2 hours ago, JosephBoone said:

Official Chart Update

Singles (Top 100)

01 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Golden (18,922)

02 Disco Lines & Tinashe - No Broke Boys (12,264)

03 Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Soda Pop (11,508)

04 Chappell Roan - The Subway (11,252)

05 MK feat. Chrystal - Dior (11,107)

06 Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Your Idol

08 Olivia Dean - Nice to Each Other

09 Olivia Dean - Man I Need

12 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In

15 Drake & Central Cee - Which One

16 sombr - 12 to 12

18 Rossi. & Jazzy - High on Me

19 Lewis Capaldi - Survive

20 Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club

24 BLACKPINK - JUMP

27 Lola Young - d£aler

31 TWICE - TAKEDOWN

33 Oasis - Cigarettes & Alcohol

36 Denon Reed & Cru2 - Let Him Go

37 Teddy Swims - Lose Control

40 TWICE - Strategy

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Albums (Top 100)

01 Tom Grennan - Everywhere I Went, Led Me to Where I Didn't Want to Be (19,408) [18,332 physicals, 575 downloads and 501 streaming]

02 Conan Gray - Wishbone (8,530)

03 As December Falls - Everything's on Fire But I'm Fine (4,752)

04 Oasis - Time Flies... 1994-2009 (4,407)

05 Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT (4,015) [2,963 anniversary edition]

06 Niall Horan - Heartbreak Weather

07 Alison Goldfrapp - Flux (3,323)

13 Black Honey - Soak

14 Jack Garratt - Pillars

16 Jordan Davis - Learn the Hard Way

21 Deep Purple - Made in Japan

24 Teddy Swims - I've Tried Everything But Therapy

26 OneRepublic - The Collection

30 Asco - Perfect Timing

32 Taylor Swift - THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT

38 Fontaines D.C. - Romance
40 Taylor Swift - reputation

Hell yes - HUGE As December Falls fan so I'm really pleased to see the new album in the albums chart update!!!

I didn't realise Maroon 5 had fallen quite that far! I thought they'd still be a top 20 albums type act.

Tom looks like the No 1 album is his and congrats to him!!

Delighted for Tom as the number 1 looks safe, i kinda expected his streaming to be a bit better than it is though but as others have said he hasnt really had a hit this era.

Nice to see Niall Horan doing ok, the sales he has already ( which will be frontloaded) so more than enough to see the album make a top 40 re entry at lowest.

Maroon 5 bombing with the new album as it could even miss the top 100, it will probably result in the singles album making a climb though.

3 hours ago, T Boy said:

I tell you, Maroon 5 shed their fan base years ago. Having the odd hit single sustained them but they don’t get airplay now and their relevance has faded. This album is clearly trying to chase a hit they can’t get anymore. Only one song is longer than 3 minutes, they’re clearly hoping for a viral hit or something.

They have some amazing albums in their discography. They need to realise what made them good in the first place. Hit making is behind them, they’re clearly hoping should get back to music making.

Is there any chance that Jack Garratt will even remain as high as he is? There’s someone that has never had the success he deserves.

What did make them good in the first place? I remember liking Harder to Breathe but nothing after sounded anything like it. They were a band that surfed the trend but are now too old to be trendy. They've become a mum band and the mums just want to hear Moves Like Jagger.

9 minutes ago, Paramore said:

What did make them good in the first place? I remember liking Harder to Breathe but nothing after sounded anything like it. They were a band that surfed the trend but are now too old to be trendy. They've become a mum band and the mums just want to hear Moves Like Jagger.

Tbf their first big eras was over 20 years ago and MLJ turns 15 next year 😅

Edited Monday at 21:253 days by 777666jason

11 minutes ago, Paramore said:

What did make them good in the first place? I remember liking Harder to Breathe but nothing after sounded anything like it. They were a band that surfed the trend but are now too old to be trendy. They've become a mum band and the mums just want to hear Moves Like Jagger.

They made catchy songs that were fairly relatable and had decent lyrics. Even the more they went into the pop sound, they managed to keep that much. But 10 years ago they just moved into the territory of really lazy lyrics and the worst thing was that people lapped it up.

Their first 3 albums were great and retained personality for them. Unfortunately following Moves Like Jagger they just kept chasing hits with the music getting progressively lazier. It’s stopped working for them and they haven’t really noticed.

1 hour ago, T Boy said:

They made catchy songs that were fairly relatable and had decent lyrics. Even the more they went into the pop sound, they managed to keep that much. But 10 years ago they just moved into the territory of really lazy lyrics and the worst thing was that people lapped it up.

Their first 3 albums were great and retained personality for them. Unfortunately following Moves Like Jagger they just kept chasing hits with the music getting progressively lazier. It’s stopped working for them and they haven’t really noticed.

I echo this. Interestingly, I'd say "Moves Like Jagger" was their last single that really felt like a Maroon 5 song. I liked other songs they released since then, but I don't think anything they released beyond that carried much of their identity - I'm a big fan of "Maps", but even that could have been released by a multitude of artists really...

For that reason, I'm not really surprised that without any hits/promotion, they're failing to shift any albums. A lack of identity doesn't usually garner notable albums success, and a stable hits collection is only as stable as the hits contained within it.

I posted earlier in the chart week about how fantastic the new Dijon album is, but after several listens I’m now thinking it might be the best of the year. Pity it looks like it’s nowhere near the top 40.

It's still mildly amusing to me that a fictional Kpop girl group song is dominating the charts whilst an actual real-life Kpop girl group song is floundering in the lower reaches. Considering they recently sold out Wembley, you'd think they'd have enough of fanbase to at least be getting a new song easily into the top 10.

9 hours ago, Juranamo said:

I echo this. Interestingly, I'd say "Moves Like Jagger" was their last single that really felt like a Maroon 5 song. I liked other songs they released since then, but I don't think anything they released beyond that carried much of their identity - I'm a big fan of "Maps", but even that could have been released by a multitude of artists really...

For that reason, I'm not really surprised that without any hits/promotion, they're failing to shift any albums. A lack of identity doesn't usually garner notable albums success, and a stable hits collection is only as stable as the hits contained within it.

'Maps' was the last Maroon 5 song that I properly enjoyed, and to me that was the last era that Maroon 5 sounded like Maroon 5. It was after that they started losing their identity with basic nothing-y sounding songs like 'Don't Wanna Know' and 'Girls Like You'. The new album is just a continuation of that sound so I'm also not surprised no one's buying it. But at this point I don't think they'd fare much better even if they returned to the Songs About Jane sound. They're basically done with the charts.

What I find interesting is how Maroon 5 is one of the bands whose catalog is doing better on streaming

for the last 5 years their Greatest Hits has been consistently doing 3K a week from streams

lately it's dropped a bit but still does between 2-3K every week.

Of course it doesn't compare with the big catalog streamers like The Weeknd of Oasis or Fleetwood Mac

but they're on the same level as Queen, Bowie, Whitney, George Michael

and doing much better than for example Britney, Madonna, Pink, Bon Jovi, U2 etc

but I guess it just shows how things are nowadays with streaming and the GP will stream your This is Maroon 5 playlist

but they don't have the hardcore fanbase to go nuts and buy al those vinyl variants so a new album will always struggle

3 minutes ago, Bjork said:

What I find interesting is how Maroon 5 is one of the bands whose catalog is doing better on streaming

for the last 5 years their Greatest Hits has been consistently doing 3K a week from streams

lately it's dropped a bit but still does between 2-3K every week.

Of course it doesn't compare with the big catalog streamers like The Weeknd of Oasis or Fleetwood Mac

but they're on the same level as Queen, Bowie, Whitney, George Michael

and doing much better than for example Britney, Madonna, Pink, Bon Jovi, U2 etc

but I guess it just shows how things are nowadays with streaming and the GP will stream your This is Maroon 5 playlist

but they don't have the hardcore fanbase to go nuts and buy al those vinyl variants so a new album will always struggle

And Maroon 5's 'Singles' album only has 13 tracks and was released in 2015, so is missing several of their hits.

It’s got 5 reviews on Amazon(which are usually 90% good since it’s by fans who bought the album not haters) and they’re all negative. I don’t think such a band will get new fans and the fans they do have left don’t like their new music so they might as well give it up and live off the greatest hits royalties

oh never realised that, so it actually doesn't have Girls like you for example. Imagine if it had the latest hits, it could easily be top 20 every week.

1 minute ago, Bjork said:

oh never realised that, so it actually doesn't have Girls like you for example. Imagine if it had the latest hits, it could easily be top 20 every week.

Yep - Sunday Morning, Harder To Breathe, Won't Go Home Without You, Love Somebody, What Lovers Do, Don't Wanna Know, Girls Like You, Wait, Cold, Memories, Nobody's Love & Beautiful Mistakes are all their songs with 200m+ streams on Spotify that are missing.

I don't know how seriously to take the review which said they peaked with Red Pill Blues. I never thought I'd see anybody say that!

reviews from Amazon users? Minus 43873247 relevant lol

And most of those reviews are about the runtime (less than 30 minutes for 14 quid is criminal) and not about the quality of the actual album 😅

2.9 out of 5 is extremely low for an album on Amazon, if I saw rating I would not be buying the album.