Braby
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SO interesting about Beyonce's latest album. In a lot of European markets, including Ireland, and in Australia and New Zealand, the album didn't hit its peak position on the album charts until a couple-of-months after its release so it's not just a UK phenomenon. Not sure what's up with that. A fuck-up with initial promotion? I always thought her name was big enough to shift any old shit but perhaps she still hasn't established herself as a bankable substantial first week sales type of artiste outside America. I can't really think of any reason why the album has hit a new peak of #3. Halo's been out a while now and that Piccadilly Circus rehash of Single Ladies didn't even make a small imprint in the British press so I doubt the album spiked because of that; I heard about it on this forum and the novelty wore off after a minute-in. Though I still maintain that it's the most ICONIC video by any pop artist in at least five years.
RE Girls Aloud: Shame Untouchable is destined to be the Miles Away of GA's astonishing, and well deserved, chart run. Perhaps it will scrape the Top 10 but really they shouldn't be releasing any more than two singles per album from now on anyway. If it does rebound, the press might spin it to look like a bona fide "flop" but in all truth it really isn't. They're still the country's most popular girl band and with Lady Di keeping the band's name in the papers post-X Factor, I'm sure their next album will do just as well.
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hes totally outdated haha
That's what I thought. Does anyone know of any work he's produced RECENTLY to gauge his current sound?
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:lmao: Whoever made that up deserves a medal for originality at least.
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I missed out this Anna quote:
one classic instead of one 'hard candy' track and that is it. spanish lessons is still there.
Then my bet is either "Get Stupid" or "Miles Away"- the tour starts in the UK so they might want to make everyone forget its flop chart performance. Can't see any of the other tracks being removed.
True. And Miles Away is tied up with connotations of Guy etc. so it will probably be removed.
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@mrskutcher We sent Jesus out for tacos 3 hours ago, these brazilian nancy-boys sure love playing
that midnite skin flute. Where the F@#! is my burrito ? -Madonna.
:lmao: Quote of the year -
I don't know if Madonna would consider this, but what I would like to see on the next tour, is maybe cut back on some of threatrics, special effects etc. and make it more about the music and her band. That way her expenses would be lower, so she could charge a lower ticket price but still make the same amount of profit.
I guess some fans demand the elaborate staging, but I genuinely love her music and think she could do a tour that's more focused around just the music and maybe some great dancing.
I think she went as far as she could will all the super elaborate effects and staging, that there's no further way to go with that.
The only thing left for her to do is to really focus more around the actual music which is why we all fell in love with her in the first place.
That would also really allow people to appreciate her talent as a songwriter and a singer more, an area in which she has been very underrated in my opinion.
You know it's interesting... On one of the Youtube videos from the Cardiff show, some guy in the background talking to his girlfriend after La Isla Bonita, says, "There's too much show".
When you have something like "Doli Doli" included as part of a setlist just for the sake of theme continuation and theatrics, at the expense of other major hits which could have taken its place, it seems pointless. If you look back at Madonna's greatest moments on stage, sometimes the best performances are the most understated in terms of on-stage theatrics. Take LAV on BAT. Just a bed, a couple of dancers and a slowed-down version of a classic. The result was a pop cultural colossi. Same with You Must Love Me on this tour.
The car during Beat Goes On serves no real purpose, either does the boxing ring in the Die Another Day interlude. If she wants to continue making as much from lower-priced tickets, Madonna needs to make some CUTS.
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If anyone's interested...
Top 20 best selling albums in the UK since 20001 Back to Bedlam - James Blunt 3,166,000
2 No Angel - Dido 3,033,000
3 Back to Black - Amy Winehouse 2,907,000
4 White Ladder - David Gray 2,904,000
5 Life For Rent - Dido 2,838,000
6 1 - The Beatles 2,799,000
7 Spirit - Leona Lewis 2,779,000
8 Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters 2,705,000
9 A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay 2,687,000
10 Hopes and fears - Keane 2,663,000
11 X&Y - Coldplay 2,542,000
12 Beautiful World - Take That 2,536,000
13 Come away with me - Norah Jones 2,444,000
14 Parachutes - Coldplay 2,434,000
15 The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem 2,248,000
16 Swing When You're Winning - Robbie Williams 2,244,000
17 Eyes Open - Snow Patrol 2,211,000
18 Sing When You're Winning - Robbie Williams 2,202,000
19 Greatest Hits - Robbie Williams 2,104,000
20 Escapology - Robbie Williams 2,058,000
These will probably be the Top 20 biggest sellers of this decade, give or take. Robbie Williams' chart trajectory is simply astounding, as is the fact only three American artists have racked up colossal sales this decade..
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I always prefer compilations to have a chronological track listing as it contextualises each song and flows better. But if WB are opting for a single-disc release, there's always the fear that the sequencing will be very similar to TIC, with a smattering of her post-Vogue work toward the end of the disc. It's a tricky one. There's no real consensus on what post-TIC tracks should be included on a single-disc compilation apart from a few essentials (namely ROL, Music, HU and 4 Minutes).
I vacillate between thinking JML and Erotica should be included (though the inclusion of both side-by-side would certainly kill the frantic pacing of the album) and then thinking I wouldn't actually mind if, in a chronological setting, ROL followed Vogue, bypassing any representation from Erotica or BS, accepting that the number-of-hits-per-album has become increasingly sparse. There's no point in including one song from Erotica, Bedtime Stories or American Life for the sake of representing their parent albums, like others have suggested, if the track doesn't match up to the sheer colossi of tracks like ITG or LAP.
And as much as I love it, I think that TAB would stick out like a sore thumb for non-American purchasers.
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I bet the record company are very surprised.
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Midweeks
Singles:
1 Flo Rida
2 The Saturdays 16.6k
3 Lady GaGa 16.4k
4 Vanessa Jenkins & Bryn West 14.9k
5 Taylor Swift
Albums:
1 U2
2 Kelly Clarkson
3 Taylor Swift
4 Kings Of Leon
5 Annie Lennox
Top 10
Faryl Smith
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Biggest Selling Albums of 2009 to date
1 Only by the Night - Kings of Leon 382,452
2 It's not Me, It's You - Lily Allen 208,000
3 Rockferry - Duffy 192,000
4 The Circus - Take That 173,000
5 The Fame - Lady Gaga 166,000
6 Day & Age - The Killers 162,000
7 The Script - The Script 158,200
8 No Line on the Horizon - U2 157,926
9 Songs for You, Truths for Me - James Morrison 154,000
10 I am Sasha Fierce - Beyoncé 153,000
11 Invaders Must Die - The Prodigy 145,562
12 The Seldom seen Kid - Elbow 145,400
13 Working on a Dream - Bruce Springsteen 139,000
14 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 131,000
15 Oracular Spectacular - MGMT 120,000
16 We Started Nothing - The Ting Tings 112,000
17 Funhouse - Pink 111,900
18 Good Girl Gone Bad - Rihanna 111,700
19 Spirit - Leona Lewis 110,000
20 The Best Bette - Bette Midler 101,000
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Biggest Selling Singles of 2009 to date
1 Lady GaGa feat Colby O'Donis Just dance 499170
2 Lily Allen The fear 315035
3 James Morrison feat Nelly Furtado Broken strings 277415
4 Kid Cudi vs Crookers Day n Nite 262400
5 Kings of Leon Use somebody 236085
6 Alexandra Burke Hallelujah 217100
7 Beyonce Single ladies (Put a ring on it) 211400
8 Alesha Dixon Breathe slow 193790
9 Tinchy Stryder feat Taio Cruz Take me back 187280
10 Kevin Rudolf Let it rock 173890
11 Saturdays Issues 166350
12 Leona Lewis Run 151680
13 Lady Gaga Poker face 142275
14 Kings of Leon Sex on fire 140165
15 Beyonce If I were a boy 136785
16 Killers Human 133645
17 Shontelle T-shirt 128890
18 Katy Perry Hot n cold 125005
19 Eminem feat 50 Cent & Dr Dre Crack a bottle 118150
20 Britney Spears Circus 109955
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Looks like Alesha Dixon won't be dropped after all. So the public decided to purchase the album after the success of "Breathe Slow"
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And that's why you want her to die?
No, I detest Jo Whiley for personal reasons, nothing to do with Madonna
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Why what did she say?
Something about The O2 and how she is going to see her there in the summer. Nothing special.
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That cunt Jo Whiley was talking about the 02 dates on her show this week. When will that cunt crawl up and die in a pit?
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Anyone got mid-weeks for this week?
And an interesting note: Someone over at Buzzjack has access to old Radio 1 playlists. I was surprised to see that the Club 69 remix of Nothing Really Matters was in fact on the A-LIST on Radio 1 for a number of weeks. She really was untouchable and "down with the indie kids" during this period wasn't she?
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I was really lucky my Icon membership runs out in April. I got great seats through Icon for CT. Not so good for Sticky and Sweet but a least a presale means you don't have to spend all day on Ticketmaster. Anyone think she will added a 3rd date at the O2 possibly 2nd July?
I would presume so, yes. There's no reason why not as it seems tickets are shifting but they're being very cautious this time around, announcing a new date only when the previous one has sold-out. Remember for RIT and CT, where they released four or five dates at once and you had choice for what night you wanted?
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AS OF NOW, tickets are still available at the official O2 website for Block B... But I'm surprised additional dates have yet to be announced. There's space on the 5th as well right before Manchester on the 7th. And I'm sure they could push forward and open the show there a little earlier too.
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lol It's crazy, I wish they would post the proper seating plan!
Kinda obvious, but just checking, the O2 show is floor seating, not standing, right?
I would PRESUME 02 is seating only. I've never been there, always wanted to see what it's like. I do have a soft spot for Earls Court and think the sound system and facilities are a lot better then Wembley (arena). The transportation system at Wembley Park is a joke, always has been. The area is a complete ghetto as well, I have no intention of ever going there again. I have heard good things about the sound system at 02 so am looking forward to it, even if it is a bit of a trek to get to coming from North London.
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Hi guys! I'm completely new to posting on here but have been viewinf the board for MONTHS...so interesting to hear everyone's thoughts!! Anyway, I saw M. on the opening night in Cardiff & I REALLY want to go again to Manchester, but the earliest I can get tickets is about 4pm tomorrow in the LiveNation presale....I was just wondering, based on past experiences, realistically, will I be able to get a good seat? I wanna be as close to her as possible but I get the feeling that the best tickets have already gone in the Icon sale!
What to you guys think??
I'm actually quite upset at the moment...
Well, I'm gonna try LN presale but for 02. It seems the ICON presale has been throwing out Blocks B and C so there's a good chance you'll get something better in the LN presale. What do people think the chances of a subsequent 02/MEN date?
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I thought Alesha Dixon would have been dropped by now after the performance of her album but it seems she's hanging on (albeit by a thin thread). I was surprised that "Breathe Slow" has reached no. 6 on downloads alone but I see that it's been picked up by urban stations and is getting healthy rotation which might help to explain its success.
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so its confirmed she wont play in oz?
so shes bringing the tour back to perform in desolate refugee riddled countries? umm ok LiveNation.
Which countries are you referring to? How dare you insult Estonia. Don't you know Nicola Roberts from Girls Aloud is the Princess Diana of the Baltics? She will come and eat you
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I guess the whole second part of S&ST was planned in advance, but the Australian dates fell out as we heard in the press a month ago, so round 2 of the tour got relegated to Europe...
Mmmm... interesting. Perhaps you're right. As in she cleared her schedule to tour Australia this summer but the economy meant she's substituted the shows for Europe.
Tori Amos On Madonna - "''Two lionesses, different parts of the Serengeti''
in ARCHIVE - Madonna
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I was thinking the same because I'm sure she (Allen) mentioned this story on a radio show yonks ago if I recall. God knows where on when. Obviously her story was about the shoes but she didn't mention who. I remember something about the shoes. Now Tori tells the same story and mentions it was Madonna, not "the victim". Didn't think Allen was a fan or an arse licker... Strange.