Can you really consider an album that isnt technically available in week 2 a drop 😅

Let's just say "natural drop" for the sake of argument 😅

3 hours ago, WhoOdyssey said:

Yeah Richard Ashcrof

With it being pushed back all the way to February, there must have been other factors at play.

No that was literally the reason, Robbie said as much himself at his Dingwalls show the other day - he basically just wants the record for most number one albums

3 minutes ago, Mangø said:

No that was literally the reason, Robbie said as much himself at his Dingwalls show the other day - he basically just wants the record for most number one albums

Surely it’s hard to know what will be released that week this far out though? A 2nd or 9th of Jan release would surely guarantee that more?

10 minutes ago, Steve201 said:

Surely it’s hard to know what will be released that week this far out though? A 2nd or 9th of Jan release would surely guarantee that more?

To be fair, most artists would probably avoid going against Robbie (and will schedule accordingly if they think they can get #1), you'd think he's an easy #1 against almost anyone, just typical that Taylor is one of the few he couldn't beat!!

I think the big irony when talking about week 2 declines is that the small, sometimes non-existent drops are arguably a bigger indictment. 90something percent drops look bad on paper and it's easy to be shady, but the opposite can (though not always) speak of an artist with no day 1s, often thriving on streams of pre-packaged hits from people with no expressed interest in the full product.

Music Week Top 40 Sales Flash

Singles

01 Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia (55,399)

02 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Golden (41,922)

03 Olivia Dean - Man I Need (39,698)

04 Taylor Swift - Opalite (33,429)

05 Taylor Swift - Elizabeth Taylor (28,974)

07 Olivia Dean - Nice to Each Other

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

11 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - How It's Done

12 Sabrina Carpenter - Tears

13 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In

19 Disco Lines & Tinashe - No Broke Boys

20 Chappell Roan - The Subway

24 Gunna feat. Burna Boy - wgft

26 EsDeeKid & Rico Ace - Phantom

27 Tkandz & CXSPER - NOW OR NEVER

29 SIENNA SPIRO - Die on This Hill

31 Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club

34 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things

35 JISOO & ZAYN - EYES CLOSED

38 KATSEYE - Gabriela

39 Teddy Swims - Lose Control

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Albums

01 Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl (30,809) [23,841 streaming, 5,929 physicals, 1,039 downloads]

02 Richard Ashcroft - Lovin’ You (13,461)

03 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving (11,161)

04 Sabrina Carpenter - Man's Best Friend (7,183)

05 Ed Sheeran - +-=÷× (Tour Collection) (4,517)

06 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop

09 Alex Warren - You'll Be Alright, Kid

13 Calum Scott - Avenoir

16 sombr - I Barely Know Her

17 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

18 Elton John - Diamonds

20 ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits

21 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Crush

24 Arctic Monkeys - AM

25 Madonna - Veronica Electronica

28 Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS

29 The Human League - Dare

31 Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR

33 John Lennon, Yoko Ono & the Plastic Ono Band - Power to the People
35 The Orb - Buddhist Hipsters

39 Pitbull - Greatest Hits

I hope we get 2 new Taylor songs in the top 40 next week rather than the same ones as this week and last week and boo Golden increasing its lead from Man I Need

7 minutes ago, Hadji said:

I hope we get 2 new Taylor songs in the top 40 next week rather than the same ones as this week and last week and boo Golden increasing its lead from Man I Need

Golden hasn't increased its lead at all. It was 2713 ahead on Monday, and is now only 2224 ahead.

Let's be realistic about Taylor too because the same 3 songs are still her most streamed on Apple and Spotify, I don't see why we'd get even 1 different song next week unless things shift significantly, certainly not 2.

The Taylor songs will probably remain the same until they go ACR which should be on week 10 at least for two of them ('Ophelia' might avoid).

Can whomever is blocking HID from top 10 like fall please 🙏🏻

The Art of Loving might take over Lovin' You, which feels somewhat poetic.

I guess there’s no way of finding out how close What It Sounds Like is to How It’s Done?

I didn’t expect quite such a huge drop off from Taylor’s album - I was expecting a second week of about 65k but that looks overly optimistic now.

Still, it was a huge first week and nobody can seem to manage huge physical figures in week two anymore.

The only thing missing from her storied career now is a big Christmas staple (because Christmas Tree Farm definitely is not that).

Imagine the Life Of A Showgirl (Eggnog Encore Edition) released on Christmas chart week, with a sparkling new festive pop classic nestled on the tracklist and a clear run for Christmas No.1 in both charts.

3 minutes ago, Lee_J11 said:

I guess there’s no way of finding out how close What It Sounds Like is to How It’s Done?

No way at all I'm afraid

 

8 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

Can whomever is blocking HID from top 10 like fall please 🙏🏻

sombr, who's ahead on both Apple and Spotify (significantly so on the latter) so wouldn't count on it

21 minutes ago, Sour Candy said:

The Taylor songs will probably remain the same until they go ACR which should be on week 10 at least for two of them ('Ophelia' might avoid).

Even if they go ACR, they’ll get reset because they’re due for ACR during the Christmas rush and we’ll probably end up with the same 3 Taylor songs in the new year

5 minutes ago, Hadji said:

Even if they go ACR, they’ll get reset because they’re due for ACR during the Christmas rush and we’ll probably end up with the same 3 Taylor songs in the new year

I'm not convinced by then anything will make that much of a splash except potentially Ophelia, as everything else would've fallen away.

'Man I Need' is down by more than 1k from last Wednesday's mids so looks to heading for DCL-2, but 'Golden' is up by more than 3k and seems to be avoiding ACR on the last few days again. At least it appears to be a genuine increase this time and not just its video streams starting to come through belatedly (though for that reason, it should really have gone to ACR 3 weeks ago).

More importantly do we know what Your Idol is on compared to last week hopefully its going down down down 🤞

Ophelia has certainly pulled ahead from Golden now. Wonder how many weeks she's gonna pull a chart double