2ndAdventure

According to someone on PopJustice, the Liverpool date has sold out.

YAY :D

You've made some excellent points Lee. The whole point of a single is to promote the album and if it's 2nd offering can't even stay Top 40 for 6wks then there may be a bit of an issue. You can see why they wanted to put 3 singles out before the albums release now. I normally look at their discography and try to predict what 'My Heart Takes Over' will do for them, same with 'On Your Radar', but because their discography is so over the place for one reason or another it's really hard to say what's in store for them.

Reasonable? For customers maybe yes. The industry would fall flat on it's face.

So Steps could be robbed of another #1 due to some stock issue? I'm right in saying they have certainly been underestimated

Oh this is not good... I would have put the price down to 59p last week and the fact that they haven't says this: a) They need a dollar, dollar, dollar, a dollar is what they need b) Will hopefully persuade more people to buy the album instead c) The next single is coming out in 4wks, they might want a bit of a gap in the charts to make way for My Heart Takes Over But this is so far under-performing. Such a great start though.

Brilliant for Steps, really hoping they can get the #1!

Pre-orders do that though. All the core fanbase will pre-order in the first few days before dropping down the iTunes album chart. The Wanted have been availble a little while longer to pre-order which is why they're probabbly lower.

Top 40 sales ONLY 01. 13 - #09 - 219k - Ego 02. 18 - #05 - 214k - Up 03. 13 - #10 - 211k - Higher 04. 07 - #02 - 205k - Just Can't Get Enough 05. 13 - #04 - 193k - Issues 06. 07 - #03 - 161k - Missing You 07. 05 - #03 - 152k - All Fired Up (Still charting) 08. 09 - #08 - 142k - Notorious 09. 06 - #02 - 113k - Forever Is Over 10. 07 - #22 - 062k - Work 11. 05 - #08 - 042k - If This Is Love

Tues Mids / iTunes / Artist / Track 21 - [22] - Pixie Lott - All About Tonight 22 - [24] - Nicki Minaj - Superbass 25 - [31] - Lady Gaga - Edge of Glory 26 - [26] - Rihanna - Cheers 27 - [///] - Matt Cardle - L&F (B-side to Run For Your Life - will be deleted tomorrow) 28 - [///] - Matt Cardle - Chemical (B-side to Run For Your Life - will be deleted tomorrow) 29 - [29] - Coldplay - Fix You Xfactor effect. Should ware off towards the end of the week 30 - [28] - Adele - Set Fire To The Rain 32 - [39 & #125] - Will Young - Jealousy 33 - [30 & #198] - The Saturdays - All Fired Up 35 - [33] - Adele - Someone Like You 40 - [51 & 127] - Example - Stay Awake Red indicates a fall, Green indicates an climb, Blue indicates a non-mover, /// indicates no position available, * indicates when combined. iTunes positions taken at mid-day when possible. All Fired Up can hopefully hang on Top 30 this week.

They had two of their b-sides in the Top 30 didn't they? Something like that. I think it was a case of they'd already combined the sales of the b-side/physicals etc and allocated them to All Fired Up on the Tuesday (which is why their sales where quite high because the b-side sales where technically counted twice, or something like that) then on the Wednesday they removed the b-sides which took their respective sales away.

Simple and effective video. They all look amazing :)

You do realise Garry Barlow put the Children In Need single together right? Of course it's going to be performed.

You do realise they're more likely to do 1D/The Sats as 1D will pull in huge ammounts of figures. With Westlife not being signed to to SyCo now and not being managed by Louis, they wont have a great chance either. At the end of the day, anything produced by SyCo will be a platform for their artists and they'll come first before any other. Why would they have Rihanna on that week? She's already released We Found Love. The Children In Need track will be performed no matter what that week though, with 1D as their seccond guest.

I specifically remember Wordshaker being at #1 on the iTunes chart, and getting my hopes up that it'd be #1 in the midweeks. Untill I realised the iTunes album chart had like a 15% share of album sales.

They're on a radio tour. They should/will be playing it.

PopJustice have the album and as a reult they're on the PJ Almighty at #2. PJ said "they have a very good album" or something like that.

It's funny you should say that about pinning the current album/single threads. I was thinking the same a few days ago but thought I'd leave it be, but since you guys think it would be more efficient making them pinned, I shall do. And Lew i'll delete your threads then, I'll add the radio/tv runs in the Sales threads too. Edit: Good job I have them saved, seems they've already been deleted!

I don't see how they could egnore that they have 10 Top 10 singles (half of GA's record), 3 Top 10 albums, 3m sales. But if GA is anything to go by they didn't get a slot untill they where 5yrs into their career.

Tim Deal had confirmed they had recorded "tracks", ie more than one. Not sure if they've all made the cut however..

Gotta agree with Scherz on this one. Yes they are by default the biggest group but it's not like no-one else has came along during their time in the charts. Plenty of girl group competition for them has come and gone. And regarding xfactor, it really is swings and roundabouts with this. 'Notorious' didn't do that well, but give it the benefit of the doubt as on air/on sale was a huge contributor to screwing that up (btw, funny how on air/on sale is now "dead in the water" as it's been abandoned). 'All Fired Up' started off great.. but started falling and we're still waiting to see how that goes. Their ticket to xfactor this year really was the sucess they have this year pre-xfactor, and so far it's not looking that great imo...

Yes and no I think. Yes because these less established artists needed more radio support and where being took off playlists when they started bombing down the charts because of the in-existance of pre-release support due to on air/on sale. But no at the same time because if a track that had been released with pre-release support started bombing, radio wouldn't try and 'save' it like we're asking them to do with on air/on sale releases.

It was never really going to work properly unless every release was on air/on sale though. Some labels where ignorant enough to turn their back on it the second they pushed for on air/on sale, and started giving "exceptions" to a handful of single releases for them to be released the 'old' way. It's funny how the more established artists who had more of a chance of pulling on air/on sale off didn't do it, yet the less establised artists gave it a go... but failed misrably anyway because they needed the pre-releases support.

It's only 12-13k to get a Top 10 now, and that margin wont change much untill around mid-November. It's not untill the last 2wks of December/first week of January when sales rocket. Yes they climb each week, but not even I think they'd be able to shift 40k in one week. Chasing Lights did 22k first week of release and Headlines did 21k didn't it?

Hmm, interesting. On Popjustice someone had pulled a tweet from someone 'close' to them saying that they where going to announce it all in 2 months but their gonna have to confirm it sooner or something like that. It could be convienient for them though with Una being preggers and all.. I don't think it would stop them from going over. Not that I think their going to 'crack' the states. They've hardly got a massive success story to sell over there. But who knows. They've said many times that they want to 'crack' the UK first and other Euro countries first before the US. However if you where offered this deal on a plate I'm sure you'd hardly turn it down just because you want to crack other countries first..