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Great to see Dave's 3 albums all in the Top 40

fwiw my vinyl was shipped at just after 4pm today so almost certainly won't be included in today's figures, if that's consistent across many people could be a decent bump in the Wednesday mids at least

mad that Spotify haven't fixed that yet, it's not like daylight savings is a new phenomenon lol for comparison's sake, We're All Alone did 57,941 streams in the hour after release, History has done 79,588

Depends what you're measuring I'd say. On a worldwide stage I'd say Cench is definitely the biggest UK rapper, but domestically I'd argue Dave still has him beat. We'll see how Dave's new album does of course, but in terms of streaming equivalent album sales Cench did 22.5k earlier this year with a 17 track album (therefore 16 tracks counting towards album streaming sales) while WAAITT did 32.5k despite only having 12 tracks. If TBWPTH can get more than 22.5k streaming sales despite only having 10 tracks I'd definitely still say Dave is the biggest UK rapper domestically.

With a little under 24 hours to go until the release of The Boy Who Played the Harp, what do you think its opening sales will look like? PSYCHODRAMA opened with 26,390 in 2019; We're All Alone In This Together opened with 74,191 in 2021.

Taylor seems to be on track to do about 20k - 25k on albums next week in total, I can easily see Dave doing double that by Monday. I would be surprised if it's even remotely close next week.

I'm a firm no on this, and I would also go the other direction and completely remove ACR (and the 3 song rule). Personally I value the charts being accurate far more than I value them being exciting. I don't think anyone is owed any chart position, if a track gets a low chart position because a bunch of older songs are still above it then the song simply wasn't popular enough to warrant a higher chart position in my view.

I think there's a decent chance of all 3 of his charting songs being Top 10 as WAAITT did (and PD very nearly did) so if History is one of those 3 it could very well be James Blake's first ever Top 10 hit! Also, managed to cop tickets to the tour, so excited.

I know I for one have already pre-ordered the triple pack vinyl bundle of PSYCHODRAMA, We're All Alone In This Together and The Boy Who Played The Harp so that's at least +1 sale for each of them 🤩

His last album was announced 17 days before release so an even shorter rollout than this one (23 days from announcement to release)!

No idea, he has a preorder for this one at least.

I'm confident Dave will knock Taylor off #1 on albums, it'll be her week 4 by that point so even if Dave does ~50k which would be a significant drop from his last album (74k) he'll still most likely be #1 by a decent margin (TTPD did just under 30k week 4, even the infamous week where she released more formats and blocked BRAT was 36k). On the singles it'll be a much tougher battle for him though for sure, might end up keeping his streak of only ever hitting #1 with non-album singles.

To some extent yes as streams for up to 16 tracks can count towards the albums chart, but that also means it'll be on the same playing field as Divide as I'm almost certain only a maximum of 12 tracks counted towards the albums chart at the time.

This is the one I'm interested in. It's been 8.5 years and Divide still holds the record for most streaming sales in a week which is absolutely insane.

I suppose the top 2 tracks would benefit by being downweighted to the average of tracks 3-12 rather than tracks 3-16, but I don't think that would outweigh 4 extra tracks' worth of streams in most cases.

It's the average of the top 16 songs minus the highest 2 (so average of the next 14). See section 9.1 of the chart rules document: https://www.officialcharts.com/sites/default/files/legacy_images/media/663227/official-uk-album-chart-rules-january-2023.pdf I believe it was once 12 and was changed, though I'm not sure exactly when the change took place.

Only having 12 songs might be more of a disadvantage on that front, since the albums chart allows the 16 biggest tracks from the album to count towards album sales so it's missing out on 4 potential track's worth of sales.

Isn't there a minimum price for an album sale to count towards the album chart? I had it as £3.99 in my head but could easily be wrong!

beyond hyped for this, his last 2 albums were phenomenal

surprised they went with that track instead of the Dave collab regardless of if it's the artist, the label or Spotify making the decision

I don't particularly like Carti but I see quite a bit of unnecessary hostility on here towards almost any rap song & artist that does well on the charts. If it was purely directed towards Carti I probably wouldn't have said anything lol

imagine how different the reactions on here would be if the positions were swapped and someone said "If it weren't for Carti, we'd be having some shitty country song going #1" lol

Sprinter was nearly 2 years ago, and it was / is a banger. Would be great to see more rap at the top if Kendrick can hold on.

I do find it very funny that on US Spotify the thing keeping Drake from the top spot is 4 separate Kendrick songs

would be incredible to see kendrick going #1 whether it's this week or next week (hopefully both tbh). long overdue his first #1, and his tracks are absolutely miles better than everything else at the upper end of the chart currently imo lol