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.

I just read Pitchfork's Sunday review of Spice Girls' Spice where they address that it was pretty crucial that the album was ready before they launched with Wannabe so that they could focus on making the group known immediately. I think that approach would've worked the best for Jade's debut solo era too: finish the album and launch with a bang with the existing LM fanbase. AOMD first with the album pre-order announcement and the album out after two months with the second focus track.

Timing-wise:
AOMD late 2024

Album announcement in January 2025

The album out in March 2025

The rise!!

8 hours ago, shadow2009 said:

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.

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.

1 hour ago, Bjork said:

Lol at people pretending they all Knew Pink Pony in 2020, 3 people knew it before last year lol at least its an anthem and a great song so dont mind how long it stays unlike the Ordinary anti-anthem

Wonder when people rediscovered Summer of 69, cos Nobody cared when it originally came out in the 80s, the UK were bizarrely slow in appreciating Bryan until 91

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.

7 minutes ago, Bjork said:

Very dangerous x Sombr :/

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

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