Dazzle

I'll buy another copy for myself when it officially gets released. I'd feel too bad otherwise.

Last Year 2 Sinking In 4 The Same Side 6 Something About You 11 Place To Hide 7 + Right Here 5 Counting 0 - Already Gone 11 Alone 5 Passionate You 9 Stolen 5

Last Year 4 Sinking In 5 The Same Side 6 + Something About You 8 Place To Hide 6 Right Here 5 Counting 3 - Already Gone 10 Alone 5 Passionate You 8 Stolen 5

Last Year 5 Sinking In 5 The Same Side 5 Trying Not To Lose 0 - Something About You 8 Place To Hide 6 Right Here 5 Counting 4 Already Gone 7 + Alone 5 Passionate You 6 Everytime I Think Of You 4 Stolen 5

Fine! I shall go for counting next, as TNTL is my other least fave! :P Last Year 5 Sinking In 5 The Same Side 5 Trying Not To Lose 2 - Something About You 7 Place To Hide 6 Right Here 5 Counting 4 Already Gone 6 + Alone 5 Passionate You 5 Everytime I Think Of You 5 Stolen 5

Last Year 5 Sinking In 5 The Same Side 5 Trying Not To Lose 5 Something About You 5 Place To Hide 6 + Right Here 5 Counting 4 - Already Gone 5 Alone 5 Passionate You 5 Everytime I Think Of You 5 Stolen 5

I know not everyone has heard the album yet, but we'll do this again after the UK release. For that reason I'm leaving 'Almost' off the tracklist. So... lets play! Last Year 5 Sinking In 5 The Same Side 5 Trying Not To Lose 5 Something About You 5 Place To Hide 5 Right Here 5 Counting 5 Already Gone 5 Alone 5 Passionate You 5 Everytime I Think Of You 5 Stolen 5

I sooo regret not going to more dates. Some of my friends have gone to loads of them. I should have at least gone to Brighton! :( Oh well, next Friday. EEP!

Shakira's album was delayed but it wasn't at the last minute. I saw it coming a good few weeks before when no one played the 'Don't bother' video... and when she failed to turn up on TRL last year! GRRR! And my UK CD is actually faulty! :o Well, 'Alone' is - the rest are fine!

I agree - 'The same side' would have been the perfect opener. As I've said before, I'd have gone with this: 1 - The Same Side (or song for sam if it had ended up on the album) 2 - Something About You 3 - Already Gone 4 - Sinking In 5 - Last Year As much as I don't like 'Last year' as an opening single, there's something about it which would be good to close the album with. And I only know place to hide is meant to be the 3rd single cos I told Lucie I loved it and it should be a single, so she said it would be 3rd. I agree now that it wouldn't do well in the charts... as amazing as it is!

Well, on Saturday I saw it said 'Ready to despatch' on the woolworths website so gave it a go, thinking it would never turn up. This morning it arrived on my doormat! :o I was shocked but happy. The cover is perdy!

Well, I don't know for sure but I think the main factor is their predictions of how they think songs will do. If they don't think they'll sell enough, they won't sell it. Also past performances are a factor - so if something hasn't had much promo, they may still sell it if the last single was big. I'm sure the record companies bribe them or something. They've sold all Keisha White's singles despite only one of them going top 20!

Blue Note artist Norah Jones is to lead a top-heavy release schedule for the first half of 2007, in a period that will be dominated by the return of superstar female artists. Jones’s new album, the follow-up to 2004’s 10m-selling Feels Like Home, will be released on January 30 through EMI and will open the doors to a flood of new studio albums in the first half of the year from female talent, including Natasha Bedingfield, Kelly Clarkson, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Avril Lavigne, Courtney Love, Kylie Minogue and Lucie Silvas. Solo albums are also due from one-time Sugababes Mutya Buena and Siobhan Donaghy, while Dido will follow combined UK sales of nearly 6m for her first two albums No Angel and Life For Rent with a third album in quarter three. Music Zone’s commercial director Eren Ozagir says the releases are attractive because they draw a particular type of customer into stores. “I think with artists like Natasha Bedingfield, Kylie and even Lucie Silvas, which has now gone back to quarter one, these are very mass-market titles that everyone does very well with,†he says. He attributes the strong line-up to an active quarter four. “I think it’s the result of labels pushing a lot of stuff back into next year and, as a result, we could be looking at one of the most interesting quarter ones in quite a while.†HMV head of music Gary Rolfe says, from a sales perspective, the acts’ established audiences mean a big result from day one. “It’s encouraging to think that, after a potentially very impactful Christmas schedule, we can follow-up with such strong titles to hit the ground running in the new year,†he says. “I’m sure the market will continue to remain very receptive to the musical styles of [these artists].†Jones, Dido and Clarkson alone – all of whom are releasing their third studio albums – can boast collective album sales in excess of 65m worldwide. The aforementioned releases will be joined in the schedules by follow-up albums from UK acts including Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party and Maximo Park, whose second albums are all due out in the first quarter of next year. Independent retailer Paul Quirk of Quirk’s Records in Ormskirk says it is these releases that he expects to perform for the independents. “We’re now doing a majority of our business away from chart product. People aren’t looking in indie shops for chart product,†he says. Jones’s third album Not Too Late is her first without legendary producer Arif Mardin, who passed away in June; he signed her up to Blue Note in 2001 and produced both her previous albums. In his place, Jones’s long-time bassist and partner Lee Alexander has produced the new 13-track set, co-writing a number of songs with Jones, who for the first time has written or co-written an entire album. Singer-songwriter M. Ward provides guest vocals on the track Sinkin’ Soon. To date, Jones has enjoyed career sales surpassing 30m worldwide. Her debut Blue Note set Come Away With Me was released in February 2002 and went on to sell 10m in the US and 20m worldwide, and its follow-up managed more than 4m units in the US and 10m worldwide. Jones was in the UK last month for a host of long-lead promotion and Music Week talked to her for an insight into the recording process of the new album, details of which will be featured in a forthcoming issue.

Mine has the booklet!

If they're gonna bring back anyone, they should bring back Valda. I forgot to watch it yesterday and didn't even realise til I was halfway through today's episode! Home and away is much better!

There's a nice article in this weeks issue of music week about the big hitters for next years album chart. The article mentions how an onslaught of female singers will be launching new albums early next year, such as Norah Jones and Kelly Clarkson. The article also mentions how Lucie's album has now slipped til next year, but is expected to be one of the big sellers! It put a smile on my face when I read it this morning! I hope Lucie's seen it! :D

How have you only found this out today? :P

You spend waaay too much time on myspace, babe! :P

I want the full version now. Should I go to Germany, download it and come back?

Of course you can criticise anyway you want. All I said was that I found the title of the thread immature. Again, my opinion which I am allowed to state.

I hope the tracklist changes as it would be a crime if androgyny isn't on there!

I used to know Jamie, the drummer. Heard of the band for a while now but this is the first time I've heard any of their music. Quite good. Think I like it!

Absolutely hilarious.

Click the link and it plays automatically, you sexy woman! :D

Well, Daz is a he. I don't know many girls named Daz! :P And I was commenting on how the title of the thread was quite pathetic and immature... whoever wrote it.