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Poor Bebe. Dread to have seen where this would have landed if I’m Good (Blue) wasn’t included in it. :cry:

I’m expecting around 85-90k. Considering 2/3 of the hits were reliant on those physicals to get to the top, I am not confident overall streaming numbers will be great. Expecting a slightly better response than Ed has got this week, but not much more. Expect physicals/downloads should at least get him over 60k alone, but we will see.

They won’t until it/a greatest hits ends up hogging the album #1 for weeks on end like the greatest showman did. So far none of the big streaming hit sets have got to number one and turnover at the top is high, so no immediate issue from a marketing perspective.

It will be on bbc one this year over prime time so will get more casual audiences watching who might not have even been aware of the semi finals before. Whether the audience who would be browsing what’s on that night and leave it on are the people that would stream after is another matter. Expect a decent boost on iTunes at least.

Those album sales for Ed seem pretty healthy to me. Obviously not matching his last few peaks, but given this only has one hit behind it and is far less commercial. Should comfortably go gold by week 2 assuming sale’s don’t completely nose dive, though the Disney+ doc should help there.

Real shame this has performed so badly. Such a surprise hit for me. Getting Snoop on Satellite was absolute genius.

Same here. Was tempted with Jack as well but don’t think I would realistically choose to listen to it again.

+12 Taylor Swift - Karma +10 Jonas Brothers - Waffle House +8 Florence + The Machine - Mermaids +7 The Weeknd - Double Fantasy (feat. Future) +6 Kim Petras and Nicki Minaj - Alone +5 Post Malone - Chemical +4 Tyler, The Creator - See You Again (feat. Kali Uchis) +3 Tyler, The Creator - DOGTOOTH +2 Sigala, Mae Muller and Caity Baser - Feels This Good (feat. Stefflon Don) +1 Jack Black - Peaches +0 David Guetta, Anne-Marie and Coi Leray - Baby Don't Hurt Me (would give this -1 if I could)

Indeed, you know it is a quiet week when Tia Kofi can get a top 10 placement on NMF with a Eurovision cover. :lol:

Probably being pessimistic but I went with 31k-45k. With only one single that has been moderately successful and less commercial release, I don’t know how much demand there is to pick this up on release. At least = came out after two big singles and a busy Q4 schedule (expect there to have been people picking this up with 30 or Voyage). There is also an element of Ed fatigue.

What a dull couple of weeks in the calendar. At least Eurovision this week coming will make up for the lack of big releases.

Week 16 - Post, Jorja, Taylor, Sigala & Jazzy got my vote. Week 17 - Weeknd, Tyler, Kim and Florence were my picks. Karma being the best of the whole lot. Jazzy was the best surprise.

You wouldn’t get the dance acts of the noughties/early teens doing these collabs with well known acts like you do now. This has made a big impact on dj charting careers. David Guetta for example has pretty much stayed relevant through features. LF System have not added all these known acts to follow up tracks and have tanked with every release since their massive number one. All here for Jazzy to keep climbing.

Crazy to think Flowers has almost outsold Anti-hero’s lifetime sales (and nor far behind Unholy for that matter).

Considering Kim hasn't had a solo hit before (bar their RUTH cover scraping top 100 due to Alexa), I would say this one is performing as good, if not better than expected. Spotify isn't great, but it has been very stable on Apple. Rita's performance so far is definitely disappointing but I wouldn't count it out, just yet. Still got some time before album release which is when I expect interest will peak.

I have seen so mane performance videos being shared, with the various show effects. I imagine that has helped give a more viral effect outside the tour area than normal. Otherwise, yeah, the hype for Taylor right now is mad.

I am hoping the album has some more exciting material on it than Boat, which makes up his top 3 (Boat to be starred out). If Boat is the next best option after Eyes Closed, this album will be a snooze fest. Don’t get the love for Daylight. The muffled sound in the chorus is quite off putting. Even still, glad to see some more movement at the top end of the chart. Really hope Kim recovers on Spotify after that nose dive. Apple at least is pretty stable.

I wouldn’t consider it stand out this early on but it is way better than the last single. The versus are much stronger than the chorus and the sample is very well done. Really hoping this does something for her. If it can happen for Zara with crap streaming support, who knows!

I went for Jack Black, Jo Bro, Tech It Deep and NF - the first track of his that has charted this year I like. The David Guetta song just feels lazy and unnecessary.

So pleased for Libianca. Never expected this to go top 10, let alone top 2. Here’s hoping she can get a week at the top. Other than that, what a depressing top 10. Is anyone still choosing to listen to Green Green Grass?

I went with JISOO, Maisie, Melanie, cat burns and dogtooth. Wasn’t as keen on the other Tyler track.

+12 Gorillaz - Silent Running (feat. Adeleye Omotayo) - best Gorillaz track in years :wub: +10 Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding - Miracle +8 Nothing But Thieves - Welcome To The DCC +7 Lana Del Rey - Paris, Texas (feat. SYML) +6 Zara Larsson - Can't Tame Her +5 Hozier - Eat Your Young +4 Mae Muller - I Wrote A Song +3 Miley Cyrus - River +2 RAYE - Flip A Switch +1 KAROL G and Shakira - TQG

Expected a bit better for JISOO. I suppose the lack of multiple versions limited it’s sales impact.

You can just tell the end of year chart is going to very depressing at this point with the amount of 2022 and older music that will make up the list. There just isn’t much excitement around any new stuff currently.

Definitely a tough list to pick a best and worst for. We Found Love has a lot of nostalgia for me from uni nights out, which swayed that. Summer as the worst, purely because I don’t like his vocals on it. The production is still great though.