http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/bruce/

 

Click: Listen Again -> Thursday -> it plays at 38 minutes.

 

I think it's okay, but not amazing for what I was hoping to expect.

 

Predictions on the single and album?

 

Single, Top 5.

 

Album, Top 3. ^_^

I think its way too early for this; the single isn't even out in HQ yet for people to judge properly. :P So I'm not gonna vote yet. Top 5 is a certainty for the single though, and Top 3 at least for the album.

I think top 10 for the single - Anastacia's singles (with the exception of Left Outside Alone) never really threaten the top 5. Album will definitely be number 1 though, she's more of an album artist in this country I think ^_^

No. 1 single

No. 1 album

Really like the music in I Can Feel You but the chorus is really average. I think top 10. :)

Haven't heard it yet, hope its better than some of the reviews I've heard

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I'd say lower top10 for album and about 5 for the single!

I'd say lower top10 for album and about 5 for the single!

Seriously. :mellow:

 

I'd say she'd be able to get to #1 on the albums, she's an album seller. I think the single will go Top 5.

it's quite bland on first listen...I think it will miss the top ten...

 

#18? nobody's guaranteed a hit anymore since downloads started to dominate

 

I think her album will go top 5 and fall quickly...she should have come back with something far stronger than this...it's very dated, could have come out any time in the last ten years, it sounds like a cheap b-side

I think the single will go Top 5.

 

it will need to sell 20k in a week to go top 5

 

it's nowhere near strong enough to do that...who's likely to buy it other than hardcore fans? it's not the type of song that leaves a big impression or one that makes you think 'oh I must have that on my iPod' :heehee: Left Outside Alone and Sick & Tired were brilliant tracks and couldn't make the top 2 so this will be extremely lucky to even make the top 15 when brilliant pop songs like Save The Lies by Gabriella Cilmi or Alphabeat's Boyfriend can't even go top 30

yep, this will struggle to go top 15. its a bit lacluster compared to some of her other singles.

^Let's get realistic though, this is Anastacia. Even if the song didn't appeal to anyone outside her fanbase, her fanbase is still quite easily strong enough to get her a Top 5 hit, and of course the song will gain her some new fans too.

 

Gabriella Cilmi is an absolutely laughable comparison :heehee: She's a brand new artist who's song is being overshadowed by the huge single which preceeded it, and who doesn't have a steady fanbase in the way Anastacia does.

^Let's get realistic though, this is Anastacia. Even if the song didn't appeal to anyone outside her fanbase, her fanbase is still quite easily strong enough to get her a Top 5 hit, and of course the song will gain her some new fans too.

 

Gabriella Cilmi is an absolutely laughable comparison :heehee: She's a brand new artist who's song is being overshadowed by the huge single which preceeded it, and who doesn't have a steady fanbase in the way Anastacia does.

 

Westlife's fanbase should have been strong enough to get Us Against The World top 5, but it didn't happen...loads of indie bands who have huge fanbases (Bon Jovi, REM, Primal Scream etc...) have flopped hugely with comebacks recently when their lead album singles used to all go top five...fanbase top 5 hits are extremely rare now, you need either a very good song, or a song with universal/chav appeal to go top five in 2008

 

I'm not comparing her to Gabriella Cilmi, I'm just saying, that in an era when very good pop songs by very good artists are flopping, or at least underperforming in comparison to their previous chart records (e.g. Kylie Minogue - The One/In My Arms, Madonna - Give It 2 Me), its hard to see that a very good singer with an average song will reach the top five

 

times have changed, you can't get away with being average now...you need to appeal to the masses or to the chavs...this new Anastacia single doesn't tick either of these boxes

 

just my opinion though, if it goes top 5 I take it all back :lol:

and if Anastacia's fanbase were so loyal, Pieces Of A Dream wouldn't have missed the top 40 completely :kink:

The song is okay, but it lacks a certain 'punch'. I do like Anastacia, but the last album's era was the only time I felt compelled enough to buy an album of hers.

 

Single #7, album #1 or #2.

Tbh, when has Anastacia EVER been a singles artist? :lol: She has 3.5 million sales worth of albums in the Uk, yet only 3 Top 10 Hits. :P

Tbh, when has Anastacia EVER been a singles artist? :lol: She has 3.5 million sales worth of albums in the Uk, yet only 3 Top 10 Hits. :P

 

exactly, I'm not denying that the album will be big...I think it will quite easily go top five, but the single has next to no chance of doing so...

 

but a weak lead single usually leads to an album dropping more quickly than those with a strong lead single so I can see her album going something like 3-7-14-20 etc...especially as the market will be saturated with big indie/rock releases in October and the album chart will be too busy for many albums to stick around...

 

just look what happened to Kelly Clarkson's My December after the tragedy that was Never Again was chosen as the lead single -_-

I agree abit lackluster for a first single, not catchy enough.

 

But album top 3, prob #1

 

single top 20

To be honest I'd be quite happy if the single went into the top 10 - as Josh said she's only ever had 3 top 10 hits before (and Paid My Dues the lead single from her 2nd album didn't make the top 10 but Freak Of Nature the album reached number 2 and spawned 4 top 40 hits).

 

I hope that she's being smart and releasing a lacklustre comeback which *should* do well purely because it is a comeback and is thus not on an album yet, and then she'll hopefully follow this with a killer club single which will also go top 10. Many artists follow up singles this year have flopped, so she'll need to release something amazing to follow this and to increase album sales.