Wow Perrie at 2! Maybe end a bit lower but that’s a great start !

Something to keep in mind for next week. Every time (that I can find) that a chart double replaced another chart double:

15/2/1962: Cliff Richards and the Shadows- The Young Ones/The Young Ones
22/2/1962: Elvis Presley- Blue Hawaii/Rock-A-Hula Baby

16/7/1964: Rolling Stones- The Rolling Stones/It's All Over Now
23/7/1964: Beatles- A Hard Day's Night/A Hard Day's Night

10/11/12: Robbie Williams- Take the Crown/Candy
17/11/12: One Direction- Take Me Home/Little Things

Perrie once again proving it makes sense for pop stars to go after the female market instead of pandering desperately to other audiences.

I maintain Jade taking more of a creative direction than the other girls led to the end of Little Mix. They should’ve had a huge album after Glory Days but just… didn’t.

1 minute ago, SIJ02 said:

I maintain Jade taking more of a creative direction than the other girls led to the end of Little Mix. They should’ve had a huge album after Glory Days but just… didn’t.

Jade was the one most upset about the hiatus what a silly thing to say

3 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

Jade was the one most upset about the hiatus what a silly thing to say

Then she shouldn’t have ignored Little Mix’s everyday female demographic post-Glory Days.

Edited Monday at 18:432 days by SIJ02

5 minutes ago, SIJ02 said:

Then she shouldn’t have ignored Little Mix’s everyday female demographic post-Glory Days.

These posts are so homophobic and racist coded

Jade had more sales then Perrie, she gonna need double to catch up to her which is unlikely so if anything Jade by going in a new direction has worked out better for her

2 minutes ago, No Sleeep said:

These posts are so homophobic and racist coded

Firstly, I’m gay and where tf are you getting racist from…?

Anyways, it’s a shame the Little Mix girls are so washed now. All that could’ve been post-GD!

Edited Monday at 18:532 days by SIJ02

Just now, SIJ02 said:

Firstly, I’m gay and where tf are you getting racist from…?

Define “everyday female” and “pandering desperately to other audiences”

2 minutes ago, No Sleeep said:

Define “everyday female” and “pandering desperately to other audiences”

So, you’re clearly racist if you think “everyday female” doesn’t include POC lmao. And it’s not homophobic to say that Jade alienated Little Mix’s casual hetero female listeners by going on all in on this try hard… “persona” I guess?

ETA: this video encompasses what Little Mix’s true audience was - https://x.com/coscorrodrift/status/1642541793316155392?s=46

Edited Monday at 19:052 days by SIJ02

On 28/09/2025 at 19:08, 777666jason said:

Ah fair enough never heard it casually used on anything else before, wouldn't mind being proven wrong 🩵

I think the Glee cover charted decently in 2011 and it was most recently used well to comedic effect in an episode of And Just Like That (the sex and the city continuation series).

35 minutes ago, SIJ02 said:

Perrie once again proving it makes sense for pop stars to go after the female market instead of pandering desperately to other audiences.

The album is good but I’m not sure it’s going to give her mass success outside of week 1 or gain her many new fans - it’s likely to plummet out the charts next week and she hasn’t set the singles charts alight.

31 minutes ago, SIJ02 said:

Then she shouldn’t have ignored Little Mix’s everyday female demographic post-Glory Days.

Woman like me is their 7 most successful , 3rd if you exclude glory days tracks and thats post glory days 🤷

26 minutes ago, SIJ02 said:

So, you’re clearly racist if you think “everyday female” doesn’t include POC lmao. And it’s not homophobic to say that Jade alienated Little Mix’s casual hetero female listeners by going on all in on this try hard… “persona” I guess?

ETA: this video encompasses what Little Mix’s true audience was - https://x.com/coscorrodrift/status/1642541793316155392?s=46

And that’s the kind of people you think Jade should be making her OWN music with in mind? 🤣 That’s hilarious. God forbid an artist pursue their own interests and not cater to whoever a marketing team decides their “target audience” should be.

On 26/09/2025 at 18:27, seven. said:

08 Olivia Dean - So Easy (To Fall in Love) (8,600)

OCC website has this at #9, do we know which one's correct?

33 minutes ago, SIJ02 said:

So, you’re clearly racist if you think “everyday female” doesn’t include POC lmao. And it’s not homophobic to say that Jade alienated Little Mix’s casual hetero female listeners by going on all in on this try hard… “persona” I guess?

ETA: this video encompasses what Little Mix’s true audience was - https://x.com/coscorrodrift/status/1642541793316155392?s=46

SIJ02 with the upmost of respect what are you talking about? Literally the majority of people at her signings / Banquet shows were straight females and gays. So I really don't think she's alienated her hetero female listeners at all? Naturally, she's gravitated to the person she is and producing music that's authentically her. I'm unsure why you think it's a 'persona' when clearly she's heavily involved in gay culture and has been for years and years.

As with most pop acts (Especially groups) there's definitely a ceiling on how long you can continuously have 'peak' success doing the same numbers especially these days where everything moves at lightening speed. Jade's in particular is carving out a very successful solo pop career with sold out UK shows, EU shows and North American shows. She's hardly 'washed out' is she?

Not to compare but you've alluded to the fact Perrie has stayed true to the 'female audience' and therefore it's worked more than Jade, when Jade was outselling Perrie at this point with 3k of missing sales....So I fail to even understand what you're original point was?

Great that's she's still in the top 50 after 3 weeks.

P.S - That video is honestly everything I HATE about people who stereotype literally anyone and anything.

Edited Monday at 19:522 days by Mr. C. Joel

8 minutes ago, Riser said:

OCC website has this at #9, do we know which one's correct?

OCC is correct, the paragraph in the MW article was wrong, didn't think to double check!

I think Jade is only going to go up once her tour hits. She's chasing it and its going to pay off, especially in the states where she's getting opportunities she never got with the band

1 hour ago, SIJ02 said:

Perrie once again proving it makes sense for pop stars to go after the female market instead of pandering desperately to other audiences.

I maintain Jade taking more of a creative direction than the other girls led to the end of Little Mix. They should’ve had a huge album after Glory Days but just… didn’t.

I don't get this - LM5 and Confetti were both platinum albums so were definitely big eras, albeit not as huge as Glory Days (which benefits from having five big hits on its tracklist).

Jade didn't write either of the LM5 singles, which is what the casual audience will recognise from the era. She co-wrote two of the four Confetti singles (both with Leigh-Anne, and Break Up Song also with Perrie). I don't get why Jade is to blame for the "end of Little Mix" (which sounded like a mutual decision between the three of them, but if they wanted to continue I don't see why they couldn't have given they were coming off a huge arena tour (despite Jade's "creative direction" it appears) and their final studio album had produced three top 10 hits including #1 single. Their music certainly progressed, I think their brand of pop music became more sophisticated as time went on, and less bubblegum. There's nothing wrong with that and I don't think it was related to a change in audience focus.

This really doesn't have to be a competition between Jade and Perrie, who we know are very close friends and will undoubtedly be celebrating each other's success. I don't get how Perrie's sales here prove anything about the audience Little Mix ultimately aimed at (which was always very much females + gays, even from before Glory Days, which isn't unusual for a girl group, Girls Aloud/Sugababes/The Saturdays/etc are much the same).

2 hours ago, SIJ02 said:

Perrie once again proving it makes sense for pop stars to go after the female market instead of pandering desperately to other audiences.

I maintain Jade taking more of a creative direction than the other girls led to the end of Little Mix. They should’ve had a huge album after Glory Days but just… didn’t.

So to you "female market" is what, soppy ballads and not a lot of creative input?