Alexandra Burke - Heartbreak On Hold

by **Ska8er** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:27 am

Came home today to see this on my desk! I seriously couldn't believe it! I expected it to come next week but no complaints!

The album is really solid! Heartbreak On Hold (the song) is incredible!

by **Serby** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 12:50 pm

I love this album!

So many great songs and just a few that are uninteresting/boring

Too bad to see it under performing in UK

by **Jesper** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:39 pm

mine copy still has to arrive, probably tuesday!

by **Star** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 2:18 pm

Will find out where it charted soon...

by **Thriller** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:41 pm

Well apparently she ended up at #18 which is better than I thought when the first chart update came out!

by **LetMeLoveU** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:45 pm

and after no 18 huge drop to 50 something and then out :cry:

by **Denjo** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:46 pm

Helloo everbody!!

i got a question 8-)

....the sales of sunday? do they count on this week list? or do they count on the week after this week list xd?

sorry my english isn't that good so i just had to asked it in very easy words xd

greetzz

by **Star** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:47 pm

Coming from a 600,000+ selling #1 to this = FLOP

It's gonna have a terrible chart run too:
18-42-69-OUT

by **Thriller** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:49 pm

Third single post haste, then re-issue with a new song featuring a black American male artist in October.

by **GoodBoyGoneBad** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:55 pm

This is an embarrassing debut after the big sales of her first album...!

by **sambo9** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 6:03 pm

Yeah, she'll re-issue it along with an extra-commerical single, with the title: Party/Dance/Floor/Fun/Club feat. Pitbull/David Guetta/Flo Rida/Nicki Minaj, and video featuring a dark club/glitter/lights/questionable dancing/drinking/bare skin/PlentyOfFish.

by **Squeeze** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 6:07 pm

sambo9 wrote:Yeah, she'll re-issue it along with an extra-commerical single, with the title: Party/Dance/Floor/Fun/Club feat. Pitbull/David Guetta/Flo Rida/Nicki Minaj, and video featuring a dark club/glitter/lights/questionable dancing/drinking/bare skin/PlentyOfFish.

by **biscuits** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 8:20 pm

Not bad. Better than I expected as I thought she'd miss the top 20.

by **Star** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 8:24 pm

sambo9 wrote:Yeah, she'll re-issue it along with an extra-commerical single, with the title: Party/Dance/Floor/Fun/Club feat. Pitbull/David Guetta/Flo Rida/Nicki Minaj, and video featuring a dark club/glitter/lights/questionable dancing/drinking/bare skin/PlentyOfFish.

Sounds like the blurb of How To Become A Popstar- 2012 edition (first published in 2009).

by **NorfolkScot** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:28 am

First weeks sales 6,731.

by **urbanmusik** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:46 am

Oh dear, those sales are awful.

While I don't think this album deserves success due to being completely generic, it does in this current market. If "Call My Name" is shooting to #1, I see no reason why "Let It Go" shouldn't have been a surefire top 10. This radio and public backlash to her is horrible.

I do think it mainly started with "Start Without You", which despite going to #1, got a lot of flack for being such a cringey song. Plus "Overcome" was mostly a success due to the X Factor winner hype combined with good songs. She never really built much of a fanbase.

Hopefully "Tonight" can turn things around as it's the best song on the album bar "Let It Go", but I can't see radio touching at the moment at all.

by **Andyk** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:38 pm

They need to brush this album under the carpet and pretend it didn't happen.

Back to the drawing board.

by **steophonic** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:56 pm

Such a shame because I really like the album.

If she gets another chance, she'll probably go back to the pure pop sound that I didn't really like.

by **SOS7** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:41 pm

I love love this album. Wish it was doing better.

by **Hype** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:47 pm

Hopefully Tonight will turn her fortunes around, but at this rate i see it missing top 40.

by **preyan** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:03 pm

I just heard Tonight and Let It Go for the first time now.

It sounds like some cheap ass, budget 90's instrumentals that she sang over!!!

If this is the album tone, then its absolutely horrible!!!!!!

I'm sorry but this deserved to flop. It's lacks innovation, her first single auto-tuned her to death and she overdosed on dance, and totally threw away every inch of her real identity!!! :cry: