The longest of all time was Prophets, Seers & Sages: The Angels of the Ages / My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows by T-Rex (a double album yes but even the second half of it would beat The 1975 lol)

I also like Fiona Apple - When The Pawn... and Chumbawamba - The Boy Bands Have Won... neither charted top 40 though unsurprisingly.

Fiona Apple's album is usually abbreviated as When the Pawn, but the proper title is:

 

When the pawn hits the conflicts he thinks like a king what he knows throws the blows when he goes to the fight and he'll win the whole thing 'fore he enters the ring there's no body to batter when your mind is your might so when you go solo, you hold your own hand and remember that depth is the greatest of heights and if you know where you stand, then you know where to land and if you fall it won't matter, cuz you'll know that you're right :D

 

peaked at #46

 

Or at least "nothing special" to some people?

 

I said some of this in a different thread but it's worth repeating here...

 

Ed apparently cares about the chart... and lots of other artists (most of who don't stand a chance of making the Top 10 or even Top 40) apparently don't care about chart positions anymore. So Ed puts out CDs or remixes etc to chart higher and keep his albums streaming rate higher so it looks like he's "sold" more and is higher in the Year End Charts.

I guess it matters to his label as a No.1 is better for the album campaign than a Top 3 hit. They are breaking no rules and they are playing the chart game.

 

In the album chart, acts like Steps or The Vamps etc put out multiple CD, vinyl, cassette versions and fans buys them all and get them a No.1, whilst others acts can't or don't put out so many formats so don't chart as high. Is that really any different?

 

I compare it to the 80s/90s where George Michael put out an album but wouldn't do promotion and wouldn't appear in his own music videos. Did it stop him being a chart success? No, if anything it became a bit of a "gimmick" and a newsworthy story and got him a hit.

 

Or acts that would bring out a 7", 12", 7" picture disc, 12" picture disc, two CDs and a cassette. No wonder they had such big hits when fans like me bought one of them every week.

 

It genuinely feels here that the only reason people don't like it is because it's Ed (or Lewis).

 

 

but actually it did cost a lot to George Michael, at least in the US he never ever recovered from that. I was living in the US at the time and Faith was massive, he managed 6 top 5 hit including 4 #1s in a row, and even Monkey the 5th single from Faith went to #1 in the US. Then he came back with Praying for Time and also went to #1 but after that one, and due to all the non-promo thing, he never got a solo US top 5 ever again sadly :/

Or at least "nothing special" to some people?

 

It genuinely feels here that the only reason people don't like it is because it's Ed (or Lewis).

 

I truly believe this is it any other artists doing these tactics it's fine,

 

Shame on Ed for continuing to work hard to be successful doesn't he know your supposed get one hit and move on :lol:

In 2016, the OCC published a list of the longest #1 album titles:

 

10. Crowded House - Recurring Dream: The Very Best Of Crowded House (40 characters)

8. The Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!: The Rolling Stones in Concert (42 characters)

8. Ray Conniff - His Orchestra, His Chorus, His Singers, His Sound (42 characters)

7. Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (43 characters)

5. Robbie Williams - In and Out of Consciousness: Greatest Hits 1990–2010 (45 characters)

5. The Beautiful South - Carry On Up the Charts: The Best of the Beautiful South (45 characters)

4. Carpenters - Only Yesterday: Richard & Karen Carpenter's Greatest Hits (50 characters)

3. Terence Trent D'Arby - Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby (51 characters)

2. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It (56 characters)

1. Tyrannosaurus Rex - Prophets, Seers & Sages: The Angels of the Ages / My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair... But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows (123 characters)

How strange, Wikipedia has that T-Rex album as charting at #15.

But delving a bit deeper into the Wikipedia article:

 

My People Were Fair was released on 5 July 1968 by Regal Zonophone. It reached No. 15 in the UK Album Chart upon initial release.

 

The album was paired with Tyrannosaurus Rex's follow-up album Prophets, Seers & Sages: The Angels of the Ages (1968) and reissued in 1972 as a double LP, following the success of T. Rex's Electric Warrior (1971) and The Slider (1972) albums. It reached No. 1 in the UK. The double release remains the longest album title of any UK No. 1 album.

How strange, Wikipedia has that T-Rex album as charting at #15.

Wiki is both right and wrong there, it's a bit of a unique situation: My People Were Fair... did peak at #15 as its own album in 1968, but then it got re-issued as a double-album with Prophets... in 1972 (after T-Rex got a lot more popular) - which made #1.

I think the main frustration is that it’s only people like Ed and Lewis who can sell 10,000s of them for songs that aren’t anything special.

 

Any artist on a major label can, you let your true intentions out with the final sentence by saying ‘nothing special’ so if it was something special and a fav of yours it would be fine then. Thanks for clarifying the bias in your views!

Edited March 28, 20233 yr by steve201

Any artist on a major label can, you let your true intentions out with the final sentence by saying ‘nothing special’ so if it was something special and a fav of yours it would be fine then. Thanks for clarifying the bias in your views!

 

I'm not saying other artists can't sell CDs but be real very few could manage over 10 thousand. I'm actually a fan of Ed's music and do like the new track, but the majority of people buy the CDs on name alone before ever hearing the song. I just wish different artists from a variety of genres and demographics could take advantage of CDs.

 

Also one of my faves did release a CD single this year but I didn't buy it cause I'm never gonna play a CD single. :lol:

Edited March 28, 20233 yr by Frenchie

I love that Ed cares and does this imagine if all artists put in this much effort it would make the charts so fun and unpredictable like they used to be! I really hope in the future more artists do this! I by no means am an Ed fan but you can't knock him for thus!

I love that Ed cares and does this imagine if all artists put in this much effort it would make the charts so fun and unpredictable like they used to be! I really hope in the future more artists do this! I by no means am an Ed fan but you can't knock him for thus!

 

I don't know where this has come from that artists don't put effort into the charts. Every act who has a fanbase (some rappers and random dance acts might be the exception) does their best to squeeze as many sales, streams, views and so on as possible out of their fanbase.

 

Freya Ridings is doing everything Ed is she is just nowhere near as successful.

I don't know where this has come from that artists don't put effort into the charts. Every act who has a fanbase (some rappers and random dance acts might be the exception) does their best to squeeze as many sales, streams, views and so on as possible out of their fanbase.

 

Freya Ridings is doing everything Ed is she is just nowhere near as successful.

I wouldn't say this is true for all artists - Miley Cyrus for instance has barely promoted her album and Flowers.

I'm not saying other artists can't sell CDs but be real very few could manage over 10 thousand. I'm actually a fan of Ed's music and do like the new track, but the majority of people buy the CDs on name alone before ever hearing the song. I just wish different artists from a variety of genres and demographics could take advantage of CDs.

 

Also one of my faves did release a CD single this year but I didn't buy it cause I'm never gonna play a CD single. :lol:

 

That’s the thing though people buy the cds for loads of different reasons other than just to play it but all the matters is they count as a sale for the chart.

I wouldn't say this is true for all artists - Miley Cyrus for instance has barely promoted her album and Flowers.

 

I think with some artists it depends on whether they can promo it or not so American artists like Miley will focus on their own market just like the old days TOTP would boost British acts as they were available to perform.

what is surprising to me is that Taylor has not releasing any physical singles, considering how huge and dedicated her fanbase is

she could have all the #1s she wanted in singles, sure she can do 30-50K singles of whatever she wants

if she had released cd singles for Lavender Haze when it re-climbed into the top 30, could easily have gone to #1

I think with some artists it depends on whether they can promo it or not so American artists like Miley will focus on their own market just like the old days TOTP would boost British acts as they were available to perform.

 

but Miley has not even promoted in her own market either lol

what is surprising to me is that Taylor has not releasing any physical singles, considering how huge and dedicated her fanbase is

she could have all the #1s she wanted in singles, sure she can do 30-50K singles of whatever she wants

if she had released cd singles for Lavender Haze when it re-climbed into the top 30, could easily have gone to #1

I get the impression that most US artists, especially on her calibre, don't care too much about UK Charts.

Taylor/her label are only bothered about album sales in the UK and she milks those multi formats to death when it comes to the album chart.

 

Miley doesn't have seemingly a big fanbase in the UK, at least not one that is worth trying to exploit. Her album sales have never been good and she can release singles that completely flop on their arse. Her recent album sales off the back of a mega hit show that outside of the general public liking the odd song of hers there isn't much else to fall back on.