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[Your_Su_Phu]

Shaun, on Nov 27 2008, 06:26 AM, said:

What did Taking Chances sell in the UK? Over 300,000 without a hit single? Ho ho ho. LOL

Anyway, in a sense "All The Way" was re-released in the UK this year with special packaging and only priced at £5 so not surprising its sold so well to be honest.

how much is 5 pounds to USD? most cd's i see these days are sold for 13-14 bucks (with tax) here in the US. what's the cost of a typical new cd in the UK?

Edited by Your_Su_Phu, 27 November 2008 - 11:29 AM.

[Davey84]

VinnyT., on Nov 27 2008, 12:21 PM, said:

UK The Top 100 Albums of 2008:

93 E=MC² - Mariah Carey * 111,500
94 All the Way.. A Decade of Song - Celine Dion 110,500
96 My Love - The Essential Collection - Celine Dion 109,000

I think last update was about 15 days ago

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     the cheap rerelease of ATW paid off!  

about Alicia Keys; I'm sure she's talented, but her voice is so awefully horse!   I really can't stand it!

About Taking Chances, this album is amazing and as some might say; ah she has a big fan base and her sales are still good, then I say; no they are not good! It's a big big shame that an amazing album like that sold so pourly! It has songs that deserve to be known; Surprise, Surprise, This Time, TJTWIM, which could have brought Céline in a whole new direction! Instead they decided to play is safe and take no chances at all and still rely on the 90ies ballad singer   And this will irritate me till the end of time! They (sony, rené AND céline) had a golden opportunity to make Céline relevant in the music business again and they completly blew it!  

[Your_Su_Phu]

none of the tracks I liked off the album were released as singles. blech. cant please everyone i guess

Edited by Your_Su_Phu, 27 November 2008 - 12:43 PM.

[Davey84]

no, but you can at least make an effort!! They knew fans LOVED Fade Away in masses!! But they already decided before it's release that the singles would be alone, tc and eom! and the reaction of the fans, didn't change a thing! they don't care!! they simply don't care!

btw 5 pounds is 6.61 dollars right now

[Céline's Blues]

I didn't love Fade Away, I loved Cherche Encore and still do and it didn't get released, Dejvej!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Peppercorn1991]

Has anybody else noticed that sony have just got the CD (taking chances) and just reliced the singles in order down the list.

FOR EXAMPLE:
1.taking chances
2.alone
3.eyes on me
4.my love
5. shadow of love
6...........................
7...........................
8...........................

has anybody else spotted the same?

maybe shadow of love could be next   lol lol OR NOT!

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[Davey84]

kimankev, on Nov 27 2008, 10:12 PM, said:

maybe shadow of love could be next   lol lol OR NOT!

well they did nothing with the remix that was put out 10 months ago, so I'd vote for no

Céline's Blues, on Nov 27 2008, 08:44 PM, said:

I didn't love Fade Away, I loved Cherche Encore and still do and it didn't get released, Dejvej!!!!!!!!!!!!

Le paradis qui dort
Dans les secrets de ton âme
Cherche encore
Suis ta lumière et tes lois
Si tu peux cherche encore plus fort
Et si jamais tu te perds
Je serai là, je serai là

    

[Your_Su_Phu]

Davey84, on Nov 27 2008, 12:47 PM, said:

no, but you can at least make an effort!! They knew fans LOVED Fade Away in masses!! But they already decided before it's release that the singles would be alone, tc and eom! and the reaction of the fans, didn't change a thing! they don't care!! they simply don't care!

btw 5 pounds is 6.61 dollars right now

omg that's pitiful! this cheapens the success of atw imo..

I mean I know cd's used to be overpriced in general but... 6 dollars? that's like when mariah's label adjusted the price to the loverboy single to under 1 USD <_<
who wouldnt buy a full length album (that was already previously a best seller) for only around 5 bucks!! <_<  

[Davey84]

who cares, it's album sales! it's better selling an album cheap, then having it being downloaded imo

[Shaun]

Davey, whilst I agree about "Taking Chances" and "Alone", Sony did release "Eyes On Me" as a single and that was a bold new direction for Celine yet it still flopped. Now granted there was no promotion or video for it but they did still release it.

But yes, generally speaking the world were just waiting to see what kind of new up to date sound Celine would return with and the chance was blown instantly. Less than a year down the line we have My Love...The Essential Collection.

[Davey84]

Personally, I don't think much of EOM, it was a wrong choice as a single. But Shadow of Love or even Fade Away are more in the line of 'Celine Dion'. And like i said before; they didn't do any promo for it, only that one performance and they didn't even mentioned Delta with its release And don't anyone say she didn't have time, cos she had time to record segments for the tour and a new commercial for her more and better promoted parfums

and like i said in the what's on ur mind thread; I'm thinking.... all of Céline's essential songs are missing from My Love

[Shaun]

Possibly Davey. Don't think much of EOM myself, especially the original album version. If only Sony could've got permission to release the Will.I.Am version. And yes, why was there no mention of Delta anywhere?

But sadly this is looking like the new thing for Celine's albums. First single fully promoted and video made for it and then after that nothing else. So in reality if Fade Away was chosen as a single it probably would've flopped anyway because nothing would've been done to promote it. A sad reality.

[CelionDion]

I think Taking Chances was a pretty good choice for a first single and it got decent promotion as well  

Sony BMG are part of the problem but it's simply a fact that divas like Celine, Whitney and Mariah are no longer dominating the charts the way they used to. The music industry has changed a lot since the 90s.

You can always wonder how things would've went if Shadow Of love would have done as a first single but we will never know  

[Shaun]

It's not just the fact that Sony messed up with "Taking Chances" though. Whether or not the music industry has changed Celine has had the chance to move with it but Sony keep making mistake after mistake.

Releasing "Goodbye's The Saddest Word" as a single, releasing "Have You Ever Been In Love" as a single. Releasing "Alone" as a single. The list could go on. Instead over the years we could've had "When The Wrong One Loves You Right", "I Surrender", "Reveal" or "Shadow Of Love" instead but for whatever reason they want to keep Celine as the ballad queen. Even when they do take risks and market Celine with a modern uptempo song (I'm Alive) they wait far too long to release it and then follow it up with drivel like GTSW.

It should come as no surprise that the singles from TC flopped.

[celinesounds]

If Celine doesn't want to promote the album why Sony would do it. In 90's Celine did TV appearances in almost every show around the world.

If she wants to be on the top again she has to work hard....go to radios, talk shows, autograph sessions....and than after at least 3 successful singles….tour

[Prince Whiskers]

Davey84, on Nov 28 2008, 07:05 AM, said:

And don't anyone say she didn't have time, cos she had time to record segments for the tour and a new commercial for her more and better promoted parfums

Not to mention the multiple photoshoots for the tourbook.

[isurrender]

celinesounds, on Nov 28 2008, 04:25 AM, said:

If Celine doesn't want to promote the album why Sony would do it. In 90's Celine did TV appearances in almost every show around the world.

If she wants to be on the top again she has to work hard....go to radios, talk shows, autograph sessions....and than after at least 3 successful singles….tour

Come on... she did a lot of tv shows in many countries when the album was released!


Nobody does it anymore !

[Xpresso]

celinesounds, on Nov 28 2008, 03:25 AM, said:

If Celine doesn't want to promote the album why Sony would do it. In 90's Celine did TV appearances in almost every show around the world.

If she wants to be on the top again she has to work hard....go to radios, talk shows, autograph sessions....and than after at least 3 successful singles….tour

I think it's the other way around!!! If Sony doesn't want to spend money to promote her album, why should she spend energy on doing it?????????  

And about the perfume commercial... If Sony would want to dish out the money to make a new video, Celine would do it!! The perfume commercial is NOT paid by Sony!! That's the difference...  

[celinesounds]

Xpresso, on Nov 28 2008, 05:39 PM, said:

celinesounds, on Nov 28 2008, 03:25 AM, said:

If Celine doesn't want to promote the album why Sony would do it. In 90's Celine did TV appearances in almost every show around the world.

If she wants to be on the top again she has to work hard....go to radios, talk shows, autograph sessions....and than after at least 3 successful singles….tour

I think it's the other way around!!! If Sony doesn't want to spend money to promote her album, why should she spend energy on doing it?????????

And about the perfume commercial... If Sony would want to dish out the money to make a new video, Celine would do it!! The perfume commercial is NOT paid by Sony!! That's the difference...

Sony is not alone here, there are 3 Parts involved...Celine + René and Sony. If Celine and René don't allow with sony they should react...



Well in my opinion I still think that Celine should use the same key that she did in 90’s

[onix]

Taking Chanches flop?

I don't think so...

nowdays 3.5 million copies... are flop???

[Chula]

The album isn't a flop!

[Black Kitten]

if Taking Chances was a flop, can we possibly find a better term for Discipline and E=MC2???

[Costa Santos]

dhena, on Nov 30 2008, 12:39 PM, said:

if Taking Chances was a flop, can we possibly find a better term for Discipline and E=MC2???

... "The Flop 2"...

[GoldenLeaf]

dhena, on Nov 30 2008, 09:39 AM, said:

if Taking Chances was a flop, can we possibly find a better term for Discipline and E=MC2???

and for Brave by Jennifer Lopez.  

[CelionDion]

dhena, on Nov 30 2008, 09:39 AM, said:

if Taking Chances was a flop, can we possibly find a better term for Discipline and E=MC2???

[Xpresso]

E=FF2  

[Prince Whiskers]

Celine's disciples are sooooooooo mean. Mimi will sell 10m copies of her next album and break the Beatles record of #1 singles to boot.

                  

[VinnyT.]

Best selling album in Canada during the Billboard chart year

Quote

Celine Dion presides over the year-end Top Albums chart.
Her “Taking Chances” (Sony BMG) sold 319,000 copies during
the chart year, 2,000 more than runner-up Josh Groban’s
“Noel” (Warner).

[Bellamy]

They are talking about 2008 or 2007?

[Edwin]

2008. http://www.bdsradio....adianHot100.pdf