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« Reply #60 on Jun 7, 2012, 4:54am »

Had a good listen at the Sing EP today.

Hayley was wonderful on Amazing Grace. [image]

A very dignified performance.

I think Gary's version of Sing would have been better placed as the last track reprise. I've not heard the name Gary Barlow before this recording. The group Take That are not wll known in the US, although Robbie Williams' solo career is. Bit like Wham! and George Michael and the not-as-famous Andrew Ridgeley.

The contributions from Alfie and Laura were amazing. LOVE 'God Save the Queen'! And 2 verses too! Its exotic instrumentation reminds me of what might be performed for Her Majesty during a visit to the Caribbean or Africa.

I'll want to see what other songs the Military Wives have done.

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« Reply #61 on Jun 7, 2012, 7:24am »

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The Military Wives have recorded an album 'In My Dreams', which is available at Amazon.com as a CD or a download HERE. I've posted the direct link to the MP3 version so you can see the tracklisting and listen to the samples.

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« Reply #62 on Jun 8, 2012, 4:01pm »

From Music Week http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?storycode=1049843 today:

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Midweek Charts update: Barlow heading for 2012's biggest sales

11:16 | Friday June 8, 2012
By Paul Williams

Gary Barlow’s Diamond Jubilee track with the Commonwealth Band is poised to achieve the highest weekly sales for a single in the UK this year after taking just four days to reach six figures.

The Decca-issued Sing, penned by Barlow and Andrew Lloyd Webber, had reached 108,000 weekly sales by the end of business on Wednesday and rose to 122,000 the following day, according to the Official Charts Company. This puts it clearly on course to beat 2011’s biggest weekly total for a single so far, 127,998 achieved by Ministry of Sound release Hot Right Now by DJ Fresh featuring Rita Ora in February.

The high sales for Sing, which was a new entry at 11 on last Sunday’s chart, had by yesterday put it more than 75,000 units ahead of nearest challenger, Atlantic act Flo Rida’s newly-issued track Whistle. Atlantic/Fueled By Ramen’s Were Are Young by Fun featuring Janelle Monae is down 2-3 in the week to date, while RCA’s Usher is new at four with Scream as last Sunday’s number one, the Asylum/Black Butter-issued Feel The Love by Rudimental featuring John Newman, drops to five. Just behind it as a new entry in sixth position is Ministry of Sound track The Power by DJ Fresh featuring Dizzee Rascal.

The Gary Barlow and Commonwealth Band album, also called Sing, will spend a second week at the top of the artist albums countdown this Sunday having already achieved the highest sales for a number one in 13 weeks and with two days of trading still to go. Up until the end of Thursday it had sold 59,696 copies this week, the most for a number one since Columbia act Bruce Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball clocked up 74,401 during its entire first week in March to debut at number one.

So it's going well, amd the album is definitely bringing Hayley to more people's attention as her World In Union is no. 7 in the iTunes classical tracks chart, and Pokarekare Ana is now in too, at no. 120. World in Union should easily make the official classical singles chart on Monday, as long as it's "officially" classical and not just at iTunes.