I also wasn’t blown away by the first listen and found it to be quite similar throughout! I’ll give it another chance but there’s not much that jumped out to me but I’d say House Tour and Goodbye are my highlights.

I still think it’ll be a success for her though maybe not on the scale of Short and Sweet but I think it’s easily gonna be another #1 for her and I think shes an exception where she’ll manage a post album smash.

I hope after this era and the promotional cycles done she takes a break and comes back with something different though! I think she has it in her to do as she’s pretty clued up and smart. I’d love her to use her vocals more effectively like in a Christina Back to Basics esque way.

I'm ALL IN on this album. I'm loving it more and more. bar a brief period yesterday where I had time to kill so listened to Nova Twins and Ava's newest albums, it's all I've been playing over the last 24 hours. My vinyl came today too & I love that the artcard was a big artcard and mine is slightly smudged (which I am OK with!!)

My updated ranking right now after several plays of the album from start to finish:

01 [08] House Tour

02 [01] My Man on Willpower

03 [02] Nobody's Son

04 [04] Go Go Juice

05 [03] When Did You Get So Hot?

06 [07] Goodbye

07 [05] Tears

08 [04] Manchild

09 [09] We Almost Broke Up Again Last Night

10 [10] Sugar Talking

11 [11] Don't Worry I'll Make You Worry

12 [12] Never Getting Laid

I LOOOOOVE the top 7. 'Manchild' is fun. The last 4 are cute, but away from the album I doubt I'll go back to them much.

Also, I want to give extra mention and love to 'Goodbye'. What a great closer! I love the ABBA-lite piano bits.

UK Spotify streams for the Man's Best Friend songs:

#1 Tears - 904,972 streams

#3 My Man On Willpower - 620,815 streams

#4 Manchild - 596,021 streams

#5 Sugar Talking - 562,306 streams

#6 Nobody's Son - 514,072 streams

#7 When Did You Get Hot? - 513,379 streams

#8 We Almost Broke Up Again Last Night - 513,091 streams

#10 Go Go Juice - 487,532 streams

#11 Never Getting Laid - 474,644 streams

#12 House Tour - 446,170 streams

#13 Goodbye - 421,010 streams

#14 Don't Worry I'll Make You Worry - 405,868 streams

Total first day streams - 6,459,880

Man's Best Friend's first day streams on UK Spotify - 6,459,880 (average of 538,323 streams per song)

Short n' Sweet's first day streams on UK Spotify - 4,630,316 (average of 385,860 streams per song)

"Man's Best Friend" did 1,829,564 more streams on its first day than its predecessor

@EmailsICantChase

Just now, DanielCarey said:

Man's Best Friend's first day streams on UK Spotify - 6,459,880 (average of 538,323 streams per song)

Short n' Sweet's first day streams on UK Spotify - 4,630,316 (average of 385,860 streams per song)

"Man's Best Friend" did 1,829,564 more streams on its first day than its predecessor

@EmailsICantChase

Very very impressive, but lowkey I expected something like this. You don't maintain top 5 for 46 weeks without constantly gaining new fans, and then they show up en masse for the next album along with anyone curious about the album. I'm really interested to see how it maintains through the week. Personally, it's only gotten stronger for me

I can see My Man On Willpower being chosen as the third single from the album

The thing that impresses me the most is that ‘Manchild’ is track 1 so aside from ‘Tears’ I assumed that would be a comfortable 2nd place but ‘My Man on Willpower’ overtook it… a lot of people I assume started straight from ‘Tears’ and had it lead into the rest of the album etc.. (alongside the additional playlist push ‘Tears’ got etc..)

Update on Tuesday is going to be interesting to see which tracks overtake each other across the weekend as people start distinguishing their favourites. I really do think ‘House Tour’ will be up there but COME ON MMOW PLEEEEASE remain in her top 3 from the album to chart!

Hope ‘Nobody’s Son’ and ‘When Did You Get So Hot?’ Can overtake ‘Sugar Talking’ (and ‘Manchild’ but that’ll be a bigger task!)

As much as I love manchild I just want 3 new tracks to chart 🤣

5 hours ago, Tafty said:

Hope ‘Nobody’s Son’ and ‘When Did You Get So Hot?’ Can overtake ‘Sugar Talking’ (and ‘Manchild’ but that’ll be a bigger task!)

Yeah they are more interesting songs imo!