>> I was sure I'd heard it before too, and then remembered where.
>
>By which you mean...
An interview with Bliss.
>>Hmm. That's not always true. Going back to my previous example,
>>Orbital have had 3 top 5 albums in a row. At no point were any of the
>>singles from the albums particularly high in the charts - 11 and 17
>>being the highest placings. Album sales don't equate to single sales -
>>take Dido, for instance.
>
>I'm just going to disagree with you for the sake of argument now, as
>you're mostly right. :-)
>
>I would partially discount Dido as an example because "Stan" was
>as-good-as a single for Dido. Technically it wasn't her single but it
>was UK #1, she was on Top Of The Pops and on the front of national
>newspapers, so I'd definitely count that as promotion.
It's still only one "single", though.
>Orbital is a better example, but even then I'd say that because "Style"
>(was it "Style"? Can't remember now) didn't get too far,
No. 17. Bear in mind that the worst track on the single was the
title track (i.e. the one people would hear), and the only one on the
album, which would probably have discouraged 'the man on the street', if
you ask me.
>"...Nowhere" was helped along by sales to dedicated Orbital fans, and
>by the good name & history of Orbital (which was the point I was
>originally trying to make about Faithless),
Well, you have to bear in mind that Faithless are extremely
commercial; 'coffee table' music if you like, whereas Orbital aren't.
That has a great deal to do with it, IMO.
>rather than people buying an album saying "I must buy this album only
>because it's got <such-and-such-a-track> on it". After all, it wasn't
>very long after Orbital's album was released that suddenly it was in
>the HMV sale at 8.99.
That has no bearing on it - it was ~9 months before it was in
the sale, which is the usual length of time (due to remaindering).
Sunday 8PM was in the sale about that length of rime after release, too
- and there were a fair few singles released from it.
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