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I think that’s a bit extreme.

Tour pushed back until November!

I actually think 12 months is my fav GB album! So yeah, strange so few bought it

Gary is also performing at the Royal Variety on the 29th Nov

Also, Gary’s Night at the Museum is confirmed as the 6 Dec

Open Road's 1999 follow-up Twelve Months, Eleven Days (33,120 sales) limped in at No.35 in the UK, leading to Barlow being dropped by BMG and spending half a decade out of the spotlight prior to Take That's enormously successful 2005 reunion. “When I think back to [Open Road], I was leaving the band and everyone was like, ‘You’ve got to be the next George Michael’ so I was like, ‘Oh, shit’ and that was a panic," Barlow told Music Week. "Then the second album was a complete disaster because I partnered with Clive Davis, who loved everything about me except my songwriting, so that was quite a big problem." After Take That's record-shattering 2011 Progress stadium tour with Williams, which sold more than 1.8 million tickets, Barlow released his first solo album in 14 years - 2013’s double platinum Since I Saw You Last (723,202 sales). “The third one was great, but I was doing it to almost exorcise the other two from my system because it was such a damaging experience, especially that second one," said Barlow. "It took me years to get my confidence back after that. "So when I did Since I Saw You Last it was a lot of fun, but it was almost like an exorcism rather than a release of a record. This is the first one where I’ve gone, ‘I feel like I can do whatever I want here.'"

Gary Barlow has reflected on his mixed fortunes as a solo artist in a new interview with Music Week. Hopes are high for the Take That songwriter and current Music Week cover star's fourth solo album Music Played By Humans, which was recorded with an 80-piece orchestra and comes out via Polydor on November 27. Barlow pulled in Michael Bublé and Colombian artist Sebastián Yatra for the record's Latin-infused lead single Elita, while his new single Incredible has been licensed for the Argos Christmas TV commercial. Other guest stars include James Corden, Barry Manilow, Alesha Dixon and Beverley Knight. “I really think this is the first solo album I’ve made that’s not been under duress, actually,” laughed Barlow, speaking in this week's cover story. "It was a doorway to making an album full of musicians. I wanted this album to be absolutely packed with players. Then, weirdly, all this has happened where we’re not allowed to be near anyone anymore and it’s been so strange. I listen to it and just think, ‘Thank God I did it before all this started.'" Barlow first went it alone after Take That split in 1996. But the performance of his chart-topping 1997 LP Open Road fell below expectations - selling 297,424 units to date, according to the Official Charts Company - particularly when compared with then rival Robbie Williams, whose own solo debut Life Thru A Lens moved 2,105,561 copies.

It’s a great song. A very Gary song.

I’m fascinated to know how many tickets he sold for the tour. Normally you’d expect 50-70k minimum, but in these times...

Great! Sounds like it could be a ballad!!

I hope Gary gets the number 1 album, it would make up for SISYL missing out

I love the idea of doing a gig here! Super cool!

And Buble will be a special guest!

Looks like he’s playing at the national history museum!

He could even sing it all himself like he’s done with face to face etc in the past

They could probably video in or pre record it? Elita for me would be the far better single to plug the album

I think it’s going to be more like Robbie’s swing both ways album - especially the duets. I like Elita, and I think incredible is...ok, but hope there’s strong material on the rest of the album

Preorders for the album were coupled with presale codes to the tour, so hopefully we’ll see a lot of sales coming through the store.

I quite like it!

This will be great!

And it’s swing!

Yeah I think it’s definitely going to be a swing song, he’s performed a lot of swing sets and swing versions of old songs over the last few years. So direction wise, I think he has a clear road here and I’m looking forward to hearing what he’s got, I’m sure there’s some ballads on it too - he did mention how he understood fans do like the ballads they do and that there hasn’t been too many of them in recent material

Good idea to release another single! Hopefully this Friday! Also think it’ll be a power ballad

How can it be in the top 20 for sales and not make the top 100? Streaming must be looked at again.

It’s just ridiculous