Great sales for Sienna at #2 as well. I think she could have pushed for #1 on another chart week but Madonna was just too much of a titan for her!

3 hours ago, MustBeTheMusic said:

Given the 3 CD and 13 (!) vinyl editions, plus the £3.99 digital exclusive variants, I expected Confessions II to clear 50k, but still very strong compared to her last few albums.

Danceteria scraping it into the Top 40 without any physicals is more impressive.

I don’t think as many people multi-buy as you think. It helps obviously, but I’d imagine the vast majority are happy to stick to one vinyl, of course there are super fans who will collect every edition but not many. There is genuinely much more hype this time around, as evidenced by the stronger streaming numbers.

Great to see a healthy top 5 in terms of sales on the albums, Madonna did pretty well in the end with streaming numbers and getting that top 40. I wonder what Sienna's breakdown was sales wise, as her streaming numbers must be pretty decent, I'd imagine she'll stay top 10 next week. Glad Noah's still holding up well, feel like only him, harry and Olivia have had albums that have managed to have legs on them so far this year.

Looks like rein me in might get a 17th week but I feel this hinges on the England match later as if they win 3 Lions/Wonderwall could mount a challenge.

The sales between 2-5 on the singles being so close, could Ella rise to number 2 next week?

5 hours ago, Lukuzz said:

The sales between 2-5 on the singles being so close, could Ella rise to number 2 next week?

And then Rein Me In goes to ACR and we'll have a new number one!

19 hours ago, jimwatts said:

'stupid song' is the first to spend at least 4 weeks in a row at a #2 peak (to date) since 'APT.' at the start of last year!

25,954 feels like the lowest at #2 for a very long time!

I see “Afterglow” did 25,725 at #2 at the beginning of 2021 which was generally a shockingly low week - otherwise I wonder if it’s the lowest since the noughties.

hopefully Rein Me In has a boost this week so it can beat the Frankie Laine record and save us from a pitiful 26k number one

2024 feels a long time ago, with all those future classic singles out at the same time pushing sales through the roof at the top end. For a moment many of us hoped it could be something of a 'new normal' in terms of sales but looking back it was just one of those very strong periods for big hits that come along once or twice a decade. Now we have the opposite, the weakest the chart has looked at the top end for decades.

I don't really understand what's happening, why is nothing new catching on at all? In all the years I've followed the charts I've never seen anything like it. All I can chalk it up to is that TikTok feels less dominant for breaking new/viral hits in a major way than it was a few years back (although is fuelling a lot of retro revivals), Hot Hits UK impact is obviously much lower, and radio impact is lower, so it takes a Herculean effort for anything new to break through. Record companies and A&R people must be tearing their hair out.

Its funny you say tik tok tbf been listening to a few of the "viral tracks" from a few years time its amazing how fast the public moves on like most of them 1 hit and done looked at gayle ABCDEFU for example 😮

2 hours ago, Johann said:

And then Rein Me In goes to ACR and we'll have a new number one!

Except it’s up 2% week on week on Spotify so far 😂

2 hours ago, danG said:

hopefully Rein Me In has a boost this week so it can beat the Frankie Laine record and save us from a pitiful 26k number one

It’s had a boost on iTunes (#5 and #180) 1 we’ll see if streaming follows suit!

I think it’ll avoid ACR as it registered its lowest sale last week since being at the top so it won’t take much for it to increase.

3 hours ago, gooddelta said:

2024 feels a long time ago, with all those future classic singles out at the same time pushing sales through the roof at the top end. For a moment many of us hoped it could be something of a 'new normal' in terms of sales but looking back it was just one of those very strong periods for big hits that come along once or twice a decade. Now we have the opposite, the weakest the chart has looked at the top end for decades.

I don't really understand what's happening, why is nothing new catching on at all? In all the years I've followed the charts I've never seen anything like it. All I can chalk it up to is that TikTok feels less dominant for breaking new/viral hits in a major way than it was a few years back (although is fuelling a lot of retro revivals), Hot Hits UK impact is obviously much lower, and radio impact is lower, so it takes a Herculean effort for anything new to break through. Record companies and A&R people must be tearing their hair out.

Agreed, even the current hits (Olivia, Ariana, Taylor etc.) don’t feel culturally impactful, more they’re sticking about because of lack of competition.

Completely antidotally, but I’ve not heard anyone in real life talk about these songs or request/play them.

Im not sure you can count a soundtrack as culturally inpactful no matter who you are though 🤣🤣 especially an afterthought in the actual film 🤣

Just now, 777666jason said:

Im not sure you can count a soundtrack as culturally inpactful no matter who you are though 🤣🤣 especially an afterthought in the actual film 🤣

Tell that to Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Pharrell, Aerosmith, the Bee Gees, the Goo Goo Dolls, Tina Turner etc. etc. soundtrack hits are quite often the most culturally impactful!

Edited Saturday at 17:352 days by No Sleeep

1 minute ago, No Sleeep said:

Tell that to Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Pharrell, Aerosmith, the Bee Gees, the Goo Goo Dolls, Tina Turner etc. etc. soundtrack hits are quite often the most culturally impactful!

Not a single example from the last 10 years but ok, frozen, enchanto and the greatest showman aside where the songs are actually prominent name a recent example

Also none of your examples are the end credit #justsaying

Edited Saturday at 17:422 days by 777666jason

Just now, 777666jason said:

Not a single examen from the last 10 years but ok, frozem, enchanto and the greatest showman aside where the songs are actually prominent name a recent example

Not made for the soundtrack but Unwritten, Murder On the Dance Floor, Running Up That Hill, Like a Prayer etc.’s revivals have all been due to their inclusion in media and their cultural impact has been bigger than most recent hits this decade.

I just don’t think Taylor’s song being for a soundtrack is a good enough reason for it to be somehow exempted from what Liam was saying about recent hits not having cultural impact.

Just now, No Sleeep said:

Not made for the soundtrack but Unwritten, Murder On the Dance Floor, Running Up That Hill, Like a Prayer etc.’s revivals have all been due to their inclusion in media and their cultural impact has been bigger than most recent hits this decade.

I just don’t think Taylor’s song being for a soundtrack is a good enough reason for it to be somehow exempted from what Liam was saying about recent hits not having cultural impact.

Again all used in KEY moments big difference to an end credit where everyone basically going home 🤣🤣

Not sure I have ever seen a goalpost being moved so much.

58 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

Again all used in KEY moments big difference to an end credit where everyone basically going home 🤣🤣

It’s a #1 and nobody is taking that away from it! But judging it against other chart hits, not just end credit movie soundtrack songs (as oddly specific as that is ), which is the league it is in, it obviously doesn’t compare as favourably.

9 minutes ago, Bror said:

Not sure I have ever seen a goalpost being moved so much.

I know right its ok to dislike an artist 🙌 we dont need to move goalposts to fit our narrative 😁

 

1 minute ago, No Sleeep said:

It’s a #1 and nobody is taking that away from it! But judging it against other chart hits, not just end credit movie soundtrack songs (as oddly specific as that is ), which is the league it is in, it obviously doesn’t compare as favourably.

Oddly specific is an odd way to say factually accurate but ok we will agree to disagree 😁