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Pirates certainly picked up the silent votes there, I barely saw it mentioned in the threads before. I thought it was a decent response record with a smooth vocal from Shola Ama. Going for Sundown again here.

Knowing Chappell’s career trajectory though, some other song from her album would have blown up out of nowhere, she seems to go viral with everything. I don’t think she could have waited forever, as it is it’s her first new release in nearly a year. She must be so eager to get new stuff out by now, some of the songs on her album are half a decade old. However well or not The Giver does this week, it will probably have a second wind in about six months time regardless 😂 country songs have a tendency to have legs in the charts here as people can take longer to warm up to them and radio pick them up more gradually over time. I’m really into it myself so I hope it is a decent hit.

Cool to see the extended version of Picture Of You on there. I've got that on a compilation somewhere of 90s 12" versions.

Placebo but both are very strong.

Very easy - Aaliyah, what a gem and what a talent.

Gone for P!nk, sorry. For me it just didn’t click as a lead single. I only enjoyed God Is A DJ from that album’s singles run.

3 is ok with me. I tend to vote in them all together so doesn’t really matter too much to me if it’s 2 or 3.

Oh, I wasn't expecting FUFN. Early 2010s style pop banger, love it. Jungle and The Giver are also very much up my street, so will have to vote later once I've had a few plays.

On the odd occasion they do, but it's hit and miss. Now 119 had auto-rip for sure, but haven't had it on the recent spin-offs or Yearbooks I've ordered from there. I also find Amazon release day delivery hit and miss with pre-orders. So generally I don't pre-order but I wait until midnight of release day and then they sometimes give you about an hour between 12 and 1am to order and get delivery later that day.

I like it myself. But then I enjoyed the live version a lot and that in itself made the top ten in my personal chart, which is rare without a studio. Seems like she’s having fun and trying different things and isn’t doing what people would expect from her at this point, not that I expected her to. I don’t think a full country album would suit her at this point, nor do I expect to see one coming, but as a one-off I’m finding it fun and catchy. Probably is a bit too country to be a mega UK hit. Even most of Shania’s 90s country hits were remixed into more pop/dance versions to smash here. This is very hoedown, not sure there’s a precedent of many hits here sounding this country before. Be interested to see how it does on radio in the US. It’s an interesting career move though in that she has a lot of momentum behind her now so a really huge pop single at this point could have sent her stratospheric with a 9+ week No.1. It’s quite brave to release this instead at this moment, but she’s so early into her mainstream success that I doubt how this song does will have any major bearing on how the second album does.

Not sure I ever bothered past the second listen. Completely throwaway for me sadly.

Alien Ant Farm. I honestly prefer it to MJ's original.

Mad'House and their Black Legend style production for me. I actually bought their album of (mostly) Madonna covers at the time and loved their take on La Isla Bonita and Holiday (with production nicked from Stardust).

Easy one for me, I thought the Lolly cover was a bit generic and crap. Celine obviously turned in a powerful vocal for her take on this so that alone wins it for me.

Great track, very slick production, catchy and great vocals. They are really magical together.

Coolio and Gala were my favourites of that week, I still love both a lot and they really take me back to that summer. I didn't expect just how gigantic a legacy Freed From Desire would leave though, I still hear it everywhere, all the time, especially now it seems to soundtrack every major sporting event. The Oasis single is overblown and I've never been keen on it, I really only enjoyed Stand By Me from that album. Also not big on the MJ single, not one I ever hear or even hear people talk about now.

I really liked the Eric Prydz sample! Comfortably Numb was good - I did prefer all the other singles from the album.

Voted No Doubt! Good version.

I'd like to see The Giver open with 500k+ on Spotify, people are surely crying out for new music by this point, not just from Chappell, one of the biggest breakthrough acts of recent times, but just big new music generally. Sales at the top end are so low that I'd hope she can manage at least a 45k weekly chart sale from the goodwill of The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess. I loved the sound of the track on SNL personally, very excited for the studio version.

Remember Monday – What The Hell Just Happened? (grows more on me with each listen, hopefully people 'get it' on the first listen as Eurovision is very much about instant gratification, very unique entry) Lady Gaga – Vanish Into You (a solid album track from a fantastic album) Chloe Qisha – Sex, Drugs & Existential Dread (good pop track, most things I've heard from Chole have been tbf!) JENNIE feat. Dua Lipa – Handlebars Supersister – Lock Your Boyfriends Up (was this a demo they had at the time that they've reheated, what in the 2001 Cheiron throwback?) Elton John & Brandi Carlile – Swing For The Fences (not as good as the first track I heard from this album) NATHY PELUSO – EROTIKA James Arthur – KARAOKE (ugh)

KAJ - Bara Bada Bastu Loreen - Tattoo *.* Melodifestivalen winners special in the low top 100.

Or maybe No.2, as just remembered it was released the same week as Vertigo by U2 😄 Still...a bold choice to lead with in front of Call On Me/These Words/Love Machine.

I have a feeling the single was released just a week before Now, so when compiling they probably thought it was quite a coup to get a new Blue single so early. Problem being that it was widely expected to be a No.1 and ended up at No.4 with just one week in the top ten.

Sundown again.

Blue for the same reason as last time, managed to make a great sample boring. The weakest song I can remember opening a Now compilation.