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== Release history ==
== Release history ==

Revision as of 23:49, 20 September 2015

Untitled

The Circus is the fifth studio album by British pop band Take That. It was released in the United Kingdom on 1 December 2008.[2]

Album information

In the United Kingdom, the album was released in direct (albeit unintentional) competition to Britney Spears' sixth album, also titled Circus, released on the same day.[3] Take That's manager said the album's title choice was a coincidence, and that the band had worked 'months in advance' and would not be changing the title.[4]

Take That released their first single from the album, "Greatest Day", on 24 November 2008, which peaked at number one in the UK. The second single "Up All Night" was released on 2 March 2009 and peaked at number 14.[5] The third single "The Garden", was released in Germany, the Netherlands and Australia on 20 March 2009, though it also peaked at number 97 in the UK on download sales. The video for the song was shot at the Greenwich Maritime Museum, South London.[6] The fourth single to be taken from the album, "Said It All", was released in June 2009 and peaked at number 9 in the UK.[7] "Hold Up a Light" was the fifth and final single taken from the album, released to promote Take That's first live album The Greatest Day – Take That Presents: The Circus Live.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic64/100[8]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[9]
BBC Music(positive)[10]
Daily Mirror[11]
Digital Spy[12]
The Evening Standard[13]
The Guardian[14]
The Sunday Times[15]
The Times[16]
Yahoo! Music UK(7/10)[17]

BBC Music said: "A stunning album, Take That are the vintage champagne of pop fizzing with playful bubbles and happily maturing with age".[10] The Daily Mirror stated that "they bring a fallible human quality to an album which is all about gilding their strong bond with their original fans."[11] The Sunday Mercury said: "Like its predecessor, The Circus boasts one killer track. Hit single Greatest Day is as pop-perfect now as Patience was back in 2006."[18] Yahoo! Music UK stated that "as with its predecessor Beautiful World, The Circus possesses well crafted pop songs, with faultless production".[17]

The Sunday Times stated that "The Circus will, no doubt, achieve similar sales, with songs as propulsive and swollen with giant choruses as The Garden, Greatest Day, Said It All and the apparently Amy Winehouse-referencing "How Did It Come to This".[15] The Times said "Take That's return is the gold standard: a hugely successful second coming from a band determined not to fritter away their reserves of goodwill."[16]

Promotion

Following the release of the album, Take That announced plans for a stadium tour titled "Take That Present: The Circus Live" in 2009.[19] The tour became the fastest selling tour in UK history selling £35m of tickets in one day (600,000 in less than 5 hours),[20][21][22] beating the previous record set by Michael Jackson for his Bad World Tour in 1987 (though Jackson reclaimed the record soon after when he announced his residency at the O2 Arena in London shortly before his death).[23] The Script acted as special guests at their performance at Croke Park.[24] Take That also presented their own TV show Take That Come To Town, a variety show where they performed some of their biggest hits and new material from The Circus, which aired on 7 December 2008 on ITV.[25]

To launch the album's release in Paris, the band performed at a lavish nightclub exclusively for the first time in 12 years in the city on 2 December 2008.[26] The performance included acrobats, trapeze artists, stilt-walkers and jugglers, all in keeping with the circus theme.[27]

Commercial reception

Prior to the official release of The Circus it was revealed that the album had broken all preorder records and had become the most pre-ordered album of all time.[28]

The album reached number one in Ireland and the UK with The Circus selling 133,000 copies on its first day of release in the UK.[29][30] In the United Kingdom, the album sold 306,000 copies (going platinum) in the first four days of release, making The Circus the fastest-selling album of the year.[31] The album reached the top of the UK album charts on 7 December 2008 with total first-week sales of 432,490, the third highest opening sales week in UK history.[32] The album debuted at #3 on the Irish Albums Chart and a week later rose to number one. On Friday 19 December 2008, the album had sold 1 million copies sold by its 19th day in UK shops, making it the second fastest album in the UK to reach 1 million copies, behind Oasis's Be Here Now in 1997.[33]

The album stayed on top of the UK Albums Chart for five weeks and became one of the biggest selling albums of 2008 in the UK.[34] The album has been certified double platinum in Europe (including the UK and Ireland) for sales in excess of two million copies,[35] and was the 27th best-selling album worldwide in 2008 according to the IFPI.[36][37] Since its release in December 2008, the album has spent 73 weeks (one year, five months and one week) in the top 100 of the UK Albums Chart.[38]

Track listing

Standard listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
1."The Garden"Take ThatMark Owen, Gary Barlow, Jason Orange, Howard Donald5:07
2."Greatest Day"Take ThatGary Barlow3:59
3."Hello"Take That, Steve RobsonMark Owen3:31
4."Said It All"Take That, RobsonGary Barlow, Mark Owen4:15
5."Julie"Take That, RobsonMark Owen3:53
6."The Circus"Take ThatGary Barlow3:33
7."How Did It Come to This"Take That, Jamie Norton, Ben MarkJason Orange3:12
8."Up All Night"Take That, Norton, MarkMark Owen3:24
9."What Is Love"Take ThatHoward Donald3:27
10."You"Take ThatGary Barlow4:12
11."Hold Up a Light"Take That, Norton, MarkMark Owen4:28
12."Here"Take That, Olly Knights, Gale ParidjanianHoward Donald4:28
13."She Said" (hidden track)Take ThatGary Barlow2:33
Japanese bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Lead VocalsLength
14."Sleepwalking"Take ThatGary Barlow3:14
  • "Here" does not appear on the German and Brazilian version of the album.

Charts

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog number
Germany 28 November 2008 Polydor Compact Disc B001JCDWAS[59]
Deluxe Edition B001IA46DI[60]
United Kingdom 1 December 2008 Polydor Compact Disc 1787444[61]
Deluxe Edition 1790124[62]
United States 2 December 2008 Universal International Compact Disc B001IA46D8[63]
Deluxe Edition B001IA46DI[64]
Japan 3 December 2008 Compact Disc UICP1101[65]
Brazil 17 December 2008 602517919914[66]

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