I'm still bitter over Delicate flopping here :( It deserved the success it had in America here :( (And it still deserved more success there than it got)

It should have been one of the lead singles before album release. Best song on the album for me from the very first listen through. :wub:

03. Post Malone, Swae Lee - Sunflower

12. Ellie Goulding, Diplo, Swae Lee - Close To Me

50. NSG - Options

 

Ellie well and truly robbed

IIRC, Lorde was the biggest out of all those artists at the time of the release so maybe that’s why it never really took off?

 

Yeah timing was the worst thing for Homemade Dynamite. It was supposed to be a single earlier in the year but they canceled it and pushed Perfect Places instead bc of the Manchester attacks. Then it was given a single mix about two months earler than it should have done - since just a few weeks later Rockstar, Silence, and Young Dumb & Broke would all be big hits that definitely would have guaranteed at least another top 40 hit for Lorde.

 

It’s a huge shame really because if that had become a hit they probably would have pushed Sober or something afterwards

It was released in September 2017, so just when Rockstar was taking off.

Khalid and SZA were barely known in the UK at the time too, and Post Malone wasn't quite big enough to have anything with his name on it make the top 40.

Yeh Homemade Dynamite was meant to follow Greenlight but had to be cancelled due to sensitivity over the Manchester Attacks from what I remember, although perfect Places was better for me, it just never took off.

Lewis Capaldi just outside the top 50 at #51! :D

Great to see :)!!

Bring Me The Horizon update: Medicine is down to #88.

 

Medicine [so far] = 35-88

Mantra = 169-50-75-67-107-129-99-101-100-109 ...

 

Probably too early to say, but looks like Medicine will be having a quicker fall than Mantra did.

Mantra was released on a Tuesday, then had the NMF on Friday which helped keep it up. It was also added to HHUK fairly quickly as well.

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'medicine' also had a quicker drop-off in sales, it's not just the position.

 

'medicine' 131,427 -> 75,781

'MANTRA' 115,701 -> 85,554

"Delicate" is one of Taylor's best so I was gutted that it flopped :(

Mantra was released on a Tuesday, then had the NMF on Friday which helped keep it up. It was also added to HHUK fairly quickly as well.

Medicine also had the NMF effect which is probably why it peaked higher than Mantra. I think the HHUK playlisting for Mantra was key to its relative stability afterwards, Medicine could disappear fairly quickly if it isn't put on one of the major playlists.

 

(or maybe it's just that people are realising Medicine is nowhere near as good as Mantra! :D)

Spotify Daily Chart Update (05/01)

01 [01] Ava Max – Sweet but Psycho 424,643

02 [02] Ariana Grande – thank u, next 371,118

03 [04] Post Malone & Swae Lee – Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) 302,914

04 [03] Post Malone – Wow. 296,555

05 [05] Halsey – Without Me 294,113

06 [06] Mark Ronson – Nothing Breaks Like a Heart (feat. Miley Cyrus) 235,020

07 [07] Travis Scott – SICKO MODE 215,125

08 [09] Kodak Black – ZEZE (feat. Travis Scott & Offset) 198,800

09 [08] Zara Larsson – Ruin My Life 194,964

10 [11] George Ezra – Shotgun 194,579

 

11 [10] Headie One – 18HUNNA (feat. Dave)

12 [13] Ellie Goulding & Diplo – Close To Me (feat. Swae Lee)

13 [12] benny blanco – Eastside (with Halsey & Khalid)

14 [14] Jax Jones & Years & Years – Play

15 [16] Meek Mill – Going Bad (feat. Drake)

16 [15] Calvin Harris & Sam Smith – Promises

17 [19] Marshmello – Happier (feat. Bastille)

18 [17] Ariana Grande – imagine

19 [20] Dave – Funky Friday (feat. Fredo)

20 [18] Little Mix – Woman Like Me (feat. Nicki Minaj)

 

21 [22] Keala Settle - This Is Me

22 [23] Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – Shallow

23 [24] Billie Eilish – when the party's over

24 [21] Panic! At The Disco – High Hopes

25 [25] Hugh Jackman et al. – The Greatest Show

26 [26] Jess Glynne – Thursday

27 [27] Sheck Wes – Mo Bamba

28 [31] Ziv Zaifman, Hugh Jackman & Michelle Williams – A Million Dreams

29 [28] Khalid – Better

30 [29] Zac Efron & Zendaya – Rewrite The Stars

 

31 [32] James Arthur & Anne-Marie – Rewrite The Stars

32 [33] Post Malone – Better Now

33 [37] Tyga – Taste (feat. Offset)

34 [38] Dua Lipa & BLACKPINK – Kiss and Make Up

35 [30] Rita Ora – Let You Love Me

36 [39] Juice WRLD – Lucid Dreams

37 [34] Loud Luxury – Body (feat. Brando)

38 [49] Khalid – Saturday Nights [*NEW PEAK*]

39 [40] Loren Allred – Never Enough

40 [36] James Arthur – Empty Space

 

44 [42] 6ix9ine – KIKA (feat. Tory Lanez)

50 [53] NSG – Options (feat. Tion Wayne) [*NEW PEAK*]

51 [78] Lewis Capaldi – Grace [*NEW PEAK*]

52 [54] russ splash – Gun Lean

53 [55] Flipp Dinero – Leave Me Alone

54 [63] Cadet & Deno Driz – Advice

57 [65] George Ezra – Hold My Girl

67 [69] Clean Bandit – Baby (feat. Marina and The Diamonds & Luis Fonsi)

68 [68] Cardi B – Money

79 [77] benny blanco & Calvin Harris – I Found You

80 [85] Anne-Marie – Perfect To Me

81 [59] The 1975 – It's Not Living (If It's Not With You)

87 [101] Chris Brown – Undecided [*NEW PEAK*]

88 [35] Bring Me The Horizon – medicine

93 [92] P!nk – A Million Dreams

 

112 [117] A Boogie Wit da Hoodie – Look Back At It [*NEW PEAK*]

114 [102] Tom Grennan – Found What I've Been Looking For

116 [113] Sam Smith – Fire On Fire

123 [173] Pinkfong – Baby Shark

124 [131] A Boogie Wit da Hoodie – Swervin (feat. 6ix9ine) [*NEW PEAK*]

127 [119] Peter Manos – In My Head

130 [120] 21 Savage - monster

133 [134] A Boogie Wit da Hoodie – Startender (feat. Offset & Tyga)

136 [123] 21 Savage - a lot

150 [143] Marshmello & Roddy Ricch – Project Dreams

152 [167] Lewis Capaldi – Someone You Loved [*NEW PEAK*]

153 [155] FISHER – Losing It

159 [150] Yxng Bane – Problem (feat. Fredo)

178 [176] Kygo – Happy Now (feat. Sandro Cavazza)

193 [175] Madison Beer – Hurts Like Hell (feat. Offset)

197 [RE] M.O & Chip – Wondering

200 [RE] benny blanco & Juice WRLD – Roses (feat. Brendon Urie)

 

OUT [127] benny blanco, Calvin Harris & Miguel – I Found You / Nilda's Story

OUT [163] Fleur East – Favourite Thing

OUT [180] CamelPhat & Cristoph – Breathe (feat. Jem Cooke)

OUT [182] Future – Crushed Up

OUT [187] Seeb & Bastille – Grip

Headie & Dave holding up well, an official top 10 position seems likely at this point. As I predicted yesterday Chris Brown is climbing, and the song sounds like a hit so I'm sure it'll be top 50 before long. Hot Hits proving to be beneficial for Lewis Capaldi clearly, I expect 'Grace' will enter the official top 40 this week quite easily. As should 'Saturday Nights' (and 'Options' too, especially as it's top 20 on Apple Music).

Medicine also had the NMF effect which is probably why it peaked higher than Mantra. I think the HHUK playlisting for Mantra was key to its relative stability afterwards, Medicine could disappear fairly quickly if it isn't put on one of the major playlists.

 

(or maybe it's just that people are realising Medicine is nowhere near as good as Mantra! :D)

Both are fantastic :P

 

Seriously though, I'm liking how all 3 singles are completely different from each other. Apparently the song 'Heavy Metal' with be a heavy screamo song taking the mick out of people who complain about their new music. :lol:

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Ellie peaked at #8 on Spotify before, so I guess it could quite easily repeak :(

"Delicate" is one of Taylor's best so I was gutted that it flopped :(

 

It was a shame that it did poorly but most of its streams on spotify were video streams before they changed the rules :cry:

sure Delicate would have done better with the new rules, the video was incredible

Seriously though, I'm liking how all 3 singles are completely different from each other. Apparently the song 'Heavy Metal' with be a heavy screamo song taking the mick out of people who complain about their new music. :lol:

OMG are they actually going to make a song like the Count Your Blessings era?! This album's gonna have EVERYTHING in it if so!

I swear Medicine is the first BMTH single I've actually found to be disappointing though.

'Homemade Dynamite' was definitely timed badly (and the remix wasn't really any better/much different than the original despite the name power) but it deserved so much better anyway, my 2nd fave song on 'Melodrama' </3

Good to see baby climbing!