I can accept Don't Start Now narrowly missing the #1 in the UK and US but not the album. :o

It is possible for Dua to overtake 5SOS despite them starting with double her sales. Remember that Sunday mids will have barely any Saturday streaming data, a format that Dua will have a much bigger advantage on over 5SOS. They will very frontloaded, especially with it not being easy to purchase physicals throughout the week.

I’m shook at that midweek info.

 

I really thought Skepta was gonna be the competition.

have anybody bough on her websie with the signed card, are they shipped yet??

5SOS are apparently #1 so far in the UK midweeks with Dua at #2.

 

Did not see that coming, i was sure she would cruise in at number 1 but i would think 5 sec of summer would be more frontloaded than Dua Lip and she she may catch them during the week if they are not a huge amount ahead.

WW Spotify Update (28.03.2020):

 

Future Nostalgia: +1,460,270

 

Don't Start Now: +5,759,517

 

Cool: +1,467,292

 

Physical: +3,540,170

 

Levitating: +1,667,230

 

Pretty Please: +1,438,516

 

Hallucinate: +1,594,983

 

Love Again: +1,371,795

 

Break My Heart: +3,809,416

 

Good In Bed: +1,194,980

 

Boys Will Be Boys: +1,067,773

 

TOTAL: +24,371,942

 

I expected bigger drop to be honest but this is amazing <3

 

And yes please we need UK #1.

 

I didn't even know 5SOS were going to release this week. If tomorrow update shows her at 15k+ and 5SOS at 20k then I think she'll be able to catch them :wub:

If Dua has a fighting chance of overtaking 5SOS I will download the album and I don't even use iTunes anymore. :lol:

If Dua has a fighting chance of overtaking 5SOS I will download the album and I don't even use iTunes anymore. :lol:

Literally this, I don't know if I've bought an album off iTunes but I will make an exception for this.

To be fair Dua is still #1 on iTunes album chart whilst 5SOS are about to drop out the Top 20. Tomorrow will show an even clearer picture but I do think Dua will manage to overtake.

I’ve been listening to this album all weekend and it keeps getting better. I find myself excited for each sing, even Good in Bed and Boys will be Boys have both grown on me a lot.

'Pretty Please' has really opened up with more listens — the way the production builds up throughout the song. One of my favourites now.

I am actually loving it every song now.

 

Even Good In Bed which was doing nothing really when I first heard it, now I am like jamming to it.

 

The biggest grower for me has to Future Nostalgia...those lyrics are genius!!!

Love 'Cool' so much. :wub:

Took a couple of listens but finally compiled a ranking:

 

Don't Start Now

Love Again

Levitating

Boys Will Be Boys

Pretty Please

Physical

Break My Heart

Hallucinate

Future Nostalgia

Cool

Good In Bed

 

Hope Levitating becomes a single at some point, seems to be doing to the best on Spotify out of the non-singles .

Edited March 29, 20205 yr by StupidLove

I actually quite like 'Good in Bed', there's something quite Lily Allen about it, but it does feel like it's on the wrong album. There's no funk or synth or disco to be heard, nothing to link it with the other songs. It would work better on her first album.

 

I guess it does help to drop the pace for 'Boys Will Be Boys' though, going from 'Break My Heart' into that would be incredibly jarring. I'd probably swap 'Love Again' and 'Break My Heart' around and remove 'Good in Bed' so that the closing strings on 'Love Again' lead into the opening strings of 'Boys Will Be Boys'. That flows much better.

The melody of "It's second nature to walk home before the sun goes down" on 'Boys Will Be Boys' reminds me so much of something else. I think it's a Britney song but I can't work out which one.

I love how she delivers those little "love again" belts in the final 40 seconds of the song. :heart: The whole song gets better with each listen.

1 5 Seconds of Summer - CALM (19.2k) *

2 Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia (12.2k) *

 

Dua sold 2,969 yesterday and 5SOS sold 643. The #1 is hers.

The melody of "It's second nature to walk home before the sun goes down" on 'Boys Will Be Boys' reminds me so much of something else. I think it's a Britney song but I can't work out which one.

The verses were giving me slight 'Perfume' vibes, possibly that?