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Cue Myleene Klass getting a slapped wrist from OCC :lol:

She was so unlucky .

 

Week 2 out of top 200 ?

TBH she chose a tough week to release. Not only it coincided with Spice Girls rehearsals (thus making it hard for her to do more live promo other than interviews) but also on a week against some really heavy sellers - Beyonce, Chemical Brothers, etc. A week earlier and she would have done better..

Guessing this means she didn’t make top 10! Gutted for her if so

CONFIRMED BY THE OCC

 

#11

CONFIRMED BY THE OCC

 

#11

damn I was hoping for 10

 

 

 

So disappointing to miss out by 1 place :nocheer: Let’s hope it’s not an 11-88-out kind of album but I’m struggling to see what could stabilize it after all the fan multi purchases this week.

So disappointing to miss out by 1 place :nocheer: Let’s hope it’s not an 11-88-out kind of album but I’m struggling to see what could stabilize it after all the fan multi purchases this week.

 

You'd think a good chart position would only happen this week with the promo and the bundles.

 

This WAS the week to get that Top 10. Apart from a few casual downloads and streams, I don't see it going any higher :(

Oh my god, like "Headlines" :lol:

The album wont go any higher.

The hopes are it can have a couple of weeks on the chart and not disappear in a flash.

The album wont go any higher.

The hopes are it can have a couple of weeks on the chart and not disappear in a flash.

 

I honestly doubt it'll have more weeks on the charts to be honest, as it obviously didn't stabilise in sales through Monday-Thursday and was very frontloaded. This really looks like an #11-OUT affair.

Top 10 would have been FAB but 11 is a decent placing all things considering.

#7 on the Scottish album chart

 

3rd Top album in Scotland and highest charting album since 2001!

Edited April 19, 20196 yr by Spice Girls Net

As I said a week ago, the chart position is almost irrelevant here. Anyone who was expecting a huge great splash is living in 2001 still. I'm just grateful we've even got an album - and a very classily orchestrated and put together one at that - when five years ago it seemed unlikely Emma would ever dip her toes back into even just a one off single on her tod.

 

The fact it's made the top 20 is the icing on the cake to what's been quite a lovely week and a bit all told. Hopefully it'll give her the encouragement to do a tour of the UK's town halls and theatres off the back of it because if she did a 'An Evening With' show like the tour Martine McCutcheon did a few years ago for her comeback album - where it was music and an audience Q&A - I can see that selling well because there's more of an incentive for casual Spice Girl fans as it were.

On one hand a solo Spice top 15 album in 2019 is to be celebrated, not many artist manage that 23 years into their career.

 

However Emma has major label backing and top 10 was easily in reach with a few details that could have been rectified. Although top 15 for a solo Spice is great I'm sure BMG don't give a toss about that and would have loved a top 10 (probably a top 5) so the album was seen as successful to the wider public not just Spice fans. What BMG will see as acceptable to keep her on and release another album is anyone's guess, I'm assuming the WW sales were better than a lot of BMG artist like Gabrielle though so maybe that will be her saving grace.

 

Next weeks drop could be painful though, if she stays top 100 it will be a small victory tbh.

Edited April 19, 20196 yr by sammy01

On one hand a solo Spice top 15 album in 2019 is to be celebrated, not many artist manage that 23 years into their career.

 

However Emma has major label backing and top 10 was easily in reach with a few details that could have been rectified. Although top 15 for a solo Spice is great I'm sure BMG don't give a toss about that and would have loved a top 10 (probably a top 5) so the album was seen as successful to the wider public not just Spice fans. What BMG will see as acceptable to keep her on and release another album is anyone's guess, I'm assuming the WW sales were better than a lot of BMG artist like Gabrielle though so maybe that will be her saving grace.

 

Next weeks drop could be painful though, if she stays top 100 it will be a small victory tbh.

 

 

I'm guessing her worldwide sales were at least 60% of her overall sales as Jay pointed out to me that 402 of the vinyl copies were sold in England while 1050 signed 'limited' editions were sold out. On that working out a vast majority of her records sales must have gone abroad. Hopefully they will allow her to record another album on the back of that. Is Gabrielle still signed to them?

Double post sorry!

Edited April 19, 20196 yr by Spiceboy

Emma sold 6,674 copies, just 457 sales behind #10. :(

 

Truthfully I am disappointed that it missed out, I mean it was Top 10 throughout the midweeks so that was quite a tease. :( Unfortunately it was looking inevitable towards the end of the week that it would fall out though. #11 is just the most frustrating position. It's difficult for a front-loaded physical seller like Emma to compete with consistently heavy streamers like Khalid. Fontaines D.C. had an edge with strong vinyl sales too.

 

I'm trying to keep it in mind that this is by a distance the highest charting solo Spice album in 15 years, first Top 20 since Emma herself with Free Me in 2004. So that in itself is worth celebrating. Hopefully BMG consider it a good enough result, as mentioned perhaps it'll be the overall sales achieved worldwide that's the important factor.

 

I really don't think the situation will be as dire as Emma falling out of the Top 200 directly from #11. That would mean her falling to under 750-ish sales in week 2. She managed 600-ish sales on Thursday alone!

 

Maybe I'll jinx her by saying this, but I can at least see her selling more than 1k next week. She'll need to sell approaching 1.2k to remain Top 100. That's an average of 171 copies a day.