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Wonder if the spoilers will be all up in the air now. I really hope Raven being on is true. Although really was hoping for Michael top 2 with those lip sync wins *_*

That's a really good cast! Hope Raven is a true contestant. Maybe they want to line her up with a win to get her on a future All Winners 2 season? But honestly, NPB for the win!

Oo yes drama please *_*

Honestly I'm here for Joey winning over Crystal. 2 weeks in a row she could've been top 2...Hope she slays the merge *_*

JOEY WAS ROBBED! Another week she could've been top 2! Killed the challenge. Gutted she didn't get top 2. Kennedy gave a great lip sync though! Overall really good episode - pretty much everyone did well! I loved Kennedy's read for Shuga

Heatwave boost incoming and random resets just as songs finally look to be on ACR again SuBo save us!

"Shallow" albeit 2 weeks.

I think it's more about tougher regulation as a lot of the addictive and degrading qualities of social media apply to adults as well... But in one way I'm happy to see multiple countries are now moving to put in place restrictions on social media for children in some shape or form. I just hope it's done in a nuanced way that maximises reducing social media's harm and risks whilst amplifying the little positives (of course that won't happen but one can hope).

Olivia on target for 100k+ by Friday then?! *_* "Rein Me In" still could be marginally down by Friday in streams. As it's down week on week again for today's Spotify update, although only by ~5k. Hoping some of the increase in sales in some actual sales increasing but streaming still down!

Eh to be fair "Midnight Sun" only started charting this year and has been on the chart less than half the time "Rein Me In" has. Plus it's been a massive uphill battle for Zara to get another big solo hit so that's why it's been so great to see But yes please to "Lush Life" going back to ACR. We should hopefully see a lot of songs go to ACR come Friday! Right before another heatwave boosts everything again to go back to SCR

I'm here for Tempest's rudemption and making the merge to then get crowned *_* If there are a decent number of acting/comedy challenges I believe they will do well. I can see them being safe in a design challenge too.

Excluding new entries the market in the top 200 is down by ~210k streams. Once you include the new entries/Olivia's album the top 200 market is up week on week although not sure by how much exactly (adding in the NE it's up by ~5 million although that's not a true figure but it's probably somewhere like up 1 mil+) Edit: Managed to figure it out - the top 200 is up by ~1.7 million streams compared to this time last week or ~+7.2%.

I'm hoping with the data a day behind for spotify that it'll increase its lead as the week goes on as "the cure" is decently ahead there. Olivia coming for 100k+ possibly in the album charts?! Great to see Bebe charting in the albums but shame it isn't much higher! Should hold top 100 though come Friday?

Days 1-3 for Olivia's album in tracklist order. For comparison, GUTS had ~2,850,000 streams across 12 songs and SOUR had ~3,825,000 streams across 11 songs by day 3. So on average doing better per track than GUTS but less than SOUR. Although SOUR had a heavy hitter in "good 4 u" doing 1 million+ streams a day at the time. Overall the most steams an album of hers has had on day 3 regardless.

Really good update for Olivia Rodrigo! Looking forward to seeing how much she rises in Monday's update.

So many good ones. Some more to add: Leona Lewis - "Bleeding Love" Leona Lewis - "Happy" Toni Braxton - "Un-Break My Heart" Mariah Carey - "My All" Mariah Carey - "We Belong Together" Whitney Houston - "I Will Always Love You" Celine Dion - "All By Myself" Chaka Khan - "I'm Every Woman" Cheryl Lynn - "Got To Be Real" Donna Summers - "MacArthur Park" Barbra Streisand - "Woman In Love"

It should do - it's been gaining new peaks every day on Spotify the last few days and up to a new peak of #85 today. The music video is doing big views and is #1 in YouTube views for the UK YouTube chart. I expect it may even go top 20 come Friday if it keeps gaining at this rate!

Maybe a combination of world cup + nicer weather? Hopefully it's falling on other streaming services.

Olivia Rodrigo: #1. "stupid song" (531k) #2. "the cure" (503k) #4. "drop dead" (405k) #7. "honeybee" (342k) #8. "my way" (340k) #9. "what's wrong with me" (336k) #10. "maggots for brains" (328k) #11. "expectations" (318k) #12. "u + me = <3" (312k) #13. "begged" #311k) #16. "less" (290k) #18. "purple" (264k) #22. "cigarette smoke" (242k)

Hoping Olivia's album release will help cause most of the DLC-2 to decline so we get a massive clear out soon!

Great start for Olivia. Hoping "the cure" holds up better as the week goes on than "stupid song" to get the #1. "drop dead" may not be her 3rd track so she may get another song top 10/5!

But what the rich do is take out massive loans using their large assets as collateral. Allowing them to borrow millions/billions. But as the money is part of a loan etc it isn't subject to tax... One way they are able to avoid paying large amounts of tax

Sadly just a sign that the world is heading towards a more dystopian future as seen in many sci-fi films as opposed to a utopian future. Wealth inequality is probably the #1 issue the world faces and is the heart of so many issues/problems...

Really enjoyed this episode! Whilst Sam's outfit was the most impressive in terms of construction etc it was honestly just ugly I liked Joey's outfit more... Would've been iconic to have Joey vs Jasmine *_* Jasmine was defo top 2, gorgeous outfit. The lip sync was great - both Sam and Jasmine delivery really tight. Sam just won it out by a bit.

Possibly "Chicago" as that was going viral (hoping it is this!).