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Bought the album this evening for £4.99 because why not!
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Edited to embed the codes for you! :D

 

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She was also on Kelly's TV show today and seeing her swoon over Kelly and Kelly's reaction is adorable.

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We need to keep streaming as well! It would be so joyous to see her do it.

 

Like what was the last debut pop album from an international female to debut at #1.

BTW, Bre has answered this...

 

Debut albums by international artists don't get #1 in the UK very often full stop, these are the only ones since 2010 (excluding one-off soundtrack albums like Les Misérables/The Greatest Showman etc. obvz):

 

2010 Glee Cast - Glee: The Music, Volume 1 (lol)

2010 Brandon Flowers - Flamingo

2011 Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans

2012 Lana Del Rey - Born To Die

2012 Jack White - Blunderbuss

2013 HAIM - Days Are Gone

2015 Meghan Trainor - Title

2019 Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?

2019 Dermot Kennedy - Without Fear

 

Interesting that no one seemed to notice last year when Dermot had the first #1 international male debut for an even longer period of time :thinking: xx In fact Dermot was one of only two in the entire decade if you exclude Brandon Flowers and Jack White for having had substantial careers as members of groups before their debut solo albums.

 

(in my first time checking through this list I forgot that Dermot Kennedy is international - does Irish really count?? xox - and was about to make the ultimate 'well ACTUALLY' move of the century in pointing out that Pop Smoke would get the first international male #1 debut album since 2012 if he got there this week, alas not quite the case :kink:)

So yeah, it was as recent as Billie one year ago aha. But that depends if you include EP's or not (Billie's released a CD & vinyl release tbf)

 

But yeah it still doesn't happen all that often.

Decided to check this out as a fun pop album sounded like a good way to start the day! Most of the album tracks are varying shades of solid with room to grow further except 'Belladonna' which caught my attention a lot more - I did think I'd be lured in a bit more by the dark side :wub:

 

'OMG What's Happening' is getting more infectious with each listen. This was also a reminder of how great 'Torn' is after not hearing it in a while. Is this available on vinyl at all? I'd be happy to help out its first week sales if so but I can't seem to find one.

No vinyl yet :( Apparently there’s one coming out though. Omg stan Belladonna, that’s one of the tracks where the hell concept actually jumps out and it’s so good :wub:

Her Album appeared at 3 on Amazon CD chart today from previously not charting.

 

So the £4.99 reduction is definitely having an impact.

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Updating:

 

01. (01) Sweet But Psycho

02. (07) Belladonna

03. (02) Born to the Night

04. (11) Take You To Hell

05. (03) Torn

06. (04) OMG What's Happening

07. (06) Tattoo

08. (09) Call Me Tonight

09. (08) Naked

10. (14) Rumors

11. (05) Salt

12. (10) So Am I

13. (12) Kings & Queens

14. (13) Who's Laughing Now

 

Weird ranking interludes:

xx. H.E.A.V.E.N.

 

I like/love everything. Amazing.

I know I've said it before, but what the phuck possessed them to release 'Who's Laughing Now' when they had 'Born To The Night' right there?!

 

I'd also like to see if 'Torn' instead of 'So Am I' would have worked out differently/better.

It should have gone;

 

01 Sweet But Psycho

02 Kings & Queens

03 Torn

04 Born To The Night / Album Release

05 Naked

What a strong album!

 

1. Sweet But Psycho

2. Torn

3. Belladonna

4. Kings & Queens

5. Salt

6. Born To The Night

7. Naked

8. Who’s Laughing Now

9. Take You To Hell

10. Call Me Tonight

11. Rumors

12. OMG What’s Happening

13. Tattoo

14. So Am I

Judging by the midweeks, it seems likely that Heaven & Hell will end up charting no lower than #2 in the UK! Pop Smoke still seems set to overtake by Friday, due to significantly stronger streaming.

 

Ava should exceed 8.5k (kind of difficult to predict though, because there's a chance that her official store hasn't given all of their CD/Cassette sales data so far to OCC yet... sometimes official stores can be late to do that). Pop Smoke on course to do 9k+.

 

 

Today's mids:

 

#1 Ava Max - Heaven & Hell

Total so far: 6,397 (+903 since yesterday's mids)

Physicals: 3,495 (+347) [54.64%]

Downloads: 1,286 (+162) [20.10%]

Streaming: 1,616 (+394) [25.26%]

 

#3 Pop Smoke - Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon

Total so far: 5,548 (+1437 since yesterday's mids)

Physicals: 100 (+27) [1.80%]

Downloads: 143 (+27) [2.58%]

Streaming: 5,305 (+1383) [95.62%]

 

A bit of a shame that Pop Smoke's streaming is drowning out Ava's pure sales.

 

 

I received a mailer about Pop Smoke, Universal is making a push for #1:

 

Will Pop Smoke be no.1 album this week?

After 11 weeks in the Top 10 in the UK album charts, Pop Smoke ‘Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon could be #1 this week. Keep streaming, downloading & sharing. Streaming counts until midnight tonight, Official Store until 3pm tomorrow, and after that only Itunes until midnight.

 

(then it has various purchase/streaming links)

^ Interesting that they're so specific about when streaming and official store sales count, timewise! Not sure if Ava's label (Warner) have done anything similar, I've not received anything though.

 

 

If anyone here feels like helping Ava out! -

 

£4.99 Download - iTunes - https://music.apple.com/gb/album/heaven-hell/1525772884

£4.99 Download - Amazon - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heaven-Hell-Ava-Max/dp/B08DZMFZXN/

£4.99 CD - Amazon - https://amazon.co.uk/Heaven-Hell-Ava-Max/dp/B08DT1CD9V

£4.99 CD - Official Store - https://eurostore.warnermusic.com/uk/artist...hell-cd-32.html

£6.99 Cassette & Signed Card - https://eurostore.warnermusic.com/uk/artist...assette-32.html (Orange) + https://eurostore.warnermusic.com/uk/artist...assette-32.html (Blue)

£11.99 Cassette Bundle & Signed Card - https://eurostore.warnermusic.com/uk/artist...tte-bundle.html

I’m still surprised this album isn’t selling better. It contains several singles of which two were very successful!
Wait if streaming only counts until midnight tonight, surely Ava will win?
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Thursdays data is averaged based on the week's numbers, I think. So everything that was streamed Friday-Wednesday will get averaged or something to count as Thursday's sales.

 

I honestly don't know why they can't just make streaming's numbers be Thurs - Wed, but they seem to insist on having that other rule instead :drama:

Wait if streaming only counts until midnight tonight, surely Ava will win?

 

I think it probably means Pop Smoke's label are aware of the reporting glitch for Thursday's streams, and that on this day they're upweighted/guesstimated.

I think it probably means Pop Smoke's label are aware of the reporting glitch for Thursday's streams, and that on this day they're upweighted/guesstimated.

 

It is interesting to see a record label actually acknowledging this (I'm sure they've been well aware of it for as long as it's been an issue but I don't recall ever seeing it being explicitly mentioned like this before).

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