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Great to see Don Toliver & Doja Cat's "Lose My Mind" entering the top 200! I really like the song and was disappointed it didn't make much of splash when released a couple months ago but the movie looks to have boosted it very nicely. It's #59 on global spotify now and starting to chart in various countries. Would be great to see it become a hit here!

Officially starts her UK dates tomorrow in Glasgow *_* Can't wait to see her next week although it's going to be so hot (Forecast for 30C+ in London urgh). Hope the album gets a nice streaming boost!

Apparantly something big for us fans. Would love for her to do some shows!

Quite like the album! Been going on a bit of a delve into her previous work as well and forgot how many bops there are *_* My favourite tracks on the album are "BUTTERFLY", "CUNTISSIMO", "EVERYBODY KNOWS I'M SAD" & "FINAL BOSS". But also like "I <3 YOU", "JE NE SAIS QUOI", "CUPID'S GIRL", "PRINCESS OF POWER" & "DIGITAL FANTASY". A solid 7/10 album (which correlates nicely with me liking 9/13 songs!)! I also really like the 2nd half of "METALLIC STALLION" when the production really kicks in - love the orchestral notes to it. It's a shame it takes half the song to get there.

Production just doesn't like Cynthia as they certainly weren't pushing her in the bracket epsiodes so doesn't surprise me they get rid of her right away. I think they didn't expect the other queens to give her so many points to make it through. Although her runway didn't help as there definitely seemed to be a weighing of the runway for the overall judging this episode

Honestly great! Was glad to see music releases being standardised across the world and enough of the held back releases or the music releases being released later in certain countries than others (Adele's 21 being a good example of that with 6 different release dates with 2 months between the earliest release and latest!).

I think that's quite impressive given it's only had 3 years and the list will be somewhat skewed due to the US making up such a large part of its market share (with Rap/Hip-hop generally being the most popular genre on Apple Music US)!

Aww I didn't see that. I assumed it might trickle stream fairly well as various songs from it stream well and I think a couple went viral over the last couple years. ("Bubblegum Bitch", "Primadonna", "How to Be a Heartbreaker", "Teen Idle") although I guess the downweighting of the top 2 tracks hurts it. I just went through the spotify data to estimate how much the album is selling per week via spotify only and it works out as 95 album sales from streams (assuming UK is 5% of spotify total streams, although wouldn't be surprised if a larger % of streams are from the UK). Assuming spotify is 50% of the market and she's streaming similarly elsewhere then the album is likely doing near 200 units per week in the UK from streaming which is just over 10k per year. Will take a decade to get to platinum.

Will be interesting to see what this does. Most likely the party will take some of the green & labour's vote. If it establishes itself well, I could see the next election being very interesting. We could see neither labour or the conservatives as the top parties. Or 5-6 parties all around the same vote share (10-20%) - Labour, Conservatives, Reform, Lib Dems, New JC party + possibly green party. Really wish we had a proportional representation system.

Ah totally forgot about "Guess"! Might be her first album to get 5 platinum+ songs as "Girl, so confusing" is streaming really well - Lorde's comeback has helped boost the song a bit and it's even managed to get more weeks top 100 on the UK singles chart recently!

Charli xcx - Apple Happy to see this platinum! 2nd platinum single from [I]Brat[/I] Should see "Von Dutch" become the 3rd in the next year. MARINA - The Family Jewels Yes at this going platinum! Her first platinum album - times nicely with her most recently released album. I think Electra Heart musn't be too far off platinum, maybe we'll see that certified in the next year or so as well.

Oo come on Vivacious & Hershii *_* That's interesting - if it's non-elim with fewer queens I assume they will do another points system or something? And also have more episodes before the finale.

Production hate Cynthia I swear She literally got more laughs from Rupaul than pretty much everyone except Ginger - she should've been safe. So bad it was good. Although I do feel that if her runway/reveal was better she would've been safe. Mistress bottom 2 was the right call. The other person was probably Aja. Although Daya/Lydia could've been there too. I want to say Irene should've been high! I thought she did really well despite the limited screen time. I would've went with: Win: Ginger High: Jorgeous & Irene Safe: Bosco & Cynthia Low: Daya & Lydia Bottom 2: Mistress & Aja Mistress rightfully winning the lip sync, although wasn't a big fan of the song choice for it.

Amazon #2. MK - Dior (feat. CHRYSTAL) #5. Sabrina Carpenter - "Manchild" #6. Ed Sheeran - "Sapphire" #7. Lewis Capaldi - "Survive" #23. Alex Warren & ROSE - "On My Mind" #37. Charli XCX - "party 4 u" #43. Lauren Spencer Smith - "Lighting the flame" #123. Pinkpathresss - "Illegal" Happy to see "Illegal" looking to become a moderate hit! Hoping it'll go top 20 at least, climbing nicely on spotify!

Music video for "Every Girl You've Ever Loved" now uploaded to her youtube channel! Would be nice if this helped the song do something!

Honestly, would be amazing to see conservatives almost lower than SNP in seats! Come a general election I think things would fall apart fairly quickly for reform though during the campaign. All it takes is for Labour/Cons to move a few % higher and those 377 seats come crumbling down. Plus I'm pretty sure the conservatives will change leader and try to appeal to their core voters once again by the time the next GE rolls around.

Horrid. Don't see why they just don't just increase NI back to where it was before the Tories cut it before the election. That would raise enough money that they don't need to implement such harsh cuts. Easiest thing for them to do would be to re-join the single market. Massive boost to economy would result and basically forgo the need for all these cuts and would drive growth. But they don't have the courage to do something like that (no courage at all given they are targeting some of the most vulnerable people in society). An election won't happen - but a leadership challenge could occur at some point.

Honestly I was a little disappointed with Ginger I thought the top 2 would've been Denali and Cucu - although I think Cucu's runway kept her out of the running so could see Denali + Daya. Not to say Ginger didn't do badly at all. Even Acid did quite well. Daya and Ginger gave another great lip sync - happy to see Daya win it. So happy Cucu got through! Honestly she should've been top 2 at least once. I do think she's been the most consistent and completely outperformed peeople's expectations. Now bring on the merge and the wild card queen!! *_* MIB back on screen is going to be Drama and a mess, can't wait!

Sounds great from the snippet! It doesn't seem to be out yet though - maybe later today or been pushed back a week?

She's a US country singer who's been building a nice fanbase - she's been touring non-stop since 2023 and done well with a few singles. Think it's more so due to interest in her new song + country music being bigger in the US (country music in the US is being represented a lot more accurately on streaming services the last few years or so). Would be nice if she could have a hit in the UK!

This is such a good song! The album is going to be so good *_* Hope this can go top 40 at least, if not in its debut week then to climb!

Honestly I think it will depend on the challenges! I could see Kennedy and Shuga killing it as well. Then Dusty will likely be a dark horse. Hershii's drag has come a long way as well. Honestly that could be a really exciting/competitve bracket!

There was nothng lowkey about it, Cucu was robbed!!! 2nd week is a row Cucu has impressed me and I thought she should've been top 2 over Denali! Even Daya could've been top 2 over Denali - I just didn't really like her verse/performance. I thought Acid Betty did better too! I really enjoyed Ginger but to be honest this is the 2nd group challenge in a row and a country themed one at that. Like come on I think the Bracket has great queens but can you do proper solo challenges. I would've loved a pure solo design challenge - Alyssa, Daya & Acid would've killed it. I think if the challenges went something like this then I think there would've been more balance: Design Challenge Roast Acting Ginger would do well at 2/3 still, but honestly people like Denali, Daya & Acid I think could all kill a roast if done well. Then an acting challenge I think could be anyone's game depending on the characters. I feel like the bracket feels lackluster because of the way the production has set up the challenges - it basically feels like the Ginger show and supporting cast. Even the first challenge they added the story bit. Without that Ginger would've sank on the design challenge.

Happy to see a few songs going on ACR which should help make a little room for newer songs to get new peaks. Honestly, I still really like "Pink Pony Club" and it sounds great with this weather so not mad it's on SCR still.

I think it would be fine if it was just 2 if they gave the queens 4 episodes to rack ups wins/points. Would make for a fairly nice 15-16 episode season then (12 weeks of brackets, 2-3 weeks of merge then final). Maybe they are going to do something like a massive lip sync smackdown to decide the final queens for the merge? 12 queens would work quite nicely for that. 6 pairs -> 3 pairs -> top 3 final lip sync (they go through to merge then winner of last lip sync gets cash prize).