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

Because its fun tune, you can sing along, you can dance to it, its inoffensive, It's a happy song, It's not Taylor Swift!!!

1 minute ago, Scone1 said:

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

Fontaines new songs are dreary and they have mass appeal too!

Mind you I liked their early punk stuff it was more fun.

Edited 20 hours ago20 hr by TheSnake

31 minutes ago, Scone1 said:

  1 hour ago, Jester said:

Because it's a fun tune. you can sing along, you can dance to it, its unoffensive, its an earworm. It's not Taylor Swift x

I don’t believe I said that!

A real uptick in sales this week, #5 is outselling what #1 was at this point just 2 weeks ago. Shame we've had 4 hits all come along at once now, would've been nice for them to all get a shot at #1 over the lats month or so and have had the top of the charts be less stagnant, but instead I imagine all but 1 will likely miss out now but alas.

Edited 20 hours ago20 hr by LouisL

That’s incredible for Rachel! Omg. I hope that means she is safe for top 10!

Has the OCC website stop posting the midweek updates on Mondays? It's still last week's update over there.

1 hour ago, N-S said:

Has the OCC website stop posting the midweek updates on Mondays? It's still last week's update over there.

they just delay it extremely.

1 hour ago, N-S said:

Has the OCC website stop posting the midweek updates on Mondays? It's still last week's update over there.

The album chart article around 5pm usually says to check out the full top 100 from 5.45pm.

I noticed this was missing from tonight's article.

Might be an oversight but the fact that the midweek charts have been delayed for 4 consecutive weeks might be deliberate.

Happy with either Jamie or Olivia/Chappell going number 1 hopefully both can manage at least a week each.

Great sales for Fontaines DC should easily manage 70k for the week.

Nice to Kylie and Madonna still Top 40 today.

15 hours 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

Sorry but this is nonsense. It might be derivative but it's damn catchy and instantly memorable. It's not background music. Sometimes a good old fashioned melodic pop song wins the day and it would be very boring if the top end of the charts was just the too cool for school songs all the time.

Edited 6 hours ago6 hr by AcerBen

So far after hearing 'Babydoll' twice I haven't found it to be catchy or memorable at all. The only thing I remember about it is not really liking his voice. That and the instrumental sounding like a slightly inferior 'Man I Need'.

I'm sure it'll be drilled into my head when I've heard it 100 more times in the next few months though.

1 hour ago, AcerBen said:

Sorry but this is nonsense. It might be derivative but it's damn catchy and instantly memorable. It's not background music. Sometimes a good old fashioned melodic pop song wins the day and it would be very boring if the top end of the charts was just the too cool for school songs all the time.

to be clear, I wasn't intending to insult Babydoll (or any of the other tracks I listed for that matter) as background music - I actually don't mind Babydoll at all and think it's pretty decent! I was moreso meaning to illustrate why songs like it often become dominant hits as they can be likeable enough with broad appeal, catchiness and accessibility that allows them to rise and stay at the top of the increasingly fragmented streaming market and that for some people they can be easily put on the background, not that they only serve as background music - sorry if my point wasn't clear! even if I'm not fond of some of the examples I listed, I can see their appeal and how they were able to become big hits.

Edited 5 hours ago5 hr by maggotsforbrains

OCC pages are up

'Unwritten' has gone!

Edit: and 'Self Aware'!

new entries outside the top 40:

#52: Plainsman by Zach Bryan feat. Turnpike Troubadours (this should be gone by Friday given it's only here because the OCC missed it when applying the three tracks/artist rule)

#77: Fancy Footwork by Chris Lorenzo & Chromeo (unclear whether this is on ACR or not)

Thanks for the heads up, Jim!

Good to see 'Fancy Footwork' showing up, only heard that for the first time this morning but I'm rooting for it to become a big hit now 💃

Ooft Ashe #41 in the albums, so close

Zach defying the 3 track rule

Just now, Brélican said:

Zach defying the 3 track rule

it happened before last year in the midweeks for $OME $EXY $ONGS 4 U - the OCC seem to really struggle with co-lead artist billings

gutted to see Faouzia taking a steep fall. ‘UNETHICAL’ is otherworldly

1 hour ago, maggotsforbrains said:

#77: Fancy Footwork by Chris Lorenzo & Chromeo (unclear whether this is on ACR or not)

it would’ve been on the cusp of top 40 last week on SCR so it seems it hasn’t been reset yet but hopefully OCC will correct by Friday.

3 hours ago, AcerBen said:

Sorry but this is nonsense. It might be derivative but it's damn catchy and instantly memorable. It's not background music. Sometimes a good old fashioned melodic pop song wins the day and it would be very boring if the top end of the charts was just the too cool for school songs all the time.

I don’t think we’ve had a “too cool for school” song at #1 all year, bar Aperture and Raindance, it’s all been easy listening 😂