dont see him in the top 40 next week

Where did you expect him to be?

There weren't many people thinking Top 10. I thought Top ten until I saw he was #8 in the first midweek. So I pretty much made my mind up that he was going to chart somewhere between 13-14.

One spot lower than I thought.

Thank god!

15 is a very good effort, imagine if the song had managed airplay on Radio 1 then surely it would have made Top 10 and even Top 5 at a push.

Hope Kasabian's new tunes charts well too, about time some real music got back near the top.

I'm also interested to see what the rest of his singles will do. Will the next few singles continue to be in the Top 20. Or will he be like Beady Eye, and have the rest of his songs completely fall off the map.

I think a lot will depend on the fanbase, which beady eye seemed to lose with every successive single, and the also the quality of the songs.

But I think that Noel should be extremely happy with Top 15. He himself said that he didnt think that he could get to the Top 10. So I would think that he'd be happy with Top 15. And his first single being 16 full spots higher than Beady Eye. (if he cares about such things )

But there is also the consideration that BDI's highest single was The Roller which is the single that came out with the album and benefited most of all the single from the hype from the album.

Timing wise this single is more in the vein of FLW just with better promo. Noel has done short casual radio interviews but I am sure a lot of them were scheduled on the understanding that Noel would be making the rounds again properly in studio in a couple if months closer to the album.

He hasn't done TV, live sessions. I don't even think he was in studio for any of the radio interviews. Closer to the album the rehearsals will have finished and he'll be free to travel and promote until the album drops and the tour starts.

Funny thing it that it seems like he has done so much more press than BDI but you still know that this was just the tip of the promotional iceberg.

The mags that have covered him will probably give him another feature in 2 months. Q, MOJO, NME, maybe even RS as they have been pretty positive about him so far and given him coverage despite him not even having music out in America.

This all seems to feel a bit like a primer in prep for a big push for the album. I think he realizes from BDI that he isn't guaranteed a #1 and he needs to play it smart.

I think he might possibly do better with his next single.

Really happy he ended up at 15 the downloads must have stopped a bit as on Itunes he's at 52

I think one small thing that could have hurt the single was the time in which the single went on pre-order. For the first 48 hours when it hit YouTube, there was no preorder for the single.

I still think that the majority of the people who bought the single were going to buy it anyways, and the people who didn't, wouldn't have bought it anyways. But if it had been up for pre-oder on the day that it hit YouTube, then I think the sales would have been a bit higher.

Now did it make enough of a difference to keep him from the Top 10, No. I don't think it did. But did it make enough of a difference that it might have cost him a couple of spots, Yes. It might have cost him a couple of spots.

But that's just a small tiff. I mean in the end, what's the difference between 15 and 13.

Nah, #15 is his debut. Saying he debuted at #9* is silly.






(He was #8 on the first mids, by the way)

It's sad and unfair but that's the way that the world is at the moment and for the age we live in number 15 is quite an achievement.

Didn't TSOL go #2?

None of the singles from DM went to #1, I remember hearing that after Roll With It went to #2, there became an intense obsession for every band in that era to hit #1. In all honesty, #15 is fine. It's far better than Oasis did with their debut and even BDI.