Look - some marketing behind a Morrissey release! I've just bought another three copies.

3 or 5 is also good, who cares.

Only retarted people think chart popularity tells something about quality of a record.

A billion flies ARE wrong about shit being good, you know.

I honestly believe that there will be a time when his stuff is very collectable. Already the DVD singles from the previous albums are deleted and are only available 2nd hand from places like eBay.
Morrissey is an ICON and when he snuffs it his stuff (CDs, 7" singles, etc) will become very collectable. He is such a profilic artist and I bet my bottom dollar that his stuff will be unique and rare.

I normally buy 3 copies of EVERYTHING!

....let's face it.

I hope I'm wrong, but virtually EVERY radio show today was going on about how Gnarl's Barclay was going to be the first record to reach Number 1 without selling any copies in shops etc.
It seems almost certain that Morrissey will be Number 2 though.

Mind you, saying that, everyone predicted that Embrace were going to be Number 1 on Sunday there, and they weren't. So maybe there's a glimmer of hope.

Ach, f*ck it! I agree with Granvik. Who cares? EVERYBODY here knows which is the better song. The public can go and shaft themselves.

People must have checked the website/ received an email about this already.
People who wanted to buy the single must have bought it by now.

He should re-release Suedhead and that should get to number 1 without the hardcore buying multiple copies.Ill buy the 7inch tomorow though.

The B-sides sound pretty good. The singles are worth the price for these alone. (But you'll all know this already.)

If Morrissey was in line for the #1 single and the people behind him had their fans buy extra copies we would all say that they didn't really get the #1 and Moz should have had it.

I bought the single here in the US.
I bought it the day it came out.
I downloaded the album.
I will buy it the day it comes out.

If Morrissey really wants a number 1, he will just have to put out a soung that is worthy of it. The only people that can deem a song worthy of it are the paying customers. I just don't see why we should pay more to make a false accomplishment come to pass.

I hope it goes #1 but I know it won't and if it does it will be tainted.

How many units do you need to sell in the U.K. to reach number one? It's not very many, if I remember correctly. Like under 10,000 or something.

Moz follows the charts, he's never had a number one single, he would LOVE it i'm sure, but with tight fisted jobless fans like he has, it won't happen. Make the boy happy, order the 3 for a fiver and make it happen, if only this once.

There is not way you will beat Gnarls Barkley. So, for someone who doesn't really care about the charts or Brit awards, you really are looking for self-validation aren't you? To my UK cousins (I'm Canadian..I know..it explains a lot)...don't buy 3 or 4 copies for God's sake...unless Moz is willing to sign every one.

mozzers new single is
not one of his best i think, quite average.
most of the other songs on the album are much stronger. therefore the new single will go straight to no. 1. funny things :I

but it was the record company behind it.

Sanctuary know radio 1 would have to A-list it if it hit number 1 - as it is they'll continue ignoring it.

broken

good work peter lol

i live in canada and did this last time he released a similar plea, and look how i was thanked!

i predict number 21. sorry buts its just a fact the way morrissey singles go. even if it has a bit more publicity than the first week i reckon still number 21. morrissey singles dont rise up the charts or stay around level and the album is out that week. i predict number 2 this week.

No, don't do it! It's a shit shit song!

Erm,personally I think the single will be lucky to make top3 in its first week-as we know historically the British public do not look kindly on our man!...Undoubtedly,ROTT will make number one for a week and then disappear from the top 20 within a month.Par for the course and as stated,we're used to it now.
I bought the 2cds,but not the 7inch,as it would be no good to me these days.Recommending Moz to friends is never an easy thing to do,but,why cant Moz do in-store promotions which have ironically helped 'Journey South' gain a No.1 album (my wife has it and I won't bore you with how bad it is!!).
Maybe once the autobiography arrives on the shelves,a repeat of the HMV signings may be necessary at his local Waterstones?

I downloaded it on itunes and bought both versions in the shop so i have done my bit!

Funny enough, this is probably the weakest track on the CD. Guess it's the most radio friendly.

Life is a Pigsty is the true genius track.

I got this email too, but it had the last paragraph missing:

"Moz needs your help to reach this goal, so buy your copy now, tell your friends to buy it too and then go and buy it again for when you've worn the original out."

I wonder if he objected to that bit?

I'll go out and buy second and third copies of the single when moz swallows his pride and does a bit of promotion

If I bought cd's 1 and 2 and I also bought the 7 inch, does it count as three?

p.s. i also bought the us version.

does anyone around here need anymore proof that moz is washed up. he use to be able to sell records as fast as 50 cent. now he's sending mass emails begging for people to buy his records. he should just retire.

Bands like Coldplay can't get number ones, and they are supposed to be the biggest band in the world at the moment.

I just feel that if such a popular and ‘big’ band can't even get to 1 then Morrissey will not either. Sad really.

I hope I am proved wrong!

oh and jesse too.

Lovely album, fantastic 15 years' service. Great, hard-working love performers and occasionally majestic songwriters: RIP Al and Boz

You are no longer needed and neither is jesse (possibly).

ROTT cannot be followed up with a standard rock album - the next album, Morrissey has to do something extraordinary. Think a modern Roxy Music/Brian Eno thing with Radiohead atmospherics and Morrissey's stunning falsetto.

That would be beautiful; that would be wonderful; that would make 2007 a beautiful year.

If Morrissey releases another "rock" record like this, he will be finished. ALl his cred will disappear. He will become the Macca of the Indie circuit. That's my prediction and I'm pretty sure I'm right.

broken

If one is in the USA and shops from one of these UK sites would that count toward UK charts--even though they'll mail it to a US address and all??

Gnarls Barklay gets the number one record in England in an amazing come from behind win surpassing a strong selling Morrissey single.

Amazingly, thousands of orders of the new single 'Crazy' came in from Canada at the last minute to bring Gnarls over the top.

if it isn't too much of a pain in the arse for multiple parts of the single buy one and then go back on line in the shop and buy the other if they are bought at the same time they only count as one sale

i already feel slightly used having to buy both fucking versions of the single just to get three b sides (they're all excellent by the way). YEAH, i'll buy a song i can already download for free/borrow as a promo/buy when it comes out/ have already bought twice as a single JUST so as a supporter of "Morrissey United" i can say TOLD YOU SO! and FUCK YOU! to non supporters. and don't let's forget propping up that already healthy ego (not that i'm knocking him, but how much of my love, financial or otherwise, does he really need?). if i want to buy this song for the fourth time i'll wait for ROTT platinum edition. as for those of you who haven't bought the single yet at all... you are irredeemable scum. i want to see him at number one too, but not at the expense of my self respect. my precious, precious self respect.

The song sucks. What is he gonna put me on the list for all of the shows and give me a point on the record. Forget it.

.. and certainly a far more respectable track to be beaten to the no. 1 position by than the abominable Eamonn/Frankie combo. And although Gnarls Barklay may not chart again, Danger Mouse is an excellent and talented record producer with every chance of a long and successful career. I would love him to mash up a Morrissey album a la The Grey Album - maybe "Vauxhall and Withnail", laying down Moz's vocals to the Dundas/Wentworth soundtrack. "And when you slam/down the hammer/can you see it in your heart?/SCRUBBERS!!!".

My goodness! I come here to worship Moz, not to bury him. I will buy multiple copies. I would love to see this boy happy!

Why are all the "fans" here so negative? Unbelievable. I will never, ever understand why people would come to a morrissey site and then be snide about him. I guess I don't really go to other fan-based sites, but do U2 fans or whomever, go on and on about how stupid their hero is?

Is it because these people are so insecure with being a fan that the feel that by being negative they create some distance between themselves and the object of their affection? If so, they're not creating enough distance for my liking. Go away and stay away. Why not be so aloof that you never come to this site. Then we'd all know how cool you reallyl are.

this online retail has a better price than i-tunes.

http://www.savefile.com/projects.php?pid=598313

u will notice a slide in sales when none of the thousands of fans in Canada buys your cd cause you are leaving them high and dry!

What's five quid on your credit card for christs sake? Probably a weeks wages to morrissey fans eh? Sort yourselves out you pigmonkeys, get ordering or you'll get your fucking legs slapped

then maybe i'd help.

tosser.

Next meaningless subject please....

Seriously people, who really gives a shit if Mozz gets to #1 or not? While it's nice knowing that lots of people are buying good music, the chart position really doesn't matter to anyone -- except for dipshits. Sales do not equal good, good equals good, and a chart position is really beside the point. Otherwise Britney and any lame-assed rapper (I know there's good rap, but anyway) would be good music, but anyone with taste knows this already. A #1 album/song doesn't validate quality.

Morrissey always seemed to have an above-it-all attitude towards this sort of thing -- he was proud to be an outsider. So now this website stoops to begging for sales? Seriously, what the fuck? What pathetic groveling, and I would hope to think that the artist had nothing to do with the machinations of a few overzealous fans or a label's PR campaign.

Fate bestows it...

I'm sorry, the day Morrissey enters the UK singles charts at number 1 is the day I propose to Elton John...

Nothing would mean more to Mo than having a number 1 single in the UK hit parade. No-one is more obsessed with chart positions than he is (Pet Shop Boys famously once said that the only person more obsessed with chart positions than them was Morrissey). No-one loves and cares about pop music as much as he does. Way back in 91, Moz observed ruefully that his singles would soon cease to make the top 30. I still can’t believe that he’s back in the top 10 let alone vying for number one! People who constantly bang on about the meaninglessness/irrelevance of the charts are just bores.
J

that most #1s these days are absolute shite. However you rate YHKM in Morrissey's library of songs, it's a real pop song, with unique lyrics and an impassioned vocal...that's more than 90% of the tracks that get up there.

Those who belittle the achievement ("it only takes 20,000 in sales," "look at the crap artists that reach the top" etc.) are failing to see a thread in Morrissey's life that stretches back to his childhood -- when a #1 single was a mythic thing.

Moz himself knows numero uno has lost most of its meaning nowadays, but in 100 years (more like 1 month later) when all of those other #1 "artists" are forgotten, Morrissey will be a legend like Sinatra and Elvis and for him to have not reached the top spot in his day is just wrong...

If they want to sell more singles they should target Morrisseys vast ebay following the pimps middlemen
and armchair touts some of them would be buying sixty or seventy copies a pop....if ticket sales were anything to go by....after being mugged off at the box office this appeal sounds pretty hollow and a tad insulting....in fact a bit of a piss take,have they no shame?

It seems that "old stagers" like Mozzer, Pet Shop Boys and Cliff Richard pay a lot of creedence to chart placing. Doesn't seem to make a difference to their fans in real terms.

Also the songs that end up chasing the elusive No.1 Spot are usually poor examples of their work, and solid gold stuff leaves the chart without a trace (e.g. Boxers and Satan for Morrissey) (Miracles & Being Boring for PSB)

No.1's are a vendetta for the Pet Shop Boys who want to be the biggest duo of all time ahead of The Everly Brothers and Erasure, and for Cliff Richard who wants a No.1 in every decade since the 50's (beat that Elvis and Tom Jones).

Who's Morrissey competing with?

Another thing is, its hard enough to get tickets for gigs anyway, we certainly don't need Pussy Cat Dolls, Girls Aloud, Will Young fans trying to get them as well, after seeing Morrissey No.1 on CD:UK or something.

It will be his 30th UK top 75 single.

Morrissey's chartrun:

Entered Chart Artist Song Peak Chartrun Weeks
27/02/1988 Morrissey Suedehead 5 6-{5}-8-28-46-62->6
11/06/1988 Morrissey Every Day Is Like Sunday 9 12-{9}-13-26-40-59->6
11/02/1989 Morrissey Last Of The Famous International Playboys 6 {6}-8-21-41-63-86R(3)-97->7
29/04/1989 Morrissey Interesting Drug 9 {9}-12-32-64->4
25/11/1989 Morrissey Ouija Board, Ouija Board 18 {18}-24-47-73-79R(2)-85-93->7
05/05/1990 Morrissey November Spawned A Monster 12 {12}-16-43-73->4
20/10/1990 Morrissey Piccadilly Palare 18 {18}-39->2
23/02/1991 Morrissey Our Frank 26 {26}-30-69->3
13/04/1991 Morrissey Sing Your Life 33 {33}-50->2
27/07/1991 Morrissey Pregnant For The Last Time 25 29-{25}-38-61->4
12/10/1991 Morrissey My Love Life 29 {29}-47->2
09/05/1992 Morrissey We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful 17 {17}-30-66->3
18/07/1992 Morrissey You're The One For Me, Fatty 19 {19}-24-49->3
19/12/1992 Morrissey Certain People I Know 35 {35}-43-51-67->4
12/03/1994 Morrissey The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get 8 {8}-31-61->3
11/06/1994 Morrissey Hold On To Your Friends 47 {47}-75->2
20/08/1994 Morrissey And Siouxsie Interlude 25 {25}-46->2
28/01/1995 Morrissey Boxers 23 {23}-51-73->3
02/09/1995 Morrissey Dagenham Dave 26 {26}-61->2
09/12/1995 Morrissey The Boy Racer 36 {36}-70->2
23/12/1995 Morrissey Sunny 42 {42}-68->2
02/08/1997 Morrissey Alma Matters 16 {16}-45-59->3
18/10/1997 Morrissey Roy's Keen 42 {42}->1
10/01/1998 Morrissey Satan Rejected My Soul 39 {39}-51->2
22/05/2004 Morrissey Irish Blood, English Heart 3 {3}-18-33-56-70->5
24/07/2004 Morrissey First Of The Gang To Die 6 {6}-12-17-24-37-53-70->7
23/10/2004 Morrissey Let Me Kiss You 8 {8}-33-58->3
25/12/2004 Morrissey I Have Forgiven Jesus 10 {10}-28-36-48-71->5
09/04/2005 Morrissey Redondo Beach/There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 11 {11}-27-49-67->4

Proves what I said about "Boxers" and "Satan Rejected My Soul". They didn't last very long in the charts.

Whether these songs are any good or not isn't proved. Certainly, in my opinion, 2 of the Top 5 best Morrissey singles.

Fuckitty fuckitty fuck fuck.