-Jay-

I can't say I'm surprised that this is the bottom 5! I like them all though - I dished out some 6s and 7s for these.

iTunes UK: Songs #1 I'll Stand By You (Sarah's Version) #85 The Promise #141 I'll Stand By You #147 Something New #152 Love Machine #165 Biology #168 Sound of the Underground #173 Something Kinda Ooooh Albums #9 Ten

Great to see it as high as #10 so far! Fingers crossed it can hold on to the Top 40. Now if only there were CD singles!!

Immensely enjoyed watching the show again :wub: Went straight into the extended version on ITVX (unfortunately missed the TV airing last night). Maybe their best filmed tour from a production and vocals point of view? *.*

I just watched all three episodes! It's enjoyable (if a bit harrowing in places). Lots of scattered thoughts incoming! It was certainly fascinating to see how the managers felt about those times in contrast to the boyband members, and that unfortunately even after all this time the managers still aren't very empathetic regarding the mental toll it had on some of the members. Looking at archive footage with the constant promotion around the world, and the hordes of fans that greeted them everywhere, it doesn't seem surprising that many of these bands didn't make it beyond 4 years before splitting up. Although I'd say I like Take That the most out of all the boybands featured (and obviously they're an essential inclusion in a boyband documentary), I was the least interested in their part of the documentary - because it's the story I'm most familiar with, and I wouldn't say there was much new ground covered. Interesting to see the rivalry between Take That and East 17 though, how it was largely created by the media to sell tabloids and magazines - the framing of them as good boys vs. bad boys. Unless I missed it, did the show overlook that Brian returned to East 17 (as E-17) only a year after the drug-related controversy? Being in Five in particular sadly didn't look like it was much fun at all, and it's very evident how those times are still difficult for them to talk about. Regarding Five passing on NSYNC's Bye Bye Bye and Simon Cowell's regret about that... just because it was a big Top 5 hit in the US for NSYNC, doesn't necessarily mean it would have worked out that way for Five. Like, I think it likely had to be by NSYNC to do that well in the US. I could imagine the scenario that Five releasing Bye Bye Bye could have done better in the UK specifically over NSYNC, but of course we'll never know! Damage - on the one hand I feel like their singles maybe just weren't strong enough on the whole for them to become massive. Then I wonder, if the media had been more supportive and in turn the budgets had been higher, if this would have resulted in better material? The shocking story about Smash Hits magazine though - I feel bad that Damage had to experience that. I know that Eternal were put on the cover 3 times across the 15 singles they released (once in 1994, once in 1995, once in 1996). I wonder if Eternal experienced the same sort of negotiations with the magazine, and also whether those covers didn't sell so well that in turn resulted in Smash Hits' reluctance with Damage (their cover happened in 1997). A 4 year gap between the releases of Damage's first album and second album, at a time when yearly album drops were more common - this can't have helped them from a momentum perspective! Another Level (a boyband not mentioned in this show) came and went in the gap between Damage's two albums! :lol: Although it certainly felt like Blue came along at the right time to hugely benefit from the end of Five, I also feel like Blue had similarities to Another Level... just that Blue were ultimately more marketable because they came across as having a lot more personality as individuals and as a collective. Funnily enough both bands achieved their first #1 singles with their second releases, both being covers of Billboard Hot 100 #1 hits which hadn't been as successful in the UK! (Another Level - Freak Me, Blue - Too Close). Sometimes I forget just how massive Blue were in 2001-4 because subsequent comebacks have kind of diluted it. Perhaps the 2011 comeback was a tad too early to trigger major nostalgia. 911 seem a bit less remembered than other boybands of the era, but they did very well - 10 consecutive Top 10 hits, 8 of those being Top 5 :o I don't listen to them often, but they had some bops for sure.

Often seems hard for charity singles to impact on streaming, and Spotify have given it no support at all :( It wasn't on New Music Friday UK.

TykrGB-ry4M ^ First 1m30s of this is the girls talking about Sarah, and Children in Need :heart: :cry:

:wub: Hopefully Top 20 next Friday! This is the first time AIWFCIY has placed at #38. The number of weeks the song has spent at each position it's placed at in the Top 40: #1 - 3 times #2 - 12 #3 - 5 #4 - 8 #5 - 5 #6 - 5 #7 - 0 #8 - 6 #9 - 0 #10 - 0 #11 - 2 #12 - 4 #13 - 2 #14 - 2 #15 - 0 #16 - 2 #17 - 4 #18 - 3 #19 - 1 #20 - 4 #21 - 2 #22 - 2 #23 - 2 #24 - 1 #25 - 2 #26 - 0 #27 - 1 #28 - 2 #29 - 2 #30 - 2 #31 - 2 #32 - 0 #33 - 0 #34 - 3 #35 - 1 #36 - 1 #37 - 2 #38 - 1 #39 - 0 #40 - 1 This week is its 95th week in the Top 40. Rather fittingly the 100th week occurs on the date of the Christmas chart (20th December).

Liam wasn't posting that as an answer to your request - it was a general post for everyone, to show that the song is now available! Amazon mp3: 1. Click here 2. Click the "..." (the one on the right of where it says 03:36 +) 3. Select "Buy MP3 song" 4. Click "Buy MP3 Song - Pay Now"

Wait- not this already sounding like Perrie's best single so far!

I really want Charli to win because I feel like Brat is the moment of 2024… but I can see Beyonce or Billie getting it (I’m voting Billie for who will win because it wouldn’t surprise me if the Beyonce snubbing continues).

An important poll x I lean towards preferring "Charli xcx"!

1-52-119 chart run so far - oh my oh my!

I did! I got the white vinyl (which I didn't realise existed when I posted the above posts :lol: ) The vinyl quite well, it reached #5 in the UK vinyl albums chart. Honestly the sleeve quality is disappointing looking though. It looks like a scan of a small-ish picture that's been enlarged. Oddly their logo was repositioned, even though the mock up of the vinyl had it in the original position. This gif shows the difference between the original 1993 artwork and the 2024 artwork: http://i.ibb.co/9g0RQC8/ezgif-3-44aec26947.gif

The interview is already on ITVX! Also on YouTube if you can't access ITVX: r6E1ZbHFLoQ

The sleigh!

A lot of silent voters for Things We Do For Love 👀 Only 2 out of 9 posting to say they voted for it. Whereas there's 6 votes for Vegas High and all 6 have posted to mention their vote (this includes me)! Curious!

Curious to find out what your numbers are - 1159 would be a fun one to receive! Hope you've been enjoying your holiday SmileyKylie :cool: I listened to the vinyl today and realised that the remixes on Side B are all extended versions, longer than what's on streaming (the extended versions are available on Beatport though). Nikki Nair Remix; Extended [5:32] Hannah Holland Remix; Extended [7:56] Michelle Manetti Remix; Extended [5:27]

So few nominations for such a great era :( 'we can't be friends (wait for your love)' would have been so deserving of winning something, but not even nominated... grr!

Huge numbers :o And it's now crossed over 600,000,000 total on Spotify.

I received the numbered certificate on Friday! What numbers are you guys? Mine is 0570. ^_^ It doesn't seem like the numbers were done in the order of purchase order... because funnily enough a friend of mine has 0569, even though he seemingly ordered his a little after me because his order number is higher than mine! I wonder if they were just allocated at random?

Received it yesterday! Let's hope it's sold enough to appear in the midweeks, it would be interesting to know how many sales it's managed.

A very positive review here: https://www.londontheatre1.com/reviews/here...dra-birmingham/ Glowing praise from All That Dazzles: @1855394413435834603 + great feedback on Popjustice from those who went! https://forum.popjustice.com/threads/steps.10759/page-3636 Set list image here: https://i.imgur.com/DyOejBW.jpg (not embedding it in case anyone here wanted to be spoiler free :thinking: ) Happy to see that the first night went well and has been well received! Let's hope that continues! P.S. An Attitude interview from a few weeks ago: https://www.attitude.co.uk/culture/claire-r...musical-474360/ - Claire says that they called it Here and Now because they didn't want it to be titled after one of their more obvious hits.

A good start for this, 101,725 streams and #98 entry on UK Spotify! 700k worldwide.

#1 :cheeseblock: We'll take that x The soundtrack also made it to #8 in the download chart, while Best Days of Our Lives reached #41 on downloads and #42 on sales.