Would love to see Leona capitalise on her relatively good exposure this year, and release something in Q1. Even just a moderately performing top 20 hit would be a great start.

Yeah surely The Weeknd is due a #1, he's probably the biggest artist yet to have one here unless I'm forgetting someone obvious.

Yeah surely The Weeknd is due a #1, he's probably the biggest artist yet to have one here unless I'm forgetting someone obvious.

 

Bon Jovi, Depeche Mode, Janet Jackson :magic:

 

(out of current artists though he does stand out as probably the biggest to not have a UK #1 to his name, alongside maybe Cardi B)

I think that could actually happen, but only as a feature on another song.

You think a Marshmello & Tove Lo collab will be in the works?

Yes, I can definitely see The Weeknd returning in the first half of the year, especially as he’s already teased that he’s working on new music. I can see Madonna having a similar performing album to Rebel Heart in Q1/Q2 and Rihanna has confirmed her next album will be out in 2019 and can see it performing better than ANTI did.

Wonder if Rihanna has lost her fanbase following the relative flop of ANTI?

 

Madge is finished singles chart wise I think!

Ava Max strikes me as an Agnes Carlsson or an Alexandra Stan

Wonder if Rihanna has lost her fanbase following the relative flop of ANTI?

 

Madge is finished singles chart wise I think!

whatever fanbase she lost with Work she probably gained back with Love On The Brain and Wild Thoughts

Rihanna is one of those people who could drop a song/album out of nowhere after ages and have tons of hype. I hope she does a sudden album drop in Q1 as she'll do insanely well on streams, go straight to #1 and get decent album sales too as she'll have very little competition.

Would also put her up pretty high on the year end chart as well

I think the bigger question to ask is will ava get #1? I thought so but now wth everyone saying Mariah will get #1 this week, I’m thinking this week might be Ava’s last chance

ANTI didn't flop lol

It sold way over 100k copies despite the messy release (Tidal and Samsung deals). It was the third most streamed album of 2016 as well.

yes, the 1st week position for Anti in the UK is misleading cos of Tidal

with the current strength of streams, Work would have been #1 for ages

if The Weeknd returns soon, sure he'd get his first #1, considering how low sales are and the big advantage that urban artists have

Rihanna is one of those people who could drop a song/album out of nowhere after ages and have tons of hype. I hope she does a sudden album drop in Q1 as she'll do insanely well on streams, go straight to #1 and get decent album sales too as she'll have very little competition.

 

I think the return of Rihanna will be interesting. It all depends on the material she releases. We've seen quite a few of the artists from the 00s (who were huge) struggle in the streaming era to have a big hit. Wonder if she might wheel out a big feature for the return or come back with a Calvin Harris dance banger.

Rihanna has and will continue to do well on streaming platforms

 

She’s the 34th biggest artist this month on Spotify despite having no new music!

Not sure about #1, but if she has a great song that might be a little more generic pop/MOR then I think she has an excellent chance of scoring a mainstream hit again.

 

Lady Gaga's music used to be more fun and vibrant but she is so MOR now like P!nk has become :(

I think Rihanna is still a massive name and will do very well unless she releases something very left-of-field. I think the fact she's not a fanbase act will only benefit her in the streaming era has she can still grab universal appeal depending on what sort of material she releases!

 

I'm feeling Ava Max won't be as big as some are predicting, we haven't really seen any personality behind Sweet But Psycho so far so she's still quite faceless to the public. She'd have to come up with another song just as strong as her debut to get a hit.

Selena Gomez and/or Demi Lovato to return with a big single.

Let's stick a load of predictions down in the hope that some will stick:

 

- Lewis Capaldi will get one Top 10 hit, another long-running Top 40 hit then never be heard of again

- The 1975 'It's Not Living (If It's Not With You) will give them their first Top 10 hit

- Rag'n'Bone man will make a grand return and get a low Top 40 out of it.

- There will be a point this year in which Drake plays some part in 6 songs all in the Top 100

- In the summer the OCC will do a complete rehaul of the charts and introduce the 10:1 ratio and 10 song cap a bunch of us have been banging on about for ages. ACR will go although not before a song falls from #1 to outside the Top 15 because of it.

- Post Malone's 'Sunflower' will avoid ACR like the plague

- Musicals will continue to do well and clog up the charts

- We'll never hear of Dalton Harris again