October 11, 20222 yr Regarding IDWTTP and LOEC released with no promo , Dannii back in AUS for christmas? Baby Love would have done better than #14 but no cd single was released (the only single not to have a cd release). WDYLN was deffo a welcome suprise! Was KIDS released on two cds?
October 11, 20222 yr I wasn't really following Dannii's career (yet) around the time of 'Who Do You Love' but I was following the charts/new releases closely, and I knew it was going to do really well. I think it was one of those big dance tracks that had existed as an instrumental and been huge in Ibiza for about a year previously and was always destined to be big on commercial release no matter who the vocalist was on it - so Dannii really got very very lucky landing that one.
October 12, 20222 yr Author My comments on some of the suggestions in this thread: Can't Get You Out of My Head The first week sales for 'Can't Get You Out of My Head' were pretty extraordinary. In the 00s, when you remove the talent contest releases and Christmas #1s, only two songs sold over 300k - this and 'It Wasn't Me' by Shaggy (in fact, songs using this same criteria that sold over 200k is a very small list). I've just learned that 'Head' sold 77,174 copies in its first day too, which was nearly the total 'Spinning Around' achieved in its first week. Kylie had debuted the song on tour in March 2001 which continued through to May, then the music video was released August and obviously captured the attention of everyone; I'm guessing these two factors really helped put the song into the public conscious way ahead of its physical release, although it's safe to say it is first and foremost a unique song, slightly hypnotic in its production and universal in its hook. 'Head' also kept Michael Jackson's first single in four years off the top spot which I imagine would have been a surprise, especially as MJ was leading in the midweeks. Body Language #6 must have been pretty worrying for Parlophone after the huge #1 success of 'Fever'. It opened with 69k which might seem good but this was half the sales of 'Fever' and four weeks ahead of Christmas week (clearly they were expecting this to contend with the increased competition). If released a week prior, 69k would have got it to #3, although I'm sure they were still counting on an easy #1, plus the album would still have slipped fast down the chart. You Won't Forget About Me I remember looking for sales info on UKMIX and saw that, at the time, everyone was predicting this to be Top 2. Airplay wasn't good for this (only broke the Top 40 airplay on release) but I guess off the back of 'Neon Nights' and the fact sales were so low, even for 2004 (the week prior, Eric Prydz was #1 with 22k), people expected this to do well. #7 was seen as quite a disaster.
October 12, 20222 yr I really remember the Kylie Michael Jackson battle, i was working with someone at the time who was a huge MJ fan and he was saying Kylie has no chance, she did so well on week 4 keeping his comeback single off the top spot.
October 12, 20222 yr Took me ages to work out was YWFAM was, I had kylie in mind and had to look up her discography as i couldn't work it out, then copped it was Dannii's You Won't Forget About Me. Speaking of Dannii, touch me like that surprised me by its low peak, i was sure the worst outcome would have been top 40 and i actually really like the song aswell.
October 13, 20222 yr That Michael Jackson comeback single was shit, I was delighted when she blocked it from topping the chart. Re the 'You Won't Forget About Me' CD2, was that the one where they misspelled 'Minogue' on the spine? :lol:
October 13, 20222 yr You Won’t Forget About Me definitely did feel like an underperformance. It was also definitely being played a lot on radio 1 before being released as that’s where I used to hear it a lot, I was expecting minimum top 3 for it.
October 13, 20222 yr I didnt feel like You Won’t Forget About Me was an underperformance as Dannii going top 10 was always a great result for her.
October 16, 20222 yr They kinda messed up that release but it def had potential to do better than it did.
October 16, 20222 yr 'Timebomb' was more of an annoyance than a shock, I'm pretty sure that would have got a top 20 position had they not been stupid enough to randomly release it in the middle of the week.
October 16, 20222 yr I never understood why they done that, it made no sense at all and it def cost it getting a much higher peak.
October 16, 20222 yr I also remember there being high hopes for You Won't Forget About Me, and how #7 felt like a big shock and underperformance. The #1 that week was Ja Rule/R. Kelly/Ashanti - Wonderful... to me that was incredibly surprising, I didn't consider that single to have #1 potential at all. For many years it was one of the lowest selling #1s of all time*, which kind of added insult to injury that Dannii could only manage #7 in that slow sales week. * The streaming era has been kinder to Ja Rule - Wonderful. It finally passed 200k in May 2021.
October 16, 20222 yr 'Timebomb' was more of an annoyance than a shock, I'm pretty sure that would have got a top 20 position had they not been stupid enough to randomly release it in the middle of the week. The whole ‘Timebomb’ release was a total MESS - it had a midweek release and then a 9 week wait for the physicals (By which point it had fallen out of the charts after a 31-31-56-51-58-97 chart run), they released a remix bundle on the 4th week which helped it recover from #56 to #51 but the whole release strategy was poorly thought out. The physical release managed to return it back to the charts at #42, but had they gone for a standard release day rather than midweek and tied in the physicals hitting in week 1 or 2 then I’m sure it would have been an easy Top 15/20.
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