Sour Candy

Taylor gets a #1 and Ebay resellers their profits before the song is out. Efficient!

Exactly this.

Just shows how irrelevant of the musical aspect is with Taylor these days when ALL physical units are sold to people who haven't even heard the song.

It's not out yet and it's Thursday evening. What is going on?

The way he says that.. I think there's something in there (that doesn't mean it would get released though)

Brilliant sales for Boards of Canada. A great album too.

I mean you could just filter out songs that are over 20 weeks old lol

If anything, Tame Impala was super lucky to reach #2 (and it needed two versions to do even that).

Well said by Dircadirca. Artists like Slayyyter for instance might be making big splash without ever touching the global or local charts because the big stars get so many streams by default on global scale. Most of the globally successful songs are more and more 'easy listening', something that people are not passionate about but still like them. The numbers don't lie in general popularity but they might lie in engagement. That said, there are plenty of artists that SHOULD be able to reach the global Spotify chart at least for a day and it's worth discussing if they don't. Also, no one has mentioned that maybe the labels are a bit lost with what type of music young people want to hear right now when 'anything' can be popular. At least I cannot point out clear musical trends of 2026.

For RMI it's about not going ACR. If it doesn't, it'll probably return to #1 again at some point.

Added Mayhem: Requiem

Happy Pride month!

It increased 22% compared to yesterday.

Pretty random increase for The Cure but good to see.

All the songs older than two weeks would be doomed!

US Album Chart 187 RE 63 MAYHEM, Lady Gaga (Peak: 1) It's back! I think the streams were allocated unfavourably between this and Requiem last week, hence it dropped out.

US album chart 83 77 470 The Fame, Lady Gaga (peak: 2)

God forbid if RMI goes to SCR again next week or the week after. 😅 All it needs is two days of hot weather.

Let's be real, the only song than can block a Taylor Swift song on week 1 is another Taylor Swift song. We can start discussing whether Olivia can be #1 the week after.

#73 (-3) in the UK mids

Both RMI in the UK and Choosin' Texas in the US having all those "#1 for a week" intruders during their runs and getting the most weeks at #1 throne basically at the same time in the process is pretty interesting. The number of times they have returned at #1 during the same run is on record breaking levels already.

The movie premieres on 9th so if it's music, it'll probably come out on Friday.

Isn't that Apple Music?

Looking forward to this countdown! Agree about the "collab dance gay bop" era, that was horrendous. Hope it's over but I believe when I see a proper lead single from her next album, that better be solo at least (or a Nick Cave duet).

There are plenty of old songs that have gone viral to some extent but never took off on charts (for the second time). I don't know if anyone actually knows what is the recipe of getting a popular viral hit that impacts on charts either locally or broadly.