Fontaines over 10x the sales of #2 on the albums chart

Edited 58 minutes ago58 min by maggotsforbrains

If Jamie gets it this week, I hope Olivia Chappell get it next week

Fontaines unsurprisingly clearing the whole first week of Romance already 👏 happy they should be back on top after stalling at #2 with that album.

Shame Now didn’t include Fontaines DC on 125 seeing as the albums doing well and one of the songs on there went top 20

49 minutes ago, JosephStyles said:

Official Chart Update

Singles (Top 100)

01 Jamie Miller - Babydoll (14,465)

02 Olivia Rodrigo & Chappell Roan - expectations (14,078)

03 Tate McRae - Housewife (12,265)

04 Ashe - Stop the Wedding (10,544)

05 SIENNA SPIRO - Great Expectation (9,894)

06 Ella Langley - Choosin' Texas

09 Fontaines D.C. - Marianne

10 Zach Bryan feat. Lana Del Rey - Lies

12 Fontaines D.C. - Six Shot Morning

14 Fontaines D.C. - Demolition

19 KETTAMA & Prospa - Think of You

23 Zach Bryan - Lodi When

27 Justice feat. Tame Impala, SZA & King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flower in a Hurricane

35 Madonna & Kylie Minogue - Love Sensation

39 Zach Bryan - Robot Killed the Working Man

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Albums (Top 100)

01 Fontaines D.C. - Dopamine Chamber (55,764) [48,656 physicals, 1,157 downloads, 5,951 streaming]

02 Olivia Rodrigo - you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love (4,185)

03 Michael Jackson - The Essential (3,325)

04 Rachel Chinouriri - I think I spoke too soon (3,269)

05 Ash - 1977 (3,240)

06 Tears for Fears - The Seeds of Love

09 Nieve Ella - How Long Will It Take? (2,441)

10 Zach Bryan - Young Manhood and Other Donatable Organs (2,421)

12 Richard Thompson - Hippies, Thugs and Heroes (2,210)

15 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

19 Elton John - Diamonds

21 The Avalanches - No Bad Memories

22 ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits

24 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

27 Michael Jackson - Invincible

29 Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR

30 Michael Jackson - Thriller

34 Eels - Cookie Happened

35 Pink Floyd - Meddle

36 George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1

38 George Michael - Twenty Five

39 Queen - Greatest Hits

Gan on Jamie, and great seeing an old timer Richard Thompson in the top 20 Albums

Not surprised to see Ashe's album not charting, one big viral hit (and one slightly less big one 6 years ago lol) doesn't necessarily translate to people caring about her as an artist and the streaming numbers for the rest of the album clearly reflect that. How mildly amusing that we have a re-entry for an Ash album in the same week though x

Zach Bryan only has one top 10 album so an 8 track digital only EP being midweek #10 is a pretty great showing imo - it should hold up decently through the week so fingers crossed it can be a second top 10 album.

Looks like hoping for 100k for Fontaines was a bit too optimistic but still already blown past the debut of 'Romance'.

3 minutes ago, Jadaver said:

Fontaines unsurprisingly clearing the whole first week of Romance already 👏 happy they should be back on top after stalling at #2 with that album.

Didn’t they release romance on the same week as short n sweet ?

Godtaines D.C. strikes again

Wonder if Olivia and Chappell have physicals included yet or not? Hopefully they csn make no1, Jamie has plenty of chances in future by the looks of it 🫣 so hopefully expectations can make it this week

Tate will get another #3 hit then it seems.

Oh no. Babydoll is so bland and dull. Why does this sort of thing have mass appeal?!

Just now, Sour Candy said:

Tate will get another #3 hit then it seems.

I imagine it'll hold up better than 'expectations' so might yet rise to #2 at least even if it doesn't do it this week.

(Heard it on the radio this morning and thought it was pretty boring but I see multiple people saying it's a grower so we'll see x)

Come on Jamie! Great to see Justice holding strong.

I imagine Madonna and Kylie won’t end up in the top 100 this week sadly.

2 minutes ago, conorw said:

Didn’t they release romance on the same week as short n sweet ?

That’s right so that was super unlucky!

A Hero’s Death was also blocked from #1 when there was a CD dump for Taylor’s folklore

The #1s this year have all been mostly abysmal :(

1 minute ago, Jester said:

Oh no. Babydoll is so bland and dull. Why does this sort of thing have mass appeal?!

I think you just answered your own question - easy-to-listen-to music like Babydoll (or Ordinary or Beautiful Things or Lose Control or etc.) is often dominant once it reaches a certain extent of market share with the general public precisely because it is found to be inoffensive and fine-enough background/idle listening music

Edited 48 minutes ago48 min by maggotsforbrains

I was curious so looked at how many artists this decade have peaked at #1 with their very first chart hit (not necessarily their debut single):

Captain Tom Moore and the NHS Voices of Care Choir

BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge Allstars

Jawsh 685

iann dior *

Nathan Evans and Billen Ted

GAYLE

all credited artists on We Don't Talk About Bruno

LF SYSTEM

Eliza Rose and Interplanetary Criminal

070 Shake *

Kenya Grace

Gigi Perez

HUNTR/X (and the individually credited EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI and KPop Demon Hunters Cast)

*denotes a secondary credit

Hopefully I've caught them all but it's quite an interesting list, almost all of those are from the first half of what's elapsed of the 2020s thus far. Jamie Miller would be the first in over a year if he holds on (or peaks there in the near future)!

1 minute ago, maggotsforbrains said:

I think you just answered your own question - easy-to-listen-to music like Babydoll (or Ordinary or Beautiful Things or Lose Control or etc.) is often dominant once it reaches a certain extent of market share with the general public precisely because it is found to be inoffensive and fine-enough background/idle listening music

Fair point!

Official chart broken agin can’t see 41 to 100 yet

20 minutes ago, maggotsforbrains said:

not surprising - Stop The Wedding!'s streams won't be counting towards its performance and the rest of the album isn't streaming well nor does she have a particularly large fanbase to boost her pure sales

(kind of a shame though, the album seems pretty solid from what I've heard from it)

It's a magical album. I'm listening again and again. Can't believe it!!!