Hope The Motto by Tiesto & Ava Max can climb before the end of the week.

 

Nice to see Drive still on course for Top 20.

Oh wow, didn't even notice Rina there. :o

 

Does she have any hope of remaining top 40 with all those albums below her that will inevitably fall?

 

It's there because of a vinyl re-issue, #24 on Monday is very likely not going to be anywhere near enough for it to stay top 40. Hayley Williams' album with its belated physical release earlier this year, by comparison, was #29 in the Monday midweeks and ended the week at #92.

 

Anywhere in the top 100 will still be a first (across both the singles and albums charts) for her though.

Amazing sales for ABBA (especially in Germany omg). It's a shame a lot of the pre-orders couldn't be shipped out on time. But in saying that - if they get shipped in the next few weeks that might help their sales stay pretty stable! Really hoping they'll be able to cross 200k this week - maybe more depending on how much missing data there is/how much they sell each day.I do think they'll pick up a lot of casual buyers (more so than Ed did).

 

Speaking of Ed, his sales have dropped a bit more than I expected. Although there will be missing data. Hopefully he'll manage 40k by the end of the week. That'll be ~70% drop, which is kind of the norm nowadays I guess with frontloaded vinyl sales etc? I'm sure his sales will pick up once again as we near Christmas.

 

Also, OMG Rina in the top 40! I hope she stays but she will likely fall out. Hopefully she's done enough to secure a top 100 placing. I'll go give her albums a few streams to help. Would love to see her debut album finally chart. One of my favourite albums of last year!

 

 

ABBA! :cheeseblock:

 

Outselling the rest of the Top 40 combined and people were using the word flop about this over the weekend! Amazing.

 

I mean that was the case for Ed in the Monday midweeks last week too... :coffee: it says more about how completely dead the rest of the chart is than anything else. 'Outselling the rest of the top 40 combined' sounds far more impressive than 117k.

 

(not saying 117k is a bad number for them at all, it's just quite sad that the bar for outselling the rest of the top 40 is so low)

(not saying 117k is a bad number for them at all, it's just quite sad that the bar for outselling the rest of the top 40 is so low)

 

Gone are the days that the entire top 10 do 100k+ the week of Christmas. Last time that happened was in 2009 (2011 came close with 9/10).

It’ll be interesting to where Abba are once any missing data is added. They could get to 150k depending on how much is missing, I feel like given physical cds arent around so much these days in shops, that could be their downfall. Still amazing for a band that haven’t released an album for 40 years.

 

Ed really has collapsed, I’m beginning to think Taylor has a shot at no1 next week now which initially I thought she wouldn’t stand a chance.

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ABBA! :cheeseblock:

 

Outselling the rest of the Top 40 combined and people were using the word flop about this over the weekend! Amazing.

 

All those top artists like Ed sheeran, Coldplay, Adele were afraid to go against each other in the charts unlike Westlife who were going against to acts back in the day Eminem, Spice Girls, Susan boyle, Oasis etc

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All those top artists like Ed sheeran, Coldplay, Adele were afraid to go against each other in the charts unlike Westlife who were going against to acts back in the day Eminem, Spice Girls, Susan boyle, Oasis etc

 

Artists didn’t care as much because they were guaranteed to sell well no matter whereas now they can maneuvre so they all get a week at the top!

All those top artists like Ed sheeran, Coldplay, Adele were afraid to go against each other in the charts unlike Westlife who were going against to acts back in the day Eminem, Spice Girls, Susan boyle, Oasis etc

I'd be fairly confident in saying Westlife had next to zero say on their album release dates.

I'd be fairly confident in saying Westlife any artist signed to a major label had next to zero say on their album release dates.

 

Yes, very that! I only singled them out as it was a direct reply to that post about them.

Voyage's 115k is already the highest weekly pure sale since Divide in 2017. '=' held that title for 3 days!

Gone are the days that the entire top 10 do 100k+ the week of Christmas. Last time that happened was in 2009 (2011 came close with 9/10).

I really miss those days honestly. :( And knowing it was pure sales including the majority being CD's bought at HMV etc.

 

Ah. I hate the streaming era.

Lol calling Westlife very brave with their releases... when in singles the label was always picking the easiest zero competition weeks and 75% of their #1s were fluke non#1s :)

 

Why are people saying ABBA have missing data, a sale not counting till it dispatches is a fallacy. We've seen it so many times recently where people aren't getting dispatches but the sales have clearly already counted. The Spice Girls Spice re-release was clearly as case of that last week. As soon as money has cleared it can be reported as a sale I'm sure.

If that was the case then the sales that have pushed Lana into the top 10 in today's update would have counted 2 weeks ago surely :P

Why are people saying ABBA have missing data, a sale not counting till it dispatches is a fallacy. We've seen it so many times recently where people aren't getting dispatches but the sales have clearly already counted. The Spice Girls Spice re-release was clearly as case of that last week. As soon as money has cleared it can be reported as a sale I'm sure.

 

Lol, why you think Lana - Blue Banisters is at #10 :D

 

Ed, go write better songs instead of spending your time in BZ trying to defend your flop sales :)

Ed, go write better songs instead of spending your time in BZ trying to defend your flop sales :)

That post wasn't even about Ed? Lol

How is Jesy Nelson still as high as #30? Her streaming support has collapsed and she's well outside the top 100 on Spotify.