I am by no means a McFly fan but I have to hand it to them and their marketing team they always manage to get their fans to multi purchase the singles and they have excelled themselves with the release of 'Lies' :lol:

 

In week 1 they released the track as a download only with bonus video content making fans purchase the track 3 times to get the complete videos

 

In week 2 they done 7 signings, Made the physical formats available at 3 for £4 and added a bonus b-side for download

 

And now next week (On Sunday) they are adding 2 exclusive remixes of the song which have to be downloaded separately on I-Tunes!

 

So potentially fans have bought the track 9 times! Will be interesting to see what the remixes next week will have on the guys chart performance - Maybe it won't drop quite as quickly?!

 

The album is also out next week and they have 7 signings as well as offers with all the retailers (HMV - Free poster with purchase, Woolworths -Bonus 3 track CD, and competitions online with HMV and Play!)

 

I have never seen a band so desperate for a #1!

If this was any other band and probably in 1999-2002 This would have been Ok but because it's McFly... Well... it's a different story! (Have we got a Yawn emoticon?)

Two of them are doing a signing at the HMV in my town tomorrow evening, I expect lots of screaming pre-pubescent girls in the shopping centre. :lol:

Gosh, they really are pushing their luck :lol:

Even with the support of Radio 1 and Radio 2, they couldn't make the top10 on Itunes, so that sum it up the whole thing really.

I am by no means a McFly fan but I have to hand it to them and their marketing team they always manage to get their fans to multi purchase the singles and they have excelled themselves with the release of 'Lies' :lol:

 

So potentially fans have bought the track 9 times!

 

I have never seen a band so desperate for a #1!

 

I disagree. If they were that desperate for a #1 they would have released all 9 formats in the same week, not spread over 3 weeks. :lol:

This screams DESPERATION.

 

And please don't start attacking members with this thread topic.

ahh the desperation is so naff.

 

It probably does them more harm than good.

 

PATHETIC! I hope this album is the last we hear from them.

If this was Girls Aloud, Sugababes, Estelle, Amy Winehouse or any of the other BJ bum b!tches nobody at all would be complaining... :heehee:

Well, whatever they do to promote the song it looks like it won't be number 1. In fact it dropped to 3 today :lol:

what annoys me is that whatever mcfly do people slag them off

if your not a fan why do you care so much what they do?

 

They have to find some way of getting the money back from what they put into their label

fans have a chance on what to buy

half of them only buy 1 or 2 cds and the odd download anyway

 

as for the album they have never done so much of a big promotion with an album

plus it's not only mcfly that do it------------------

 

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If this was Girls Aloud, Sugababes, Estelle, Amy Winehouse or any of the other BJ bum b!tches nobody at all would be complaining... :heehee:

 

Spot on.

 

Besides this is nothing new.

 

Back in the 1980s lot of acts released multiple versions of their new single.

 

Examples:

 

Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Relax & Two Tribes had multiple different versions of their singles released (especially on 12 inch vinyl) to sustain sales. And New Order's Blue Monday did the same thing.

 

Whilst Duran Duran's Wild Boys 7 inch single was released in 5 separate versions, one with each of the members of the band on the picture sleeve.

 

And these were just the tip of the iceberg.

 

 

what annoys me is that whatever mcfly do people slag them off

if your not a fan why do you care so much what they do?

 

Totally agree with this. I'm not a McFly fan by any stretch of the imagination, but I don't see anything wrong with them trying to sell their music any way they can, just like any other artists do in their own way.

 

Totally agree with this. I'm not a McFly fan by any stretch of the imagination, but I don't see anything wrong with them trying to sell their music any way they can, just like any other artists do in their own way.

exactly its like any business

at the end of the day they are trying to earn a living just like everyone else

we are entitled to our opinons FFS and its not personal, imo its about 3 factors....its not just about the hard sell tactics that reek of desperation but its can also be the songs which some may dislike and finally their chart performance (sales and runs).

 

for once we would like them to do what the majority of the acts in the chart are doing and not include so many version and TRY to rely on the strength of the song and NOT getting your young fanbaseto buying multiple versions, they should be ashamed of themselves taking childrens pocket money like this every time. pure exploitation. if any other act was doing what they were doing we would be talking about it and being critical too....no exceptions!!

 

the final factor is their chart performance and after all this is a chart forum and they are more than worthy of criticism cause their chart runs and sales are nothing less than c**p compared to most tracks that reach the top5 especially the ones that have long and healthy chart runs.

Yeah I don't see anything wrong with it either. If anything I think they're trying to have a longer lasting single chart-wise, rather than score a #1. It's just promoting after all, if people are mad enough to buy loads of different versions of the songs, then that's there problem - no-one elses.

we are entitled to our opinons FFS and its not personal, imo its about 3 factors....its not just about the hard sell tactics that reek of desperation but its can also be the songs which some may dislike and finally their chart performance (sales and runs).

 

for once we would like them to do what the majority of the acts in the chart are doing and not include so many version and TRY to rely on the strength of the song and NOT getting your young fanbaseto buying multiple versions, they should be ashamed of themselves taking childrens pocket money like this every time. pure exploitation. if any other act was doing what they were doing we would be talking about it and being critical too....no exceptions!!

 

the final factor is their chart performance and after all this is a chart forum and they are more than worthy of criticism cause their chart runs and sales are nothing less than c**p compared to most tracks that reach the top5 especially the ones that have long and healthy chart runs.

they should be ashamed of themselves taking childrens pocket money like this every time

 

When i went to the milton keynes signing on tuesday there were loads of people there yet there wasn't very many young kinds

most of the girls and GUY's were 15+

yes when mcfly started out they had loads of kiddy fans but as they've gone on they have lost them

 

as for sales yes mcfly's are low but they still never seem to fail to sell out big Arenas which they are getting more money from anyway

NOT getting your young fanbaseto buying multiple versions

 

But at least they are giving their fans several slightly different versions to buy. Surely that's better than fans buying multiple copies of the same disc, which is what happens in lots of cases where an artist has a large fanbase. I know I've bought a couple of copies of the exact same CD and I'm sure there are thousands of others who have done the same.

But at least they are giving their fans several slightly different versions to buy. Surely that's better than fans buying multiple copies of the same disc, which is what happens in lots of cases where an artist has a large fanbase. I know I've bought a couple of copies of the exact same CD and I'm sure there are thousands of others who have done the same.

thats true and it's not like Mcfly are forceing anyone to buy them

they do have a choice somepeople just like to slag them off

Oh that's getting boring now, we can voice our opinions, and if we don't like McFly and we want to slag them off because we think they're are useless t**** in the charts, that's up to us!

Lately it's been all about "oh they are so mature now, you HAVE TO love them or shut up".

 

I think they're $h!t, I think they have gone rubbish after album 1, and I think they're chart cheatters, and that's it. If you don't like, I couldn't care less.

Well that's pathetically immature. :/ Chart cheaters? Most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. You sound like a bloody Marxist.