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What About Us isn't going to happen is it? If it can't get into the top 100 and is now falling constantly already I don't hold out much hope for it climbing back up. How ironic if Higher took off.

What About Us hasn't even had an adds date given yet by Mercury for radios apparently. If so, then what are they playing at? Little Mix's Wings has an adds date of the 19th Feb over there just for comparison (a month before they head over there! They aren't promoting in the US until March!)... nothing for The Sats yet. It's been sent to radio, but Mercury haven't sent an adds date for the track. Like they want them to fail.

A radio tour all over the US (not all, but 'major' states/cities and a few others here and there) is needed or they'll flop completely. Not just flitting between LA and New York for two days. A spot on Ellen would be handy if they could grab one.

Oh dear.... to be expected though. No American outside the (rather small) fanbase would be compelled to watch them when they know next to nothing about them. Bit of a shame, especially if this signals how the rest of their American plans are going to go lol. Hate to see them completely flop and come back here with the press and their 'Ha! Told you so!' style stories. Sure the Daily Mail commenters would love this to happen haha. :P I admire them for being so determined in giving it a go and thinking up the show etc but now they really need to do a hardcore US radio tour ASAP if they want the song/the group itself to take off or they're not going to happen at all, they can't rely on the show or some TV promo here and there evidently. They need to work at it and keep at it. Radio is the key for them now. Not just two or three interviews in LA or New York, but actually travel round other cities/states too, even if they have to do it without Rochelle. I hope they don't think they're above doing radio tours. Especially before there's another spanner in the works by Little Mix arriving on the scene in March and completely wipe them out. Songs can take months in the US to take off so hopefully that's the case here. :P At least they have Glozell's approval... silver lining and all that. :P

This is gonna stall at #102 and fall back down again isn't it? :P So annoyingly close!

Sounds pretty good! I thought that'd be the ballad though... hopefully there's at least one ballad on there.

The show really helped the track then!? From #200 to #127! Just hope it continues to go up towards the top 100 on iTunes rather than nosedive again. Hmm... maybe we could request the song at radio stations?

Yeah, but the storylines throughout the series that have been created mean nothing if nobody really bothers to tune in to the first episode... but like you say it's following the Kardashian show so hopefully the show gains those viewers too. I also worry that they are far too reliant on this show taking off and doing the work for them.

Quite nervous for the show. Excited all the same to watch it but nervous too. Hopefully it gets decent ratings... not expecting anything big since I doubt many Americans will flick through their TV guide tonight and go 'Ooh! Have to watch that!' when nobody really knows who they are but hopefully it's not disastrously bad that they move the show to a different slot.

So apparently some of/perhaps even their whole performance wasn't shown as it was replaced by Obama calling a press conference or something... these girls have the worst luck. Seriously. :nocheer:

USA #124 Canada #57

One last update from me for the night: USA #137 (up 2) Canada #73 (up 4) Not bad considering just this morning the song was around the #400 mark on both Canada and US main iTunes charts. :) Really hope they perform on The Today Show, could give them another boost (and then radio airplay/adds needs to get sorted).

#140 - USA #79 - Canada

How do you know? :)

#155 USA #94 Canada

I get that they were really nervous but that wasn't a good performance at all. They also need to hurry the hell up and send this song to radios before it's too late and the momentum they seem to have going right now falls completely flat. What are they playing at not sending it to radio yet?? Surely Mercury/Def Jam, their US label, know how key radio airplay is, more so than a few TV promo slots over there? Baffled.

This is going surprisingly well, especially considering the song was lingering in the mid 500's yesterday on the main US iTunes right? Let's hope the momentum keeps going. I like to think management chose this song as lead single/international debut simply for the irony of the title on their discography list (should it all go well). :P 'What About Us'... as though the girls are asking the US/Canada/rest of world 'What About Us??' before the *real* second single smash haha (hopefully that's why and they've much higher standard material... though this track has crept up on me out of nowhere and grown on me leaps and bounds). The last minute of the song is pure brilliance.

Big jump on Canada main iTunes chart - from #189 to #125 :) The Queens are coming... (for now :P).

I'm confused... how do you view beyond the top 200 songs on iTunes US/Canada/generally?? :blush:

Jay Leno is a great coup. I hope they can get on other shows like Ellen/Letterman/Good Morning America/Saturday Night Live too at some point. Maybe a bit ambitious for now but hopefully further down the line should they take off. Exciting times. :) I really hope the US take to them.

They need to get over there and do radio tours all over the US. They need to realise they can't just set up camp in LA/New York for weeks at a time and not bother going anywhere else in the States. They need to be everywhere. Hell, even do performances and signings in shopping malls or whatever, not just interviews on other small E! shows. I get the feeling they're going to be relying on their show far too much.

Lol I did overreact a bit I admit... :blush: but he really isn't being realistic trying to make out the song is going to pretty much flop on US iTunes on the first day of release when the girls have done no promo or anything out there... that's realistic is it? Bit puzzled if you seem to think that comes under being 'realistic' and pretty much saying it's over before it's started.... pretty sure he has no mystic powers and can forecast the future. Shock horror, they may have a chance and actually do quite well out there, more so than they do well here, then again may not at all... nobody knows until next year. There's nothing wrong with the girls being determined and wanting to do well and further themselves by making things work out there... why shouldn't they give it a go? The time is right, there's no girl group there currently, the US are having a bit of a love in for British artists over there right now... and even if it fails, they tried... jeez, what's wrong with people wanting to do well and try their luck? It makes sense, whether it all goes to plan or not. :blink: And I have never made out they're *huge*, and I'm really not delusional (maybe just a little :P). They're middling in terms of success... never hitting the big time, never having solid album sales/campaign since Chasing Lights, they just coast along. I'm sorry but they're not outright unsuccessful.... 3 million records is not unsuccessful. Yeah, the girls aren't major sellers or one of the big guns on the UK pop scene - and they probably never will be - but they're not completely unsuccessful. People are far too quick to belittle the girls and label them a flop at any opportunity. To me, that defines the likes of Parade with their album just making top 200 and a single just making top 40. I do worry for them this era though after the sales of 30 Days and I don't think What About Us is going to have a positive impact for them. If America doesn't work out and things don't improve this era back here then I do think they'll split next year but we'll wait and see, nobody knows what's going to happen.

Hahaha, stfu. I do not get why your username has you as a SatsFan when you so evidently aren't. I do not get why you bother coming to this fan forum when you don't even like them - you've come here previously over and over slating them... why bother following their career if all you're gonna do is be bitter and just slate them? How sad and petty. You must lead a fun life if this is all you do. I don't like the song but seriously... it's had no radio premiere nor impacted radios in the States, no widespread promo, no nothing... it's hardly going to catapult to the top 40 in the first day of release when only a handful of people know them at present. It takes time for songs in the US to take off, nothing is decided on the first day of release especially in this instance whether it goes well or all goes tits up for them. And if 11 top 10 singles and around 3 million records sold in the UK is them being unsuccessful. Sure, they're not massive or huge sellers here but they've done alright for themselves. And I can't at your username, maybe instead of mouthing off far too prematurely, sort your username out.

I liked hearing the All Fired Up instrumental in the background when Dermot was talking on The X Factor final weekend on both nights.

1. Favourite song Higher (All Fired Up is a very close second) 2. Favourite album Chasing Lights 3. Favourite member Rochelle (used to be Una but Rochelle pips it now) 4. Favourite artwork All Fired Up cover 5. Best voice rank Rochelle - Una - Vanessa - Frankie - Mollie 6. Favourite pet I don't know their pets that well... Alfie is cute I guess. 7. Favourite Sats moment When they found out Missing You was midweek #1 on their ITV2 doc. Sure, didn't end up there but their reaction was amazing. They seemed genuinely excited and overwhelmed. Hate that they seem to get so many bitchy comments and hate when they are such lovely, genuine and down to earth girls. Also, when they played Wembley on the All Fired Up tour. Electric atmosphere, and you could see they were loving every minute of it and how much it meant to them to be up on that stage.