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    I think it's difficult to directly compare the girl group re-releases, for many reasons. Here's how they did in their first weeks anyway:

     

     

    Chart date - 5th November 2021:

    #5 - 7,798 sales - Spice Girls - Spice (12 newly released physicals, including 6 Vinyl, 5 Cassettes & 1 CD)

    4,563 - Vinyl

    1,464 - CD

    1,219 - Cassette

    364 - Streaming

    188 - Download

     

     

    Chart date - 8th October 2021:

    #18 - 3,518 sales - Sugababes - One Touch (8 newly released physicals, including 4 Cassettes, 2 Vinyl & 2 CD) [one of the CD formats included a third bonus disc]

    1,595 - Vinyl

    1,336 - CD

    306 - Cassette

    189 - Download

    92 - Streaming

     

     

    Chart date - 23rd June 2023:

    #42 - 2,925 sales - Girls Aloud - Sound of the Underground (3 newly released physicals, including 2 Vinyl & 1 CD)

    Unfortunately I don't have the final chart sales breakdown, but I do have the Tuesday midweeks (which represents 4 out of 7 days of sales / 3 out of 7 days for streaming).

    At that point it had sold 2,778 sales, which was 94.97% of its eventual 2,925 sales. I just don't know where the additional 147 sales would be distributed!

    1,723 - Vinyl

    964 - CD

    54 - Download

    37 - Streaming

    I estimate 1,780 - Vinyl / 1000 - CD / 85 - Streaming / 60 - Download]

     

     

    Chart date - 11th November 2022:

    #46 - 2,257 sales - Spice Girls - Spiceworld (4 newly released physicals, including 3 Vinyl, 1 Cassette)

    1,603 - Vinyl

    279 - Cassette

    224 - Streaming

    151 - Download

    ^ Who knows how many copies the CD would have sold had it been available in this week. It came out 6 weeks later, so with an additional 6 weeks of pre-order availability, this happened:

     

    Chart date - 23rd December 2022:

    #105 (re-entry) - 1,532 sales - Spice Girls - Spiceworld (1 newly released physical, the CD)

    1,196 - CD

    167 - Vinyl

    157 - Streaming

    6 - Cassette

    6 - Download

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    What Will the Neighbours Say? is being re-released on March 8th! How do you think this will fare in the UK chart?

     

    Once again, this reissue will be available with three physical formats: 3CD, Blue Vinyl and Picture Disc Vinyl. Incentives to pre-order from their official store: an exclusive sheet of stickers, and a competition - a chance to win Girls Aloud concert tickets.

     

    Will Girls Aloud being together again be beneficial for WWTNS? This time there's three unreleased tracks included, which could give it an edge over SOTU. WWTNS was more successful at the time, and it seems to be the more popular album with the fanbase.

     

    SOTU re-release charted at #42 with 2,925 sales in the 23rd June 2023 chart (exactly 100 sales behind #40).

     

    WWTNS will chart on 15th March 2024; note that in the equivalent chart last year, the #31 from that week sold 2,833. Almost 100 copies less than what Girls Aloud sold to miss the Top 40 three months later. If March 2024 is at a similar sales level to 2023, could WWTNS make the Top 30 by selling a similar number of copies to SOTU?

    I managed to fight Celine Dion onto here! That was my proud inclusion :lol:

    :cheeseblock: …and that’s the way it is!

     

    I think as an early-ish example of a Max Martin production, it’s nice to represent that alongside the more obvious Britney/Backstreet Boys songs. Celine deserved to have a much bigger success with it in the UK! #12 was rude :whistle:! I suppose it was one of those songs that was well received but it translated to album sales instead of singles. :thinking:

    From Google searching it seems others have made the connection too. Yet I’ve listened to both numerous times over the years and never once felt like they were cut from the same cloth. :thinking: Curious! I think Honey to the Bee is quite a light and breezy track, and a bit of a sugar rush, compared to Never Ever having a more heavy tone and a soulful feel.

    I’ve never made a connection between Honey to the Bee and Never Ever! :lol:

     

    Yes it was on the longlist and I shared the same points about it in our discussions. At least she's on that ABBA tribute :D

    If I was involved I would have fought in your corner! :kink:

    Was there anything left out that you think should gave been included?

    Maybe Billie - Honey to the Bee. I’m under the impression that it was one of her better respected songs at the time she was a popstar, and the Radio 1 campaign in 2007 sending it back into the Top 20 provided more memorability!

     

    The no duplicates rule makes sense in order to give representation to many different artists, and for the most part it doesn’t create major losses - like Mi Chico Latino makes sense as the one pick for Geri. I guess the toughest one is Shania Twain, given that both That Don’t Impress Me Much and Man! I Feel Like a Woman are 1999 essentials.

     

    An excellent tracklist overall, covering many genres that made that year what it was. CD1 & CD2 are right up my street. CD3 & CD4 less so, but there’s a smattering of tracks I like across them.

    And it did happen! another "edit" version of the song just out, 13! What a smash!
    😂😂😂 Honestly she still won’t get UK 1 but hopefully billboard just remove the nonsense versions from counting so it’s fair seen even some of her own fans remark how silly it is this is allowed

    Why are you both so obsessed about a song / artist that you apparently don’t like? It’s one thing to express dislike once and move on, but this fixation with following what she’s doing & remarking negatively on it, shifting the goal posts each time to “prove” that she’s underperforming… it is coming across as a vendetta. It’s really petty and ludicrous.

     

    Ariana isn’t the first artist and certainly won’t be the last artist to release alternative versions of a song, in the pursuit of doing as well as possible. It’s completely above board, there’s no reason at all for Billboard to disallow it.

     

    Newsflash: If ‘yes, and’ misses out on #1 and goes to #2 in the US and UK, it’s not a flop, it’s not a disaster, it’s not embarrassing.

    Preorder is live!

     

    https://shop.girlsaloud.com/

     

    Same as last time - 3CD, colour vinyl (blue) & picture disc. Vinyl, and the bundle of all 3, include a sheet of stickers. Although on this occasion there’s no merchandise such as t shirts. :thinking: Maybe they want fans to wait to buy merch at the tour?

     

    A little article from Form UK design about the album, including some pictures from the developmental stage of the original 2004 sleeve design.

    The Encore release did nothing to boost the album.

    The physicals aren't out until April which is likely what will give it its boost, albeit for one week. As a download/streaming release back in November, it helped the album to re-enter at #165 (and really, a download and some alternative versions of the album tracks being streamed wasn't going to create a major/sustained boost for the album).

    Love Train and Hands, no thank you :wacko:

    It's a joke post! :kink: I picked two of the "mixed reactions" album tracks on purpose. :P

     

    I hope this doesn’t mean another greatest hits

    Even though Kylie's no stranger to releasing compilations, I very much doubt they'd try another one less than 5 years after Step Back in Time: The Definitive Collection. I'm sure that'll serve as her main compilation for a while to come. Although it has to be said, its track list now looks like Padam Padam is a glaring omission. Maybe one day there'll be a new one so it can be included... :drama:

    Disc 2

    1. Wicked Game Unreleased

    2. Disco Bunny Unreleased

    3. Baby When You Go Unreleased

    4. I'll Stand By You (Electronic Mix) Unreleased

    5. Wake Me Up (Alternative Lyrics Version) Previously included on The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits CD2

    6. Hanging On The Telephone Previously included on The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits CD2

    7. Androgynous Girls B Side of Love Machine

    8. Loving Is Easy B Side of Wake Me Up

    9. History B Side of Wake Me Up

    10. I'm Every Woman Previously included on Discomania compilation - first time on a Girls Aloud release

    11. Love Machine (Demo Version) Previously included on The Singles Collection - The Rarities Disc

    12. Deadlines & Diets (Version 2) Unreleased/leaked - from a Polydor CD-R sampler

    13. Love Machine (CD:UK Edit) Unreleased/leaked - from a Polydor CD-R sampler

    14. The Show (Popworld Edit) Unreleased/leaked - from a Polydor CD-R sampler

    15. I'll Stand By You (TV Edit) Unreleased/leaked - from a Polydor CD-R sampler

    16. Wake Me Up (Off The Record Edit) Previously on Ten CD2

     

    Disc 3

    1. Love Machine (Tony Lamezma's Club Mix / Radio Edit) Unreleased

    2. Wake Me Up (Tony Lamezma's "Love Affair" / Radio Edit) Unreleased

    3. The Show (Flip & Fill Remix)

    4. I'll Stand By You (Tony Lamezma's Club Romp / Radio Edit) Unreleased

    5. Love Machine (Gravitas Disco Mix / Radio Edit) Unreleased

    6. Wake Me Up (Flip & Fill Remix) Previously on Floorfillers 3 compilation - first time on a Girls Aloud release

    7. The Show (Bang Bang Klub Vocal Mix)

    8. I'll Stand By You (Gravitas Vocal Dub Mix / Edit)

    9. The Show (Tony Lamezma Club Mix)

    10. Wake Me Up (Gravitas Club Mix)

    11. Love Machine (Tony Lamezma's Full Length Club Mix)

    12. The Show (Bang Bang Klub Alternative Mix)

    13. Wake Me Up (Tony Lamezma's "Love Affair")

    14. I'll Stand By You (Tony Lamezma's Club Romp)

    15. The Show (Gravitas Club Mix)

    16. Love Machine (Gravitas "Disco" Mix)

     

    ^ Remixes without a note next to them are already available!

     

    Very nice that they're including the TV/Performance edits of the singles. They didn't do that for No Good Advice, Life Got Cold or Jump on the Sound of the Underground re-release, so I wasn't anticipating it for What Will the Neighbours Say? - so that's pleasantly surprising.