Pour Le Monde single release

You see, back in the day, getting in the Top 40 really helped...

You'd get your song played on the most listened-to radio show in the land, as a new entry you'd get your video played on TOTP, which would itself garner sales and you may even then get a live appearance.

Now, with no TOTP and no video, the single will (hopefully) chart, we'll chear and then it'll disappear without trace, helping out its parent album not one jot.

Such is the modern music industry

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Originally posted by Paul H:
You'd get your song played on the most listened-to radio show in the land, as a new entry you'd get your video played on TOTP, which would itself garner sales and you may even then get a live appearance.

Now, with no TOTP and no video, the single will (hopefully) chart, we'll chear and then it'll disappear without trace, helping out its parent album not one jot. (

Well yes, I nearly lamented about the absence of TOTP in my previous post, as without that, the charts no longer seem so prominent.

But, isn't Radio 2 the most-listened to national radio station in the UK and Pour Le Monde IS getting a lot of airplay on it. I see it's still on the A-list for next week :-) And could a CH album possibly be on some new fans' Christmas lists??

The irony is that the audience to which Radio 2 is generally aimed is not the audience that regularly downloads tracks from iTunes... in my experience anyway...

And that adds to my point. I doubt very much if your average R2 listener will make a bee line for HMV or Zavvi (or whatever Richard Branson's calling it these days) for a copy of a single he/she has heard.

The point, I think, with a download only single is to get the airplay that will lead to purchasers getting the ALBUM without the cost of making and distributing a single. It is a much more economic way of doing business.

But, yes, it's much less romantic than buying a shiny piece of plastic with a picture sleeve.

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Originally posted by ladyeleanor:

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Originally posted by Paul H:
You'd get your song played on the most listened-to radio show in the land, as a new entry you'd get your video played on TOTP, which would itself garner sales and you may even then get a live appearance.

Now, with no TOTP and no video, the single will (hopefully) chart, we'll chear and then it'll disappear without trace, helping out its parent album not one jot. (

Well yes, I nearly lamented about the absence of TOTP in my previous post, as without that, the charts no longer seem so prominent.

But, isn't Radio 2 the most-listened to national radio station in the UK and Pour Le Monde IS getting a lot of airplay on it. I see it's still on the A-list for next week :-) And could a CH album possibly be on some new fans' Christmas lists??

I think that depends on your view. I've noticed since the chart changed to be both physical and digital that tracks are hanging around for much longer, you can tell when a song is really connecting with the audience as it spends weeks, if not months, in the top 40, singles no longer bang in high and drop out next week, they climb slowly as radio airplay kicks in, jumping the week of the physical release and then tail off naturally over the following weeks & months.

That's how you can spot fakers in an instant - the arrive with a bang and fall without a trace the following week. It's hyped and its fake.

Yes TOTP means you don't get the same possibility of TV airplay, and TV stations certainly seem to be at a bit of a loss as to how to incorporate music in to their schedules (has anyone seen Sound/Switch whatever its called?? Rubbish!), but i really don't think is that great a loss in terms of sales.

And Paul, Bransons not calling Zavvi anything, he sold the company months ago, hence the name change.

Didn't know that! Thanks for correcting me

I'll eat my promo copy of PLM if the single hangs around the Top 40 for more than a fortnight.

That mine of information Popbitch predicts PLM will be Top 20 this week...

http://www.popbitch.com

Catlovers - you really need to see this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7aX2D4wZ8A&feature=related

Merry Xmas :-)

Jim

According to one site I saw earlier today, PLM is slipping back down after the midweek high of 13 as other singles pick up sales.

There's still time to give it a boost before Sunday's chart run down though! Remember though buying the bonus tracks on their own without PLM does not count.

Interesting debate about physical singles. I'd agree that it's mainly younger audiences into younger bands who tend to download. But things are changing. Paul McCartney's "Dance Tonight" single was released as a download only and spent a number of weeks hanging around the mid reaches of the top 75 before getting another boost when the limited edition vinyl 7-inch came out. Plus look at how Elvis's singles have all been back in the charts this year on the back of downloads. So if the fan base can get behind a song, there is still a chance for older artists to get back into the top 20.

It slipped down so much, it didn't make the UK Top 40. As I write, I don't know where it charted but it hasn't beaten DSN's #41.

So no UK Top 40 singles for CH in their comeback year. I bet the guys at Parlophone are tearing their hair out. The words Crowded and House were supposed to be commercial gold dust.

It's at number 51. It's just the way the singles charts are now. They really don't mean a lot. Can't believe the number of old christmas songs in there.

They only don't mean a lot because none of the records we like are in them

I mean, if CH kept posting singles in the Top 20 I guess it would mean something...

Where did She Called Up chart?

Also, did the album sell okay in the UK? Certified gold or anything?

Just curious...

She called up highest chart position was 156.

Time On Earth has sold almost 70,000. certified Silver.

Sara, your a mine of info. I just wish I had an account at the Chart Co so's I could grab all this kind of info.

Out of interest, any idea how many "copies" PLM sold for it's #51 spot?

3869.

Better than the SCU 727