The Official " The Origin of Love " Charts & Sales around the World Thread - Page 9

Yuna · 19-10-2012, 02:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marilyn Mastin

I can't understand it really. Why wasn't it the lead single? Its the title track. Its way better than Celebrate. The only way I like hearing Celebrate is, when its acoustic and Pharell has been dumped in favour of China Boy.
I'm thrilled about The Origin Of Love (the song) doing well!

Hypothesis 1 : Pharrell Williams threatened someone to release this one as 1st single

Hypothesis 2 : Origin of Love was not ready enough when he had to release the 1st single.

Hypothesis 3 : Mika seriously thought Celebrate is the best representative song in TOOL

else?

Menthe · 19-10-2012, 02:58 PM

At least there is one country where TOOL is a real success ! It is number 2 and 7 on top 10 in Korea. Even TBWKTM and LICM are on the top 25:http://www.yes24.com/24/category/bes...2&PageNumber=1

Yuna · 19-10-2012, 03:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Menthe

At least there is one country where TOOL is a real success ! It is number 2 and 7 on top 10 in Korea. Even TBWKTM and LICM are on the top 25:http://www.yes24.com/24/category/bes...2&PageNumber=1

So TOOL French ver will be released next week.... already No.7 there...

kreacher · 19-10-2012, 05:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yuna

Hypothesis 1 : Pharrell Williams threatened someone to release this one as 1st single

Hypothesis 2 : Origin of Love was not ready enough when he had to release the 1st single.

Hypothesis 3 : Mika seriously thought Celebrate is the best representative song in TOOL

else?

#1

in a 2009 Mika interview he said smth to the effect that the record label gives him such freedom to create the songs and in exchange when he hands the finished songs to them they get pick the singles...if i remember right

katydid · 19-10-2012, 05:33 PM

My theory is they wanted the Pharrell fanfare, but that backfired because it's nothing like a Pharrell track. That made sense to me when Mika said him and Nick changed it. As a Pharrell fan, I was very disappointed in the final product.

However, I LOVE the Tah Dah song, also a Pharrell track.

Marilyn Mastin · 19-10-2012, 06:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yuna

Hypothesis 1 : Pharrell Williams threatened someone to release this one as 1st single

Hypothesis 2 : Origin of Love was not ready enough when he had to release the 1st single.

Hypothesis 3 : Mika seriously thought Celebrate is the best representative song in TOOL

else?

I don't think its anything like the other songs. If I heard Celebrate, and it was someone else's song, not Mika's, I wouldn't have been keen for the album.

Kaito · 19-10-2012, 08:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marilyn Mastin

I can't understand it really. Why wasn't it the lead single? Its the title track. Its way better than Celebrate. The only way I like hearing Celebrate is, when its acoustic and Pharell has been dumped in favour of China Boy.
I'm thrilled about The Origin Of Love (the song) doing well!

Well, it's no use to argue Celebrate wasn't the best choice at all but I hope Underwater can make up for it and maybe lead the CD to the top of the charts wordwide

I hope TOOL 'll get to be a single as well...

dcdeb · 20-10-2012, 04:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Menthe

I just noticed that Celebrate has been 6 weeks on Billboards Club Music Hot Dance songs charts (2 weeks on top 25): http://www.billboard.com/charts/bill...order=position

I remember that WAG did quite well on these charts also.

Yes, it's currently #22 on this chart.

Marilyn Mastin · 20-10-2012, 10:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kaito

Well, it's no use to argue Celebrate wasn't the best choice at all but I hope Underwater can make up for it and maybe lead the CD to the top of the charts wordwide

I hope TOOL 'll get to be a single as well...

I'm getting quite excited for Uw! It looks like there's going to be a stunning video. As I just said on the Uw Video thread, a good video could do wonders. Uw has a beautiful melody, and the fantasy vid would suit it so much.
As my son says, these days the video can be what sells the song. I've not been that impressed by Mika's vids apart from Happy Ending. It's the only one of his that, quite frankly, didn't look like a home-movie. We all know he cannot rely on those stinkers at Radio One to play his song, so he has to go down another route.
Fingers, toes and eyes are crossed for this one. GO MIKA!

silver · 21-10-2012, 07:35 PM

I can't even find the album in the Top 40 this week.

Maybe things will pick up with the second single

nas · 24-10-2012, 05:22 PM

i found this...dunno how accurate it is, but at least he's #38 worldwide according to it...

http://www.mediatraffic.de/albums.htm

Marilyn Mastin · 24-10-2012, 07:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nas

i found this...dunno how accurate it is, but at least he's #38 worldwide according to it...

http://www.mediatraffic.de/albums.htm

Well that's something anyway. Lets hope he moves up the list.