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Kylie appearing on the bubbling under chart.

Here we gooooo. Glad we are starting with a hit established in 2025 instead of an old song.

A good showing on Spotify yesterday. Bank in the global chart at #106 with 2,374,678 streams. Winter Wonderland and I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday have also shown up in some European top 200 charts.

Looking forward to it. Been far too long since we got an album and an especially dry year for Leona fans. First year we haven't had any new music whatsoever (bar a teaser in one of her 'everything's a ballad' series) since she debuted in 2006!

I am guessing the omissions are down to the tracks not being singles, so their only release came after downloads were available. On the BPI site, Let Down has a 2007 release date and Lover You Should Come Over has 2004. Then again, The Chain was also not available to purchase before downloads and that is counted, so who knows.

Says it all that the most exciting release of the week (for me at least) is a remix of a 2007 single.

Beautiful Things looking set to drop out next week before it can hit 100 unbroken weeks in the chart.

9 - 360 7 - Club classics 10 - Sympathy is a knife 6 - I might say something stupid 8 - Talk talk 9 - Von dutch 6 - Everything is romantic 8 - Rewind 9 - So I 8 - Girl, so confusing 10 - Apple 8 - B2b 7 - Mean girls 7 - I think about it all the time 10 - 365 8 - Hello goodbye 8 - Guess 8 - Spring breakers 8 - 360 featuring robyn & yung lean 4 - Club classics featuring bb trickz 5 - Sympathy is a knife featuring ariana grande 3 - I might say something stupid featuring the 1975 & jon hopkins 10 - Talk talk featuring troye sivan 7 - Von dutch a. g. cook remix featuring addison rae 6 - Everything is romantic featuring caroline polachek 6 - Rewind featuring bladee 7 - So I featuring a. g. cook 9 - Girl, so confusing featuring lorde 8 - Apple featuring the japanese house 8 - B2b featuring tinashe 7 - Mean girls featuring julian casablancas 4 - I think about it all the time featuring bon iver 5 - 365 featuring shygirl 9 - Guess featuring billie eilish 9 - Spring breakers featuring kesha 8 - Von dutch remix with skream and benga

It’s more new people downloading rather than streaming that gets me. Would have thought the market was mainly those who used to download whilst it was the most popular format.

I know sales aren’t high on iTunes now, but still baffles me who at this point is only now downloading wham, Pogues and Mariah.

I am loving the version featuring Toni Braxton right now. So nice to hear this kind of R&B doing well.

Gary Barlow & The Commonwealth Band ‘Sing’ EP is the last I can recall which reached #1, though that was a charity release so a bit different. Also had 7 tracks.

I make that 8/12 tracks from The Art Of Loving top 40. Can’t imagine there are many other examples for this kind, of an album dominating the charts outside of a release week. Also yes to Raye climbing still.

Samantha Mumba!

It is the original P Diddy line still.

Had a bit of time with Dopamine now. I do like it, but I think it is missing that big finish. Feels like it is building up to something and then just fizzles out. Always nice to have new Robyn still.

No doubt Kelly Clarkson being the second song on Spotify’s biggest Christmas playlist has helped. If only One More Sleep had better playlist positioning to benefit too, but it is way down at #65. 😭

Just seen it, looks glorious! Glad Sony also added on the Echo era b-sides, US exclusives and I See You for the vinyl. Shame we don’t have most of those on streaming, downloadable or a cd version still.

What a moment for the charts. Never would have predicted seeing Bjork in the uk top 40 again, even if just as a feature.

The quiet period for big releases begins…

It is showing up for me as well now, so they must have resolved whatever issue they had making it unavailable for a period.

Looks like I Run is not available on Spotify anymore (UK at least) and guessing it is the same on the other platforms. Suspected something fishy was going on for this song to blow up so quick globally with no prior releases by the artist.

I have been getting Buckle on autoplay today, so not that surprised to see it showing up now.

Was the highlight of the results show.

Really hoping Rein Me In gets that third decline this week. Well overstayed its welcome.