Luthien

Love Love. The more I listen to it, the more I love it.

They have just put an album sampler on YouTube (with around a minute of each song):

Nice.

So anyone who likes the album and disagrees with you doesn't have any sense?

Oooh, exciting!

I enjoyed listening to this so much! ''The Day The Work Is Done'' and ''Don't Say Goodbye'' (and ''Love Love'') are phenomenal.

It seems they're filming the DVD on Friday and Saturday. Have fun! :D

I was looking at some fan videos from The Circus tour the other day and, compared to the DVD, they just don't convey how grand and amazing that tour was. And that's only natural, the sound can't be good (at all) and they can only focus on one fragment of the show. So I'm reserving my judgement until I see them live in July and also see the DVD. I've been following the audience reactions on Twitter so far and everybody's been so thrilled and on a high after they saw it, a lot of them saying they must get more tickets because it's so good and they want to experience it more than once, so I guess it's far from bad. Anyway, I'm not expecting it to ''beat'' The Circus tour, I don't think it's the right attitude. I have a feeling nothing will ever measure up to The Circus for me, but it doesn't mean the future concerts will be subpar. Far from it.

Many people said they saw TV adverts for it, so I guess they are promoting it.

From the videos I've seen, the new stuff section looks fantastic. I guess the level of enjoyment depends on how much you like the "new $h!t.''

I would love to hear Mark performing ''What Do You Want From Me'' live, but maybe he's not too keen on it because it's too personal and revealing.

About Eight Letters closing the show, from the Telegraph interview:

I'm sorry you're unhappy with the setlist. I can only tell you that the reactions on Twitter have been amazing, people were thrilled with the show, completely ecstatic. Maybe you'll like it better once you see it come to life on stage.

I just watched the fan video of them opening with ''Rule The World'' and the crowd goes mental, singing along with them. I'm happy with the setlist. Swagger91, it's been known from the start there would be TT4, Rob and TT5 sections, so it's nothing new for me.

I guess it's because the tour kicks off in 2 days time.

You've described it well - a song that just seemed to pop out of nowhere. So I'd say - yes, this is a good chart position for a midweek release with absolutely no airplay and no video. I'm sure it hasn't even reached the general population's ears yet.

I'm sure a lot of people don't even know that TT have a new song out. It's only just debuted yesterday, has no airplay or video, so there's nothing to give it that additional push. I think it's doing great considering.

iTunes: #22 - Spain #36 - Sweden #46 - Portugal #65 - Greece #53 - Finland

I hope we'll get the video soon, they filmed it yesterday. Too bad the song hasn't been included on this week's playlist, I don't know if it's getting any airplay?

Other iTunes positions: #34 - Italy #62 - Germany #32 - Denmark #64 - Netherlands

Love Love is already #11 on iTunes.

Fantastic for Take That! Hope they can keep climbing, especially after tonight's performance.

I completely agree, Stevvy. If TT album sales are stagnant, then it's a glorious achievement to be this stagnant. :lol: It's a testament to the quality of their output that they are able to maintain such a large fanbase. I'm of the opinion that even if they didn't sell one more copy of Progress, this Progress era (album + tour) would have to be considered a great success. There's a very limited number of acts that can sell their albums and stadium tours in these numbers.