Envoirment

I really enjoy the album. Highlights for me aside from the title track are "Different Religion", "Orbit" & "Aftermath". "Snow" is great too and "Let's Get Married" is a solid B ("Jaded" being an A and "Angels Like You" S-tier). "Innocent Ways" I can see growing on me quickly. I will say I don't like "Neon Signs". The production is brilliant (the album's production is really great overall) and there are some nice moments in the song but I hate the moaning/whispering/talking parts that I can't listen to the song. My main issue with the album is its length. Essentially a 9-track album, although thankfully the song lengths are 3-4 minutes. I think the album needs another 2-3 songs to complete it. I'll make a playlist to remove the "Bass Persuades" remix and "Neon Signs". I heard the physical-exclusive "Smile" - why is this an exclusive and not part of the album!? It's quite good and would be better than a remix of "Bass Persuades". Hopefully they'll add it to streaming services. I'm hoping they'll release a deluxe with more tracks, although not mid-week as I hate that tactic.

Looking forward to hearing this as well as the album!

So after a lot of years (11!) since her last album and completely starting over from scratch for a new album in the last year she's been in the studio quite a bit and has been hinting at her next album on instagram. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcnbkL_omOg/?igsi=Y3drZnF3YWYwcGdo Sounds promising! I really hope we are on the verge of a new album from Leona, it's been too long

Spotify accounts for ~40% of the Market if I remember rightly. It's doing well on Apple/Amazon/YouTube and is #1 on iTunes. And even though it's low down on Spotify compared to others, streams are fairly close. There are only ~50k streams between being #45 and top 10 on Spotify which isn't a large number of streams really. Plus there's the paid for/free streaming ratio. Hugel may be getting more paid for streams on Spotify compared to the songs ahead so when taking that into account it may be even higher than it appears in terms of sales it generates via Spotify.

A track from Ezra Collective's latest album Here Because of Hope. Leona sounds really pleasant on this, the style suits her voice. Nice to have some music from Leona!

Nice to see Ezra Collective at #1. Leona features on a song on the album: Nice to hear Leona again. Quite different to what she normally does being a Jazz/R&B infused song.

Hopefully "Different Religion" is available on streaming tonight - sounds good from the radio 1 play! Can't believe the album is out this week.

The production scratches an itch in my brain, really interesting vibe from the song - I enjoy it!

So amazing for Michael! Maybe with a crown they stand a chance of being on an All Winners season at some point in the future? 👀

Great to see Miley re-enter despite it being a Friday with new releases etc. Maybe a positive sign she may climb a little this week? She also re-enters global Spotify at #123.

Great to see The Marias "No One Noticed" platinum. Shame it never managed a top 40 chart placement! Also great to see Alexandra Burke's "All Night Long" gold - such a great late 00s/early 10s bop.

Glad to see Miley back in the top 200. Hopefully will be top 40 in tomorrow's chart! I assume big movements of songs are due to algorithm/autoplay changes? But also the songs are so close that even small increases/decreases in streams can cause large position movements.

Miley climbed quite a bit on US Spotify and re-entered Global Spotify which is promising. Maybe it still has a chance to re-enter UK Spotify this week! Great to see Sienna doing so well still. Fingers crossed she gets to #1 this week!

Omg finally! What's everyone's top picks? I'd love to see quite a lot of queens. I'll stick to 2 from each season that haven't already been on a spin off: S1: Crystal & Scaredy Kat S2: Asttina Mandella & Tayce S3: Scarlett Harlett & Anubis S4: Dakota Schiffer & Black Peppa S5: Tomara Thomas & Cara Melle S6: Lill & Charra Tea Need to catch up with season 7. I think the above would be a pretty solid cast with some clear front runners and hopefully some surprises. Having no limits, it'd be a season 2 reunion with strong queens from other seasons to fill the gaps: Bimini Bon Boulash A'Whora Tayce Tia Kofi Sister Sister Joe Black Astttina Mandella Divina De Campo Ella Vaday Cheddar Gorgeous Victoria Scone Michael Marouli La Voix I wouldn't mind seeing Baga back too. Honestly too many great queens I'd love to see on an All Stars season, so excited!!!!! I hope we don't get a brackets season, I want a proper season with the top 2 lip sync format and they eliminate a queen! Edit: Also with it now moving to WOW from the BBC does this mean we'll get a lot of the future seasons' challenges/lip syncs uploaded to YouTube? That is one thing that I think would be a good thing in giving queens exposure going forward with snatch games etc being uploaded as opposed to being restricted to iPlayer and fan-uploaded cuts being uploaded to YouTube.

Miley holding on at #25. Should hopefully be able to debut at ~#35.

This song is what started my binge into Let's Eat Grandma - such a great indie/pop duo. It's also a great/catchy song which I would always listen to whilst driving around in Cyberpunk 2077. As a note, the song didn't chart due to the video game. It charted after going viral with its use in the Netflix series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners which is based on the same world as the game.

Video is nice, fingers crossed the song can chart in the top 100 now it's being promoted/added to playlists on streaming services etc.

Leona Lewis' #145 smash "My Hands" was the official soundtrack song to Final Fantasy XIII. Also part of her album Echo

Come on Sienna! Really poor showing from Miley - no re-entry although does re-enter top 200 in the US. Looks like the song will debut low top-40. Remaining stable on Apple at least at #40 and is top 10 on iTunes to get some downloads. The music video sadly hasn't appeared in the top 20 UK chart at all so far - I expect it's likely just outside. Come on TikTok do your thing!

Shame Miley is down to #21. She's on par with "End of the World" now (was also #21 in Monday update). Hoping we may see the song climb a decent amount tomorrow and re-enter the Spotify chart.

I think the top 40 cut off for last year was around 22k in the biggest Christmas week. So it could hang on even during Christmas!

Hoping Sienna manages to get a week at #1. Hopefully her label will do a push with a discount, CDs or something!

It's not doing well on Amazon and not top 200 on iTunes from what I can see which have a much larger influence on the first look compared to their influence come Friday in the full chart. Should see the song rise a lot throughout the week I would think!

So did "End of the World" from the streaming thread: "End of the World" went 48-out before reappearing at #129 on the Monday. Fingers crossed we'll see similar (or slightly better) happen come Monday.

Coming for top 5 Friday? Re-peak at #4? Maybe release a CD single to push for the #1? Come on Dua's team!