Those Robbie sales 👀

No wonder they kept meddling with the release date!

AI covers are a bit tricky, I'd say most of the filler covers and remixes have been AI for a while now. I was at a restaurant for a lunch and they played suspected "acoustic" AI covers of hits like Flowers and As It Was. I mean it is possible that someone had actually bothered to record that kind of stuff in person but highly doubt that.

AI covers work for streaming purposes if the original song isn't too popular and something that everyone knows. I don't think an AI cover of Birds of a Feather or Bohemian Rhapsody would do very well.

Edited January 19Jan 19 by Sour Candy

12 minutes ago, Hadji said:

That’s an insane amount of physicals for Robbie despite the physical only being available from his website. I wonder if the album will return to number 1 on 13th February when it gets released physically elsewhere?

I think realistically 90 per cent of his physicals are from his store and the number of people that actually buy physicals from hmv etc is very small so I doubt it would be anywhere near number 1 that week

Just now, 777666jason said:

I think realistically 90 per cent of his physicals are from his store and the number of people that actually buy physicals from hmv etc is very small so I doubt it would be anywhere near number 1 that week

Not just hmv. Also Asda and Morrisons

2 minutes ago, Hadji said:

Not just hmv. Also Asda and Morrisons

That was included in the etc 🙄

3 minutes ago, Hadji said:

Not just hmv. Also Asda and Morrisons

My local Asda stocks a Top 3 in albums and they are always compilations 💀

40 minutes ago, WhoOdyssey said:

Seems too low for Robbie given that the Better Man soundtrack sold 40k+ last year. I wonder if there’s some that haven’t shipped?

Yes, sure.

Not all physical editions have been shipped.

+Vinyl, cassettes and some other boxCDs what can give him another ~20k will be shipped on Feb-6 chart week.

I think his mgmt has calculated how to make his chart run longer and calculated exactly how much copies he needs enough already this week.

I worked in retail for a month over Christmas 2024, I was right next to the CD section and I can't say I ever saw anyone take anything from there to the tills 😂 doubt most Robbie fans (40 odd year old mums) are the type to get their CDs from HMV

Edited January 19Jan 19 by gasman449

4 minutes ago, Better Man said:

Yes, sure.

Not all physical editions have been shipped.

+Vinyl and CDs what can give him another ~20k will be shipped on Feb-6 chart week.

I think his mgmt has calculated how to make his chart run more likely longer and calculated exactly how much copies do he needs enough already this week.

Ok if thats true maybe he might get another week high up but not for the reasons Hadji said

58 minutes ago, WhoOdyssey said:

Seems too low for Robbie given that the Better Man soundtrack sold 40k+ last year. I wonder if there’s some that haven’t shipped?

Didn’t BM have a triple cassette bundle and signed poster for something like £12-14 which gave him huge cassette numbers and boosted performance?

32 minutes ago, gasman449 said:

I worked in retail for a month over Christmas 2024, I was right next to the CD section and I can't say I ever saw anyone take anything from there to the tills 😂 doubt most Robbie fans (40 odd year old mums) are the type to get their CDs from HMV

I am a “40 odd year old mum” and would buy from HMV!! Probably a vinyl though as I don’t have anywhere to play a CD these days 😆

Come on Dave & Tems *_* I love Tems' voice, so happy to see her in contention for a #1 hit!

28 minutes ago, ___∆___ said:

Didn’t BM have a triple cassette bundle and signed poster for something like £12-14 which gave him huge cassette numbers and boosted performance?

Well according to the adverts I been seeing and his website hes been signing stuff like mad apparently so I'm not sure thats the case it sounds more like what @Better Man has said and only half the physicals have been released so far

1 hour ago, Hadji said:

That’s an insane amount of physicals for Robbie despite the physical only being available from his website. I wonder if the album will return to number 1 on 13th February when it gets released physically elsewhere?

It's available from Amazon too today.

8 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

Well according to the adverts I been seeing and his website hes been signing stuff like mad apparently so I'm not sure thats the case it sounds more like what @Better Man has said and only half the physicals have been released so far

He’s signed plenty this time but I think the pull last time was the price of 3 cassettes and signed poster - this time the bundle is £30.

The cassettes for BM contributed to almost 50% of the total first week sales (21,314) - although agree they have probably held some sales back.

I think Olivia will end up at #2 in the albums come Friday

I've just checked the top 100 midweeks and at No. 83 is an AI cover of Stromae's Papaoutai. I would prefer if an ACTUAL artist covers it and does a soul version. That would be more respectful then this AI trash

Edited January 19Jan 19 by soundseekerz

Looking like there might be no new entries into the top 40 which is very disappointing for a time of year when there should be a lot of new stuff.

4 hours ago, Scene said:

I'm not fussed about the Dave track but would be nice to see another British act get to #1 so early on in the year. It seems a rarity these days.

The last ten number ones by living and active british artists (ie no Wham, Beatles, Kate Bush and charity single one-offs).

Where Is My Husband

Man I Need

Survive

Messy

Backbone

Guess (with American guest Billie Eilish)

Strangers

Dance the Night

Sprinter

Miracle

Only ten #1s by Brits in the last three years.

4 hours ago, gooddelta said:

Sweden’s current Spotify No.1 is completely an AI creation and the chart company there banned it from the official chart.

BBC News

Song banned from Swedish charts for being AI creation -...

The creators behind the chart-topping song believe their creative process has been misunderstood.

However Germany has let the AI Stromae cover in (it’s top 30 there) so it does seem to be at the discretion of each country’s chart compiler currently.

I don’t mind AI created music for fun only but nobody should ever be making any money out of it or even allowed to commercialise it or upload it to streaming services so I very much hope it’s banned here.

Good move by Robbie then - I didn’t realise the physicals would be shipped this week too so fair play.

so i would say let’s all move to sweden but there is no privacy there at all and you can find anything about anyone just with one search so let’s not 😂