October 24, 20222 yr #7 in the midweeks! I never expected anywhere near that high. I'd love for her to maintain a top 10 place, but unsure how likely this is.
October 24, 20222 yr Author Unfortunately I would assume it’s unlikely, given that it’s less than 3k sales so far. :cry: I hope if she’s able to achieve a few hundred more sales in the next few days so that she can at least hang onto the Top 20. Unless she has some missing data I can’t see her staying in the Top 10.
October 24, 20222 yr I know her last album went from being #15 on Monday to #26 in the final result. I'm hoping some of the new albums below her also fall. Either way, I'm made up with how well it's done so far.
October 26, 20222 yr 'Far Away' is absolutely gorgeous, seriously loving that right now. 'Surrender My Heart' is a great opener (albeit shocking to hear her swear!) and 'Bad Thing Twice' is fantastic. 'Anxious' deserved a place on the main album. I realised when I was listening to 'Go Find Yourself Or Whatever' that what I'd been missing for a fair chunk of the album was that raw natural vocal from her, I felt like a lot of the vocals on the album prior to that had been processed a bit too much maybe? I think a lot of this album will grow on me over time, I realised I'd perhaps quite enjoy 'Beach House' if it wasn't for that chorus and I'm not sure if I'll ever get onboard with 'Sideways'.
October 26, 20222 yr Author The Loneliest Time is midweek #11 today, with 3,606 sales so far! That puts it quite far ahead of her first week sales for Dedicated, and it’s only 544 sales away from matching Emotion. It was too much to expect it to hold on to the Top 10, but it’s still doing pretty well for her. As things stand it’s on target to end up at #17 on Friday. UK Peak Positions #9 - Kiss #21 - Emotion #26 - Dedicated #42 - Dedicated Side B #182 - Emotion Side B UK First Week Sales 9,449 - Kiss 4,150 - Emotion 2,963 - Dedicated 1,801 - Dedicated Side B (Emotion Side B sales aren’t known but I would estimate them to have been about 670) UK Weeks in the Top 200: 12 - Kiss 4 - Emotion 2 - Dedicated 1 - Emotion Side B 1 - Dedicated Side B Emotion's release was handled oddly here. It came out in the UK on 18th September 2015, but had been available since 24th June in Japan and 21st August. I bet quite a few fans imported it before its UK release and that could have cost it a Top 20 placement!
October 26, 20222 yr I'll be happy with #17, that's more or less what I was hoping as a best case scenario at the start of the week.
October 26, 20222 yr It’s a really good album actually. If she had reduced the crystal rose vinyl I’d probably have bought it!
October 27, 20222 yr Author It’s a really good album actually. If she had reduced the crystal rose vinyl I’d probably have bought it! I think she deserves a full price purchase! :teresa: ~ My rank of the album tracks: 1. Bends 2. Surrender My Heart 3. Anxious 4. Bad Thing Twice 5. Go Find Yourself or Whatever 6. Keep Away 7. Far Away 8. Sideways 9. Shooting Star 10. So Nice 11. Joshua Tree 12. No Thinking Over the Weekend The top 6 were all very instant for me, love those ones. Both Anxious and Keep Away deserved standard track list status! The bottom half - I think all of them are good to ok, with potential to grow on me with further listens. There's nothing here that I dislike. :heart: ~ Carly's been very consistent with her Metacritic scores. Emotion being her second lowest though... to be fair the scores are very close together, apart from Kiss! 80 - Emotion Side B (6 reviews - 5 positive, 1 mixed) 79 - Dedicated (22 reviews - 19 positive, 3 mixed) 79 - Dedicated Side B (7 reviews - 7 positive) 78 - The Loneliest Time (12 reviews - 11 positive, 1 mixed) 77 - Emotion (24 reviews - 18 positive, 6 mixed) [someone dared to give this a score of 4 out of 10!] 63 - Kiss (13 reviews - 7 positive, 6 mixed) ~ @1585255943381479425 Not this! :lol: Congratulations Carly x
October 27, 20222 yr This album is wonderful, it’s no Emotion (WHAT IS?) but it’s on par with Dedicated for me and it’s all elevated by her vocals. A few weak links (Joshua Tree and it’s non-chorus being the prime example) but better than almost any other new album I’ve listened to in 2022.
October 27, 20222 yr Jay you’ll be pleased to know I purchased it! There was a bundle and I had a code so… :)
October 27, 20222 yr Maybe you've helped it retain a top 15 placing. 🙏 I hope so! I bought a bundle so I actually got two copies! :heart:
October 27, 20222 yr Author Jay you’ll be pleased to know I purchased it! There was a bundle and I had a code so… :) :cheeseblock: Yesss! Is that with a signed card?
October 28, 20222 yr Author #16 in the UK with 4,168 sales! Outdoes Emotion's first week by 18 sales! :o A bit meh to see it blocked from the Top 15 by the 180 week old Lewis Capaldi album, but whatever. Other UK positions: #7 - Scottish #9 - Sales #9 - Physical #13 - Download #14 - Vinyl #97 - Streaming
October 28, 20222 yr Author Looks like we could eventually get a The Loneliest Time Side B! :cheer: @1585364053941452800 There were 14 months between Emotion and Emotion Side B, and 12 months between Dedicated and Dedicated Side B. So with that sort of time frame, maybe we could expect The Loneliest Time Side B in late 2023.
November 7, 20222 yr Author Probably no surprise but The Loneliest Time fell out of the Top 200 in week 2 in the UK. :cry: In fact it was #229. :drama: It sold 827 copies which took its 2 week total to 4,996.
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