I was just reading the program from the concert where Ronan talks about his albums and mentions again that Turn It On maybe wasn't the right album to release. I think it's sad that he thinks that as Turn It On is one of my favourite albums - I love it!

100% with you on that, that has to be his best album so far.

I like all his albums but I would list this as one of my fave's as well.  I love the duet with Leanne Rimes.

Ronan really needs to get away from thinking that it was the wrong album, and look towards what the problems really were. It was released at a really tough time of year and had to compete with all the strong Xmas market, so because it didn't go top 20 it just got lost. The first single didn't get a lot of radio support, it was quite rocky and different so some of the MOR stations that were strong supporters didn't playlist it.  His fall out with Louis brought about a lot of negative press, so that really didn't help.  Once an album is percieved as a flop it is very difficult even impossible to turn things around. There were some really good songs on that album, I just think that they chose the wrong first single to lauch the album, I don't dislike L4W but there were better choices on the album.

I also think the image change, and all the focus on Ronan going "rocky" added with the first single just lost some of his original market. All these were factors, it certainly wasn't the wrong album, just the wrong "marketing" and thats the fault of his record lable - not Ronan.

kate4ro:

Ronan really needs to get away from thinking that it was the wrong album, and look towards what the problems really were. It was released at a really tough time of year and had to compete with all the strong Xmas market, so because it didn't go top 20 it just got lost. The first single didn't get a lot of radio support, it was quite rocky and different so some of the MOR stations that were strong supporters didn't playlist it.  His fall out with Louis brought about a lot of negative press, so that really didn't help.  Once an album is percieved as a flop it is very difficult even impossible to turn things around. There were some really good songs on that album, I just think that they chose the wrong first single to lauch the album, I don't dislike L4W but there were better choices on the album.

I also think the image change, and all the focus on Ronan going "rocky" added with the first single just lost some of his original market. All these were factors, it certainly wasn't the wrong album, just the wrong "marketing" and thats the fault of his record lable - not Ronan.

I agree.

My fav album as well

It's also my favourite album.

i love this album its my fave ro album! i think louis walsh had a lot to do with it not doing so great as he gave ronan a lot of bad press!! love all the songs on this album x

That's actually one of the few cd's I've been able to get from Amazon here in the States. I love it! There are several songs on there that I thought should have done really well over here. I'm no music critic but I know what I like and there's not many on there I didn't find myself singing along to. I guess what they say is true, if you don't have someone from the label pushing for it, it won't do well.

Definitely my favourite CD too

I loved the album. Never knew it didn't do much in the UK. Wasn't keeping track of it....

Turn It On was definitely Ronan's best album, and he should have given himself time to let his fans get used to that sound. And to gain more fans. I even dare to say that his first albums until Turn It On were much better than the albums he released afterwards. He should have stayed with the uptempo and rocky sounds. LIAR and LED were amazing songs and still getting airplay in Holland. The new albums/songs since 2003 are never played, or hardly,but I never heard them on the radio. For me Ronan made the wrong turn after TIO didn't do as well as he had hoped for. He should have given it time. In the end, he went back to Boyzone, something he always said he wouldn't do. It feels like he lost in the end and needed Boyzone to get back on track. And it worked, he started to sell albums again..

kate4ro:

Ronan really needs to get away from thinking that it was the wrong album, and look towards what the problems really were. It was released at a really tough time of year and had to compete with all the strong Xmas market, so because it didn't go top 20 it just got lost. The first single didn't get a lot of radio support, it was quite rocky and different so some of the MOR stations that were strong supporters didn't playlist it.  His fall out with Louis brought about a lot of negative press, so that really didn't help.  Once an album is percieved as a flop it is very difficult even impossible to turn things around. There were some really good songs on that album, I just think that they chose the wrong first single to lauch the album, I don't dislike L4W but there were better choices on the album.

I also think the image change, and all the focus on Ronan going "rocky" added with the first single just lost some of his original market. All these were factors, it certainly wasn't the wrong album, just the wrong "marketing" and thats the fault of his record lable - not Ronan.

I too totally agree Kate4ro.

 I personally think that L4W was the wrong choice for the first single off this album.