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I agree with all you said, Jay. There's not much to be positive about at the minute. :( It'll do think that Little Mix's arrival will give The Sats good, healthy competition now... it'll force them to - hopefully - be here, there and everywhere so they don't become forgotten or overshadowed I hope... although I will say the embarrassing thing for The Sats is that Little Mix will probably surpass pretty much a fair bit that The Saturdays have achieved in half the time (along with that #1 single!). Not gonna lie though, I've just have a nagging feeling that 2012 will be the last year of The Sats. I think they'll split next year. I love both groups and there's room for two girlbands but already just doing a simple search on Twitter makes it a bit disheartening to see tweets like 'The Saturdays are finished, we only need Little Mix' 'I bet The Saturdays all chucked their remote controls at the TV when Little Mix won' 'Bye The Saturdays' etc etc.... I think it's nice (however staged it is/was) that Little Mix clearly like and look up to The Sats and the girls themselves like Little Mix and vice versa, I don't see why we can have 3 big boybands at once but only 1 girlband at any one time, and have to dislike bands that are coming through etc! And it's annoying how people only seem to like one artist at a time and put them down for no apparent reason (fair enough if people don't like them.. but still... - I don't see why can't people like both Little Mix and The Sats at the same time, and it has to be made into a competition? They may be both girlgroups, but I think they're both different in image and potentially sound too. It's weird and it's frustrating but I'm very happy we've got 2 really good girlbands at the moment... but looking at the wider picture it looks as though the public aren't and probably never will be fully accepting of The Saturdays - they still haven't managed to fully make their mark while they've been the only girl group around for the past 2-ish years. I do hope the arrival of Little Mix doesn't spell the end of The Sats, I just hope it makes them work harder and keep pushing but I'm not sure really. As much as it feels like they're never going to find their way out of this mess now, surely they'll be able to reap some kind of reward down the line? :( Doubtful, but we can hope.

Do you mean the capacity for each venue? :) The girls' tour is all seated I think so I've had a fish around for the maximum capacity for the venues. Fri 2nd Dec - Bournemouth - Bournemouth International Centre - 6,500 Sat 3rd Dec - Liverpool - Echo Arena - 10,000 Mon 5th Dec - Cardiff - Motorpoint Arena - 5,000 Tues 6th Dec - Brighton - Brighton Centre - 4,500 Thurs 8th Dec - Birmingham - LG Arena - 16,000 Fri 9th Dec - Manchester - MEN Arena - 21,000 (obviously this number will be smaller for the girls to fill since they've blocked off the upper tiers I think?) Sat 10th Dec - Newcastle - Metro Radio Arena - 11,000 Mon 12th Dec - Nottingham - Capital FM Arena - 10,000 Tues 13th Dec - Glasgow - SECC - 10,000 Thurs 15th Dec - Sheffield - Motorpoint Arena - 13,500 Fri 16th Dec - London - Wembley Arena - 12,500 Sun 18th Dec - Belfast - Odyssey Arena - 14,000 Mon 19th Dec - Dublin - The O2 Arena - 9,500

This album is incredible! Fairytale, Glitter and Gold and Teach Me How To Be Loved are my favourites.:D Hope she gets the success she deserves!

So Bournemouth, Liverpool, Cardiff were all packed out, if not a complete sell out. Very happy for the girls! :D And if Manchester's reportedly sold out and Belfast close to selling out too - then phew! :D I was worried they'd be playing to half empty arenas.

The show does actually look a lot better with more videos coming in now. :) What would have been cool along with some pyrotechnics for the Notorious entrance would have been for them to each fly between the long curtains they use for the section where Missing You is sung!

The show and setlist looks good (bar the exclusion of White Lies - booo!), but it looks more like a theatre tour set. I know they wouldn't have had a huge budget to put on a show like Rihanna, Gaga or Katy etc but still.. I thought the set would look a bit more advanced and bigger. It looks a bit basic for an arena. And I'd have LOVED those firework/spark thingys that shoot up into the air from the stage for when the lift started lowering down after the intro VT, and again once the lift had landed on the stage just as Frankie and Vanessa opened the lift doors, just before Mollie started singing her first line... and for the revolving circle on the catwalk to lift them up :(

No ? Scandalous!

There are pics on Getty Images of the girls in dress rehearsals if anyone wants to look...! http://www.gettyimages.co.uk - then search The Saturdays in the search box on the top left! It does look good, but I think stupidly I've expected a bit too much.. from those few pics it doesn't really look any different to their theatre tours.. but they are only a few pictures circling so hopefully the set looks bigger and better and they do go all out - it was only a dress rehearsal after all I suppose. Some of the costumes look a bit tacky. Excited though - entrance looks epic! :D As long as there are sparks, confetti and they fly above the stage (they said they wanted to do that the most so hopefully they do!) I'll be happy! :P

Oh dear! :( Still, as long as the fans enjoy the tour. I'm excited!

If this is true, then I hope there's no generic club video of them making eyes at Travie but that's what we'll probably get really, won't we? I'd love something like a retro themed video of them in 60s character (with the beehives, haha) at one of those old fashioned drive in open air cinemas where they come across Travie and a group of guys or something. I don't know why but the instrumental and guitar riffs gives off a bit of a retro/60s-ish vibe. To me, anyway lol. Reading that back it actually sounds like a really shit idea, but it sounded better in my head! :lol: This track kinda reminds me of Flo Rida's 'Good Feeling' and that's doing well in the charts at the moment so maybe this could too. Won't be getting my hopes up though!

Oh yeah.. my bad. :blush: It's been a long day! :P

Since people have the track on the album now, will most people bother to download it as a single too? Oh, and a quiet release week please! I can't deal with the stress of another 'chart battle'. :P They've not released a single after the album release since Issues and Work have they? There are better tracks but this choice will probably bring in some promo thanks to Travie, which is what they badly need right now.

Seems like this is set to be the 4th single lifted from On Your Radar... directed by Taylor Cohen. He shot the video for Higher, too. Obviously there's no official confirmation so if the mods want to lock the thread that's cool. http://videostatic.com/ If this is true then I'm not sure about this - should be White Lies or Faster! They've most likely gone for this as the safe option because of the Travie appearance. Then again, I suppose the Travie feature will get them some more exposure though which is what they need most at the minute but I'm doubtful this will save the campaign.

Jesus, out of the top 40 already? :( I can't see the girls or label bothering to save this album, go ahead with a new album or Greatest Hits now. I think early next year/mid 2012 they'll just call it a day and split. I can't see another major label snapping them up either after this. I want them to succeed so much and become bigger than they are, but it seems they never will truly 'make it'. Horrible thought to think there could be no more music from them, or be able to keep up with what they're up to and see them regularly. That's one thing I love about them along with the music - how personable and down to Earth they are. It's really pathetic how much this has upset me haha. :( I don't know what they do, I can't see anything saving them. They must be so gutted about how it's playing out. At the moment they're all excited and hyped about the arena tour and that's all the girls are thinking about but after that's finished and after Christmas, I think it'll really hit them how poorly this really has done. :( I can't see a 4th single salvaging anything now. They just don't connect with the wider public now... what went wrong since the Chasing Lights era? And I know the girls are the only main/current act on Fascination currently releasing material in the UK but I think there's only so many lives Polydor/Fascination can keep handing them - they'll be starting to sit up and realise something is seriously wrong now. There's not much further they can go now. :( Maybe the public just don't seem to see them having that 'spark' or presence about them for the public to sit up and take note of them. Maybe because the girls seemingly lost the whole 'colour' theme that had an impact? It kinda made them identifiable during Chasing Lights and to a lesser extent, Headlines too - and I think that's when they performed best in terms of sales and overall chart performance. I know they want to grow and progress in style or whatever, but perhaps they should have kept the colours - and made the All Fired Up cover the album cover instead, as they still looked 'mature' but it still had the colour theme there.

18,044. :( First week sales for all their albums now: What happens now? :unsure: (Just if anyones interested, Nickleback charted at #10 this week with 34k sold - sad to think that's what some of us were predicting before release week :().

This will probably sound absurd, but does anyone else think that maybe the album cover itself put casual buyers off, when sat on the shelf amongst the other releases? I like the album cover but to casual buyers the girls might have looked a bit 'cold' or dull? Their past album covers have been much brighter, less serious and 'poppy' looking - this cover is a bit of a drastic difference - a bit too fierce looking? I don't know, I know it probably sounds ridiculous but it crossed my mind earlier anyway. :P (I'm not saying that the album cover is the only factor responsible for this selling only 18k nor am I making excuses). :blush: I still think the All Fired Up cover should have been the album cover, keeping in with their traditional bright colours theme but still in the mature/grown up direction that they seemingly wanted this era.

How could they film and release a video in the next 2 wks when they're on tour and travelling up and down the country for pretty much the whole month, and then it's Christmas/New Year? Unless they released a video of the new single being performed on tour, perhaps... #23 is disastrous. :( Gutted for the girls. Not sure anything can salvage this, it'll plummet down the charts now and out the top 40 this week I guess. Totally clueless as to what they do at the start of the new year, after the tour. I think they've run out of lives and chances now.

Ha, so you're ditching The Sats not because of their music, but because of a charting position? Bye then! :D I'm sure Little Mix are gonna be overjoyed to have a 'fan' like you.

Mollie said there are four sections to the show, and an Xmas section too. Wonder how they'll split the show into these four sections, seems like each section will have a theme to it I guess?

Looks set to fall out of the top 40 this week. In the most recent midweek it was down to #40 from #18 so unless it's managed to cling on then it's a dire chart run for Pixie.

I really don't know how the hell they're gonna get themselves out of this one.

I wouldn't mind that, to be honest. :)

I hope it is! :D And I hope the costumes are much better and more 'glam' haha, the Headlines tour costumes looked a bit tacky and looked like they'd just run round Topshop picking up anything they had. I thought so anyway. :blush: What would your best setlist be? :)

One week until the tour kicks off in Bournemouth! :D Really hope they go all out and it's a step up from the Headlines tour.

Down to #20 today so will probably miss the top 20 altogether come Sunday evening. :( This won't be a consistent seller and I reckon this will most likely crash out of the top 40 next week and be Wordshaker Part II. It's falling on iTunes and people clearly aren't buying the album physically so it's inevitable I think. Then there's the issue of them being unable to try and salvage the album with promotion now because of the tour, then they've got their 2 wks off over Xmas (which is understandable because.. well, it's Christmas and New Year :P), so really this is a pretty awful result when if it falls further. They can't exactly brush this album under the carpet like they did Wordshaker imo so hopefully they can try and amend things early next year. I don't know. They're still stuck in the same position they were two years ago and I'm clueless as to what they can do to click and connect more with the general public - and then translate it into sales. The label probably thought this would be their second big mainstream success after Chasing Lights as well seeing as they brushed Wordshaker under the carpet and left it for dead, and then it seems like they percieved Headlines to be an EP for the fans and act as a 'bridge' between Wordshaker and On Your Radar, hence why so much time, money and effort has seemingly gone into this campaign and yet it still goes wrong - and it doesn't look like Fascination/Polydor are going to see much of a return... and if Faster is the 4th single, I can't see that saving the era that much to be honest? :unsure: I do hope so, though. What will this even get first week? Just under 20k?