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Does anyone know if the tracks were remastered at all?

No they don’t? Easy Lover, Let It Die, By The End of the Night and Like a Saviour do not have 600 million streams each. What are you smoking?

Amazon had created 9 Xmas playlists that year. River was the only song to have appeared on all of them. She was guaranteed to be played by track 15 if they were being played in order and she was even played by track 4 on 66% of them. Truly a song chosen by corporate overlords and practically zero people went out of their way to listen to it on Amazon considering it only had a measly 153 sales. Mariah sold literally 3,000 more copies than that digitally.

How does one prove their relevancy by having 5 singles fail to chart, needing 6 months of album pre-orders (with signed Christmas card upsells, signed artwork upsells, signed poster upsells, personalised voicenotes upsells, cheap £20 album + gig tickets incentives, live HMV signings with album purchase upsells, personalised signed copies on banquet records, Zoom competition preorder incentive and live show presales). Someone with actual relevancy probably wouldn’t need a last minute “oh shit, I need to get into the studio with Calvin moment” to save this era along with the gazillion previously mentioned preorder options and then fail to even get 2 million streams on its first day. And then her Twitter chart stans have suddenly stopped reporting everything after its second day of streams, which is hilarious. You’d expect someone with relevancy to have a relevant amount of streams on Spotify to shout about. 44 million monthly listeners and barely any of them choose to listen to the new album.

I feel like 2016 and onwards were the years she started being replaced by Dua Lipa as the “it girl” when she failed to do anything off Delirium’s rollout and campaign. By weirdly positioning herself as the soundtrack ballad singer for both 50 Shades and Bridget Jones was such a double edge sword that put herself into a box that I think affected future label expectations and her artistry arc in ways that she’s still dealing with today. This album seems very much a call and response to Future Nostalgia and it’s trying to catch up with what she was doing 3 years ago going by sharing her previous management and enlisting Koz for production. Just like when she went the Delirium route with Max Martin after 1989’s success. Shows either a lack of vision or confidence. Or she and her label and management are content to follow in the direction, soundscapes and general previously (riches filled) trodden paths as others.

It’s because some Amazon live performance with those songs also dropped.

I genuinely feel sorry for people that are constantly keeping tabs on such relatively meaningless chart milestones. Especially once they get super specific about the criteria. I’d much rather their labels be the one to care and talk about such totals rather than people on Twitter slavishly bleating these records into the void.

I Need Your Love has one of the most tone deaf track placements of all time with it being shoved at the end of Halcyon.

Sixteen is even worse though.

https://reddit.com/r/eurovision/comments/11..._the_uk_at_the/ How about the Eurovision choice, Mae Muller. Is she lying?

Wow, you sure proved me wrong. Now I found out that a transphobe previously lied then that also means that Calvin might be lying, too!

Their last effort at promotion was Christmas card bundles over 2 months ago.

Good thing they’re doing so much active promotion between the label and Ellie to secure enough additional preorders to do well.

No. The show’s about the winners, not the losers.