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ATTENTION UNIVERSAL MUSIC AUSTRALIA

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Dearest ‘the powers that be’ at Universal Music Australia. We have no idea why you don’t love Girls Aloud as much as a growing number of Aussie fans do, but it appears the pressure for you to release the girls’ music in Australia is growing with each passing day. True, you’ve not released any of the girls’ music in Australia since the album ‘Chemistry’ and the first single from it, ‘Biology’. But ‘Biology’ hit an impressive No.26 on the Aussie music charts. Imagine where the band would be nowadays if you’d have kept promoting and releasing their singles. Even though they’re not released here, there are constant mentions of Girls Aloud in the pages of the major daily newspapers, regular pictures of the girls in the weekly glossy trash-mags and a growing number of celebrities throughout the world are beginning to get behind the Girls Aloud phenomenon. The group behind the biggest-selling album of 2008 (Coldplay) have invited them to be their support act for their forthcoming show at Wembley Stadium, for goodness sake!
Girls Aloud have scored an unprecedented 20 consecutive top 10 hits in the UK, have had their songs covered by everyone from The Artic Monkeys to Bloc Party, have won countless industry awards (including their first Brit Award this week for ‘The Promise’), have performed sell-out concert tours and are at the cutting edge of pOp music, working with lyrical pOp royalty like Xenomania and the Pet Shop Boys.
Putting it plainly and simply, they are a pOp phenomenon and have released some of the world’s best pOp songs during their (almost) seven year reign in the upper echelons of the UK charts.
And now, the push is on to get the girls’ music released in Australia. The people behind this push have already succeeded in getting ‘The Promise’ added to the playlist of Austereo’s ‘Hot 30 Countdown’ (the single is not even available digitally!?), they’re already in contact with those in the media who love them despite your reluctance to release them here and they’re now more determined than ever to make their voices heard. They’re inviting everyone who wants to see Girls Aloud back in the charts down under to CONTACT UNIVERSAL MUSIC AUSTRALIA and let you know that if the Pussycat Dolls (who seem to enjoy your full support) can be successful here, so too can Girls Aloud. They’ve even made up this little video (below) to show they’re entirely serious;

(Just a little suggestion… If you do end up releasing ‘The Promise’ in Australia, particularly on physical single, may we suggest you add the startlingly good Jason Nevins and Dave Aude remixes as b-sides. That way, not only would it be good value for US down under, but you’d have amazing export potential back into the girls’ homeland where the remixes were only ever released digitally!).

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Comments

  2. universal music dont have a clue when it comes to any form of commercial music – they only have success on the back of the major pushes from overseas! its a pity as most artists that are cool are with them now – and they dont advertise, promote or do anything with the pop media in oz – they think sticking a tackyly produced add in the ad breaks on so you think you can dance will be all thats needed…. wake up! no wonder the music business is dying! its not because we fans dont want to buy stuff – we just dont know what the hell your up too – if anything

  3. am from the UK and when i heard Girls Alouds new album hadnt been relised in Australia i was outraged!! because i have their new album and its brillant and even tho am not from Australia am still supporting this because their allbum should be sold everywhere for the whole world to hear it!!!and i hope it is relised there so u can all hear it!

  4. I have to agree with Cyber. I’d much rather see them release Tangled Up here than Out of Control. Don’t get me wrong, I love OOC but TU always finds it’s way back into my stereo, it’s just a really amazing album.

  6. If they decide to release anything – hopefully it’s Tangled Up rather than Out of Control (which I found to be VERY disappointing)

  7. The real question for me is why Universal went to the effort of releasing the Sugababes album and single “Girls” even though their recent album sucked pretty hard and didn’t do very well on the UK charts whereas Girls Aloud’s album Out of Control is a double platinum number one seller with a #1 single “The Promise” on it. You’d think they’d want to make money!

  8. One of my local shopping centres has “The Loving Kind” on heavy rotation through the centre’s PA system! That’s gotta help get them out there too :D.

  11. To be fair, “The Show” was released from the Chemistry album. But it was also several months after Biology was released and longer still since Nova picked it up and started playing it. I can see where UMA are coming from in that the Girls chart success isn’t flash, but then they haven’t had consistant exposure either. Oz and UK markets are very different when it comes to pop these days, and the same goes for the Sugababes – they havent had much success here of late either. But UMA could at least service to radio and release digitally because you never know when a song is going to sweep through the net and become a hit like Miley’s “See You Again”.

    Maybe a good starting point to introduce Girls Aloud to Australia would’ve been to release The Sound Of Girls Aloud (aka Greatest Hits), whether under that title or not. But I doubt we’ll see another physical single from Girls Aloud unless you import.

  12. Yay! Thanks for your support AuspOp!!!

    We have all been working hard for this so hopefully something happens!