I'd love Leona and Ryan to do a full album together. I think they are a perfect pairing.

Bleeding Love, Take A Bow, Strangers, You Don't Care, Happy, Save Myself, Glassheart, Burn, Favourite Scar are all great songs.

It may be worth tweeting some other US radio stations to see if they could play FUMF. Even if they don't play it/play it once, it'd introduce them to the song if they don't know it already.

What does everyone think about ALS being the next single?

I know that it sounds like something capital and radio 1 would play, but we have to remember this single is going to be launching the album - as I doubt they'll have a third before it. ALS would alienate the more mature album buyers. Emeli Sande started her campaign with 'Heaven' which got radio 1 and capital on board, then went with the safer more AC song to lead the album. I hope ALS is a single at one point, but just not the one to lead the album!

Ew. Favourite Scar! I never ever got the fuss with that song! I found it so bland!

It'd definitely be released. Island aren't Syco. They only sign artists they are passionate about.

FUMF had so much potential as an Alexandra fan i feel your disappointment. Tbh its Simon Cowell he's a bitch and probably blacklisted her. I know some fans like @TriIIestharmony are enjoying this. I personally want her to do well.

Don't like it either I think a Leona album with only Ryan Tedder songs would bore quick

I prefer ALS by a long stretch but IGY seems like a safer option, I agree. I think I'll prefer the studio version, the production isn't as clear as ALS in the live videos.

Personally I don't see Radio 1 or Capital supporting anything she releases this era now. I hope I'm wrong, however.

I think the problem here is that people keep expecting things to go at the exact speed that they went with Syco. Island is different. Although some people may think the radio tour was bad and that there wasn't a lot of promo, look at it this way. Syco would have scheduled a lot of promo for maybe 1-2 weeks and then forget the song existed and let her go back into the shadows until the album comes out and there wouldn't be a 2nd single. With Island, the first week isn't the most important. The radio tour may have been smaller, regional stations because they have bigger ones planned for around the impact date. Promo will steadily increase. You can't say they gave up on it when it's only been a week and we don't know what they have planned.

And before anyone says that the problem is that we don't know what they have planned so they could have nothing planned at all, Island isn't like that. They seem to move a lot more behind the scenes then we're used to. Remember we knew about John Bishop for awhile but they didn't announce the contest for the tickets until like a week or a couple days before the taping? Anything can happen any day.

https://twitter.com/npmradio/status/610544463216295936

French Radio station.

I really love the verses in ALS but I feel like I'm missing some belts at the end

FINALLY! Someone else who doesn't like FS!


I'm sure they'll playlist something if it's more aimed towards their market. Well, I hope so anyway! :S

I want I got you as the next single.It is possible that they could go with Essence of me because it is an Ac song.

You really shouldn't worry about the album. It's definitely being released and we've heard 4/10 tracks already. Some fans have even heard 7/10 tracks as some others were played during the album showcase.

Another brilliant post. Just marry me.

And last bit, you're right. When asking what promo she has, they said her label is very secretive about these things. I would have known if she'd do BBCR2 festival but we found out by Leona

I still stuck in the SYCO mindset and its hard to break out off. Its upsetting to see FUM not even chart in the top 40, when the lead singles from the other albums have been in the top 5 and top 10. Radio 1 have playd it twice and capital not at all and the negative press wont help.

I do hope its a blip, as atm the comback isn't going well. It's hard not seing Leona being as successful as she deserves

LMAO @ The Guardian article! Is that somebody's idea of journalism?

A woman with 25m sales to her name and worth over 13m pound misses the Top 40. Did she promote the song? Barely. Instead she spoke a lot about Hopefield in every promotional interview and went on a sponsored walk yesterday. The real story? Leona is not thirsty for chart success. She is using her fame and money to change the world and that is amazing. We are getting new music from her soon and that is all we should care about. If it charts well, it'll be amazing and we can be proud. The vicious media need to see the real picture.

I haven't forgot that at all. I don't expect, and haven't at all, things to go the same way they did with Syco.

The radio tour originally had Radio 1 involved, but that all changed and she went to a lot of irrelevant stations with a tiny amount of listeners that, evidently, didn't do anything for the song.

I understand it's easier and positive to say "Island know what they're doing. They haven't given up on the single". But, from the signs we have - moving the release date, cancelling radio 1 promo and so on - I think we can all say they have recognised the situation in the UK and aren't going to pull out all the stops to push this single as much as they might've done if it went top 10 in the first week. Outside of the UK, i think they'll push it much more effectively and then just sit back and hope by them the second single has been more successful in the UK - which again i think will be pushed more.

To be fair though, I think "Another Love Song" would be fine as the next single as BBC Radio 2 would likely A-list it (They A-listed Alesha Dixon's "The Way We Are"). Plus with lots of commercial radio support, that'll generate album sales from casual listeners/a younger audience and may even help to increase interest and streaming to the album. Then they could release I Am or I Got You for the build up to Christmas as I think those songs would help generate album sales much more - which are very high during the Christmas period - so would be best for either of those to be promote/performed a lot during that period.

Either way I am so ready for this album. I also want to find out about the new deluxe tracks she recorded!

Oh good god. If they release 'Essence of Me' I will die. Not single worthy, compared to the songs we've heard, at all! It is great though!

I Got You is much more similar to The Way We Are than ALS is.

ALS sounds much darker, production wise anyway, so it would make no sense (imo) for them to release that as the album launcher during summer - not when they have something summery, fun, vocally great, uptempo like I Got You.

That regional tour with small stations was planned before she did the first radio tour though I think I told y'all at the end of first radio tour she'd have a second radio tour coming. Tbh, she has been on BBCR5 twice (third time this thursday) and that radio station has 5 millions listeners. She actually did quite "big" regional stations.

Hahaha me too! I never got into that song!

I love this post.

Agree with all this