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Patrick Bateman wrote:

sneakythesnake wrote:It's a new entry at No. 40 in the Irish charts announced yesterday.Not great to be honest Can't see it going any higher.

http://www.irma.ie/aucharts.asp#singles

Drico bought two copies then.

I bought another two copies in Ireland also. So that makes a grand total of 4.

I downloaded the two digital bundles from iTunes so that makes a grand total of six sold

I heard a while ago that you only need to sell about 100 - 150 singles to make the Top 30 here

NUMBER 4!!- Highest new entry in HMV singles chart

I notice from these threads that there are a lot more HMV stores since I left the uk in 2000, is this because our price closed?

Yes, Our Price closed/taken over by Virgin, who were sold off by the parent company so became Zaavi, who just recently went bust!

In recent years we have also lost Fopp, Music Zone, Tower and Woolworths. So HMV is the only music chain going, and they mostly devote more space to DVD/Blu-ray, games and books. WHSmiths don't sell much music anymore, nor do Boots, so it's a pretty poor state of affairs on the high street.

Thats very sad, when I was in college in Chester, we had a choice of Virgin, HMV and a very large our price, so you were always sure to find what you needed, if another was out of stock.
I remember when the small town Boots stores stopped selling vinyl in the late 80s, I got Introspective for 50p on vinyl

Paulo wrote:My copies have just shipped from the official record store - I only ordered them on Tuesday after realising that Amazon would not have them in stock.

Amazon shipped mine on March 19.

pulse wrote: And could you imagine this day? After "shedloads" of PR, marketing, publicity, a Brit award, etc far beyond the other band's, and PSB still manage to not crack the top 20? Disaster.

I think not

pulse wrote: You guys are one big circus
No, "Love, Etc" wouldn't get airplay on Radio 1, but perhaps you should ask Skyhigh to restate his comments about the incredible (shedloads) amount of publicity PSB has been getting. Resultantly, this is working itself into a massive commercial disaster.

I think not

Love etc is number 24 in the airplay chart but still not in the top 40 t.v chart.

Just went into HMV Oxford street, where there were no copies of love etc. More due in tomorrow apparently. Got Yes, etc. AND they were playing What Have I done to deserve this on the PA. HA! Off to see them at koko this evening.

pulse wrote:

Danny C wrote:It could be worse, they could be charting outside the top 20, as the last 3 Erasure singles have.

And could you imagine this day? After "shedloads" of PR, marketing, publicity, a Brit award, etc far beyond the other band's, and PSB still manage to not crack the top 20? Disaster.

Looking back at this thread, this post by stephano, sorry, Pulse, goes down as an all time classic

Not only did Love etc actually start climbing the chart and not bomb like he thought it would, which was embarrassing enough, just compare it with a recent synth duo's efforts