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Nadine Coyle Dropped By Tesco
http://www.bestandworstnews.com/2010/12/nadine-coyle-dropped-by-tesco.html
Now that Nicola is releasing a solo album, a GA reunion is looking further away than ever. So where does this leave Nadine? Is this a good thing for her that Tesco have dropped her as many though she should never have signed with Tesco in the first place. But will any major label/manager/producer/writer want to work with her after the failure of her album? Can she afford to make another album without any finacial backing or is that her music career over?
Now that Nicola is releasing a solo album, a GA reunion is looking further away than ever. So where does this leave Nadine? Is this a good thing for her that Tesco have dropped her as many though she should never have signed with Tesco in the first place. But will any major label/manager/producer/writer want to work with her after the failure of her album? Can she afford to make another album without any finacial backing or is that her music career over?
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not just getting dropped, getting dropped from Tesco.. Unlucky..
stupid idea in the first place.
Coyle 0-1 Cole = Just wait for them rumours to start flying about -.-
But it is Tesco who have cancelled her second single because of the poor sales of her album, so Tesco must be more than just "the place where you can buy it". It was obvioulsy a far more complex deal than that. If Tesco can cancel the single then they are acting more like a record company than a mere distributor.
I hope the album makes stores like HMV and itunes. It's a solid album. Deserves success. But it's flopped not because of being shit as some haters think but because of it's availability.
Nope, Tesco are simply treating it like they would any other product they stock, whether it be a vegetable or a cardigan. If something is underselling then they are not going to grant it valuable shelf space. So they replace it with something else. It's just the usual arrangement that exists when shops make deals with suppliers.
And the weakness of the lead single
I honestly think the album would have flopped anyway. Look at Alesha Dixon - her album entered at #84 this week, yet that was available everywhere.
Its not like Nadine sold the album exclusively in Lidl. Every one in seven pounds in this country are spent in Tesco, pretty much every Tesco in the country had special stands selling the album, and you could also buy it online. Also, I believe that Faithless had the exact same Tesco deal, yet their album got to #2 in the charts.
The truth is that people just didn't want the album. I'm not sure what the main factor was - either weak material, poor choice of lead single and video, lack of promotion, lack of radio play, Nadine's perceived 'unlikeability', her alienation of Girls Aloud fans in interviews, people taking Cheryl's side, the media having an apparent vendetta against her - who knows? But its far too simplistic to blame this entirely on Tesco.
I have to agree. I hardly heard Insatiable anywhere, heard noone talking about it or even mentioning she had a single out. I think possibly lack of radio play is a big thing, I probably heard it about once on the radio (mainly listen to Radio 1 so not sure how much play it got on other stations?) but also I think since GA haven't really done much recently, and the fact that Cheryl has gone solo before, its not really 'big news'
She still needs a distributor, though. No one is going to touch her now she's flopped so badly, so unless she can fund it all herself (which will mean paying lots for independent distribution, advertising etc...) then she'll have to look for a proper label.
I think the bad press, tesco deal and independent record label seriously harmed Nadine's chances of a successful career. I don't know a single act who has released on an independent record label who hasn't flopped. Even big stars need large record company backing .e.g.
Beverley Knights 100% didn't do wonderfully and the singles really flopped - one not even making the top 100
Charlotte Church - her recent "back to scratch" album flopped and the singles haven't even charted. She was also a far bigger and established star than Nadine
Melanie C - has had some success in other countries, but her two self funded albums flopped in this country.
I also think that a lot of the Cheryl lovers harmed Nadine's career, as they continually slagged her off and made it into a battle with childish labels such as "Team Cheryl". Why can't a Girls Aloud fan like both?. I bought both albums and like Cheryl, but have started to go off her as she is starting to appear very smug on the X factor and appeared to delight in Nadine's situation cruelly inviting all the girls but her to the X factor/ Pride of Britain in order to flaunt it in front of her. I am also disappointed in the other girls ( with the exception of Nicola, who was the only one decent enough to wish Nadine luck) who have sat back and watched the papers lay into Nadine without supporting her. Even if they had had a falling out, standing back and not commenting on some of the flack Nadine has faced and virtually encouraging it but continually posing without her is virtually tantemount to bullying. Especially Kimberley who seems to conveniently forgot that it was Nadine's championing of her which helped to get her in the band.
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This isn't true at all. it flopped because her music is rubbish. she not lucky enough like princess cheryl to have a huge tv show to flog her crap music on
Hvae you even listened to the album? Because it sure as hell doesn't sound like it.
i have listened to it, its pants, as was the single. hence it bombing
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jameshall/100008948/tesco-is-not-good-at-everything-just-ask-nadine-coyle/
The message from Tesco on Coyle is “watch this space”. A spokesman said: “We’re obviously disappointed that Nadine’s album hasn’t got off to the start we all hoped for but it’s a great record from a brilliant artist and once we start getting some proper airplay I think a lot more people will discover this for themselves. Tesco is used to facing tough competition and we’ll be getting right behind Nadine’s second single in the new year.”
Confirmed PUT YOUR HANDS UP is the 2nd single!
It's mentioned in tons of articles too, so it must be it! Good choice...
Yeah, Insatiable was a truly shit single but the album as a whole is one of the best of 2010, in my opinion, and Nadine deserves more than this.
Still, going with Tesco exclusively was never going to work. Anyone could see that. The media's hate campaign for Nadine so they could big up Princess Cheryl even more didn't help, though, and I hope they're bloody happy now.