1 hour ago, nathanspears said:

What I got didn't work, waiting for something else tomorrow. This had better be worth it

Yes please, I'm dying to hear the two tracks in the hope that they will elevate the album

The commercials... oh dear. It hasn't done well at all. I'm praying it at least MAKES IT onto the UK chart. She completely missed the Swedish one. I think French one will be fine given a lot of the physicals shipped from there. The streams are really bad but at least the physicals have done well.

Feels Like Heaven was a big mistake being a lead single. It needs a lot of rework and rearrangement. I think True Love should had been the lead and then Coming Close and then Wildfire.

The promo choices were also not great, I know it's a tough week as well with all the other releases. Hopefully the physicals and tour make up for it and the plans continue. We're on the right path again but just need a few adjustments

EDIT: She didn't chart in the UK, I'm so disappointed

Edited April 3Apr 3 by nathanspears

So this didn't even chart in Sweden They really fumbled this opportunity (AGAIN). A two time Eurovision winner and even the Swedes didn't care about this.

Not surprised though, let's be honest, the music is bad - really bad.

Edited April 3Apr 3 by Galantis
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Why did I assume she would chart in the top 10 in Europe damn, that's so disappointing. I got a vinyl!

how did she not even chart in sweden???

I'm more shocked at the UK. Sweden hasn't loved her for years and she struggled to sell her tour dates there last year and before that.

She managed to sell out MULTIPLE dates in the UK on both headlining tours, thousands of people. Did they just not buy the album?

1 hour ago, nathanspears said:

I'm more shocked at the UK. Sweden hasn't loved her for years and she struggled to sell her tour dates there last year and before that.

She managed to sell out MULTIPLE dates in the UK on both headlining tours, thousands of people. Did they just not buy the album?

This. Euphoria and Tattoo were the anomaly rather than the rule, I think this is finally clear to everyone. They let her down already in 2011 when she exploded on the scene with My Heart Is Refusing Me (the OG version smash hit that never was) and finally turned their back on her with Statements. They also pretty much hate Agnes. And Robyn isn't really doing much better.

However Loreen and primarily her team are to blame for it this era. To think that she/they wasted another ESC win (!!!), such a fantastic, timey visual concept, and several potential smashes...

I don't believe the UK numbers. Something feels off. My theory is that it's because lots of people bought from her France store instead of her official Polydor UK one. It ended up doing 1500 units in total... I bought it 6 times myself...

Edited April 3Apr 3 by nathanspears

Wow Sweden really isn't the girl i thought she was

Yeah, it's strange, that the album didn't chart at all but the quality isn't really there tbh.

Why would people stream the music. If it isn't good enough?

I'm a huge supporter and I was here ever since 2012 but this new album isn't it

Echo and No Promises are out there now in HQ

@nathanspears @elvenOCEAN @liamapi @Dark Miracles @AlexLockhart @Finn@pink lightning @DailyPoison @Anthinos

I really like the bonus tracks, they sound great album tracks imo and should've replaced some of the songs that ended up on the album

Edited April 3Apr 3 by alexaalto

Echo is so good, it should have been a standard track. No Promises is a good album track.

I honestly don't see how it's shocking she didn't chart lmao She and her team wasted every big platform they had for the past 3 years to launch an album. She never built a solid fanbase because she refuses to be consistent putting music out. At one point the clown comes back to bite.

Just now, mathekr said:

I honestly don't see how it's shocking she didn't chart lmao She and her team wasted every big platform they had for the past 3 years to launch an album. She never built a solid fanbase because she refuses to be consistent putting music out. At one point the clown comes back to bite.

But (I thought) she had a solid fan base in the UK. Multiple sold out shows, hundreds of VIP tickets sold. I knew after week 1 it would fall off a cliff but I thought week 1 sales would be good. To not even make the chart and only do 500 more units than Jane McDonald in her second week… what?!

Edited April 3Apr 3 by nathanspears

2 minutes ago, nathanspears said:

But (I thought) she had a solid fan base in the UK. Multiple sold out shows, hundreds of VIP tickets sold. I knew after week 1 it would fall off a cliff but I thought week 1 sales would be good.

Did she though? None of the singles post Tattoo made a dent there. Even with Heal, she had a top 3 hit with Euphoria and barely charted with the album. Her popularity in the UK seems to be tied to the novelty of being an Eurovision winner, and touring there for the first time seemed to scratch that itch because even the new tour is not selling as much it seems.

1 minute ago, mathekr said:

Did she though? None of the singles post Tattoo made a dent there. Even with Heal, she had a top 3 hit with Euphoria and barely charted with the album. Her popularity in the UK seems to be tied to the novelty of being an Eurovision winner, and touring there for the first time seemed to scratch that itch because even the new tour is not selling as much it seems.

The singles flopped but with an album it should be boosted with physical sales is my point. Week 1 I expected it to at least chart with physicals alone. She had two variants available here (Dusk is non-existent it seems) the signed copies sold out and her Polydor website claims to be low stock for the standard vinyl. It doesn't add up.

I think the (expanded) tracklist flows very well if it is ordered by thematically. Roughly: meeting in a club, steamy phase, pure love, crumbling, heartbreak, loneliness/missing, moving on/accepting/wondering

I even liked the ones I usually skip (weapons, lose that light, true love) and tbh forever flows very nicely to lose that light

tracks in italic are droplets etc

My tracklist order

-can't pull me down

-weapons

-kiss the sky

-no promises

-wildfire

-melt

-gravity

-falling

-feels like heaven

-forever

-lose that light

-true love

-warning signs

-pum pum

-is it love

-tattoo

-arcade

-set me free

-echo

-coming close

-where do we go from here

Echo shits on basically everything on this album this, true love, coming close and tattoo are the ones, everything else can go choke.

Interestingly, the guy who leaked the bonus tracks posted digital files instead of vinyl rips. Makes me wonder if the lossless files are being traded privately.

That track with Sia is so reductive I am sorry, the opening track is

I enjoy this album, her best album tbh

the album should've been out with is it love 3 years ago so it's not shocking. i listened to it once and it was fine, but nothing stood out like tattoo and is it love, or even gravity, forever or warning signs. if u gonna release a mid album, why bother waiting 3 years? she should've dropped it and moved on years ago. what a wasted opportunity.

8 hours ago, BraveNewSeth said:

Interestingly, the guy who leaked the bonus tracks posted digital files instead of vinyl rips. Makes me wonder if the lossless files are being traded privately.

The Echo instrumental leaked in lossless a few weeks ago

Edited April 4Apr 4 by nathanspears

I actually prefer No Promises to Echo! It's a vibe.

I need echo and no promises on streaming NOW