Claire Richards - Album 2 (1 Viewer)

Midweek #2!
Claire Richards' achievement of scoring a midweek #2 album in 2023 can be characterized as a significant milestone in her music career, showcasing her popularity in the music industry. It reflects her ability to resonate with a wide audience and demonstrates her continued relevance as an artist.

However, the ignominious deed of the entire Kingdom, where many citizen participated to stream her album, will also stain their history with a collective shame that will not be forgotten for generations to come.
 
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I love that there is a (one-sided) chart battle between Claire from Steps and Alice Cooper in 2023.

She's taking no chances and gone the Steps route by chucking out two digital deluxes with the usual remixes and alternate versions.
 
Christ, couldn't incessant number 11 debutee, Louise, have released this week instead
 
She's at #2 and likely to stay there given the nearly 3k sales gap between her and Alice Cooper at #3
She's probably more at risk from The Weeknd about 500 behind again, but I suspect she may cling on.

It doesn't appear to be a particularly soft week, either - she'd have also been #2 last week, and #3 the week before with the same sales in the first midweek.
 
Despite wanting nothing to do with this album, I still really want her to do well with it because she's clearly lovely. GO ON CLAIRE, SEE OFF THE WEEKND
 
Only 1,100 behind #1 now. I doubt she will make it given they never could catch up even when they closed midweek gaps, but it looks set for at least #2 and that truly is amazing.

Sadly it’s second week will be painful but who really cares?
 
Oh well done Claire

I hope she'll continue this creative purple patch with an album of obscure Christmas covers, like Santa Baby.
 
I feel like there’s meme potential in her flat “So…yeah. Euphoria!” at the end of that clip.
 
Sales
02 9,857 Claire Richards - Euphoria [6,411 physicals, 2,971 downloads]


Her previous solo album charted at #9 with first week sales of 6104.
 
…and out of the top 100 in week two :D

It is #10 on sales though, for whatever that’s worth.
 
…and out of the top 100 in week two :D

It is #10 on sales though, for whatever that’s worth.
:D

Are there any signed copies left? 👀

Louise is still promoting her GH on Instagram - I bet they are piled high in her utility room
 
Given it was #48 on Monday that’s quite the drop :o

But completely to be expected, her streaming numbers are pretty much nothing and they as a group are a very fan base act, let alone Claire on her own.
 
A super deluxe was released this week with the remixes from those chart chasing digital editions. An epic Trouser Enthusiasts Remix is unfortunately a little wasted on this mismatched duo:



It was probably not being released anyway but this suggests the Nanas cover of Summer Night City is unlikely to see the light of day anytime soon.
 
Has anyone been paying attention to what an UNMITIGATED DISASTER Claire's current project, the touring show "Everybody Dance" is turning into? There's been free ticket offers around for most dates for ages, my local theatre which has a capacity of around 1000 I would guess was maybe half full in the stalls, the circle probably a quarter at best, the upper circle completely empty, so they can't have sold more than a couple of hundred tickets and now they've just cancelled the Brighton date which has been free ticketed for weeks.

We went on an aforementioned free ticket and, to be fair, it's FAIRLY dreadful. We enjoyed it for what it was, but it is SO cheap. Terrible, plasticy stage, dancers not quite in time with each other most of the time and she seemed fairly miserable throughout, though she perked up towards the end. There were LOTS of missed cues and costume changes that didn't quite come off in time and though she has a great voice and handles the pop numbers really well, tackling soul-ly disco stuff usually handled by the likes of Donna Summer just showed that she didn't really have it in her. The costumes themselves were basically a variation on the same thing but in different colours and NONE of them did her any favours whatsoever. There were also long periods where she wasn't even on stage and the backing singers had a bash and considering the male singer wasn't THAT good, it wasn't great. The audience was mostly older than me, yet things like Dua Lipa and The Weeknd, which seemed to make something of a mockery of the "greatest dance hits of all time" label. Especially as choosing Houdini stretched that definition to the limit.

As much as I am not one for taking glee in our stars earning some coin when they need to, it felt all a bit tragic for someone in one of the UK's bigger touring bands. But then I guess the fact that even I couldn't be arsed paying for a ticket to see one of my favourite bands' "lead" singer at the bottom of my road says it all.
 
And just looked at a random date in Hull. OUCH.

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Has anyone been paying attention to what an UNMITIGATED DISASTER Claire's current project, the touring show "Everybody Dance" is turning into? There's been free ticket offers around for most dates for ages, my local theatre which has a capacity of around 1000 I would guess was maybe half full in the stalls, the circle probably a quarter at best, the upper circle completely empty, so they can't have sold more than a couple of hundred tickets and now they've just cancelled the Brighton date which has been free ticketed for weeks.

We went on an aforementioned free ticket and, to be fair, it's FAIRLY dreadful. We enjoyed it for what it was, but it is SO cheap. Terrible, plasticy stage, dancers not quite in time with each other most of the time and she seemed fairly miserable throughout, though she perked up towards the end. There were LOTS of missed cues and costume changes that didn't quite come off in time and though she has a great voice and handles the pop numbers really well, tackling soul-ly disco stuff usually handled by the likes of Donna Summer just showed that she didn't really have it in her. The costumes themselves were basically a variation on the same thing but in different colours and NONE of them did her any favours whatsoever. There were also long periods where she wasn't even on stage and the backing singers had a bash and considering the male singer wasn't THAT good, it wasn't great. The audience was mostly older than me, yet things like Dua Lipa and The Weeknd, which seemed to make something of a mockery of the "greatest dance hits of all time" label. Especially as choosing Houdini stretched that definition to the limit.

As much as I am not one for taking glee in our stars earning some coin when they need to, it felt all a bit tragic for someone in one of the UK's bigger touring bands. But then I guess the fact that even I couldn't be arsed paying for a ticket to see one of my favourite bands' "lead" singer at the bottom of my road says it all.
I've seen lots of cheap/free offers for it as well. I was slightly confused by what type of show it was supposed to be, but not curious enough to apply for a ticket.

Incidentally I had £5 'access fee' tickets for Altered Images last night, and they (well, Clare and a band of 2 men/2 women who all seemed to be in their 20s) were all great.

Small crowd though- probably about 300 only. Smaller venue (o2 academy), but considering they were discounting around 3 weeks ago, I doubt much money was made.
 
I had entirely forgotten she was even touring this album until I started seeing posts on twitter this week about how abysmal the show was. :D

She really needs better management.
 
I had entirely forgotten she was even touring this album until I started seeing posts on twitter this week about how abysmal the show was. :D

She really needs better management.
I’m not sure it strictly is a tour of this album, and she has the same management as Steps.

But yes it sounds awful.
 
Yeah it’s not even a “strictly”, it’s entirely different. There are a few songs she performs from the album, the crossover being the disco/ dance element of both, but the show isn’t just “her”, and I’m still confused between whether it’s a dance show with songs or a concert with dancers.
 
Also, she clearly realises she’s in a dud. She’s performing with obvious gritted teeth throughout.
 
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Isn’t that fairly standard for Claire though?

I wouldn’t say so. I’ve never picked up on that with Steps at all.

For the first half of this, she was really “looks could kill” at certain things, though she seemed to, as I say, perk up a bit in the second half.
 

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