Mae pleaded for people to download her album on iTunes, but it's unclear if that strategy will work, as it’s fallen to #24. However, she signed about 100 copies yesterday and more on Thursday, which will boost her sales and may help her scrape into the top 75.

 

 

There's no way she will get to keep her record deal with Capitol. She isn't a Bebe Rexha whose albums flop yet still manages to score worldwide hits sometimes.

Edited October 4, 20231 yr by Voodoo

Download reduced to £4.99 on iTunes now and currently #4 (Andrew Cushin done the same and is #1).

#26 in todays midweeks - up from #33 on Monday.

 

Signed copies definitely helping… maybe this can manage a top 40 place afterall? I’m predicting a top 50/60 is more likely though.

I’ve seen so many people saying they are buying it out of pity that I figure she will be fine! I hoped it wouldn’t flop for attracting future Eurovision artists cause it won’t be long until they start looking. She’s doing some more personal singings tomorrow so that will be good. I hope she can at least breaks 2500 sales.

Edited October 4, 20231 yr by Megan_x

Is the OCC fine with it? I thought it was illegal according to chart rules.

There's no way she will get to keep her record deal with Capitol. She isn't a Bebe Rexha whose albums flop yet still manages to score worldwide hits sometimes.

Bebe will keep pushing no matter what!

 

She’s upto number 3 on itunes

 

Hope she does manage top 40 !

Is the OCC fine with it? I thought it was illegal according to chart rules.

 

First thing I thought when I saw it - I’m sure The Lottery Winners tried something similar and quickly had to apologise and withdraw the offer.

 

Anyway I’ve just ordered 2 x personally signed CDs for friends from Banquet, I so want Mae to hold on to the Top 40 on Friday!

She’s back at Banquet now and pushing the signed versions and #1 and #35 on iTunes - hopefully safe for a Top 40 now which is a great outcome compared to the first mids.

Fingers crossed for Mae today, I hope she secures a top 20 placing (optimistic, but hey, stranger things have happened!)

33 Officially! congratulations on a top 40 Mae!

Edited October 6, 20231 yr by Lukuzz

Pleased it’s gone Top 40 both for Mae and for artists considering ESC - she’s achieved a Top 10 single and Top 40 album off the back of it (none of which appeared to be forthcoming prior to ESC!).

Fair play, she worked hard for that Top 40 placement!

Very happy for her making top 40 in the end!

She's quit music.

It sounds more like she’s stepping back from actively releasing on her post to me. I reckon it’ll be a bit of an extended break as opposed to quitting for good (which she never mentioned in her post)

Strange to make those posts when she's just dropped a new song today.

Sounds like the Eurovision experience likely affected her, among other things (the pressure to get chart hits really gets to a lot of artists and I get that). From her posts last year and seeing her at events, she seemed to enjoy the build-up and the contest itself, but I expect the trauma of the result itself and then the heave required to get the album top 40 paid their toll.

 

I still really like her and a Eurovision result is really only one barometer of success. It still was a UK top ten and has well over 20 million streams on Spotify, so I expect there are a lot of other contributing factors. I don't think people do necessarily think of her as a Eurovision flop in quite the same way as the likes of James Newman and Jemini, as she was the home turf entry and it was a popular song commercially and all over the radio. There does seem to be more sympathy to her result than with other UK artists.

Edited January 12, 20241 yr by gooddelta