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I think it's more so that the internet has developed quickly and become something a lot of people who haven't grown up with it don't understand and those same people that don't understand it are the ones also creating the laws to try and regulate it. It's quite funny that as soon as the law came in that VPNs became the most downloaded apps across the board The "think of the children?!" people are probably the same ones that plaster their kids photos all over their non-private social media. And even the ones who try to blur their kid by putting a sticker or something over their face which is very easy for someone to remove... The government should've approached it from more of an educational stand point for new parents and roll out some sort of new digital safety resource for them to be more informed of how to use parental controls for things like ipads etc as well as more information regarding privacy settings on social media to keep their children protected from exposure to things they shouldn't see and also to protect their images or photos being copied or stolen etc.

I hope the Vegas residency goes well so she then releases a new album sooner rather than later!

Your wish may have been granted. She's just announced a 33-date Christmas Show residency in Las Vegas!!! *_* Come on Leona get that US push for all your Christmas stuff this year! I expect there will be a big US promotional push as it's so random in one way as it's been like a decade since she's decent success in the US but is now doing a 33-date Las Vegas residency that she'll need to sell ~33k tickets for. It's going to be the most shows she's ever done on a "tour". Hopefully this will be the start of the ball rolling with Leona and new music as well (she has potentially 2 albums now recorded and raring to go...).

"d£aler" is another solid track! Sad that "Not Like That Anymore" didn't do much, should be a massive hit tbh.

I'm going to All Points East and am excited to see her *_* I've liked everything she's released so far and hope she might even perform a new song or two!

I like the production & verses. The chorus sounds like something that will get stuck in my head after multiple listens although is a little underwhelming? I think it could use slightly more punch.

I think the finale was very Ginger-coded so it was rather boring? Ginger getting to choose the song twice and then the finale song being "It's Raining Men"? I could see Jorgeous giving up halfway through the lip sync lol l didn't 100% agree with the lip sync wins. Honestly thought Daya was better than Bosco. Ginger vs Daya to "Raise Your Glass" would've been quite interesting and could see Daya beating Ginger. Also thought Aja did slightly better than Jorgeous and should've went through. Although Jorgeous' lip sync of "Whenever, Whereever" was really great and probably one of my favourites of hers. In terms of All Stars finales - this is probably the most boring/worst one? Not to take away from Ginger as I agree she won all her lip syncs and her last lip sync was really good. Hopefully production will learn a little from the fan backlash for the casting of the next season. Hoping Ginger will be on an All Winners season at some point - All Winners 3 would be the good choice if we get to a 3rd season. Hopefully AW2 will happen soon - perhaps as early as next year!

PLATINUM & MULTI-PLATINUM Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love (4x) Great to see this now 4x platinum! Perfect timing with Leona in the UK to collect her OBE and "Bleeding Love" recently passed 1 billion streams on spotify. I hope Leona releases some new music soon (words about we may get something this year!) Billie Eilish - CHIHIRO Another platinum song from her latest album! I can see the entire album going platinum at some point in the next few years. It's still streaming really well - even taking into account the recent tour boost. SILVER Carole King - You've Got A Friend So happy to see this certified! I need to re-listen to Tapestry - such a great album. "I Feel The Earth Move" isn't too far behind this in streams on spotify - I wonder if we'll see that certified silver at some point soon.

For Amazon I wouldn't say suddenly - it took a while to catch up. The soundtrack started doing well/climbing on Amazon the last couple weeks after it started charting in the charts thanks to Spotify/Youtube (various songs started garnering playlist support). It's fairly rare for a song/album to be matching in success across all services. Usually a song does well on 1-2 platforms and starts charting then the platform(s) it wasn't doing well on plays catch up but by that time the song is falling on the other platforms

BLACKPINK's "JUMP" is finally showing up on Amazon - although down at #708. I expect it'll jump in the coming days. Noticed it's been added to a few more playlists on Amazon which should help. I assume it'll be added to more once they update Friday and the song debuts in the top 20!

I want this queen to win AS10: Irene I think this queen will win AS10: Ginger. I think this queen deserves to win AS10: Ginger & Irene I won't be happy if this queen wins AS10: Daya Betty, Jorgeous, any returning queen. If I could choose the returning queen I would pick: Nicole Paige Brooks! Honestly Ginger killed it. 4 wins in a row and a high (honestly she could've won the talent show too). Really wanted Irene to stand more of a chance but could tell by the edit it wasn't meant to be once the merge happened and the fact it's a lip sync smackdown and Irene's lipsyncs whilst not bad are unlikely to beat some of the queens she's against such as Ginger & Jorgeous. Would love Nicole to be the returning queen if I could choose! Honestly given the backlash with Jorgeous and Ginger it gives me hope the casting in future will have less queens on their 3rd/4th tries for AS11!

"JUMP" continuing to climb on Apple Music as well, now up to #70.

Great to see BLACKPINK rising into the top 20! Dare I say it may become a top 10 hit for them? Up to #81 on Apple Music now as well. Can't find it on Amazon yet, which is surprising as Amazon have been quite supportive of their solo projects generally. Although it could just be Amazon being Amazon and it will randomly appear in the coming days quite high. It should be their highest peaking solo song. Their highest so far is "How You Like That" at #20. "Sour Candy" with Lady Gaga peaked at #17. Might even become their highest peaking single so far!

Given how fast Bieber is falling, I would say Sabrina may even outstream him by the end of the week!

Great to see BLACKPINK on the rise! They're also #3 on the 2-day Kworb youtube chart with 442,228 views for the first 2 days which is great. Dare I say they are on track for a top 20 debut? Hope it continues to rise on spotify during the week! They've cracked the top 100 on Apple Music now at #99.

Happy to see BLACKPINK held on relatively well!

I think it's more so due to Justin + Oasis. Quite a lot of songs having fairly largish drops similar to "Mystical Magical" due to being overtaken by Justin/Oasis tracks. We'll likely see a lot of Justin's tracks falling hard in a day or so.

Good for Beiber, although I find the album to be rather flat? There's nothing on it that screams big hit. Nice to see BLACKPINK debut at #38! Also appearing at #160 on Apple Music now. Hope it manages top 40. The youtube views will hopefully help boost it some too. Certainly not the sort of song I was expecting from them, really like it!

PLATINUM & MULTI-PLATINUM Katy B ft. Ms. Dynamite - Lights On Tune!! Nice to see this go platinum. Will be 15 years old later this year!! GOLD Erykah Badu - On & On An oldie but goodie! Always surprised Erykah didn't have more success in the UK SILVER Barbra Streisand - The Way We Were Used to love listening to this many years ago - surprised it's only now just gone silver. Although nice to see it had an additional 100k+ units from pre-1994! Only just realised this peak at #31 in the UK! For some reason I thought it peaked much higher. Billie Eilish - THE DINER That makes 9/10 tracks of the album certified now! "BITTERSUITE" shouldn't be too far behind (It's ~30 million streams behind "THE DINER" so expect it to be certified in a few months, although her tour could give a nice boost to the album to make it ceritifed quicker). Jennifer Lopez ft. Pitbull - Dance Again Glad to see this certified - should've been a big top 5 hit back in the day! 13 years since release this year! Rachel Chinouriri - All I Ever Asked Glad this had a nice resurgence/has been trickle streaming very well this year! Should be the first of many ceritifications for the song I suspect. Will hopefully be gold by the end of the year! Roots ft. Erykah Badu - You Got Me Two certs for Erykah Badu songs? *_* Well a feature but still!

Great to see "Tyrant" top 100! I hope it might keep going viral to climb. Also great to see Billie's tour boosting her albums! Should get an even bigger boost next week. Would be great to see HIT ME HARD AND SOFT back in the top 10.

That's a nice clear-out! Also some more clear-out likely coming in the next couple weeks with quite a few songs on DLC-2 & DLC-1! The chart has been feeling a lot fresher recently. Hoping Justin's album drop might help divert streams away from some older songs to make sure they decline againt this week,

That was a really great talent show! Everyone did well, even the bottom 2. I think the placements definitely had a runway element in them tonight for the judging. I thought Ginger gave the best performance, but Bosco had by far my favourite/the best runway. So can see why the win went to Bosco! Not to say Bosco didn't give a great performance too! Aja & Jorgeous were really good as well. Was surprised at the slight negative critique for Aja at times as I really enjoyed her performance and runway. Daya surprised me - really enjoyed her performance and the ending made me cringe in a good way. Irene was fun, definitely a lot better than her talent on her original season! Lydia and Mistress would be safe performances on most other talent shows. Lydia had a bit of a snag here and there but I still enjoyed her performance and her runway was great! Mistress was the weakest performance. It had some laughs and her lip sync to it was really great! I thought some of her references (such as her he/she/we/they/them/non-binary/vegan/vegetarian meme) were a little lost on the judges though. Also her runway was one of the weaker ones.

Just got back from seeing her at the O2, was such a great show!!!! The set list was perfect *_* Highlights for me in particular were "Ocean Eyes", "L'AMOUR DE MA VIE", "Happier Than Ever" & "BIRDS OF A FEATHER".

Probably. Justin did ~21k with his last album and they did almost 30k with theirs. It'll depend on how big Justin's streaming will be. If his album is of good quality and physicals manage to get released in some form I wouldn't be surprised if he does better than expected.

Great to see Linkin Park's latest album re-entered the top 100 - just noticed! Wonder why it re-entered? Actually just noticed they played Wembley for the first time so likely that's the reason!