May 15, 20205 yr Woah! That Sticky Club Remix is quite something! :o I'm assuming these single rereleases are in attempt to push for few more Certs. I should imagine What About Us is on the cusp on Platinum, If This Is Love and Work could be close to Silver, next for Gold would be Just Can't Get Enough, unless Issues overtook, it picked up quite a lot of sales when Julia Michael's song was in the charts. Who knows, would be interesting to have an update.
May 15, 20205 yr I'm assuming these single rereleases are in attempt to push for few more Certs. I should imagine What About Us is on the cusp on Platinum, If This Is Love and Work could be close to Silver, next for Gold would be Just Can't Get Enough, unless Issues overtook, it picked up quite a lot of sales when Julia Michael's song was in the charts. Who knows, would be interesting to have an update. These are the estimates by Shireblogger on Haven, up to the end of 2019: 1. Saturdays ft Sean Paul -- What About Us :: 580k 2. Saturdays ft Flo Rida -- Higher :: 505k 3. Saturdays -- Ego :: 440k 4. Saturdays -- Up :: 400k 5. Saturdays -- Just Can't Get Enough :: 330k 6. Saturdays -- Issues :: 320k 7. Saturdays -- All Fired Up :: 300k 8. Saturdays -- Missing You :: 275k 9. Saturdays -- Notorious :: 240k 10. Saturdays -- Disco Love :: 215k 11. Saturdays -- Forever Is Over :: 210k 12. Saturdays -- If This Is Love :: 150k 13. Saturdays -- Work :: 150k 14. Saturdays -- 30 Days :: 120k 'What About Us' was on 554k in May 2019 and 584k in April 2020, so is shifting ~700 a week. Should be Platinum around October time.
May 15, 20205 yr Thanks Liam ^_^ So Higher might get platinum as well in a few years with how much it's streamed. Honestly I can't see any more certifications for a while though :( Maybe one of Work/If This is Love could go silver but they don't do great on streaming so I can't see where that 50k is gonna come from. Same for JCGE/Issues going gold as well.
May 15, 20205 yr Smashing it in Hungary! :cheer: Hungary iTunes Albums: 2. Up 3. Chasing Lights 4. Wordshaker
May 15, 20205 yr These are the estimates by Shireblogger on Haven, up to the end of 2019: 'What About Us' was on 554k in May 2019 and 584k in April 2020, so is shifting ~700 a week. Should be Platinum around October time. Love those sales stats! So funny seeing a #10 and #9 peakers being their second and third biggest sellers overall. They often used to get long running hits with their second singles whilst their leads peaked higher typically but sold less iirc.
May 20, 20205 yr These are the estimates by Shireblogger on Haven, up to the end of 2019: 'What About Us' was on 554k in May 2019 and 584k in April 2020, so is shifting ~700 a week. Should be Platinum around October time. Thanks for this update, interesting. I had no idea they had 500k sellers! Looking back, they actually did very very well. Sure they were no Girls Aloud or Sugababes in (album) sales, but they had a very good run. Especially when so many other girl groups that came around the same time struggled to even get one hit single.
May 20, 20205 yr I'm convinced if they decided to wait a couple more months, released Wordshaker off the back of Ego and managed to record a couple of the Headlines! tracks replaced the couple of duds, pushed One Shot as a single, then re-released the album as a Deluxe version in the Summer (Maybe with Higher as the re-release single)... they would have 2 Platinum albums. 'On Your Radar' being released in December was also a choice. Edited May 20, 20205 yr by JulianNial
May 21, 20205 yr I agree, they have so many missed single opportunities it's crazy. Wordshaker: Lose Control, One Shot On Your Radar: Faster, Get Ready Get Set, Last Call LFTW: Leave A Light On GH: 808 I know they weren't huge touring artists or album sellers, but they sold quite well for singles and should've pushed for more.
May 21, 20205 yr I agree, they have so many missed single opportunities it's crazy. Wordshaker: Lose Control, One Shot On Your Radar: Faster, Get Ready Get Set, Last Call LFTW: Leave A Light On GH: 808 I know they weren't huge touring artists or album sellers, but they sold quite well for singles and should've pushed for more. Omg all those, and Here Standing, The Way You Watch Me and Anywhere with you too. I get why they had some low peaks because OYR, Wordshaker and Chasing Lights were released in Q4 but I don't get why they never sold albums? They were pretty well known and had hit singles but their album sales are so bad, I can't believe a masterpiece like On Your Radar was released in Q4 and sold 60k :(
May 21, 20205 yr I agree, they have so many missed single opportunities it's crazy. Wordshaker: Lose Control, One Shot On Your Radar: Faster, Get Ready Get Set, Last Call LFTW: Leave A Light On GH: 808 I know they weren't huge touring artists or album sellers, but they sold quite well for singles and should've pushed for more. I could have seen them pushing 'Lose Control', It was great on tour! As cheesy as it is. On Your Radar could have easily been that era where they pretty much released everything but their management wimped out after 'MHTO' under-performed. The plan was to record a video for 'The Way You Watch Me' with the 'Solo Version' that ended up as B-Side on '30 Days', but due to strong fan backlash, the plans were scrapped and instead of thinking "Let's do Faster/GRGS/Last Call/White Lies" instead they rushed onto '30 Days' before a quite awkwardly long gap until 'What About Us'. They could have saved '30 Days' for a re-release also and voila, OYR would have been at least Gold by now. As far as LFTW was concerned, I'm pretty confident if 'Not Giving Up' performed better they probably would have pushed 'Leave A Light On' too, in fact they could have squeezed it's release between 'Disco Love' and 'NGU' seeing as there was yet another 6 month + gap between singles during the same album campaign. Bizarre. OR even better, 'NGU/Wildfire' replaces 'Gentleman', 'Leave A Light On' is single 3 and 'Disco Love' 4th single. Another thing that dawned on me, they so could have tried to dub 'Gentleman/Wildfire' a double A-Side. :lol: '808' being wasted will forever be a travesty. That equally with 'One Shot' are the biggest wastes I think.
May 21, 20205 yr Omg all those, and Here Standing, The Way You Watch Me and Anywhere with you too. I get why they had some low peaks because OYR, Wordshaker and Chasing Lights were released in Q4 but I don't get why they never sold albums? They were pretty well known and had hit singles but their album sales are so bad, I can't believe a masterpiece like On Your Radar was released in Q4 and sold 60k :( I am honestly not that surprised tbh. They have always striked me as a pure singles act, with sometimes a song that the public could get behind, but without having a massive fanbase that would rush out to buy their stuff. That's why they have had quite an inbalanced chart run with their singles. They were in a very different position compared to Girls Aloud and Sugababes and the time they came out also didn't exactly help. I do agree it's a shame and undeserved, their albums had some real bops and it would have been nice to see them doing better. Still, like I said earlier, I think they did very very well compared to most other girlbands. Only Girls Aloud, Little Mix and Sugababes had more success as a British girlgroup since 2000.
May 21, 20205 yr I am honestly not that surprised tbh. They have always striked me as a pure singles act, with sometimes a song that the public could get behind, but without having a massive fanbase that would rush out to buy their stuff. That's why they have had quite an inbalanced chart run with their singles. They were in a very different position compared to Girls Aloud and Sugababes and the time they came out also didn't exactly help. I do agree it's a shame and undeserved, their albums had some real bops and it would have been nice to see them doing better. Still, like I said earlier, I think they did very very well compared to most other girlbands. Only Girls Aloud, Little Mix and Sugababes had more success as a British girlgroup since 2000. Yeah it's worth noting tbh that unlike 2 of those 3 bands they had to come from nowhere and didn't have a reality show. They didn't really get big performances either sadly, This Morning and Loose Women was as far as it went sometimes :') I'm not making it a competition but I wonder how they'd have done if they got repeated X Factor, BGT performances etc. Not as good as LM obviously but I'm sure their albums could have at least all sold 200k easily. Edited May 21, 20205 yr by Andrew.
May 21, 20205 yr Yeah it's worth noting tbh that unlike 2 of those 3 bands they had to come from nowhere and didn't have a reality show. They didn't really get big performances either sadly, This Morning and Loose Women was as far as it went sometimes :') I'm not making it a competition but I wonder how they'd have done if they got repeated X Factor, BGT performances etc. Not as good as LM obviously but I'm sure their albums could have at least all sold 200k easily. No absolutely, you're right with that. I am also definitely not trying to compare the groups towards each other, as I think they have all done some brilliant stuff during their careers, but I just always felt the gp were never that much behind them, especially not as them as a group and just liking the occasional song. I also don't think being from a reality show helped GA in the long run, as their first record was their worst selling one and I bet no-one expected them to be so successfull for such a long time. It's interesting what you note about their promotion, and quite bizarre they never booked an X Factor slot. You would expect, with the amount of top 10 hits they had, it would have made a lot more sense. The biggest show they probably promoted on was CIN, with My Heart Takes Over? And look how that went :( I am still sad that is one of their least performing songs, as to me it's definitely in the top 5 of their best singles.
May 21, 20205 yr They actually had an X Factor slot for My Heart Takes Over but they were replaced with a pre-recorded Justin Bieber performance. They were then demoted to Xtra Factor but cancelled it. It would have made On Your Radar a much bigger success and I guess we would have got another single which probably would have been The Way You Watch Me but Faster / Do What You Want With Me could have been big selling singles, especially the latter.
May 21, 20205 yr I think by the time The Saturdays arrived, televised promotion was becoming much bigger with the likes of X Factor and BGT etc. The Saturdays' way of promoting on lots of daytime/weekend chart-based TV programmes was a method that worked wonders for Girls Aloud and Sugababes throughout the Noughties but it was becoming more outdated at the turn of the 2010s. I also think The Saturdays were viewed as a Girls Aloud stand-in whilst they were on hiatus, so the public were here for their singles but weren't invested enough to properly buy into their albums. Also, I think Girls Aloud were pretty well-liked by critics as far as pop bands go, which I don't think The Saturdays had, which may have affected their sales. This isn't a slight on the girls btw, I love their music and they worked extremely hard. I just think they had a fair bit stacked against them.
May 22, 20205 yr I also think The Saturdays were viewed as a Girls Aloud stand-in whilst they were on hiatus, so the public were here for their singles but weren't invested enough to properly buy into their albums. Also, I think Girls Aloud were pretty well-liked by critics as far as pop bands go, which I don't think The Saturdays had, which may have affected their sales. I would have to agree with this, yes. As much as I like them as well. Girls Aloud were quite respected by critics, especially from Chemistry onwards (especially for a manufactured pop act), and The Sats never had that. Their music was also slightly more typical girlband-ish and probably stand out enough for people to get interested in a full album.
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