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The supermarkets did have special stands displaying the single, maybe they have been removed now, which would certainly make a difference to sales.

With the Global Commercial stations I think it is political. Heart, dropped all of Ronan's and Boyzone songs from their playlists the day after Ronan joined Magic 105.4 as a regular DJ. Magic is on the rival network Bauer. Global own half of the nations commercial stations, which include Heart, Capital, BRMB ect. One of the Capital DJ's actually twittered at the very beginning of Jan that he loved the song and would be playing it very soon...then nothing. I don't think its a coincedense that its not being played by these stations. There are album sample on Amazon now - its a completely new sound for them.

:lol: thanks, I'm just hoping that they will go top 10 at least, but they are getting sod-all airplay so who knows. Hopefully the album will do okay.

Dave, on the pre-orders do you have any idea of the numbers involved, or do you just know positions.

Quite like a lot of the tracks on the album. How do you think it will chart?

Their fans have been waiting a long time for this album. If they were getting some decent airplay for the single they'd sell even more.

I am wondering if Justin Lee Collins is going to be an Irish "wildcard". The reason I say this is because every year the Irish have 6 songs to choose from and this year there are only 5. The other reason is that posted on Boyzone and Ronan's site today is a message saying that Ronan and Mikey have songs being entered into Eurovision and be sure to vote for your favourite on the 5th of March on the Late Late Show. So either their official site has posted wrong information or there is "something" going on.

ON A MISSION - GABRIELLA CILMI 8th Feb - This one is out on the 8th of March not Feb OCEAN EYES - OWL CITY 22nd Mar - This one is out on the 15th of Feb, not March

Here is a taster of the Danish songs http://www.dr.dk/melodigrandprix/Artikler/2010/smuglyt.htm

Looks like Justin is very happy with his song from Ronan: "Justin said that he was delighted with the song Ronan Keating has written for his Eurovision bid. He said: "It's up-tempo. It's very Ronan and I'm surprised he's given it to me, it's a really good song. It's not kitsch which is usually my forte. My default is Tom Jones but I can't do that this time." http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/a...dIy22XAhlCrt_OQ

So Ronan has a chance of representing both Denmark and Ireland! Has that ever happened before?

Boyzone's single has done well considering it was only put on HMV on Wednesday, there has been no radio airplay yet either. Its out on the 1st of March not the 8th though. Any idea where there album is on pre-release?

Ronan may also be involved in another Eurovision song for Denmark too. He mentioned in an interview on a Dutch TV show that when they wrote Believe Again they also wrote 2 other tracks and now one of those is being put to the vote in Denmark.

Their overall sales are about the same, RK debuted higher @ no.12 on the chart

Just to let you know that Gary and his wife attended Ronan Keatings Emerald and Ivy Ball in London last night. One of the hightlights of the evening was when Gary joined Ronan on stage with a fantastic duet of Back For Good. The crowd loved it. There are lots of pictues on Getty Images of them singing together. http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.a...0gary%20barlow#

Michael Jackson's lead guitarist Orianthi has released a new album called Believe. She is releasing Believe (Again) for her second single http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azY21UA4eAo

Cant see them wanting to do this. According to this Ronan has pulled out of all promo for his album. http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story...y-grief_1119863

I went to the recording of this last Friday. Beverly did a great performance along with a full choir. The show will be shown on the 18th of November. Its hard to believe what can happen in a week. Friday night Ronan was laughing and joking with Amanda and the rest of the acts including Beverly, and the next day his whole world changed. I don't know whether you know but Beverly was good friends with Stephen Gately and she attended his funeral yesterday. :(

According to Louis Walsh their new album is due out in March to coincide with Mother's Day!

From today's Daily Star: Will Young has announced the release of his first greatest hits compilation. The 30 year old is the only British male artist of the decade to have 4 consecutive platinum albums LRN, YG and all Wills classics will be sandwiched in the package out November 16th Now I have a sneaky feeling they have forgotten about our Rob :o I'm sure that he has out sold Will Young this decade :D

BOYZONE LAND RONSON COLLABORATIONReformed Irish boyband BOYZONE are ecstatic after landing their dream producer MARK RONSON to work on their next album. The pop stars admitted in February (09) they were desperate to work with the Grammy Award winner, but feared he would turn them down as he is incredibly "picky" about the acts he works with. But Ronson has agreed to head into the studio with the fivepiece - and now they're hoping his golden touch will make their next CD a chart-topper. Frontman Ronan Keating says, "I'm a big fan of Mark's. We wanted to do something really different for this album. We've all grown up and we want to show that with a new sound. It will be colourful, bright and uplifting." 25 July 2009 14:02 http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/artic...oration_1110831

Sounds like it will be a more upbeat sound from them. This was "tweetered" by Marc Fox Polydor A & R: receiving widest spectrum of upbeat new songs for the new boyzone album about 18 hours ago from web

Its hardly surprising, there were only 3 new songs on it, and it was their 3rd Greatest Hits album. By Request sold 2million copies in the UK, so there can't be many fans that didn't have a copy already. I think a new studio album with new songs will be completely different. So long as they get the lead single right of course Ronan's been busy, 2 solo albums this year, plus a Boyzone one for 2010.

The Jury vote was Croatia.

He was on the John Barryman show last Saturday night and sang 2 songs from the album. Also "This Is Your Song" has been added to some radio playlists.