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Take That Miss the top 100 with " Let in the sun" |
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Take That Miss the top 100 with " Let in the sun"
Cracking second single from the brilliant album " lll" and it misses the Top 100 altogether. Little surprised at this to be honest . Should of at least went Top 20 .
Surprised? or expected? |
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Expected - Outside of the lead singles from an album the organisation of singles is bad. Streaming also doesn't go in their favour either.
For an act all in their 40's and a pop band not to mention a once boyband as opposed to a rock act who can go on and on it's to be expected. Single chart success is a young persons game. The album chart ie the whole collective of music with a much wider scope of age range details more clearly who is popular. Hence also a wider age range of musicians at the higher end in the albums chart ie Pink Floyd/Madonna etc. |
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Expected - Outside of the lead singles from an album the organisation of singles is bad. Streaming also doesn't go in their favour either.
For an act all in their 40's and a pop band not to mention a once boyband as opposed to a rock act who can go on and on it's to be expected. Single chart success is a young persons game. The album chart ie the whole collective of music with a much wider scope of age range details more clearly who is popular. Hence also a wider age range of musicians at the higher end in the albums chart ie Pink Floyd/Madonna etc. Anyway, back to the topic, I first came across the song when they performed it at The Brits. To be honest, I wasn't very keen on it to be honest, unlike their previous stuff they have done in recent years. And I really liked These Days too
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Expected - Outside of the lead singles from an album the organisation of singles is bad. Streaming also doesn't go in their favour either.
For an act all in their 40's and a pop band not to mention a once boyband as opposed to a rock act who can go on and on it's to be expected. Single chart success is a young persons game. The album chart ie the whole collective of music with a much wider scope of age range details more clearly who is popular. Hence also a wider age range of musicians at the higher end in the albums chart ie Pink Floyd/Madonna etc. I'm not even a Take That fan by the way. |
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I don't think the latest Take That received any airplay so that will have hindered the songs success.
If people didn't watch The Brit Awards they probably wouldn't even know that Take That had a new single. It's all well and good getting the video played on The Box but that channel's target audience is mostly teenagers. I doubt many of those who watched the video felt the urge to pre-order the song on iTunes. |
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That's a shame
Not fond of Take that that but i thought this song was good. Worthy at least a top 20 placing. |
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Those poor blokes. Don't people know they've got massive tax bills to pay?
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It's a horribly generic song, so i'm not surprised in the slightest.
I've always found Gary Barlow a pretty bleh songwriter, and i'm always puzzled why he is held in such high regard. Having said that, Progress was a solid album. The Flood being one of the best singles of the 00s
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I don't think the latest Take That received any airplay so that will have hindered the songs success.
If people didn't watch The Brit Awards they probably wouldn't even know that Take That had a new single. It's all well and good getting the video played on The Box but that channel's target audience is mostly teenagers. I doubt many of those who watched the video felt the urge to pre-order the song on iTunes. I always feel that teenagers are far more interested in listening to music via YouTube and streaming sites like spotify on their mobiles more so than on music channels like The Box. They have grown up with social media. |
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I am a hardcore fan and I didn't know for sure when the single would be released. The release was a real mess. The only version available for download was the album one, which made it impossible for people who had already downloaded the album from iTunes to download the song again, the CD-s format was released this week only, God knows why.
The song did chart on the sales chart, however, during the Brit Awards week. If all those sales had been combined with the last week's downloads and this week's CD sales, the chart position would have been more than decent for a 2nd single. I couldn't disagree more with whoever said that LITS is a generic song. |
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I don't think the latest Take That received any airplay so that will have hindered the songs success.
If people didn't watch The Brit Awards they probably wouldn't even know that Take That had a new single. It's all well and good getting the video played on The Box but that channel's target audience is mostly teenagers. I doubt many of those who watched the video felt the urge to pre-order the song on iTunes. If only there had been an iTunes version to pre-order ![]() The promotion was literally nonexistent, so people had no idea that there was a new single out. |
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Not the kind of mocking Madonna would have got had Ghosttown missed the top 100 (which it probably will anyway!!) but that's male/female for you
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TT seem to have a habit of messing up promotion of the singles. Apart from " The Flood" all the other progress singles were very poorly managed but still all managed a top 100 Position and Progress sold 10 times as much as III. The Brits was seen by millions and millions of viewers so plenty of promotion right there. Also I have heard the single on Viking and Capital loads of time so I don't think Radio 1 matters. It is a brilliant song and needs to be pushed by the band or it will go to waste, I notice that the album sales didn't benefit from the single being out either, The band need to make more effort for the next single " In to the Wild" or it could be game over for the album already.
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I think their albums sales are so good that after the first single the others from their albums don't do as well, it's applied to their last few albums
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Not shocking, album sales are the true indication of success.
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