Matty01

LEMON!

Well done you, right first time :P Was meant to reference "and it's you when I look in the mirror" 'cos Bono is a bit of a buffoon hence seeing an ape in the mirror. It's not a mirror, ofc, but that doesn't matter! Your turn :angry:

Oh, crap, I didn't realise I had to play. :P I have never inserted an image into a post before :o http://static.pyzam.com/img/funnypics/8/thinkin.jpg EDIT: ha, it worked. How amusing :P

MOMENT OF SURRENDER! :yahoo: :wave: Am I right? Bono screams something about going into every single bloody black hole, if I remember?

^^ Yah. Obvious example for me would be Guns'N'Roses "Knocking on Heaven's Door" being an improvement on the original. However IMO the lyrics can only really be taken seriously from the original version which is why I nearly always prefer original songs. How many million sellers are covers, out of interest? Also I would suggest a lot of effort can be put into a cover... but in the vast majority of cases I suspect writing an original is much harder.

But it's a cover. So it would be more like congratulations to Snow Patrol. EDIT: In fact, I'm not sure I could think of anything less deserving than singing a cover version of a song and getting to to 1,000,000 sales. How amusing to describe Leona as 'deserving' to get 1million sales. :P

What was "The Circus" first week sales?

Is it true that they sold 1million tickets today? Because that is rather impressive...

I'll do this half in terms of play counts on last.fm, half in terms of my current favourites! 1. Feel 2. Angels 3. Let Me Entertain You 4. Bodies 5. Let Love Be Your Energy 6. Supreme 7. Come Undone 8. She's The One 9. Strong 10. Millennium 11. The Road To Mandalay 12. Eternity 13. Rock DJ 14. No Regrets 15. Heart And I 16. Lazy Days 17. Advertising Space 18. Tripping 19. Sin Sin Sin 20. Make Me Pure 21. Old Before I Die 22. Sexed Up 23. Kids - Robbie Williams And Kylie Minogue 24. She's Madonna - Robbie Williams and Pet Shop Boys 25. It's Only Us 26. Radio 27. Mr Bojangles 28. Something Beautiful 29. Shame - Robbie Williams And Gary Barlow 30. Morning Sun 31. You Know Me 32. I Will Talk And Hollywood Will Listen 33. South Of The Border 34. Misunderstood 35. Somethin' Stupid - Robbie Williams And Nicole Kidman 36. Lovelight 37. Everything Changes - Take That 38. Rudebox 39. Freedom Really, I like all of them apart from the last three... it surprised me how difficult I found this; it's a wonder I can ever find a Robbie song to listen to without deciding that I'd prefer to listen to another! Oh wait... I usually flick through my iPod for about an hour until I settle on a song.... haha!

^^ Wahey, that's fantastic! Such massive sales, too! And with Shame still being on the charts for a few weeks, followed by the buzz surrounding Take That's reunion, and the Christmas sales boosts, followed by an eventual Take That tour next year, it should keep selling consistently for absolutely ages! This won't sell like the first Greatest Hits did, but I don't think 1 million is out of the question (although it's probably about the maximum)!

Possibly. Of course, you have to remember that the Oasis album which set that (incredible) record in less than a week was not actually all that well received: everybody wanted to buy it and hear it, but it didn't sell anything near as much as What's The Story (which goes without saying for basically every album) in the long run and general consensus was that it wasn't that great. So there's a lot of expectation, and this album will always sell quite well; judging from "The Flood", it's gonna be great - however, if the album isn't actually all that good, the sales will simply fade away. For me, the anticipation is immense! After the first few weeks of sales, a lot of it is going to be down to the actual quality of the music, and I can't wait to hear what 'the boys' have come up with. For the first week, 500k is not out of the question as I see it.

1. Robbie Williams 2. Damon Albarn 3. Bono 4. Brandon Flowers 5. Chris Martin 6. Dave Grohl 7. Michael Jackson 8. Freddie Mercury 9. Mika 10. Danny O'Donoghue

1. Robbie Williams 2. Damon Albarn 3. Bono 4. Noel Gallagher 5. Brandon Flowers 6. Chris Martin 7. Dave Grohl 8. Michael Jackson 9. Freddie Mercury 10. Mika Hard to make a list, very hard.

SFG, I really like the song. :)

^^ The 2.4 million thing was on the radio, it's also been in a few press articles that I've seen. That's over the entire week I think, but still pretty incredible! Also, he always says there's gonna be a tour...... and I guess there will be-- hopefully before I'm 60.......... :P