overtaken by Lily Allen according to www.havenforum.co.uk
... Vauxhall & I's #1 looks impressive but it was achieved on a very, very low sales week, if I recall correctly. And it soon disappeared forever.
hey guys, don't panic.
I've yet to buy mine!
I've just read that Kings Of Leon may well be overtaking him come tomorrow. Apparently they've been given quite a boost by their performance at the shit awards and could be in for the overall top-spot come Sunday.
I would find it their popularity baffling, but such anodyne stadium rock was popular when the likes of REO Speedwagon and Foreigner were peddling it and it's no different now.
Elbow will overtake by Sunday as well, and Morrissey may find himself out of the top 5. It'll still shift far more first week than Your Arsenal and Vauxhall & I did, so anyone making snide comments about the relation of quality to sales will have flan in their face.
oh! NO,this can't be. I still have to purchase my vinyl copy but I don't live in the UK. If I buy it from amazon.UK does it count? (I always though so, but not sure now )
The thing that always amuses me about these big 'award' ceremonies is that they invariably go to people who have sold a lot of records in the preceeding year (and lined the pockets of they who distribute the trinkets...) but seeing them "validated" by being handed a piece of metal by lawyers & record company executives makes people believe that they simply must have this album by this person and that is a pressing need for them to possess it immediately.
I'm thinking 40 - 45k in sales, which is to be expected given the amount of traffic around at the moment. I had forgotten about the Brit Awards, but it seems like an increasingly peculiar decision by Polydor to put it out this week. Knowing Morrissey's apparent discontent with this sort of thing, the next album may well be on a different label.