March 10, 20232 yr This is a very very low-key diet bop. Ngl. :music: I don't like the vocal production though.
March 10, 20232 yr Yes, I’ve had it about a week now! Oh nice! What’s it like? Good? Or should I check out your instagram? :)
March 11, 20232 yr Oh nice! What’s it like? Good? Or should I check out your instagram? :) I’ve been on hiatus but coincidentally I just posted it today!
March 11, 20232 yr I’ve been on hiatus but coincidentally I just posted it today! I might need to start following you.
March 11, 20232 yr The new song… doesn’t sound like them? Yeah I thought so too initially. I guess they’re sharing the vocals a lot more this time.
March 14, 20232 yr I just saw that Awake and Breathe is certified Platinum (it was certified Silver, Gold and Platinum on 10.12.1999) - it must be seriously over-certified, more so than All Saints Studio One (Gold) :o I suppose I can see Sony's thinking that shipping out 300k+ copies of the album just in advance of I Shall Be There and the Christmas market was feasible. Initially it was selling decently enough, and they must have had great faith that I Shall Be There would create a decent boost in album sales during the all important Christmas sales weeks. As we know that single pretty much tanked by their previous standards, so the album was only in the 30s area over Christmas. It ended 1999 on sales of 213,000. Then we know how 2000 turned out for them. :( Awake & Breathe's UK albums chart run: 1999: 05-10-13-23-26-29-29-31-35-36... 2000: ...40-61-110-125-162-(out for 16 weeks)-194-158-(out for 1 week)-192-130-166-194-(out) In 2009 it was estimated to be on 250,000+ sales. I'm not sure where that stems from, but it seems about right to me. In 2019 it was one place below Spice Girls - Forever in a list of girl group albums and by that point Forever was just under 270,000. I wonder what happened with tens of thousands of unsold copies of an album in the physicals era? How costly would overestimating physical demand have been for a label? Did stores send them back to the label? Did they just end up being recycled or sent to landfill? It seems like it was a somewhat regular occurrence for this to happen in those days (shipment certifications being over what they actually managed to sell). Something that comes to mind is Geri Halliwell - Look at Me being certified for 400k+ shipments but it ended up selling 330,000. It makes me wonder how labels worked out what would be a sensible amount to press before manufacturing, what this was actually based on, and why they got it so wrong on occasion.
March 14, 20232 yr To be fair, 250k isn't as bad as I thought it was, especially since they were unceremoniously dropped later on; then again, the label waited until mid-2001 to drop them and pop had probably moved on from the B*Witched sound/image so it probably made sense. Even Billie Piper wrote about how despite her first album sold well it apparently was a loss for the label as the investment in it was so high for teen pop acts back in those days, so the pressure to sell a lot was at an all time high. At least the one good thing about them signing back to Sony is that they see value in their backcatalog, so I assume they'll get their digital/streaming presence sorted out.
March 14, 20232 yr Thanks for that Jay! I guess back then it would’ve been common to over estimate demand, in terms of what to order. Still though it was a bit of a drop for them.
March 14, 20232 yr Video: vTepsexeH4g I'm just going to assume the car is a part of a product placement deal :lol: The video is ok for a girl group video whose last hit was like 24 years ago, with that said I think it would be better if it had been one long shot instead of interspersed with solo shots and then the sitting in a parked car thing (then again, I'd just assume it was a product placement). It’s not product placement. That is a Dodge Ram 1500 that isn’t in production anymore as it’s a previous generation, has never been sold on the UK market and the car is left hand drive (all UK cars are RHD). No way Stellantis paid for that, nor a company that sells imports as they’d have used the newest model The song is a bit shit innit. Way overproduced and doesn’t even sound like them.
March 14, 20232 yr I agree with you Silas. Whilst I’m starting to like it it’s nothing like what I expected. Would comfortably be my least favourite single from them. Hopefully this is just a stand alone single and the album is better.
March 16, 20232 yr Author They're on This Morning tomorrow for St. Patrick's Day. Big announcement apparently so I would think that a tour's gonna be confirmed!
March 16, 20232 yr If they're doing a tour, I can't see them doing anything big. In all honesty, it would probably be better for them to pair up with another act, be a support act or do lots of festivals to build up some hype. I'm just not sure people are going to go and see a B*Witched solo tour in any big numbers. Edited March 16, 20232 yr by tommie
March 17, 20232 yr I’m shocked they’ve teamed up with Sony again and that Sony have faith in new music from them - I was expecting them to self release or be with an indie.
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