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Billie Eilish Apple Music Update: 3. "BIRDS OF A FEATHER" 14. "WILDFLOWER" 58. "CHIHIRO" 61. "LUNCH" 113. "OCEAN EYES" 137. "THE GREATEST" Seems to have gotten quite a nice boost from the Grammy noms as well as going viral with "TV" + a speech during her tour due to the US election results. Hope the boost will help get "WILDFLOWER" into the top 10 in this week's chart!

Week 7 1. La Voix (3-8-7-6-1-1-1) 2. Marmalade (5-2-5-7-3-4-2) 3. Rileasa Slaves (7-4-4-1-4-8-3) 4. Kyran Thrax (2-7-2-2-5-5-5) 5. Charra Tea (12-9-3-5-7-3-5) 6. Lill (1-1-11-10-2-2-6) 7. Actavia (4-10-6-4-8-6-7) Elminated: Saki Yew (6) Dita Garbo (10-5-10) Zahirah Zapanta (11-6-1-9) Kiki Snatch (8-11-8-3-9) Chanel O'Conor (9-3-9-8-6-7)

Another amazing episode. One of the best Rusicals? Almost every queen slayed. Even the weakest 2 were still good. And such a fun lip sync at the end. La Voix winning was the right choice. She gave probably one of the best performances in a Rusical across franchises? Was so impressed at how well she nailed Shirley Bassey. Poor Lill and her inability to move :lol: But she then does well in the lip syncs when left to her own devices! Really happy she stayed.

Lill being the lip sync assassin of the season is not what I would've thought! Already want them back to slay an all stars series sometime. I do wonder if we will get a UK-only All Stars in future? They could come up with such a killer cast for a killer season with so many amazing queens. Although I really hope maybe one year they do similar to what ANTM did with a USA vs UK All Stars series. *_*

Will likely look at the results in the morning. From the inital look at things, turnout appears to be on par if not higher than 2020 in some cases. I believe a turnout equal to or slightly higher than 2020 would favour Harris over Trump. Going to certainly be nail biting!

The Iowa poll is very positive and if accurate could mean Kamala wins fairly comfortably... Although who knows. I think there's a lot of focus on the presidency but not as much on the senate and house. I believe the democrats are expected to lose control of the senate to the republicans with the republicans also keeping control of the house. If the senate does flip (currently 51 democrats vs 49 republicans) that will make it difficult for Kamala to do much in the way of reform.

Thought he already did that back in 2020, so 4 years ago. :lol:

:lol: Did make me laugh! I assume we gloss over the fact that Rachel Reeves is the first Chancellor of the Exchequer in its 800 year history? I think regardless of which party is in government we'll see a lot of firsts/a lot more diversity within cabinets due to the evolving nature of the UK population. As well as barriers being broken down in general (although annoyingly still present).

Lady Gaga - "Disease" Amazon - #64 Apple Music - #12 Spotify - #24 Youtube - #5 (30-31/10) Recovering/climbing quite nicely with Halloween/Tyler songs falling. Youtube numbers not too bad as well which should help. With ACR taken into account, I think the song should remain top 20 in its second week on the charts which would be good!

"APT." up to #16 on Amazon with 9 Halloween songs ahead. Making nice moves there now. Christmas playlists on front page on Amazon. Will likely see a big boost for them the weekend. Can't see any in the top 1000 but there's a very large amount of Halloween songs so once they drop out properly the Xmas songs will arrive.

Do you think they would make an estimate based on previous Halloweens? Amazon tends to have a big impact though thanks to Alexa so may not be totally muted?

Week 6 1. La Voix (3-8-7-6-1-1) 2. Lill (1-1-11-10-2-2) 3. Charra Tea (12-9-3-5-7-3) 4. Marmalade (5-2-5-7-3-4) 5. Kyran Thrax (2-7-2-2-5-5) 6. Actavia (4-10-6-4-8-6) 7. Chanel O'Conor (9-3-9-8-6-7) 8. Rileasa Slaves (7-4-4-1-4-8) Elminated: Saki Yew (6) Dita Garbo (10-5-10) Zahirah Zapanta (11-6-1-9) Kiki Snatch (8-11-8-3-9)

Really strong episode! Although I slightly disagree with the judging. I thought Kyran did well but I preferred Lill and Marmlade to be honest. Would've preferred them in the top over Kyran - especially as their runways were stunning, with La Voix winning - the leg joke really got me in stitches :lol: Also I low key thougth Chanel won the lip sync? It's a shame they both were in fairly restrictive outfits as I could tell both would've given a much better lip sync if in different outfits! Although I'm not sad to see Chanel go - I think it was her time.

Amazon Halloween Update (Top 200): 1. Michael Jackson - "Thriller" (+16 & 194) 2. Ray Park Jr. - "Ghostbusters" (+28) 3. Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt Keepers - "Monster Mash" (+5 & 131) 4. Rockwell - "Somebody's Watching Me" 6. Little Nell, Patricia Quinn - "Time Warp" 9. The Sweet - "The Ballroom Blitz" 10 Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars - "Die With A Smile" 13. Rick James - "Super Freak" 15. Chic - "Le Freak" 20. Lady Gaga - "Monster" 25. Nelly Furtado - "Maneater" 29. Sam Smith & Kim Petras - "Unholy" 32. Dead Or Alive - "You Spin Me Round (Right Round)" 37. Britney Spears - "Toxic" 39. Dusty Springfield - "Spooky" 46. Olivia Rodrigo - "Vampire" 50. Missy Ellitt - "Get Ur Freak On" 58. The Doors - "People Are Strange" 59. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - "A Nightmare on My Street" 62. Talking Heads - "Psycho Killer" 64. The Specials - "Ghost Town" 68. Lady Gaga - "Blood Mary" 71. Bow Wow Wow - "I Want Candy" 72. The Cranberries - "Zombie" 75. Michael Jackson - "Dirty Diana" 77. Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" 86. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Heads Will Roll" 103. Warren Zevon - "Werewolves of London" 119. John Carpenter - "Halloween Theme" 130. Lady Gaga - "Disease" 136. Duran Duran - "Hungry Like The Wolf" 149. The Citizens of Halloween - "Esto es Halloween" 169. Billie Ocean - "Red Light Spells Danger" Lady Gaga cementing herself as the future queen of Halloween *_*

Budget was fairly good. I think Labour set the stage well for themselves with the big warning of a difficult/tough budget months in advance that a lot of people are pleasantly surprised or neutral about in reality. The biggest issue overall is the WFA though. I was hoping they would re-jig it a little but they don't seem to have. Whilst a lot of those who have just missed out will qualify for the additional benefit that a lot of people don't collect it's quite difficult to go through the application process. Particularly for a lot of older people who are not so great with technology/the internet in general - it can be quite intimidating/difficult to go through all the forms etc and wait for an outcome for the pension top-up.

Should be fine for top 10 Friday with the youtube streams boost I believe. It's started climbing Apple Music again, up to #12.

Just noticed Lady Gaga's "Monster" at #198 on Amazon - forgot how much I liked the song. It's #10 on their main playlist. The big halloween playlist on spotify updated but no signs of "Disease" unfortunately. "Thiller" up to #14 & #76 on Amazon - will likely go to #1 tomorrow evening. I'll do a big Halloween update for Amazon tomorrow evening.

Really good video, enjoyed the last minute or so in particular. I agree a darker vibe would've been interesting or at least a transition to night for the bridge/second half of the video. Glad the video is basically the length of the song. Hopefully the video will get various clips go viral to boost the song on the likes of social media/TikTok!

Happy they are releasing the video. Should give the song a big enough boost to secure a top 10 debut! Look forward to it :cheer:

"Espresso" #28, 29 & 30 on Amazon. :lol: Halloween songs moving up now with "Thriller" up to #21. Should go top 10 quite easily on the day I suspect. One reason for "APT." falling is the 2nd version has gained a bit - up to #141 with the highest version at #64. Should see both versions climb quite a bit once the Halloween songs fall away as there are quite a few in the top 100/200. Christmas songs starting to crack the top 1000 of the Amazon chart now too.

Gaga down to 49. Without Tyler she would've stayed same/climbed 1 position. Depending on how Tyler holds up it's possible he could push Gaga out of the top 10 come Friday :(

Oo I hope Lill wins the Rusical then if Kyran's 3rd and final win is this week! *_*

She normally charts on November 1st every year so we'll likely see Christmas back in the charts on Saturday's Friday chart update. AIWFCIY is already her 3rd most popular song on spotify now. I can see a splattering of Christmas songs creeping up the Amazon chart in the 1000-1500 range now. Quite looking forward to Christmas this year so do not mind seeing them appearing at all! :cheer:

I think if they have another GAS season they need to scrap Michelle & Jamal and have a rotating judging panel of drag race hosts/queens from across the franchises who make collective decisions on the high & low placements. Then Ru can decide the winner & bottom 2 queens to lip sync. I feel that would be a lot fairer as I thought a number of ESL queens would've had more wins/high placements if it wasn't for the bias.

I honestly believe the rumour Kween was to win was true based on the edit they gave her this episode. Thankful she didn't as she did the worst in the episode and they likely didn't want to risk upsetting the fans further. Disappointed with Alyssa winning. I honestly thought Kitty & Nelly did the best in the finale and would've been happy with either winning or a joint win.