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Old 11-01-2004, 19:06
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No surprises that she's Number One. But she didn't do nearly as well as Will. Still, in almost any week against almost any competition, 140k or so is enough to secure top 3. Well done her!
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Old 11-01-2004, 22:23
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Shame it was a poor song
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Old 11-01-2004, 22:43
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I wish her luck because I think she'll need it. I would have expected higher sales considering the millions of votes she got in the final and all the publicity of Pop Idol. May be its just the song but it doesn't bode well for the future....
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Old 11-01-2004, 22:51
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She seems like an intelligent person and probably realises that her time in the charts will be most likely be limited because pop is a transient world.

No doubt she'll enjoy her success and so she should, but it's hard for singers to survive in pop, particularly when they depend on other people to write good songs for them.
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Old 11-01-2004, 23:02
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Originally posted by Marillion fan
She seems like an intelligent person and probably realises that her time in the charts will be most likely be limited because pop is a transient world.

No doubt she'll enjoy her success and so she should, but it's hard for singers to survive in pop, particularly when they depend on other people to write good songs for them.
Agreed. On CD:UK earlier today she said she's enjoying herself while it lasts and if its all over in 6 months she'll happily go back to her old job (or words to that effect).
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Old 12-01-2004, 10:05
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I bought it. I thought it was a re-release of Evergreen. Imagine my surprise when I found out it was actually Evergreen with different lyrics put on top.
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Old 12-01-2004, 10:50
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Originally posted by FastEddie
I bought it. I thought it was a re-release of Evergreen. Imagine my surprise when I found out it was actually Evergreen with different lyrics put on top.
Did you listen to Moyles this morning?
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Old 12-01-2004, 11:28
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Originally posted by ogryn
Did you listen to Moyles this morning?
He did the same thing in his spoof song, I hear!! Awesome - i was wondering if I was the only one to notice the shameless ripoff job...
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Old 12-01-2004, 19:44
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Originally posted by ogryn
Did you listen to Moyles this morning?
T'was very funny. And im glad he expressed his views about Michelle. It seems many Radio 1 DJ's praise every artist, but we can rely on Moylsie to speak his mind.
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Old 12-01-2004, 20:19
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Originally posted by FastEddie
He did the same thing in his spoof song, I hear!! Awesome - i was wondering if I was the only one to notice the shameless ripoff job...
Didn't Tony Hadley also sing it a while back for that Down to Earth TV series?
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Old 12-01-2004, 20:41
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Originally posted by TheCableGuy
T'was very funny. And im glad he expressed his views about Michelle. It seems many Radio 1 DJ's praise every artist, but we can rely on Moylsie to speak his mind.
Don't suppose anyone has an MP3 of it?

I loved it when he did Hear'Say. Very funny.
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Old 12-01-2004, 21:36
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aye, an mp3 would be great
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Old 13-01-2004, 04:55
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Well done babe
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Old 13-01-2004, 09:26
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I would imagine an mp3 would be here very soon. They are playing it again today.

http://chrismoyles.net/cgi-chris/sou...=Song+Parodies
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Old 13-01-2004, 11:12
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118,000 sales is a very poor result.

Thank goodness the public are getting sick of reality show winners.
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Old 13-01-2004, 15:00
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lol

Every major artist in the UK would kill for first week sales of 118,000 at this time of year. The first pop idol was a distorted result, because the single was released 2 days after the final.

Michelle is going to be number one again this week, from what I've heard.
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Old 13-01-2004, 23:52
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Originally posted by SwordFish
lol

Every major artist in the UK would kill for first week sales of 118,000 at this time of year. The first pop idol was a distorted result, because the single was released 2 days after the final.

Michelle is going to be number one again this week, from what I've heard.
well michelles single was only released 2 weeks after the final - sure shes not losing fans THAT quickly!!
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Old 14-01-2004, 00:56
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Originally posted by SmartPrince
118,000 sales is a very poor result.

Thank goodness the public are getting sick of reality show winners.
To put this achievement in perspective:

118,000 (or thereabouts) people bought the single. Out of a population of about 60 million in the UK, that means that there's about 59,800,000 people in the UK that don't give two hoots about her......
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Old 14-01-2004, 01:29
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You make it sound like 118,000 is the final figure Michelle has sold. That is her first week sales. You've forgotten about all the sales she will acquire through her chart tun of probably more than 10 weeks as it falls down the top 40. It'll sell another 60k this week easily, and 30 the week after. I reckon you're looking at more like 350,000 sales ultimately.

And then her album - do you think it'll do any less business than Alex Parks, which has sold 250k plus so far? Get your figures into perspective, before putting Michelle into perspective!
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Old 14-01-2004, 02:15
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Sorry but she was chosen by the public out of 20,000

She had masses of peak time TV and media publicity week after week that most singers can only dream about, equal to tens of millions of pounds worth of advertising.

She had over 10 million viewers

She had 5 millions of votes

She had some of the most commercially successful producers

And with all that pent up demand she only sold 118,000
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Old 14-01-2004, 06:56
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Originally posted by Katherine
To put this achievement in perspective:

118,000 (or thereabouts) people bought the single. Out of a population of about 60 million in the UK, that means that there's about 59,800,000 people in the UK that don't give two hoots about her......
Well, 2 million brought Didos album last year, what a failure she is, thats 57,800,000 who dont give two hoots about her.

and about 58,800,000 dont give a hoot about Robbie Williams.

in fact most of the country dont give a hoot about any music stars if you look at the sales figures.

You cannot rate failure as a measure against the total population. you can only rate it against other sales figures.
and Michelle , at the moment, is doing extremely well.
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Old 14-01-2004, 08:54
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Originally posted by SwordFish

The first pop idol was a distorted result, because the single was released 2 days after the final.
You're wrong.

Will won PI 09-02-2002. Evergreen was released 25-02-2002

Don't really care about how Michelle's doing to be honest. I just like people to get their facts right about Will that's all.
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Old 14-01-2004, 09:09
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I thought this thread was going to say that Michelle was going to appear in Playboy (shudder).

Which to be honest would be more interesting than her singing
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Old 14-01-2004, 10:46
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Originally posted by SwordFish
Well, 2 million brought Didos album last year, what a failure she is, thats 57,800,000 who dont give two hoots about her.

and about 58,800,000 dont give a hoot about Robbie Williams.

in fact most of the country dont give a hoot about any music stars if you look at the sales figures.

You cannot rate failure as a measure against the total population. you can only rate it against other sales figures.
and Michelle , at the moment, is doing extremely well.
Good points. It is ridiculous to compare an entire population to the total sales a pop artist has. Indeed, if we did the same in America, it would mean that massive artists like Justin Timberlake have only sold 10 million albums to a population of 240 million. So if 230 million people don't give a hoot about Justin, he must be a flop?!
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Old 14-01-2004, 11:12
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Originally posted by ogryn
I would imagine an mp3 would be here very soon. They are playing it again today.

http://chrismoyles.net/cgi-chris/sou...=Song+Parodies

Thank you for that link, i've ahd a bit of a hard time over the last couple of days and that has really made me chuckle so thanks very much
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