That's quite clever the way that Zara Larsson has bundled up "Lush Life" with "Midnight Sun" on Spotify, as a new release 2 track single. I've not seen it done that way before with a newish track and an old one.

Just now, AKP said:

That's quite clever the way that Zara Larsson has bundled up "Lush Life" with "Midnight Sun" on Spotify, as a new release 2 track single. I've not seen it done that way before with a newish track and an old one.

It's not really that new like every time Jade released her new one last year all the previous singles were tacked onto the single EP 😅 and if know others do it too

21 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

It's not really that new like every time Jade released her new one last year all the previous singles were tacked onto the single EP 😅 and if know others do it too

Yeah, even Steps did this too for their What the Future Holds singles. The difference here being that this a viral song aiding a newer less known track exposing it to more people.

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25 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

It's not really that new like every time Jade released her new one last year all the previous singles were tacked onto the single EP 😅 and if know others do it too

Another difference being that ‘Lush Life’ is a comparatively very old track.

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2 hours ago, elincomprendido said:

Ophelia seems significantly up from last week and didn’t ship vinyl this week if I’m aware

So guess she’ll avoid ACR lol

She’s not the only one up… and looking at Spotify, so many songs are up on last week. Loads of songs will escape DCL-2 this week.

Such a positive start to the year! Last week with all those classics back and Landslide finally being a top 40 hit. Djo getting a deserved No1. Now this week, 2 brilliant new songs for 2026 already in I just might and Midnight sun. Also enjoying that Choosin Texas too.

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I can’t help but root for older acts who have the odds stacked against them and give it their all for a number one. It’s just nice to see some good old grafting and hunger for it.

34 minutes ago, musicfan97 said:

I can’t help but root for older acts who have the odds stacked against them and give it their all for a number one. It’s just nice to see some good old grafting and hunger for it.

Im the same, i love seeing older acts doing well as they have to work so much harder for it and i do enjoy seeing acts grafting to get as high in the charts as possible.

Good start for Burno Mars.

Not sure that will be enough for Blue to stay at #1 but they'll almost definitely be top 2 which is still a very impressive outcome for them either way! Wonder what prompted them to push this album so much harder than the last few.

Looking back, the previous Dry Cleaning album was only #8 in the first mids with 2,662 sales, ending the week at #11 on 5,342 sales (only 34 away from the top 10 </3) The new album has started a good bit better than that, based on last week's sales the bar for the top 10 might be a little bit higher than it was on that week but hopefully they can still manage it, they should only need to sell about another 1.8k tops for the rest of the week.

Random observation: I thought it seemed familiar that Zach Bryan and Zara Larsson had new entries in the same week (as I remember commenting on it being a probably rare occurrence of two artists beginning with Z debuting in the same week) and, sure enough, Zara's last new top 40 hit 'On My Love' also made its top 40 debut in the same week as Zach's 'I Remember Everything'!

38 minutes ago, Brer said:

Random observation: I thought it seemed familiar that Zach Bryan and Zara Larsson had new entries in the same week (as I remember commenting on it being a probably rare occurrence of two artists beginning with Z debuting in the same week) and, sure enough, Zara's last new top 40 hit 'On My Love' also made its top 40 debut in the same week as Zach's 'I Remember Everything'!

Zayn's record label clearly missed a trick by not releasing this week!

I didn't even realise that Blue had released another album. I was fully expecting Zach Bryan to be #1 in the album mids.