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Old 03-01-2006, 16:06
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Originally Posted by BeatleGod
You are a woman though, so you've had one of those new civil partnerships then? Or is MRS SGE your mum? I refuse to believe you are a male, as real men don't buy James Blunt.....ahh, think i got my answer!


Hmmm....so to obnoxious, condescending, childish we can now add homophobe. Funny, most sane people who were already in a hole as deep as the one you are in would have stopped digging by now. Jog on, Beatle Child.
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Old 03-01-2006, 16:13
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Originally Posted by SGE
Hmmm....so to obnoxious, condescending, childish we can now add homophobe. Funny, most sane people who were already in a hole as deep as the one you are in would have stopped digging by now. Jog on, Beatle Child.

Jog on?? haha what a disgrace!! You probably copied that from that chubby little bloke from last years Big Brother! "Jog on".....how passe!!

I'm not the one digging anything, I don't want to die yet as I don't own a crappy album by James Blunt which surely sends most people to suicide!

Oh, I am not homophobic, I am just stating that because you fancy James Blunt, it makes you gay, as you "claim" to be male!
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Old 03-01-2006, 16:16
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Originally Posted by maximilian
I bought James's Blunt's album in May/June on the recommendation of a friend. I thought it was ok with 3 or 4 decent songs ( especially Wisemen). But (to me at least) it ain't anything amazing.
I cannot believe the hype surrounding it in recent months. The way some people are talking its another 'The Bends' or 'Nevermind'. It isn't. It's a reasonably good debut album, nothing more.

Why has it sold so many? I really don't know. Somebody earlier said it was 'Dinner Party' music and I laughed at that but maybe it's not way off the mark. There is a very big market in this country for 'middle of the road', inoffensive music with nice melodies. Which is fine. Each to their own. My friend who recommended James Blunt to me also bought No Angel by Dido and Talk on Corners by the Corrs. She isn't a major music buyer and just likes a CD to sing along to in the car when she's taking the kids to school. She ain't looking for invention or anything 'leftfield' in her music.
Whilst obviously not being able to generalise, I suspect she is fairly typical of a lot of the people who bought (and enjoyed) Back to Bedlam.
Others (like me) bought it on recommendation of friends.

James Blunt's album has sold phenominally well. Whether or not he has longevity in the music business is more difficult to say. It does seem possible for artists to have really high selling debut/breakthrough albums but much more difficult for them to sustain the sales into a third or fourth album. Time will tell.......

Will my friend buy his follow up album? Yes.
Will I buy his follow up? Probably not.
Good post. Sorry to hear that you bought the album. Sadly, its not something you can re-use, not even as a beer mat, as it would be too embarrassing to admit you initially bought such a dire album. I would suggest that you treat it like household bills and make sure the album is totally disposed of in shredded form....you wouldn't want the binmen, let alone an identity thief to know you bought James Bland!
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Old 03-01-2006, 16:18
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Originally Posted by SGE
Hmmm....so to obnoxious, condescending, childish we can now add homophobe. Funny, most sane people who were already in a hole as deep as the one you are in would have stopped digging by now. Jog on, Beatle Child.
Beatle Child - i like the sound of that! It suggests i like a cool and decent band like the Beatles! I suppose I could refer to you as Blunt/Bland child, but I am not THAT offensive.
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Old 03-01-2006, 17:58
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Originally Posted by June
I don't know why you dug up my bit about lisps!
I guess because it was interesting.
Good diction doesn't have to be received pronunciation. It is just that it is so much better to be able to hear what someone is singing, without all the glottal stops!
OK, that's more than fair if it's what you prefer. You're talking to an REM fan who spent months trying to work out the early mumblings of Michael Stipe though. I don't mind unclear singing, but agree wholeheartedly with your later post about lazy speech. What puzzles me is why people who can't be bothered to pronounce a 't' or 'th' in the middle of a word, will add a redundant 'k' to the end of it.
And yes, I agree with you about the opera singers.
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Old 03-01-2006, 20:05
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Originally Posted by BeatleGod
I bet the same people who bought this shameful repetitive pap also bought Dido, David Gray and Coldplay AND thought they were "hip" and "trendy" in the process.
I have never bought Dido, David Gray bores me and I hate Coldplay, but bought James Blunt's album. Got it before the hype set in too as someone suggested it to me so I put it on at work and enjoyed it.

At the end of the day people are bound to be divided. I like the album and I don't care if people think im stupid, tone-deaf or "not a real man" because of it.
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Old 03-01-2006, 20:51
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At the end of the day people are bound to be divided. I like the album and I don't care if people think im stupid, tone-deaf or "not a real man" because of it.
Well said and good points.

I do like the forums here but there is a lot of attacking people purely for their taste in music/TV/film.

No-one should have to justify why they like someone and I do think it's a shame people dive in to an 'appreciation' thread just to criticise the person it's about or the fans themselves.

At the same time, I also find it annoying when there's a thread started by someone who doesn't like, for instance, a TV show and the fans all descend to berate people for not liking it, again usually casting insults on the intelligence of anyone who disagrees with them.

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with a healthy debate but often it just collapses into pettiness.

I'll get back in the corner now with my Live and Let Live placard.
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Old 03-01-2006, 21:59
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Originally Posted by Ferrari Red
Well said and good points.

I do like the forums here but there is a lot of attacking people purely for their taste in music/TV/film.

No-one should have to justify why they like someone and I do think it's a shame people dive in to an 'appreciation' thread just to criticise the person it's about or the fans themselves.

At the same time, I also find it annoying when there's a thread started by someone who doesn't like, for instance, a TV show and the fans all descend to berate people for not liking it, again usually casting insults on the intelligence of anyone who disagrees with them.

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with a healthy debate but often it just collapses into pettiness.

I'll get back in the corner now with my Live and Let Live placard.
I think thats a fair enough point. I do enjoy debating and all that and if someone doens't agree with me or starts calling me stupid or something because of my views I just don't care. At the end of the day its just a forum but I know some people do take it personally.

Got a weird kind of "make love not war" feeling at the moment.
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Old 03-01-2006, 22:50
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It's quite interesting, I've played You're Beautiful backwards and slowed down by 17% I heard (amongst other things)

Only fools split up
What a fool you are
Are you listening?

It's quite fun playing records backwards, or even your own voice
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Old 03-01-2006, 23:50
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Originally Posted by mattyl149
It's quite interesting, I've played You're Beautiful backwards and slowed down by 17% I heard (amongst other things)

Only fools split up
What a fool you are
Are you listening?

It's quite fun playing records backwards, or even your own voice

are you sure you didn't mishear, and it actually said, "what a fool you are for listening"?
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Old 04-01-2006, 00:16
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Maybe, but it sounds a lot better backwards, I even changed the pitch from F# down to B and it sounds like a half good cover version
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Old 04-01-2006, 14:19
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Originally Posted by burstbubble
are you sure you didn't mishear, and it actually said, "what a fool you are for listening"?
ahahahahahaha!! Even James Blunt probably hates his own music and must laugh at the fact he has sold so many records despite them all being so rubbish!
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Old 09-01-2006, 09:21
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Can eBay ever actually surprise me any more??

Well, the answer is yes, I'm afraid.


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Old 09-01-2006, 10:46
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Can I just say, eww.
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Old 09-01-2006, 17:22
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Originally Posted by SGE
Can eBay ever actually surprise me any more??

Well, the answer is yes, I'm afraid.


I'd rather own that than his album!! Not much difference between the two to be honest, both are piss poor!
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Old 09-01-2006, 17:59
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Originally Posted by BeatleGod
I'd rather own that than his album!! Not much difference between the two to be honest, both are piss poor!

Anyway, BeeGee, sales of Back To Bedlam this week were 38,500 for second place on the album chart. Not a bad figure for such a traditionally quiet post-Xmas week. In fact, the album would only have to continue at that sales rate (just wait until the brits to see how much sales pick up!) for just over 12 months to become the biggest-selling UK album of all time. My goodness. Only 2 more Beatles albums to be outsold in the UK now (one of which will be overtaken in a few weeks). I bet you're excited, aren't you?
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Old 09-01-2006, 18:13
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Originally Posted by SGE
Anyway, BeeGee, sales of Back To Bedlam this week were 38,500 for second place on the album chart. Not a bad figure for such a traditionally quiet post-Xmas week. In fact, the album would only have to continue at that sales rate (just wait until the brits to see how much sales pick up!) for just over 12 months to become the biggest-selling album UK album of all time. My goodness. Only 2 more Beatles albums to be outsold in the UK now (one of which will be overtaken in a few weeks). I bet you're excited, aren't you?
Oooo good one laughing boy, nice change of subject SGE from the urine post, you kept your cool this time - you are starting to learn, i am impressed! You saw the red rag, but decided not to charge this time, and instead change the subject, good boy!

As for Back to Bedlam overtaking the Beatles "1" album, bully for him. I don't happen to think that it means a great deal! Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band is the biggest selling album in Britain ever, but i don't think its the best Beatles album by a long shot. Abbey Road, White Album and Rubber Soul are superior. "1" is just a collection of singles as well, not really classic album material - yet still sold incredibly well considering it had 5 million selling UK singles on it!

We can throw album sales facts at each other all day (well you can as I usually do a tiny amount of work!), but it doesn't change the fact that i find Back to Bedlam a boring album, with a whiney vocalist. He is just another dull David Gray singer/songwriter appealing to the large number of bored housewives who can't open their ears to anything half decent, like CREAM!
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Old 09-01-2006, 21:12
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Blunt is also popular amongst angsty teens and to be fair, what teens aren't angsty?

Anyway. Yeah I think "1" is their biggest selling album because its a good sampler. To people who we're not around when The Beatles were its a good way to sample a spectrum of their music and then see what "era" they prefer. Its the first Beatles album I bought.
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Old 09-01-2006, 21:17
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Originally Posted by AshSan
Blunt is also popular amongst angsty teens and to be fair, what teens aren't angsty?

Anyway. Yeah I think "1" is their biggest selling album because its a good sampler. To people who we're not around when The Beatles were its a good way to sample a spectrum of their music and then see what "era" they prefer. Its the first Beatles album I bought.
Yeah "1" is a good intro to the Beatles, the recordings are nice and modern (although COULD and SHOULD have been the full monty, but EMI/Apple want to rip us Beatles fans off that bit more later!), and its a wide variety to suit most peoples tastes, which is why its shifted 30m+ copies and still going strongly on the Billboard Pop Catalogue Charts.....

.....I'd rather have the Red/Blue albums though, no Beatles collection is complete without Day in the Life and Strawberry Fields Forever!!
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Old 09-01-2006, 21:46
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Blunt is also popular amongst angsty teens and to be fair, what teens aren't angsty?

Have to agree, my eldest son is a hormone-fuelled 16 year old who loves 'rebellious' music but also loves Blunt's stuff. He was completely in awe when he saw No Bravery performed at the recent BBC concert (no surprise, it was simply THE most heart felt performance of a song I have ever witnessed). I totally respect people not liking his music as musical taste is completely subjective but when people call him boring/MOR and, in the case of other more crazed posters even worse (personal) things, it surprises me. You just don't get too many MOR albums with the sort of lyrics contained in a song like No Bravery. But, having said that, I suspect most of the people who call him a wimp/gay/girlie would not even want to see in their worst nightmares what this bloke has witnessed first hand. I don't think they would be able to handle it, frankly. It's a lot easier to be be brave sat behind a keyboard in the comfort of your own home than witness the horrors of ethnic cleansing at close quarters, I suppose. Oh well. Each to their own. What I also find amazing is the amount of time people who claim to have no time for the bloke actually spend slagging him off. Most baffling.

Plus, his 'early' stuff is approaching Beatles-type values:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/James-Blunt-Ba...QQcmdZViewItem

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Old 09-01-2006, 21:55
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Have to agree, my eldest son is a hormone-fuelled 16 year old who loves 'rebellious' music but also loves Blunt's stuff. He was completely in awe when he saw No Bravery performed at the recent BBC concert (no surprise, it was simply THE most heart felt performance of a song I have ever witnessed). I totally respect people not liking his music as musical taste is completely subjective but when people call him boring/MOR and, in the case of other more crazed posters even worse (personal) things, it surprises me. You just don't get too many MOR albums with the sort of lyrics contained in a song like No Bravery. But, having said that, I suspect most of the people who call him a wimp/gay/girlie would not even want to see in their worst nightmares what this bloke has witnessed first hand. I don't think they would be able to handle it, frankly. It's a lot easier to be be brave sat behind a keyboard in the comfort of your own home than witness the horrors of ethnic cleansing at close quarters, I suppose. Oh well. Each to their own. What I also find amazing is the amount of time people who claim to have no time for the bloke actually spend slagging him off. Most baffling.
Well he should have got a proper job before he signed up to the army then, otherwise you're bound to see sick things and then write about them in a dull song!

His music IS MOR as you put it. Its not heartfelt, its just lamo songs cobbled together on to a lacklustre album. By the way, i know the song No Bravery, it is rubbish, his voice is even more irritating than usual. Its hardly f**kin Platoon!! haha
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Old 09-01-2006, 21:57
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Well he should have got a proper job before he signed up to the army then, otherwise you're bound to see sick things and then write about them in a dull song!

His music IS MOR as you put it. Its not heartfelt, its just lamo songs cobbled together on to a lacklustre album. By the way, i know the song No Bravery, it is rubbish, his voice is even more irritating than usual. Its hardly f**kin Platoon!! haha

What I also find amazing is the amount of time people who claim to have no time for the bloke actually spend slagging him off. Most baffling.
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Old 09-01-2006, 21:59
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Plus, his 'early' stuff is approaching Beatles-type values:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/James-Blunt-Ba...QQcmdZViewItem

Hahahah. I think EMI/Apple bought the "Beatles", well the Quarrymens first recording together from 1957 for something like £80,000. Its the day at the feit when John Lennon met Paul McCartney, and Lennon was totally gobsmacked how good this young Paul was. That was about 8 years ago....it was the only known recording of it, wonder when they will release it, will sound ropey but quite spine tingling.....
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Old 09-01-2006, 22:00
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What I also find amazing is the amount of time people who claim to have no time for the bloke actually spend slagging him off. Most baffling.
I've got nothing better to do SGE! Its a good substitute and is a great time to detox!
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Old 09-01-2006, 22:19
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The trouble with James Blunt is that his voice is so irritating that I cannot be bothered to listen to him so his so-called "heartfelt" lyrics are completely lost on me.
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