Chartfridays

Yup with some pretty big R1/General Pop songs missing out for them to be fitted in.

The Myth of Happily Ever After is a proper album not a B-Sides album, and is being promoted as such - expect it to do very well amongst their massive fanbase - many of whom are of vinyl/cd buying age. Could see them getting the #1 - imagine Elton is more likely to beat them than Lana though.

#22 Tony Brent - Walkin' To Missouri Debut: 19 December 1952 Peak: #9 WoC: 7 Chart Run: 9-9 (B) 7-10-11-12-11 MPN4jmVxSos This little tune is a lovely one about a man moving away from home in seek of fortune only to be left with nothing and have to walk back to his home town of Missouri without a nickel to his name after finding out his girlfriend had been cheating. It peaked at a respectable 7th place. Tony Brent recorded the song for the UK market, with Sammy Kaye recording it for the US market, this being the era where such discrepancies were common.

Missed last weeks chart show, nice to see it finally make it in top 40

It shouldn't, but by changing that it makes the comparison unfair with historic records so you end up with nonsense lists like the OP.

They've really f***ed this up haven't they. A mid-summer release when festivals were coming back, the sun was coming out and people were partying again could have been explosive and they'd have got in before the global megastars like Adele, Abba, Sheeran etc. Instead they're going to get drowned out in the background among those who haven't been turned off by the shit singles.

The current system deflates sales by removing the most streamed track, which given in the old days hundreds of thousands would buy albums for that one song kind of explains the deflation in the final figures

Using pure sales is a nonsense these days, it favours artists from a certain era, and thats reflected in the included albums. Too old and the population wasn't big enough or sales weren't tracked properly, too recent and someone who listens to your album once is now a fraction of sale rather than a full sale.

Haven't been for months, and most people have resorted to not wearing them except at work where the company is forcing them to (Literally watch dozens of people take them off as they leave my work places only to cram onto a full bus most days :wacko: )

#21 Jambalaya - Jo Stafford Debut: 19 December 1952 Peak: #11 WoC: 2 Chart Run: 11-11 ISIyJorfLfc Originally written and recorded by American country legend Hank Williams, it was covered by numerous people. One of those covers was this one by Jo Stafford, who scored her second UK Chart hit with a comparatively disappointing 2 week run at No 11 compared to You Belong To Me which ascended to No 1 after a long stint in the top 5. It has a melody resembling Grand Texas - a traditional Cajun song, and was likely co-written by Moon Mullican - paid off the books.

She could realistically get to album release date still at No 1 unless any insanely big surprises come up. The only snag might be Ed's album bomb but it seems Adele's numbers are so big that won't matter going by this week. It's been almost a week and she's still streaming 3x the next biggest song. Quite a few releases doing a million plus openers have gone down quicker than that.

The Arctic Monkeys unofficial 18 track 'debut' album which was pressed on CD but mainly gained traction through insane amounts of illegal downloads.

A slight tangent but if the mid 00s streaming and downloads had been counted properly akin to now beneath the boardwalk would have been number 1 for.months.

To be honest I think people are missing the biggest difference between Adele and Ed and everybody else. Absolutely all of there appeal is musical not about being young sexy things - a rarity even when these artists came through. There's no reason a current artist couldn't replicate that but it's obviously gonna be hard for them

One thing is for sure though, should the right artist come along then 3 million seems a plausible barrier to break. I think to build hype going away for a while is no bad thing once you reach a certain level. If Olivia Rodrigo plays her cards right, I could see her getting into the Adele/Ed Sheeran bracket when she comes back. But I can't really think of many other artists even threatening that space

Radio is still massive over there.

So Adele showing us what a true mega pop artist is capable of in the current music landscape, and also how woefully mundane most run of the mill pop stars right nows figures actually are. Whilst there's always exceptions to rules the distance she's ahead of some other releases by big names seriously suggests were in a era dominated by big fish in a small pond and I wonder if labels will be keeping an eye on other artists to try and up their performance targets. Knowing how big the potential Spotify audience for a new release actually is it seems insane that were satisfied with 300,000 daily streams. Surely at some point some of the newer artists will start piling these numbers just by being around long enough though.

Adele just casually tearing up records left, right and centre then.

Absolutely shocking and disgusting. His poor family. Hope whatever brand of scumbag did this rots in a jail for a very long time.

That's international.

Every time I here it I like it more.

Given this could theoretically be one of the biggest streaming releases ever just going by the rest of her songs performing recently before it's even out it seems worth having a punt at the amount of streams it might do.

ud2wJ1k1ExE A song originally written by Greg Holden to raise awareness for LGBT charity. Honestly feels like Calum could have written himself the way he sings it -

I think it's more everyone's heard Hello, quite a few people won't have heard the album tracks.

Anyone getting a bit sick of the demeaning of the unvaccinated. I've heard quite a few people recently utter the exact phrase/variations of it (when justifying not wearing a face covering, or returning to pre-Covid behaviours) "Well, if they haven't had the jab by now and they die of it it's their own bloody fault." Whilst there's an argument that with most people vaccinated precautions should be lowered I'm not sure people walking round saying that is the most helpful thing on the planet.