Just checked and the last National album opened with 12K, some vinyls but not many, now they well all crazy and there's multitude of vinyl variants and colour so I'm positive they will do similar to boygenius.

 

I kinda remembered the National having big figures but that was 2 albums ago when they did >20K.

The week after is looking fairly unclear too, with releases from:

 

The Damned – Darkadelic

Freya Ridings - Blood Orange

Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good!

Labrinth - Ends & Begins

The Lottery Winners - Anxiety Replacement Therapy

The National - First Two Pages Of Frankenstein

Shakin' Stevens – Re-set

Tom Meighan (former Kasabian frontman) - The Reckoning

 

I imagine one of them will get to the top, but I can't really predict who!

 

Expecting a lot of activity for this week - Freya, Jessie, The National, The Lottery Winners and Tom Meighan all have A LOT of formats, bundles, bundles exclusives and events between them, expecting price cuts, personalised signing etc., too if it’s close.

I would guess it's between The National and Freya (Freya's debut had higher opening sales than The National's last album but I'd lean towards saying The National are the favourites here). No idea about The Lottery Winners though, I guess they are the kind of random indie band that could suddenly jump out to selling pretty big numbers a la The Reytons? Their last album in 2021 only got to #11 but then so did the last Reytons album before their #1.

 

Will be interesting if Labrinth can once again pull off a high charting album after his debut got to #2 then his second album didn't chart at all!

Says it all that I didn't know Labrinth even had a second album!

 

Closest I thought he'd came was that cancelled one which was due to feature his 2014 singles.

A couple of the songs that became minor hits from their use on Euphoria were originally from that second Labrinth album so it did at least have some belated chart impact but yes, it went by nearly entirely unnoticed at the time.

I would guess it's between The National and Freya (Freya's debut had higher opening sales than The National's last album but I'd lean towards saying The National are the favourites here). No idea about The Lottery Winners though, I guess they are the kind of random indie band that could suddenly jump out to selling pretty big numbers a la The Reytons? Their last album in 2021 only got to #11 but then so did the last Reytons album before their #1.

 

Agree I think The National will be the ones to beat, The Lottery Winners have really gone for it though, signed CDs of each band member are £5 etc., - https://the-lottery-winners.tmstor.es/

Aside, back to the original topic of this thread - I do wonder if the Agust D album will have physical sales excluded from the chart again? Looks like it is doing the whole randomised photocard thing again which I think was the reason for some previous K-Pop releases having their physical sales excluded. (I'm not sure it'd be a contender for #1 either way though)

but what happened with Labrinth album 2? was it released in the UK and flopped and failed to chart or

it wasn't even released and was US only?

but what happened with Labrinth album 2? was it released in the UK and flopped and failed to chart or

it wasn't even released and was US only?

It just flopped here, it only charted in the US a few years later because of the songs from Euphoria being streamed.

but what happened with Labrinth album 2? was it released in the UK and flopped and failed to chart or

it wasn't even released and was US only?

It didn't have any promotion of any sort (it was released by Syco at the time, towards the end of its existence), no CD release, a vinyl release five months late... the new album has Never Felt So Alone but the rest (commercially speaking) is looking pretty awful (no CD/vinyl yet, only ten tracks, no promo yet) :(

I actually never understood why he signed up with Syco? He was already popular cos of the Tinie songs like Pass Out

I'm sure he could have signed to a better label

 

But I'm glad Euphoria is giving him a 2nd chance at success

1975 not even on cd this time so don’t think chart well

I actually never understood why he signed up with Syco? He was already popular cos of the Tinie songs like Pass Out

I'm sure he could have signed to a better label

 

I have no idea, it seemed strange even at the time. But X Factor was huge and Simon Cowell was (very wrongly, in my opinion) considered to be completely running the music industry by many, so maybe that might have influenced it.

I have no idea, it seemed strange even at the time. But X Factor was huge and Simon Cowell was (very wrongly, in my opinion) considered to be completely running the music industry by many, so maybe that might have influenced it.

I'd say that's one letter away from being accurate :D

 

1975 not even on cd this time so don’t think chart well

It's on CD, vinyl & cassette - https://www.banquetrecords.com/the-1975/liv...5D/602567226901

I actually never understood why he signed up with Syco? He was already popular cos of the Tinie songs like Pass Out

I'm sure he could have signed to a better label

 

But I'm glad Euphoria is giving him a 2nd chance at success

Here you go!

 

Labrinth told The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett podcast that he signed to Cowell as he was told “it’s a bigger cheque” and he would be “prioritised” as “you’re not like anything on their label”.

 

He added: “I didn’t think about it for myself, I allowed someone else to tell me what my next direction is, because I don’t think I had the strength to think about what I wanted for myself.

 

“I didn’t ask myself what I wanted because I was always accommodating what everyone else wanted.

1975 not even on cd this time so don’t think chart well

 

Will be an easy Top 3 for them at the very minimum although likely #1, not only have you got the fans out in force to buy it on RSD you also have the eBay resellers who will be picking it up too.

Will be an easy Top 3 for them at the very minimum although likely #1, not only have you got the fans out in force to buy it on RSD you also have the eBay resellers who will be picking it up too.

Yep, although they don't go online until Monday - so I'd expect a big jump in the Wednesday mids!

The 1975’s album won’t be on streaming (at least not straight away), so it’s sales will definitely be limited to 15k.

I hope Taylor has some kind of plan to shift more than 10k copies, maybe an iTunes discount or something. If #1 is in sight I can’t see her letting it pass her by, she’s the female Ed Sheeran after all