Sarah whatmores single seems to be download only and cant see her album on the release chart.

 

There is a full page article on Sarah Whatmore in the Daily Star magazine today: 'Take 5 Rising Star - I needed to disappear'

 

.....Despite not making the final ten, Sarah signed for Simon Fuller's record label, 19 Entertainment, and released a single 'When I lost You'. But, unlike fellow contestants Darius Danesh (there is a small picture of Sarah with Darius) and Gareth Gates, she disappeared long before the public grew tired of her :angry: "I don't regret Pop Idol, but I wanted to be around for a long time and somehow my instinct said, go off and write." Her single 'Smile' is out now and her album, 'Time to Think' will be released early next year!!

 

Julie

 

It will be interesting to see how both single and album fare. It's a fickle business.

You can see Sarahs video fo the single etc on you tube. however I thought the video was very twee and the song forgettable. Her era of When I lost you was a much better song and its a case I think of wrong judgement on her part or 19 again in chosing and letting her go her own way, felt the same way about GG song virtually same comments. Nothing against the artistes just 19s judgement.Felt neither of these songs had any reel hook or if they did it didnt register.

She went because her music was not successful enough. She has never stopped writing though. I've not heard her new stuff, so can't really comment. I needed to disappear sounds better than they wouldn't release any more of my music. I did like her in PI. I wasn't too keen on the singles she released - the videos made me cringe.

 

If they are good, I just hope they get heard. That seems to be a major problem for some people these days.

The physical single is dead, of that I'm convinced, after last night's chart.

 

Will Young had the highest selling physical release and he dropped 3 places.

 

The singles chart itself is skewed by songs which haven't been re-released but have been used on X Factor or Strictly, like that Faith Hill one. Radio and TV now rule the single chart as never before.

 

Why bother releasing physical singles at all if that is the case?

 

 

Many shops,inc Woolworths, no longer sell singles, and that alone will kill it.

Thay can still usually be ordered online - ikf there is a physical release. I'd hate not to have a bought copy of a physical

I detest shopping online. The only benefit is sometimes that a pre-ordered single arrives on the Saturday before it's due to be in the shops or there's a different b side on a single from another region.

I just find it so easy. I hardly ever buy books or records any other way.

I prefer the atmosphere in a proper bookshop and I like to take time to browse.

 

I only go online if there's something I really want but can't source locally. If I can find a shop anywhere within travelling distance which has it, I'll still go and buy it personally rather than order online.

 

The local shops just never have what I want.

One of the very few benefits of living in a large city only half an hour away from another large city.

Well, if I go to the next town, I have to walk or try and find a parking space - which puts me right off. The town in the other direction isn't particularly easy to get to and I have to drive - it's further away as well. I'd buy more books if we still had the local bookshop. It's converted itself into ANOTHER tea room. You can still order books from there but I cancelled the last order after it still hadn't come a month later. Then I ordered it on the internet and it was here 3 days later. And it was cheaper.

I usually drag Meg into a bookshop when we meet up but I still often buy online. It's cheaper.

She drags me kicking and screaming . My 13 yr old was very proud of the book you got signed for her. Her friends were quite jealous. I thing they are all going to read it now.

She went because her music was not successful enough. She has never stopped writing though. I've not heard her new stuff, so can't really comment. I needed to disappear sounds better than they wouldn't release any more of my music. I did like her in PI. I wasn't too keen on the singles she released - the videos made me cringe.

 

If they are good, I just hope they get heard. That seems to be a major problem for some people these days.

 

I didn't know whether to post this or not, but back to Sarah Whatmore again and re your post on .net in the orange news about dramatic comebacks and D replacing Rikk Waller Meg...... I was reading an interview on DS with Sarah re her comeback bid and she implied that she was given the opportunity to replace Rikk on Pop Idol before Darius and she turned it down as she fully expected a male to win!!! Is this just old news and something I didn't know or does anyone know if it is true because I've certainly never heard it before!!!

 

Julie

 

Darius turned it down the first time he was asked. If they had put Sarah in rather than him, it would have caused trouble as he finished ahead of her but, it's Ok if he refused. If she was asked and refused, then they were lucky he changed his mind as they were the next two highest in the contest vote.

Re-invention, I should think, unless it was at the point when Darius firstly refused because he thought Rik should be given time to recover, they asked her.

 

They'd have had to explain why it was her and not Darius though and that would have meant them saying that because Rik was not well and unable to appear in the top ten, they were not prepared to give him any lee-way and Darius wouldn't replace him because he didn't agree with that decision. Very bad PR.

It sounds as though Darius and Rik talked and decided D should take over.

Even if Sarah had only said yes, given that Darius had said no before her, some part of the media would have stirred up problems, claiming she was only back because Cowell fancied her and there would have been claims of judicial bias - which, of course, we now know existed anyway but was successfully kept under PR wraps until afterwards.