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LEONA ROBBED OF NO. 1 BY LABEL
Leona Lewis will not hit the number one spot in the UK charts this Sunday after her label, SonyBMG, reportedly forgot to release her new single, a cover of Snow Patrol's 'Run'.
According to The Sun, the single had been planned for a digital release this week to follow her performance of the song on 'X Factor'. But the single wasn't made available and now the release has been shelved. This is the second time the label has messed up the release of one of the singer's singles in recent weeks, claims the tabloid. She recently went up against Beyonce, Britney and Christina in a so-called 'Diva day' showdown, but Leona's song, 'Forgive Me' wasn't released until a day after the others, leaving her playing catch-up.
A source said: "It's an absolute cock-up. It was due out as a download and would have walked to number one".
story has engaeged some folk here.
Taklen from CMU.

If I like a song I will buy it even if I have to wait a while after first hearing it. I would never buy a song purely because it had been on TV, although the TV appearance might alert me to it's existance.

If the song is good it should sell regardless.

If it has to rely on TV hype then it's probably not that good, and it only sells because people are caught up in the mood rather than actually liking it.

Denise, the thing is that many people won't even know the song exists if they don't see it on a major show.

The core fans will buy just about anything or everything. But there's not enough of them to drive a song to the n

Once again "The Sun" has overhyped the story and indulged in a little creative massaging. It wasn't members of "Leona's camp" who were complaining, it was fans.

Apparently Sony/Syco had always intended the album as a physical only release with a later digital release. However this wasn't communicated at all to the fans - some digital sites had the album and individual tracks available to buy with a Monday release only for it to be pulled on the weekend (significantly never available for pre-order on iTunes though). Even on the X-Factor on Saturday it was described as her next single and the album being available on Monday, which of course it technically was.

It the album has been available digitally Run would have shot to #1 - in Ireland where it was and X-Factor is televised it is outselling Beyonce digitally by a ratio of 3 to 1 at the top of the chart. Anyway seems to have worked looking at the midweeks where it is #1 above Dido and anecdotal evidence suggests it is selling out in various supermarkets.

Any confusion has to be laid squarely at the door of Sony/Syco. It's no good having a flashy webite, beautifully-skinned myspace and bebo channels, and fan email distribution lists if the information you provide isn't clear, accurate and frequently updated.

Where The Sun was accurate was regarding the balls up with the release of the previous single Forgive Me. It had release dates on the various digital sites spanning the best part of a month and went on iTunes a day after all the other major releases that week. This is surely fundamental stuff and takes minutes to check the lot (the fanbase did - they pointed out the inconsistencies and were ignored). Is Sony/Syco that short-staffed that major releases get bungled like this?

Increased sales of album and going back to No 1

vs

"Run" being No.1 for about a week and not many sales of album...



You don't really have to think about this one, do you? It maks all you armchair pundits who inhabit this board with your "download" only label run from your kitchen look stupid.

which was Sony/Syco have exchanged a few thousand extra sales of an album which has already sold 5m for a cheap marketing gimmick which has pissed off the core fanbase.

As Ray Mears might say, you don't spend an hour gathering tinder and fuel to light a fire and then when it's lit piss all over it.

Those fans are the ones who do all the free promo, vote for awards, make requests to radio stations, rush out to buy on the first day of release to get high chart positions, push up YouTube counts etc

It's horribly short-termist thinking by the record company. A third number 1 single or another week at #1 for an already played out album?