Interesting that Bella Kay is only at 9 for now. Hoping Bruno can just squeeze in a new peak before she overtakes and that Milky can get in the top 10. Also wouldn't be opposed to PinkPantheress going top 5.

4 minutes ago, gasman449 said:

Interesting that Bella Kay is only at 9 for now.

As the chart doesn’t use the latest day’s streaming on Spotify and Apple, she has a lot more sales to come (though she may be screwed by Thursday’s estimates).

Surprised to see Man I Need losing ground on both Lush Life and I Just Might - but all three could easily be pushed out of the top 5 by Friday.

Looks like Hilary Duff has a top 3 album, I certainly wouldn't have predicted that in a month of Sundays.

90 places higher than her previous!

Omg Charli on the cusp of top 10 with CoL!

Stateside needs to go top 5 at least! She should surprise-perform this at the BRITs.

I really hope Leigh-Anne doesn’t get that #3 spot.

Perrie reached #3 with 15,243 copies sold.
Jade reached #3 with 23,263 copies sold.

It would feel unfair if Leigh-Anne could claim “All Little Mix girls went #3 in the UK!” when she’s only sold around... 9k.
Especially the position is boosted by multiple physical variants rather than genuine demand or streaming support.

Yes, Perrie had variants too but she had two singles that actually connected a little with the public (Forget About Us + If He Wanted To He Would)
There was at least some interest.
A #3 built almost entirely on variants and minimal streaming wouldn’t carry the same weight.

What would bother me the most is the narrative.
If all three girls end up peaking at #3, the general public will just remember that they all had the same level of success when that’s clearly not the case.
Jade is the only one whose album actually gained some traction and had visible impact.
Perrie and Leigh-Anne’s projects didn’t really connect in the same way, and that difference matters.
A chart position alone doesn’t tell the full story.

Solid sales for December 10 (assuming the majority of sales are physicals) from their recent signings - if they had lined up the digital and physical releases into 1 week they might have challenged for a Top 40 place.

Just now, Jo' said:

I really hope Leigh-Anne doesn’t get that #3 spot.

Perrie reached #3 with 15,243 copies sold.
Jade reached #3 with 23,263 copies sold.

It would feel unfair if Leigh-Anne could claim “All Little Mix girls went #3 in the UK!” when she’s only sold around... 9k.
Especially the position is boosted by multiple physical variants rather than genuine demand or streaming support.

Yes, Perrie had variants too but she had two singles that actually connected a little with the public (Forget About Us + If He Wanted To He Would)
There was at least some interest.
A #3 built almost entirely on variants and minimal streaming wouldn’t carry the same weight.

What would bother me the most is the narrative.
If all three girls end up peaking at #3, the general public will just remember that they all had the same level of success when that’s clearly not the case.
Jade is the only one whose album actually gained some traction and had visible impact.
Perrie and Leigh-Anne’s projects didn’t really connect in the same way, and that difference matters.
A chart position alone doesn’t tell the full story.

What? Honestly this is ridiculous. Sales vary at different times of the year anyway so the same could applied when an artist gets a number 1 album on 10-11k as opposed to the 30k plus this week.

A chart position is a chart position to say that someone isn’t deserving of a chart placement just because sales are lower this week is unfair / wrong.

3 minutes ago, Jo' said:

What would bother me the most is the narrative.
If all three girls end up peaking at #3, the general public will just remember that they all had the same level of success when that’s clearly not the case.

I would say that 99.9% of the general public couldn’t care less or be able to tell you where any of the albums charted.

1 minute ago, ___∆___ said:

Solid sales for December 10 (assuming the majority of sales are physicals) from their recent signings - if they had lined up the digital and physical releases into 1 week they might have challenged for a Top 40 place.

They haven't done any signings! It's just physical and vinyl sales from their website. I agree it's impressive though and I'm shocked they didn't line up the releases, given the stock existed in week 1 (it was sold at the UMusic store in Camden).

2 minutes ago, JosephStyles said:

They haven't done any signings! It's just physical and vinyl sales from their website. I agree it's impressive though and I'm shocked they didn't line up the releases, given the stock existed in week 1 (it was sold at the UMusic store in Camden).

They have - a pretty massive one too at HMV in Liverpool on the 21st (you couldn’t get the single signed as it was billed as a meet and greet to get as many people though as possible but you had to buy the vinyl or CD to get entry).

2 minutes ago, ___∆___ said:

They have - a pretty massive one too at HMV in Liverpool on the 21st (you couldn’t get the single signed as it was billed as a meet and greet to get as many people though as possible but you had to buy the vinyl or CD to get entry).

Which... is not a signing, so my post was right (I was aware of the Liverpool HMV meet and greet and assumed a purchase would be involved)

Twenty One Pilots still as high as #22.

Guessing that's on lock for Top 40 then.

If they keep Top 30 it will be their first since Heathens in 2016!

I reckon Bruno could sneak number 4 with Man I Need being on ACR and should get a boost next week with the album effect

Edited Wednesday at 19:371 day by Hadji

Really quite annoying that Olivia won’t bore off as would be lovely for R Hils and Leigh to both finish top 3

Edited Wednesday at 19:511 day by Lee_J11

43 minutes ago, JosephStyles said:

Which... is not a signing, so my post was right (I was aware of the Liverpool HMV meet and greet and assumed a purchase would be involved)

Ah didn’t realise we were being that pedantic - sorry not a signing but an event where you had to buy a physical to meet them hence my comment about how impressed I was by their physical sales.

Poor Leigh-Anne. Shane she’ll likely not also have a #3 peaking album like Perrie and Jade.

8 minutes ago, ___∆___ said:

Ah didn’t realise we were being that pedantic - sorry not a signing but an event where you had to buy a physical to meet them hence my comment about how impressed I was by their physical sales.

It wasn't a personal remark but you mentioned "signings" (plural) and there was only one meet & greet event which wasn't even a signing. That's literally all it was.

14 minutes ago, ___∆___ said:

Ah didn’t realise we were being that pedantic - sorry not a signing but an event where you had to buy a physical to meet them hence my comment about how impressed I was by their physical sales.

What's with this passive aggressive tone? It wasn't pedantic, you were just corrected.

Happy to see D10 doing well with those physicals, they've amassed a fairly decent fanbase so I hope they can only grow from here! The single is such a bop

I have a sinking feeling Bella Kay might push Sombr down to 7. Forever at 7

No climb for Brat in the albums following the release of the Moment in cinemas