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Yall gotta admit, its a great prank for spotify to leave us waiting like this, making us turn on each other

The official BBC children in need medley

Well if anything is gonna kill interest in the giver, it's jack singing along like he did

Love to see this continue to climb

They had a chance to go back to back Victorious but then Girl Meets World took it out of nowhere

We're really going through it

Was hoping Hampstead would get the 3rd spot

I think top 5 albums are locked in

As I said, she had a bigger debut day than Sabrina has, with no music video. Maybe she doesnt Sabrina level of name recognition, but she had plenty for the giver to be bigger if it was what people wanted

The Giver is fine, but nothing special. It's better than Hot to Go, which I absolutely despised. For me, I think Chappell and Sabrina are the best comparisons, in terms of fanbase size. In intrigue level, I think Chappell is even bigger. No Sabrina song had a first day as strong as The Giver did, I dont think name recognition is an issue at all. Another song could've been bigger than anything Sabrina has released. So to see her first song as an A-lister settle down around busy woman, the 5th biggest song off short n sweet, it shows to me that the average fan also saw it as nothing special. Also this comparison is why I don't think PPC took away from the giver, and actually probably helped the giver. Having Espresso be as big as it was helped Pleasex3, and both helped Taste. In this current era of music, releasing a 2nd song when the first is still hot only seems to boost both. That said, I think now is the best time for Chappell to experiment. According to all sources, her album is nowhere close, with her producer saying probably next year. Having a song fade this quick hasn't hurt her star power, and you have to try new things when you're fresh or you get stale quickly. So to try new things that won't impact the next album, why not? No risk, high reward release. Got her a top 5 and proved that fans will be there for the release of her music, even songs they ultimately don't care about. For me, it says only good things about future releases

To me, it's almost a lock. Only needs a few hundred more to do more than Ed and Gaga did last week, and those are the only real contenders to jump into the top 5 to me

Busy woman going in the wrong direction

Albums with the most consecutive weeks in the top 5, streaming era (since 2014) 1. The Greatest Showman soundtrack- 62 weeks 2. =- 42 weeks 3. Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent- 35 weeks 4. ÷- 34 weeks 5. Short N Sweet- 31 weeks+

I've been rocking with leon since he was on victorious with Ariana, so I'm glad to see him have a hit But why did he have to do a remix with Chris brown?

"It's too many options" - me when I go to a restaurant with a 20 page menu

Selena Gomez has never really had a huge album in the UK. Rare was decently successful, 17k units, but still would finish 3rd if she had that kind of debut this week. And that was by far her biggest album, her next biggest opening week did less than 12k. So I dont think what this album is doing is at all out of line with what you'd expect for her, certainly not enough to call it a flop

Sabrina didn't release taste or bed chem on vinyl til January, Fortnight isn't getting one til RSD as I understand, thats so true vinyl is listed to ship on wednesday, birds of a Feather and PPC are listed to ship on thursday

April 4th Announcement link

Not often with singles. Most major artists delay single physical releases the same way. They do with albums, but Album physical sales are far more significant to Album release than singles physical sales are to singles release, so it's worth the risk.

You still don't want the full production to leak

Honestly I'd say it's just cause they don't have physicals produced yet. Physicals are a bit of a leak hotbed, and vinyl takes time to produce. If you order them on release week so you don't have to send the completed song til it's released, August is about the first time you could actually ship them

I'll be very annoyed if it was by like 15 sales

Did they do any kind of social media post or anything? Here in the US if something gets pre-empted they make sure everyone is aware what's going on and if there's any alternative way to watch/listen. Seems like everyone was caught off guard here

That all makes sense. It'll be interesting to see what happens

I think Ed probably takes it this year with how early he's going to release but I think Sabrina likely takes highest album not released in 2025