I was just reading on Wikipedia that Mel B's second album, L.A. State of Mind, entered the UK album charts at number 453, with just 670 copies sold in its first week. And in its second week, the album dropped down to number 1581. Since then, the album has gone on to sell less than 1500 copies.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.A._State_of_Mind

The album chart goes all the way down to Number 1581?

Let's remind ourselves how the big hit single from that album went.

Number 41 in 2005.

Wikipedia wrote:

...charting for only one week.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Today_(Mel_B_song)

I'm not sure I heard that song at the time, or if I did I obviously forgot about it. It's nice enough, but it's hardly asking to be a big hit.

Some reviews of the album:

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Jon O'Brien of Allmusic gave it one and a half star and commented that the album was one of the worst of the decade, commenting that Brown sounds as if she was sore and it seems to recite a poem instead of singing.

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"Bad, Bad Girl", described as the "worst of all" [the tracks on the album], was "an ear-shatteringly bad stab at '80s electro that sounds like it was recorded on a children's Casio keyboard.

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Bárbara dos Anjos Lima of Abril said the album is shameful and disastrous.

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Bárbara dos Anjos Lima of Abril said the album is shameful and disastrous.

Now that's a bad review worth having.

I bought her first solo album - 'Hot'- from a charity shop. It has one single that I loved, one that was sickly but ok. The rest of it does nowt for me so I never bothered checking out her follow up(s?)

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

Let's remind ourselves how the big hit single from that album went.

I’m not getting an LA state of mind from that.

Fangirl Three wrote:

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Bárbara dos Anjos Lima of Abril said the album is shameful and disastrous.

Now that's a bad review worth having.

I agree. If you’re going to be bad, you want to be worse than anything else around. I also liked the one that said she sounded as if she was sore. ‘Shameful and disastrous’ is certainly something to reclaim with pride.

Somewhere recently - possibly even here? - I read that a derelict site in Liverpool was found to contain industrial quantities of Cilla records. Bought by her/her record companies and dumped immediately after the sales were registered for the charts. Surely Mel B was rich enough to have bought up more than 600 of her own in that first week. Poor show.