Sour Candy

#69 (+14) in the UK mids - Summerboy is coming!!!!

I think it's out of top 75 this week but will definitely stay in top 100 at least for couple of weeks and hope the tour comes to save it a bit.

This is the key word lol Anyway, in streaming age everything is available all the time so songs and artists really need to stand out. The latest Sam Fender song is hardly on any playlists but top ten on streaming platforms. I still think it's a game of how large and dedicated fanbase an artist has. The difference between today and 20 years ago that the small fanbase takes an artist to top 100 instead of top 10/20. Lisa Scott-Lee went top 20 with only 11k people or so buying the record. 11k people streaming Plastic Box takes it absolutely nowhere. If there are only 500k Jade fans GLOBALLY, it's very tough for her to get hits. But not having hits is not the end of it all. Marina is still recording and getting top ten albums despite not having bothered UK top 40 on singles chart in 7 years. I can see Jade going that route which would be absolutely fine in the long run.

Super Bowl definitely! A triumph!

Yeah, imagine Ariana Grande doing a press tour about how much she hates Thank U Next or Positions.

I'll Never Love Again as it's the weakest of the massive ASIB ballads (as great as it is).

132k! Doing really well as it's not really properly viral yet.

22nd June 2025 01 226 Little Mix 02 79 Robbie Williams and Take That 03 58 Lady Gaga 04 31 RuPaul's Drag Race 05 21 Kylie and Dannii Minogue Weekly positions in 2025: 02-04-04-02-01-01-01-01-02-01-01-02-01-01-01-01-01-01-01-02-03-03-03-02-03

This is such an underperformance... less than half his previous one did.

This "beef" between her and Capital is so pointless. In real life she doesn't need them and they don't need her.

Fact: Manchild is doing way worse than Espresso, PPP and Taste did Also fact: Manchild is still going to be #1 this week. Both can be true.

OCC has mind of its own with resets but their GH will definitely be #1 album all summer long.

Oh that's a nice increase!!

People might not even know or care that Benson has a new album out. He has been releasing new music / promoting singles constantly so an album hardly makes a difference at this point.

Reckless went triple platinum, but he wasn't a big single seller in the 80s.

The album strategy is weird because she had the fanbase from LM to sell the album even after 1 single. Instead they chose to "build the hype" for 14 months.

Both were down over 150k on Spotify weekly so it's very unlikely that they can survive.

The album will definitely climb/stabilise on charts as there will be loads of attention to come from the tour to Grammys. But it is a bit frustrating that they haven't been able to provide third good streamer after album release.

Summersmash

The top 20 is actually pretty fresh right now - the average number of weeks is 13.3 - and Beautiful Things is a big outlier - without it the number would be around 10.

Thought Benson Boone's album would do better on AM.

UK sales to date Week 1: 27,333 (#7) Week 2: 34,128 (#7) Week 3: 34,194 (#7) Week 4: 37,039 (#6) Week 5: 36,013 (#5) Week 6: 37,564 (#4) Week 7: 37,963 (#4) Week 8: 36,660 (#3) Week 9: 33,494 (#2) Week 10: 32,987 (#3) Week 11: 34,000 (#17, acr, estimate) Week 12: 32,000 (#14, acr, estimate) Week 13: 32,000 (#14, acr, estimate) Week 14: 31,000 (#18, acr, estimate) Week 15: 31,000 (#23, acr, estimate) Week 16: 30,000 (#43, acr, estimate) Week 17: 32,000 (#37, acr, estimate) Week 18: 34,000 (#32, acr, estimate) Week 19: 34,000 (#64, acr, estimate) Week 20: 36,000 (#8, acr, estimate) Week 21: 37,000 (#8, acr, estimate) Week 22: 41,000 (#8, acr, estimate) Week 23: 39,000 (#10, acr, estimate) Week 24: 37,000 (#12, acr, estimate) Week 25: 39,000 (#13, acr, estimate) Week 26: 38,000 (#19, acr, estimate) Week 27: 37,000 (#16, acr, estimate) Week 28: 37,000 (#18, acr, estimate) Week 29: 34,000 (#22, acr, estimate) Week 30: 37,000 (#18, acr, estimate) Week 31: 32,000 (#24, acr, estimate) Week 32: 30,000 (#22, acr, estimate) Week 33: 29,000 (#27, acr, estimate) Week 34: 28,000 (#24, acr, estimate) Week 35: 27,000 (#26, acr, estimate) Week 36: 25,000 (#30, acr, estimate) Week 37: 24,000 (#36, acr, estimate) Week 38: 23,000 (#36, acr, estimate) Week 39: 22,000 (#42, acr, estimate) Week 40: 22,000 (#42, acr, estimate) Week 41: 21,000 (#37, acr, estimate) Week 42: 20,000 (#42, acr, estimate) Week 43: 19,000 (#42, acr, estimate) Week 44: 17,000 (#49, acr, estimate) Estimated total: 1,388,000

UK Albums Chart 69 49 15 MAYHEM, Lady Gaga (Peak: 1) Oh dear what a drop UK sales to date: Week 1: 55,577 (#1) Week 2: 12,800 (#4) Week 3: 8,822 (#5) Week 4: 7,818 (#8) Week 5: 6,245 (#8) Week 6: 5,895 (#10) Week 7: 5,214 (#10) Week 8: 4,585 (#23) Week 9: 4,200 (#21, estimate) Week 10: 3,600 (#32, estimate) Week 11: 3,000 (#43, estimate) Week 12: 2,800 (#50, estimate) Week 13: 2,600 (#52, estimate) Week 14: 2,700 (#49, estimate) Week 15: 2,400 (#69, estimate) Total: 128,256

UK Albums Chart 66 62 350 The Fame, Lady Gaga (peak: 1)

Pretty random reset for Sparks. It's not even up in streams week-on-week and has peaked higher on Spotify that it's now.