I was wondering the same thing actually. I'd say there's a very good chance! (Although I don't know much about that Lana album that's coming out on Monday 1st, could that throw a spanner in the works?)

 

I think the Lana album was pushed back to 4th July (unless that's a completely different album, it's hard to tell with her sometimes as she keeps changing the titles of her albums before releasing them). I don't think she would get #1 with a midweek and presumably digital only release anyway though.

 

I can see Easy Life reaching 20k next week with the amount of bundles they have + if they push for #1.

 

And I can see Olivia staying pretty comfortably above 20k in her second week ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

poor Easy Life, they changed their release schedule to avoid Wolf Alice and now they're probably gonna be blocked by Olivia

she's not slowing down at all, so can see her easily doing at least 30K next week

How did Pink only sell... 100(?) copies yesterday :o

 

It's a live album. It was never going to sell much beyond the first few days or so when her fans have picked up their copies. I doubt there's much casual interest in it from the general public.

HMV are selling Sour at £5.99!

Never known a week one release to be so cheap.

Is this allowed in he chart rules?

^Im sure someone can explain it better but it's not the seller's price that matters but the retailer's price

they can put it on sale at 0.99 if they want

How did Pink only sell... 100(?) copies yesterday :o

It's a live album. It was never going to sell much beyond the first few days or so when her fans have picked up their copies. I doubt there's much casual interest in it from the general public.

 

The issue with Pink's album is that she has less streaming sales in the Tuesday midweeks than in the Monday midweeks, for some unknown reason.

 

Monday midweeks:

Total: 8,438

Physicals: 4,715

Downloads: 2,360

Streaming: 1,363

 

Tuesday midweeks:

Total: 8,543

Physicals: 5,484 (+769)

Downloads: 2,529 (+169)

Streaming: 530 (-833)

How is it possible to lose streaming sales? :unsure:

must be an error?

We've lost Pink to streaming 💔

 

:kink:

 

Monday mids had her as the 6th most streamed album of the week so far, but Tuesday has her down as only being 90th. :thinking:

HMV are selling Sour at £5.99!

Never known a week one release to be so cheap.

Is this allowed in he chart rules?

 

I mainly only bought it physically because of that price in HMV, so I imagine she's picked up a fair few sales that way.

 

Asda weren't stocking it curiously, not sure about the other supermarkets but maybe the success of the album has taken them all by surprise. Hopefully they will begin belatedly stocking it after this week.

 

It will be GREAT to see an album stay at No.1, so fingers crossed. Not that I'd begrudge Easy Life as I like what I've heard from them so far. Texas will be top five I'm sure - and I will buy it as their new material is their best in 15 years - but I would be surprised if they sell a lot more than 10k.

I knew Pinks sales would slow down but didnt expect them to almost completely stop so quickly,, based on this she will drop out of the top 100 next week :(

I knew Pinks sales would slow down but didnt expect them to almost completely stop so quickly,, based on this she will drop out of the top 100 next week :(

 

I think it's some kind of error, as in they've deducted streams/sales since Monday.

The issue with Pink's album is that she has less streaming sales in the Tuesday midweeks than in the Monday midweeks, for some unknown reason.

 

Monday midweeks:

Total: 8,438

Physicals: 4,715

Downloads: 2,360

Streaming: 1,363

 

Tuesday midweeks:

Total: 8,543

Physicals: 5,484 (+769)

Downloads: 2,529 (+169)

Streaming: 530 (-833)

 

Maybe the error is they forgot the 1 before the 530? 1,530 (+167) seems quite logical! :blink:

Maybe they mistakenly duplicated streams between the live album and Greatest Hits So Far, where songs appear on both? In which case I thought they would have stayed with the live album as it's the higher seller this week, but I can never remember the rules about streams going to different albums by the same artist.

yes, it counts towards the GH with more pure sales

 

but I think there is also a rule about live versions not being combined?

 

in this case, the new album is not a GH but a live album, so not sure. I mean, if you stream the original So What, it shouldn't count towards the new live album... cos the new album doesn't have a studio version...

 

 

It's a strange situation that I hope they rectify for the live album or otherwise its sales will completely plummet if the allocations from streaming all go towards the original greatest hits.

My guess is they were mistakenly treating it as a Greatest Hits in the early updates (in which case don't expect them to reverse this change - looks like she should still top 10k for the week anyway).

yes, it counts towards the GH with more pure sales

 

but I think there is also a rule about live versions not being combined?

 

in this case, the new album is not a GH but a live album, so not sure. I mean, if you stream the original So What, it shouldn't count towards the new live album... cos the new album doesn't have a studio version...

The latest version of the Chart Rules contains the following:

 

Where an album is flagged as a Live release, only live versions of tracks from the project will be included in the streaming factor calculation

It still leaves a question as to whether streams of tracks from the live album are also being added to streams of the corresponding studio versions on the Greatest Hits release. The chart rules about this merely state

 

Where a track appears on more than one album by an artist, streams of this track will be attributed equally to each studio album and a maximum of one greatest hits album (the hits title with the highest sales DUS for that given week, or other hits title nominated in advance by label).

Finally, I'm assuming streams of the live tracks count towards sales of the studio versions of the tracks for both the weekly Singles chart and also lifetime sales of the track. The Singles chart rules do allow for sales of alternate versions, including live versions of the song, to be combined with the original.

Edited May 26, 20214 yr by Robbie

It does look like Greatest Hits So Far has been given a lot of extra streams this week, presumably from the live versions, as it's been #39 in the mids compared to #67-71 for the last couple of weeks.

What a mess!