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Amazon.co.uk is selling the new Take That album for just 1 GBP on Monday- but will that those sales count for the charts?

That That had been massive with 'BW' in Germany at least, and the current hype is similar. Didn't heard Greatest Day played much on the radio, and not many talks about the album (apparently only fans knew there was a new album out). This time 'The Flood' is doing really well in the airplay charts, #12 for the single (would have done better if the download sales would have count), the album is currently getting a lot of press promotion so it should sell well on Friday. If not, in two weeks when the promo starts.

The first german radio stations started to play it as "album of the week" with some pre-views, but at all #4 on amazon is really good for Germany

450-500k this week and up to 1.8 M at the end of 2011. The fact its for 3.99 as download at amazon and hmv might help the sale aswell. Knowing you should never trust wikipedia, but they mention 1.2M preorders for the album :blink:

TTO has been down the night before the news had been published - don´t ask me why

Good to see Peter Kay is at #1 at the moment, not sure if he stays there until the weekend. Not sure if there are updates on DVD sales aswell - but with the last Take That DVD breaking every rerord - are there any news how the new Take That "The circus" DVD is doing?

He is clearly no.1 in the airplay charts -my local station plays it at least four times ...and I only listen 4 hours a day. Looks like EMI is really scared that nobody knows that the album is out. They started to push the airplay 8 weeks before the first single & album news were out, so much more airplay....but then TT still gots a lot there aswell. And at the moment I would even say its to much, people could easly be fed up until the time the album is out??

The DVD is filmed the last two days at wembley according to Chris moyles

I won´t give my hopes to high that they stay in the top 20 after the missing dates are back. Th single isn´t even mention on itunes - just as a normal album track, so I wonder if they have a kind of exclusive deal with play.com about that aswell? They don´t seem to bother anymore with the single chart position, might just be in the contract or getting more people to buy the album as you don´t need to pay that much more to get that. The itunes pass is it worth I think, you get the three live songs, the videos which are really great

I have no idea about that, but I don´t think that much :(

The Garden is now down to 27 in Germany - I´m surprise that it only dropped 7

To say something about the BW Tour 2 years ago. All arenas in Germany were sold really good I would say, you couldn´t spot many empty seats The problem with Spain was, that they had sold out an arena, and then moved the show to a twice size one - without putting any advers of the concert on, so not many more tickets got sold. In Italy was the problem the lack of promotion, nearly no adverts and so on, so even people who had loved to see them, but didn´t been so "hardcore" fans knew that they were in town, and found it out as it was to late - after the show actually. I know a lot of people who didn´t bought the album or singles, but would love to see them again on stage - but in my mind europe is at the moment out of their mind. Thy can´t do the same tour again as they have done in the UK over here, and why touring again in spring/summer time with the same songs and thinking again what to do, if you know that a lot of the people already had seen the shows in the UK or the dvd and expecting a certain level.

Its really quiet on TTTV since the change to the new board - well i shouldnt´say anything as I´m only 10% on there as I was used to. :P At the first look its seems to be a reason to be disappointed, only a "Top 20" hit for Take That. But if you look what else is in the charts, and how Take That is still been seen in the radio and media I think its really good. And as much as I like the song, its not the best choise for a single, not in that time of the year. Nearly nobody is buying singles anymore, the economy is starting to get down here aswell - and paying 5 Euro for the normal version is just to expensive - and downloads are cheaper but not everyone wants to do that and just stick to radio or youtube and as recording from radio is here allowed a lot are doing that. The bigger point is, how Take That is seen here. I was lucky enough to win a M&G at a local radio station 2 weeks ago, and it was very interesting to see the "backwork" and what the radio staff expected us fans to be - two crazy fans with posters on the walls and screaming and been like that :w00t: :w00t: They still don´t accept the lads as band, with grown fans and not again the crazyness from the 90´s. And yeah, they tried it again and well I can´t see them having the big hit - but as long the radio stations are playing them a lot I think they are doing well. And I know a lot of people that loved the live shows 2 years ago, and would go again. Don´t know which I prefer - there are songs on both records I love and songs I can´t hear - I would prefair a mix of both :P

Short update for German Charts - entry at #20

Are there any news if the Garden will be released in the UK as 3rd single? I know that wikipedia is not trustable but there its listen as 3rd single, released at the 2oth April (which sounds for me a bit early after Up all night -and they are in the middle of starting the tour rehersale - so I´m not sure about that)