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Inflation really ruined his career

Alex Warren's fans decorate their whole houses in beige.

Bella Kay has the same vocal affectation. This is it turned up to 11.

I can't work out of Alyssa Grace's voice is cute or annoying

I have a conspiracy theory that Spotify purposely doesn't update the UK Top 50 playlist on time when big artists are dropping fast. That gives them an extra day higher up the playlist, the higher up the playlist, the more likely they are to be listened to.

Half of the US success of Choosin Texas is Texas girls thinking they are 'Texas' and missing the point of the song.

3 years is too generous. HMV wouldn't stock CD singles after a few months. I wouldn't want to lose songs discovered later than their release. Like Cruel Summer. So maybe the limit needs to be 2 years after their first appearance in the top 40? If its been top 40, its been a hit and run its course. If it comes back, its not a rediscovery of a formerly forgotten track but a revival.

Honestly the vast majority of these are not surprising. Huge names but the UK is heavily bias to pop and dance music.

She's going to chart higher than Olivia's Cant Catch Me Now which is the crime of the chart decade. (and that should have won an oscar)

Taylor has a way of making 1 sale 4, don't count her out but don't count her in for next week

I think it needs Rein me In to go ACR and a push to get it away from Ariana

This song isn't a chart thing for Taylor, she's gunning for that Oscar

Ariana couldn't get number one on streaming alone last week...

Ariana stablised after her first big streaming fall. I'm not sure Taylor will but we'll see

No one actually has strong Alex Warren feelings. Its a physical impossibility

It has a guitar riff, he's getting edgy!

It just needs Rein me in to go ACR. Which feels like its looming ... That is when the film is out isn't it? They are expecting a boost because of that and the physicals are to maximise that

Its oooonnnn.,.. I have no money to bet. But I'm spiritually putting down a tenner

I feel like Rein me In can Rein in Swift's streaming numbers this week.

Livin Joy Don't Stop Moving

I do tend to curse good songs when meh ones thrive

Going to take a punt that the Taylor Swift track will be a flash in the pan. Its very much a soundtrack song. I can't imagine it every half hour on radio one.

She did it with Olivia Dean. That first week she went number one, Olivia was pipping her and she put out an Instagram message telling people to buy the song because it was so close and it was so rare to have a female country singer go number 1.

Neither are THAT country. They are country-pop at best. Taylor doing 1989 as supposedly her 'Pop' transition was always a bit of a lie. Most of the hits on her previous records were Pop. Her first album is maybe her only strictly country album.

Well we'll be looking to see if Olivia has been able to eat into the Midweek lead Sam had as of Monday and if so by how much.