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Nice to see it get another week top 40. It seems fairly stable/climbing slightly on Apple Music & Amazon. It fell a decent amount on spotify again, but hopefully it'll rise back close to the top 100 over the next few days. Perhaps the label will release some more physicals this week to secure a 4th week top 40?

Spotify UK: 3. Don't Start Now 403,927 4. Physical 403,760 5. Break My Heart 403,760 24. Hallucinate 189,675 31. Cool 169,482 32. Levitating 167,791 37. Future Nostalgia 159,142 41. Love Again 153,064 42. Pretty Please 152,507 58. Good In Bed 132,165 65. Boys Will Be Boys 122,073 Really good debut. Wouldn't be surprised if Radical Optimism does only slightly lower numbers though given how much bigger spotify is now, but at lower positions (for instance in the current chart the #88 is doing ~122k streams, #51 ~152k streams, #9 ~400k streams). I also don't think it's out of the possibility of her doing higher sales than Future Nostalgia in the first week due to her having built up a fairly big fanbase for the multi-buying and physicals. Although how well the album holds on we'll have to see.

Very much doubt they will be as low as 2%. I think they will do what UKIP did in the 2015 general election and manage ~10%+ and perhaps even 1 or 2 seats. But instead of winning votes at the expense of Lib Dems, reform will win votes at the expense of the conservatives instead. Over the last 190 years or so of the conservative party existing the lowest seats they've had are 156 in 1906 followed by 165 in 1997. Even dropping below 150 seats would be unprecedented. The fact they could even struggle to get 100 is potentially historic.

I think Dua should be able to get to #1. Even though Taylor did 49k week just gone, ~40k of that via just streaming, her streaming has been falling decently. I'll be interested to see tomorrow's spotify update to see her week on week fall for most of her songs. I assume she'll drop significantly again, perhaps down to 25-30k streaming with 3-5k sales. So she'll be on 28-35k for week 3? Ariana did ~38k and Beyoncé ~40k. I think Dua should be able to do as much if not a little more. She opened with 34,390 for Future Nostalgia and I think she will improve on that in part thanks to physicals. If she releases a deluxe version of the album in a couple days then I think that should secure her for #1? In terms of the album - I'm really enjoying it! Current highlight is "Forever Falling" :wub: That needs to be a single!

I think "Falling Forever" would've been a great focus track (hoping it may get the single treatment at some point)! Fingers crossed "Illusion" can get a big enough boost for a new peak. Although with the #8 doing 40k this week, that might be quite a big ask (likely will fall some next week but it's crazy high sales in the top 10 in general currently!).

I had a look and compared last time vs this year The highlights being how strongly labour or conservative they voted in 2021. Inner vs Outer London is tricky to tell as some places are both inner and outer (Camden & Barnet for instance or Enfield & Haringey for instance). The 3 conservative voting areas have seen increased turnout, particularly Bexley & Bromley. Although most outer London areas have had decreased turnout, but less so than inner London. There is a slight caveat in my data above though in that the 2021 data is rounded (so increases and decreases might be off by between 0.1-0.4, but it should still given a general idea). I just couldn't be bothered to go through all 14 files and do the math for them. I'm thinking he'll win by a smaller margin, but who knows. I'm quite interested to see what the London Assembly will look like as if Susan does end up winnning, the conservatives will likely lose a number of seats, with Labour, Greens & Lib Dems likely gaining seats between them (+ Reform will likely end up with 1 too). It's possible that there may be a 2/3rd majority between Labour, Greens & Lib Dems (Need 17/25 seats for that, currently Labour has 11, Greens 3 & Lib Dems 2 for 16 total) so they could majorly frustrate Susan's plans/budgets etc.

All figures out now and turnout was 40.5% which is 1.5% down on last time. Generally within the norm for the mayor elections though. Hopefully he'll still win comfortably, although likely with a slightly lower lead than polls indicated - say about 5-8%.

Hoping that Sadiq wins by a landslide and the battle between him and Susan turns out to not be close at all. Susan is nothing but a bag of lies and her party are directly or indirectly responsible for a lot of the aggrevation voters have had with Sadiq Khan about things like ULEZ/Knife Crime/TFL etc. She's nothing but slogans. I think things will be better for London as a whole with Sadiq as mayor with a likely labour government coming to power - removing the current tactic of the conservatives forcing him to do unpopular things and getting the blame instead of the government.

It's climbed back up spotify the last couple days. Hoping it'll climb back in the top 100. Also top 40 on Amazon. Holding on really well so far. It was put up slightly higher to #19 on HHUK Monday I believe. Hopefully the spotify gains will continue as Taylor's album continues to slowly decline. Should get a 3rd week top 40. Hopefully they'll release the physicals left as and when to keep in top 40 in week 4 perhaps?

Amazon 5. Sabrina Carpenter - "Espresso" 7. Dua Lipa - "Illusion" 14. Shaboozey - "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" 16. Layz Bank - "Tell Ur Girlfriend" 19. Dasha - "Austin" 20. Post Malone - "I'm Gonna Miss Her (Amazon Music Original)" 33. Drake - "Push Ups" 39. Perrie Edwards - "Forget About Us" 60. Chappell Roan - "Good Luck, Babe!"

Hopefully we'll see more of these policies as the election comes closer. A very good policy to begin with that many people will agree to!

Dua Lipa - "Illusion" Amazon: #5 Apple Music: #35 Spotify: #42 Perrie Edwards - "Forget About Us" Amazon: #43 Apple Music: #32 Spotify: #113 Dua looking primed to climb a bunch this week as she'll likely overtake a number of the Taylor tracks on Apple Music/Spotify. Likewise for Perrie, although her spotify is a bit low considering she is #23 on HHUK - would've thought she would be slightly higher. I wouldn't be surprised if Dua gets a new peak when the album is released, perhaps even going top 5?

Glad to see it top 40 second week. Should hopefully stabilise/rise in its second week. Apple Music: #34 (climbing there now, in part due to Taylor tracks falling) Amazon: #24 It's been moved up two spots to #23 on HHUK. Not sure why it hasn't been able to start climbing on spotify again. Hopefully it will manage to do so over the coming days as Taylor's album starts to fall a bit more.

Amazon 5. Sabrina Carpenter - "Espresso" 7. Dua Lipa - "Illusion" (+55) 8. James Arthur & Kelly Clakrson - "From The Jump" 20. Dasha - "Austin" (+72) 24. Perrie Edwards - "Forget About Us" 29. Shaboozey - "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" 65. SZA - "Saturn" 131. Chapelle Roan - "Good Luck, Babe!"

Will give this a pity spin due to posting the wrong thread.

Over 900k for Sabrina! Deffo #1 next week? Might pass 1 million? :o

Amazon 6. Sabrina Carpenter - "Espresso" 7. Dua Lipa - "Illusion" (+55) 12. James Arthur & Kelly Clarkson - "From The Jump" 21. Dasha - "Austin" (+94) 25. Perrie - "Forget About Us"

Amazon 7. Dua Lipa - "Illusion" 10. Sabrina Carpenter - "Espresso" 14. The Blessed Madonna - "Happier (feat. Clementine Douglas)" 30. Taylor Swift - "Fornight (feat. Post Malone)" (+39, 41, 230) 62. Perrie - "Forget About Us"

I figured the reason why - there are 4 versions of each song from the album on the Amazon chart. I was going to do a Taylor album update for Amazon but it just gave me a massive headache. :lol: I really wished Amazon would combine versions :(

Youtube Chart (19-20/4) 1. Taylor Swift - Fortnight (feat. Post Malone) 998,935 2. Benson Boone - Beautiful Things 393,421 3. Teddy Swims - Lose Control (Live) 320,880 4. Noah Kahan - Stick Season 301,440 5. NewEra - Birds In The Sky 238,622 6. Artemas - i like the way you kiss me 235,250 7. Pozer - Malicious Intentions 219,262 8. Beyoncé - TEXAS HOLD 'EM 218,877 9. Billy Gillies - DNA (Loving You) (feat. Hannah Boleyn) 204,862 10. Clavish - 10th Floor 204,828 11. Sonny Fodera - Asking (feat. Clementine Douglas) 194,426 12. Stormzy - Cry No More (feat. Tay Keith) 193,129 13. Disturbed - The Sound of Silence 180,667 14. JoJo Siwa - Karma 178,537 15. Taylor Swift - So Long, London 170,011 16. Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso 159,105 17. Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department 157,284 18. Hozier - Too Sweet 156,965 19. Perrie - Forget About Us 155,905 20. Cassö - Prada 150,854 Almost 1 million for Taylor, might be able to pass 1 million in tomorrow's update. Also nice to see Perrie enter with the release of the music video - should help buffer the 2nd week fall for the song and keep it top 40 (Was #19 in first look which is promising!).

The music video came out at 1am UK time on the 20th. It was out in the US for a while on the 19th depending on time zone (between 4-12 hours). The audio version of the video is at 6 million views. So the US numbers make sense when you take that into account and that the US makes up the largest % of her youtube streams.

The chart is for the 18-19/4 if you look at the top - so it only includes the audio video and some of the lyric video. Although not a full day as it wasn't released until ~5am UK time. The next chart update will be the 19-20/4 which will include the music video so it should see a much larger update. Should do 1 million+

Great start for the song! I can see this being a massive multi-week #1, it just gets better and better with each listen :wub: The youtube views for the video are doing great as well - 15.5 million views in 18 hours, likely going to do ~20 million in the first 24 hours. I also hope this marks the start of a comeback for Post with his next album!

Amazing for Taylor!! I really love "Fortnight", so happy to see it doing huge numbers. It's usually best to wait until Sunday/Monday for checking new releases as it takes a bit of time for them to be shown properly (I have a feeling the Amazon might be some sort of rolling chart). Also Taylor's streams are split between two versions of the album which won't be combined unfortunately!

Great debut! :cheer: Hopefully it'll rise to a new peak album release week. Perhaps top 5? *_*