Introduction

Welcome to the results for the 1996 Eternal POAW Survey! For questions which were asked in the first survey as well, I've enclosed the previous position in brackets.

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Question 1 - What are your favourite Eternal songs?

Here are your Top 10 Eternal songs - both Eternal albums have proved popular but Always & Forever definitely has the edge.

  1. (1)  Just A Step From Heaven
  2. (4)  Power Of A Woman
 =3. (7)  Crazy
 =3. (3)  Stay
  5. (5)  I Am Blessed
  6. (2)  Save Our Love
  7. (-)  It Will Never End
  8. (6)  Oh Baby I...
  9. (-)  Who Are You?
 10. (-)  Redemption Song

Question 2 - What's your favourite Louise song so far?

It was a close call between Naked and Light Of My Life, even though Naked was very new at the time of voting.

  1. Naked
  2. Light Of My Life
  3. In Walked Love

Question 3 - What are your favourite Eternal videos?

POAW comfortably moves ahead of JASFH to become the most popular Eternal video... though quite why Stay is more popular this time around is anyone's guess!

  1. (1)  Power Of A Woman
  2. (1)  Just A Step From Heaven
  3. (5)  Stay
  4. (-)  I Am Blessed
 =5. (3)  Oh Baby I...
 =5. (3)  Save Our Love

Question 4 - What's your favourite Louise video so far?

Naked was the clear winner here, despite being so new.

  1. Naked
  2. Light Of My Life
  3. In Walked Love

Question 5 - Which (ex-)member of Eternal do you like best overall?

Considering her high profile at the moment it's no surprise to see Louise come out tops... though the others aren't far behind!

  1. Louise
  2. Kéllé
  3. Easther
  4. Vernie

Question 6 - Which Eternal singles/albums/videos do you own?

Well done to everyone for buying both the albums! When it comes to singles, most people either have none, or pretty well all of them.

Singles

  Stay...................... 40%  (73%)
  Save Our Love............. 44%  (55%)
  Just A Step From Heaven... 56%  (91%)
  So Good................... 44%  (73%)
  Oh Baby I................. 44%  (64%)
  Crazy..................... 40%  (73%)
  Power Of A Woman.......... 52%  (82%)
  I Am Blessed.............. 44%  (55%)
  Good Thing................ 44%  (-)
  Who Are You?..............  4%  (-)

Albums

  Always & Forever.......... 96%  (91%)
  Power Of A Woman..........100%  (82%)

Compiliations

  Tapestry Revisited........ 20%  (9%)
  A Platinum Celebration     16%  (-)

Some of the other items people mentioned:

Pearls - remixes from the Always & Forever album (vinyl only)
Save Our love - Australian CD digipack with poster

Videos

  Always & Forever.......... 36%  (73%)

Question 7 - Which Louise singles/albums/videos do you own?

A fairly good show of support for Louise, considering she's done relatively little outside the UK as yet.

Singles

  Light Of My Life.......... 56%
  In Walked Love............ 36%
  Naked..................... 44%

Question 8 - Which formats do you buy?

No surprises to see CD the clear winner here. Vinyl comes a very poor third place after cassette, even though there are some Eternal remixes unavailable on any other format.

Compact disc.... 88%  (91%)
Cassette........ 24%  (27%)
Vinyl...........  8%  (27%)

Question 9 - have you seen Eternal live?

Exactly the same split as last time - only a third of you have seen Eternal live, though more people have seen them twice now.

No........ 64%  (64%)
Yes....... 36%  (36%)

Some of the places include:

Bristol (Good Thing tour)
Manchester Apollo (Good Thing tour + others)
Sheffield City Hall (Good Thing tour + others)
Aberdeen (Good Thing tour)
Brighton Centre (Good Thing tour + others)
The Equinox in London (wow, I'd loved to have seen that!)

Question 10 - What was your favourite Eternal TV appearance?

A pretty varied selection comprising mainly kids & music shows such as Live & Kicking and The O-Zone.

Other shows: Showstoppers (early this year), the Children In Need show on BBC1 last year where Eternal proformed 'I Am Blessed', and their performance of Good Thing on 'The Brits Are Coming' this year.

The overall winner is Top Of The Pops again (no individual performance though).

Question 11 - Who are your favourite five artists at the moment?

Hey, you all like Eternal - funny that! ;-) Louise came some way behind in the voting, but managed to beat Mariah Carey who is the favourite non-Eternal act once again.

  1. Eternal
  2. Louise
  3. Mariah Carey
  4. Oasis
  5. TLC
  6. Alanis Morisette
  7. Kylie Minogue
  8. Skunk Anansie
 =9. Garbage
 =9. Janet Jackson

Question 12 - What are your favourite five current songs

Not suprisingly Eternal & Louise picked up plenty of votes, but there isn't a favourite Eternal 'song of the moment'. Maybe 'Someday' will have a big impact next time around?

  1. Louise - Naked
  2. Fugees - Killing Me Softly
  3. Alanis Morissette - Ironic
  4. Eternal - I Am Blessed
  4. Eternal - Power Of A Woman

Question 13 - Have you joined the Eternal/Louise fanclubs?

Those who already joined the Eternal fanclub weren't exactly bursting with praise, so perhaps its no surprise to see very few people have bothered.

Eternal....  8%
Louise.....  8%

Question 14 - Have you ever written to Eternal or Louise?

A better response here... it's worth doing, you never know you might get a reply! :-)

Yes........ 20%
No......... 80%

Question 15 - waited around outside a hotel, concert venue etc?

Maybe if the Good Thing tour had taken place in the summer more of you would wait outside...

Yes........ 12%
No......... 88%

Question 16 - Do you try and record every single TV appearance?

Yes........ 44%
Usually.... 12%
No......... 44%

Question 17 - Do you try and buy every single magazine?

Yes........ 28%
Usually.... 36%
No......... 32%

Question 18 - Which gender are you?

It's a bit more even than before, but the figure still reflects the fact that the Internet itself is somewhat male-dominated.

Male....... 76%  (91%)
Female..... 24%  (9%)

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Question 19 - How old are you?

We've had a few youngsters come online, so the average age has dropped slightly...

Youngest... 10  (18)
Average.... 19  (22)
Oldest..... 33  (32)

Question 20 - Where do you live?

Still an overwhelming UK bias. There's a surprising lack of people from Australia and Japan on the mailing list, considering the Eternal web site is accessed so much from those countries.

England........... 52%
Holland........... 12%
Scotland..........  8%
South Africa......  8%
Australia.........  4%
Brazil............  4%
Northern Ireland..  4%
Singapore.........  4%
USA...............  4%

Question 21 - How long have you been using the Internet?

Figures in brackets are for the last survey.

Shortest:  1 mth        (2 mths)
Average:   1 yr, 1 mth  (9 mths)
Longest:   4 yrs        (2 yrs)

Question 22 - internet services

The web is still very popular but it looks like we have a more even spread than last time.

FTP............... 68%  (55%)
IRC............... 44%  (18%)
Telnet............ 52%  (73%)
Usenet/newsgroups. 52%  (36%)
WWW............... 92%  (100%)

Question 23 - Have you ever...?

Only about half of you have experienced 'multimedia' on the web (ie. waiting half an hour to see a 30 second video clip...)

Downloaded sound sample from the web?..... 52%
Downloaded video/animation from the web?.. 48%

Question 24 - Did you find this survey...?

About right according to most of you. Though I've had some good suggestions which I'll look into for the next time.

Too long......  4%
About right... 84%
Too short.....  8%