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This! I totally agree and it’s been something I’ve been thinking about the last few weeks. I mean I personally think the charts singles and albums are an absolute mess and have been for a while. With albums though, they could easily change rules to allow for more bigger sales, allowing for all album tracks to count would be a good start, Red certainly would have benefited a lot from this and equals.

A comedown on yesterday but she’s still got the whole album top 20 on Spotify and AM in the U.K. Glad I Drink Wine is climbing, it’s really grown on me over a few listens. Will be interesting to see how the special impacts the streaming side of this things tomorrow.

I think Sam Fender might be a good shout for best British male actually

If 30 can hold similar streaming numbers over the weekend (very unlikely) then she could have a decent shot at beating Ed’s record for streaming sales. I think 50k as previously suggested though could be a likely outcome though, the ITV special could potentially give the album another kick on Monday.

It’s not based on what had been posted so far. I’m just making a crude estimate if it was that’s what I think it’ll be.

Oh I may have misread the earlier comments haha. Either way streaming added it’ll be closer to 120-130k for the first day.

It was more me comparing the first set of data we have for Adele against Ed’s whole week. So with the missing streaming data and vinyls she’s probably done around 130-140 I would have thought.

You can’t compare Ed who is the biggest act on Spotify who set streaming records with his last album to then fall massively short to Adele who hasn’t really been around for several years. She’s still likely sold as much as Ed did in an entire week in one day. I think she may still get 300k but yeah the physical market is dead. Unless they tweak how streaming is counted towards the albums market, we are never going to get back to how big the sales ever were.

I think 250-300k is still possible, I think she’ll have steady sales like Abba did in the physicals the next few days. Plus the streaming, which I reckon could be 30-40k.

Yeah I wouldn’t call it’s flop, Adele will however be a consistent seller for several weeks though. I agree the physical market is almost dead these days. Given Adele hasn’t really been a massive streaming force I don’t think you can say it’s an underperformance, it’ll sell well over the coming weeks I’m sure.

Oh my god looks a good bet to be her highest charting track. I wonder how it’ll look with streams combined from Amazon music and Apple.

She has the top 12 in both the U.K. and US and the whole album is top 20 on the global chart. Very good start although the numbers are a little lower than I thought they’d be but I have a feeling it’ll hold better during the coming days. Equals didn’t even manage the full top end of the chart upon release so it’s doing better in comparison . The streaming record might be safe though

Having had a few listens I do really like this album, almost as good as 21 which is one of my all time favourites. Love the Amy whinehouse style jazzy interludes. The backing vocals I found quite amusing too. It’s more diverse than any of her other albums, more uplifting and positive than I was expecting. 25 seemed dark and gloomy despite it was a happier themed album.

Will be interesting to see how it holds on AM music today and of course the Spotify update. I must say I’m slightly surprised at my little love being up so high. Personally it’s not my favourite from the album, I think it’s one of the worst tracks tbh. To Be Loved seems to be slowly inching up though. What Is actually meant to be the second single? Is It I Drink Wine?

Lol are people getting fed up before they get to Love is a Game haha (joking of course). It’s a brilliant song to finish the album on. Looks like Oh My God is fast becoming the favourite album track, surprised at how well my little love is doing, I wonder if it’s more people are just leaving it on after Easy On Me.

Music week have just published an article on 30. The steaming equivalent sales record is 78,994.

Haven’t got all the way through it yet but I’m liking it more than 25 on an initial listen. Only got to I Drink Wine, Can I get it is a bop though and strangers by nature is brilliant way to open the album. What did divide do in first week streams? Wasn’t it 79k or something like that? I do think she could be within the 50-80k bracket at least streams wise. Her physicals will be interesting to see.

Oh ok. I’ll wait till the morning to listen, I need to get some rest for the emotional rollercoaster tomorrow. I’m sure next weeks thread will surpass this one, there’s been a lot drama filled chart prediction threads in recent weeks. Next week will be interesting for sure.

How are people hearing 30 already? That’s said I will wait till the drive into work tomorrow till I listen. Sorry going off topic!

Not sure if this is aimed at me, but I do know why she recorded it so I don’t need educating. It was a broad comment encompassing all instances where this is happened I was making that’s all. I knew I shouldn’t have said anything :lol:

Easy on me seems to be pulling away nicely, thougt Taylor would have caught up. At the risk of starting another debate, given Taylor is locked in for the no1 album. Not that I’m joining a hate brigade against Taylor but surely albums and singles that are re-released and hit no1 a second time shouldn’t count as another no1. Yes there are extra tracks but deluxe versions of albums don’t count so I don’t see why the occ should be counting this as a new no1 album, technically she’s still on 7. Fearless never reached no1 so that’s a different story.

Ah yeah that’s the one, she uploaded it not long ago.

Adele’s just sang a live version of to be loved on Instagram. Absolutely sublime, im getting someone like you feels all over again.

I read that as 1989 television :lol: I was going to say, that would be a cool idea for the re-release of 1989.

I think it’s totally fair for artists to have signed copies but 30k is an incredible amount. I’m very doubtful she actually signed all those. At least with Ed he probably did sit there and sign a few thousand. I think it’s pushing the limit of acceptability is my frank opinion. Everyone would be kicking off if Ed had 30k of signed albums he suddenly had added to his sales midweek.