Overstaged

Natasha Bedingfield had a massive Top 5 hit in America with Pockeful Of Sunshine, which wasn´t even released in UK to date. In 1995, Nicki French put her version of "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" at #2 in America, but it only went #5 in UK and the chart run was much shorter.

The video is amazing, altough it´s kinda slow. It will definitely help her song a bit in the charts. The song is amazing... I listen to DBIL everyday since it leaked and still after 2 months, I like it more and more everyday!

Dido now has a video for her song. And it´s amazing. Now I think she does stand a chance to go Top 75 entry on next weeks official chart (I feel myself ridiculous for raving at a lower Top 75 entry, but considering the way things were in the beginning of the week...) And I believe the song will be a climber. It HAS to reach Top 20 at least in some point.

Only 25k for a Top 10 album :(. And we´re almost in November!!! I think this market is really dying.

So true... Eva Cassidy, being 6 fit under the ground, does better to promote her albums then Dido is doing with this.

This is so going to miss the Top 75... I seriously think Dido´s career as a mainstream pop artist is finished.

Dido already falling. :lol: Out of the Top 100 in a matter of hours???? What an impressive pseudo-comeback she has... when this is over, I supposed most people will still think Life For Rent was her last album.

Dido is actually climbing well for a song that´s not adverted. Put an advert on the main page a release the music video for this (which was shot in September but has not been release for unknown reasons, by the way), and she would watch this going Top 10 even with little promo.

Well, I remember Freak Of Nature debuted at around #14, but that album went to sell 1 million in the long run. Am I being too optimistic??? I´d say if Ana has a killer song coming as a single in the future, and promotes it properly, she can still save this.

Midweeks: missing the Top 75 so far... This is officially the flop of the year. Oh wait, Anastacia´s album is #16 in midweeks, let´s wait until Dido´s album comes and I hope she goes at least Top 10. :)

You think she´s worried at the clash or chart competition??? :D For someone who is going to debut outside the Top 40, it doesn´t make a difference who is going to be #1... If she bothered about chart sucess then she would have made a music video for the f***ing song, promote a bit, and release it in the week it was actually scheduled for. She is just kidding comitting a commercial suicide for fun...

Well, but Jem was hardly ever a big artist. Anastacia´s promo was also bad, but at least she had a music video for her song and did a few performances. That makes it look like massive promo, compared to Dido. Dido was a massive star and her comeback was being aticipated for years. They really throwed money away with this... Just when you thought that the record label already did its best to make this comeback a flop, something new happens: the CD single blurb informs the wrong release date of the album. I wonder if the people working on the promotion of this album are even professional??? Or maybe they´re Dido haters doing their best to make it flop?

that will only happen if she wakes up and starts promotion. If the album comes out next week, it will be lucky to enter Top 5.

Isn´t really THAT popular??? Does the fact the she sold more albums in UK this decade then ANY other female, despite having only 2 releases count??? I seriously doubt the album is coming next week. If it is, then it WILL flop. The problem is not with Dido´s popularity. The problems are: 1) she doesn´t have a video for the lead single 2) she did no promotion so far 3) the release is being announced for Nov 17th, and if it comes next week it will be a surprise and most people won´t even be aware I still believe this is a mistake. In normal circumstances, Dido would go # 1 with ease. Razorlight are nothing compared to her. But releasing an album by surprise, with no promo, and in the wrong date, really kills her chances of having a nice debut week. The single was released today and looks like will flop. It´s not announced anywhere, the release schedules still say it´s coming next week (Nov 3rd), it contains no bonus or remixes, the cover is just a blue screen with the song´s name on it, and like I said, it had no promotion and not even a music video. I think the record label is just testing her to see how much results she can achieve with no effort at all. They really made a mess with her comeback.

That´s stupid... it´s like burning money. The single is out and there is no music video and no promo at all... THEY RUINED HER COMEBACK!

Ouch at their first week sales!!!! Horrible, for an album that was launched with a #1 airplay hit.

Is that really a comeback??? It´s barely 12 months since her last studio album. I don´t think that´s enough time to generate an aticipation. In my country, radios are still playng the last single from Blackout. This is odd. And by the way Womanizer is NOT her biggest hit since BOMT in America... It just happened to chart higher then other because this era is rule by downloads, a whole different system. Many other songs from her, like Toxic, I´m A Slave For U, Oops I Did It Again, etc, would easily be #1´s under these circumstances. So far, I guess womanizer is doing just marginally better then "Gimme More" (which, itself was also praised as her "biggest hit since BOMT", cause it was only her second Top 5 hit in America). While GM debuted in the low 60´s with airplay alone, and then jumped at #3, where it spent 2 weeks based mainly on downloads, Womanizer debuted in the low 90´s, then jumped to #1 and fallen to #4 on downloads alone. Considering Gimme More didn´t even have a proper video, just a dull version that was release very late, and that download market is doing whooping increases every year, I´d say that Womanizer is having, more or less, the same sucess that Gimme More had in America, or maybe just a bit better.

No, they´re just a local act, and a minor one. Until they have at least 1 million selling album, they can´t be considered among the heavyweights of british music. By the way, I never said they are not sucessful... But they definitely aren´t among the biggest, if you compare them with real big british artists.

No, it´s not, it´s just plain truth... Chart sucess usually don´t fit with musical sucess. Real musicians are interested just in music, and they usually pass far from the Top 10 in music charts. Trendy pop acts like GA are more interested in the "celebrity" life then the music itself. That´s the reason they invest everything in promo and end up sucessful. A song can still be c**p and reach the top spot. GA proves it again this week. Real musicians know that they don´t have much chances of commercial sucess in charts that are dominated by manufactured girls that can´t even play an instrument.

I didn´t criticize them for doing promo... They´re right for doing that, I just say that there aren´t so many merits by achieving a good chart position when they have been all around. LMAO at the comment of them promoting too much because of being too big. GA isn´t even among the 10 biggest UK acts of this era, yet you have british artists who are much bigger then them without doing a half of the promo they do. Also, there is the factor that they don´t have an international career, which means they can spend 100% of their agenda promoting in UK, while the real big artists of the nation have to split between Europe, America, Oceania, etc. Then there´s also the fact they don´t have any artistic pretention. While other artists have to spend time actually making and writing music, they can have almost full time to just promote cause the music is being made by someone else. Releasing a new album every year would be almost impossible for the real big acts of UK, like Coldplay, Oasis, Dido, cause they can´t spend 10 months touring, then make everything ready in 2 months. GA can, cause while they´re touring and promoting their singles, producers already have everything in the box for their next album, so that they just need to arrive at the studios and put their voices on it, which can be done in a matter of days. Considering all the hype surrounding them and the amount of promo they had in their entire career, they should have achieved much more then they did, no just "ok-ish" selling albums.

A "respectable" amount of copies is just not good for an album that had 3 top 2 hits, 2 of them being number ones, and one of them being practically a pop classic (Toxic). That´s less then mediocre, IMO. That´s why I say no matter how big her singles are, it won´t translate into huge album sales in UK. She can only do "respectable" with her albums. I don´t think the album is so anticipated as it looks... Really, this is BuzzJack, and it´s heavily inclined towards female pop princesses. Any of Britney´s album was anticipated here... The reason why I think this album will chart low, maybe even outside the Top 10, is because it´s out in December. Under these circumstances, she will need to sell 80-90k to just scrape the Top 10, and I don´t think she´s enough of a credible albums artist for this. "In The Zone" was also heavily anticipated... A duet between her and Madonna, the controversial kissing on MTV, and all that stuff ended up as a... #14 debut for her album.

Well, I´d say if Dido was on every TV show and if her music wasn´t credible enough for people want to buy the album instead of just 1 track, she would have conditions of selling 70k in a week. Anyway, those were just predictions... Nobody really said it would be impossible for them to get the #1. They got it, so congratulations... you got what you wanted. By the way, I don´t think there is such things as being "good enough for #1...". We had number ones like Cha Cha Slide in the past, so it´s not like being any good is a requirement for a #1.

Well, the song is still very poor after all, despite going # 1. Chart sucess doesn´t mean artistic quality. Plus, it´s only good that things are not that predictable. Situations change, and we don´t have a crystal ball to predict it. For example, a few months ago anyone would predict Dido would have a big comeback. How could we predict she is going to release the lead single of her comeback album without a music video and without doing any TV performance at all? With not even a few remixes of the track??? Basically, she just recorded a song, put it in a CD and handed it to record stores, which diminish her probabilities of sucess by 95%, I guess. However, GA is a promotional machine. The girls don´t even have involvement in making the music at all, they are just pretty tools the record label chooses to promote it. Then again, the biggest rival of this song would have been Leona´s Forgive Me, which, because of the date change, is not clashing anymore. So we better just wait until Leona releases her single and compare the opening week sales. Otherwise, it makes no sense making fun of people predictions, when nobody could supposed everything would change.

If their albums were worldwide blockbusters selling millions of copies, I reckon: 1) they wouldn´t have time to release albums as quick as they do. 2) the temptation of the members to go solo would be too strong, and eventually ruin it. The Spice Girls made too much money in a ridiculously short time. At that point, they simply didn´t need to release more stuff and their egos killed the band. With GA it won´t happen, cause they know they are not big enough to go solo, and if you consider their sales and divide by 5, I don´t think they are making such a huge amount of money TBH.

Well, in fact that´s a bit random... I wouldn´t say they are a 5th of what the Spice Girls were. Obviously, they are collecting much more hits because they release a new album every year. Comparing GA to Spice Girls would be like comparing James Blunt to Elton John. Sucess cannot be measured in QUANTITY of items charted, cause that´d be the only way GA would be among the biggest. Most real artists take some time between albums because they have to prepare it. GA just releases a new album every year no matter what, they rush the hell out of it just to cash in the Christmas market. And really, to talk about sucess, I think they would need to sell 1 million singles to make up for the amount of sucess that 150,000 albums represent. I´m sure that if they had a million selling album they wouldn´t be able to score so many Top 10 hits, cause it´s much harder to put a song in Top 10 when everyone already has the album. GA sell an average 300,000 albums which makes it a lot easier to achieve a top 10 hit even with the 4th single off an album. But i´m sure for the record label and the music industry, it would be much more significant to have a million selling albums then dozens of top 10 hits, which combined would sell 1 million in the end, specially considering 1 million singles makes less money then 150,000 albums.