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Good news. Doggebank B should become fully operational this year which will add a signiciant chunk of capacity. A few more wind farms are to come online in 2025/2026 as well. Plus there are a lot in the planning stage, a number of which should get approved/constructed and be online by the end of the decade. In terms of solar capacity, it slowed down quite a bit between 2017-2021 (capacity increased from ~12.6GW to 13.9GW, a paltry increase of 1.3GW, in part due to Government and covid), but has picked back up and increased to 15.6 GW by the end of 2023 (increase of 1.7 GW in just 2 years). It's expected to increase by 2+ GW this year alone so is picking up quite significantly. Project Fortress in Kent, which will be the biggest solar farm project in the UK so far, should become complete/operational by the end of the year. There are a number of larger projects in the proposal/consultation stages, some of which should hopefully be finished/get approval by the end of this year/early 2025. Hopefully Labour will help to accelerate the progress currently being made if they get into power in the next election.

Amazon 1. Beyoncé - "TEXAS HOLD 'EM" (+36, 77 & 90) 2. Hozier - "Too Sweet" (+71) 3. Benson Boone - "Beautiful Things" (+40) 4. Beyoncé & Miley Cyrus - "II MOST WANTED" (+121) 5. Noah Khan - "Stick Season" (+60, 110 & 199) 6. Benson Boone - "Slow It Down" 7. Beyoncé - "JOLENE" (+78) 8. Teddy Swims - "Lose Control" 9. Ariana Grande - "we can't be friends (wait for your love)" (+62) 10. Meghan Trainor & T-Pain - "Been Like This" 12. DJO - "End of Beginning" 13. Olivia Rodrigo - "Stranger" 14. David Guetta & One Republic - "I Don't Wanna Wait"# 18. Olivia Rodrigo - "Obsessed" 22. Imagine Dragons - "Eyes Closed" 25. Jax Jones, Zoe Wess & Cascada - "Never Be Lonely" 30. The Blessed Madonna - "Happier (feat. Clementine Douglas)" 33. Beyoncé - "BLACKBIIRD" 35. Olivia Rodrigo - "So American" 37. girl in red & Sabrina Carpenter - "You Need Me Now?" 38. Rudimental - "Green & Gold (feat. Charlotte Plank & Rico Dan)" 47. Olivia Rodrigo - "girl i've always been" 55. Future, Metro Boomin & Kendrick Lamar - "Like That" 54. Artemas - "I like The Way You Kiss Me" 56. NewEra - "Birds In The Sky" 64. Ariana Grande - "bye" 66. Mark Ambor - "Belong together" 74. Michael Marcagi - "Scared To Start" 75. Beyoncé - "AMEN" 82. Dasha - "Austin" (+86) 97. SZA - "Saturn" I have to say the Amazon chart is looking the "freshest" I've ever seen it recently. In part thanks to a number of album bombs. There are still a number of older songs/random songs in the chart, but a lot of newer music in the top 100 (and beyond).

Apple Music: #12 Armenia #18 Nicaragua #24 Peru #29 Costa Rica #31 Vietnam #33 Brazil #42 Uruguay #44 Paraguay #49 Mexico #53 Bolivia #54 Honduras #55 Guatemala #65 Ecuador #67 Colombia #75 Philippines #97 El Salvador #98 Chile #98 Serbia #155 Turkey #175 Dominican Republic iTunes (9x #1): #1 Brazil #1 Chile #1 Kazakhstan #1 Mexico #1 Peru #1 Philippines #1 Poland #1 Turkey #1 Vietnam #2 Spain #2 Thailand #4 Jordan #5 Cambodia #11 Nicaragua #17 Belarus #17 Dominican Republic #26 El Salvador #29 Turkey #39 Honduras #43 Ecuador #49 Guatemala #63 United States Recent twitter revelation/trending and Katy fans causing the album to rise on iTunes in many countries and Apple music! Due to allegations that her decline during Witness was planned by people in the industry. The album has held up well over the years. "Witness" & "Roulette" the two singles that never were :(

Recently certified Silver in the UK! :wub:

Apparrently Katy held a private album listening party for some industry people recently to really good feedback and the album is mostly finished, exciting! Also she's been trending on twitter after a journalist said that during the Witness era her downfall was "planned by some industry people" and that it was inorganic. Whether or not that is true, a number of hashtags have been trending on twitter and Witness has risen to #1 in multiple countries iTunes album chart and some of the songs rising up the songs charts as well as appearing on Apple Music. Would love it if Katy could have a comeback with her upcoming album. The sentiment towards her seems to be very positive and I'm sure with the right song(s) she could have moderate-big hits again!

Jax Jones, Zoe Wees & Cascada - "Never Be Lonely" Amazon: #17 Happy to see this doing really well on Amazon, hope it can climb top 10. The Cascada remix has really helped the song, with it rising to #41 in the recent chart. Hopefully it'll go top 40 soon and the remix might get a HHUK add. The original version is #69 on Apple Music currently. A shame Cascada aren't credited in the official chart (at least yet!).

Beyoncé - "JOLENE" Amazon: #6 (new peak) Apple Music: #11 Spotify: #22 Beyoncé - "II MOST WANTED" Amazon: #5 (new peak) Apple Music: #12 Spotify: #28 Olivia Rodrigo - "Obsessed" Amazon: #13 Apple Music: #65 Spotify:#25 Meghan Trainor & T-Pain - "Been Like This" Amazon: #9 Apple Music: #109 Spotify: #167 The Blessed Madonna - "Happier (feat. Clementine Douglas)" Amazon: #26 (new peak) Apple Music: #8 Spotify: #40 (new peak) Imagine Dragons - "Eyes Closed" Amazon: #50 (new peak) Apple Music: N/A Spotify: N/A Good sign for Meghan re-entering on spotify - should climb quite a bit with the HHUK add. The Blessed Madonna looks like she may get a top 10 hit in future? I quite like the Imagine Dragons song. Will keep an eye out to see if it does anything on Apple Music or Spotify in the coming weeks.

"MASC" is great, such a vibe. I hope it manages to become a hit.

The Blessed Madonna now top 10 on Apple Music at #10! :cheer:

Just realised after googling for 10 minutes :lol:

Renaissance opened with 31,064 sales - 19,814 of which being streaming. She might get close to the opening of Renaissance with just streaming if it keeps holding on well throughout the week!

1. "TEAXAS HOLD 'EM" (+ 20, 122, 156 & 1125) 8. "JOLENE" 11. "II MOST WANTED" 32. "BLACKBIRD" 115. "SPAGHETTII" 133. "BODYGUARD" 229. "SWEET * HONEST * BUCKIN" 240. "LEVII'S JEANS" 244. "DAUGHTER" 251. "AMEN" 271. "JUST FOR FUN" 298. "RIIVERDANCE" 329. "AMERIICAN REQUIEM" 453. "PROTECTOR" 456. "TYRANT" 489. "16 CARRIAGES" (+ 526) 623. "YA YA" 723. "MY ROSE" 857. "FLAMENCO" 932. "ALLIGATOR TEARS" 1144. "II HANDS II HEAVEN" 1556. "OH LOUISIANA" Album has continued to climb overall on Amazon. "TEXAS HOLD 'EM" likely has a nice lead when all versions are combined. The rises for "JOLENE" & "II MOST WANTED" bode well to helping them go top 10 in the official chart. I believe "JOLENE" should get there, but think "II MOST WANTED" will likely be top 20 and not top 10 by the end of the week. Although it's still top 10 on spotify with the OCC rules applied so maybe it will squeeze into the top 10! Youtube Chart (28-29/3) 1. Benson Boone - Beautiful Things 418,229 2. Beyoncé - TEXAS HOLD 'EM 400,937 3. Noah Kahan - Stick Season 355,085 4. Teddy Swims - Lose Control (Live) 350,997 5. NewEra - Birds In The Sky 253,787 6. Billy Gillies - DNA (Loving You) (feat. Hannah Boleyn) 185,046 7. Disturbed - The Sound of Silence 172,576 8. Ariana Grande - we can't be friends (wait for your love) 164,729 9. Miley Cyrus - Flowers 151,712 10. Sonny Fodera - Asking (feat. Clementine Douglas) 146,827 11. Tyla - Water 142,345 12. Lukas Graham - 7 Years 142,062 13. Beyoncé - Jolene 140,418 14. Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved 139,200 15. ​bbno$ - lil' freak 131,012 16. Cassö - Prada 129,830 17. YG Marley - Praise Jah in the Moonlight 126,877 18. Rema - Calm Down 121,313 19. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor 119,384 20. Chase & Status - Baddadan (feat. IRAH, Flowdan, Trigga & Takura) 119,143 Nice boost for "TEXAS HOLD 'EM" and "JOLENE" also doing well.

You mean like his actual album - before then which had less hits and sold less than Renaissance? Anyway I'll end that there. On a different note quite a number of songs showing promising climbs on spotify/streaming despite the Beyoncé album bomb! Mark Ambor - "Belong Together" The Blessed Madonna - "Happier (ft. Clementine Douglas)" Rudimental, Skepsis - "Green & Gold (ft. Charlotte Plank & Riko Dan)" Should see all these get new peaks in the chart when the OCC rules are applied.

Her album is outperforming Ed's latest offering by a mile so I don't see what you are talking about there. :lol: Adele will likely see a significant drop next album. 30 had the benefit of the 25 era being massive. I don't see Adele being so lucky for the next album. Even so, you act like you can't have more than one Superstar :lol: Beyoncé is every bit as big in the UK as globally. The fact she's just had her longest running #1 in the UK over 20 years into her career.

Would be hear for a Natasha remix! Would help the song avoid ACR and maybe even re-peak?

Except she is only 1 of 5 female artists to be the #1 most streamed artist on spotify. Her recent tour was the biggest grossing female tour of all time (until Taylor took over recently, but Taylor is just in a league of her own). Her album did more than Ariana Grande's album who is one of the biggest female artists currently and who is one of the most streamed female aritsts. Beyoncé also became the artist to win the most grammys of all time earlier this year. She's every bit of a superstar currently as she was previously. If anything, I would argue she's even bigger now.

To be fair, Beyoncé hurt herself quite a bit with Tidal exclusivity with Lemonade (wasn't put on spotify until 3 years post-release). Not to mentioned her surprise album Beyoncé was also delayed a year on spotify. The last two albums she's finally released on spotify from the get go. She likely hurt herself from playlist favourability of her back catalogue and such in the 2010s. But with how well Renaissance did and now Cowboy Carter is doing, she'll see her streaming presence on the platform strengthened further and her back catalogue getting boosted most likely. Really interested to see if her ACT III album will improve further on Cowboy Carter in a couple years time! It's great to see Beyoncé's streaming finally match just how big of a star she is!

1. "TEXAS HOLD 'EM" (+ 26, 115 & 279) 21. "JOLENE" 34. "II MOST WANTED" 93. "BLACKBIIRD" 136. "BODYGUARD" 284. "AMERIICAN REQUIEM" 335. "RIIVERDANCE" 394. "SPAGEHETTII" 402. "DAUGHTER" 412. "LEVII'S JEANS" 449. "16 CARRIAGES" (+ 508) 470. "PROTECTOR" 476. "JUST FOR FUN" 507. "SMOKE DANCE * WILLIE NELSON" 520. "SWEET * HONEY * BUCKIN" 594. "MY ROSE" 658. "AMEN" 731. "TYRANT" 778. "YA YA" 831. "ALLIGATOR TEARS" 1068. "FLAMENCO" 1142. "DESERT EAGLE" 1359. "II HANDS II HEAVEN" The album still climbing overall on Amazon with almost the entire album now appearing. "TEXAS HOLD 'EM" likely getting a nice lead on Amazon to help it this week to get another week at #1 in the chart. Beyoncé's numbers are amazing!! Also some other songs on Amazon for those interested: 3. Hozier - "Too Sweet" 5. Benson Boone - "Slow It down" 6. Meghan Trainor & T-Pain - "Been Like This" 11. Olivia Rodrigo - "Obsessed"

Arctic Monkey's "Do I Wanna Know?" peaked at #11 and went 5x platinum in September of last year. Christina Perri's "A Thousand Years" should pass 3 million sometime later this year as well based on the song getting another platinum certification every ~2 years the last 6 years. Fleetwoods Mac's "Dreams" and "Go Your Own Way" will also likely get certified 5x platinum in the next year. Bryan Adams "Summer of '69" should go 5x platinum in 2025 which will make it the first non-top 40 hit to pass 3 million I believe.

Amazon 1. "TEXAS HOLD 'EM" (+ 64, 106 & 109) 34. "JOLENE" 43. "II MOST WANTED" 122. "BLACKBIIRD" 128. "BODYGUARD" 204. "AMERIICAN REQUIEM" 328. "SPAGEHETTII" 333. "PROTECTOR" 361. "16 CARRIAGES" (+ 534) 362. "RIIVERDANCE" 375. "SMOKE DANCE * WILLIE NELSON" 419. "DAUGHTER" 428. "MY ROSE" 480. "LEVII'S JEANS" 495. "JUST FOR FUN" 535. "SWEET * HONEY * BUCKIN" 660. "YA YA" 679. "ALLIGATOR TEARS" Good start on Amazon. Should keep rising throughout the weekend as most new releases tend to climb into Sunday on the chart. Also Amazon tweeted the album had the biggest streaming debut for any of her albums and the biggest for a country album by a female artist.

@1773858972078129458 Expecting good numbers on spotify tomorrow then!

Excited! Hope she gets another hit or two from the deluxe version of the album!

Great start for Beyoncé so far! Looks like "TEXAS HOLD 'EM" will reclaim the #1 in the chart as its lead on Apple Music will be fairly decent combined. It's also #1 on Amazon with multiple versions further down. It should get a significant bump on spotify as well. Youtube views for the visualiser have also increased The album is starting to climb up Amazon with some tracks in the 100-200 range and a lot in the 200-500 range. Will do an update later when more of the album should be higher up.

"II Most Wanted" is #1 NMF and straight in at #10 on HHUK - looks to be the focus track of the album aside from the tracks already released. Today's Top Hits hasn't updated yet. "TEXAS HOLD 'EM" back to #1 on HHUK as well with Beyoncé as banner. A number of new additions/positive changes for some songs on HHUK: #8 Michael Marcargi - "Scared To Start" #18 Dasha - "Austin" #21 Mark Ambor - "Belong Together" #30 Benson Boone - "Slow It Down" #34 Tyla - "Jump" (Yes *_* Hope Tyla can get a 2nd hit!) #44 Rudimental - "Green & Gold (feat. Charlotte Plank & Riko Dan)" #49 Blessed Madonna - "Happier (feat. Clementine Douglas)" #51 Artemas - "i like the way you kiss me"

The music video did ~6-7 million streams in the US first week. Plus a lot of reaction videos regarding the Nicki beef were using the music video (there's also some parts of the video where Megan is dressed similar to how Nicki has looked previously). Not to mention there was also the behind the scenes video which added a little more to the streams. Also the video would've boosted the songs sales a little initially. I believe she wasn't too far ahead of Jack Harlow when she debuted at #1. If she didn't have the streams of the music video and the general boost it gave the song, she would've more than likely debuted at #2. I'm not saying the Nicki beef wasn't the main reason for the massive boost/interest the song got, but the music video did make some difference in its streams to the point it likely wouldn't have debuted at #1 without it.