This from Irish singer Dermot Kennedy which went into the Top40 at #39 on Friday after being in the Top100 for 8 weeks. This becoming his 1st UK Top40 hit.

 

What do you make of this?

Well I wanted to send this to bjsc, but it suddenly became a hit 😬😬

Well this sounds better than 'Someone You Loved', warning an unpopular opinion there.

 

 

And it continues to make progress, up to a new peak of #34 on Friday.

 

 

'Outnumbered' managing to continue its steady climb up the chart. Now up to a new peak of #23.

 

 

This has been a big hit in Ireland for a while now but its only now I'm getting into it.

Now reached a new peak of #17 in the UK.

The song sounds halfway between Khalid and Lewis Capaldi in style I would say. I definitely prefer his voice to Lewis Capaldi's.

Edited September 30, 20195 yr by TheSnake

And once again it continued to make steady progress up the chart. Now up to #14. Yes I agree with you there, Snake. It does sound in the middle between a Khalid/Lewis Capaldi song.

 

 

Heading Top 10 now and a Number 1 album.

Great that this has managed to go Top 10 for him. Prefer this to Lewis Capaldi's offerings this year.

 

 

Yet another new peak for 'Outnumbered'. This time peaking at #6.

 

 

I think that will result in its peak position.

 

I’m sure it will recover but surprised the album is still free falling this week.... 1-14-26

Ya I thought it would slow down this week and stay top 20.

And its 19 week of charting. It has managed to drop, with it dropping one place.

 

 

The single is doing wonderful business but the album needs to start recovering from the big drops it has experienced since its debut at number 1.

 

won't happen

it's what's happening with all regular albums, proper sales only occur in week 1

and after that the cushion to keep you up there is mainly cos of streams...

who is in the top 20 week after week? all those greatest hits like Queen and Fleetwood Mac,

people stream Bohemian rhapsody from any Queen greatest hits, it still counts for the movie soundtrack regardless

or albums that are like a greatest hits in disguise, Dua Lipa, Jax Jones, etc

or big big artists with tracks in seven million playlists like Taylor, Poist Malone, Ed, Lewis Capaldi...

 

artists like Dermot with just 1 hit cannot do anything stream-wise... and it's even worst for artists like Elbow or Stereophonics that don't even have a streaming hit... watch the fall that Stereophonics are gonna have next week...

 

the occ are not counting album streams properly, indie artists cannot compete with Post Malone and his songs being in all imaginable playlists... the occ should could only proper album streams and not playlists streams, then things would be different...

 

 

I agree that the streams are not counted accurately or fairly with albums and so many great albums are losing out because of it.

The album continuing its freefall with it dropping 17 places the previous week and 5 places in the recent chart. Album now out of the Top40.