39 minutes ago, Hadji said:

Those were features and he hasn’t had a leading solo hit since Finesse and its parent album only reached number 3. I do hope he can get another number 1 single and album

Yea I know they’re features - why I said it could probably go either way

3 minutes ago, John-James said:

Surprised people are so confident on a Bruno Mars #1, his last solo song to make the top was 15 years ago...

It's not like DWAS or APT. would have been as big as they were if it was just him on the tracks

I would argue DWAS & APT. were as big as they were because of Bruno. He's been consistently one of the most streamed artists globally on spotify thanks to his back catalogue - he's in a similar situation to Rihanna in that his streams are very high/consistent and there's been quite a wait for his first solo album in almost 10 years!

Whilst I wouldn't be surprised to see him not debut at #1, I think the hype is there for him to get to #1 fairly easy given the low sales at the top currently. He'll get massive playlist support from day 1 for sure!

There's also some sort of announcement tomorrow from Olivia Rodrigo at 5pm UK time. If it's a lead single being announced, it could potentially also be dropping this Friday? (although I would say it's more likely a single won't be dropped for a few weeks yet but who knows)

Edited January 8Jan 8 by Mangø

Tomorrow is the 5 year anniversary of 'drivers license' so might be to do with that? but here's hoping new music will be on the way soon.

13 hours ago, Jade said:

Tomorrow is the 5 year anniversary of 'drivers license' so might be to do with that? but here's hoping new music will be on the way soon.

Probably that tbh

Djo has climbed above Taylor on Amazon - so I can see him really closing the gap a lot before the chart tomorrow. It’ll be a close one but my feeling is he will take it (narrowly).

Djo also got 2 massive spotify updates in the last 2 days, even bigger than Olivia Dean's Man I Need

8 hours ago, GreyAsh said:

Djo has climbed above Taylor on Amazon - so I can see him really closing the gap a lot before the chart tomorrow. It’ll be a close one but my feeling is he will take it (narrowly).

Would love to see Djo getting the lead (albeit narrowly) on Friday, but I'm not sure if the Thursday stream estimation could help his case getting the lead.

So the Olivia announcement was a David Byrne cover of drivers license. Perfection!

6 hours ago, deepinside said:

Would love to see Djo getting the lead (albeit narrowly) on Friday, but I'm not sure if the Thursday stream estimation could help his case getting the lead.

I think it would help as he’s been ahead considerably on Spotify - but was until recently behind on Amazon.

6 hours ago, TimConArtist said:

So the Olivia announcement was a David Byrne cover of drivers license. Perfection!

Actually it's a reimagined version of sour , different artists covering each track thats just the first one

Kinda disappointed, was hoping for new stuff. Guess that means the 3rd album will be coming out much later this year

So - after looking at Spotify, I’m thinking Kate Bush, Tiffany, Prince and Fleetwood Mac all top 25 today - has there ever been such a retro chart outside of the Christmas period?

42 minutes ago, GreyAsh said:

So - after looking at Spotify, I’m thinking Kate Bush, Tiffany, Prince and Fleetwood Mac all top 25 today - has there ever been such a retro chart outside of the Christmas period?

I wish Diana Ross was doing as well as the other tracks, 'Upside Down' is such a banger!

On 04/01/2026 at 13:32, 777666jason said:

Yeah the closest you could argue is the Master of Puppets one but because the character isn't in season 5 I'm not surprised it hasn't had even a small boost

Yeh albeit I would argue Should I Stay or Should I Go is very central to Series 1/2 but in a different way for the character compared to the use of RUTH in series 4, I won’t add more to stop any spoilers.