Name a CAREER KILLING album
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And I don't see it hanging around long, either.
I wonder how his album will do? I think first week sales may be decent, if only because he's had it on pre-order since before the subsequent singles flopped. Not sure how competitive his release week is, though.
And I don't see it hanging around long, either.
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I was going to post that one too.
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Quite unfair for poor Martine. Two top ten singles from it, plus despite it missing the top 20 it was released in the huge Xmas 2000 period and shifted about 200k From memory. I guess the perception of its success did more damage.
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That album was deadlier than Frank Butcher's car.
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Yeh, the debut had quite a few good songs on it really, but this follow-up was very disappointing - apart from I'm over you, which is still a great pop song!
Too soon.
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What a natural and beautiful album cover. It certainly doesn't look like the DVD cover of a Nigerian action movie.
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Yes, Belinda has always been a natural beauty.
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Has she always had that mighty acreage of forehead, though? There's something of the MARS ATTACKS about her there.
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They must have burned a lot of bridges to be given no second chance. That being said, there are disappointments and then there are astronomic flops like this (plus it is a horrible album). Did we see it coming at the time?
Kéllé must have been dancing on her dining table all Sunday afternoon when the charts were announced
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I think the signs were there it wasn’t going to do great when ‘Whatcha Gonna Do’ peaked at #16 (out peaked by Kelle’s ‘Higher Than Heaven’ a couple of weeks before) but how hard it flopped was a surprise for sure. I remember the HMV beside where I worked at the time had a full window poster of the album cover so obviously there must’ve been some sort of expectations.
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Wasn’t this her debut album?
It's a shame everything besides "Raindrops Will Fall" on the album was average fodder.
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her first and (to date) only albumWasn’t this her debut album?
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Interesting that this at least performed modestly well. Gold in the US with a top 40 single. While Tiffany fell off a sharp cliff around the same time and didn’t even chart on the Billboard 200.
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I do remember her being rather HYPED, and then this album doing nothing. I think she waited too long to release it. It was all about Clay Aiken by thenher first and (to date) only album
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She did write Fantasia's number one hit winning song "I Believe". Wonder if that was from a shelved single for Tamyra originally.I do remember her being rather HYPED, and then this album doing nothing. I think she waited too long to release it. It was all about Clay Aiken by then
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Yes! Surprised it took a day to be mentioned.
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Debbie, high on a lethal cocktail of life and crack, said "I'm going to find a wig so bad it'll bankrupt me and everyone in the band for at least a decade."
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I was a huge fan until then but only liked Astrogirl from this album
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so unfair though, the album was brilliant
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It was very underrated
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I remember some really nasty, vicious reviews which I assume were due to Nina having offended some fragile male egos at some point.
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TBH a lot of these are just 'pop stars inevitably running out of commercial juice' rather than career killers.
I'd say the Duffy, Anastacia and Eternal albums would genuinely fit the bill of albums that actively harmed the artists' career simply by virtue of being very bad.
I tried the fourth Eternal album again the other night and Jesus Christ, who A&R'd it? Utter gash.
I'd say the Duffy, Anastacia and Eternal albums would genuinely fit the bill of albums that actively harmed the artists' career simply by virtue of being very bad.
I tried the fourth Eternal album again the other night and Jesus Christ, who A&R'd it? Utter gash.
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I think it was more a natural decline than anything. She hadn’t had a hit album since 2010. The one before it did modestly well because of the hype for her return, but I don’t think anyone could have expected The High Road to do better than it did.
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"rainbow" was kesha's big change of music direction her sound. it was grammy nominated and then "the high road" followed and quite failed a lot of people didn't go for it (me included) so yes I think that's a fail that album had no promotion and if you give it a fair listening the genre is all over the place.. it was ten steps backwards following "rainbow"
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I laugh at this anytime I see it come up. I loved Geri too, but this song would never have saved her fledgling pop career. She was sinking, and Molly Brown or this dated hit could never have saved her.
She was six years into her solo career by this point and if you add in the years she spent as a Spice Girl - she was one year short of a decade of successful UK charting releases. That isn't "fledgling".