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Old 06-10-2010, 19:08
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Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow are set to lose the battle for the top spot in the charts.

Sales figures released on Wednesday suggest their joint release Shame will be beaten to the top of the charts by Cee Lo Green with his single Forget You.

Cee Lo, who has previously been to No 11 as part of Gnarls Barkley, is expected to stay ahead in the race when chart positions are announced on Sunday.

Robbie and Gary teamed up after years of acrimony to record their track. It is taken from a forthcoming greatest hits album for Robbie, In And Out Of Consciousness.

As solo performers and members of Take That, the pair have have notched up 19 No 1 singles between them.

Robbie has rejoined Take That with an album, Progress, due for release next month - their first new recording as a group since he quit the line-up in 1995.

Cee Lo's single originally featured an expletive in the title - and peppered throughout the lyrics - but the four-letter word was substituted with the word "forget" ahead of its single release.
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Old 06-10-2010, 19:16
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Cee lo has a better song. The other one is dreary and easily forgotten.
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Old 06-10-2010, 19:37
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Not surprised the song is weak IMO.
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Old 06-10-2010, 19:39
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Yeah I knew this would happen. Cee-Lo's track has had a lot of buzz and airplay. It was always going to be no.1 this week.

As of yesterday, Cee-Lo was 13,000 copies ahead of Robbie and Gary.
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Old 06-10-2010, 19:40
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No one cares about Take That. Same old stuff all the time.
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Old 06-10-2010, 20:36
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I hope Cee Lo get's number one. it's the better track. Shame is dreary.

Plus I think Gary & Robbie expect "Shame" to go to number 1

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Old 06-10-2010, 22:01
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I'd be happy for either of them to be No1, both great tunes.

No one cares about Take That. Same old stuff all the time.
Well that's a load of tripe.
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Old 06-10-2010, 23:13
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Take That have gotten boring really :/ love their 90's stuff however but now it's just a bit dreary

HOWEVER Cee-Lo is just EPIC!! he has such a raw energy to his voice, very old skool Soul and i really love Gnarls Barkley and saw him perform on Jools last night with Janelle Monae on the SAME SHOW!!!!! i was just thrilled
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Old 07-10-2010, 07:28
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Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow are set to lose the battle for the top spot in the charts.

Sales figures released on Wednesday suggest their joint release Shame will be beaten to the top of the charts by Cee Lo Green with his single Forget You.

Cee Lo, who has previously been to No 11 as part of Gnarls Barkley, is expected to stay ahead in the race when chart positions are announced on Sunday.

Robbie and Gary teamed up after years of acrimony to record their track. It is taken from a forthcoming greatest hits album for Robbie, In And Out Of Consciousness.

As solo performers and members of Take That, the pair have have notched up 19 No 1 singles between them.

Robbie has rejoined Take That with an album, Progress, due for release next month - their first new recording as a group since he quit the line-up in 1995.

Cee Lo's single originally featured an expletive in the title - and peppered throughout the lyrics - but the four-letter word was substituted with the word "forget" ahead of its single release.
Er what about the HUGE MASSIVE no.1 all over the world, Crazy?
Personally, I'm not crazy (no pun intended!) about the single. Just sounds too dated and a bit weak.
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Old 07-10-2010, 08:43
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The song is dire, it doesn't deserve to be a top 10 for goodness sake. It's only got so much hype about it because it is Robbie and Gary - it's an absolute disappointment.
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Old 07-10-2010, 09:11
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It's awful ... but it isn't a Take That song. It is a Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow duet. The two biggest egos in the band (quite possibly in the music world) heading for an almighty fall! It isn't just Cee-Lo's F*ck You ... there are another five songs at least in the top ten that are better than Shame.

I always said Mark, Jason and Howard were the 'talented' ones in the band.
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Old 07-10-2010, 12:39
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The song is dire, it doesn't deserve to be a top 10 for goodness sake. It's only got so much hype about it because it is Robbie and Gary - it's an absolute disappointment.
I wish people would stop saying songs deserve/dont deserve to be wherever. Nothing DESERVES to be a hit. It is a hit if lots of people buy it. If they dont it deosnt make a song a BAD song, just not a popular one. It has no more or less right to be in the top 10 than any other record.
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Old 07-10-2010, 13:02
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It's a terrible duet and the line about toys r us is laughable. I bet Robbie wrote that bit.
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Old 07-10-2010, 13:05
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Cee-Lo has come out with a great song, Robbie and Garys song is more like an album track, not a single. It's alright but not memorable.
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Old 07-10-2010, 13:24
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Their voices are a little too samey.

It's nothing special, but this has been given tremendous amounts of publicity:yawn:
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Old 07-10-2010, 14:33
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The song is dire, it doesn't deserve to be a top 10 for goodness sake. It's only got so much hype about it because it is Robbie and Gary - it's an absolute disappointment.
I agree. I don't even know what it sounds like but maybe that's because I haven't really listened to it much I heard it once though and it's awful and totally forgettable.
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Old 07-10-2010, 15:02
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So are some of you saying that if a song doesn't go to number 1 it's rubbish?

Angels, Like a Virgin, Wonderwall, Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis), Last Christmas, Penny Lane...didn't go to number one and they are hardly considered to be failures?!

Just because they haven't reached number one doesn't mean the song hasn't been successful.

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Old 07-10-2010, 15:40
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Im actually quite SHOCKED

I think the song is PANTS myself and I agree with the poster above about the Toys r us line that is just childish to the max.

However I thought both Williams and Barlows joint fanbases would have ensured this be a number 1 record regardless of what it sounds like.
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Old 07-10-2010, 16:07
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A much stronger popular song's released the same week. Simple as that.
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Old 07-10-2010, 21:40
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It's awful ... but it isn't a Take That song. It is a Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow duet. The two biggest egos in the band (quite possibly in the music world) heading for an almighty fall! It isn't just Cee-Lo's F*ck You ... there are another five songs at least in the top ten that are better than Shame.

I always said Mark, Jason and Howard were the 'talented' ones in the band.
Firstly, I know from my friendship with someone who works on a certain charity that I have an interest with and support, I would say that any popstar or celebrity who makes private donations of significant amounts of money is not the sign of a popstar with an over large ego. (As I have not and will not mention the charity then I don't think I'm speaking out of turn). That certainly applies to the latter of those two singers.

Secondly, using your logic: Robbie Williams "Angels" & "Feel"; and Take That's "Rule The World" are "almighty flops" because they failed to reach the chart summit. Surely a sign of a great song is not how it is regarded at the time, but what it is thought of in 5/10/15/20 years time.

Thirdly, I'm surprised it is selling so well; I thought the majority of Take That & solo Robbie fans regarded the two getting back together with the same dismay Liberal Democrat supporters thought about them joining the Conservatives in government. Besides both Take That & Robbie have older audiences which buy albums not singles.

Plus seeing as Robbie has not had a #1 hit single since 2004; and Gary Barlow's last solo #1 was in 1997 then it is not doing too badly especially in this period of higher single sales due to the younger audience increasingly legally downloading singles; whilst the Ceee-Lo track has been tipped to top the charts for some weeks.

Lastly, as for the country ballad song I really like it, probably because of its similarity to two of my favourite Beatles songs "Blackbird" & "Two Of Us" without going too close to plagiarism, and the corny lyrics make me laugh, especially when complemented with the video (I like them singing in the US bar - surely a nod to Channel 4's comedy Take That - Star Story of Robbie's & Gary's unsuccessful attempts to break America playing to a near empty room), I'm actually pleased it sounds like a genuine and humourous understated album track and is not trying to be another epic anthem.

.... Or as someone on another site I frequent posted "....at least we now know what the underwhelming 1982 Lennon/McCartney reunion single would have sounded like. Still at least it's better than Ebony & Ivory"
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Old 08-10-2010, 00:37
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Secondly, using your logic: Robbie Williams "Angels" & "Feel"; and Take That's "Rule The World" are "almighty flops" because they failed to reach the chart summit. Surely a sign of a great song is not how it is regarded at the time, but what it is thought of in 5/10/15/20 years time.
Eh? I didn't say the song was a flop ... I just said it was awful! Of course there have been many great songs that haven't reached number 1 that are indeed classics (I wouldn't call Angels one mind.) By the same token ... there are a load of crappy songs that have got to number 1 ... Mr Blobby, Robson & Jerome's stuff, Joe Dolce 'shaddap a ya face' ... the list goes on.

On reflection though ... Shame isn't awful (I think I did exaggerate) it just isn't very good ... and certainly quite forgettable. It is unfortunate for Barlow and Williams to have come up against a song by Cee Lo that is just so much better.
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Old 08-10-2010, 04:11
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The Robbie/Gary single is more of a laugh than anything. I doubt they meant it to be a huge no.1 single, it's more like a good-natured statement.
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Old 08-10-2010, 07:54
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It's awful ... but it isn't a Take That song. It is a Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow duet. The two biggest egos in the band (quite possibly in the music world) heading for an almighty fall! It isn't just Cee-Lo's F*ck You ... there are another five songs at least in the top ten that are better than Shame.

I always said Mark, Jason and Howard were the 'talented' ones in the band.
Considering Gary writes most of their stuff, thats complete stupidness!
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Old 08-10-2010, 07:56
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I like Gary and Robbie's single, it's good. It's actually a good single, unlike the worthless tripe from 'Cee Lo Green'.

Anyone who pretends to try and get girls in their video, when they're that fat is stupid. Makes me cringe everytime, because you can hear in that girls mind, 'get off me, get off me, ew ew ew'. :L
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Old 08-10-2010, 09:13
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Why is there a "chart battle" every time someone releases a single these days?

I didn't get the feeling that those ex Take That boys were really that bothered about whether they got to no 1 or not. They've done it plenty of times before, it's not like they have anything to prove.
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