Toni

Congratulations to Will! :cheer: So well deserved. :D

The cover of Whitney's song was stunning. :)

Hello people! Just thought I'd pop in after many years' absence to say, 85% Proof Deluxe edition arrived yesterday and I'm just listening to it for the first time. I'm not quite through yet (I'm on Thank You right now) but I think MUSICALLY and VOCALLY it's possibly my favourite album of Will's. So I'm quite happy. When I first heard Love Revolution - and that was only after I sought it out because someone at Butlins Minehead (!) back in March mentioned to me that he's got a new single coming out - I was disappointed, because it's so NOT up my street, it's got no proper melody. I still don't like it much. But the rest of the album (I'm on "Dare" now)... Brave Man - love it! Promise Me - love it. Gold - love it, those three immediately stand out. But I'm yet to hear anything I don't like (apart from Love Revolution). Most of the arrangements are very, very good. There's some lovely piano bits and some beautiful, understated strings. The drums in Brave Man are particularly good. Nice bell-like effects in You Keep On Loving Me. But what can I say about the vocals? I think vocally it really is Will's best album. And it's ALL there. He actually sings some low notes I can't reach (Where Are You Tonight). :blink: I've always loved the tone of Will's voice in his mid to lower range. Shivers! Anyway, I think I'm going to enjoy this album for many, many hours.

That's not the best definition (I googled it, too -_-). I think the second part for the Wikipedia definition is better: Wikipedia In fiction, folklore, and popular culture, a doppelgänger ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a tangible double of a living person that typically represents evil. In the vernacular, the word doppelgänger has come to refer (as in German) to any double or look-alike of a person. In any case, I don't see any resemblance either, nor do I see that Olly Murs is any way trying to imitate Will. He's not a pale imitation of Will, he's just Olly. The two just happened to be at the same showbiz do.

It's today, yeah. So maybe we can look out for the clips tomorrow? :yahoo:

I'm so looking forward to this! :) Thanks for posting all the updates.

Go WIIILLL!! :lol: :yahoo:

Olly could have gone, if they'd left it to the public! :o And I find it fascinating how for a couple of weeks after Danyl was in the bottom 2, the fans rallied to catapult him to #1, only to lose interest again thereafter. Also the semi-final week is fascinating Pretty much any combination of the bottom 3 could have been in the final. So it might have been Danyl and Stacey or even an all-male line up might have been the case if there'd just been just a very little more or less voting enthusiasm in the different camps. Interestingly, from when Joe topped the poll for the first time, he never looked back, just increased his lead over the rest of them each week. :)

Oh, this is on tonight! Enjoy it, everyone. :)

It's funny, this is the first Will Young album I haven't bought (I haven't even heard the other bonus track, what's that called again? :blush:), but I still care very much about its chart positions and sales. It's performed so much better than I've expected and The Hits will have sold platinum by the end of this week.

In Pop Idol, they weren't only leaked, they were blatantly put on the runner-up's debut single as b-sides. :arrr: Joe's version is lovely, imo. :)

Joe. Oh, I got my wish! :naughty:

Hero is a much better song than You Are Not Alone, with several of the singers (Ruth, Rachael, Alexandra, Laura and Austin) sounding very good on it. On this year's single, only Lucie, Jamie and Joe stand out in a good way, the rest are bland, imo. Back on topic, one thing's for sure: Joe will never beat the 1.1m+ physical sales (at £3.99 a go) that Will Young achieved with his debut, and that wasn't even at Christmas time. ;) But I quite like The Climb and love Joe's voice, I'll be buying it (probably downloading tonight plus pre-order the CD from Amazon), and I'd say he'll sell around 412,750 this week.

It's great to see Will's doing so well with The Hits. :D I'm excited today, as the 2-week weather forecast indicates the possibility of a white Christmas for me! :o :cheer:

Thanks for that article, TT. :)

Thanks for the update, Sunday. I'm really rather pleased about how well this is doing. Dare I hope that he stays in the top 20 another week after this? :)

Any update today, please?

Hehe, I was there, on the 22nd. :dance: Actually, I turned up on the Saturday, too, convinced that my ticket was for that night! :rolleyes: :wacko: :lol: DOH! But he really was fabulous. :yahoo: Loved it. And the sound at the Hammersmith Apollo was awesome, I've only ever had good experiences there. :) It's great to see that he's only had good reviews so far, incl. the London gigs. He deserves that. :wub:

Ohhhh, I hope he can stick at #10. But I have a bad feeling Rihanna may overtake him. Still, I expected it to drop down to the lower top 20s. Sunday, do you happen to know where a certain Irish fella's covers album is? ;)

Phew, that's within my most optimistic hopes. :)

Thanks. Yeah, well said. :( I hope the album goes top 10, at least. :o

Tut tut at the mistakes in the Aberdeen review, but since they're praising him, I can forgive them. ;)

As of today, just 5 days to wait. :D

Anyone got an idea where Hopes & Fears charted?

I completely agree. Cannot wait to hear the song, I really liked the snippet on Popjustice. :D