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No way will the LM medley be removed. It's the most 'casual friendly' performance besides Angel.

Rochelle and Keisha as well. The quicker we pop fans understand that girl groups spewing 'female empowerment' is purely for marketing and PR purposes the better. (isn't her partner also extremely homophobic?)

I feel it suffers the same way as Fantasy in that it's a beautiful song but just not really single material. AOMD > FUFN > It Girl would have been the better singles rollout.

'Sweet Melody aside'? My point is literally that them having a huge number 1 million selling song the year before they broke up literally goes against every argument that they were on the decline as a pop act. You can't just put it aside for convenience. And even IF it didn't happen then Confetti, Heartbreak Anthem and Kiss My were still back to back top ten Platinum smashes with their name attached to it. Again, hardly the sign of an act 'on their way out'. The girls were insanely popular and consistent in their 10 year run together. All their albums went Platinum (two of them 3x Platinum at least), they had about 18 top ten singles with most of them being Platinum and really the only flops to their name were a shitty charity single (Word Up) and the Between Us tracks at the very end of their career when they were 2/3 pregnant and had a year of overexposure. Even Bounce Back still went top 10 and a Silver certification and Think About Us managed to go Gold without denting the top 20 (and having a botched release). I'm the first to call an act a flop when it fits but come on, these girls were on fire for 95% of their career. Hit after hit after hit. Sweet Melody being one of their biggest selling songs just a year before they split up shows they had serious staying power.

Why do people keep saying this? Sweet Melody (million selling number 1 single), Heartbreak Anthem (close to a million, #3 single), Confetti (Platinum, #9 single), Kiss My Uh Oh (Platinum #10 single) all followed Jesy leaving the group. The only reason the Between Us singles flopped is because it was complete overkill in 2021 with Little Mix music and there was virtually no gaps between the singles from Heartbreak Anthem onwards. Even then they still managed to get No and Love (Sweet Love) into the top 40 and the album hasn't left the charts since... If anything late 2020 - 2021 and their final year releasing music was probably their second imperial phase after Glory Days!

This. Everyone keeps saying 'oh she's an album artist so it doesn't matter about the singles' completely forgetting you still need popular singles to make the album a success. The good news is that she sold out on her tour and if she's in this for the long run (depending on when Perrie and Leigh wanna reunite) then I can definitely see her building up a solid fanbase over time and potentially having the odd top 40 hit again here and there. She has serious hustle and incredible talent and the acclaim so I hope the inevitable album top 10 debut - out of top 40 next week trajectory won't dishearten her or her fans. I feel like Perrie and Leigh both gave up quite quickly (and so did so many other members of pop groups who went solo) and I'd hate to see the same happen to Jade. Although to be fair 'Angel of My Dreams' is probably going to get a Platinum certification soon and that's certainly a triumph. I NEVER would have expected any of the girls to get a Platinum single and she'll always have that.

I hate how the charts work in the streaming era. I've said it before but at least in the 'sales' era you would have artists performing on every TV show possible, doing magazines, interviews, CD signings etc desperately pushing their single into the top ten. Nowadays you can do everything in your power to promote your song but if it isn't on a Spotify playlist then it's doomed. So unfair and so boring to witness as well.

Huh? She definitely needs them! She's getting rubbish Spotify support and aside from AOMD a year ago she's only dented the top 40 for one week - and that was probably just because of the Brits hype at the time. The interviewers absolutely set her up with that ridiculous question though and it's so unfair they're snubbing her because of how she responded. How was she supposed to answer?!

Didn’t Jade say there’s a female collab coming?

Why isn’t this released now? She’s playing to tens of thousands of people at these festivals, her performances are getting good views on YouTube, she’s all over stan Twitter and Tik Tok, there’s a bit of hype around her and yet her new single isn’t even available to stream yet! Such a wasted opportunity. By the time it’s released thousands of people at these festivals will have forgotten it even exists.

I can’t believe how well FUFN worked live. It was sensational! If only they didn’t squander all her hype and momentum by randomly dropping Midnight Cowboy (what is the POINT of promo singles?!) and Fantasy (great song, bad single choice) though. I feel like it’s still an uphill battle for her to get any mainstream success regardless of the praise and online buzz she generates.

You know all the hype is gone when your Popjustice thread is on PAGE 8! What are her team playing at?? Even her die hard stans can't be bothered.

Oh you’re right. That is the explicit version! My bad.

232,698 streams yesterday. Yikes.

Can people on Popjustice stop with the ridiculous claims that the girls were ‘fizzling out’ towards the end of their run? They literally had a huge number 1 single and three other Platinum top ten singles in the months prior to their hiatus announcement. The way fans are rewriting history to imply the girls were flopping is so bizarre. They were still one of, if not THE most successful female British act in 2021!