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I am guessing Jane McDonald is Mighty Hoopla related, or is there another reason for the increase?

Poor Bebe with that ACR drop.

Not quite. Chantaje went silver in 2019.

It’s very mid in all honesty. Very inoffensive and ‘nice’ but also nothing exciting enough to make me want repeat listens.

What an awful set of #1s by Drake. The drop off in quality after In My Feelings is highlighted by everything after just scraping a single week at the top.

This is easily my favourite of Gracie’s ballads/slower songs already. Hoping it stabilises and does well long term.

Nice to see Will Young getting another certification. Definitely an artist that suffered from a poor sales climate when he was able to get hits and not big enough internationally to get playlist support for these on streaming. Goodies only just going gold seems wild to me.

Expect even more older songs to crop up off the back of Spotify’s 20 year anniversary. Giving playlists of peoples most played tracks since joining the service similar to Spotify wrapped.

I went for Noah, Olivia and Jonas Blue this week. Baby Steps was the album standout for me so glad it is having its moment finally. Wasn’t keen on that Alyssa Grace song. Got iloveitiloveitiloveit vibes from it, but less interesting.

Definitely underestimated the interest that would come from the Michael Jackson film. Given it only goes up to the Bad era, the wider impact on his whole catalogue is very impressive.

I am fully expecting it to do as well as Whitney’s or Bob Dylan’s - which is ok but not massive. Been a biopic overload since Bohemian Rhapsody in 2018, so don’t really think the public appetite is there now like it was then.

This one has grown on me with every listen. Definitely more understated than I expected from an Olivia lead, but it is so charming. Also nice to actually have an Olivia being happy’ lead. Really hard to call how high this will peak as nothing seems to be having a huge impact this year, but can see this hanging around top 40 until the end of Summer at least.

I think Holly has found her sound and style now. Think this is her best era by far. It is a shame the singles, especially To Love Somebody, haven’t been bigger.

Best Of Both Worlds got there first.

Some good album certifications today. We are well overdue a new Frank Ocean album.