-Jay-

It's funny that neither Tension Live item was said to be Limited and yet sold out only days after release date, meanwhile two of the supposed limited Tension II CDs are still available after 18 months. Personally I think they underestimated how many Tension Live copies to print... which makes a difference from them usually vastly overestimating the amount to press of a lot of her other releases... can they try and find a happy medium, please? x

Not to nitpick but it actually went as high as #91! Unfortunately this campaign didn't seem to have quite as much interest as 5 years ago with Mollie. It can be a tall order to encourage people to spend 99p though, so I still think it's cool that we managed to get it showing up in the Top 100 for a day.

This surge being caused by men (and not a typical core audience of Madonna type of man x) was not how I'd imagine a Madonna song would get such a revival, but here we are lol. I was browsing the sound on TikTok and it's almost entirely teenage boys / young adult men who are using the sound. It's fascinating how/why things can go viral and what strikes a chord with an unlikely demographic.

UK Spotify chart runs: 01 03 04 02 02 - American Girls (track 2) 06 05 07 05 07 - Aperture (track 1) 04 08 09 09 08 - Taste Back (track 5) 02 07 11 08 09 - Ready, Steady, Go! (track 3) 05 13 13 12 11 - Coming Up Roses (track 8) 03 11 12 10 13 - Are You Listening Yet? (track 4) 08 14 16 13 15 - Pop (track 9) 11 16 24 17 19 - Dance No More (track 10) 07 15 18 16 20 - The Waiting Game (track 6) 09 17 20 19 21 - Season 2 Weight Loss (track 7) 14 23 29 22 22 - Carla's Song (track 12) 13 27 30 28 31 - Paint By Numbers (track 11) USA Spotify chart runs: 01 01 02 01 01 - American Girls (track 2) 04 05 08 09 06 - Taste Back (track 5) 05 06 10 10 07 - Coming Up Roses (track 8) 02 04 09 07 08 - Ready, Steady, Go! (track 3) 09 13 13 12 12 - Aperture (track 1) 07 10 15 14 14 - Pop (track 9) 03 09 14 15 16 - Are You Listening Yet? (track 4) 06 14 17 18 17 - The Waiting Game (track 6) 08 15 18 19 19 - Season 2 Weight Loss (track 7) 11 16 19 20 20 - Dance No More (track 10) 14 20 28 24 24 - Carla's Song (track 12) 13 21 36 32 32 - Paint By Numbers (track 11) Global Spotify chart runs: 01 04 06 03 02 - American Girls (track 2) 08 22 23 20 17 - Coming Up Roses (track 8) 09 16 20 16 19 - Aperture (track 1) 06 20 19 21 20 - Taste Back (track 5) 02 17 21 19 22 - Ready, Steady, Go! (track 3) 04 23 27 24 29 - Are You Listening Yet? (track 4) 11 25 32 26 30 - Pop (track 9) 10 27 33 32 33 - The Waiting Game (track 6) 12 28 36 35 39 - Season 2 Weight Loss (track 7) 15 30 41 36 41 - Dance No More (track 10) 19 37 53 44 45 - Carla's Song (track 12) 22 43 67 53 59 - Paint By Numbers (track 11) Other than American Girls which has received the main focus, it's interesting to see which songs appear to be establishing themselves as the fan favourites - Taste Back and Coming Up Roses! Personally I'm not blown away by Coming Up Roses, but I really like Taste Back - I would be happy if that became a single somewhere down the line.

Get those sales Melanie!

Many of these battles are going to be so hard to choose between! 😱

I like the sound of it tbh

1 Nelly Furtado - Try (favourite) 2 Delta Goodrem - Eclipse 3 Chappell Roan - After Midnight 4 Lily Allen - 22 5 ROSALÍA - Reliquia 6 LiSA - Akeboshi (明け星) 7 Kesha - RED FLAG. 8 Kelly Clarkson - Haunted 9 FKA twigs - Stereo Boy

I'm fairly confident Conan Gray has no official remixes argh!

1 Troye Sivan - Angel Baby (favourite) 2 Ruel - I Can Die Now 3 Conan Gray - Caramel 4 Romy & Fred again.. - Strong 5 George Michael - Jesus to a Child 6 The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk - Starboy 7 Tone Damli feat. Eric Saade - Imagine 8 Les Rythmes Digitales feat. Nik Kershaw - Sometimes 9 David Bowie - Lazarus

Moving posts

It's such a strong album! So pleased it made the Top 5 in numerous countries (and #1 in Australia!). I don't think there's a weak song across the 11. Adult Size Medium is huge, what a closing song!

Hopefully I've redeemed myself in your eyes in the other poll

What Took You So Long? Look at Me second!