That’s from the sales thread on here and that was the last update in July 2019.

 

Not sure what sales were like at the bottom end of the charts in 2012?

It might have picked up some sales over the years but 30k is prob its max :cry:

'Flower' sold 2,934 to enter at #96. Definitely not 7k, even nowadays with streaming the #100 doesn't achieve that much! :lol:

 

Its total won't be much more than 10k now. It took 7 years to reach that amount.

My 7000 figure was wrongly estimated from more recent figures for a number 96 position.

My error aside, I expected more than 15000 sales over an almost 9 year period.

The figures are terribly disappointing for a song of such greatness.

The sales must be largly from physical sales and very little from elsewhere.

Edited May 2, 20205 yr by pippa

I'm not surprised by its sales, I am disappointed with them as I love the song but its not even all that popular among her fans. Kylie and slow songs usually dont add up to popular unfortunately.

If we examine the success of Flower and Music's Too Sad Without You, that does appear to be the way.

To be honest physicals aside it was a rather low key single release just to promote the album - it also won’t pick up many streams as it’s not included on any of the GH or on any of the streaming services ‘Essential Kylie’ playlists.

 

I doubt many people outside of her core fan base even remember the song so wouldn’t go looking for it and in my opinion the Abbey Road album wasn’t her finest moment.

Abbey Roads is one of Kylie's weaker releases but housed Flowers which remains it's standout content.

I have yet to hear Flowers on radio or see it on any music channels which showcases how unknown it is.

When flower was used on Emmerdale I was expecting a bit of a turn around for the song but little happened, I think it got a short small bit of a lift on itunes

Similar to the Impossible Princess content, Flower will only be known to a select few.

Quality and success dont always go hand in hand.

Overall we cant complain to much as she has had great success overall and not everything can be a hit, sometimes it's nice knowing some great songs that others dont even know exist.

‘Flower’ more than served its purpose - it gave the fans a song they love, physical formats and something new on the album and also helped exposure for Abbey Road.

 

 

Ya it was nice getting something new on Abbey roads that wasnt on an official album before. Songs like flower though really had a place on step back in time disc 3.

The third cd on Step Back in Time was wasted and that annoyed me.

I strongly feel it could have become so much greater with the vast amount of material available.

Flower is one small example of what should have been included.

The re-issue of SBIT was a bit of a lazy release hence why it didn’t do much for overall sales/weeks in the chart for it. I got a copy for collection purposes but if it wasn’t for me collecting everything I would have easily let it pass on by!

Pure lazy, the new 3rd cd could have been full of songs the long term fans wanted, and they knew they were exactly the people who would be def out again buying the album.