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America picking the the more classic ABBA track of the two, hopefully top 10 shortly. More Aaliyah great to see though was hoping to see Are You That Somebody as the higher of the two big tracks re-released yesterday.

Thank god for ACR with these big 20+ track album drops.

As much as I would love ABBA to be top, I can't see Ed dropping enough sales or ABBA's sales being high enough to stop him getting two weeks at least at the top. The fact it only has 10 tracks will not help given the album stream rules, so Ed will have an advantage with 14 tracks available and the top 12 making up album 'sales' compared to ABBA's 10. Agree with post noting the Christmas/winter single with the right promo could get it to the top later on still.

This might cost them getting number one but I don’t think it will hurt the sales, which I imagine the label care more about. If people are at HMV for Ed’s album, it might bring more casual listeners to pick up ABBA’s at the same time. Going to be a good Q4 for physical sales after the last few years. Outside of the UK it will have a lot greater chance to get the top spot so will no doubt get a number one album in many other territories.

A number of exciting releases this week. Looking forward to seeing how things develop. ABBA rightfully at the top, definitely the most exciting music story for the week.

That cheque from Riton’s label must have been pretty hefty :lol:

There are different ratios for premium and free streams, so it isn’t a set 1:100 like it used to be. Unless you know the free to premium ratio, it is hard to calculate.

Tik Tok has certainly kept the chart interesting with surprises like this. The fact streaming makes the chart more about consumption rather than sales has stopped large sales being a problem to things doing well long term or rebounding. Just a shame they don’t pick up recently released tracks as quick (with the exception of Doja Cat it seems). :lol: Glad Lizzo is back on the rise, still really enjoying rumours.

I went with top 40. Don’t see how they will do with streaming. Most of the discussions I saw around Time was people thinking JLS made a drill song which drove a lot of curiosity listens. Not sure if that will translate with an official single in their more traditional pop/R&B sound (if it is pop as I suspect).

So pleased to see the re-peak for Aaliyah. Clearly still has a very dedicated fanbase stateside. Shame it didn’t chart here in the UK where she had more notable hits from the album.

It’s a shame we haven’t had a recent sales update for these publicly available so we get an idea of their weekly/annual sales in the streaming era.

I see all the drama about the never mind baby suing nirvana has given the album a good boost

It’s £19 at HMV so even for casual fans browsing the shops that is going to put people off. I do like the idea however and would probably get if it was an artist I followed (with reasonable pricing). Hoping the drop for The Killers isn’t too drastic this week. Really enjoying the album & the abridged version definitely makes it more streaming friendly.

Arcade is still creeping up after all this time! Looking forward to seeing how far it goes. :D Great achievement for The Weeknd. Looks set to push that record threshold much further too.

Fully expecting it to scrape top 20 and then stick around forever at the low end of the chart. Don’t know how big her core fanbase are, but the fact all her solo songs (with no features/extra artist credit attached) have struggled doesn’t give me much hope there is one. Glad to see The Killers looking comfortable. It is a very cohesive album which hopefully will help encourage people to listen to the whole thing rather than cherry pick 1-2 tracks. Dave would need quite the last minute boost to catch up now. :lol:

Tinashe not even scraping top 100 :cry:

I am hoping when they do finally get Jamie off of Britney’s conservatorship, there will be enough media attention and fan support to give the catalogue a big boost. Nice to see that sales update. Respectable boost to Sometimes. Don’t think it is as well remembered as most of the other big hits.

Don’t know if it was always the plan but definitely the right course of action. NDA didn’t really set the charts alight whereas Happier Than Ever has a lot more going for it. Hoping Oxytocin starts climbing more as it is a clear stand out on the album.

It all depends on your definition of how success is measured and if that is referring to just the UK or worldwide. Little Mix have definitely had the longest running chart career from the show (not looking at the solo acts that started in a group), but sales wise (singles or albums) they would fall short compared to One Direction globally. Definitely a good argument to make that statement focusing on the UK alone though.

P!nk has been far more stable than I expected. Shame the peak position wasn’t great.

I see Mabel's album has gone platinum. Would love to see the sales/streaming breakdown for this :lol:

He is looking pretty good at doing so considering that update has a lot of missing data. Great result for him. Will be interesting to see how well sales hold up next week.

I hope Billboard review their rules in terms of streaming/download/airplay ratios. It is clear looking at the streaming that they are not even close to being the most listened to track of the week. Butter is much better than Permission To Dance though, so I don’t blame the army swapping back to that :lol:

Tbh, I would rather see Dua getting another top 40 than Chris Brown so worse mistakes that could happen. :P

Bezos I about the break through!