November 8, 20214 yr I’m in an ABBA FB group and there are some strange stories at the moment about pre-orders being cancelled completely due to a fire at a vinyl plant. The mind boggles… but anyway at least it suggests there might be some more sales to come either this week or later. I think I’ll buy a copy actually after initially just planning to stream it - I don’t have a CD player anymore but can listen to it at my parents’ over Christmas. :D
November 8, 20214 yr Lol calling Westlife very brave with their releases... when in singles the label was always picking the easiest zero competition weeks and 75% of their #1s were fluke non#1s :) Yeah that record they have for getting their first however many singles to #1 was definitely in part due to releasing on some low sales weeks for the era with less competition. Walsh and Co probably learnt their lesson from Boyzone who IIRC ended up with a fair few #2s for releasing on weeks with strong competition.
November 8, 20214 yr Lol, why you think Lana - Blue Banisters is at #10 :D Ed, go write better songs instead of spending your time in BZ trying to defend your flop sales :) Because they changed the date of the vinyl for Lana, unless you think those delayed vinyls were all suddenly ready and dispatch at midnight Thursday. Once they changed the vinyl date that was the date those vinyl sales would be reported. As for your 2nd comment grow up.
November 8, 20214 yr Biggest shock of the week for me is that Joel Corry's "I Wish" is set to be still be outside the Top 20 on Week 2!!
November 8, 20214 yr Biggest shock of the week for me is that Joel Corry's "I Wish" is set to be still be outside the Top 20 on Week 2!! Personal taste of course but I think it sounds very generic. Also Out Out is still doing well so that's probably overshadowing it somewhat.
November 8, 20214 yr Abba has missing data. The money for the picture discs has only been taken from my account today after the warehouse fire held their dispatch up. There's no fallacy about it. Edited November 8, 20214 yr by dj_tim_e
November 8, 20214 yr Why are people saying ABBA have missing data, a sale not counting till it dispatches is a fallacy. We've seen it so many times recently where people aren't getting dispatches but the sales have clearly already counted. The Spice Girls Spice re-release was clearly as case of that last week. As soon as money has cleared it can be reported as a sale I'm sure. Some ABBA orders are only just being charged today, despite having pre-ordered ages ago. I don't know if they're connected to the fire or just another dispatch delay. But I've read many times before that the sale is only counted when the item is dispatched. Possibly to stop loads of orders being placed, counted for the charts, then cancelled and refunded?
November 8, 20214 yr That post wasn't even about Ed? Lol Ed is in Bjorks head free of charge daily 🤣 Seriously last week Ed’s sales are terrible this week Abbas sales are great, what gives…must be whoever the artist is!
November 8, 20214 yr Speaking of dispatch delays, apparently the reason 'Bad Habits' wasn't #1 on the Hot 100 this week as predicted was because the CD shipments had been delayed lol. So it still might get there whenever they do get dispatched, but this week was probably its best chance since it did have at least a bit of a streaming boost from his album release. Ed being generous enough to allow Adele a third week at the Hot 100 #1 :clap: (I know this is kind of off topic but it was being discussed in this thread anyway)
November 9, 20214 yr Speaking of dispatch delays, apparently the reason 'Bad Habits' wasn't #1 on the Hot 100 this week as predicted was because the CD shipments had been delayed lol. So it still might get there whenever they do get dispatched, but this week was probably its best chance since it did have at least a bit of a streaming boost from his album release. Ed being generous enough to allow Adele a third week at the Hot 100 #1 :clap: (I know this is kind of off topic but it was being discussed in this thread anyway) Yes, but the person who said that admittedly didn’t even know for sure that there was 50k physical orders of Bad Habits as he predicted. He was going off precedent, not actual numbers. I very much doubt Ed Sheeran had sold 50k physicals of Bad Habits, so he was most probably never going to get the #1 anyway.
November 9, 20214 yr It's crazy that these days one stan tweet can affect the predictions and expectations so much. What a bizarre world... there was never any proper info around. Anyway, seems that Abba's sales can be pretty much anything this week and Ed is doing a bit better than I thought, maybe 45k on Friday.
November 9, 20214 yr Would be great if Between Us stayed top 40 but highly unlikely shame, if the rumors are true it would make the perfect last single for them
November 9, 20214 yr I’m in an ABBA FB group and there are some strange stories at the moment about pre-orders being cancelled completely due to a fire at a vinyl plant. The mind boggles… but anyway at least it suggests there might be some more sales to come either this week or later. I think I’ll buy a copy actually after initially just planning to stream it - I don’t have a CD player anymore but can listen to it at my parents’ over Christmas. :D Yep, I got one those. See below: Thank you for buying a copy of Abba ‘Voyage’ from The Record Hub, it is very exciting to be releasing the first album of new music in 40 years from such a legendary band. Due to a production delay on the format you ordered (we had a printing press go up in flames destroying the first batch of sleeves, but luckily not injuring anyone), we are running late with the stock and have not been able to ship to you for release date. This issue has affected all retailers worldwide for ABBA formats on vinyl. The album will be with you very shortly, but so there is no delay in you hearing the music, we would like to offer you a free download code to be redeemed at the following link : https://redeem.umusicdirect.com/ Your unique code is: ********** Apologies again for the delay, we hope this doesn’t spoil your enjoyment of ABBA’s fantastic new record.
November 9, 20214 yr The album will be with you very shortly, but so there is no delay in you hearing the music, we would like to offer you a free download code to be redeemed at the following link Interesting - presumably any downloads redeemed through that would be chart ineligible due to being free
November 9, 20214 yr Interesting - presumably any downloads redeemed through that would be chart ineligible due to being free Didn't bother downloading anyway.
November 9, 20214 yr It's crazy that these days one stan tweet can affect the predictions and expectations so much. Well with BTS it took a few million stan tweets to make them famous. :lol:
November 9, 20214 yr Looks like Taylor is going all out for sales next week, she's put up signed CDs on her store.
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