That's ridiculous. Erasure are going to stick around if they fail to make any magic chart number, simply because they run a tight ship - or do you mean all those expensive videos and slick PR campaigns will run them into the ground?Undertaker wrote:If Pop40 doesn't go top 20, Erasure may as well pack it all in. Being happy with a top 40 placing is a bail out. You only need to sell 6,000 copies at the moment for a top 30 placing. This needs to retain a chart place for at least a month to make any sort of profit. The less it sells, the cheaper the next album and no one will buy it.
I do think it will chart well. It's a new GH package and people buy them. I hope it does, so we can have a decent sounding album next year with a proper pruducer and writer. Not some ten bob bit, same old, same old.
Total Pop *may* sell 6000 units, but I doubt it. As I said, if they were to throw a bombastic live performance (like no other band are capable of, let's get serious here) at the Brits and get an award like that, then I think Total Pop would easily have made top 20, maybe top 10. But that's neither here nor there.
I, like you, also wish Erasure get a bigger name producer, if only to get them some much-deserved attention in the media. See, we can agree on something. As for a different writer, not a chance. The Clarke/Bell writing partnership is golden. Even the Clarke (singular) writing entity is peerless in the pop world - which you can witness when "Just Can't Get Enough" drinks your milkshake... drinks it right up!
