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Lol poor Ewan looks just destined to be no14 no matter how the chart is put together. Hoping it climbs in the new year, I feel like Sam fender may suffer a lower peak however due to the Christmas onslaught.

Happy GAYLE is doing well although slightly gutted that I Drink Wine didn’t manage to nab a no2 peak but hopefully it’ll just about keep No3.

Blimey, Adele might actually sail past 100k this week again, if she keeps up those daily sales. She’s already done what I initially thought she would sales wise this week. Surprised at Wham and Mariah climbing, hope Adele can pull back ahead but beginning to think it’s unlikely.

Yes sorry I was going on a bit of a tangent there but yes one easy way to implement it would be removing the daily cap and replacing it with a final one. Sure it wouldn’t stop people that are discovering or playing Xmas hits for the first time counting but we wouldn’t have a top 40 that has only a handful of non-festive songs in each year. I personally didn’t mind the big flood of Xmas songs the first couple of years, it was a nice change but it’s now becoming increasingly tedious.

I think with the Christmas songs it’s a good illustration for how ACR really wasn’t and isn’t the solution to the charts and trying to speed things up. If they are monopolising the chart with those rules applied, the way streaming is counted needs to completely change. Permanent capping is the only way forward imho.

Adele has done better than I thought, was worried she was going to do only 50-60k this week but it looks like she might up around 80k instead which is good going. Why is Ed waiting till the 10th for physicals? Is that the week of the Christmas chart? I thought it was later than that, seems an odd date to hold it back for if it’s not for the Xmas chart unless he’s worried he won’t beat Ladbaby

I think that’s right myself, not entirely sure. She’ll certainly be the first British female to do so and indeed the first have four no1 albums generally.

Actually having just seen the Spotify number I would have thought Adele should pull ahead of Ed with both songs. She’s doing 100k more than shivers with both songs and they are above on AM too.

That’s a very close battle between nos2-4, hope she can at least keep the top 2 off Ed.

I think (hoping too) that Tell Me Something Good will have a new year push and be able to finally leap into the top 10.

Oh blimey, I thought she had to No4 spot for some reason as the third track. Thanks for that and Bre too, I posted the reply without seeing then next page haha.

I think there needs to be a cap or cut off per account especially where singles are concerned. I think for albums though if you did that then sales would really hit rock bottom given then current way it’s calculated. 30 will be cutting it fine to get to 300k, but without knowing her typical daily rate it’s hard to gauge her daily amounts but even so I’m starting to think as well it’ll be more 280k or something. Hoping I’m wrong though. Be interesting to see if she’s managed to claim the whole top 3 in the singles on the next update, did Ariana manage that with the TUN era? I feel like she just missed out.

Urgh is ladbaby really doing another song? I know it’s for charity but I hope it flops, fed up of these terrible one week wonder charity records. It’s as bad as the X factor dominating every year.

Nice boost for Adele on Spotify for yesterday and she’s still holding up well on AM today so far. I think 45-50k from streaming still looks very likely this week for her which is amazing. I Drink Wine is safe I think as the third track, whether it can move past shivers we’ll have to see. Interested to see what her album sales look like on the next update for 30.

I suspect her streaming numbers will go up on Spotify tomorrow given how AM has responded today. Hopefully she can break Arianas streaming record for the week for a female act. I think I Drink Wine will leap frog My Little Love again tomorrow, really surprised at how that has done so well so far. I don’t know anyone who likes it but a lot of people clearly do.

I agree, it makes a mess allowing fans to vote. Best British video was a good example of how much of a mess that became. Still at least the genres are back.

Yes for I drink wine. I wonder if the special last night will be enough to dislodge Ed for her to take the entire top 3. I drink wine is also top 10 on iTunes too now.

Singles wise I think I Drink Wine will probably edge out My Little Love for the third Adele track following the ITV special last night. At least I’m hoping so.

I did but it still wasn’t clear if that was going to be handed out in the show or not, given it wasn’t listed at the bottom with the other awards. Glad that seems to be the case.

Maybe it’s US sales the 300k? I feel like that would be more accurate given the bigger market.

This means Adele could win more awards potentially if the global icon is something that will keep running. Did I read that right as well there will be a best producer and songwriter of the year awards too? That I think would be a brilliant addition

I’m glad they’ve brought back the genres, I’ve been saying for a while I thought they should. Although a little perplexed as to why pop and RnB have been put together. I think they should be separate tbh. Not sure what to make of the removal of the gender awards. I guess in a way the music and the artist are what should be awarded and that’s what’s happening here. I do wish the international category had a song/album part to it.

Ok cool thanks!

Also that sales figure would that include the streaming as I feel like it’s always added on around Monday or Tuesday?

Decent start for 30, I think she could just get to 300k this week, which isn’t too far off what I thought. Given the physicals market has collapsed it was never going to magically pull out half a million units. 300k in the current market is phenomenal, that’s only 65k off the biggest selling album of the year so far so I think that needs to be put into perspective. Also I think I’m right in saying she will take the record for the most no1 albums by a British female solo artist with 30. All from debut which again I think even internationally, no female act has has their first four albums top the chart and in their debut week too. (Correct me if I’m wrong).