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+5) Little Mix feat. Nicki Minaj - Woman Like Me +4) Rita Ora - Let You Love Me +3) Silk City & Dua Lipa - Electricity +2) Marshmello & Bastille - Happier +1) Dynoro & Gigi D'Agostino - In My Mind -1) Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow -2) Post Malone & Swae Lee - Sunflower -3) Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - Promises -4) Dave feat. Fredo - Funky Friday -5) Kodak Black feat. Travis Scott & Offset - ZEZE

I'll take Akeem winning any day over the loathsome Cameron or Zoe. I'd say those 3 are the only viable contenders at this stage. I'd prefer a Sian win though (or Tomasz but he's probably toast tonight). Good riddance to Lewis. All that producer manipulation to keep him in and it was his foul mouth that was his undoing. It must've been pretty bad for him to be removed with immediate effect.

Okay listening through headphones improves this immensely. It reminds me a lot of 'The Light Is Coming' (sans the awful sample). A trashy bop.

It's a bit of a hot mess; very brash and in your face with some questionable lyrics. :lol: It reminds me slightly of a better 'Down and Dirty' (not that that's an accomplishment). It's probably a grower but not single material and definitely not a patch on 'Forget You Not'.

Yass, OCC better stan. It's crazy to think that they're the only XF act still managing to score top 40s, let alone #1s. Edit: I forgot about the 1D boys; but even then, we've only had 'Familiar' and 'For You' (mostly Rita's doing, let's be real) from Liam in the past year.

Yeah, I reckon they've got a good chance, especially with video views counting towards the chart now. It's already nearing 500k.

They... weren't in front of a green screen. :lol:

This is discounted too! They really aren't playing this week.

I audibly guffawed at Nicki's part. Iconic video.

This looks set to be their best video by a country miles. All those shots in the preview look iconic.

:cheer: Definitely looks set for a new peak next week then!

That snippet sounds amazing! Genuinely the most excited I've been for one of their albums.

I know there's been talk of this underperforming, but I'm actually seriously impressed with their Spotify performance. They've always lagged behind massively on streaming, so for this to be approaching #5 with no promo and no MV is pretty amazing. Regardless, everything's lining up nicely for a top 3 peak/possible #1 next week! I really hope the MV's coming Friday too.

'Power' approaching a million is incredible for a 4th single. Imagine how huge it would have been had the BGT performance gone ahead! Massive yay for 'Move' too. Two of their best song for me. :wub:

:cheer: I wonder if they'll drop the video Friday to try and snatch the official #1.

This is actually really great! Will definitely be adding it to my playlist. Can I just add that 'Sirens' flopping is one of the biggest chart injustices in recent (ish... actually in awe that it was 4 and a half years ago) years. What a song.

:rolleyes: A little disappointing but still a strong debut! I imagine it'll climb with the video release/potential XF performance.

Here's hoping, but surely they'd have announced it by now if that was the case?

:lol: :lol: :lol: I did hear them play it today on my commute and thought it was a bit odd. Coming for that belated top 10!!

Amazing! Here comes the smash. :cheer: (Heard the R1 edit of this twice today. It truly is a mess :lol:)

:cheer: 3 mega-bops incoming.

I actually love the tracklist. 'Strip', 'Motivate', 'Notice', 'Wasabi', 'Joan of Arc' and even 'National Manthem' all have me intrigued! Love that the 'all females collabs' came to fruition, and that they've opted for relatively unknown features this time around.

It also has a TV advert airing pretty regularly, although I'm not sure if it's had that since it was originally released.

'The National Manthem' is objectively trash but I'm still perched to hear it. Salute 2.0 please girls. All the other titles sound decent enough. A lot less generic than their previous two tracklists at least.

A Live Lounge would be amazing. Long overdue after they cancelled their Xmas one back in 2015. :lol: Edit: This is back up #10 on Spotify!