Ill manors- music video

3) Research the Ill Manors track and soundtrack album - Record companies? Sales? Music reviewers' response?

The record labels for the sound track "Ill Manors" are 679 and Atlantic Records which are quite big record labels; especially Atlantic Records therefore showing how big of a hit it must have been. Ill Manors debuted at number-one on the UK Album Charts and received positive reviews by critics. The album was nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize. Ill Manors peaked at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart on 1 April 2012 with first-week sales of 37,455 copies. The track was also made available as a free download on pre-order of the deluxe edition of the album. After the release of the album, "Lost My Way" charted at #121 on the UK Singles Chart from download sales.

The average reviews ratings were 4 stars which is mainly 8/10. These reviews were from newspapers like the guardian, the observer, the telegraph and from the NME magazine. The lyrics in the soundtrack is what intrigued people to buy or listen to the album. He mentions ‘rich boys’ telling them they don’t understand poverty and to stay out of the neighbourhood. “There’s no such thing as Broken Britain … all that needs fixing is the system.” This line suggests he is having a go at the government for blaming youths for the damage of the country. The reviews were mainly positive for this album yet quite controversial because the older generations do not understand the life of teenagers from council estates and therefore believe Plan B is trying to encourage the youngsters instead of stating it is bad to result to crime. The riots were a very big part of 2012 and so this album was seen to be a bad influence on the teenagers later that year.

 In the soundtrack Plan B interests the listener about the inner city estate, pointing out the tabloids scare stories and derelict high streets. He also points out the hoodie-“give him a hug... On second thoughts don’t, you might get mugged”. Plan B tries to attack stereotypes.  The Olympics were held in East London which is where the film and music video was made. This would have increased the sales of his soundtrack as people wanted to see what was behind all of the pristineness of the Olympic village.