[joeysteele]

I think he'd have done better this time wit a ballad again, Joe had a lot of people singing his praises and also who bought THE CLIMB who were not regular cd buyers but bought what they liked.
This new single almost a year after the first(which I think is another problem too,releases should be quicker than that)is vastly different to THE CLIMB, also Simon Cowell has had X factor running up to Christmas for the reason sales are higher then.

This saddling an artiste with a number one record at first that MUST be followed by another number one or its a flop even if its in the top 10 puts an artificial take on how well an act may do long term.

If I was a singer and my records made the top 10, even never getting a number one ever, then I would be over the moon, many long running acts have never had a number one record and also had varying placings in the charts.

One notable one, is a great group that started in the 60s and had decades of hits, namely the WHO, yet as I was looking back over their chart history, placings were all over the place,and they never ever got to number one with any single.