Taylor for the win! :dance:

Taylor’s album was in HMV this afternoon there

Surely she will be no1 in the album

I think Ball & Boe could still do it... if Taylor's downloads and physicals were out the same week then I'd be more optimistic but they're going to be spread across this fortnight

But she is already ahead without any streams added? Her streams alone will be at least in the 18-20k range (Folklore did 25k in streams) and B&B did only 24k last week altogether.

no they mean albums, James are #1 and Taylor #2

 

do we know where Willow is in the mids? If Sat album mids are out, single mids should be out there too

 

Saturday midweeks are only (slightly) useful for the album chart, the missing streaming makes Saturday singles midweeks totally meaningless.

 

Taylor must be doing extremely well on downloads I guess.

But she is already ahead without any streams added? Her streams alone will be at least in the 18-20k range (Folklore did 25k in streams) and B&B did only 24k last week altogether.

For some reason I thought I was posting in the Christmas #1 predictions thread - yes she's very likely to be #1 this week

Yeah the week after will be way more difficult.

Yeah I think if streaming was added she would make up those 73 sales, hopefully she does it but releasing the physical next week could hinder it (or does nobody buy CDs as stocking fillers anymore)

Taylor’s album was in HMV this afternoon there

 

Evermore? Surely not :o

Evermore? Surely not :o

 

Looked like it anyway, her walking through a field with a grey background, didn’t stop and look as I was searching for vinyl

Evermore is in colour so I think you saw Folklore instead.

Must have!

Also saw Now 7 which is was very tempted to purchase

Yep, that would have been folklore

So Taylor is download/streaming only and then CD on preorder for 18th December ...

 

Wonder if her team wanted a Xmas number 1 by chance? 🤭

Probably thought it not a bad time to release, start of summer holidays and start of Christmas!

So Taylor is download/streaming only and then CD on preorder for 18th December ...

 

Wonder if her team wanted a Xmas number 1 by chance? 🤭

It's more that it was a surprise release and manufacturing the CD + distributing it would have risked the secret being exposed I assume, hence the delay

I'm sure that her wanting a Christmas #1 album in the UK is the reason the physical is out next week worldwide... :P

 

The physical for 'folklore' wasn't out in the first week either.

Looked like it anyway, her walking through a field with a grey background, didn’t stop and look as I was searching for vinyl

That's folklore!!!!

 

I'm sure that her wanting a Christmas #1 album in the UK is the reason the physical is out next week worldwide... :P

or maybe it's because she only finished writing the album a week ago and CDs don't just magically appear out of nowhere?

#1 is definitely out of reach for Willow. Never thought I’d see Mariah blocking Taylor :lol: Literally any other week I would be thrilled about that lol

or maybe it's because she only finished writing the album a week ago and CDs don't just magically appear out of nowhere?

 

Your sarcasm detector may be broken :kink: