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Are they actually boycotting her or did they just not play Santa Tell Me?

Even if you’re not a fan of Kylie nor Scamazon’s shenanigans you can’t deny it’s nice to have a battle for the Xmas #1 again.

Ed Sheeran and Taylor haters are not going to be happy to hear how prominently their duet features in her new documentary. Would expect to see big uplifts over the weekend for Everything Has Changed.

It's not too surprising. She's only had one Top 20 hit there in the past decade and they likely don't have the same Amazon promotion. A Christmas song was always going to be a hard sell. It's unlikely she'd be charting in the UK if not for Amazon.

It’s odd how Hold My Hand’s success on TikTok didn’t really lead to a major increase in streams on Spotify, etc. I barely recall seeing it on the daily charts.

As it’s a live album I imagine its sales would be very fan-driven and heavily drop off as the week progresses. Unless there’s some physical formats still to ship?

I really don’t think a music video is going to make much of a difference to Opalite’s chart performance, unless the song has a new single version or feature.

Has anyone ever topped both the Albums and Singles charts at Xmas? Curious if Kylie can do it. She'll have the Amazon boost and her team are going all out with physical variants of the Xmas album.

Very quiet week for releases, the music industry really goes into hibernation until January to avoid the Xmas songs.

Is it really not legal for shops to play stuff via Spotify/streaming services? Can they obtain a license if they need it?

I think the most impressive thing is how much bigger her second album era was than her debut. There are so few British female artists who maintain success, never mind having a bigger sophomore era. Adele is probably the only other one I can think of. Lily could so easily have ended up in a similar trajectory to the likes of Jessie J, Emeli Sande, Duffy, etc.

I think it was more a US chart thing as she currently has identical chart points to Golden in their unofficial midweeks.

How are radio censoring Pussy Palace to play it?

I believe it's a US chart play to boost her numbers to break Adele's record. There is some rule that a certain number of digital variants are allowed hence them releasing mid-week.