SLlewellyn

While no one here’s best, this is a bop - I hope it’s a big chart hit!

This is an earworm! Hope it’s a big chart hit!

If all three were to release on the same day, I would listen to: Kendrick, then Kanye, then Drake. All have been away long enough that I’m at least curious to hear new music from them. Kanye’s last two albums were duds on first listen (and I haven’t yet gone back to listen to them again), so hoping we can get back to MBDTF/TLOP quality again!

This is going to be big!

I suspect, much like Stormzy, that we’ll get another critically acclaimed concept album, which I am 100% down for!

This is either going to be huge or flop (for the artists), hard to call.

Have had “Save Your Tears” on repeat since the BRITs. Haven’t listened to it much before, but wow - what a track!

Ella & Tom is RIGHT up Radio 1’s street, hopefully they add next week!

That’s pretty much what I was expecting Tom to finish off by end of the week, so I’m happy with that. Will be streaming heavily this week to support, and may pick up the physical later in the week too.

*streams “Stay with Me” to help get them a second certified single*

It’s also one of the songs you’re forced to listen to when on hold with Virgin Media :lol:

Wow, poor start for Zayn and Ashniko. At least You Me at Six are looking to get another, well-deserved, #1 album though; especially after the last ‘only’ debuted at #6!

She’s had some great singles, it’s just everyone remembers the bad ones - ha. Have no doubt that this will be a T10 with KSI’s name attached alone.

A Glass Animals re-peak either this or next week would be a great start to 2021!

Called Alfie as the overall winner as soon as the list was announced. I will be SHOCKED if they go with someone else - he’s exactly what BBC Radio 1 love and will no doubt have a successful 2021 going by the quality of the music and the support so far

Boo @ the prospect of another week with “Positions” at number one, it’s pretty dull and undeserving of #1 status vs. some of Ariana’s other songs. Fingers crossed Mariah can get it next week somehow!

Rain on Me without a doubt!

Great to see “Diamonds” top 30 (and climbing on Spotify) and T10 on Apple, signs seem to point to this re-peaking this and also next week at this rate!

This is genuinely my favourite song at the moment, has really grown on me from first listen!

Contrary to some comments here, I think that this is a pretty good album - certainly enjoying it more than the last one. “Kids Again” is an odd third single choice given that post-album singles rarely do well nowadays. I would’ve gone with “So Serious”, which sounds like Sam’s old stuff (e.g., “Nirvanna”).

Surely Lewis Capaldi will have been approached about recording something... That would bring a lot of publicity to the song/video that I think has been missing the past few years.

A single version featuring Arlo Parks was released recently - I expect that’ll make the R1 playlist in the coming weeks, I’ve heard Annie Mac play it a few times already.

Royal Blood is the correct answer here.

I would assume he's just going to go and do some more producing work (he's released a few of his own singles over the past year or so right?), but it seems sudden!

Massive improvement on the debut album (despite “Brazil” and “Isombard” both being some of the best songs in recent times in my opinion), have had it on repeat the past few weeks! “Rapture” would make a great next single.