Examples of 'Bigged Up' British Artists That Have Flopped!!
Hey,
Has anyone got any examples of bigged up British Artists that have flopped?
Well the one at the top of my mind has to be Duffy, successful first album, but was clearly going to be a one hit wonder. Played to death on the radio, especially Radio 1, Capital and Heart and now her sophomore album has flopped.
To me, that was a big F**K u to the radio for bigging her up so much as well as other artists.
Has anyone got any examples of bigged up British Artists that have flopped?
Well the one at the top of my mind has to be Duffy, successful first album, but was clearly going to be a one hit wonder. Played to death on the radio, especially Radio 1, Capital and Heart and now her sophomore album has flopped.
To me, that was a big F**K u to the radio for bigging her up so much as well as other artists.
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Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong (hahahaha this is like a byword for media hype then failure)
The Courteeners
The Enemy
The Horrors (until they changed musical direction)
The entire nu-rave 'movement'
The romo 'movement'
The New Wave of New Wave 'movement'
Most 'movements' cynically created by and artists bigged up by the English press to sell magazines since 1985
There are a lot of American popstars from the 2000s that failed to deliver massive superstardom and have became more and more desperate, like Ciara, Keri Hilson etc.
Most male X-Factor artists
Just for the record though, I do actually love Little Boots...
Oh and who could forget Speech Debelle? She only sold about 10,000 copies of her album after winning the Mercury Music Prize, and it peaked at #65. Then she was dropped by her record label. And then there was the whole Take That/karaoke embarassment.
I think the sad thing about that is that it only takes sales of 10,000 copies to get to number 65 in the charts!
Hardly say Joe Lean flopped. It depends how you define flopped of course, but in the circles I believe Joe Lean wanted to reach, they were very successful.
I'm not a fan of The Courteeners any more to be fair, but in no way whatsoever they have flopped. I saw them in Feb 2008 in a venue of 500 people, and on their last tour, they sold out M.E.N arena. They've also played notable slots at Glastonbury, Reading and V and had two records in the top ten.
In the words of Zane Lowe, I'm not a fan of The Enemy, but I respect what they do. Ther debut record sold a lot and was very successful. I don't think you'd call that flopping.
And as for nu-rave, Klaxons?
Yeah I prefer the old Klaxons stuff, before they became really big..I haven't heard much from them in a while though.
Not realy, her album has sold quite poorly.
Edit: Jink!
I thought her album went to number 1...... Did it drop drastically in the charts the following week or something?
Maybe the band itself fulfilled those expectations (although I find that kind of spurious considering they didn't even release an album and got dropped), but I meant in terms of media hype relative to actual success, since the OP mentioned radio stations overplaying Duffy without any kind of justification for it and so on. I doubt a lot of the other acts mentioned here seriously care that much about tons and tons of sales either, more about creating art (their record companies probably feel differently though).
Fair enough, but in comparison to the media trash hailing them as the new Oasis and Stone Roses, that just did not happen. Again, I don't think the band itself were expecting anything like that, but the media tended to go into epileptic fits over them around 2007.
Yeah, you're right there. I'll give you that one.
Klaxons are relatively successful but I don't even think they consider themselves nu-rave and they seem to have completely ditched the image now. All of the other British acts basically failed and the remnants were swept away by female electropoppers and grime artists who absorbed some aspects of the trend.
It did go to #1 but yeah just sold really poorly. Think it fell down the charts quickly I'm not sure, but with the sales I wouldn't be surprised.
Even less than 10,000 copies, seeing as that was the grand total of sales two months after winning the Mercury, and 3,000 of those were sold before she'd won. So unless I've misunderstood the figures, I'm guessing she only sold about 3 or 4k at the most to reach #65 :eek:
130,000 last time I checked. Other X-Factor acts have been dropped for selling more than that.
Yeah and her last two singles were at the low end of the top 40 even with an X Factor performance.:rolleyes:
Won a few Brit Awards, played foundations to death on capital and has now faded into obscurity.
Whereas Britney has been around for 12 years yet they NEVER play her songs. annoys me.
I remember her!..Vaguely.