[arista]

On Delux CD from Mar 11th

Quality Matters
Shaun

[Mrluvaluva]

[Mrluvaluva]

David Bowie is on course to claim his first UK number one album in nearly 20 years.

The singer's comeback record The Next Day is currently leading the midweek chart with first-day sales of 56,000 copies.

Bowie is currently outselling his nearest rival - Bon Jovi's What About Now - by nearly three copies to one.

The feat would mark the first time Bowie has hit the UK album chart top spot since his 1993 collection Black Tie White Noise.

"Bowie is officially back!" said Official Charts Company Managing Director Martin Talbot.

"The Next Day is a true gift for all Bowie aficionados. It already sounds like a classic Bowie album – and its popularity this week is already showing that the great British public have taken it to their hearts."

Digital Spy

[Iceman]

David Bowie's wife Iman has seemingly let slip that the star is preparing to embark on a world tour.

During a new interview, the singer's spouse revealed that she will be unable to travel with him on tour as she has to look after their 12-year-old daughter Alexandria.

"We have a 12-year-old in school, so we are stuck, we can't travel," Iman told Grazia magazine.

"Our schedule is around her, so I don't know. We'll have to go visit him, but we won't be on tour with him because she's in school."

Iman's words strongly indicate Bowie is planning a number of shows to support his new album The Next Day.

The star is currently on course to claim his first UK number one album in 20 years with The Next Day.

[Tom4784]

It's a pretty flawless album, as expected.

[Iceman]

I get paid tomorrow so i'll get it on the way home. This will be the first album I've bought since......Recovery. My sister got me the other 3 ive bought since then. :/

[arista]

I bought the Delux CD

Quality is better


New under a Tenner
2nd seller Amazon

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by arista

I bought the Delux CD

Quality is better


New under a Tenner
2nd seller Amazon

..what's the deluxe cd, is there 2 versions then Arista..?..I'm not sure which one I've bought but they didn't have another one....

[arista]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..what's the deluxe cd, is there 2 versions then Arista..?..I'm not sure which one I've bought but they didn't have another one....

3 bonus tracks

[Shaun]

i'll get the deluxe cd when i can afford it just got the standard off itunes

[Iceman]

First number 1 in twenty years.

Sold 94K copies to become the fastest selling album of the year so far.

Thats with absolutely zero promo too which is outstanding.

[Smithy]

surprised it didn't break 100k, sold over 50k on the first day, although I imagine a lot of that woulda been preorders

congrats to him

[Shaun]

also #1 in Belgium, Netherlands, Finland, Ireland, Sweden and New Zealand... US pending

[Brother Leon]

Gonna buy this and JT's albums some time this week.

[Shaun]

*refuses to ever visit australia after they bought more of Bon Jovi's new album, meaning this was #2*

didn't want to anyway tbh (the dangerous animals, the heat, the people)

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Shaun

*refuses to ever visit australia after they bought more of Bon Jovi's new album, meaning this was #2*

didn't want to anyway tbh (the dangerous animals, the heat, the people)

..Australia is upside down anyway, meaning that number 2 becomes number 1 so they kind of shot themselves in the foot a bit there...

[Iceman]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..Australia is upside down anyway, meaning that number 2 becomes number 1 so they kind of shot themselves in the foot a bit there...

Does that mean they actually shot themselves in the head?

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Iceman

Does that mean they actually shot themselves in the head?

..well maybe they should do that..(..don't mean that..I'm not Australianist or anything..)..but really..?...Bowie v Bon Jovi..where is their music taste..what on earth..??....

[Brother Leon]

Haven''t bought any music since Chief Keef's album...talk about variety

[Shaun]

Tilda Swinton launched the David Bowie Is exhibition at London's Victoria And Albert Museum last night (March 20).

A host of stars from the worlds of fashion, TV, film and music turned out to see the exhibition. Also in attendance at the V&A were Noel Gallagher, Bill Nighy, Doctor Who actor Matt Smith, Tracey Emin, Pam Hogg, Rosario Dawson, Kaya Scodelario, Nick Grimshaw and Pixie Geldof.

Dear Dave
When I asked you if you wanted me to say anything here tonight
You said 'Only three words, one of them testicular'
So I'll pass that on
Here I am at surely the most eclectic of all the London branches of Bowie Anonymous
All the nicest possible freaks are here
We're in the Victoria and Albert Museum preparing to rifle through your drawers
It's truly an amazing thing
This was my favourite playground as a child
Medieval armour : my fantasy space wear
And, alongside, when I was 12 - and a square sort of kid in a Round Pond sort of childhood, not far from here - I carried a copy of Aladdin Sane around with me - a full 2 years before i had the wherewithal to play it
The image of that gingery boney pinky whitey person on the cover with the liquid mercury collar bone was - for one particular young moonage daydreamer - the image of planetary kin, of a close imaginary cousin and companion of choice
It's taken me a long time to admit, even to myself, let alone you, that it was the vision and not yet the sound that
hooked me up - but if i can't confess that here and now, then when and where?
We all have our own roots
And routes
To this room
Some of us - the enviable - found the fellowship early in the funfests of Billy's Bowie Nights
or equivalent lodges from San Francisco to Aukland to Heidelberg and all points in between
For others, it was a more lonesome affair, paced out in a sort of private morse code like following bread crumbs through a forest
I'm not saying that if you hadn't pitched up I would have worn a pie crust collar and pearls like some of those I went to school with
I'm not saying that if you hadn't weighed in, Princess Julia would have been less inventive with the pink blusher
Simply that, you provided the sideways like us with such rare and out-there company
Such fellowship
You pulled us in and left your arm dangling over our necks
And kept us warm - as you have for - isn't it ? - centuries now
You were
You are
One of us
And you have remained the reliable mortal in amongst all the immortal shapes you have thrown
Nothing more certain than changes
Always with a weather eye out
Always awake and clocking the fallout
Those Mayans must have known something when they set their calendar down before
January 2013
Because, of course, now all bets are off
I know, because you told me, how tickled you were to knock Elvis - for once! - out of the headlines on your shared birthday this year
There's so much for all of us to be happy about since then
Yet, I think the thing I'm loving the most about the last few weeks
is how clear it now is - how undeniable - that the freak becomes the great unifier
The alien is the best company after all
For so many more than the few
They wanted a Bowie fan to speak tonight. They could have thrown a paper napkin and hit a hundred.
I'm the lucky one, standing up to speak for all my fellow freaks anxious to win the pub quiz and
claim their number one most super-fan tshirt
I want to give thanks to the Victoria and Albert Museum for indulging us so
For laying on our dream show
For showing us - look at their advance ticket sales - that , as is
written along the bottom of this months Q magazine,
'why we all live in David's world now'
To Gucci and Sennheiser for putting up the cash, laying on the sound and vision
To Geoffrey and Victoria for curating an entire universe so beautifully, on behalf of us all
When I think of what it used to feel like once
To be a freak who liked you
To feel like a freak like you
- a freak who even looked a little like you
And then I think of the countless people of every size and feather who are going to walk through this trace of your journey here and pick up the breadcrumbs
in the great hub of this mothership over these Spring and Summer months..
And how familiar and stamped you are into ALL of our our collective DNA
I'm just plain proud
So
Where are we now?
Well
I know you aren't here tonight, but
Somehow, no matter
We are -
And you brought us out of the wainscotting like so many
Freaky old bastards
Like so many fan boys and girls
Like so many loners and pretty things and dandies and dudes and dukes and duckies and testicular types
And pulled us together
Together
By you
Dave Jones
Our not so absent, not so invisible, friend
Every alien's favourite cousin
Certainly mine
We have a nice life
Yours aye
Tilly

[Iceman]

just gonna say it.

**** bon jovi, dumb americans. I shall be buying the album in the morning. (will count towards next weeks irish charts)

[Shaun]

meh, #1 in 11 countries (UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Netherlands and Croatia) and the highest chart position in the US... and with no promotion either... I'm happy enough but Bon Jovi though such a boring, meaningless band.

[Ammi]

The cover shot for Aladdin Sane, designed by Brian Duffy and Celia Philo and with make-up by Pierre La Roche. The hotly anticipated retrospective into the music legend's career opened this weekend. 'David Bowie Is' has already sold more than 42,000 tickets, making it the most in-demand exhibition in Victoria & Albert museum's history ...

[Shaun]

Earlier this year, David Bowie surprised the world with the release of The Next Day, his first album in a decade. Today, he's announced The Next Day Extra, a three-disc expanded edition of the album out November 5 via Columbia. It features the original album, a 10-track companion CD with five unheard tracks and two new remixes, and a DVD featuring the album's videos ("Where Are We Now?", "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)", "Valentine's Day", and "The Next Day"). There will also be an iTunes exclusive digital EP featuring some of the bonus tracks.

One of the remixes is a 10-minute mix of "Love is Lost" by James Murphy.

Here's the second disc's tracklist:

01 Atomica *
02 Love is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix by James Murphy) *
03 Plan #
04 The Informer *
05 Like a Rocket Man *
06 Born in a UFO *
07 I'd Rather Be High (Venetian Mix) *
08 I'll Take You There #
09 God Bless the Girl *
10 So She #

* previously unreleased
# previously released on The Next Day deluxe edition

iTunes EP:

01 Atomica *
02 Love is Lost (Hello Steve Reich Mix by James Murphy)
03 The Informer *
04 Like a Rocket Man *
05 Born in a UFO *
06 I'd Rather Be High (Venetian Mix)
07 God Bless the Girl *

* previously unheard

just in time for his Mercury win

[Mrluvaluva]

I read release was November 4th?