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Ed sheeran - his first 5 albums (including no.6 collab) all did 100+. Adele first 3 did 100+ - poor 30 only did 66 weeks compared to 200+ weeks for her prior 3 albums. Coldplay's first 3 also did 100+ but VIVA LA VIDA OR DEATH AND ALL HIS did 86 weeks. I can't find anyone else close. The caveat being that the digital era and streaming era makes it much easier for studio albums to hang around now compared to years prior. Particularly the 60s-90s where music wasn't always available to purchase etc (Some classic artists like Whitney, Celine etc have some really impressive chart runs for their albums!). Either way, still very impressive for Billie! Certainly going to be one of the biggest selling artists in the UK in the 21st century if she continues to release such quality albums!

Really enjoying this! Hopefully it'll take off in the UK as much as it is in the US (up to new peak of #13 on US spotify!).

Fingers crossed for Justin's songs to all go on ACR next week to help clear out the chart a bit!

I wonder if we'll see Dexter and the Moonrocks enter the top 200 on spotify soon? "Freakin' Out" continues to climb global spotify (up to #148), so expect it may appear in the top 200 in the UK soon. Entered the chart for the first time last week at #95. Quite enjoy the song and would be nice to see a rock song take off/become a big hit!

Tbf I think things were starting to look up until the whole Iran war... The best way for Labour to gain in polls in the run up to 2029 is to make the average person feel better off via more money in their pocket/better services. I think that is something that is slowly starting to happen (NHS waiting lists consistently coming down, GDP per capita increasing after a couple years stagnating). A number of their policies such as minimum wage increases, child benefit cap lifted etc should go some way into helping. If the Iran war situation/inflationary effect is temporary then we could possiblly see labour start to do things such as unfreeze tax thresholds (IIRC this was on the potential cards before the Iran war due to better than expected economic data/tax receipts/lower borrowing).

Labour held all 3 seats in my area although the greens had a significant increase. One green candididate was within 200 votes of a seat. Happy to see the gains for the greens generally - I believe they're doing even better than forecast?

Polls closed! Hoping we'll see reform do slightly worse than predicted, with slightly less losses for labour and bigger gains for Greens/Lib Dems.

There were 3 seats up in my area so I voted for 3 candidates - 1 Labour, 1 Lib Dem & 1 Green. The Lib Dem candidate came very close previously so hoping she will likely get elected this time round. I'm expecting Labour to win 2 seats + 1 Lib Dems. Not sure about the greens winning a seat but they should see a bigger vote share. Although granted the turnout for these elections is fairly low so even small changes in the voting can cause big swings in the votes!

Shame for Mel C but hopefully top 3 is on lock? I wish they would put Greatest Hits/Compilation albums into their own chart/combined it with the soundtrack chart. Would make the album chart much fresher and less streaming manipulation of assigning streams to different greatest hit albums etc.

I hope Mel C gets the #1. Had a listen through the album and pleasantly surprised - a number of bops on it!

I used to listen to this a lot when it came out! Genuinley like all the tracks. My highlights are "All We Know", "Emergency", "Pressure" & "Here We Go Again".

That sounds like a great season to look forward to! Omg Vivacious and Hershii getting challenge wins!!!! The redemptions! So sad Morgan doesn't get through but glad she looks to do well. Can't wait to see her lip syncs!

With AS11 now showing soon, is there any more solid tea? Can't wait for this season, looks to be a fun mess!

Such a great cast!!! So many names I was pleasantly surprised to see. Hopefully it's a little less "produced" this time round and we get some very heated rivalries. In terms of the brackets BRACKET 1: My top 2 are A'Keria & Morgan. But Dawn & Morphine will likely be really competitive. Also hoping we get to see some great things from Lucky & Mystique!! BRACKET 2: My top 2 April & Crystal! Whilst I like Silky I would rather the others move on. Honestly I wonder if Vivacious could play the game well enough to get through? Would be so here for that *_* BRACKET 3: This one is difficult!! Love to see Shuga back and I hope she gets what she deserves (top 2!). But this is the most competitive bracket in terms of I can see Kennedy, Sam & Jasmine killing it. Not to overlook Joey or Hershii either as they may surprise too! If each bracket has a balanced challenges line-up I could see the wins spread out quite a bit amongst the queens as each bracket has a nice spread of talents. I will call riggory if there are like 3 dance challenges in Kennedy's bracket or 3 design/runway challenges in Dawn's bracket for example!

Really enjoying this!

Maybe Coachella/Justin effect dying down a bit allowing new releases to climb a bit more? Perhaps a sign the algorithm moving away from Justin in the coming days *_*

It's quite interesting in the albums for once with two acts going for their 1st #1 albums. Really hoping Jessie gets it but can't be mad if she doesn't as she'll at least get a new peak of #2!

Omg yes come on Jessie! I've been streaming the album quite a bit so hopefully that helps a bit too! Would love her to get her first #1 album!

Olivia's released a spotify-exclsuive music video for "drop dead" - might help increase its spotify numbers tomorrow. I assume this is aimed to help secure the #1 in the US but will hopefully boost the song elsewhere too!

It's been quite fun to see how well Kylie has been doing in the 2020s. Arguably she's had more success in the 2020s than the 2010s on the singles front! I really wished a couple of the singles from Disco made the top 40 though - such a great album!

Oo great for Jessie Ware! I hope she goes all out with more CDs etc as it might be possible for her to get to #1 with a push? Really enjoying the album! Although 3 #3 albums in a row is kind of a fun chart stat! "drop dead" should be pretty safe for #1 this week with that lead?

"drop dead" was #1 on YouTube Friday/Saturday with 410kish streams vs 190k for "Rein Me In". Hopefully the song will have a decent lead when we get the mids later!

Nope. Its normal was ~600k+ on a saturday for many many many weeks. It's only recently started lowering down a bit more the last few weeks or so! Fairly big drop for "drop dead" but we'll see if it holds on. It'll climb Monday so depending on how big the drop is for today's streams it may get back to #1 again. Olivia debuts at #2 on UK kworb youtube chart from 1 day 289,708 streams. ~100k+ ahead of "Rein In Me" and will increase further when it updates to reflect Friday + Saturday.

Great debut for Olivia! For reference "Vampire" debuted at #2 with 643,579 streams so it looks to be on track to debut with higher sales which should be enough to get to #1 this week especially with physicals available for purchase. I can see Olivia doing 60k+ quite comfortably. This is the first week on spotify for "Vampire": Day Streams % Change From Previous Day 1 643,579 N/A 2 505,933 -21.4 3 478,284 -5.5 4 525,165 +9.8 5 513,664 -2.2 6 490,027 -4.6 7 461,400 -5.8 Total streams: 3,618,052. "Vampire" debuted with 55,614 sales. Unless "drop dead" literally drops dead, I find it hard to believe she won't beat those sales even if the 2nd day has slightly higher losses due to how big the first day has been! Assuming similar % changes then "drop dead" will total ~4.25 million streams. "drop dead" is already #8 on Amazon which is great considering how slow songs usually progress there.

Debuted with 55,614 at #2. Climbed to #1 with 43,211 sales with release of physicals a couple months later.