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Wonder if we'll see Bebe's "New Religion" re-enter Spotify at some point? It's reaching new streaming peaks number-wise globally! Hope it can break through/get reset to get a top 40 peak at some point.

Interesting to see Carrie Underwood's Blown Away gold! Such a good album and enjoyed it a lot at release over 10, almost 15 years ago... It must trickle stream quite well as it only peaked at #11 originally with a 11-38-66-OUT chart run! Although the UK edition did include the likes of "Before He Cheats", "Jesus Take The Wheel" & "Cowboy Casanova" from her previous albums so they are likely boosting it too.

I expect it will chart if it gets a reset (fingers crossed!). Albeit lower down in the 50-100 area. Although strong downloads could help make up for some of that?

Great sales for Madonna and really good streaming numbers! I expect she'll be comfortably top 40 still next week as even a big decline in streaming would still give her a decent number of sales plus I expect she'll still shift a decent number of physicals 2nd week? Edit: Also great to see "Danceteria" made the top 40!

Not sure how I felt about the episode. The talent show was kinda meh. I thought Dawn was the winner. Silky and Jasmine did well - even with the latter almost not landing one of their moves (my heart!). I thought Crystal was decent just didn't find it that entertaining/funny? Her runway STUNNING but I didn't think her runway was enough to beat Dawn's performance + also very stunning, but not quite as stunning, runway. First time I was disappointed in Joey today. If they had aced the performance it would've been so good. But the one stumble ruined the rest of it. Bottom 2 was correct although wouldn't have been surprised at Joey being there too. A'Keria had Beyoncé remotely controlling her at times Sam did a lot better than I thought they would but A'Keria just embodied the song too much. I'm glad A'keria has been able to do 2 great lip syncs back to back *_* I'm thinking it's Crystal's to lose now - just not sure how any of the other queens left will beat her unless they pull out an incredible lip sync. Shame this All Stars was produced/rigged almost as much as the previous. So many missed opportunities - Morgan should've been allowed into the semi-finals. They should've made it so the semi-finals have double elims or something to up the stakes. If Morgan went through there would've been 8 queens. 2 double eliminations leaves it at 4 for the finale. Something along the lines of Rate-A-Queen for bottom 3 and Ru eliminates someone immediately whilst the other 2 lip sync for their life.

Still doing ~2 million/day. Will likely overtake "Escapism" to become her most-streamed song next year, currently a ~400 million gap but gaining ~1.5 mil/day.

Just been on the 6 O'clock news and BBC have a tribute show on tonight for Bonnie. Hoping we'll see a big enough boost to see "Total Eclipse of the Heart" back in the charts next week.

Will probably see "Total Eclipse of the Heart" appearing on Apple today and Spotify tomorrow with the sad news of Bonnie Tyler passing - RIP. Perhaps a few of her other hits as well such as "It's a Heartache" and "Holding Out for a Hero".

Jimbo and Priyanka as judges? I know that's right And Jimbo calling Brook Lynn Hytes Rita Baga made me cackle

Count Binface being elected would be amazing. Please be Farage Vs Binface with Farage losing

From memory the HITS predictions usually trend up for new albums. Given that Madonna's streams had a fairly soft fall compared to what is normal, I would think she would trend closer to 120-130k. Might be close vs Olivia!

Pleasantly surprised by the album. I'm generally a casual Madonna fan but this album fits in perfectly with the kind of music I've been enjoying recently. It's a consistent listen with no skips! "Bring Your Love" is my favourite track, so infectious and should've been at least a moderate hit globally. Other highlights for me are "I Feel So Free", "Good For the Soul", "Danceteria", "Read My Lips" & "Love Sensation". The first half of the album is stronger than the 2nd half. Might need to do more a dive into Madonna's previous albums at some point!

Hope her 2nd win is well deserved. I didn't think her story really deserved the win this last week. Will be a bit of an underwhelming winner.

Just came across this Silky ranking Tiktok on reddit: I cannot stop laughing It just gets worse and worse!

Joey Jay robbed again... Ru better be edging her with a win to end up giving her the crown. I thought Joey was by far the best/funniest in the challenge?! Honestly if you told me "Joey Jay was robbed" would be a prevailing story line in this All Stars I would've laughed Now I just want to cry Kennedy and A'Keria gave a great lip sync! I agree A'Keria staying as she edged out Kennedy a bit. Although sad to see Kennedy go. Even though it was rate a queen I thought Kennedy was bottom. I would've probably put Dawn in the bottom over A'Keria though.

Great for Madonna, some really good songs on the album! I assume Apple may be more supportive due to it's dance nature. Hoping the Spotify update for the album will be as good. Would be great to see Madonna get another top 40 hit or two!

Oo this season is going to bring the drama in untucked I can just feel it.

Ah fair. But honestly would be so camp for Joella to slay and merge. I enjoy the expected rudemptions such as Irene the Alien, Dawn + Joey J.

Not Joella! Glad to see Vita there though - hope she has a great rudemption!

\Fannie: The Hard Knock Ball Rusical Really good musical! Jane rightfully winning but honestly could've been a double win. Kenya was so good and loved Darlene as well. Athena vs Juicy was so emotional 3 weeks in a row of hard hitters going home, damn! Thought Athena would make it further too. Drag in a Bag Possibly one of the best design challenges...ever? In terms of the average, every queen did SO well! Not one bad look or even meh look - I thought everyone looked at minimum good! Jane ate though with the fabric she was forced to create. Kenya was stunning too - so happy Kenya is blossoming! Jane surprised my in the lip sync for the win! A Toast to Alyssa Edwards So happy Darlene won, she was just so stupid Sad to see Kenya go but it was her time. She'd make a great All Stars contestant in a few years! Juicy gave a great lip sync. Mammas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Drag Queens Wanted Darlene to win, but Myki did great too so not mad! Juicy did so good too. Was the right time for Discord to go - I loved her exit walk and the "see you on all stars" last line Karens Gone Wild Omg that AWFUL mini challenge. The crew winning it for sitting through the unedited version... Myki defo the winner. Shocked at how poorly Jane did - I thought she would crush it. And to go out One of the best track records ever to then go low-elim damn. Jane will 100% be back at some point to win an All Stars (I hope). With Jane out it really blows open the entire competition... Good Morning Bitches Darlene I wish she won solo. She's my fav of the season! So happy to see Nini stay over Juicy. Certainly wasn't expecting a top 3 this season and it was not the top 3 I expected. I thought it would've been Vita, Jane & Athena with Mia 4th. Glad this season has had lots of great surprises! All RuPaul-A-Paruza Smackdown Gagged that Ciara Myst beat Athena, like what?! I also thought Mandy beat Mia... Mandy gave a much tighter lip sync although her death drops do need work Vita vs Mia was so good, although I would've given it to Vita by a hair. Kenya vs Ciara was really fun, Kenya defo won but Ciara surprised me! I LOVE Jane for picking "Sissy That Walk" against discord and when they both walked together, my favourite lip sync moment of the night and possibly one of my favourites of all time I felt so sorry for Jane given her choices She did so well vs Juicy though, great lip sync. Kenya vs Mia such a great lip sync but I really wanted Kenya to go through! Juicy vs Mia final lip sync - they both ate again amazing. I could just watch both of them lip sync against each other over and over again Was very close but Juicy winning felt correct. Season 18 Grand Finale Nini had the best performance followed by Myki. I really wish Darlene had a shot for the lip sync for the crown as she was my winner. Good finale and congrats to Myki for winning! I will say Myki is probably my least favourite winner of the US franchise so far - I didn't really connect to her much. Overall the season was great but a lot of the queens I really liked/enjoyed just didn't go as far as I wanted which was a bit disappoint. I can't really argue with the judging either as I think this season is probably one of the least rigged seasons I've watched? Challenge winners I pretty much agreed with and the bottom queens. Big heavy hitters being taken out week after week as well was gagging to watch. Vita-Mia-Athena elim order was crazy. All 3 I thought would make it either to the final or be very close.

Rate a Queen Part 1 Mia and Juicy served it the f*** up, damn! Both their talent numbers and then the very deserved tie for the lip sync for the win! Nini was great and Darlene so stupid - honestly Darlene is my guilty pleasure. Also loved Ciara Myst sharing her story regarding the poem, very heartfelt - a shame the performance didn't hit like she wanted it to. It started off strong/interesting but flatlined sadly. Honestly thought Vita would've been bottom as it was the worst/least interesting performance which I was not expecting! Rate a Queen Part 2 Rigga morris! Athena being top 2 my ass Granted she did give a good lip sync! Shocked Myki was bottom though!!! Loved her lip sync and how sultry/sensual she was despite her outfit. It felt like the right time for Ciara to go. Drag Queens for Change So many queens did good! I couldn't pick between Darlene and Myki who was my fav. Then others like Kenya, Discord, Nini and Athena all did really well too! Bottom two was the right call and Juicy defo won the lip sync. So sad/shocked to see Vita out so early - I thought she was one of the ones that was going all the way to the final. Snatch Game of Love Island Nini ateeee. Quite liked the format. Discord as the Pope my god... she was 100% high but they couldn't put her there because of the controversy most likely Myki and Jane did great though! Shocked but happy to see Kenya beat Mia! Another shock elim. This season is so good so far!

Honestly Joey being high the entire season then winning would be great. Ru teasing her throughout the season but then finally crowning her please!!!

Really fun challenge, everyone did so well! Purple bracket the strongest by far. I was so sad for Joey yet again, they did SO well! Sam and Kennedy were the right top 2 though. It feels right that the purple bracket have 3 going through - the strongest bracket by far! Looking forward to seeing how the merge goes and who the wildcard queen will be!

This is really beautiful, Sam sounds great!

I create one last year for this! https://www.buzzjack.com/forums/topic/283838-rina-sawayama-tba/#comment-7839511 So excited. I loved Hold The girl. Hoping the 3rd album is just as good!