Toyah Flashback: Posh Pop – A Brief History Of…
This month’s Toyah At Home featured the video for, one of the standout singles of Toyah’s career – the uplifting – Levitate, the debut release from the 2021 studio album Posh Pop.
A perfect time to revisit Toyah’s most recent album by ploughing through Dreamscape’s vast Posh Pop archive.
Toyah loves the album, as do numerous other fans, including myself. Posh Pop still sounds amazing! Indeed, like a fine wine – I know nothing about wine as I don’t drink alcohol – it has matured beautifully, and is a firm favourite with many discerning music fans!
Upon its release, almost four years ago, the album received great reviews from a number of magazines, there were some great articles published focusing on the album, Toyah filmed videos for every song, and toured the album in late 2021/early 2022.
One of the most incredible aspects of Posh Pop is how completely autonomous the album was for Toyah. She wrote and recorded each song almost entirely on her own – with only collaboration and input from Simon Darlow and Bobby Willcox. Toyah also filmed each video and captured all of the associated promo shots/photos with little outside assistance. Amazing!
The 2021 studio album charted at #22 on the Official UK Album Chart. Posh Pop became Toyah’s highest charting studio album since 1982, when The Changeling peaked at #6. Warrior Rock: Toyah On Tour, a live double album – which was lovingly reissued last year – peaked at #20 that same year.
The only other Toyah albums to peak higher than Posh Pop were Anthem (1981) #2, The Changeling (1982) #6 and the aforementioned Warrior Rock: Toyah On Tour (1982) #20. Posh Pop equalled with, another live album, Toyah! Toyah! Toyah! (1980) which hit #22 in early 1981.
Further great stats in 2021 for Posh Pop were that it gave Toyah her highest ever chart position as a solo artist, and the album also hit #1 on the official Independent chart, #6 on the official Physical chart, #6 on the official Sales chart, #9 on the official Vinyl chart, #20 on the official Downloads chart, #22 on the official Record Store chart, and #8 on the official Scottish chart. Add to this that a couple of the songs from the album have topped The Heritage Chart in the last two years too! Phew! Amazing chart stats!
• Browse our comprehensive Posh Pop news archive by clicking on any of the photos in this post. (All photos/images © Toyah Willcox)
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