SLlewellyn

Love how open the race is still at this point. George Ezra is making movement in the right direction, but it doesn’t look like a number 1 contender at this point (let alone a Christmas number 1 contender).

Excited!

Criminal that “Then” flopped, one of her best songs for me! Here for this Billie Eilish popularity surge!

I've listened to this a few times now, and think it's great - such an easy listen. They need to hurry up and push "Bad Liar" as a single though - all these grats in the weeks leading up to the album release have made things slightly confusing.

Voted for CamelPhat, Hozier and The Vaccines!

Christmas songs this high already, wow/urgh!

Annoying as it is, it makes sense to use the slot as a chance for people to put a name/face to a song they might have heard all over the radio; and it’s clearly had an effect on the song.

Tom Grennan’s “Found What I’ve Been Looking For” has already been re-released, and spent two week sun the T100 as a result; I really can’t see it coming back round a third time (at least not via R1’s support).

Imagine Dragons for me!

<_< @ the "Senseless" remix doing well - the original should've been a bigger hit than it was!

Ladies set to dominate the T10 this week then - haven't noticed a week like this in a long time, given that we usually have Ed Sheeran/Drake/George Ezra/Calvin Harris in there. Great to see Charli XCX hitting the T40 too! Album-wise, it's great to see those sales for Olly really given that the lead single hasn't really done anything. Disappointed to see Imagine Dragons in the lower end of the T10, hopefully it can hang on though; and Jonas Blue can improve on his placing (I thought he'd at least match Sigala's T20 debut).

I’ve only just heard Alesso’s ‘Remedy’, and just can’t stop listening to it! Singles that I want to be huge hits: Clean Bandit & co - ‘Baby’benny blanco & Calvin Harris - I Found YouJonas Blue & co - PolaroidCharli XCX & Troye Sivan - 1999 Interested to hear/see how Rita Ora and Rudimental’s collaboration does too.

Clean Bandit & co, with benny/Calvin in close second. Lots of great singles out this week though!

It only gets me how huge "Love Me Like You Do" was (and still sounds) - what a single!

Clean Bandit - Baby (feat. Marina & Luis Fonsi)Benny Blanco & Calvin Harris - I Found You ^ Both out tomorrow, and could be contenders!

Physicals Tom Odell - Jubilee Road

Meh, much better tracks on the album; but "Perfect" seems to have caught a lot of fans' attention for its 'inspiring' lyrics. I wonder whether it'll do as well, if not better, than "2002".

Having been massively underwhelmed upon first hearing "Funky Friday", it's really grown on me and I'm kind of glad it's got mainstream attention.

In some cases it even works/makes sense - Tom Grennan, for example, entered the T100 with the re-released 'FWIBLF' for the first time.

Tom Odell in at #2 is pleasing to see, though disappointed to see Robyn not even T10 and Nao at the lower end of the T40 :(

Praying that the likes of Tom Odell, Nao and Ray BLK (though I'm still unsure at this point whether it's being considered an 'album') can all do well. Interested to see where The Black Eyed Peas land too - strange that there has been seemingly no talk of their return; let alone a whole album's worth of material.

While I wasn't/am not a huge fan of "On My Mind", there's no denying that was an immediately strong comeback single. This one'll be a grower - I already found myself enjoying it on the second listen, for example.

Crazy that George Ezra is the only real known contender at this point, though I don't think anyone's mentioned the next Clean Bandit single yet; and you can always count of them for a long running, #1 challenging hit. I'm all for some new songs dropping in the next month or so and challenging though, Rihanna perhaps?!

Odd release, much like Mabel's recent mixtape re-release, given that streaming services already compile artists' 'hits' for listeners (e.g., Jax Jones Essentials on Apple Music); but as others have said above hopefully this just means NEW music for a new EP/album is next.

Calvin’s pushing the David Guetta remix of “Promises” out tomorrow at the moment, so thinking we won’t get this just yet - excited nonetheless.