Manic Street Preachers Let Down By Single's Chart Position
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Tuesday, 08 February 2011 |
Written by Elliott Batte
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Manic Street Preacher bassist Nicky Wire is let down by his band’s failure to break into the UK Top 40 with their latest single ‘Some Kind of Nothingness’.
The single, the second from their latest album ‘Postcards from a Young Man’, entered at #44 in the charts, making it their first ever single release to chart over 40 since they signed with Sony in 1991, a massive twenty years ago.
The band promoted the single well too, which left Wire even more upset at the track’s negative response. The Manics performed the song on Strictly Come Dancing, but the promotion apparently had no effect on the sales of the track.
42-year-old Nicky said "My excitement always turns into a real dose of fear when I'm waiting for a chart position or to find out whether the radio's going to play our record. It's like waiting for that envelope to drop through the door and see you've got a D in geography. I get extremely excited by stuff like that, radio playlists, you know. I grew up with the 'Guinness Book of Hit Singles,' so it has never left me. I was quite distraught that 'Some Kind of Nothingness', our single, missed the Top 40. I was gutted."
You can hear the single here.
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