Undertaker wrote:I don't think anyone was really interested in these positions. Numb was never going to be top 40 and Concrete wasn't a big album that was even promoted.
Dave
...but you can never be sure or else there would be no point to having a chart set at regular intervals,would there? - it aint over till the fat lady sings etc.- All results contribute to a long term pattern of potential hit making.
Where you so blaze when one of their #1s was expected to stay at the same position for another week - for a band that has had so much success in terms of chart placings to so belittle the value of chart placings now would be to devalue all their previous success in those terms imo ....you have to take the rough with the smooth its part of existence for (almost?) everyone is it not?......
I really don't know what you are talking about most of the time. Have you nothing to talk about over at Erasure towers? I've just looked at your 29 posts and virtually everyone is in response to a PSB chart position. Are you really that bored?
Didn't the Pet Shop Boys "other" CD come out this week, too. Did that debut at number one, or is that totally assumed and a stupid question? I'm American, and Robbie's albums only come out here via Itunes now.
Yes, Blobbie's number one this week with his lowest first week figures for a studio album since 1998.
147,236 copies of Rudebox were sold last week. Intensive Care opened with sales of 373,832.
The curse of PSB strikes again
Really....I thought "Intensive Care" was a very uncommerical album? I guess it beat this one, though, by more than double!
weirdalfan1980 wrote:Cant a major artist have a flop once in awhile?
Kust wait until Integral is released, if properly done it will be top 10.
I think the PSBs have only this to look forward to (flops I mean, not top 10 hits). I should imagine its all downhill from now - the majority just don't want to buy PSBs singles/albums, regardless of how good they are.
Yeah, all very well, except Numb wasnt good, it was a pile of shite, and no-one in their right mind would waste hard earned cash buying it.
kimphilby wrote:Yes, Blobbie's number one this week with his lowest first week figures for a studio album since 1998.
147,236 copies of Rudebox were sold last week. Intensive Care opened with sales of 373,832. The curse of PSB strikes again
Get real! The sales results of the new Robbie album have nothing to do with PSB being involved. In fact I think the sales would even have been a bit less, since many PSB fans went out as well to buy Rudebox.
Rudebox was promoted with a single (Rudebox) that got a rather underwhelming reception. It's not a regular Robbie album, but it's Robbie trying to do something different.
and whenever you do something different, the critics slag you off. it happened with "behaviour" and now they all love it. it happened with "psycho", it happened with "eraserhead" and the list could go on forever. the critics would have loved to hear yet another "angels" anthem. but robbie wanted to try something different. i guess there comes a point where you cannot be buggered about people's expectations anymore.
Numb is completely ignored in Sweden. In fact I have never heard it on the radio. Radio P5 Stockholm keep playing Psychological ALL the time and have done so since summer.
Get real! The sales results of the new Robbie album have nothing to do with PSB being involved. In fact I think the sales would even have been a bit less, since many PSB fans went out as well to buy Rudebox.
