I heard the whole of 'Read My Lips' last year (when the 00s forum was doing listenthroughs for some retro albums) and I thought 'Take Me Home' was one of the weakest songs on it honestly (on an otherwise mostly pretty good album I should say). I didn't care much for 'Get Over You' either but I did love 'Move This Mountain' so I am a fan of 3 and a half of the top 5 here I guess :lol: It's interesting that the double A-Side is still listed as one on here - I presume it's including trickle sales and streams for 'Get Over You' towards that? (Which may be relatively substantial as 'Get Over You' is the 2nd most streamed song on 'Read My Lips' on Spotify, with nearly 3x the total streams 'Take Me Home' has!) A shame 'Move This Mountain' seems to not have enough numbers on its own to make it into this list separately from the double A-Side </3

 

Aside, while going to check the stream counts for some of these songs, I noticed Theaudience's album is on Sophie's own Spotify profile interestingly! She's not individually tagged on any of the songs but is on the album as a whole, seems like a reasonable thing to do, Olly Alexander should have taken notes.

Quite interesting to note how 'Today The Sun's On Us' has been outdone by an album track from the same album (If I Can't Dance)

 

I think if memory serves me correctly it was going to be the fourth single - she performed it on TV a couple of times and it was also on the soundtrack of the first St Trinian's movie (along with Girls Aloud, who were her label mates at the time), but then they decided to move on first to a Greatest Hits, which then instead became Make A Scene, so it never did become a single.

 

There were so many missed opportunities with Trip The Light Fantastic, it was an amazing album. Love Is Here, which Dan Gillespie-Sells from The Feeling co-wrote with her would have been a lovely single as well.

'If You Go' was so the lost single from that album :cry:

 

I'd have probably actually released that second instead of 'Me & My Imagination', that kind of killed everything for her at the time.

I heard the whole of 'Read My Lips' last year (when the 00s forum was doing listenthroughs for some retro albums) and I thought 'Take Me Home' was one of the weakest songs on it honestly (on an otherwise mostly pretty good album I should say). I didn't care much for 'Get Over You' either but I did love 'Move This Mountain' so I am a fan of 3 and a half of the top 5 here I guess :lol: It's interesting that the double A-Side is still listed as one on here - I presume it's including trickle sales and streams for 'Get Over You' towards that? (Which may be relatively substantial as 'Get Over You' is the 2nd most streamed song on 'Read My Lips' on Spotify, with nearly 3x the total streams 'Take Me Home' has!) A shame 'Move This Mountain' seems to not have enough numbers on its own to make it into this list separately from the double A-Side </3

 

Aside, while going to check the stream counts for some of these songs, I noticed Theaudience's album is on Sophie's own Spotify profile interestingly! She's not individually tagged on any of the songs but is on the album as a whole, seems like a reasonable thing to do, Olly Alexander should have taken notes.

 

100% THIS to all of THAT!! :CHERT:

 

MTM shoulda been a single

 

'If You Go' was so the lost single from that album :cry:

 

I'd have probably actually released that second instead of 'Me & My Imagination', that kind of killed everything for her at the time.

I think whatever was released would have killed that album off. Mr D* used to really like it and I can remember thinking it wasn't that bad too (albeit the songs haven't aged too well imo) and I think he used to really like If I Go also - I think Me & My Imagination is better though personally and didn't deserve to flop so badly, it was pretty catchy

Echoing the love for If I Can’t Dance & If You Go. Love Is Here & China Heart are also great. Trip The Light Fantastic is such a good album, it deserved so much better.

My mum loved Murder On The Dance floor and she died in March 2014. Random comment I know.

Not surprising Take Me Home had better first week sales than Murder as it was her comeback following Spiller. Pity she released from 2001 onwards mainly when sales were poor outside of Xmas!

Sales didn’t turn *that* bad though until around 2003 when Sophie was about to enter her sophomore slump.

 

Sales were generally good 2000-02 and her sales for the run of Groovejet to Get Over You were very respectable looking at her chart runs.

It’s something I don’t particularly like about the inflated-by-streaming sales totals we’re used to seeing nowadays - they can make old singles which haven’t done too well in the streaming era appear as though they’ve done averagely or even poorly. Take Me Home’s 277,000 seems low compared to what we’re now used to seeing. Yet it exceeding 200,000 in the early 2000s was an indication of it being a big hit, and it certainly felt big to me back then. Of course it’s very comparing apples and oranges.

 

It’s a conflict too because on the other hand it’s nice when an old hit does benefit from streaming so that its total seems more befitting. A million sales certainly suits Murder on the Dancefloor!

Sales didn’t turn *that* bad though until around 2003 when Sophie was about to enter her sophomore slump.

 

Sales were generally good 2000-02 and her sales for the run of Groovejet to Get Over You were very respectable looking at her chart runs.

 

Of course but they were on the downward spiral with the biggest hits having still decent first weeks but you could already see the quick falls and lesser sales further down the chart. The peak was def 1995-2000 for the cd. Same phenomena you could spot as early as early 86 in vinyls.

Tbf streaming does severly inflate sales , a lot of album tracks this days can go silver or gold and never trouble the charts

 

Sophies sales are big for her era but look tiny I'm today's market

I think she'd have more than made up for it by selling nearly a million copies of the album.

Has the album sold nearly a million? The BPI has it as Platinum x 2 (600k), which seems kinda low

Has the album sold nearly a million? The BPI has it as Platinum x 2 (600k), which seems kinda low

 

Nearly 900k. I was rounding up (kinda)

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That’s something people always seem to overlook as well. Read My Lips was a huge selling album so many got their Sophie fix from that rather than buying the singles.

 

You see it in the 2004 thread in 21st century retro. People saying it was an awful year for music because of low sales and naff no.1s in the singles when actually it was a great year for both quality and sales if you look at the album charts.

Has the album sold nearly a million? The BPI has it as Platinum x 2 (600k), which seems kinda low

 

 

It’s sold 840,000 copies so closer to 1 million than 600k :P

It’s something I don’t particularly like about the inflated-by-streaming sales totals we’re used to seeing nowadays - they can make old singles which haven’t done too well in the streaming era appear as though they’ve done averagely or even poorly. Take Me Home’s 277,000 seems low compared to what we’re now used to seeing. Yet it exceeding 200,000 in the early 2000s was an indication of it being a big hit, and it certainly felt big to me back then. Of course it’s very comparing apples and oranges.

 

It’s a conflict too because on the other hand it’s nice when an old hit does benefit from streaming so that its total seems more befitting. A million sales certainly suits Murder on the Dancefloor!

I still don't agree with streaming being added to the charts it is a bit of a cop out imo. I think buying digitally or physical copy should only count towards the chart because streaming is just a monthly subscription and not aimed at any artist. I guess because I am fussy with music I can't get into streaming subscription and would rather just buy the songs I like.

I think my issue with streaming in many cases the listener doesn't always select the songs but the streams count but with paid purchases its someone actually investing in the song but it just feels paid sales have less weight even though artists/,labels make more from it but I'm slowly learning to accept it.

So with the current push, Read my Lips could be Triple Plat soon!!