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thankyou so much for putting that up! I absolutely adore it.

I think you'll find his first album did MUCH worse when it was released, it went in even lower and sold far less - he's always been a slow, steady seller who probably gets most of his sales from the supermarkets, I don't doubt this album will manage half a million after a few good singles, 'My Soul Pleads For You' and 'Grace' are very nice.

Nate James 'The Message' IS a fantastic song, he deserves his million just for that...

This album redefines the word 'filler'. That said however, I don't mind paying a princely nine quid for the 5 or 6 very good tracks - LOVE 'Coming Around Again', 'Grace', 'Take Your Time' and 'My Soul Pleads For You' in particular. To be honest if one takes the good songs from Sanctuary and Grace, THERE you have a decent album. It's worth buying to support him anyway, he is a lovely guy and has a very nice voice, autotuned or not. He did a suprisingly good rendition of 'Coming Around Again' on the live lounge last week, proving that while he's probably had a little bit of help with his pitch he can 'cut it' - I'd go and see him live now I'm assured it wouldn't be too dire.

what a RACKET :angry:

this thread is hilarious, I must remember to check it every week at the time the charts are on. MCR are horrific aren't they, have put Take That's 'Patience' on instead :D

his single sales have always been atrocious for the quality of the songs, he's had two no.4s and a 16 for After All This Time...he shifts plenty of albums however, presumably via the 21st century medium of 'Tesco'.

Will Young absolutely TOWERS over everyone else I've ever heard live, I know it's unlikely that someone could outclass the competition by SUCH a wide margin, but I'm disappointed by live renditions from every other artist that just can't measure up to the recorded version. Perhaps the only competition would come in the form of the first Australian Idol winner Guy Sebastian who can produce similarly note PERFECT performances. Adam Levine of Maroon 5 has a lovely live voice, Maroon 5's acoustic album is worth picking up, George Michael from the recordings I've heard has a brill live voice, and I've got a very good Darren Hayes live recording, so I would say all those 3 are good live singers. There are a couple of course I've heard who are DIRE compared to some fantastic studio recordings, but I'll keep it nice for this thread. :)

I think it is quite easy to work out what the possible setlist will be, it'll constitute around 18 songs like his last I imagine, certainly not less, maybe a couple more because of the amount of material - let's say 20. - first, he has to include a certain number of singles he's released - second, the tour is billed as 'KEEP ON' live so certain amount will have to be from this album - third, look at what he did in the arena tour + mini-tour last time, he won't want to repeat much I imagine I think from the singles he has released, he will drop evergreen, LMF, Y&I....there is a CHANCE he could bring back funked up version of ONE of them, but if he did any more than that from 'pre-LRN' days I'd be suprised...he'll HAVE to keep LRN as it is 'his' song, YG I imagine will be in, ditto FC - and of course regrettably all of the KO singles, SIO, ATL and WAI.... -likely also he will do A Cover similar to the last arena tour I imagine he will do ALL the tracks from Keep On.... also it is probably sensible to think he'll put in a few from FC that perhaps didn't get enough emphasis in last arena tour/he just likes more than the others....I imagine these to be Free, Very Kind and possibly Out Of My Mind thus it is reasonable to deduce the setlist will closely resemble: 1. Pre LRN Song 2. A Cover 3. Leave Right Now 4. Your Game 5. Friday's Child 6. Switch It On 7. All Time Love 8. Who Am I 9. Keep On 10. ASABPTB 11. Happiness 12. Think It Over 13. Madness 14. Save Yourself 15. All I want 16. Think About It 17. Home 18. Free 19. Very Kind 20. Out Of My Mind he is quite hard to predict, note quirky choice of 'Over You' last time and presence of 'random' cover 'in The Stone' but I would be REALLY suprised if there were much deviation from this