again [#1] =

I turn to you [#2] -1

If that were me [#23] -5

Here it comes again [#6] +1

On the horizon [#12] +2

Melt / Yeh, yeh, yeh [#23] +4

Next best superstar [#8] +2

I want candy [#9] +15

Carolyna [#19] +30

This time [#32] +62

Loving you [#11] +3

Blame it on me [#66] +34 (probably a lot more lol)

 

I can't find anything for Think about it, Weak, Anymore, Dear life, Room for love, Hold on, High heels or Who I am.

^ 'Who I Am' made #37 on the Scottish chart: https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/scott...rt/20200327/41/

 

I don't know about the others because I don't *think* there's a searchable archive of the Scottish charts; you have to look week-by-week (but it looks like almost none of them made the iTunes top 100 so I wouldn't expect much, if anything).

 

For the record, I think digital sales were added to the Scottish chart in October 2009 (back in 2015 I compiled a list of Scottish chart #1s and you can see a clear difference at that point in the list), and they've remained sales-only since, presumably because streaming services don't have / aren't willing to provide Scotland-specific data.

Ooh nice, another top 40 hit in the UK for Mel then (well a part of it) :lol:

Edited June 8, 20205 yr by Spiceboy

The Scottish chart will either be scrapped in the next year or so or they will have to incorporate streaming somehow as download sales will only continue to dwindle.

The Scottish chart will either be scrapped in the next year or so or they will have to incorporate streaming somehow as download sales will only continue to dwindle.

 

 

Apparently Spotify won't give Scotland individual streams so they will struggle to incorporate streams I guess???

I mean if they can separate downloads between Scotland and England surely they can do the same for streams? My country needs it's own chart :michelle:

I mean if they can separate downloads between Scotland and England surely they can do the same for streams? My country needs it's own chart :michelle:

 

When Scotland is independent ( :yahoo: ) I'm sure silly Spotify will get over their own bullshit and give Scotland the respect it deserves!