-Jay-

BBC Radio 2 celebrates National Album Day with a listener vote to find the nation’s Ultimate British Group https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2024/radio-...p-vote-launches More discussion about this event can take place here: http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=274907 ...but I specifically wanted to share the list in this thread, to highlight where the groups placed in the results here. It could interesting to compare with the eventual Radio 2 results! ----- Alphabetical 115th: 10cc 15th: All Saints 23rd: Arctic Monkeys 26th: Bananarama 88th: Bee Gees 22nd: Blur 11th: Coldplay 149th: Culture Club 25th: Depeche Mode 96th: Duran Duran 195th: Elbow 111th: Electric Light Orchestra 24th: Erasure 102nd: Eurythmics 17th: Fleetwood Mac 42nd: Florence + the Machine 378th: Frankie Goes To Hollywood 121st: Genesis 1st: Girls Aloud n/a: Imagination 232nd: Led Zeppelin n/a: M People 259th: Madness 32nd: Manic Street Preachers 21st: Muse 73rd: New Order 14th: Oasis 31st: One Direction 9th: Pet Shop Boys 70th: Pink Floyd 66th: Pulp 7th: Queen 20th: Radiohead 139th: Simply Red n/a: Soul II Soul 2nd: Spice Girls 124th: Stereophonics 4th: Sugababes 16th: Take That 8th: The Beatles 110th: The Beautiful South 94th: The Clash 39th: The Cure 95th: The Human League 273rd: The Jam 119th: The Kinks 165th: The Police 111th: The Rolling Stones 68th: The Smiths 212th: The Stone Roses 295th: The Who n/a: UB40 53rd: Wham! 378th: Wings BuzzJack's Order 1st: Girls Aloud 2nd: Spice Girls 4th: Sugababes 7th: Queen 8th: The Beatles 9th: Pet Shop Boys 11th: Coldplay 14th: Oasis 15th: All Saints 16th: Take That 17th: Fleetwood Mac 20th: Radiohead 21st: Muse 22nd: Blur 23rd: Arctic Monkeys 24th: Erasure 25th: Depeche Mode 26th: Bananarama 31st: One Direction 32nd: Manic Street Preachers 39th: The Cure 42nd: Florence + the Machine 53rd: Wham! 66th: Pulp 68th: The Smiths 70th: Pink Floyd 73rd: New Order 88th: Bee Gees 94th: The Clash 95th: The Human League 96th: Duran Duran 102nd: Eurythmics 110th: The Beautiful South 111th: Electric Light Orchestra 111th: The Rolling Stones 115th: 10cc 119th: The Kinks 121st: Genesis 124th: Stereophonics 139th: Simply Red 149th: Culture Club 165th: The Police 195th: Elbow 212th: The Stone Roses 232nd: Led Zeppelin 259th: Madness 273rd: The Jam 295th: The Who 378th: Frankie Goes To Hollywood 378th: Wings n/a: Imagination n/a: M People n/a: Soul II Soul n/a: UB40 The biggest snubs from BBC's list according to BuzzJack would be the following artists, all of them making the BuzzJack Top 40: Little Mix Steps The Saturdays S Club Atomic Kitten Snow Patrol

@1836435199103783340 :wub: She handled the rumour with such empathy! Edit: at us posting about this at the same time!

Apparently this comes from a leaked image of the Side B mock up! (Not sure how/why all the details are being shared in advance of official announcement :drama: )

From Popjustice: London dates are the o2 arena and will be 26th & 27 May 2025 Not sure about rest of uk Lowest ticket fee London will be £65 + booking fee. Top VIP price will be £170 + booking fee. O2 priority and album presale 25th September 10am General sale Friday 27th September 2pm

Queen of lying down! :cheeseblock: If BMG was smart then they'd have a variant with that image as the front cover... but I won't be holding my breath about that. :kink: I am curious if Tension II is going to have more formats than what has leaked. Three would be very low by her standards! The mock-up of Side A of the vinyl suggests that there's 7 songs on that side, so there'd likely be at least 6 tracks on Side B. :thinking:

^ Also showing in stock for me, with 1445 copies! EU store shows 238 copies being available. I'll keep my eyes peeled on the UK stock because I am tempted by it, but it's not coming at a good time for me. Kylie's apparently about to announce a tour, and an album... #priorities Speaking of Kylie, her 3xLP of Disco: Guest List Edition (released in November 2021) cost £30 to £34.99 as a new release across various stores. With packaging that is way more premium looking, than appears to be the case with Charli's £63.99 release*. Although I know the schtick for her this era is the bare bones / low effort looking design. It's wild how vinyl prices are shooting up even in just the last few months. It makes me wonder when or if the bubble is going to burst. I suppose as long as they're proven right that 3000 buyers are prepared to buy it for that price, then who's to stop them? Maybe in another year an equivalent release will be even more expensive. * But really ~£72, given that it's exclusive to a store where you have to pay shipping.

Larger images of the mock ups that were leaked recently (click on the images to see them bigger) The image used for the inner sleeve of the vinyl looks stunning!

First five tracks on the album: 1 My Oh My 2 Lights Camera Action 3 Taboo 4 Someone For Me 5 Good As Gone With a possibility of track 6 being Edge of Saturday Night and track 7 being Midnight Ride!

Sounds great and the teaser clip is intriguing!

Gone back to the My Oh My scheme… maybe they were just testing it / made it go live too soon? 😅

The official music store has updated its colour scheme and it compliments the leaked artwork cover of Tension II. Not long now…

I really want it but... eek! Yeah 3000 is correct, and at the time of me posting this there's 2040 left (55 minutes after going on sale).

I Will Be There And Every Little Thing should still be there x

I wasn't going to go as far as to have 16 rounds; I intended to stick to just songs from their studio albums (with the exception of Light Up the World). However, it was a popular request to incorporate the songs that were included across the three Steps Greatest Hits albums... so, let's do that! But this really is the last round!! ------------------------- Remind yourself of these tracks: Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on how you feel about this song x), 'Dancing Queen' isn't available on Spotify. So if you need a reminder, please check out the YouTube link. YOUTUBE:

The concept of this game is to create BuzzJack's ultimate Steps album by having each track 1, track 2 etc pitted together in polls. All you have to do is vote for your favourite song in the poll! Let us know which song you've chosen in your reply. As a bonus, the second poll is to choose your least favourite - creating BuzzJack's worst Steps album. :kink: Track 15 ended up taking a long time to determine. Initially because the poll result ended up with a tie which wasn't broken after two weeks. Then a tiebreaker was opened, and thankfully the tie was broken... but I forgot about the thread for another 2 weeks. :kink: Ultimately the choice that was made is that 'September Sun' makes it onto the Ultimate track list! This is one of the then-new songs included on the reissue of Tears on the Dancefloor - called the "Crying at the Disco Deluxe Edition". Perhaps predictably, the song from this album that ends up on the "Worst" track list is 'Dear Santa', a ballady Christmas song. This song was presumably originally intended for The Saturdays, some years before Steps recorded it (Una Healy is a cowriter on the song). ----------------------------------- BuzzJack's track lists so far... :winner: 1. Scared of the Dark 2. Last Thing on My Mind 3. Love's Got a Hold on My Heart 4. One for Sorrow 5. Heartbeat 6. Firefly 7. Deeper Shade of Blue 8. Heartbreak in This City 9. Neon Blue 10. Back to You 11. Love U More 12. Paradise Lost 13. Turn Around 14. Just Like the First Time 15. September Sun :mellow: 1. Steptro 2. You Make Me Whole 3. Clouds 4. A Hundred Years of Winter 5. I Think It's Love 6. Make It Easy on Me 7. Experienced 8. Too Weak to Resist 9. Kiss of Life 10. High 11. I Surrender 12. Hold My Heart 13. My Best Friend's Girl 14. To Be Your Hero 15. Dear Santa Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Round 7 Round 8 Round 9 Round 10 Round 11 Round 12 Round 13 Round 14 Round 15 Round 15: Tiebreak

This is where I'm at with it too. Like, it's kind of hideous, but with purpose... :lol: 1159 copies... are there rarer Kylie items than this, ones which were stated to have less copies available?

Against my better judgement, I ordered one too! It really did sell out in a flash... if there was no limit to the amount people could put in their basket, that doesn't seem very fair :( I didn't get an email either by the way. When the order went through it came up with a message about the payment not working but the order was still taken, or something. I did get a notification from my bank account that the order happened, so it should be fine, hopefully yours too SmileyKylie. :thinking:

31st October is a Thursday so definitely not the album release date! The website is totally broken now

The Blessed Madonna's instagram story with the link was deleted temporarily, and then re-added again (presumably they thought the website was fixed) but it's still not working anyway lol. What a mess indeed! If they want to sell this vinyl they might need to consider a better website :lol: It's £27 with postage by the way, insane...

*12” Pink & Black Splatter Vinyl *Hand-pressed at The Vinyl Factory *350gsm Record Sleeve with Embossed Type *Artwork by Sports Banger *Limited to 1159 copies *Hand-numbered *Pre-order Date : 16/09/24 * Release Date :31/10/24 The Blessed Madonna and Kylie Minogue present a limited edition vinyl of their single, Edge of Saturday Night. The release is limited to 1159 copies worldwide and features new artwork by U.K. artist Sports Banger, who has combined photos of The Blessed Madonna and Kylie Minogue from their recent party in Ibiza to create a new cover. The vinyl features three remixes: the recently released Nikki Nair remix, and two exclusive unreleased remixes from U.K. producers Hannah Holland and Michelle Manetti. *Please note this item is on pre-order and is due to ship around the 31st October. Tracklist: Side A: 1 – Edge of Saturday Night (Extended) Side B: 1 – Edge of Saturday Night (Nikki Nair Remix) 2 – Edge of Saturday Night (Hannah Holland Remix) 3 – Edge of Saturday Night (Michelle Manetti Remix)

Lol at the website not being able to handle this

Just realised I posted that titbit about Good Luck, Babe's video in the wrong topic :kink: Here! :D Bonus Chappell Why A ‘Good Luck, Babe!’ Video Probably Isn’t Coming Soon — And More Things We Learned Hanging With Chappell Roan The pop supernova on her favorite horror films, her friendship with Sasha Colby, and other things we couldn't fit into her recent cover story By Brittany Spanos As Chappell Roan either bedazzled her grinder and applied red press-on nails during her recent cover story interview, she opened up about a range of topics that offer a window not just into her particularly crazy year but also into her voracious lists of interests and observations. From more industry double-standards to her Letterboxd account, here are some things we learned that we couldn’t fit into the cover story. Don’t expect a “Good Luck, Babe!” video any time soon… Roan revealed she spent a lot of her summer pushing back on her label’s request to film a music video for her big hit, mostly because she didn’t really have time to make a good one. “I’m too tired,” she said, in between festival dates around the country and recording sessions for her next batch of music. “Do you know how hard it is to do a music video when you’re this exhausted and burnt?” Like everything else in her career, Roan let her own instinct be a guide. “It’s a hit without a video,” she said, repeating what she told her team. “I have a Top 10 hit with a lyric video.” She goes on to point out that success is never linear. What has worked for past hits won’t always work for future ones. “Isn’t that crazy that you don’t need everything you thought you needed to have millions of TikTok and Instagram? I didn’t have that when it first all started kind of blowing up, and I didn’t have video. I didn’t have a trend. I stood my ground and I said I’m not going to take every social opportunity. I’m not going to take every brand deal. I’m not going to take every suggestion, because at the end of the day, it’s me doing the manual labor that everyone else thinks I should just be doing.” She’s become well-versed in the music industry’s double standards. Roan is embodying a drag persona as a pop star. That means she sees a very huge difference between who she is on and off stage. Her big year has made it clear that to exist as a woman artist comes with caveats the men in her field don’t deal with. “One thing that makes me so upset because they don’t do it to boys is they always have to say my name,” she says, referring to non-profile articles and reviews. “Chappell Roan, in parentheses, Kayleigh Rose Amstutz. I was in the same article as Shaboozey, and they didn’t say Shaboozey’s real name. I notice it every time. They always say the girl’s name, their real name, because it’s like God forbid they can be fully an artist.” She’s already thinking about what it will look like as she ages in this industry. “I don’t remember who said it, a woman comedian I think, who was like, ‘You are discarded after you are considered unf***able,’” she quotes. “Such an insane double standard that I’m just realizing more and more as I get more successful and older. People only care about you just being really hot. That’s it. There couldn’t possibly be anything more interesting about you than being gorgeous, and that’s why I feel so comfortable dressing sometimes scary or really jarring.” Her concert themes may not last forever. Since Roan launched her first headlining tour in early 2023, she has built specific themes around each show, all based off her songs or lyrics. She encourages the audience to dress up accordingly. At a “My Kink Is Karma”-themed show, for example, the audience wore blindingly red clothes with some people going all out to recreate her music video look or simply sporting red cowboy hats or devil horns. “I shot myself in the foot so hard with that decision because now I’m just like, ‘I don’t know what the themes are,’” she said, referring to fans asking how they should dress up as soon as tickets dropped for her live dates this year. “People love it so I do it for the people at this point because it really means a lot to them, and it means a lot to me. But now I’m stuck in all these f***ing themes.” She will, however, always have local drag queens open for her shows. “Look, I love the Drag Race girls, but sometimes they take up all the slots in towns because they’re on Drag Race, and the little queens just sometimes don’t have a platform as big. It’s important for people to know, ‘Oh my God, there are queens in my town. I had no idea.’” Festivals have allowed her to explore the potential of her drag persona. Before her career blew up, Roan used to make her video and stage outfits from scratch. Now, she and her team spend months whipping up the extravagant costumes for the stage. And many of these looks have been in the works since before she even saw her numbers explode. “Everything has to be planned months and months and months in advance because everything’s custom now, which is so awesome,” she explained. “No brand is making me a hot pink, glitter, latex wrestling suit. Everything has to be custom and it just takes a long time. For Lolla, we had planned it when I was on the Olivia tour, so February, March.” She’s been enjoying the way people have been looking forward to her looks with each show. “I think we are eventually going to run out of themes, so I’m dreading that, but I like to keep it weird and fresh because it’s exciting for the fans to be like, ‘Oh my God, what is she going to walk out in?’ You’re always excited to see what a drag queen wears. It’s like, ‘What is she going to wear tonight?’ She could be anything. Why are you doing this if you’re just going to take it so seriously?” Keeping a band ain’t easy “Dude, it is hard in the f***ing music industry to find women,” Roan admitted. She’s been trying to maintain a close to consistent band of girls to back her at her shows but many are in demand, have other projects or just hard to find. “It’s hard to find a band. It’s just hard to find girls, girls who rock, and girls who rock and are okay with wearing latex in 100 degrees.” She goes back to summer camp every year Roan credits much of her growth as a person and artist to attending summer camp. She attended a few but there is one in the Pacific Northwest she returns to either get some down time or to offer mentorship. She attended this summer’s camp to do a lecture and Q&A with the aspiring artists who attend to offer insight on the industry and her experiences. “Summer camp just makes me feel like it’s not about me, and that’s what I really struggle with is just feeling like everything is so about me,” she explained. “My whole life is just like ‘me, me, me’ and it just feels so selfish. It feels so delusional. I get why a lot of people become assholes because you just feel like everything should be about you all the time.” Even as her career continues to blow up, she hopes she can find the time to return every year. “I like giving back to a community. It makes me feel like a good person, and it just makes me happy to be around kids who are just like me when I was 16. To give back to kids who want to do this exact job is really special and not something that the music industry can offer.” Sasha Colby dubbed Roan an official member of the Colby drag family. Roan has made no secret of her immense fandom of RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Sasha Colby, a drag legend whose phrase “your favorite drag queen’s favorite drag queen” inspired one of Roan’s first big viral moments. Colby and Roan finally met in July when the drag superstar joined the pop superstar on stage at Capitol Hill Block Party. “She officially named me a Colby,” Roan gushed. “She’s the best. She looked amazing. It was just like, damn, through this job I get to meet people I look up to a lot. It just made me feel really important and good about myself.” She has a list of horror movies on Letterboxd. Roan is a big horror movie fan and had tickets to see Long Legs a few days after our first interview in LA. She excitedly whipped out her phone to show me the list of horror movies she wants to watch that she stores on her private Letterboxd account, mostly the truly “horrifying” type of scary movies produced in Japan, Taiwan and other Asian markets. Some recent horror movies she enjoyed were Talk to Me (“I thought that was so special for a horror movie to make me cry”) and Barbarian.

This overlooks the points that I was making! Some Steps fans said that they would have preferred a reissue over a Part 2, both from a commercial and marketing perspective. According to them, the Part 2 branding was confusing enough to come across like it was a reissue anyway, and they theorised that Steps “lost sales” due to it apparently not seeming like it was a new album. However, from the first week sales I shared… to me, that highlights that Steps’ Part 2 release did translate well as a new product, and not like it was merely a reissue. The sales it achieved were strong in their own right by most measures, and considerably higher than their prior reissue. Yes, the sales of Part 2 were down on Part 1, but I think it’s reasonable for there to be diminishing returns from a quick follow up. That’s why I think it would be an interesting and valid comparison to compare Tension II sales (assuming it’s a Part 2 and not a reissue) with Disco Guest List sales… to determine whether the shift in branding and content results in way more sales for her than a reissue. If it is a Part 2, then it can ultimately be considered as a second/companion album that is attached to the same Tension era. 2 albums, one era. To me that means that it wouldn’t be completely fair to hold it in quite the same regard as Golden and Disco. Tension II wouldn’t be a completely brand new era and I don’t think it would have the same expectations attached to it. By the way, Steps’ Part 2 album included numerous remixes of songs from Part 1, so it all tied together that way - it wasn’t completely separate. So that could end up being the case for Tension II. I’d be very surprised if it didn’t have Padam Padam versions attached to it.

Roan revealed she spent a lot of her summer pushing back on her label’s request to film a music video for her big hit, mostly because she didn’t really have time to make a good one. “I’m too tired,” she said, in between festival dates around the country and recording sessions for her next batch of music. “Do you know how hard it is to do a music video when you’re this exhausted and burnt?” Like everything else in her career, Roan let her own instinct be a guide. “It’s a hit without a video,” she said, repeating what she told her team. “I have a Top 10 hit with a lyric video.” She goes on to point out that success is never linear. What has worked for past hits won’t always work for future ones. “Isn’t that crazy that you don’t need everything you thought you needed to have millions of TikTok and Instagram? I didn’t have that when it first all started kind of blowing up, and I didn’t have video. I didn’t have a trend. I stood my ground and I said I’m not going to take every social opportunity. I’m not going to take every brand deal. I’m not going to take every suggestion, because at the end of the day, it’s me doing the manual labor that everyone else thinks I should just be doing.” https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-fe...ory-1235099765/

The way I completely forgot about this!!