January 17, 20224 yr I'm here for Bruno taking number 1, especially as Gayle's song is crap. Not my favourite from the soundtrack though, Family Madrigal and Pressure>>>> Yeah Surface Pressure is a really good song, it reminds me a lot of Panic! at the Disco actually! Glad it is getting a new peak this week.
January 17, 20224 yr Lmao as if Suspicious Minds got to #1 because of Lilo & Stitch. It got to #1 because it was 2002 and it was part of a single that had the names 'Gareth Gates' and 'Will Young' on it!
January 17, 20224 yr Yes I think even a gargling contest between Will and Gareth would have shot to #1 at that point :lol: never mind that Suspicious Minds had been a huge hit for Elvis Presley more than 30 years earlier. Someday by Eternal was the previous highest charting I could think of too, so Bruno has already surpassed that!
January 17, 20224 yr Given that album sales info for Sunday and The Wombats only selling 300 copies, does that make it likely that Ed will be #1?
January 17, 20224 yr Given that album sales info for Sunday and The Wombats only selling 300 copies, does that make it likely that Ed will be #1? I think it’s more likely that The Wombats discount/push for sales, they should easily clear a few more thousand with that.
January 17, 20224 yr Ed & Adele finished with 11-12k last week, with a bit of a push The Wombats should be able to stay at #1!
January 17, 20224 yr Ed & Adele finished with 11-12k last week, with a bit of a push The Wombats should be able to stay at #1! I hope so, it would be nice for them to finally get a #1 album
January 17, 20224 yr The top 2 album artists both being named after moderately exotic animals :cheeseblock: Obviously Bonobo will fall a bit but great to see him at #2 so far, hopefully #5 should be possible for him again to match his previous album? (Expecting he'll fall behind Ed, Adele and The Weeknd ofc but his sales so far for this week are already just above what Little Mix did for the whole of last week, assuming Gunna is probably a non-factor this week since he's behind LM in today's update). A bigger lead than I expected at #1 for 'We Don't Talk About Bruno', hope that will be enough for it! We love to see 'The Family Madrigal' up as high as #16 as well :cheeseblock: (I'm not as sold on 'Surface Pressure' but it's still decent). Wired no the game KAYNE WEST It was only released on Saturday and was also only available on Spotify for its first 24 hours so it's at a pretty big disadvantage compared to the rest of the market atm, presumably it'll show up later in the week. I hope so, it would be nice for them to finally get a #1 album Actually didn't realise they'd never had one before tbh, that's quite surprising! (Lol at the album that contains most of their actual hits being their only album to miss the top 10 and indeed the top 5, although I assume it's probably their highest seller by a pretty significant margin) I loved the singles from their first 2 albums, kind of stopped paying attention after that but a couple of the singles off the new album have been sounding solid too so am here for them to finally get that #1.
January 18, 20224 yr FKA Twigs only midweek 34 - that's not good at all. So talented but just doesn't seem to get much commercial success. :(
January 18, 20224 yr So many Disney classics could have been hits back in the day if pushed with a commercial release. A Disney No.1 is as long overdue as a Bond theme getting there was. Not that it's not lovely in itself but it's crazy that Eternal's Someday is the highest peaking bonafide Disney hit before Bruno (excluding that Gareth double a, as that really was not the main draw of that single), when the Disney canon includes songs like Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Be Our Guest, Hakuna Matata, The Circle Of Life, Under The Sea, Prince Ali, Belle, Reflection, When She Loved Me (<3 lovely to see that being covered on The Masked Singer the other day) and so many more. Edited January 18, 20224 yr by gooddelta
January 18, 20224 yr It’s always a headscratcher for me to see the peaks of the Lion King with Elton singing them arguably in one of the commercial peaks of his career in the early to mid-90s!
January 18, 20224 yr That’s it then the first Disney film #1 was never destined to be one of the best after that Sam Smith Spectre bore did it for Bond. :kink:
January 19, 20224 yr I wouldn't have minded 'Let It Go' being #1, it's earned its place as a cheesy cultural classic.
January 19, 20224 yr All the Disney songs have an element of cheesiness ;) What is surprising to me is that the ones from the 90s didn't do better, thats when they were at their peak in the US chart and when they achieved their only US #1 I believe, with the Aladdin song A Whole New World, but missed the top 10 in the UK... but it's surprising the songs from Tarzan or Pocahontas or Beauty and the Beast didn't do better... #9 UK, #9 US Beauty and the Beast (1992) #12 UK, #1 US A Whole new world (1993) #14 UK, #4 US Can you feel the love tonight (1994) #11 UK, #18 US Circle of life (1994) #21 UK, #4 US Colours of the Wind (1995) #4 Someday (1996) #17 UK, #21 US You'll be in my heart (1999)
January 19, 20224 yr All the Disney songs have an element of cheesiness ;) What is surprising to me is that the ones from the 90s didn't do better, thats when they were at their peak in the US chart and when they achieved their only US #1 I believe, with the Aladdin song A Whole New World, but missed the top 10 in the UK... but it's surprising the songs from Tarzan or Pocahontas or Beauty and the Beast didn't do better... #9 UK, #9 US Beauty and the Beast (1992) #12 UK, #1 US A Whole new world (1993) #14 UK, #4 US Can you feel the love tonight (1994) #11 UK, #18 US Circle of life (1994) #21 UK, #4 US Colours of the Wind (1995) #4 Someday (1996) #17 UK, #21 US You'll be in my heart (1999) I guess it highlights having to pay £4 for a CD single back then versus putting Spotify on repeat now - much easier and accessible for parents for their children.
January 19, 20224 yr they also missed a trick in the 90s not releasing the film version of Circle of Life which has gone down as being more iconic than the Elton John version
January 19, 20224 yr Plus those versions were all by famous people but weren’t in the films. People want to hear the version they watch all the time maybe that is why it is doing better.
January 19, 20224 yr Yes I think that's partly why Let It Go did so well, it may have peaked at #11 but was one of the biggest sellers of the year. Same for the other songs from Frozen, they were part of the story of the film.
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