After a couple of years of the hits not coming through for Kylie its great to see things are back on track again for a while, which Kylie single do you think ended up charting much lower due to a messed up release strategy, Better than today was the first single that came into my mind as nothing was in sync with the different formats which of course wasnt helped when Kylie herself didnt name drop the release date after her performance on the X Factor.

 

Hand on your heart is another one,but to a far less extent, the early sales of some singles cost the song debuting at number 1 rather than climbing to number 1 which back in the day a number 1 debut was a massive thing to achieve.

In later years especially singles from Golden and Disco definitely would have achieved higher chart peaks if given a release in the same way as the recent Tension but BMG seem to be really learning as they move forward which is great to see.

 

 

 

 

 

'Into the Blue' when they stupidly deleted the version of it which was top 10 on iTunes.

 

I think 'A Second to Midnight' deserved to at least register a chart position and could have done if they'd aligned everything.

 

Obviously the biggest one of all was cancelling 'The One's physical release just days beforehand, I'll never understand why.

Yes cancelling the Ones physical was a crazy move and the handling of the song in general was a disaster as it had the potential to be a huge hit.

I forgot about into the blue highest version also been deleted as it made zero sense and cost it a good few sales.

Didn't do enough with the Gente De Zona remix of Stop Me From Fallibg

 

Into the Blue itunes saga

 

Get Outta My Way needed a big TV performance in UK, not Paul Ogrady

 

I was Gonna Cancel video shocking and also too much emphasis on parcel Williams

I was gonna cancel was just a bad choice in general the others just needed a more consolidated release and promo.

There are a few tracks that come to mind;

 

Into the blue - As other people have stated, this should have been a sure fire T10 hit but they deleted the itunes version.

 

The one - This should have been the 1st or 2nd single and the remix does nothing to help the track.

 

Where is the feeling - An odd and poor choice of single as the follow up to put yourself in my place. Decon could have chosen something better like time will pass you by or dangerous game.

 

Get outta my way - The remixes were rubbish and didnt add anything to help the song. Maybe a decent b side might have helped.

 

 

Get outta my way done well to do aswell as it did for me, I know people here love it but it's one of her singles that I see why it wasn't as big as people hoped.

I take comfort in the fact 'Get Outta My Way' has since A) became a cult classic/fave and B) amassed a reasonably healthy sales total despite how it performed at the time.

I’ll never get over ‘The One’ - such a missed hit :drama:

 

A few others -

 

Hand On Your Heart

 

Would have entered at #1 on release week and had a multi-week run but PWL issued a cassette under the dealer price and subsequently 10k+ sales didn’t count for the chart :drama:

 

Where Is The Feeling

 

Released 8 months after PYIMP by which point the KM94 era was over, only released on 1 CD which hampered it chances even more - its a miracle that it managed to get to #16

 

Some Kind Of Bliss

 

Released on 7” vinyl - it was not a desirable format at the time and I remember struggling to find stores that were even selling it, definitely cost it sneaking into the Top 20.

 

Timebomb

 

Probably one of Kylie’s messiest releases, it’s almost as if they didn’t have a plan for it.

 

Released as a download only on May 25th, then a CD single was released 4 weeks later, followed by a Remix EP in the middle of July - it gave it an erratic 31-31-56-51-58-97-out-42 chart run.

 

Could and should have been an easy Top 20.

 

Flower

 

Released as a download in September with promo, with the CD and vinyl coming 6 weeks later by which point any ‘buzz’ for the single was long gone - if it hadn’t have been released physically it wouldn’t have charted at all.

 

Into The Blue

 

In the dominant download era Parlophone continued their weird download/physical release strategy - available as a download only it went 12-31-42 and back up to #39 with the physical release, again could have been an easy Top 10

 

Dancing

 

BMG nearly missed out on this going Top 40, its chart run was all over the place - 47-out-93-out-50-61-81-out-38-73, saved by the release of a vinyl with the album release and download bundle.

Urgh GOD I'll never get over the sheer stupidity of randomly releasing 'Timebomb' in the middle of the week. Like, why?!?!

 

I thought 'Into the Blue's re-entry into the top 40 was down to The Voice performance?

Dancing is a strange one, i do think BMG were finding their feet with that release, i view dancing in a positive way purely down to the sheer delight when it finally managed to go top 40 as that the time it felt huge that it managed it, its a great song that deserved more but i am happy it got Kylie another top 40.

Urgh GOD I'll never get over the sheer stupidity of randomly releasing 'Timebomb' in the middle of the week. Like, why?!?!

 

I thought 'Into the Blue's re-entry into the top 40 was down to The Voice performance?

 

It was a performance and CD release in the same week (they must have been pretty disappointed with a 3 place climb!).

Not releasing Secret (Take You Home) from Body Language as the follow up to "Slow". Red Blooded Woman was a good choice but it should be the third single.

 

Releasing Get Outta My Way three months after All The Lovers, a bit too late by then so the late promotion didn't push it enough.

 

Not releasing "Disco Down".

 

Not pushing "Stop Me From Falling" to Top 40 as BMG spread out all the versions across several weeks.

 

Not including "Timebomb" in the 25 years anniversary GH. If they included it, GH would've gone to Top 10, instead of the annoying No.11

I'm really not convinced GOMW being released at a different time would've necessarily changed the outcome, 3 months between singles was a standard gap back then. Especially as 'All the Lovers' did have a decent run on the chart.

Not pushing "Stop Me From Falling" to Top 40 as BMG spread out all the versions across several weeks.

 

I’m convinced SMFF could have been a decent sized hit - and Magic should’ve easily been a Top 40 too :drama:

 

For all the amazing things BMG have done they have screwed up some of her singles (Although all is forgiven after PP and Tension).

Flower is the saddest of her low charting singles it deserved so much more such a beautiful song.

What the hell happened with 'The One' in the end?

I'm really not convinced GOMW being released at a different time would've necessarily changed the outcome, 3 months between singles was a standard gap back then. Especially as 'All the Lovers' did have a decent run on the chart.

 

What I remember back then was after the initial hype around ATL, it was total dead air from Parlophone until they realized, too late, that GOMW will struggle to go Top 10.

I Believe in You should have been released pre-album and not against Band Aid. If it was released on Girls Aloud’s second week at #1 it would have sold enough, assuming it sold a similar amount. Considering it lost out on about four weeks of downloads, it probably would have.

 

The promo plan for Get Outta My Way was far too staggered. From what I recall: Paul O’Grady performance in July, then nothing until the music video was released at the beginning of September, then the physical release towards the end of September.

What the hell happened with 'The One' in the end?

 

They cancelled the physical release like 3 days before it was due to be released, when back then she relied on them (especially for a single that far into the campaign)

 

It's a miracle it even made #36 considering that.