October 9, 20222 yr I think My Heart Takes Over was a brilliant single choice and is one of threat only singles that I regularly listen to. X Factor being pulled significantly impacted on its success unfortunately.
October 9, 20222 yr Need to disagree. I love Last Call but My Heart Takes Over is an amazing ballad. (Side eying those who are calling it Where My Heart Takes Over too lmao). On Your Radar really deserved a campaign as long as Chasing Lights. I would gladly have had them repackage it with 30 Days to bridge the wait until What About Us. Also, did On Your Radar not sell like 18k first week? Which is very respectable. Also releasing it in Q4 didn’t help either. The sales were fine and obviously it was a tougher market, but I doubt their label would've been happy at all about a peak of #23. They wouldn't have picked a Q4 date if they didn't expect them to compete for top 10 minimum I'm sure (especially after three consecutive top 10 albums!), and perhaps with a different single, it could've been at least a bit more competitive than it was because it's clear MHTO didn't resonate with the public. Obviously that's just how I see things and I enjoy MHTO a lot on its own.
October 9, 20222 yr I have such wonderful memories associated with the album release and it breaks my heart that it doesn’t have the peak it deserved.
October 9, 20222 yr Just to reiterate others, from a commerical point of view My Heart Takes Over ended up coming across as a bad choice for them. A pretty terrible singles chart performance (only four weeks in the Top 200 was quite shocking!) and On Your Radar missed the Top 20 off the back of it. :cry: Even though its first week sales seem rather good (particularly compared to nowadays!) in the context of Q4 2011 they were a bit meh. Particularly considering they did multi formats (which still wasn't a very common thing to do in those days. Imagine if they'd only released a standard CD and Deluxe CD!). I think the label had a lot of confidence and high expectations in On Your Radar to justify doing the individual member artworks and a box set. Maybe the proposed X Factor performance was the key that was needed for it to become a hit, but many other singles of theirs did a lot better despite not having major TV slots. Which really suggests that My Heart Takes Over didn't connect by their usual standards. It was kind of an odd choice to release a predominantly pop-dance album off the back of a ballad. I think the album should have been released directly after All Fired Up. Then release Faster, which personally I believe would have been a strong enough choice to be able to do well as a post-album single! I feel like My Heart Takes Over might have been better served as an album track gem, with fans saying for 11 years how it should have been a single :kink:
October 9, 20222 yr 'My Heart Takes Over' was, on paper at the time at least, the best to be the ballad single imo. It's one of the most bizarre flops I can think of. The song is strong. The video suited the time of year and I really think had it got that XF performance it was rumoured to get, it would've propelled it to being a decent sized hit. But without that type of promo, it bombed. Casual fans weren't interested for whatever reason and the non-fans they won over with 'All Fired Up' wouldn't be interested when all they would have wanted was another banger. Would MHTO have sufficed better in late Winter (ala 'Issues')? After 'All Fired Up' they should've probably stuck with that sound and gone for something like 'Get Ready, Get Set' or 'Faster'. Just NOT 'The Way You Watch Me'! LMAO. I think 'Last Call' is nice. But I think it'd have performed very similar to MHTO/not much better. Especially as I think, in hindsight, following up AFU with a big ballad was probably their mistake?
October 9, 20222 yr Lets be honest though... NOT RELEASING 'WHITE LIES' AT ANY POINT WAS A HUGE MISFIRE.
October 9, 20222 yr Lets be honest though... NOT RELEASING 'WHITE LIES' AT ANY POINT WAS A HUGE MISFIRE. AGREED!!! Such a tune.
October 10, 20222 yr Looking back objectively, On Your Radar should have been the killer double platinum campaign. It's still their most consistent album for me and the one I revisit the most. "Notorious" and "All Fired Up" were and still are that killer 1-2 punch of opening singles so that set it up perfectly. But I think "My Heart Takes Over" was an ideal choice for third single - it was the right time of year for it, it had wider crossover appeal and the video was gorgeous, and I don't believe it deserved to foot all the blame for the album then not doing as well. Those with short memories may forget but between "All Fired Up" charting and "My Heart Takes Over" being released, that was when Una announced she was pregnant with Aoife and when Frankie took her sabbatical, which as we now know was for her depression. That did set off a chain of "Are they gonna split" type rumours which sad but true, was still happening as commonplace for a girl group back then, and which, on a wider public scale, did somewhat overshadow the fact a new single and album were imminent. Also I remember seeing the girls during promo for "My Heart Takes Over" when they filmed a TV show - think it was The Album Chart Show special they did, I remember because Olly Murs and JLS filmed theirs that night too, and I was in the audience for all three. It was just the four of them cause of course this was when Frankie was still off of promo duties. They were juggling all that with the arena tour rehearsals - at some point something would have to sacrifice one thing over another. I don't really remember The X Factor performance rumour. It's a shame if it's true that was on the table because it does bring up a "what could have been" style scenario. But on a positive at least the arena tour was everything they deserved and more. I saw the Wembley show and I was so proud of them when they did it, especially because exactly two years before I'd seen them at my students Union Christmas party (when someone bottled Mollie - how dare they?) so it was a bit of a YES moment for me. Like "Go on girls!" I still say "30 Days" should have been tacked onto a deluxe reissue with the tour DVD. It had no place being on Living For The Weekend TBH.
October 10, 20222 yr I’m sure they were actually announced on the show the week prior to which they were to perform, weren’t they?
October 10, 20222 yr my heart takes over is nice but it’s not what the public wanted from them. it should have gone notorious into all fired up and faster lead the album. i know they did the album chart show performance of ‘faster’ and it was starting to get played on radio but then it got pulled. i guess they thought with una being pregnant and what was happening with frankie, it would be easier to have a vanessa and rochelle led single.
October 10, 20222 yr I like a bit of 'My Heart Takes Over' but it was in no way strong enough to release an album off the back of, particularly in Q4. Very unfortunate what happened with the lined-up X-Factor performance though. :( I remember at that exact same time both them and Pixie Lott released a single which drastically underperformed, taking their respective albums with it.
October 10, 20222 yr I got excited thinking they'd be on X Factor on the 20th, but it seems it's just Xtra Factor. http://xfactor-updates.com/x-factor-week-7-guests/(The link is dead by the way) The guy who seems to find out about the guest performances first (he's got them right every week so far) said it seems the girls were originally due to appear on the main show with Rihanna as he was told first time round but recently been told it seems the girls are now demoted to Xtra Factor in favour of the charity single performance, taking their place. Annoying. Don't see why the charity single performance can't just take the place of the finalists group performance instead and have the two guest stars as normal, but no. Or even 3 performances like they did with Bruno Mars, Kelly Clarkson and Pro Green with Rihanna, The Sats and the charity single, but again, no... typical Saturdays luck! It's not the be all or end all no, but when it seems they were originally going to be on, and to have to settle for less again is soo frustrating, if true. New here so Hi all... I own the xfactor-updates site & apoligise for the confusion. I noticed a few links to the site from here so thought I should post what I know. I've posted all the xfactor guest performers way before they have been 'officially' confirmed, it's a spoiler site & some of you might know I don't post the usual tabloid shite but all have been correct so far. Named the finalists & guests before any other sites for the last 3 years but got a spanner thrown in the works this year after a SYCO insider deliberately fed me a wrong finalist name to discredit my spoilers (all others were 100%) Besides that fool (wont give his name), I am back on track with a great source for who they are booking for the live shows. I was told Rihanna & The Saturdays were booked for the weekend of the 20th, then told the charity single would take place of The Sats & they would do the xtra factor instead. I didn't ask which charity single, just presumed it was the finalists. However that single is due out the following week, so I'm as confused as you guys. Hopefully I'll get confirmation tomorrow, will update the post as soon as I do. One Direction are performing on both shows this weekend, so it's still possible The Saturdays will do the same. With One Direction & JLS being added to the xfactor charity single, they could be doing last minute changes as to when acts are available to perform? Will update when I know more, sorry guys. Looking through the My Heart Takes Over thread it doesn’t seem like it was ever confirmed / announced officially that they’d be on The X Factor’s main show, just that a user on Digitalspy with insider info said that they were intended to be, then got demoted (which he confirmed on 11th November). ~ One positive happening regarding the single is that it was A Listed by Radio 1, and surprisingly it received stronger TV airplay than Notorious. So My Heart Takes Over was getting some decent exposure. Looking further into the thread, it seemed to become clear to everyone on its release date that it was struggling - the iTunes updates left a lot to be desired.
October 10, 20222 yr They're so lucky they weren't dropped at the start of 2012 when you think about it.
October 10, 20222 yr Still hoping for the All Fired Up Tour DVD 😂 (or for it to at least leak online) Edited October 10, 20222 yr by bpdbryan
October 10, 20222 yr They're so lucky they weren't dropped at the start of 2012 when you think about it. They definitely had 9 lives! I think a harsher label might have pulled the plug after Wordshaker. They were fortunate that the label's response to Wordshaker's performance was the idea to completely rebrand it as a different album altogether. Quite unusual, yet it actually worked. :lol: It was a bit annoying that Wordshaker was scrubbed from being able to be purchased (or streamed) for many years. Something random I read on Popjustice - I'm not sure if it's been discussed before or if it's common knowledge. Apparently Ina Wroldsen mentioned it. If This Is Love was originally called 'If It's Not Love'. It certainly makes more sense... "If it's not love, then I don't want to know what is"
October 10, 20222 yr Now is this time for them to return with Little Mix on a break. I honestly think they’d get some hype with good promo and be able to sell tour tickets. It would all need to handled properly though not a half assed attempt.
October 12, 20222 yr The limited support from Notorious was quite bizzare considering it’s amazing start, it really struggled on airplay didn’t it!
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