19 minutes ago, geraintlewis268 said:

We need an announcement on either Yearbook Extra 1972, or Yearbook 60s Volume 3 this week, at least.

It’ll have to be extra 1972 because they usually release the extra edition 6 weeks after the main edition

Edited Tuesday at 14:223 days by Hadji

12 minutes ago, Hadji said:

It’ll have to be extra 1972 because they usually release the extra edition 6 weeks after the main edition

My money's on that too (expressively, not literally).

If you were in charge of the Now series, what would you change? For me, I’d actually focus on the charts when it comes to the numbered series and use songs from the sales chart, dance chart, r&b chart and a few from the r2 playlist as filler and make sure the disc are filled up. There’d be no pointless spin-offs unless it’s something that hasn’t been done and use songs that never or rarely appear or replace the pointless spin-offs with eras. For the yearbooks, there’ll be no flops on the main or extra editions. They’ll be saved for the vaults and the 90s-10s will be covered more often and do yearbooks for the 00s and 10s too

Edited Wednesday at 10:512 days by Hadji

3 minutes ago, Hadji said:

If you were in charge of the Now series, what would you change? For me, I’d actually focus on the charts when it comes to the numbered series and use songs from the sales chart, dance chart, r&b chart and a few from the r2 playlist as filler and make sure the disc are filled up. There’d be no pointless spin-offs unless it’s something that hasn’t been done and use songs that never or rarely appear or replace the pointless spin-offs with eras. For the yearbooks, there’ll be no flops on the main or extra editions. They’ll be saved for the vaults and the 90s-10s will be covered more often and do yearbooks for the 00s and 10s too

How would you fund this expensive venture without the income from all those pointless 80s spin offs? You'd have to find some income from somewhere.

1 minute ago, awardinary said:

How would you fund this expensive venture without the income from all those pointless 80s spin offs? You'd have to find some income from somewhere.

Income from the numbered series, anything yearbook related, 12" 80s, eras etc. I’d only do pointless spin-offs if it’s something that hasn’t been done and definitely use more songs that haven’t been on yearbooks. The yearbooks seem to have rendered the other albums pointless. The pointless albums are dwindling in sales because people are getting fed up of the same songs being used

Edited Wednesday at 11:042 days by Hadji

24 minutes ago, Hadji said:

Income from the numbered series

There isn't much, I fear. I expect they're probably lucky to break even now, hence the tracklists getting worse and slimmer with each new release. They'd have to up the prices to £20 to improve them at this point I think.

Within the realms of what they can probably do with the budget they have, I'm not sure what I'd change, but I'd ditch spin-offs unless at least 50% of songs hadn't been used before. The new 80s summer is a complete waste of money for any collector and clearly aimed at the casual market.

I came across this on eBay this morning.

Looks pretty strong for an Extra, lots of classics on there. A timely triple MJ appearance (counting the Jackson 5 song).

Someone said they wanted it to release a bit earlier? I hate to be the one to tell you, but it’s out on 19 June.

7 minutes ago, geraintlewis268 said:

Someone said they wanted it to release a bit earlier? I hate to be the one to tell you, but it’s out on 19 June.

They should’ve released it earlier and that means we should be getting the next 90s yearbook on 10th July. 27th June last year, we were on the 3rd yearbook but this year, they’re only announcing the extra edition of the 2nd yearbook. If anything, they should speed the yearbooks up, not slow them down

31 minutes ago, geraintlewis268 said:

I came across this on eBay this morning.

Really like this tracklist, it’s very strong for an Extra. Can’t wait to get it!

At least we know T Rex are licensable. They picked the wrong Roberta Flack song though. They should’ve picked The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

50 minutes ago, Hadji said:

At least we know T Rex are licensable. They picked the wrong Roberta Flack song though. They should’ve picked The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

Couldn’t we see that one for Yearbook 1970-1974?

2 minutes ago, geraintlewis268 said:

Couldn’t we see that one for Yearbook 1970-1974?

Yes they will be holding some well known hits back for that, presumably other T-Rex stuff too.

Another thing I wanted to say was, I was expecting Tiny Dancer by Elton John to be on Yearbook 1971, but why Yearbook Extra 1972?

1 minute ago, geraintlewis268 said:

Another thing I wanted to say was, I was expecting Tiny Dancer by Elton John to be on Yearbook 1971, but why Yearbook Extra 1972?

Prolly because it peaked in the charts one year later after its release.

2 minutes ago, Harrison FB said:

Prolly because it peaked in the charts one year later after its release.

Right. Makes sense.

49 minutes ago, geraintlewis268 said:

Another thing I wanted to say was, I was expecting Tiny Dancer by Elton John to be on Yearbook 1971, but why Yearbook Extra 1972?

It appears on his 1971 album but it wasn’t released as a single until 1972 which explains why it’s on extra 1972 although the song itself didn’t peak until 2015

I thought it wasn't a single in the UK at all at the time hence it not charting at the time? They must be going by the US release/peak date.

Edited Thursday at 15:161 day by gooddelta