You don't know love till it tears up your heart

Completing my trip back through the 2017 album charts.

06/01/17 : 24 Hrs - Olly Murs


Well, we've waited a long time but we've finally met an album that "we" own because our youngest went through a huge Olly phase - amusingly, one of the family still goes to see him live and I can assure you it's not her (or me). This is our third visit with Olly - we often listened to the CDs in the car but a quick skim of the track titles suggest this wasn't one of the albums we listened to often, but I'm sure it will all be perfectly listenable.

Ah, yeah - I actually recognised "You Don't Know Love", "Years And Years" and "Unpredictable", with the rest of the album being pretty much in the same vein. He's either in love, wants to be in love or has just split up (but quite possibly still in love) but there's a decent amount of variety here (within limits, obviously). As usual, this isn't going to convert anyone but it was delivering what the fans wanted - and we obviously listened to it more than I remembered. Isn't he looking proper moody on the album cover though?

We're at #6 in the charts this week on his eighth week of a 21 week run, with it having debuted at #1. The top five this week were Little Mix, Pete Tong & The Heritage Orchestra, Michael Ball & Alfie Boe (I was never going to listen to this) and compilations from Elvis Presley and The Rolling Stones, with the highest new entry being Brian Eno (#78).

Wikipedia tells us it's his fifth album, and he promoted it via the radical methods of releasing some singles and touring. Critically, people were nice enough about it (but no-one was ever going to go overboard, were they?) and commercially it did best here and in Ireland, where it got to #2 - #32 in Switzerland was the next best placement.

I'll be amazed if discogs.com has anything too pricey and it tells us you can pick up a copy of the CD for a quid and if you want a signed deluxe edition but don't fancy splashing out, then you're in luck because that's still only £18. This is a perfectly acceptable but pretty unremarkable album - except for the fact that it's the first one we've owned this year!

And with that, 2017 is complete - except for the obligatory write-up where I jog my memory about the 90% of the albums that I have met but can remember nothing abou.

13/01/17 - Supremely average
2017 - An intriguing year

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