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As much as I’m enjoying the Charli/Chris collaboration, Sam Smith’s “How Do You Sleep?” is easily the standout release from this week.

Not one of AJ Tracey’s best tracks either, but nice to see the Glastonbury performance getting this song into the charts at least.

Listened through to this in full for the first time today, and wow - what a bore/chore. It just feels like he’s purposefully trying to reach too many markets with this album, and just marketing it as ‘experimental’. Someone may have mentioned it already in this thread, but part of the instrumental to “Put It All on Me” is a complete rip-off of Becky Hill’s “I Could Get Used to This”.

Yeah, wasn’t expecting another album so soon; but she does talk in her book about how she’s on a lousy 5-album deal; so the quicker she gets out of it the better potentially...

Wonder whether this’ll have an interesting/guest vocalist too.

Feel like “One Touch” still hasn’t taken off properly, but here for new Jax Jones material nonetheless.

It’s sounding great whenever I’ve heard it on the radio, just have to hope it can pick up on streaming; would be a deserving T40 hit!

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Billie Eilish, though Dave, Tom Walker and Bring Me the Horizon are all great albums.

Not the best year for #1s so far really... Best: Stormzy - Vossi Bop (and even then it's not THAT good, just OK) Worst: Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved :puke2:

Up to #18 in the mids, so hopefully - crazy to think a post-album single would do so well for him. Album has not long gone Silver too, which is great going!

+1 for Finesse should have gone ages ago, awful song!

The Days to go next!

Incredible discography to date! "I Could Get Used To This" is my highlight - the new orchestral version is just incredible. 0N9Ae0LmWYg

“The Days” needs to go early... So glad this one didn’t really take off in the UK.

“Finesse” :puke2:

What a boring album from an otherwise great British band. “Joy” is the only standout track for me - I don’t see any singles beyond this doing well at all; which is a shame.

“The Days” :puke2:

Mixed feelings about the tracklisting. I’ll be giving the ‘album’ a few listens when it comes out for sure, just hoped he was going to collaborate with some more UK names (rather than US ones) - e.g., Skepta, Giggs, Stefflon Don. Great that Stormzy, Dave and J Hus all feature on this high profile release though, should do wonders for them (although Stormzy is headlining Glastonbury...)

“Promises” and “Dancing With a Stranger” were steps in the right direction as far as I’m concerned, so hope this can be another pop banger!

Wondering if this'll be like Rita Ora announcing 6lack as her collaborator on a recent single... a completely underwhelming announcement. In any case, with so much great British hip hop around at the moment I'd love to see her collaborate with one of those rather than a US name.

Per Instagram this out on Wednesday (19th) now.

Think this one'll be a grower, but hope it can be a hit for M.O / AJ Tracey; particularly after "Wondering" was short lived.

Feel like she needs another commercial-sounding track or track with a big UK feature on to really push her into the limelight - she deserves to be big. FYI - Genius have this listed as Stefflon Don & Lil Baby, with a release date of 21st June.

Disappointed that "Wild" isn't one of MoStack's top tracks, a #41 peak feels unjust. Hope "Stinking Rich" debuts higher than "Shine Girl" climbs too (they are in the reverse order over on Apple Music); "Shine Girl" is really bland - not even Stormzy helps save it.