12 minutes ago, Liam Sota said:

Clearly the K-pop stuff is wildly outperforming on Amazon and there is no real reason for it.

Just like "Steve's Lava Chicken" (which also overperformed on Amazon) they're from a popular kids film and kids are likely going to want to hear the songs on repeat on their Alexas. Don't get why it's so unbelievable

Edited August 11Aug 11 by gasman449

12 minutes ago, Liam Sota said:

Chappell had no chance this week but

bjork isnt wrong overall.

Last week the subway had

3,539,543 Spotify streams

Golden had 2,476,239

Over a million more

The Subway had 516,852 YouTube streams

Golden had 0 as theirs don’t count on UK charts

Despite that the gap was only 5.5k in sales

If you look at a similar Spotify gap say June 6 Ordinary had 1.1 mill more Spotify streams than love me not yet had 25k more sales gap

Clearly the K-pop stuff is wildly outperforming on Amazon and there is no real reason for it. There is nothing stopping people in Korea resetting their Alexa to a different country putting the album on repeat in a room they’re not even in and going on with their day

You are forgetting golden has a few different versions, especially the David guetta remix, it’s probably adding streams and it’s probably closer than you think on Spotify.

As for this last part, this is such a ridiculous theory that is obviously not happening. It’s not ‘outperforming’ it’s clearly just very popular on there, does there need to be a ‘real reason’ for it?

13 minutes ago, Liam Sota said:

Chappell had no chance this week but

bjork isnt wrong overall.

Last week the subway had

3,539,543 Spotify streams

Golden had 2,476,239

Over a million more

The Subway had 516,852 YouTube streams

Golden had 0 as theirs don’t count on UK charts

Despite that the gap was only 5.5k in sales

If you look at a similar Spotify gap say June 6 Ordinary had 1.1 mill more Spotify streams than love me not yet had 25k more sales gap

Clearly the K-pop stuff is wildly outperforming on Amazon and there is no real reason for it. There is nothing stopping people in Korea resetting their Alexa to a different country putting the album on repeat in a room they’re not even in and going on with their day

Please stop the conspiracies regarding the KPop Demon Hunters songs - not the first time this has come up. I don't know why "people in Korea" would be trying to rig the UK charts, especially for a fictional group?

Golden is also ahead of Chappell on Apple Music and has been the entire time.

Songs perform differently across platforms, that's always been the case, unless you think Jazzy and her family have got Somedays on repeat all day long on Apple Music to explain why it's #19 there but #100 on Spotify?

23 minutes ago, LiamSime said:

You are forgetting golden has a few different versions, especially the David guetta remix, it’s probably adding streams and it’s probably closer than you think on Spotify.

As for this last part, this is such a ridiculous theory that is obviously not happening. It’s not ‘outperforming’ it’s clearly just very popular on there, does there need to be a ‘real reason’ for it?

I think their theories are based totally on their biases of what song they enjoy the most!

4 hours ago, -Jay- said:

That's crazy for the Jonas Brothers. Even without hit singles, we know that a fanbase can carry an album to perform well for one week at least. Them not appearing in the Monday midweeks is wild! Any chance of missing data, or have they just flopped that badly, eek.

Previous two albums:

'The Album' (Monday midweek: #4 - 3,718 / Wednesday midweek: #3 - 6,279 / Friday: #3 - 8,310) [May 2023]

'Happiness Begins' (Monday midweek: #2 - 9,459 / Wednesday midweek: #2 - 10.9k / Friday: #2 - 14,120) [June 2019]

Yeah I refuse to believe they could follow up a #2 and a #3 album with an album that misses the top 100 in even the Monday mids, even without a hit single. There must be missing data or something, surely? I listened to it over the weekend and I quite liked it, it's honestly not that different to the last two albums so their fanbase can't simply have disappeared? Very strange goings on.

5 hours ago, Jessie Where said:

Somebody please give me some good news tell me 'Minor' is a new album from Gracie Abrams that shows she's on the scrapheap already?

It's a ep from 2020 given a CD and cassette release , I was curious where it came from too 🤣

I didn’t even know Jonas Brothers were still making music together until I saw Demi Lovato join them on stage to perform This Is Me the other night.

MGK had a London album release show go on sale this morning.

About Album Chart Update : Where are Kenny Thomas and D:Ream? thank you

4 minutes ago, tasospe said:

About Album Chart Update : Where are Kenny Thomas and D:Ream? thank you

As per yesterday's mids, Kenny Thomas is at #49 and D:Ream are (unsurprisingly) nowhere to be seen.

Edited August 12Aug 12 by Mangø

1 hour ago, Mangø said:

As per yesterday's mids, Kenny Thomas is at #49 and D:Ream are (unsurprisingly) nowhere to be seen.

I'd have thought that D:Ream might garner more interest than Kenny Thomas

Strange they didn’t make the R2 playlist!

10 hours ago, Jessie Where said:

I'd have thought that D:Ream might garner more interest than Kenny Thomas

I thought the same but wasn't expecting much from either

Re: KPop Demon Hunters and Amazon. Usually Amazon seems to skew MOR type of music more (Ed Sheeran always debuting high) so it is not far-fetched to think that children (under 12 or even 10) listen to KPop Demon Hunters from their parents' accounts. That's what happened with the Minecraft movie as well I think.

It's a shame Jade's team insist on releasing her album in a super competitive week in September (and long after the hype has died). The release schedule is pretty barren with a low threshold to hit the top spot, could have been an easy #1 for her.

agree cannot make sense of releasing same week as Ed Sheeran

when most weeks in August have no big releases

Tbf its not just jade its little mix in general, BU , Kylie, Confetti , Taylor swift

A cynic might say getting the fanbase to chase a #1 from behind generates more sales than a week with no competition.

Saying that, I think the only time it’s been a close race in the mentioned situations is vs Kylie. I don’t think Jade vs Ed Sheeran will be close, but I think being an underdog in a race will sell more variants/streaming parties etc.

20 minutes ago, AaronTM said:

A cynic might say getting the fanbase to chase a #1 from behind generates more sales than a week with no competition.

Saying that, I think the only time it’s been a close race in the mentioned situations is vs Kylie. I don’t think Jade vs Ed Sheeran will be close, but I think being an underdog in a race will sell more variants/streaming parties etc.

Tbf who knows, Steps gave Ed a run for the top spot, albeit not in his first week but he isn't the powerhouse he once was - looking at his single performances compared to Jade's though, I'd say it's a sure thing for him.

chart battes sure work to generate more sales,

but has to be 2 big selling acts, ie Taylor vs Arctic Monkeys

here it's almost David vs Goliath

Edited August 13Aug 13 by Bjork