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I think the fact "Be Here Now" is the fastest selling album of all time shows how name alone sells albums, it doesn't even have to be that good an album. The Take That album is big example of that too. I much prefer seeing how an album sells and its positions over its entire chart life rather than in the first few weeks thanks to aggressive marketing campaigns and the Christmas retail bonanza. I also like to see how an album sells globally rather than in the UK, if you concentrate mostly in the UK with a release it will sell a lot more than if an act is spreading themselves more thinly around the world. Coldplay is an example that counters that model, they do well in the US, UK and everywhere else.

 

OK we get it ... you dislike Take That and Oasis. I actually bought Coldplay's Viva La Vida on the strength of the single Viva La Vida ... and despite playing the album three times now ... that is still the only song that I really do like - the rest of it - although is OK and I wouldn't switch it off if I heard it on the radio ... it really is just OK. So if The Circus isn't exactly Sgt Pepper's, VLV is hardly Revolver!

 

Horses for courses I suppose!

 

Norma

I find Leona incredibly over-rated. I find that she's most definitely talented, but I don't enjoy listening to her voice and I'm always going to see Run as Snow Patrol's song. I actually believe it sounds better being sang by a male! The only song that Leona has released so far that I can bare listening to is Better In Time. Her lower voice is annoying and the way she's always up and down can be irritating to listen to. The repetition in Forgive Me and Bleeding Love, especially Bleeding Love, are what makes it worse.

 

I guess it's all down to personal opinion though. I can see her songs becoming less over-rated over time though, she wont be selling this much forever.

 

I think Run is about a minute or 2 too long. She starts off beautifully but then just whails towards the end. And I think its sad that the biggest album of last Christmas has been given one or two extra tracks and become one of the biggest albums of this Christmas.

OK we get it ... you dislike Take That and Oasis. I actually bought Coldplay's Viva La Vida on the strength of the single Viva La Vida ... and despite playing the album three times now ... that is still the only song that I really do like - the rest of it - although is OK and I wouldn't switch it off if I heard it on the radio ... it really is just OK. So if The Circus isn't exactly Sgt Pepper's, VLV is hardly Revolver!

 

Horses for courses I suppose!

 

Norma

 

well be here now by Oasis did very well around the world.. it has sold over 7million copies globally.

 

I think Run is about a minute or 2 too long. She starts off beautifully but then just whails towards the end. And I think its sad that the biggest album of last Christmas has been given one or two extra tracks and become one of the biggest albums of this Christmas.

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Some off us love to hear Leona whail :wub:

OK we get it ... you dislike Take That and Oasis. I actually bought Coldplay's Viva La Vida on the strength of the single Viva La Vida ... and despite playing the album three times now ... that is still the only song that I really do like - the rest of it - although is OK and I wouldn't switch it off if I heard it on the radio ... it really is just OK. So if The Circus isn't exactly Sgt Pepper's, VLV is hardly Revolver!

 

Horses for courses I suppose!

 

Norma

 

Agree with you about Viva La Vida Norma. Thought I was alone in not really liking it. Well it's okay and I like VLV and Violet Hill but much prefer any of their previous albums. It's just an OK album but not superb.

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