Integral to be released in August...

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Henrik Powers · #31 Post by **Henrik Powers** » Mon 02 Jul 2007, 3:22 pm

The thing with "Integral" is : if done right with a great video, a great loads of promo for the single this could be surely bring the boys a top 5 hit.

no?

Flaffer · #32 Post by **Flaffer** » Mon 02 Jul 2007, 3:52 pm

Henrik Powers wrote:The thing with "Integral" is : if done right with a great video, a great loads of promo for the single this could be surely bring the boys a top 5 hit.

no?

unlikely is the answer - PSB don't seem to sell that many downloads, video unlikely to get any significant amount of play no matter how good it is, track taken from an album over a year old (which wasn't that succesful in the first place) and the record doesn't sound like any genre which is currently popular

DazzerUKUK · #33 Post by **DazzerUKUK** » Mon 02 Jul 2007, 4:06 pm

Henrik Powers wrote:The thing with "Integral" is : if done right with a great video, a great loads of promo for the single this could be surely bring the boys a top 5 hit.

no?

No.

To get top 5 you need 10000 - 20000 sales. No chance of that. Most people interested in PSB already have Integral on Fundamental or Concrete or Cubism or all three!

Only die-hard fans will buy the single for the extra tracks, so I'm sticking with top 15.

Henrik Powers · #34 Post by **Henrik Powers** » Mon 02 Jul 2007, 5:04 pm

Even if it's to promote a "new album" Disco 4?

Janet Street-Porter · Mon 02 Jul 2007, 6:30 pm

BlueSwan wrote:Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Disco 4 was released, but the single release of Integral was scrapped. After all, there's bound to be a limit to how many extra tracks they have lying around.

Oh I don't know. A couple of drunken karaoke nights with Sir Elton should suffice.

Blogo · #36 Post by **Blogo** » Tue 03 Jul 2007, 5:23 pm

PSB don't seem to sell that many downloads, video unlikely to get any significant amount of play no matter how good it is, track taken from an album over a year old (which wasn't that succesful in the first place) and the record doesn't sound like any genre which is currently popular

Hello! Calvin Harris? Electronic music is very popular in the charts these days... I'm sure it will do well, not just in the UK, but around Europe...

Danger · #37 Post by **Danger** » Tue 03 Jul 2007, 5:50 pm

On wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Shop_Boys_discography) there is written about a Integral release in august like on the Chris Dahl's site that indicates 10 September like release date of the single.

gregf · #38 Post by **gregf** » Wed 04 Jul 2007, 5:13 am

Henrik Powers wrote:The thing with "Integral" is : if done right with a great video, a great loads of promo

I agree a great video could make a big difference.
Something that catches public attention.

NJTom · #39 Post by **NJTom** » Fri 06 Jul 2007, 12:19 pm

I think EMI will soon figure out that a few magazine ads for Disco 4 is a far better way to spend money than releasing another single

dVTB · #40 Post by **dVTB** » Fri 06 Jul 2007, 12:49 pm

NJTom wrote:I think EMI will soon figure out that a few magazine ads for Disco 4 is a far better way to spend money than releasing another single

Why are you so sure about that? Disco 3 only made #36 in the UK album charts, despite lots of new material on the album. It's a pretty poor result, compared to PSB studio albums, such as Release and Fundamental. How do you explain this difference?

If singles weren't a good way to promote an album, why are they still released in dozens every week? If you only want die-hard fans to buy the album, you can just post a message on the official site. If you want to convince non-fans, you need an appealing lead-single.

Henrik Powers · #41 Post by **Henrik Powers** » Fri 06 Jul 2007, 1:17 pm

dVTB wrote:
NJTom wrote:I think EMI will soon figure out that a few magazine ads for Disco 4 is a far better way to spend money than releasing another single
Why are you so sure about that? Disco 3 only made #36 in the UK album charts, despite lots of new material on the album. It's a pretty poor result, compared to PSB studio albums, such as Release and Fundamental. How do you explain this difference?

If singles weren't a good way to promote an album, why are they still released in dozens every week? If you only want die-hard fans to buy the album, you can just post a message on the official site. If you want to convince non-fans, you need an appealing lead-single.

Integral could probably get new fans ... Minimal and I'm with Stupid were excellent but don't/didn't have the over the top appeal of Integral

psb-freak · #42 Post by **psb-freak** » Fri 06 Jul 2007, 2:37 pm

Where was the information about 10th September originally from ? Still no confirmation on official site. Only some very nice rumours. I´d still like it to be released.

dVTB · #43 Post by **dVTB** » Fri 06 Jul 2007, 3:07 pm

A two-week delay for the single release (from 27 August to 10 September) somehow sounds very Parlophone-ish. It would make sense to release the album one week after the single; so the 17th.

The rumours are already floating around for 2-3 weeks now. If they were completely untrue, they certainly would have been denied by now.

Fugitive1979 · #44 Post by **Fugitive1979** » Fri 06 Jul 2007, 3:08 pm

dVTB wrote:A two-week delay for the single release (from 27 August to 10 September) somehow sounds very Parlophone-ish. It would make sense to release the album one week after the single; so the 17th.

The rumour is already floating around for 2-3 weeks now. If they were completely untrue, they certainly would have been denied by now.

Good point, but confirmation would be lovely.