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Amazon has playlists like the others. They tend to have be more quick to update with newer music/entries than spotify playlists. There's also an element of Alexa I would gather too. From what I can see, Amazon makes up ~25% of the market 2nd to spotify with ~45%. Apple has ~20% market share. Youtube Music also now has ~5% of the UK streaming market which is interesting. I think the growth of Youtube Music may explain why spotify is not the be all end all as it once was. Spotify I think had as much as 60% market share for subscriber previously. So it's slowly been coming down over the year. Apple + Amazon + Youtube Music are now a bigger market share than spotify. This is all based on subscribers though. Spotify likely has a higher number of free users still.

If Amazon properly combined songs into 1 version (3 versions of "Anxiety" in the top 100 for instance) it would likely be the freshest chart out of the 3 main ones currently - Spotify/Apple/Amazon.

"Azizam" is up to a new peak of #2 on Amazon if that makes anyone feel better. Some others on Amazon at new peaks or re-peaking: #6. Jack Black - "Steve's Lava Chicken" #22. Ariana Grande - "Twlight Zone" #26. sombr - "undressed" #28. Ravyn Lenae - "Love Me Not" #31. Miley Cyrus - "End of the World" #39. sombr - "back to friends" #36. Shaboozey & Myles Smith - "Blink Twice" #45. Ely Oaks - "Running Around" #64. Lola Young - "Conceited" #67. Rachel Chinouriri - "All I Ever Asked" (climbed to new peak of #58 in most recent chart, future top 40 hit coming? I really like it!). #88. James Hype - "Don't Wake Me Up" #150. Addison Rae - "Headphones On"

Maybe during the tour the label can reset, discount etc to push it there *_* Might become the best selling #2 peaking song ever? What is the biggest selling #2 hit currently? "Wonderwall" at 8x platinum?

Honestly if AS10 ends up being chaotic in all the right ways, I would love to see AS11 with queens from other English speaking franchises! I could even see them casting winners to introduce them to US audiences for All Winners 2. The likes of Icesis & Lawrence *_* Regarding Ru favouring US girls - I think it depends on who exactly is on. Imagine all rules out the window and Tia Kofi, Lawrence Chaney & Jimbo particpate. Although tbf Lawrence is almost 100% going on All Winners 2 whenever that's cast (AS12 hopefully!).

If my guess work is right, it should be near if not 4x platinum/~2.4 million by the end of 2025. Will likely overtake "Bad Guy" by end of 2026/beginning of 2027. Wouldn't be surprised if "BIRDS OF A FEATHER" creeps its way up the best selling list and is 10x platinum by the early 2030s.

Pretty much. It's one of the biggest streaming hits ever (passed 2 billion spotify streams in fastest time, before record was taken over by "Die With A Smile"). It's still #2 on Global spotify and may even have a chance of overtaking "Die With A Smile" to take #1 again. It's at over 2.4 billion streams and will overtake "Bad Guy" (~2.7 billion) this year and "Lovely" (3.2 billion) most likely next year. We'll likely see the song get a decent boost when her tour finally hits the UK. She's doing 6 days at the 02 in July. Also I think it may see a bit of a boost in the summer as it sounds more summery to me.

I think the merging of the spoiler threads works quite well. Also I really like the spoilers as I love seeing what ludicrous things are rumoured early on that unravel as the season goes on. Plus I feel like I get even more invested in seasons weirdly enough. I would be more active with the international seasons but there's so many at this point I can barely keep up Trying to mainly stick to US/UK and the odd spin-off season here or there (UK or Canada vs The World/Global All Stars etc).

I think this is the first time I've ever correctly guess a winner!!

Exciting! Always look forward to new music from Kelly.

She was only 13 when it was originally released on soundcloud! It was officially/commercially released a year later when she was 14.

Was only released this week I believe. Should give the song a small boost perhaps. "Azizam" is up to #3 on Amazon which is its peak so far. Some other Amazon positions: #6. Jack Black - "Steve's Lava Chicken" #21. Doechii - "Anxiety" (+39, back on the climb after music video release - likely top 10 with both versions combined) #26. Ariana Grande - "Twlight Zone" #33. Miley Cyrus - "End of the World" (new peak I believe) #34. sombr - "undressed" #35. OneRepublic - "Invincible" (this is really good!) #52. Shaboozey & Myles Smith - "Think Twice" #53. Ravyn Lenae - "Love Me Not" (highest I've seen this so far) #64. Ella Henderson & BRELAND - "One Door Closes" #68. Ely oaks - "Running Around" #71. sombr - "back to friends" #80. Skye Newman - "Hairdresser" (this is quite good, slowly climbing up the charts - was #56 in recent chart. Perhaps a top 40 hit soon).

So happy Onya won! And Jewels 2nd!!! Although I thought Lexi's top 4 performance was SO good! In fact all the queens gave great performances. I knew Onya was winning that lip sync as soon as I saw her in red (lady in red...). I do wish we went back to bigger/grander finales in a theatre. I miss the live audience reactions. Another great season of drag race! Hoping we'll see Jewels on an All Stars in a couple years or so!

I get Syd for my day. Was hoping Lola, but nevermind! Super excited to see Billie this summer!

Doechii released the music video for "Anxiety" - it's really good Might help boost it to a new peak of #2 in the charts?

Music video release: Really good! Will hopefully boost the song a bit.

Yes definitely, was being only part-serious. For all we know a lot of the challenges could have strong performances from all queens for some and that you could make arguements for multiple queens being in the top 2. Given how a lot of tea from S17 kept changing/wasn't entirely correct even just before the episodes aired, I'm hoping the same for this series so we get some surprises! Oo that sounds like a really good Epiosde.

Just came across this and really like it! Gives me Emeli Sandé meets Sade with of course Cynthia's own vocal flare. It's a song from her upcoming album I Forgive You releasing in June.

Having a nose through NMF UK and also the relevant threads in the genre forums (quite useful!), I've added a few new songs to my 2025 playlist: Cynthia Erivo - "Worst Of Me" (Can't believe this was near the bottom of NMF! Cynthia sounds great on it, her low notes *_* The production is beautiful) Louise - "Borderline" The Amazons - "Night After Night" Ghost - "Lachryma"

Went with "Knock Knock" although it's too short! Needs an extended version.

This was quite difficult, quite a few good tracks! Really enjoy "Night After Night" & "Lachryma" in particular. Went with The Amazons!

Sounds better than "Sorry I'm Here For Someone Else"! And definitely get the "Physical" vibes. Also hear something else but can't quite put my finger on it. Wonder if it official samples anything?

Louise's song is decent, very early 2010s. Not really a big fan of MARINA's after liking her first 2 singles. The rest of the song are just OK, nothing really great from the list.

Paint by numbers country/pop. Although easy radio listening I guess!

Down I go Thought I was going to make the top 20.