Seeing as her solo stuff came from an era where people didn't tour and always mimed... okay?
Rachel Stevens
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Seeing as her solo stuff came from an era where people didn't tour and always mimed... okay?
Hm? Uh... I was saying her speaking voice is smooth and comforting, verging on ASMR, like an old-school radio host. @Island got it.
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Actually Rachel was 27 when Come and Get It was released.
I think they meant it was 28 in the album charts.
I sure did. 28, I mean, come on. Should have been top 3.
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(But let’s be real, Rachel peaked.)
She peaked with Glovejustice, yes.
I checked to see which albums outsold Come and Get It...
23rd October 2005:
01 NE Prodigy - Their Law - The Singles 1990-2005
02 01 Sugababes - Taller in More Ways [#1, 2 weeks]
03 NE Simply Red - Simplified
04 03 Katie Melua - Piece by Piece [#1, 4 weeks]
05 02 James Blunt - Back to Bedlam [#1, 32 weeks]
06 NE Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel
07 09 Mariah Carey - Greatest Hits [#7, 7 weeks]
08 07 David Gray - Life in Slow Motion [#1, 6 weeks]
09 05 Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better [#1, 3 weeks]
10 06 KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope [#3, 40 weeks]
11 NE Michael Ball - Music
12 08 Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway [#6, 14 weeks]
13 NE Starsailor - On the Outside
14 12 Barbra Streisand - Guilty Too [#3, 5 weeks]
15 04 Paul Weller - As It Now [#4, 2 weeks]
16 14 Kaiser Chiefs - Employment [#3, 33 weeks]
17 11 Coldplay - X&Y [#1, 20 weeks]
18 NE Michael Bolton - The Very Best Of
19 13 Kanye West - Late Registration [#2, 8 weeks]
20 10 Bryn Terfel - Simple Gifts [#10, 2 weeks]
21 NE Aled Jones - New Horizons
22 17 Faithless - Forever Faithless - The Greatest Hits [#1, 23 weeks]
23 19 Gorillaz - Demon Days [#1, 22 weeks]
24 NE Stevie Wonder - A Time 2 Love
25 16 Mariah Carey - The Emancipation of Mimi [#7, 29 weeks]
26 NE Rick Astley - Portrait
27 23 Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams [#10, 32 weeks]
28 NE Rachel Stevens - Come and Get It
Some of the sales! Rachel sold 9,394:
79,708 Prodigy (1)
44,820 Sugababes (2)
41,292 Simply Red (3)
35,769 James Blunt (5)
32,505 Depeche Mode (6)
24,633 Mariah Carey (7)
21,445 Michael Ball (11)
19,735 Starsailor (13)
15,889 Coldplay (17)
15,850 Michael Bolton (18)
12,850 Aled Jones (21)
12,173 Stevie Wonder (24)
9,998 Mariah Carey (25)
9,930 Rick Astley (26)
9,394 Rachel Stevens (28)
23rd October 2005:
01 NE Prodigy - Their Law - The Singles 1990-2005
02 01 Sugababes - Taller in More Ways [#1, 2 weeks]
03 NE Simply Red - Simplified
04 03 Katie Melua - Piece by Piece [#1, 4 weeks]
05 02 James Blunt - Back to Bedlam [#1, 32 weeks]
06 NE Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel
07 09 Mariah Carey - Greatest Hits [#7, 7 weeks]
08 07 David Gray - Life in Slow Motion [#1, 6 weeks]
09 05 Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better [#1, 3 weeks]
10 06 KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope [#3, 40 weeks]
11 NE Michael Ball - Music
12 08 Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway [#6, 14 weeks]
13 NE Starsailor - On the Outside
14 12 Barbra Streisand - Guilty Too [#3, 5 weeks]
15 04 Paul Weller - As It Now [#4, 2 weeks]
16 14 Kaiser Chiefs - Employment [#3, 33 weeks]
17 11 Coldplay - X&Y [#1, 20 weeks]
18 NE Michael Bolton - The Very Best Of
19 13 Kanye West - Late Registration [#2, 8 weeks]
20 10 Bryn Terfel - Simple Gifts [#10, 2 weeks]
21 NE Aled Jones - New Horizons
22 17 Faithless - Forever Faithless - The Greatest Hits [#1, 23 weeks]
23 19 Gorillaz - Demon Days [#1, 22 weeks]
24 NE Stevie Wonder - A Time 2 Love
25 16 Mariah Carey - The Emancipation of Mimi [#7, 29 weeks]
26 NE Rick Astley - Portrait
27 23 Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams [#10, 32 weeks]
28 NE Rachel Stevens - Come and Get It
Some of the sales! Rachel sold 9,394:
79,708 Prodigy (1)
44,820 Sugababes (2)
41,292 Simply Red (3)
35,769 James Blunt (5)
32,505 Depeche Mode (6)
24,633 Mariah Carey (7)
21,445 Michael Ball (11)
19,735 Starsailor (13)
15,889 Coldplay (17)
15,850 Michael Bolton (18)
12,850 Aled Jones (21)
12,173 Stevie Wonder (24)
9,998 Mariah Carey (25)
9,930 Rick Astley (26)
9,394 Rachel Stevens (28)
Which would have been #2 last week. How times have changed.
Whenever anyone says "music in the old days was so much better" I'll quote this post. With a few exceptions, dire dire dire.
Fucking YIKES! No wonder she and her label didn’t bother with another.