Willm

Turned up to HMV Manchester I along with others was turned away because didn’t pre order even though It did say 'Purchase in store on day of event to attend" on hmv website, annoying that they are actively turning away sales

Long overdue and kind of wild to think that Emotions has only only just gone silver. It genuinely feels like one of those songs that everyone knows so the impact feels a lot bigger than that certification suggests

So happy to see Mariah’s still steady in the UK even with those stock hiccups, and doing so well in America this week too... So deserved

I never knew this oh that is good news then thanks for the information

Just wanted to share my thoughts (and frustrations) about how this Mariah release is being handled in the UK. I’ve seen a lot of her fans on social media say the same. Any UK fans who wanted all the editions had no choice but to order from Mariah’s US store – it’s the only place that’s stocked all variants plus only one she was promoting on her socials. I bought all five myself, and I know I’m not alone… but none of those sales will count towards the UK charts. To make it worse I checked HMV Manchester on Friday and they literally had just 2 CDs and 1 vinyl in store. That’s it in a major city on release day for such a huge artist that is crazy It feels like the UK fanbase is being overlooked. Loads of us are still buying everything we can to support her – but because the sales are going through the US site, they won’t help her chart here.

I think 'The Show' will reach Silver before 'Walk This Way' does

When you take into consideration the additional streams that the songs will be gaining from the recently released Megamix them certifications will hopefully be coming even sooner

It will be frustrating if it misses Top 40 but I can live with that as long as the sales are better than the debut all this extra effort for this release definitely warrants selling more copies

I wondered if they had signed vinyls when they were all together last week that would easily secure few hundred more sales but get why wouldn't do it without Sarah

I'm not going to lie I'm a bit disappointed with #10 I thought it would be higher than the new release by Bananarama which is at #6 and only just above Kylie who is at #11 with a vinyl release and no bonus tracks

Was hoping Mariah 'Music Box 30' might be able to sneak into Top 100 but once again she priotised promoting it on her American website which does not help in regards her chart position here

I'm going to say between 25- 20, I'm confident that with more exposure and hype this will sell enough to sell a fair bit more than the debut did

I don't suppose you have similar information for Mae? I'm interested to see how much she sold yesterday to help her rise

I'm really invested in Mae's final position this week because I feel like quite a lot rides on this album not completely flopping, not just for Mae but also in terms of potential UK artists considering doing Eurovision in the future. A flop album off the back of doing Eurovision is not exactly going to encourage future artists to want to do it, Sam's success will be considered as a one off so Mae achieving a Top 40 album and a Top 10 single despite placing low at Eurovision especially in todays music industry where it's so difficult to launch a new artist will be seen as a success and hopefully makes more artists consider doing it

Mae's push the past couple of days has been incredible, she has rose to #3 on ITunes in past hour by offering to DM voice notes to everyone who can show they have brought a copy and is signing vinyls and CDs on her insta live sat in Banquet record store with the link attached so people can buy a copy and request any message and she is doing them as the orders were coming in having a laugh and joke about messages being requested she is doing the same again tmrw

Tangled Up got just over 400k viewers on Saturday night without taking it consideration people watching on iPlayer that is incredible, the highest rating show the previous Saturday was Match Of The Day with 2.1 million

I'm excited to see where this charts, wouldn't surprise me if more was to come like hmv exclusive etc

Mariah is really coming for another Top 10 hit, it's doing great on Apple music and Amazon but Spotify have yet to show much support for the song in the UK so if it continues to climb they will have no option

Definitely true about playlisting, with 'No Good Advice' in particular it really suffers from being on no major Spotify playlist, 'Sexy No No' on the other hand is used more on major playlists so I wonder if it may overtake 'No Good Advice' at this point

The official charts today posted an update on 'The Promise' sales 712,140

Glad we are getting the vinyl it's the same tracklisting as the CD so no bonus tracks but she does tease that something else is on the way which is exciting Unfortunately this will be chart ineligible as it's being distributed independently, it would have been amazing to see it back in the charts again but ultimately we are getting the vinyl and that's what matters most

So excited for this