LOLOL!
Wow!! Major discussion here!!
Oh well.. ... "In God's hands" is about to chart in the U.K. It is already gaining some good scores in some of Eastern european countries, where it was chosen to be the 5th single. For example, it was released last week in Lithuania, and it entered directly to number 3 in the Lithuanian Singles Charts. It is rising in other european single charts while "Say it right" is getting out of the top 10... It's a slow process...
I truly believe that Nelly Furtado made the wrong choice to release "Te busque" as the 5th single in Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland. "In God's hands" would be an instant hit in these countries that have been supporting her career since her first album. Her second album "Folklore", the less sucessful album from Nelly worldwide, was 2xPlatinum and Platinum in these countries (being more sucessful than her first album "Whoa, Nelly!")... which reveals that central european people enjoy a lot more her "sensitive and soft" music style that her "promiscuous maneater style"... so "all good things" was the biggest single of the year in these countries and "in god's hands" would become another big hit.
However, "Te busque" was already number 4 in Netherlands and it is in the german top 20 (2 weeks after release). Let's wait for what's coming next... "Say it right" is still charting in top 20 in all these countries since March.
In Sweden specifically (for blackbeatxx), I don't know which single is being released... but I guess it is "In God's hands"...
just as in the UK and in Portugal.
But... as this is the end of the road for "Loose", I guess in many countries all final singles are being played in the radios (and maybe all of them will be released)...in a attempt to make "Loose" reach another good-wave of sales... Aparently, it is being achieved! ;
as the sales became bigger in Europe in these last mouth, making "Loose" to reach the number 1 in European Top Albums for more 2 weeks (9 weeks in total). Although "Te busque" was not the hit single that entered directly to top 10 in Germany, the fact is that "Loose" went back to top 3 albums there after these single started to get played in the german radios ( remember: the album is already 4xPlatinum there!! how hard is for a 4xPlatinum album to achieve these kind of run and compete with all the recent and summer albums...like Rihanna, Avril, Maroon 5, Linkin Park???... very hard!!).
And I can say the same for the UK Top Albums... ... Since "In God's hands" started to be played in the brittish radios, the album was back to the competitive top 10 albums there and now it is reeeeeeeeaaally closer to the 3xPlatinum mark.
In resume, I really believe that the success of the new releases from "Loose" are about to become visible in the album's sales and not in the top singles charts.
yeah...people that is about to buy the album now are those resistent people that, after all these hit singles, finally give some credit to Nelly Furtado and go buy the album.
and the maiority of those who already have the album will not buy or download the new singles "In God's hands" or "Do it"!
In some countries, "Do it", "In God's hands", "All good things" and "Say it right" are all being played at the same time. That's a briilliant way to put a end point to the success of this album that made History and broke records around the world.
Well done, Nelly! Forca, Nelly!