Honestly shocked Lily is doing so well, I was expecting no single entries and maybe the album to go top 30 at most with no physical. I didn’t realise there was so much hype for her, No Shame seemed to confirm the streaming era would kill her chart career. Amazing to see a woman in her 40s, 2 decades into her career, doing so well in the streaming era.

Have given the Lily album a listen tonight - I've not listened to any of her previous albums in full and although I loved a lot of her singles at the time I think some of them haven't aged that well so I wasn't really sure what to expect from this new one but was intrigued by the amount of buzz around it. To be honest a lot of it is not really my cup of tea sonically so I'm not quite as on board with the massive hype for it as I'd like but I definitely get why the narrative has attracted so much attention. Happy that 'Madeline' looks like it'll be one of her 3 charting songs though as that one was a highlight for me (the 3 I'd pick from the album ideally would be that, 'Ruminating' and 'Dallas Major' I think x) and it is really cool to see her making such a big comeback so long after her last album and even longer since the last album that actually did well chart-wise! I'm not so much a fan of the two highest charting songs at the moment unforch.

Interesting to note that both of the album bombs this week are very much not just being represented by the first 3 songs on their tracklists even at this early stage - for both albums track 1 is the second highest charter and the other two are both later than track 3 on the albums (Dave having tracks 5 and 4 and Lily having tracks 7 and 5).

4 minutes ago, mrpopquiz said:

I wonder what Pussy Palace is all about !!

A cat sanctuary

6 hours ago, ___∆___ said:

The 3 track rule ruining the top of the charts - it’s basically a Taylor/Dave/Olivia Top 10.

I mean, wouldn't it be worse if the 3 track rule wasn't in place?

7 hours ago, Mangø said:

If this is true, it certainly won't end the week anywhere near the gargantuan figures some were predicting!

If the streaming doesn't hold, Taylor might actually be able to stay at #1 by putting out some signed cd's.

Everyone at work is talking about Lily's new album, which genuinely threw me as I also thought her music career was basically over after her 2018 comeback fizzled out quickly. I think it's a combination of the early-mid 2000s becoming 'cool' with a generation of people who were either born then or were kids, and the fact that her well-publicised ex was Jim from Stranger Things which is big enough that even if you weren't too familiar with Lily or her music before, it's likely you'll know who David Harbour is.

If my theory is correct, watch a battle-scarred Katy Perry return sometime around the year 2030 and have a colossal comeback as if she never went away, at the same time the next young generation are wearing shutter shades, filming 'retro' stuff on early iPhones and getting really into the lore over the 2008 global recession.

17 hours ago, mrpopquiz said:

I wonder what Pussy Palace is all about !!

Its a cat cafe in Manchester ain't it ?

Do we know where Demi has started on the album chart yet? :)

5 minutes ago, magnetic moon said:

Do we know where Demi has started on the album chart yet? :)

Post 1 explains everything, our first album chart news from the OCC comes at around 5ish today!

I had never heard the name David Harbour until a couple of days ago

I missed the post with the Dave sales - I guess that figure will only include one day of streams. His last album actually had quite a large dump of pure sales added at the end of the week iirc, it was on 26.9k in its Monday midweek update so this album will probably be beating that! Of course we don't know if that will happen again this time and the new album is not doing as well on streaming so probably still a tall order for it to match the full first week numbers but it's a pretty good start nonetheless especially given the steep decline in chart success the UK rap scene has had since his last album.

edit: actually I might be thinking of his first album

35 minutes ago, Brer said:

I had never heard the name David Harbour until a couple of days ago

I missed the post with the Dave sales - I guess that figure will only include one day of streams. His last album actually had quite a large dump of pure sales added at the end of the week iirc, it was on 26.9k in its Monday midweek update so this album will probably be beating that! Of course we don't know if that will happen again this time and the new album is not doing as well on streaming so probably still a tall order for it to match the full first week numbers but it's a pretty good start nonetheless especially given the steep decline in chart success the UK rap scene has had since his last album.

edit: actually I might be thinking of his first album

fwiw my vinyl was shipped at just after 4pm today so almost certainly won't be included in today's figures, if that's consistent across many people could be a decent bump in the Wednesday mids at least

Official Chart Update

Singles (Top 100)

01 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Golden (22,113)

02 Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia (19,329)

03 RAYE - WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! (13,640)

04 Dave & Tems - Raindance (12,827)

05 Taylor Swift - Opalite

06 Dave & James Blake - History (11,607)

07 Dave & Kano - Chapter 16 (10,020)

12 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - What It Sounds Like

16 Skye Newman - FU & UF

17 Lily Allen - Pussy Palace

18 Lily Allen - West End Girl

23 Lily Allen - Madeline

28 Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club

36 Lewis Capaldi - Almost

40 LE SSERAFIM & j-hope - SPAGHETTI

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Albums (Top 100)

01 Dave - The Boy Who Played the Harp (27,884) [17,952 physical, 240 downloads, 9,692 streaming]

02 Bon Jovi - Forever (14,610)

03 Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl (7,891)

04 Lily Allen - West End Girl (5,652)

05 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving

06 Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska '82

07 Sigrid - There's Always More That I Could Say

08 The Clause - Victim of a Casual Thing

10 Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

11 Brandi Carlile - Returning to Myself

12 Henry Moodie - mood swings

13 Pulp - Different Class

21 Skye Newman - SE9 Part 1

23 Elton John - Diamonds

29 Dave - PSYCHODRAMA

39 Dave - We're All Alone in This Together

40 Pitbull - Greatest Hits

Lily top 5 is pretty impressive streaming and digital only, if had physicals would probably challenging for top 2

Great to see The Clause finally release a debut album, 6 years after they signed to Sony and were dropped without releasing a single song!

They were very briefly the Next Big Indie Band, but alas.

YES LILY! Wasn't expecting top 5! There's potential for it to climb top 3 as Bon Jovi won't have good streaming?

I'm guessing that somehow means Demi's album is not in the top 40, since it isn't mentioned as a new entry, or do they not always mention all new entries?!

Surely, her results shouldn't be bad enough to not reach top 40, since it's #10 on Apple Music and must have some level of physical sales

Edited Monday at 17:472 days by magnetic moon

8 hours ago, BillyH said:

Everyone at work is talking about Lily's new album, which genuinely threw me as I also thought her music career was basically over after her 2018 comeback fizzled out quickly. I think it's a combination of the early-mid 2000s becoming 'cool' with a generation of people who were either born then or were kids, and the fact that her well-publicised ex was Jim from Stranger Things which is big enough that even if you weren't too familiar with Lily or her music before, it's likely you'll know who David Harbour is.

If my theory is correct, watch a battle-scarred Katy Perry return sometime around the year 2030 and have a colossal comeback as if she never went away, at the same time the next young generation are wearing shutter shades, filming 'retro' stuff on early iPhones and getting really into the lore over the 2008 global recession.

I think the success of this album is hinging less on who Lily's divorce was or the mid-2000s being 'cool' again (which has been going on for like 5 years now), and more on the quality of the album and how much people are connecting to Lily's songwriting and sense of humour in the face of what must've been a highly difficult situation for her. David Harbour is well-known, but certainly not enough to influence the British charts of all rankings through an unconfirmed divorce from his ex-wife who was a big star almost 2 decades ago.

For the same reason, Katy won't come back anywhere near the top of the charts unless the next album is undeniably a major return to form for her and helps her shrug the disdain/disregard the public has had for almost a decade now.

Edited Monday at 17:492 days by Delicate

5 minutes ago, magnetic moon said:

I'm guessing that somehow means Demi's album is not in the top 40, since it isn't mentioned as a new entry, or do they not always mention all new entries?!

Surely, her results shouldn't be bad enough to not reach top 40, if it's #10 on Apple Music

Number 72 on the Updates Chart.

#17 Pussy Palace

#18 West End Girl

#23 Madeline

Also, "Beautiful Things" possibly out of the top 40 this week (finally)!!!!

Edited Monday at 17:492 days by DanielCarey

19 hours ago, Mangø said:

If this is true, it certainly won't end the week anywhere near the gargantuan figures some were predicting!

Well Dave has just surprised the people of Nottm with a signing at Rough Trade today/as of 30 mins ago or so… I assume hemll do more throughout the week? (And judging by a friend travelling home from work - there are hundreds of people… HMV have sold out of Dave stuff now..)