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Week 5 Ranking: 1. Tomara Thomas (05-03-01-01) 2. Kate Butch (02-01-03-02) 3. Ginger Johnson (04-04-05-03) 4. Banksie (07-07-02-04) 5. Michael Marouli (03-02-04-05) 6. Vicki Vivacious (06-05-06-06) 7. Cara Melle (01-06-08-07) 8. Dede Licious (10-09-07-08)

That seems like a rather sudden drop for Troye given it's steady performance so far. Maybe taken off some autoplay for some?

04.5 Young Love 05.0 Come Give Your Love to Me 03.5 Say You Do 04.0 Don't Stand Another Chance 01.0 Two to the Power of Love (ft Cliff Richard) 03.0 Fast Girls 08.5 What Have You Done For Me Lately 09.0 Nasty 08.5 When I Think of You 08.0 Control 07.0 Let's Wait Awhile 10.0 The Pleasure Principle 07.0 Funny How Times Flies (When You're Having Fun) 09.0 Miss You Much 10.0 Rhythm Nation 10.0 Escapade 08.5 Alright 06.0 Come Back to Me 08.0 Black Cat 09.0 Love Will Never Do (Without You) 08.0 State of the World 06.0 The Best Things In Life Are Free (ft Luther Vandross) 11.0 That's The Way Love Goes 10.0 If 06.0 Again 07.5 Because of Love 10.0 Any Time, Any Place 11.0 Throb 06.0 You Want This (ft MC Lyte) 07.0 Whoops Now 07.5 What'll I'll Do 07.0 Scream (ft Michael Jackson) 07.5 Runaway 06.0 Twenty Foreplay 09.0 Got 'til It's Gone (ft Q-Tip & Joni Mitchell) 10.0 Together Again 11.0 I Get Lonely (ft Blackstreet) 10.0 Go Deep 08.0 You 07.5 Every Time 04.0 Luv Me Luv Me (ft Shaggy) 06.0 What's It Gonna Be (ft Busta Rhymes) 05.0 Girlfriend/Boyfriend (ft Blackstreet) 08.0 Doesn't Really Matter 09.0 All For You 07.0 Someone To Call My Lover 06.5 Son of a Gun (ft Carly Simon & Missy Elliot) 04.0 Feel It Boy (ft Beenie Man) 04.0 Just A Little While 05.0 I Want You 07.0 All Nite (Don't Stop) 02.5 Call On Me (ft Nelly) 04.0 So Excited (ft Khia) 08.0 Feedback 09.0 Rock With U 07.5 Make Me 02.0 Nothing 07.5 No Sleeep 07.0 Unbreakable 08.0 BURNITUP (ft Missy Elliot) 08.5 Dammn Baby 05.0 Made For Now (ft Daddy Yankee)

Sam's vocal delivery on this is a huge jumpscare.

1. Tomara Thomas (05-03-01) 2. Banksie (07-07-02) 3. Kate Butch (02-01-03) 4. Michael Marouli (03-02-04) 5. Ginger Johnson (04-04-05) 6. Vicki Vivacious (06-05-06) 7. Dede Licious (10-09-07) 8. Cara Melle (01-06-08) 9. Naomi Carter (09-08-09)

Yeah, this definitely wasn’t the highs of last episode. I never love challenges like this where they have to somehow make serious topics funny. I hate that “mix of vulnerability and make me laugh” challenges. Give me a straight up stand up challenge over this any day. Banksie is fast becoming one of my faves. What a star. This episode really put me off both Cara and Vicki. Also Tomara’s star just KEEPS on rising!

Did 'Rush' ever reach this high on Spotify? I never remember it being top 20.

This is the kind of framing which is looking for a justification of terrorism. Hamas, who clearly state that on their charter their main aim is religious warfare and a day of "final judgement" where they "kill all Jews", if you think this kind of rhetoric is just based on bad and divisive Isreali policies then we definitely have a massive blind spot here. It based in deep routed antisemitism. This is not just calling for Isreal to give up more fair settlements, it is not calling even just for the end of Israel, it is killing for the massacre of every Jew in the world (all 7 million in Israel and 7.5 million outside Israel). The fact is that sadly the extremists connected to the Muslim Brotherhood have had a massive problem with antisemitism for a VERY long time, very much outdating the 1948 state of Israel. It is well known that the leader of the Palestianian movement Amin Al-Husayni actually advised the Nazi's back in 1933 before Israel was created. This obviously does not mean that all of the Arab civilian population around Israel is antisemitic, I am not suggesting that. But with the current Iranian regime chanting 'death to Israel' in their actual parliament. To suggest Hamas is alone as a terrorist organisation fighting for "resistance" is to both ignore the conjoined efforts of multiple extreme Jihadi regimes in the Middle East to rid Isreal from the map, whilst also ignoring that sadly antisemitism massively outdates any of the debates about land settlements in the area.

The current climate in the world maybe tells you why...

Whilst I absolutely agree that the death toll for the Palestinians is horrendously high when compared with Isreal, I do feel like these numbers are often branded about without the context they exist within. They are used without understanding why this is so. 1. Isreal only ever includes number of civilians killed in conflict. Gaza famously reports their own numbers including Hamas terrorists who have been killed in strikes against their terrorist infrastructure. Many of these numbers will include thousands of direct deaths of Hamas extremists. 2. Hamas is known for keeping it's own people as human shields. As well as building underground tunnels, they hide their weapons in schools, hospitals and civilian homes deliberately so that the death toll is as high as possible on their side. They have even been known to keep Gazan family's hostages in their own home so they cannot escape bombfire from Israelis. 3. The death toll has been historically low in Israel due to the Iron Dome defence system. Over 3,000 rockets were aimed DIRECTLY at Isreali civilian homes last weekend alone. Could you imagine if the Iron Dome was not there to intercept them? There would be tens of thousands of Israeli citizens dead in one single day. I do not condone all the Isreali strikes against Gaza in any way, but they have never in their history tried to aim as many rockets at that aimlessly at Gaza, without at least trying to aim for terrorist bases. The Iron Dome is the ONLY reason there has been so few Isreali deaths before last Saturday. It does not indicate restraint from the other side in the slightest. Anything but.

Good luck with that antisemitic album you speak of.

This is great! Very light and definitely less moody than I would expect from a Loreen song but still has everything we love about her… this is going to be a lovely earworm I’m sure.

Week 3: 1. Kate Butch (02-01) 2. Michael Marouli (03-02) 3. Tomara Thomas (05-03) 4. Ginger Johnson (04-04) 5. Vicki Vivacious (06-05) 6. Cara Melle (01-06) 7. Banksie (07-07) 8. Naomi Carter (09-08) 9. Dede Licious (10-09)

My favourite episode in a long time. Everyone killed it and the runways were spectacular. Kate Butch and Ginger Johnson need more recognition imo. Both ate that challenge. Michael and Vicki also stay as consulate professionals delivering every week.

It is definitely not a stupid question. It is a very valid one in fact. That is why they decided that the only way to be safe is to have one country in the world where they were not a minority. Throughout history, whenever Jewish people were the minority they were persecuted, murdered violently or made refugees. It is such a complex history of thousand of years of persecution. This does not mean I am condoning Israeli settlement policy. This does not mean I support Netanyahu's right wing government. But you have to understand where it comes from and that is the basic need to survive against all odds throughout history. Now yet again we have almost 50% of the world's whole Jewish population being attacked from all angles. Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan all are raising their heads to say that Israel should not exist. Jews have seen this before, and that is why sadly they have had to surround themselves with such massive military might. Hamas do the Palestinian people no good either. They have in their 1988 charter: "The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: 'O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him." This is what they believe... people on the left want to shout about how this is nothing to do with 'religious hatred' but for Hamas, it is. In black in white in their own words, they believe they have to kill Jewish people in the name of Allah. It is such a shame that people are supporting them and the Palestinians chose a terrorist group who's hate for Jews actively puts Palestinians at danger of even worse living conditions and even more horrible bombing by Israel. But you cannot negotiate with a terrorist organisation who just want the second holocaust.

#26 in todays midweeks - up from #33 on Monday. Signed copies definitely helping… maybe this can manage a top 40 place afterall? I’m predicting a top 50/60 is more likely though.

Hmmm I think she should have strike whilst the iron is hot but this is still rising and about to go #1? I would have held off another 4-6 weeks at least to make sure it doesn’t get lost.

Kenya and Tate would be a great official top 2!

If these are the sales so far, I reckon she will end the week at between 1,700 to 1,800. Streaming won’t add basically anything as it’s so low and I feel like most of the rest of the sales this week will come from the signed copies about to get sent out tomorrow. If she does that kind of number it would have reached somewhere between #75 - #90 on last weeks album chart. That is what I’m expecting now.

To be fair... that is what I expected. James Blake debuted at #30 in the Monday midweeks last week though and he charted outside the top 100 so I think this could easily happen for Mae.

It needs around 6,800 to go Silver this week doesn't it? I am hoping that when streaming data is added, it should hopefully just manage it? I am hoping it can at least manage 7k end of week total which should be enough to keep her top 5/6?

The first day Spotify streams are tragic. All the new songs were streamed around 5,000-9,000 times. ‘Nervous’ managed 72,000 due to being on NMF but the rest has really tragic numbers. I feel for her.

I’m actually really pleasantly surprised by this album though. The worst songs are definitely the singles… why they chose ‘Me, Myself & I’, ‘MTJL’ and ‘Written By A Woman’ as the post-Eurovision songs, I will never know. It basically made me write this album off as the material was so weak. ‘Nervous’, ‘Something New’, ‘Little Bit Sad’ and ‘Miss America’ are really lovely and well-produced 80s leaning pop songs. I would have had no clue there were songs of this quality on this album if I hadn’t decided to look past the singles. The two former ones would have been GREAT follow ups to IWAS.

Hmmmm I am not convinced. The album market is dead and her promo on socials have been getting no traction. He has hidden her likes now but her Banquet Record signing one got barely a few hundred likes most of the day before the likes were hidden. I’m predicting 1.5-2k end of week max. I can see this entering at somewhere between #80-#100 on the album chart.

If I had to use 7/7 I would do the following: 1. Padam Padam 2. Supernova 3. Say Something 4. Things We Do For Love 5. Tension 6. Real Groove 7. Hold On To Now 8. Dancefloor Darling 9. Miss A Thing 10. Story 11. Magic (Bonus Track) 12. You Still Get Me High (Bonus Track) 13. Kiss Of Life (Bonus Track) 14. Vegas High (Bonus Track)