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Old 09-03-2015, 14:24
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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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Old 09-03-2015, 14:59
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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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Old 09-03-2015, 17:23
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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 agree with the point you make about the singles chart being a young persons game and the album chart appealing to a much wider scope of artists. This applies to someone like Paolo Nutini who was only able to have one top twenty hit (Scream) but his album, Caustic Love was number one in the album charts for a couple of weeks.

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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Old 09-03-2015, 17:38
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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.
It should be about quality of the music not age. That said, some dire singles have topped the chart in the past and the top 40 has often been full of shit so I guess that's too much to ask for. The singles chart seems more youth dominated than ever before, perhaps I'm wrong but that's how it appears.


I'm not even a Take That fan by the way.
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Old 09-03-2015, 18:53
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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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Old 09-03-2015, 19:17
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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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Old 09-03-2015, 19:44
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Those poor blokes. Don't people know they've got massive tax bills to pay?
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Old 09-03-2015, 20:21
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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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Old 10-03-2015, 09:38
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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 agree, I didn't know anything about this new single of theirs or probably was familiar with it before I watched The Brits. And yet, These Days, their first single from the album was number one in the singles chart.

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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Old 10-03-2015, 10:22
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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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Old 10-03-2015, 11:03
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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.
Let In the Sun is on the Radio 2 A list, but, without the support of Radio 1, it's hard to get people to download the song. And Radio 1 only supports rubbish music.

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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Old 10-03-2015, 13:35
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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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Old 10-03-2015, 14:16
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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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Old 10-03-2015, 23:55
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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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Old 11-03-2015, 14:20
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Not shocking, album sales are the true indication of success.
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